National Wildlife Refuges: Continuing Problems with Incompatible Uses Call for Bold Action : Report to Congressional RequestersThe Office, 1989 - 84 страници |
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acres air exercises Airboats allowed Beach Use/Swimming Beneficial biological boating and waterskiing Canada geese Chincoteague Current Status/Outlook Dakota deer demand dense nesting cover desert bighorn sheep DeSoto ducks economic endangered species environmental Fish and Wildlife Fws management Fws officials Game Hunting gas operators grazing Ground Exercises habitat Harmful Uses Stem haying houseboat impact irrigation Kenmare Lacs refuge Malheur marshes migration migratory waterfowl military National Wildlife Refuge nesting habitat Newlands Project off-road vehicle ownership percent Picnicking piping plover power boating primary purposes provide habitat Purpose and Objectives Questionnaire Sent refuge lands refuge managers refuge was established Refuge Wildlife refuge's primary River Sand Lake Sand Lake refuge sandhill cranes secondary Sent to Refuge Sixteen Case Studies snow geese snow goose Sonoran pronghorn special use permit Stillwater subsurface mineral rights Swamp water rights waterfowl hunting waterskiing wetlands Wildlife Enhancement wildlife habitat wildlife observation Wildlife Refuge System wildlife resources
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Страница 14 - Expressing concern about these population declines and certain wildlife refuge management practices affecting the refuges' performances in reversing them, the Chairman, Subcommittee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources, House Committee on Government Operations...
Страница 10 - to provide, preserve, restore, and manage a national network of lands and waters sufficient in size, diversity, and location to meet society's needs for areas where the widest possible spectrum of benefits associated with wildlife and wildlands is enhanced and made available.
Страница 1 - The Honorable Mike Synar Chairman, Subcommittee on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr.
Страница 81 - Georgia, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of the Department of Agriculture, subject to valid existing rights, as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife...
Страница 83 - FWS would make two significant changes from wording of previous permits: (1 ) permits are renewable annually for the lifetime of the permittee and (2) houseboats may not be replaced. The refuge manager submitted an example of the letter ht planned to send to the houseboat owners concerning the new permit to the regional director. In a June 29, 1988, letter, the FWS Director notified the Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies, House Committee on Appropriations, that FWS had begun...
Страница 27 - Manual to ensure that these uses are compatible with primary refuge purposes. They said this had not been done because FWS only recently formalized its compatibility requirements. Such a review would place the compatibility process on a more systematic agencywide basis thereby increasing the refuge manager's leverage with public and economic interest groups and making it more difficult for nonbiological factors to be considered in decision-making.
Страница 9 - USC 668dd etseq.) defines the refuge system as it is known today. It consolidated the various categories of lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior and other agencies for the conservation of fish and wildlife into a single National Wildlife Refuge System managed by Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The act clarified the Secretary's authority to accept donations of money for land acquisition, and placed restrictions on the transfer, exchange, or other disposal of lands within...
Страница 4 - FWS' consideration of nonbiological factors in making its compatibility decisions and its failure to periodically reevaluate ongoing secondary uses as prescribed by its Refuge Manual. It has also not compiled data on the cost of managing these uses. With respect to the second primary factor, on many other refuges, refuge managers report that they are powerless to prohibit harmful uses because of various limitations in FWS' jurisdiction over refuge lands. These limitations include the lack of ownership...
Страница 33 - To ensure that available resources are used effectively, the Secretary of the Interior should direct the Director, FWS, to: (1) identify refuges where less than full ownership and control of necessary resources adversely affect the refuges' primary purposes; (2) establish guidance for determining whether refuges can effectively accomplish their primary wildlife resource purposes; and (3) determine whether these refuges should be improved through the acquisition of needed property rights or other...
Страница 81 - Stat. 497, and in order to effectuate further the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act (45 Stat.