52Rafael Gonzalez, USFWS biologist and volunteer, Maria Mercedes Acost...
52Rafael Gonzalez, USFWS biologist and volunteer, Maria Mercedes Acosta helping girl plant an endangered Matabuey tree at the Puerto Rico Zoo.
A Boat for Wildlife (4813071182)
Gulf Shores, Ala - July 19, 2010: TV crews interview cover the dedication of the wildlife response boat donated by Jimmy Buffett to the Friends of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge while wildlife rescue crew... More
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Area Supervisor Ricky Ingram accepts RD Honor Award for Katina "Tina" DeLong
An Ann Marie Lauritsen, Wildlife Biologist and sea turtle expert answe...
August 8, 2013 Photo by Lilibeth Serrano, Public Affairs Specialist, USFWS
Assistant Field Supervisor, Marisel Lopez, saying a few words to recog...
May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS
Assistant Deputy of Wildlife Operations Branch at Deepwater Horizon br...
July 16, 2010 Mobile, Alabama. Peter Benjamin of the U.S. Fish and Widllife Service speaks at an operational briefing. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/
Beau Hardegree - First Time ICS (4805189588)
Faithful Leader for the Field folks of the Wildlife Operations Branch July 1-15, 2010. Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill
Benjamin interview (4812448405)
Gulf Shores, Ala - July 19, 2010: TV crews interview Assistant Deputy of Wildlife Operations Branch Peter Benjamin regarding the wildlife response boat donated by Jimmy Buffett to the Friends of Bon Secour Na... More
Biologists dig turtle eggs (4823815661)
July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Lorna Patrick (Deputy Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Panama City, Florida, Ecological Services and Fisheries Resources Office), center and Monica Ha... More
Calling the winner (5592224753)
Deputy Regional Director Mark Musaus calls the winner with the good news. For more information on the Junior Duck Stamp competition, visit www.fws.gov/juniorduck/ Photo: Jennifer Strickland, USFWS.
Captain accepts keys from Friends President (4813072152)
Gulf Shores, Ala - July 19, 2010: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service boat captain Bob Quarles accepts keys to the shallow water attention terminal (SWAT) boat from Friends of Bon Secour President, Ralph Gilges whil... More
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The CARE group poses for a photo at Crocodile Lake NWR
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Charlie Pelizza (5763300948)
Refuge Manager Charlie Pelizza enjoying the swamp buggy ride. Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS www.fws.gov/pelicanisland/
Charlie Pelizza and Mrs. Black (5762753085)
Pelican Island Refuge Manager and Mrs. Black (Creek Ranch), have a discussion during the Lake Hatchineha tour Credit: Keenan Adams, USFWS www.fws.gov/pelicanisland/
Chester Figiel Teaches Cody Meshes (5543986093)
Chester Figiel teaches Cody Meshes about salamanders. He filled the breeding tubs and explained how salamanders can either live in water or on land through process called metamorphosis. Photo Taken By: Nicole R... More
Cindy Dohner and Dr. Llewellyn M. Ehrhart (10592966625)
University of Central Florida Professor Emeritus Dr. Erhart's scientific contributions to sea turtle conservation over the decades have assisted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission determine t... More
Cindy Dohner and Larry McCord (10592689954)
Larry McCord accepts the Award for Conservation Partners on behalf of Santee Cooper of Monks Corner, South Carolina. They have worked with the Santee National Wildlife Refuge since its establishment in 1941. Vi... More
Colonel Pantano recognizes Picayune study team. (5486552342)
February 18, 2011 --Near Naples, FL Photographer: Robert Pace Kim Dryden (left) was the FWS study team member recognized at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Picayune Strand Restoration Project. www.fws.gov/verobeach/
David Caldwell, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (8392703122)
Southern Appalachian bogs are one of the rarest habitats in North America, and home to numerous rare plants and animals. These lands are currently owned by myriad people and organizations, including the Nationa... More
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Harris receives RD Award as representative of the Pains Bay Fire Team
Donnie Harris (10591719044)
RD Cindy Dohner presents award to Donnie Harris. Harris accepts the award for the Pains Bay Fire Team.
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Concerned citizens gather around a map and asked question about the Service proposal to designate beaches in North Carolina as critical habitat for the loggerhead sea turtle. Public Affairs Specialist, Chuck U... More
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Pete Benjamin, Field Supervisor for the Raleigh Field Office as he explains that critical habitat is an administrative rule and in this particular case it will benefit tremendously from all the conservation me... More
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Fish and Wildlife Biologists, John Hammond assisted citizens interested in providing input to the Service proposal. August 7, 2013 Photo by Lilibeth Serrano, Public Affairs Specialist, USFWS
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Noreen Walsh (Deputy Regional Director for the Mountain-Prairie Region) tried to decide which entry she liked best. 9/27/2012 Ogden, Utah The 2012 Federal Duck Stamp Contest photo by Garry Tucker, USFWS
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Passengers on the riverboat were able to talk with refuge staff and learn more about Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. The riverboat cruise was a special outreach event that the staff and Friends group of Sava... More
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Refuge staff handed out posters and other information to the passengers. The riverboat cruise was a special outreach event that the staff and Friends group of Savannah Refuges Complex hosted as part of National... More
Eric Prowell (5164091931)
Eric Prowell, hydrologist, talks to a group about the endangered and threatened darter fish that live in the Etowah River Basin in North Georgia. Credit: Stacy Shelton/USFWS Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Eric Prowell and group in Dawson Forest (5164691236)
Eric Prowell, hydrologist, talks to a group about the endangered and threatened darter fish that live in the Etowah River Basin in North Georgia. Credit: Stacy Shelton/USFWS Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Eric Prowell more show and tell (5164685954)
Credit: Stacy Shelton/USFWS Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Eric Prowells show and tell (5164687088)
Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Eric Prowell talks about darters (5164692238)
Eric Prowell, hydrologist, talks to a group about the endangered and threatened darter fish that live in the Etowah River Basin in North Georgia. Credit: Stacy Shelton/USFWS Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Fire Leadership Meeting May 2013 (8894226916)
In late May 2013 the Southeast Region's fire leadership met at the Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center outside of Newton, GA.
First Day at Oil Spill? (4826770937)
July 2010 Daphne, Alabama: Training officer Carol Adams surveys the room for newly appointed employees to the BP Oil Spill as media liaison Tamara Ward raises her hand. Credit: Catherine J. [email protected] www... More
Jaci Zelko Fills Dewar with Liquid Nitrogen (5544012287)
Jaci Zelko has to wear the specialized gloves to prevent frostbite due to the extreme temperatures created by the liquid nitrogen. usfwsyouthambassadors.wordpress.com/ www.fws.gov/southeast/youthambassadors/me... More
Jaci Zelko Holds the Alligator (5544501032)
Jaci Zelko has removed the alligator and strikes a quick pose before putiing him in the container for transport. usfwsyouthambassadors.wordpress.com/ www.fws.gov/southeast/youthambassadors/meshes.html Photo Ta... More
Jaci Zelko Manning the Hatchery Booth (5543900425)
Jaci Zelko, Haile Macurdy, and Cody Meshes set up a booth at the local Flutter Fest. The booth described Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Center programs. usfwsyouthambassadors.wordpress.com/ www.fws.gov/southea... More
Jack Arnold addressed the crowd (6499739807)
Foto by USFWS December 3, 2011 Grand Opening of Caribbean Islands NWR Complex and Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office in Boquerón, Puerto Rico.
Jack Arnold at Grand Opening of USFWS facility in the Caribbean (64997...
Foto by USFWS December 3, 2011 Grand Opening of Caribbean Islands NWR Complex and Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office in Boquerón, Puerto Rico.
Jane Schnee shares a word with Cindy Dohner (10592792384)
Jane Schnee of Sebastian, Florida wins the Conservation Partners Award for her work voluntarily assisting Indian River County staff with the monitoring and banding of threatened Florida scrub-jays. View the 201... More
Jennifer Hinckley 2012 Outreach Award (8188485954)
Jennifer Hinckley of St. Marks NWR was awarded the 2012 Fire Management Outreach Award for all of her fire outreach work within the region and her assistance with national level outreach programs. Photo: Josh ... More
Jeremy Buck, shoreline assessment coordinator (4832376242)
July 25, 2010 Photo credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/contaminants/DeepwaterHorizon/
Jimmy Buffett Boat Donation (4812447777)
Gulf Shores, Ala - July 19, 2010: Friends of Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge President Ralph Gilges accepts keys to a specialized boat for gulf spill wildlife operations from Jimbo Meador of Dragonfly Boatw... More
Judy Toppins, Regional Outreach Coordinator, Gives Campers a Tour of W...
June 27, 2011 Warm Springs Credit: USFWS
Judy Toppings, Regional Outreach Coordinator of Fisheries, Teaching Ca...
June 27, 2011 Warm Springs Credit: USFWS
Judy Toppings, Regional Outreach Coordinator of Fisheries, Teaching Ca...
June 27, 2011 Warm Springs Credit: USFWS
Keenan Adams models the new uniform sun hat! (4820176350)
July 20, 2010 Destin, FL - Keenan Adams models the new uniform sun hat - which was added to the FWS uniform selection just in time for the intense sunsine of the Gulf..... Photo by Bonnie Strawser, USFWS ww... More
Just Another Day (6405694371)
RO Wilson taking a break while patrolling at the Vieques NWR. Vieques, PR Taken by Bruce Butler
Kayaking the North Toe River (5762323243)
Service biologist Jay Mays paddles the North Toe River for the 2011 Endangered Species Day Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Kevin Roy 3 (10591947684)
Kevin Roy receives the RD Honor Award for Employees from RD Cindy Dohner
Kevin Roy 2 (10591911256)
RD Cindy Dohner presents award to Kevin Roy
Kevin Roy (10591889026)
Roy is Senior Field Biologist at the Ecological Services office in Lafayette, LA
Kim Trust, Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration case ope...
July 24, 2010 Photo credit: Gary Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/contaminants/DeepwaterHorizon/
Kim Turner (10591726663)
RD Cindy Dohner congratulates Kim Turner. Kim was a member of the Honey Prairie Fire Team.
Looking in (5164075823)
Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Margaret Hale (10591539394)
RD Dohner congratulates Hale on award
Marisel Lopez, USFWS discussing research needs and interest to help in...
May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS
Mississippi Team 1 - Protocol is Important (4805185210)
July 15, 2010 Gulfport, MS - Mississippi Team One consists of USFWS Biologist Nate Caswell and USFS Biologist Joe Metzmeier. Their assignement was a long day on Ship Island in Gulf Islands National Seashore. ... More
Mississippi Team 1 (4804554589)
July 15, 2010 Gulfport, MS - Mississippi Team One consists of USFWS Biologist Nate Caswell and USFS Biologist Joe Metzmeier. Their assignement was a long day on Ship Island in Gulf Islands National Seashore. ... More
Natural Resource Damage Assessment Program Public Information Officer ...
July 16, 2010 Mobile, Alabama. Gary Peeples of the U.S. Fish and Widllife Service at his work station near Mobile, Alabama. Credit: Catherine J. Hibbard/USFWS www.fws.gov/home/dhoilspill/
Nick Bowman and Peter Lamb gathering spotfin chub at the Conservation ...
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nick Bowman bagging spotfin chub for the journey to the Cheoah River (...
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nick Bowman on the banks of the Cheoah River with bags of spotfin chub...
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nick Bowman acclimating spotfin chub to the Cheoah River (4773902313)
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nick Bowman with bags of spotfin chub in the Cheoah River (4774545462)
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nick Bowman releasing spotfin chub into the Cheoah River (4774548238)
Photo credit: Gary Peeples/ USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Nicole Rankin, Fisheries Biologist, Warm Springs Regional Fisheries Ce...
June 27, 2011 Warm Springs Credit: USFWS
Officer Costello on Patrol (6405717723)
4/16/2007, Vieques NWR
NS Ecological Services Supervisor Serves in Gulf Oil Response (4820172...
July 20, 2010 Daphne, AL - Pete Benjamin, Supervisor for the Raleigh Ecological Services Office of the USFWS has served as lead for the field operations of the Mobile Sector for several weeks. Photo by Bonnie ... More
Project Leader Raye Nilius (4880364958)
Raye Nilius is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Project Leader for the South Carolina Lowcountry Refuges Complex. Photo: Stacy Shelton, USFWS. www.fws.gov/caperomain/
Region 4 Law Enforcement Inservice (6405716331)
3/2006 Jackson, Mississippi. Taken by Bruce Butler
Reggie Forcine - SE FWS Fuels Management Award 2011 (6357885453)
Reggie Forcine (Okefenokee NWR) receives his Southeast Region Fuels Management Award in Savannah, GA during the 2011 Southeast Regional Fire Management Workshop. (L to R: Reggie Forcine, David Viker, Robert Eaton)
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Parnters FWC Investigator, M...
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Major Curtis Brown receives award from Regional Director Cindy Dohner. Brown was a driving force behind a Memorandum of Understanding between the USFWS and FWC.... More
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners Dr. Llewellyn M. Eh...
University of Central Florida Professor Emeritus Dr. Erhart's scientific contributions to sea turtle conservation over the decades have assisted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission determine t... More
Rob Wood - SE FWS Fire Management Leadership Award 2011 (6357885077)
Rob Wood (Savannah Coastal NWR) receives his Southeast Fire Management Leadership Award in Savannah, GA during the 2011 Southeast Regional Fire Management Workshop. (L to R: Rob Wood, David Viker, Robert Eaton)
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners FWC Investigator, M...
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Major Curtis Brown receives award from Regional Director Cindy Dohner. Brown was a driving force behind a Memorandum of Understanding between the USFWS and FWC.... More
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners Dr. Llewellyn M. Eh...
University of Central Florida Professor Emeritus Dr. Erhart's scientific contributions to sea turtle conservation over the decades have assisted the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission determine t... More
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners Fairchild Tropical ...
Dr. Joyce Maschinski, Conservation Ecologist and Team Leader accepts the award for the Garden's work with endangered and threatened flora in South Florida. View the 2011-2012 honor awards program: www.fws.gov/s... More
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners Fairchild Tropical ...
Dr. Joyce Maschinski, Conservation Ecologist and Team Leader accepts the award for the Garden's work with endangered and threatened flora in South Florida. View the 2011-2012 honor awards program: www.fws.gov/s... More
Regional Directors Award for Conservation Partners South Florida Water...
Bob Taylor accepts the RD Honor Award for Conservation Partners for his work with Bob Kukleski on the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan. View the 2011-2012 honor awards program: www.fws.gov/southeast/ne... More
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RD presents award to Ford
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Robert Ford receives RD Honor Award for Employees
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Robert Ford receives award from RD Cindy Dohner
Ronnie Haynes (8535529334)
Dr. Ronnie Haynes is the Southeast Regional Coordinator for the USFWS' Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program.
Sandy Abbott USFWS w mussel (6466589907)
Tagged endangered oval pigtoe mussel from Spring Creek, nearly Colquitt, Ga. Held by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Biolgist Sandy Abbott. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS NEWS RELEASE 20111206, Dec. 7, 2011 Critical Rea... More
Sandy Tucker (6466595421)
Sandy Tucker, Supervisorof the Georiga Ecological Services office checks out Spring Creek mussel beds. Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS.
Sheffield WMA (8534411709)
From left, Ronnie Haynes with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Steve Friedman with Georgia DNR listen to Brent Womack, a DNR wildlife biologist, describe management plans for the state-owned Sheffield Wil... More
Showing the fish (5164091439)
Eric Prowell, USFWS hydrologist, shows one of the fish found in Shoal Creek, in the Dawson Forest Wildlife Management Area in North Georgia. Credit: Stacy Shelton/USFWS Date: Nov. 6, 2010
Suiting up (5762316239)
Service biologists John Fridell suiting up to search for Appalachian elktoe mussels in North Carolina's North Toe River. Credit: G. Peeples/USFWS www.fws.gov/asheville/
Theodore Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Director (4797633472)
July 15, 2010 Theodore, Alabama. Dr. Heidi Stout of Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research addresses media at a tour of the Theodore, Alabama Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Credit: USFWS/Catherine J. Hibba... More
These are some of the many partners involved with the successful remov...
From left to right: Jetter Pittman, Pittman Professional Land Surveying Allen Walker, USFWS Walaka National Fish Hatchery Hal, Jones, USFWS, N Miss Refuge Complex Cindy Williams, USFWS Fisheries Ricky Campbel... More
Wildlife Inspector (28920833663)
Flickr description Supervisory Wildlife Inspector Charles "Chuck" Quick holds a confiscated bracelet made of illegal elephant hair. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Public Domain Photo by Tom MacKenzie, USFWS Sep. 7... More