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Please explore our site to learn more about us and how we and the other regional associations and the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies work together to conserve our precious fish and wildlife resources. Our mission is to provide a forum for state and provincial fish and wildlife agencies to share ideas and information, pool resources, and initiate action to benefit the management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources in the Midwest.
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ANNOUNCING THE 75TH ANNUAL DIRECTOR'S MEETING!!!
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is proud
to host the 75th Midwest Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies
Annual Director's Meeting, to be held June 29 through July 2 at the Holiday
Inn, Rocky Mountain National Park in Estes Park, Colorado...
Click here to learn more!
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Officials from seven states discuss lead dangers in venison
The Associated Press - Thursday, June 05, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Minn.
Education could be a key to reducing any dangers from lead in venison - as well as to calming public fears - officials from seven Midwestern states agreed Wednesday.
Among the ideas floated at a conference here are that hunters could be taught about how to best shoot deer to minimize the risk, how to field dress a carcass to reduce lead residues and what kinds of bullets to use.
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Thornton Named NWTF CEO
EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Agribusiness leader, George C. Thornton, was named chief executive officer for the National Wild Turkey Federation June 2, 2008 and will begin his duties immediately.
Thornton is well known throughout the agribusiness community most recently as president and chief executive officer of Agriliance, LLC, a leading agricultural input distributor in North America providing retailers and producers with crop nutrients, crop protection products, seed and equipment. Thornton, who retired from Agriliance in August 2007, also served in various sales, financial and management positions with American Cyanamid, ICI Americas, ICI Australia PLC, Griffin/Dupont, LLC and AgWeb.com. He is a past director of the Minnesota Zoo...
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Mysterious Ailment Could Wipe Out U.S. Northeast Bats
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
May 14, 2008
This summer scientists hope to finally crack the case of the mysterious ailment afflicting bats in the U.S. Northeast—before time runs out for the animals and the local environment.
The emergence of pregnant females from their wintering grounds should provide vital clues to the extent and transmission mode of the affliction, known as white-nose syndrome.
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Secretary Kempthorne Announces Decision to Protect Polar
Bears under Endangered Species Act
Rule will allow continuation of vital energy production in Alaska
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The listing is based on the best available science, which shows that loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat. This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species.
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Cold spring kills songbirds in Minnesota
The Associated Press - Thursday, May 08, 2008
MINNEAPOLIS
The chilly, snowy spring has killed scores of songbirds in the northern two-thirds of Minnesota.
Officials of the state Department of Natural Resources have received many reports of dead swallows, bluebirds, kinglets, sparrows, robins and warblers since last week.
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Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 5, 2008; A03
Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.
Their findings may help unlock part of the mystery surrounding the current pollination crisis that is affecting a wide variety of crops. Scientists are seeking to determine why honeybees and bumblebees are dying off in the United States and in other countries, and the new study indicates that emissions from power plants and automobiles may play a part in the insects' demise.
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By Paul Davidson, USA TODAY April 30, 2008
A Silicon Valley start-up says it has developed technology that can deliver solar power in about a year at prices competitive with coal-fired electricity, a milestone that would leapfrog other more established players and turbocharge the fast-growing industry.
SUNRGI's "concentrated photovoltaic" system relies on lenses to magnify sunlight 2,000 times, letting it produce as much electricity as standard panels with a far smaller system. Craig Goodman, head of the National Energy Marketers Association, is expected to announce the breakthrough Tuesday.
Under its plans, which experts call promising but highly ambitious, SUNRGI would initially target utilities and large industrial and commercial customers. The company — founded by veterans of computer, digital design, aerospace and solar industries — would market to homes within three years.
Executives of the year-old company say they'll start producing solar panels by mid-2009 that will generate electricity for about 7 cents a kilowatt hour, including installation. That's roughly the price of cheap coal-fired electricity. "We're bringing the cost of solar electricity down to be competitive with" fossil fuels, says Bob Block, a co-founder of SUNRGI.
Solar power is acclaimed as free of greenhouse gas emissions and able to supply electricity midday when demand is highest. But its cost — 20 cents to 30 cents a kilowatt hour — has inhibited broad adoption. Solar makes up less than 1% of U.S. power generation.
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House passes bill to treat ballast water on ships
Measure that aims to protect Great Lakes goes to Senate
By DAN EGAN
degan@journalsentinel.com
Posted: April 24, 2008
The free ride might be coming to an end for oceangoing vessels blamed for flooding the Great Lakes with invasive species that have ravaged native fish populations, fouled untold miles of shoreline and spawned botulism outbreaks that have recently killed thousands of Lake Michigan birds.
The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill Thursday that would for the first time require all ships entering U.S. waters to treat their ballast water to kill unwanted hitchhikers.
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Hunters, anglers worry about global warming, loss of wildlife
April 10, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP): Global warming could force elk and mule deer from much of the western United States. Wild trout could disappear in lower Appalachian streams. Two-thirds of America's ducks may disappear.
A new U.S. assessment of the threat to fish and wildlife habitat has hunters and anglers calling for action.
Click here for full story plus Hunters-Anglers Climate Change/Seasons End PRESS RELEASE |
MN CONSERVATION SALES TAX ON BALLOT!
The Minnesota legislature approved a ballot measure to increase the state sales tax for wildlife, parks, water and the arts in only the 3rd day of the session. Voters will decide the issue during the general election on November 4.
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LEAD LINKED TO MENTAL LOSS
Research is linking the decline of mental capability later in life to lead exposure earlier in life. More research is needed to prove this but studies point in this direction.
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DU Says CRP Losses Astounding |
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National trend for habitat loss concerning
BISMARCK, ND, January 4, 2008 – The conservation organization Ducks Unlimited says it’s as if someone plowed up a three-mile swath of wildlife habitat across North Dakota, from its southern border to Canada. That’s how many Conservation Reserve Program grassland acres were lost in just this one state this past fall.
New federal figures show almost 420,000 acres of North Dakota CRP were converted to cropland in 2007. That’s more than 12 percent of all CRP acres in the state.
Click here for full story DU says CRP losses astounding
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Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) governmental members include the fish and wildlife agencies of the states, provinces, and federal governments of the U.S. and Canada. All 50 states are members.
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Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) is an organization whose members are the state agencies with primary responsibility for management and protection of the fish and wildlife resources in 16 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. |
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Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, founded in 1922, is a quasi-governmental organization of public agencies charged with the protection and management of fish and wildlife resources in the western part of the United States and Canada. Currently there are 23 members. The Association has been a key organization in the promotion of the principles of sound resource management and the strengthening of federal, state and private cooperation in protecting and managing fish and wildlife and their habitats in the public interest.
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