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From Mina@Apps.comThu Mar  9 10:59:17 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:23:38 -0800
From: Mina Ostergard <Mina@Apps.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <water-on-line@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: WWW> U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Information Superhighway

Colleagues,

FYI.  Mina O.

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>Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 18:33:47 -0500
>From: fishera@mail.fws.gov
>To: Multiple recipients of list <gils@cni.org>
>Subject: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Information Superhighway
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>Fish and Wildlife Service
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>For release February 27, 1995       Craig L. Rieben  202-208-5634
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>U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE ON INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY
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>The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering computer users 
>cruising the information highway a wealth of data on the 
>conservation and management of this Nation's fish and wildlife 
>resources and their habitat.
>
>The information available on the Service's Internet server is as 
>diverse as the agency itself.  The new World Wide Web server 
>"home pages" contain summaries of virtually every aspect of the 
>numerous activities and programs conducted by the Service.
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>Examples include a current listing of all endangered and 
>threatened species, information concerning recreational 
>activities on the more than 500 national wildlife refuges, and 
>valuable tips for travelers concerning the do's and don'ts of 
>buying wildlife products in a foreign country.  Also available is 
>information on fisheries management and conservation, detailed 
>descriptions of various popular wildlife species, and information 
>on hunter/angler-supported programs to enhance fish and wildlife 
>conservation.
>
>Service Director Mollie Beattie recently announced establishment 
>of the newest Web server saying it is to provide a "front door" 
>for the agency on the Internet and a link to virtually all other 
>Internet servers maintained by the Service.
>
>"Modern wildlife conservation and management increasingly depend 
>on the effective sharing of information among all concerned," she 
>said.  "I am confident this effort can greatly enhance our 
>collective conservation efforts by expanding the availability of 
>information concerning wildlife and their habitats."  
>
>Accessing the World Wide Web server requires a computer program 
>that can communicate with hypertext transfer protocol (http), 
>such as Mosaic.  "http://www.fws.gov/" is the Internet address 
>for the new server. 
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>Information is also available to those with only Internet 
>E-mail text transfer capabilities through a separate "dial-a- 
>file" library server maintained by the Service.  Send an E-mail
>message to "R9IRMLIB@mail.fws.gov" to access this server.  On the 
>subject line (not the body of the message), type SEND HELP and 
>you will be sent a user's guide including an index of topics in 
>the library.  To receive a specific document, on the subject line 
>type the command SEND followed by the document name as listed in 
>the index.  No text is necessary in the body of the message.
>
>A server established recently by the Service's National Wetlands 
>Inventory office is just one example of how this new technology 
>can bolster conservation activities.  For the past 13 years, this 
>office has been conducting an inventory of the Nation's wetlands 
>and producing geospatial data on magnetic media.  The material 
>depicts the relationship of wetlands habitat to U.S. Geological 
>Survey maps.
>
>Last July, the office began offering the capability of 
>downloading this information from an "anonymous FTP" server 
>(address "enterprise.nwi.fws.gov") accessible through the 
>Internet.
>
>Since that time, more than 64,000 wetlands maps have been 
>downloaded to users from some 25 countries around the world.  The 
>availability of this service has resulted in a significant 
>savings to both the user and the Service.  The maps normally cost 
>a little more than $9 apiece when mailed, so the public has 
>realized a savings of nearly $600,000 while the Service has 
>reduced its administrative costs substantially.
>
>As another example, the Service's National Forensics Laboratory 
>in Ashland, Oregon, has also experienced a number of successes 
>through information sharing over the Internet.  For example, a 
>Service criminologist recently passed on information about a new 
>forensic technique for identifying elephant ivory to a scientist 
>in New Zealand.  This tip ultimately led to solving a significant 
>wildlife crime case in that country.
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