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#### A Service Task Force wades into the gray mud to help families in Everglades City

Billy Snyder stood in mud-caked boots in his mud-caked living room, or what used to be his living room before Hurricane Irma roared in. Half a dozen U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) personnel waited for his instructions: What to save, what to dump. It was actually pretty easy. Anything below three feet off the ground was a smelly, sodden mess, because that was the level at which Irma’s storm surge dumped a deluge of stinky gray mud and swamp water that ran through and ruined his family’s house.

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#### USFWS Celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month

 The Fish and Wildlife Service is pleased to join the observance of Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, 2017. The month celebrates the cultures and contributions of Americans whose origin or descent are from Spain, Mexico, Central or South America, and the Caribbean. During the month and throughout the year, the FWS invites Hispanic Americans to get out an enjoy YOUR nature with family and friends!    

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#### Minnesota Artist Bob Hautman Wins 2017 Federal Duck Stamp Contest! 

 Bob Hautman, an artist from Minnesota, is the winner of the 2017 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest announced by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Principal Deputy Director Greg Sheehan from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Hautman's acrylic painting of a pair of mallards will be made into the 2018-2019 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, or Duck Stamp. Ninety-eight cents out of every dollar generated by the sale of Duck Stamps goes directly to purchase or lease wetland habitat for protection in the National Wildlife Refuge System.

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              - Service Works to Keep Communities Safe 
              - 40 Percent of U.S. Population Hunts, Fishes, Watches Wildlife

| **Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Notices**Final Rule Proposed Rule Notice |
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|                                                                                       | 09/11/17.Migratory Birds; Take of Peregrine Falcons for Use in Falconry |
|                                                                                       | 09/07/17.Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Guadalupe Fescue; Designation of Critical Habitat for Guadalupe Fescue |
|                                                                                       | 09/06/17.Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Technical Correction for Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey |
|                                                                                       | 08/31/17.Migratory Bird Hunting; Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for the 2017-18 Season |
|                                                                                       | 08/31/17. Hunting and Fishing Application Forms and Activity Reports for National Wildlife Refuges-  Open Comment Periods
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