FWS Submissions

Ouray National Wildlife Refuge

National Wildlife Refuge System, Refuge Planning

Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration

In partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Office, the FWS helped fund a California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) project to assess the utility of UAS technology for monitoring elk distributions and for validating vegetation maps within the Carrizo Plains Ecological Reserve (CPER), San Luis Obispo County, California.

Ecological Services

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Aerial Remote Sensing Team

Ground Penetrating Radar

Ecological Services

Pitcher's thistle,  a threatened native plant that grows on beaches and grassland dunes along the shorelines of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and Lake Huron, is an important food source for certain birds and small mammals. Although once fairly common in sand dune ecosystems of Michigan, its numbers have declined in recent decades due to habitat destruction associated with shoreline development, recreational use, and invasive plant species. The thistle was classified as a federally threatened species in 1996 by FWS.

Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge

Region 6 National Wildlife Refuge System Division of Biological Resources Ecological Assessment Branch

Region 6 National Wildlife Refuge System Division of Biological Resources Ecological Assessment Branch