Past success rates for this hunt have exceeded 75 percent. The world's most endangered crane would take to the skies over the eastern United States under a plan proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce a wild population of whooping cranes that would migrate annually between Wisconsin and Florida. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved an Environmental Assessment evaluating the impacts of a proposed Habitat Conservation Plan by Magic Carpet Association to provide conservation measures for the piping plover, a federally endangered shorebird that nests along the shores of the Great Lakes. The plan would conserve plover habitat along a half-mile stretch of Lake Michigan shoreline in Leelanau County, Michigan. Although it's still cold outside, now is the time to prepare for the arrival of ducks later this spring.
Many people enjoy building and installing wood duck nesting boxes and mallard nesting cylinders.
These artificial nesting sites are readily used by ducks and can provide a safe nesting location, but they do require simple annual maintenance. May. Although simple, an annual spring cleaning is necessary to encourage the use of these structures by hen wood ducks and mallards. The revised draft includes a new alternative that describes the Service's possible contributions toward a community-based conservation effort. The Service has selected it as the preferred alternative. The funds will be used to acquire lands for the conservation and recovery of the endangered butterfly.