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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - Alaska Region. We are shared stewards of world renowned natural resources and our nation’s last true wild places. alaska.fws.gov Alaska Joined June 2009-
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🐟🍓 TOMORROW, MAY 1! Dig in to the nutritious and delicious rewards of wild foods and sustainable foraging! Don’t miss your opportunity to join Unangax̂ commercial fisherman and Indigenous Knowledge Liasion, Maria Dosal, at @USFWS YFWC! ow.ly/axKK50RsRPK 📸 Maria Dosal
Happy International Dance Day! How are you dancing today? These two Kodiak Brown Bear cubs are using their natural studio of Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge to sway and play. 📸 Kodiak brown bears by Lisa Hupp/USFWS #WildlifeRefuge #InternationalDanceDay #KodiakBrownBear
The 2024 Alaska migratory bird subsistence hunt season is open April 2-August 31, with closures associated with bird nesting periods. 🔗⬇️ Regulation details, information regarding avian influenza (HPAI), and contact information: ow.ly/7the50RnCyJ 📸 M. Gabrielson/USFWS
@USFWSAlaska is seeking public comment on the Headquarters Complex Improvement Plan Draft Environmental Assessment for Alaska Peninsula and Becharof National Wildlife Refuges. Submit your comments by May 31, 2024. ow.ly/pmut50Rpi7g 📸 USFWS
Funding flows for salmon! $7.5 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funds will build on prior investments and ongoing partnerships to restore fish passage and protect Alaska communities from flooding where roads cross streams. 🔗 ow.ly/rKgb50Rozf4
Welp, Yukon Delta NWR is getting louder! The refuge supports one of the world's largest water bird gatherings anually. 1M ducks, around 40K loons, 40K grebes, 100K swans, 30K cranes, (and more!) return each spring. 📹 Lisa Hupp/USFWS Audio-Described: ow.ly/9riu50RmJiV
"Izembek is unlike anything that I've experienced. . . You can hear the birds, you can eat berries along the way. You have salmon, you have bear, you have caribou, you have shorebirds. . . everything's connected." - Izembek Refuge Manager, Maria Fosado. 🔗 ow.ly/VZBl50Rjxfw
Join this week’s USFWS Youth Fish and Wildlife Club about how to leave no trace behind (especially when it comes to… well… you know). We’ll talk about how to be a responsible in our parks, forests, & trails. USFWS Virtual Youth Fish and Wildlife Club! fws.gov/education-prog…
Join TOMORROW's @USFWS Youth Fish and Wildlife Club about how to leave no trace behind (especially when it comes to… well… you know) 😅. We’ll talk about how to be a responsible steward for our parks, forests, and trails. ow.ly/UrF950RlPyT 📸 Lisa Hupp/USFWS
Protect the peeps! 380 million+ tons of plastics are produced annually. Most aren’t recycled and travel far from their sources to our rivers and oceans. Pick up trash before it enters our waterways, reject single-use plastics and reach for reusable options. 📸Ernesto Gomez/USFWS
Earth Day = every day. Share a fave nature pic! 🌎 In Alaska we are shared stewards of world renowned natural resources and our nation's last true wild places. The lands and waters of this place we call home nourish a vase and unique array of fish, wildlife and people. 📸USFWS
Refuge Information Technician Cora Demit welcomes people not just to Tetlin Wildlife Refuge, but to her homeland, where her ancestors have lived since time immemorial. Cora shares about her life and Alaska Native culture: ow.ly/4rbp50RjwiK
🎨Enjoy the 2024 artworks in our gallery: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBmKAy
🎨Enjoy the 2024 artworks in our gallery: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBmKAy
What better way to celebrate #WorldArtDay than to admire and draw inspiration from youth artists and species in the Alaska Migratory Bird Calendar Contest? 🔗⬇️ Check out the contest Flickr gallery: ow.ly/jX2L50RguCF Art by Alysonne Andrews, 4th grade, 2017 calendar
"I thought I had an idea of what this job as about and it is far more amazing than I ever anticipated." Biologist. Pilot. Kara Hilwig is both for Togiak Wildlife Refuge. She shares about the rewards of combining flying and conservation in Alaska. 🔗fws.gov/story/2024-03/…
Climate change is transforming landscapes in Alaska. While it’s clear the long-term driver is climate change, a subsidiary effect — wildfire — is enforcing immediate and dramatic effects on the environment and its wildlife. Read more --> bit.ly/495riLS @USFWSAlaska
👏Paws up for Kobuk 440, NW Alaska's annual dog sled race! Teams finished Monday after traversing Selawik Refuge along the route. Locals continue dog mushing via subsistence harvests, tourism, & competitive races.🎵Opus One, Audionautix, CC Attr. 4 license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
"Come play with us." 🦊🦊 Shout out to hardworking Arctic fox adults who downsize their litters when prey is scarce. These smol sentinels of the treeless tundra survive on cyclical Arctic resources (like Mom's patience). #NationalSiblingDay Photo by Lisa Hupp/USFWS
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🐟🍓 TOMORROW, MAY 1! Dig in to the nutritious and delicious rewards of wild foods and sustainable foraging! Don’t miss your opportunity to join Unangax̂ commercial fisherman and Indigenous Knowledge Liasion, Maria Dosal, at @USFWS YFWC! ow.ly/axKK50RsRPK 📸 Maria Dosal
Go short tree, it's your #EarthDay!
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About 90-140 million birds are predicted to migrate across the U.S. each night this weekend! Lights at night can be very disorienting to birds during their long spring migration. To help prevent deadly bird collisions, turn off or dim unnecessary lights! Graphic: BirdCast
Climate change is transforming landscapes in Alaska. While it’s clear the long-term driver is climate change, a subsidiary effect — wildfire — is enforcing immediate and dramatic effects on the environment and its wildlife. Read more --> bit.ly/495riLS @USFWSAlaska
We love checking out new hatcheries! #Salmon
Attention youth anglers and fish enthusiasts! Step inside a national fish hatchery and learn how they support acquatic conservation and recovery/restoration of threatened, endangered, and at-risk species. ow.ly/2y5K50R0KvT 📸 Stephanie Raine/USFWS
What's in your tackle box? 🎣 Is it all organized or an, open the lid and toss it in, type box? Share a photo, if you dare. 😁
Ready to stop hibernating now that it's officially "spring"? As food becomes available again in the spring, bears will emerge from their dens. These foods may include fresh vegetation, moose calves, winter killed animals, & anything else edible, especially true for black bears.
Who pooped in the woods? (don’t worry, it’s educational poop…) This Weds. 3/20 Youth Fish and Wildlife Club features lessons for understanding the environment around us at this week’s club: “Whose Scat is That? And Other Environmental Clues…” 🔗fws.gov/education-prog…
Happy first day of spring! ☀️ We welcome today’s sunrise at 8:18 AM and sunset at 8:32 PM for just over 12 hours of daylight. While it may not feel like spring just yet, with the 5-minute daily increase to daylight hours, we will be greeting the midnight sun before you know it!
We live in a society. There are rules. For example, you don't tell someone about mallard reproduction. They have to decide if they're ready to learn on their own. 📷 Courtney Celley/USFWS
Lake Clark is excited to announce a new one-month internship coming to the park this summer that is co-hosted with Bristol Bay Native Association (BBNA)! Youth (18+) in the region or ties to the region can apply at bbna.com/2024/03/12/int…
HBD NWRS! Alaska Maritime Natl Wildlife Refuge conserves habitat for millions of seabirds. It stretches across Indigenous homelands of Unangax̂, Alutiiq/Sugpiak, Yup’ik/Cup’ik, Iñupiat, Dena'ina, Tlingit, Haida, and Eyak peoples. 🎥 Ian Shive & USFWS Audio by TanagerKid / Pond5
Please paws and give thanks to all our K-9 Veterans. 🐾 This handsome lab is a recently retired Wildlife Canine Inspector named Dock. Dock and many working K-9s like him, are an integral part of our Office of Law Enforcement.
The razorback sucker is a Colorado River basin native species dating back more than 3 million years, & a bizarre/beautiful fish on this week’s USFWS Youth Fish and Wildlife Club with Katrina Liebich, co-host of Fish of the Week! 🔗fws.gov/education-prog… #AllTheFish
“I just wanted to be a fish biologist. I didn’t want to be the Black, female fish biologist. But it does matter that I am…it matters to people.” USFWS manager Judy Gordon reflects on life lessons and challenges during her 40-year career in conservation. 🧵
This Wilson’s plover is performing a broken-wing display in an effort to lure potential predators away from its nest or young. If you ever witness behavior like this or other territorial behaviors, give the birds plenty of space. Photo: Abigail Gibson/USFWS
Species Spotlight: Frosted elfin This non-migratory butterfly ONLY lays its eggs on wild lupine and wild indigo. They depend on pine barren habitat, typically conifer forests with sandy soils and grassy openings where flowers can thrive. 📸MA ANG ow.ly/fr7h50QJNXF
Floof fact: The name for a baby porcupine is a porcupette. They have soft quills when they are born, but they grow stronger every day. Adults have about 30,000 quills that help them defend against predators and stay warm! Photo by @GlacierBayNPS