April 27, 2011

As springtime calls people to the outdoors, encounters with snakes become inevitable. California has a variety of snakes, most of which are benign. The exception is California’s only native venomous snake – the rattlesnake. California rattlesnake species include the northern Pacific rattlesnake (in northern California), and the Western Diamondback, Sidewinder, Speckled rattlesnake, Red Diamond rattlesnake, […]

On April 26, an adult bald eagle was struck and killed by an incoming airplane at Norfolk International Airport. It is believed that this bird was the female of the nesting pair from Norfolk Botanical Garden (NBG). The strike occurred sometime between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m. These eagles were well known through the Norfolk Botanical Garden

Project Description: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) received $909,000 under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) to remove 37 cottages and restore beach and dune habitat on 35 acres of municipal property on Long Beach West in Stratford, Conn. The cottages, which have been mostly unoccupied and deteriorating since

LAKEWOOD, Colo. – Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (Recovery Program) researchers are optimistic that Mother Nature will provide flows in several Upper Colorado rivers this spring that will help reduce populations of certain species of nonnative fishes as they work to recover the endangered humpback chub, bonytail, razorback sucker and Colorado pikeminnow. Weather