Foundation at Visitor Center
This photo shows workers creating the foundation for the new Visitor Center at Audubon NWR. The new facility, funded by the Recovery Act, will replace a building that has developed and exposed some serious health and safety problems, including asbestos, extensive rodent encroachment, water leakage, ...
Location: ND, USA

Foundation Walls at Visitor Center
This photo shows workers constructing the foundation walls for the new Visitor Center at Audubon NWR. The visitor contact wing will include an 884 square foot exhibit hall and a 1,038 square foot multipurpose room....
Location: ND, USA

Excavation for Conference Room
This photo shows workers completing the excavation at the site for the conference room in the new Audubon NWR Headquarters. This project, funded by the Recovery Act, will allow the Refuge to replace the current headquarters and visitor facility, which is approximately 52 years old and has had four a...
Location: ND, USA

North Wing 1
This photo shows work being completed at the site for the North Wing of the new Audubon NWR Headquarters and Visitor Center. Construction of the building will be completed in September 2010....
Location: ND, USA

North Wing 2
This photo shows work being completed at the site for the North Wing of the new Audubon NWR Headquarters and Visitor Center. This building will be certified through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) process and constructed using sustainable design and energy conservation techn...
Location: ND, USA

View to SE
This photo provides a look at the ongoing construction project to build the Audubon NWR Headquarters and Visitor Center in Coleharbor, ND. This project is being funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009....
Location: ND, USA

Interior Invests $286,000 in Minnesota Valley NWR
Tom Melius, Midwest Regional Director (FWS) and Jeanne Holler, Assistant Refuge Manager, point out new energy retrofitting construction while touring the Minnesota Valley NWR Visitor Center....
Location: Bloomington, MN, USA

Interior Invests $286,000 in Minnesota Valley NWR
Secretary Salazar inspects new geothermal plumbing construction in parking lot of Minnesota Valley. Left to Jeanne Holler, Tom Melius and Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland look. ...
Location: Bloomington, MN, USA

Interior Invests $286,000 in Minnesota Valley NWR
Secretary Salazar presents and award to Steve Sutter, President of MN Valley NWR Friends Group for support of Refuge activities targeting youth and education. ...
Location: Bloomington, MN, USA

Interior Invests $286,000 in Minnesota Valley NWR
Secretary Salazar (center) poses with youth employees and staff at Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Much of the labor performed on the recovery projects at the refuge is done by youth in the Minnesota Conservation Corps....
Location: Bloomington, MN, USA

Interior Invests $286,000 in Minnesota Valley NWR
Assistant Refuge Manager Jeanne Holler gives Secretary Salazar a tour of Hillside Trail, the most highly used trail in the refuge. ...
Location: Bloomington, MN, USA

Rightmeyer House at Back Bay NWR
This photo shows the Righmeyer House at Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which will be rehabilitated with Recovery Act funding to house the refuge's offices. Related to the R5GA — Repair Rightmeyer House — Back Bay NWR project....
Location: VA, USA

Pond Liner Replacement
This pond liner replacement process will be used to replace 9 deteriorated clay pond liners with polyethylene liners that help hatchery employees at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery produce more fish at a larger size with less effort. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners —...
Location: ND, USA

Stocking Walleye Fish
An FWS employee stocks walleye in a lined pond at Garrison Dam National Fish Hatchery, the Service's largest walleye production hatchery. Related to the R6PC — Replace 9 Clay Pond Liners — Garrison Dam NFH project....
Location: ND, USA

Aerial View of the Audubon NWR
This photo shows an aerial view of the existing facilities at Audubon National Wildlife Refuge. Related to the R6BB — Construct Headquarters Visitor Building — Audubon NWR project....
Location: Coleharbor, ND, USA