By Rich Carlson, Restoration Ecologist, USFWS Puget Sound Coastal Program At the turn of the 19th century, a 3,300-foot dike was constructed around the salt marsh wetlands of th...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/11/union-river-estuary-connects_18.html
BY PAUL BAKKE, GEOMORPHOLOGIST, WASHINGTON FISH AND WILDLIFE OFFICE Although humans have been altering river channels for many years, the science of rivers, that is the study of how rivers ...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/08/letting-rivers-teach-leopold-revisited_12.html
JARRED FIGLAR-BARNES (CENTER), OF ELMA, WA, EXPLAINS THE BENEFITS OF WORK HE HAS HELPED LEAD TO RESTORE MCDONALD CREEK TO USFWS MANAGERS Submitted by: Miranda Plumb, fisheries biologist a...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/08/fisheries-program-managers-receive-real.html
As part of their ecosystem restoration work with the Center for Natural Lands Management (CNLM) a team of five AmeriCorps service members paid a visit to the USFWS Washington Fish and Wildlife ...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/07/prairie-demonstration-garden-spiffed-up_29.html
Golden Eagle at Swan Falls Photo credit: USDOT FHA America's Byways Submitted by: Mark Miller With a wingspan of more than seven feet, the golden eagle is North America’s large...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/07/americas-other-eagle.html
Submitted by: Cindy Schexnider Resources for oil spill responses are limited and vary among agencies. The challenge of managing oil spills is increasing in scope and size. Oil spills are...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/07/like-oil-and-water-measuring-impact-of.html
Submitted by: Jessica Gonzales All gardeners know that spring is the time to give the garden a “face lift” for summer. In our Pollinator Garden, the work began early to prepare for the arr...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/06/spring-plantings-for-pollinators-perk.html
Submitted by: Jeff Chan On a recent warm, spring day in Olympia, Washington, students at GRuB farm donned space-aged looking suits as they prepared to step into the world of the honeybee. ...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-sweet-it-is-fws-teaches-students.html
Submitted by: Joe Bartoszek, Ph.D., Resource Contaminant Specialist (USFWS) This is the 3rd installment of this story. To learn more, read "Mussels in a Desert?! " and “What Happened to Pear...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-mysterious-case-of-missing-mussel.html
Submitted by: Christina Meister The Northwest Bear Education Trailer has a new star on the road who's 450 pounds and very furry. The Northwest Bear Education Trailer's Grizzly Bear Displa...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/05/meet-new-star-of-bear-education-trailer.html
Submitted by: Emily Teachout Luna Lowsky, Sophie Danner, Brynn Dumbeck, and Maggie Neatherlin extract piles of foam from the dunes. My daughter, Maggie (age 12), and I participate in a mo...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/05/moms-and-daughters-hit-beach-for-birds.html
Note: This is a guest post by Molly Sullivan, intern for the Washington Invasive Species Council Zebra mussels on a young Higgins eye pearlymussel, an endangered species found in the Missi...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/05/clean-drain-and-dry-help-keep-invasive.html
Submitted by: Greg Van Stralen Do you know what a group of owls are called or whether snakes have toes? These are just a few of the interesting and unusual facts that will be avail...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-first-annual-foothills-day-is-just.html
Submitted by Jim Muck On April 22nd, the Washington Fish and Wildlife Office participated in the U.S. Navy’s Earth Day Celebration in Everett, WA. This year’s theme was “Global Reac...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/04/celebrating-earth-day-with-navy.html
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Eastern Washington Field Office, in cooperation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and numerous other cooperating agencies, recently captur...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/03/pygmy-rabbit-relocation-wrap-up.html
In honor of National Women's History Month, we compiled a series of stories from women who work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.This post is by Kim Flotlin who is a biologist in our Wester...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/03/careers-in-conservation-from-tadpoles.html
In honor of National Women's History Month, we compiled a series of stories from women who work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.This post is by Megan T. Cook who works in the Office of the...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/03/careers-in-conservation-it-all-adds-up.html
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a proud employer of Peace Corps alumni. In celebration of Peace Corps Week (February 24th - March 2nd), we asked an FWS biologist (and former Peace Corps vol...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/02/fws-biologist-shares-her-peace-corps.html
In December 2012, FWS Ecologist Ted Thomas carefully transported over 3,000 golden paintbrush seedlings (Castilleja levisecta) from the Center for Natural Lands Management nursery in Olympia, WA...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/02/fws-ecologist-helps-recover-threatened.html
On January 7th, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service kicked off the 2013 Science Café lecture series in Olympia, Washington. This month’s topic focused on Puget Sound Prairies, the Taylor’s c...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2013/02/puget-sound-prairies-science-cafe-kick.html
Posted by F. T. Waterstrat, USFWS Western Washington State is home to a shrinking prairie landscape and the animals that depend on it are in trouble. Learn about the life and times of one of th...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2012/12/western-washington-state-is-home-to.html
This is the 2nd installment of this story. To learn more see our post from July 25, 2012: "Mussels in a Desert?!" BY JOE BARTOSZEK, PH.D., RESOURCE CONTAMINANT SPECIALIST, WASHINGTON FISH...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-happened-to-pearlshell-mussels-in.html
by Carrie Cordova Recovery of native fish species is one of the many important tasks of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As a biologist working for the USFWS, I was thrilled to ...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2012/10/granite-creek-gets-makeover.html
By Russ MacRae Gibson Guitar Corp. settled a criminal enforcement case with the United States recently over their alleged illegal importation of rosewood and ebony from Madagascar and India to...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2012/09/guitars-feathers-and-forests-what-do.html
by Joe Bartoszek, Ph.D., Resource Contaminant Specialist, Washington Fish and Wildlife Office When people in Washington think of mussels, they usually conjure up thoughts of tasty coastal sh...
http://wordfromwild.blogspot.com/2012/07/mussels-in-desert-really_25.html