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Mount Shasta, snow-covered, loomed in the background. Stretched out before me, marshlands sparkled, and hundreds of white-faced ibis, Wilson’s phalaropes, black-necked stilts, and long-billed dowitchers brought the landscape alive as they twirled, probed, and pranced in pursuit of breakfast. Hundreds (maybe a thousand) red-winged blackbirds winged overhead. The site? Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge that straddles the Oregon-California border.
The National Wildlife Refuge Association vehemently opposes the proposed transfer of Camas National Wildlife Refuge, a part of the National Wildlife Refuge System, to the State of Idaho. The effort, initiated by the Idaho State Legislature, threatens to dismantle nearly 90 years of conservation progress and opens the door to selling off national wildlife refuges and America’s other public lands to the highest bidder.
One of the great wildlife recovery stories in United States’ history began in the mid-1980s when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFW) and other agencies began the Aleutian Cackling Goose recovery program. Then listed as endangered, the Aleutian Goose population had declined to fewer than 700 individuals.
