United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Wildlife Officer Interview     I Interviewed Federal Conservation Officer Ashley Look on the day of April 27th, 2017. She works as a Federal Wildlife Officer for the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service. Officer Look is a field officer for the Litchfield National Wildlife Refuge. She informed me on the requirements to become a Federal Wildlife Officer and her respective duties. Officer Look stated that it is required to have at least one-year work experience in the field of law enforcement and/or

already in decline. By the early 1990’s, most of the population had been killed and scientists confirmed that sustainable Gray wolf populations had been extirpated (Creel and Rotella, 2010). When the park first opened there were no laws to protect wildlife and any

Massachusetts and John Hopkins University to receive her Master if Arts in zoology in 1932. Rachel Carson’s life has a rich and varied history. Rachel Carson grew up on a Pennsylvania farm which gave her a lot of first-hand knowledge about nature and wildlife. She expressed her interest

brings warm Caribbean water that moves through the gulf loop. It can move as far inland as Louisiana or parts of the loop break away to form eddies that bring animal larvae, plant spores that count for many of the Caribbean species found in the Gulf (Service, flowergarden.noaa.gov/about/natrualsetting.htm;#domes). Since the water temperature does cool during the winter month’s hermatypic coral do not survive close to the coastline in the Gulf of Mexico. The sandy ocean bottom is what impedes coral from

Should the Endangered Species Act revised The endangered species act passed in 1973 is the strongest law protecting the biodiversity of the United States today. For forty years the ESA has helped prevent the extinction of our nation’s wildlife treasure ("Endangered Species Act 101"), however, whether or not all of the environmental conservation victories can be attributed to the act is controversial. Especially when evaluating cases such as that of the bald eagle and California condor

understand the importance of wildlife conservation. Why is wildlife so important? What steps need to be taken to preserve wildlife? How can one become involved in wildlife conservation? These are all important questions that need to be explored in order to help maintain the delicate ecosystem on Earth. Wildlife plays a vital role in this fragile ecosystem and without wildlife the human race would not survive. The initial step in wildlife conservation is understanding why wildlife is vital to the ecosystem

in each of the three states. All of this data was quantitative and based on numbers. This data was based on the population of livestock and wolves for a tri-state area each year for 25 years. The data was collected from a couple of different federal agencies. The number of livestock (cattle and sheep) depredated, wolf population estimates, number of wolf breeding pairs, and number of wolves killed in each state were obtained from the United States Fish and Wildlife Services Interagency Annual Wolf

The incident in assessment is the March 29th 2013 Mayflower Oil spill that occurred in Mayflower, Arkanas, United States of America. The pipeline, named the Pegasus line, belonged to operator, ExxonMobil, transporting Canadian Wabasca heavy crude from Athabasca Oil sands when the pipeline failed (McGowan 2013). The Pegasus line a 20 inch line with a total length of 850 mines and carried approximately 95,000 barrels per day from Patoka, IL to Nederland, TX (ADEQ, 2013). The pipeline was designed with

reaction to the public's concern that human activities were threatening to extinguish certain species of marine mammals. As Dye (1993) states, “Congress enacted the MMPA to prohibit the harassing, catching and killing of marine mammals by U.S. citizens or within the jurisdiction of the United States”. The MMPA is managed by primarily by both the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) external and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) external. The Marine Mammal Commission (MMC) external

which inhabit our state. Because of the negative impact of the invasive species of Florida, we should be informed and aware of the effects. There are many non-native, not only animals, but plant species also which are of concern. Three invasive species that are harming Florida are Lionfish, the Burmese Pythons, and the Brazilian Pepper. How the Lionfish was introduced is not clear, but it is speculated that either through aquarium trade and thoughtless fish owners releasing the fish, or from the ballast