Resources - National Wildlife Refuge System - Vision

A Strategy Plan for Improving Environmental Education for the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Comment period: from Tuesday, May 14 through Friday, June 28

15-page, PDF, 631 KB

Draft Hunting & Fishing Strategic Plan for the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Comment period: from Tuesday, July 2 through Thursday, August 15

25-pages, PDF, 3.1MB

Draft Urban Standards of Excellence.

Comment period: now through Friday, September 20

28-pages, PDF, 942 KB

The purpose of the Friends Partnership Mentoring Program is to help Friends partnerships flourish, and in turn increase the overall ability of the Service to carry out its mission through viable and sustainable partnerships with Friends organizations.

13-page, PDF, 3.2 MB

Meeting the National Wildlife Refuge System – Special Places Where Wildlife and People Thrive is an outstanding reference that not only recounts the history and guiding principles of the Refuge System but also gives readers a big-picture view of the Refuge System. Volunteers and Friends can easily print portions of the document to recruit new people to support the Refuge System.

The Community Partnerships Implementation Team has finalized the Volunteer and Partner Involvement in the National Wildlife Refuge System report. The report was made available November of 2013.

44-pages, PDF, 10.7 MB

Working with Volunteers, Friends Organizations, and Community Partnerships contains policy, practical advice and case studies to improve how how you can work with community partners and cooperators. It assembles in one place policies, guidance, references and best proactices along with helpful hints not typically found in FWS policy manuals.