This final Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP) has been prepared for the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), which is one of eight refuges of the Eastern Massachusetts National Wildlife Refuge Complex (Complex). Concurrently, we are releasing the Final CCPs for Oxbow and Assabet River NWRs

This Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Environmental Assessment (CCP/EA) has been prepared for the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge). The goals and objectives contained in this document reflect a "wildlife first" management theme. The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 established the primacy of the management of wildlife on the nation's National Wildlife Refuges and focus on issues pertaining to the Refuge.

This Comprehensive Conservation Plan is the cumulation of a planning process that began in February 1998. Numerous meetings with the public, the state, and conservation partners were held to identify and evaluate management alternatives.

This draft comprehensive conservation plan and environmental impact statement identifies the purpose and need for a management plan, outlines the legal foundation for management of two refuges in Montana, Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge and UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, and describes and evaluates four alternative plans for managing wildlife, habitat, and wildlife-dependent public use. This process has involved the development of a vision, goals, objectives, and strategies that meet the legal directives of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and has considered the...

Twelve thousand years ago, glaciers created the shallow peat-filled marshland basin known as the "Little Everglades of the North," or Horicon Marsh. In the beginning, the Horicon Marsh supported a vast array of wildlife and generations of native peoples.

The purpose of the Revised Conservation Plan is to ensure activities, actions, and management fulfill the purposes for which the Refuges were established and to provide clear direction to the public and refuge staff on how the Service intends to meet those purposes. While the 1987 Conservation Plans have provided good general direction, we needed to update and revise them to reflect changes in our understanding of the resources and uses on the Refuges, and changes in laws, regulations, and policies affecting refuge management that have occurred since the 1987 Conservation Plans were...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has developed this CCP to provide a foundation for the management and use of the Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge Complex, which includes not only the refuge but also the wetland management district. The plan is intended to serve as a working guide for management programs and actions over the next 15 years.

The Leopold Wetland Management District, established in 1993, manages over 12,000 acres of Waterfowl Production Areas in 17 southeastern Wisconsin counties, covering some some of the most important waterfowl areas of Wisconsin. The District also administers 45 conservation easements, totaling 3,000 acres in 21 eastern Wisconsin counties.

This Comprehensive Conservation Plan is prepared for the Little River National Wildlife Refuge in McCurtain County in southeastern Oklahoma. It is an update and revision of a draft Comprehensive Management Plan completed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1991. It has been written to provide continuity management of Refuge lands for the benefit of wildlife and people.

James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Kahuka ahupua of the Koolauloa district on the north shore of Oahu. Drawn to the area by the rich ocean waters and fertile lands dotted with natural springs, Native Hawaiians settled in Koolauloa around 1100 CE.