United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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Image:US-FWS-logo.png 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. It began as the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries in the United States Department of Commerce and the Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy in the United States Department of Agriculture and took its present form in 1939.
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
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See also
- List of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lands
- United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species
- See, Timeline of environmental events
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External links
- Official web site of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.