Obama’s USFWS nominee, Sam Hamilton, is head of the Southeastern Region where surveyed scientists and employees gave low ratings for key issues in the region.
Many sovereign tribes in the US are working cooperatively on fisheries management. There are some interesting articles regarding this in the current (Spring 2009) issue of “Eddies” (USFWS’s quarterly concerning fisheries conservation).
The US Fish and Wildlife Services has a new fish magazine, Eddies, to tout their successes (as they perceive them). A lot of the magazine is devoted to management issues, especially regarding hatcheries. I would like to see more dealing with conserving habitat instead of just hatchery issues. I found the brief essays on Gila [...]