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FWS | 2022
The potential implications of climate change on Pacific salmon are a concern to resource managers in Alaska as warming trends continue in high-latitude streams. Temperature monitoring is needed to…
FWS | 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that there are over 2.3 million onshore abandoned oil and gas wells. A well is considered abandoned by State and Federal agencies if there has…
FWS | 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is using airborne remote sensing technologies to enhance migratory bird surveys to 1) ensure safety of aircrews conducting surveys by allowing flight at…
FWS | 2022
In large river ecosystems the timing, extent, duration, and frequency of floodplain inundation greatly affect the quality of fish and wildlife habitat and the supply of important ecosystem goods and…
FWS | 2022
National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) in Texas and Oklahoma manage forested habitats to support priority bird populations in the West Gulf Coastal Plain and Ouachitas Bird Conservation Regions. Airborne…
FWS | 2014
The population explosion of snow geese over the past few decades has had a negative impact on the fragile arctic breeding grounds used by the geese and many other migratory bird species. To assess…
FWS | 2014
The FWS uses avian radar to monitor bird and bat migration along the shorelines of the Great Lakes (http://www.fws.gov/radar/). Since 2011, mobile avian radar units have been stationed around…
FWS | 2014
Shortages of data on survival rates, mortality factors, habitat selection, and dispersal and migration movements hinder decisions for managing golden eagle populations in the western United States.…
FWS | 2014
Pilot-biologists in the Branch of Migratory Bird Surveys (Division of Migratory Bird Management) collect georeferenced locations of aerial flight hazards during annual migratory bird surveys across…
FWS | 2014
Migratory Birds, Intermountain West Joint Venture, Region 6 Water scarcity in semiarid environments provides an ideal system to evaluate the role of water-rich mesic habitats in structuring the…
FWS | 2014
Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Annual habitat surveys conducted in 2004 and in 2006–2014 are used to identify the resting and foraging resources available to migratory birds in the Rainwater Basin…
FWS | 2014
National Wildlife Refuge System Airborne lidar can be processed to yield a broad array of forest canopy structure metrics that are important for wildlife management. For golden-cheeked warblers…