Images

Cattle graze on a ranch in western Montana.

Elk grazing at a feedground in Wyoming.

Blue Shiner, Cyprinella caerulea

Interpretive signage created by interpretive designer and illustrator Denise Dahn, with murals of USGS Western Fisheries Research Center Pump House created by Jeff Jacobson in background.

Washington Post article on the impacts of DDT on birds.

USGS scientists conduct a post-construction assessment of the Cottrellville Shoreline Restoration Project on the St. Clair River, Michigan.

The Florida Keys reefs have been experiencing a severe disease outbreak from 2014 to present called Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease (SCTLD).

Laysan albatross with chick on Kauai, 2016.

An adult osprey brings a fish to its nestlings at Poplar Island, Maryland. USGS researchers placed game cameras in some osprey nests to identify the types of fish that Chesapeake Bay ospreys are eating, then tested those fish species for toxic chemicals.

Bradley Compton, Research Associate with the Massachusetts CRU, holding a Blanding's turtle, a threatened species in Massachusetts.

Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife research unit students (L to R) Colleen Olfenbuttel (MS), Johnny Wills (MS), and Sybille Klenzendorf (Ph.D.) weigh and measure a black bear cub at a den site in western Virginia.

Red-shouldered hawk capture. Recently graduated MS student Carlene Henneman working on MN Unit Leader David Anderson’s Red-shouldered hawk project.

Ted Simons, Assistant Leader-NC Unit, Arielle Waldstein, MS Student-NC Unit, and Allan O'Connell-Research Wildlife Biologist-USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, with nine raccoons trapped at Cape Lookout National Seashore as part of a study there to evaluate the consequences of predator removal for endangered species management.

Emerald Lake in the High Sierras of Sequoia National Park. Ph.D. Student Luke Ackerman, Ph.D. Student Jennifer Ramsay, and Oregon-Fish Unit Leader Carl Schreck, sampling blood and tissues from trout and taking whole fish for determination of possible effects of airborne contaminants. 

Katlyn Steinkerchner (undergraduate research technician for PA Coop Unit) is banding a Henslow’s sparrow.

Michael Jones, Ph.D. candidate in the Massachusetts unit, tracking the movements of wood turtles in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts.

Lincoln Parrett, of the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, restrains a female caribou as her calf looks on.

Iowa Unit Graduate student Chris Penne listens for signals from carp with surgically implanted radio transmitters in Clear Lake. Chris studied carp aggregation to assist in planning for carp reduction by the DNR.

Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit - Nathan Gosch (right; master's student) utilizes a gastroscope to verify that all stomach contents were recovered from a flathead catfish held by Jeff Stittle (undergraduate).

Research on sika and white-tailed deer on Assateague Island National Seashore is investigating movements and habitat partitioning between these two ungulate species. Photo is of Sonja Christensen (M.S. student in Wildlife and Fisheries Science at Penn State University) with a sika deer.

Tennessee Cooperative Fish and Widlife Research Unit students John Damer and Casey Bergthold sampling elusive brook trout in the Watauga River in east Tennessee.