U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Chesapeake Bay Ecological Services Field Office Richard Webster/USFWS Delmarva fox squirrel Represented by Members of Congress: Management Activities n Developing and distributing Senator Joseph Biden, Jr. (D-DE) n Working to recover populations materials about BayScapes and Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE) of Delmarva fox squirrel, bald Schoolyard Habitats to support Rep. Michael Castle (R-DE) eagle, bog turtle and other species an environmentally informed Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) listed under the Endangered public and promote environmental Senator Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD) Species Act stewardship Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) n Restoring important fish and n Working with public and private Rep. Wayne Gilcrest (R-1st-MD) wildlife habitats on private lands in partners to implement landscape- Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger (D-2nd-MD) cooperation with landowners, level habitat restoration and Rep. Benjamin Cardin (D-3rd-MD) conservation groups and other protection projects Rep. Albert Wynn (D-4th-MD) agencies n Conserving and restoring coastal Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-5th-MD) n Identifying and preventing habitats and ecosystems Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-6th-MD) contaminant impacts on fish and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-7th-MD) wildlife resources Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Jr. (D-8th-MD) n Helping landowners and local, state and federal agencies to evaluate Contact and restore stream systems John Wolflin, Field Supervisor n Controlling the introduction and Chesapeake Bay Field Office spread of invasive species 177 Admiral Cochrane Drive n Reviewing federal water resources U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Annapolis, MD 21410 development projects to evaluate 1 800/344 WILD Phone: 410/573 4573 impacts to fish and wildlife http://www.fws.gov Fax: 410/266 9127 TDD: 800/877 8339 January 2006 E-mail: [email protected] http://chesapeakebay.fws.gov Purpose Highlights Issues Field office biologists work with Investigating the effects of Urban sprawl and infrastructure landowners, private and community contaminants on trust resources in development organizations, government agencies local river ecosystems and other partners to conserve, protect Watershed and stream system and enhance fish and wildlife resources Advocating beneficial use of dredged degradation in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and material in restoring fish and wildlife the District of Columbia. Their work is habitat at Poplar Island Impacts of residential and guided by the following laws and other commercial development on related legislative authorities: Assisting private landowners to threatened and endangered species Clean Water Act acquire funding and create land Endangered Species Act management plans to restore and Exotic and invasive species Federal Power Act protect Delmarva fox squirrel management, including nutria, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Food habitat phragmites and Asian oyster Security Act Migratory Bird Treaty Act Eradicating invasive nutria from the Deformed amphibians found on National Environmental Policy Act Cheseapeake Bay region refuges Emergency Wetlands Resources Act Oil Pollution Act Restoring wetland, upland and Superfund (CERCLA) streamside (riparian) habitats Water Resources Development Act.