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Pietz Receives Two Lifetime Honors for Wildlife Research
Dr. Pamela Pietz, a research wildlife biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, was recently granted the U.S. Department of the Interior's Meritorious Service Award—the second highest award for a DOI career employee—and elected Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU), one of t...
Euliss Receives Meritorious Service Award
Dr. Ned H. Euliss, Jr., research wildlife biologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, was recently granted the U.S. Department of the Interior's Meritorious Service Award—the second highest award for a DOI career employee—for his contributions to ecological science. ...
Carolyn with Prairie Dog
The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease. A USGS technician works with a prairie dog as part of the center's efforts to protect prairie dogs, and in turn the endangered black-footed ferret, from plague....
Prairie Dog
A prairie dog stands on alert. The USGS National Wildlife Health Center works to identify, track, and prevent wildlife disease. Better protection of prairie dogs against plague would minimize the risk of disease transfer to endangered black-footed ferrets, aid in prairie dog conservation, and protec...
Prairie Pothole Dragonfly
A dragonfly sits among prairie grasses at a USGS research site in the Williston Basin where scientists are looking at the impacts of oil well brine contamination on prairie pothole wetland communities....
Prestigious Award Granted to USGS Biologist
Dr. Marsha Sovada, Research Wildlife Biologist at the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center, Jamestown, North Dakota, receives the Professional Award from Brian Kietzman, president of the North Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society....
Water on the Prairie
The upper Sheyenne River, above Harvey, North Dakota, meandering through a pasture....
Water on the Prairie
A meandering stream that was a possible biomonitoring site for a USGS project in North Dakota....
Water on the Prairie
A meandering stream that was a possible biomonitoring site for a USGS project in North Dakota....
Utah Prairie Dog
Recovery efforts for the imperiled Utah prairie dog are greatly hampered by the effects of plague....
Utah Prairie Dog
Recovery efforts for the imperiled Utah prairie dog are greatly hampered by the effects of plague....
Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
Black-tailed prairie dogs are quite susceptible to sylvatic plague, but a new plague vaccine put in their food shows significant promise in the laboratory. The prairie dogs transmit the disease to endangered black-footed ferrets, who eat the prairie dogs and are also quite susceptible to the disease... |