5155441 CAUTION: BIRD NESTING SEASON Birds are sensitive during the nesting season. Vegetation clearing, ground disturbance, heavy wake near shorelines and other site construction and recreational activitiescan destroy eggs or nestlings or cause nest abandonment. If you encounter an active nest, leave it be and give it space until young hatch and depart the area. Do not destroy eggs, chicks, or adults of wild bird species.Learn about the laws that govern migratory birds in Alaskaincluding possible exceptions for subsistence gathering.More information on avoiding waterbird harassmentand timing recommendations for construction activities to minimize impacts to nesting birds.
Based in Fairbanks, and in collaboration with our Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Satellite Office, we work with others to deliver conservation over approximately 338-million acres of Alaska. Our responsibilities generally range from the Yukon River Delta region in southwest Alaska, eastward to the Canadian border and northward. Our work also involves offshore federal waters in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas.
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Our staff work in an area that stretches across the northern part of Alaska.
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We specialize in ecology, biology, fisheries science and management, project evaluation and mitigation, statistics, environmental contaminants, and working with federally-qualified subsistence users. We work side-by-side with myriad partners to understand, protect and restore aquatic resources of northern Alaska, assist management of subsistence fish species and uphold the U.S.-Canada Yukon River Salmon Agreement, assess, minimize and mitigate the impacts of large-scale development projects, recover listed eider species, restore degraded habitats, and build positive relationships with others to conserve fish, wildlife and their habitats for the American people and future generations. Some of the services we provide within the communities we serve include technical assistance, funding, and conservation capacity and guidance.
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ESA Section 7 Consultation
The purpose of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) is to provide a means to conserve the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend and provide a program for the conservation of such species. The ESA directs all federal agencies to participate in conserving these species....
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance to Protect Breeding and Nesting Birds
Birds are most sensitive during breeding and nesting, when vegetation clearing, ground disturbance, and other site construction activities can destroy active bird nests, eggs, or nestlings. The most effective way to protect nesting birds is to conduct these activities before or after the...
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
Landowner - Commercial
Landowner - Individual
Private Land Owners/Managers
Public Land Manager
Alaska Streambank/Lake Shore Restoration Cost-Share
We provide funding and technical expertise for projects that restore and protect fish habitat. Examples of past successful projects include:
Bank stabilization using natural materials (like rootwads andcabled spruce trees) and bioengineering.Light-penetrating gratewalks, decks...
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
Financial Assistance
Land Management and Conservation Assistance
Landowner - Individual
Private Land Owners/Managers
Fish Passage Technical and Planning Assistance
The National Fish Passage Program provides financial and technical assistance for projects that improve the ability of fish or other aquatic species to migrate by reconnecting habitat that has been fragmented by a barrier such as a dam or culvert.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
Land Management and Conservation Assistance
Technical Assistance to Prevent Bird-Vessel Strike in the Alaska Marine Environment
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service provides technical assistance to help reduce human vessel interactions with avian species listed under U.S. Endangered Species Act and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Birds flying in the marine environment are not expecting to encounter vertical structures...
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
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Importer/Exporter
Military
Oil/Gas Company
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Technical Assistance for Broadband Projects
In anticipation of substantial expansion of broadband capability in Alaska, the Alaska Region of the US Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has compiled Best Management Practices (BMPs) for project proponents to consider early in the planning and project development process to avoid and minimize...
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Consultation and Technical Assistance
Business Owner/Commercial Business
Government or Government Representative - Local Government
Government or Government Representative - State Government
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Ecological Services
The Ecological Services Program works to restore and protect healthy populations of fish, wildlife, and plants and the environments upon which they depend. Using the best available science, we work with federal, state, Tribal, local, and non-profit stakeholders, as well as private land owners, to...
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Baileys Crossroads,VA
Fish and Aquatic Conservation
The Fish and Aquatic Conservation program leads aquatic conservation efforts for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. We are committed to tackling the nation’s highest priority aquatic conservation and recreational challenges to conserve, restore, and enhance fisheries for future generations.
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Falls Church,VA
National Fish Passage Program
Across the country, millions of barriers are fragmenting rivers, blocking fish migration, and putting communities at higher risk to flooding. Improving fish passage is one of the most effective ways to help conserve vulnerable species while building safer infrastructure for communities and...
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Partners for Fish and Wildlife
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides free technical and financial assistance to landowners, managers, tribes, corporations, schools and nonprofits interested in improving wildlife habitat on their land. Since 1987, we have helped more than 30,000 landowners to complete more than 50,...
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Selawik Sheefish Study
In the spring of 2004, thawing permafrost caused a large landslide (slump) in the upper Selawik River within Alaska's Selawik National Wildlife Refuge. As the slump grew it discharged tons of sediment upstream of the Selawik sheefish population's spawning grounds. This fish is animportant Refuge fixture and year-round subsistence food for the Inupiat people living in the Selawik/Kotzebue...
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North Slope Dolly Varden Studies
When woolly mammoths still roamed Earth, rain and snow fell on the south side of Alaska’s Brooks Range. Those same ancient waters are just now entering frozen rivers on Alaska’s North Slope via perennial springs. And they hold the key to survival for salmon-sized Dolly Varden and several other species of fish in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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North Slope Dolly Varden Studies
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Cripple Creek Fish Passage Restoration
This multi-year project has sought to reconnect habitat and restore fish passage in Fairbanks, Alaska.
Cripple Creek’s natural channel was abandoned in 1935 when streamflow was diverted into an artificial drain constructed to carry wastewater and sediment from hydraulic mining activity in the Ester area. Though mining activity ceased years ago, the drain channel...
Cripple Creek Fish Passage Restoration
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Yukon River Subsistence Fishery Management
The Federal Subsistence Board has given Delegated Authority to the Federal Inseason Fishery manager to manage subsistence fishing for salmon in all Federal Public waters of the Yukon Area.
The Federal manager and a team of assessment and management biologists work together with State of Alaska managers, Office of Subsistence Management staff, Regional Advisory Councils, USFWS Refuge...
Yukon River Subsistence Fishery Management
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Habitat Restoration $7.5M More in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding to Support Salmon and Communities Efforts to remove salmon migration barriers in Alaska will receive an additional $7.5 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds. This most recent round of funding will go towards projects in Southeast Alaska, the Mat-Su Valley, and along the Yukon River.
Our People A 67 Million Acre Open Air Office How do you pack for a patrol of an area the size of Mississippi? What do you pack? A lunch? What about a week's worth of food, a tent, sleeping bag, and your flight helmet? Those are exactly what Senior Federal Wildlife Officer (SFWO) Cody Smith packs at a minimum for a patrol of his over 67-...
Wildlife Wonders Graduating from Blowouts to Bridges While most two-year-olds are still blowing out their nappies, BIL (short for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law) investments are blowing out fish passage barriers across Alaska and no one is more relieved than the fish and people who depend on them.
Our People Wildlife Inspector Canine Wildlife Inspector Canines work with Wildlife Inspectors to help combat international wildlife trafficking. Dock, a black Labrador from Georgia, has spent seven years working with the Office of Law Enforcement in Alaska.
Our People The Land We Share The Land We Share, a book developed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, and Alaska Geographic. The book is comprised of over 60 outdoor essays that focus on the reverence for and lessons from our public lands, the wildlife, and relationships (people...
Habitat Restoration Natural flows return to Cripple Creek Nearly 90 years after its channel was abandoned, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees, partners, local students and community landowners strive to restore its natural flow.
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