United States Fish and Wildlife Service

The USFWS logo

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that is dedicated to managing and preserving wildlife.

Units in the Fish and Wildlife Service include:

• National Wildlife Refuge System
• Bird Habitat Conservation
• Federal Duck Stamp
• National Fish Hatchery System
• Endangered Species program

History

It began as the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries (later known as the Bureau of Fisheries) in the United States Department of Commerce and the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy (later known as the Bureau of Biological Survey) in the United States Department of Agriculture. It took its present form in 1939 when these Bureaus were transferred to the Department of the Interior and were merged.

See also

• Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act
• National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory
• National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966
• National Rifle Association
• Safari Club International
• Timeline of environmental events
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species
• World Hunting Association
• National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
• International Migratory Bird Day

External links

• Official web site of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.