{"id":650,"date":"2015-05-22T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/?p=650"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:47:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:47:23","slug":"new-chief-of-national-wildlife-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/new-chief-of-national-wildlife-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chief of National Wildlife Refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-651 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia-Martinez-940\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-250x106.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the appointment of Cynthia Martinez as the new chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuges\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Wildlife Refuge System<\/a>.\u00a0The refuge areas\u00a0provide habitat for more than 700 species of birds, 220 species of mammals, 250 reptiles and amphibian species, and more than 1,000 species of fish.\u00a0As part of her new role, Martinez, who has been with the agency for 21 years, will lead the management of public lands and waters set aside with the purpose of conserving America\u2019s fish, wildlife and plants.<\/p>\n<p>You can access a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wildlife.org\/tws-chats-with-new-national-wildlife-refuge-system-chief\/\" target=\"_blank\">transcript<\/a> of an interview with her conducted by\u00a0Dana Kobilinsky of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wildlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">TWS<\/a>\u00a0(The Wildlife Society) for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-651 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"Cynthia-Martinez-940\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-250x106.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Cynthia-Martinez-940.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the appointment of Cynthia Martinez as the new chief of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/refuges\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Wildlife Refuge System<\/a>.\u00a0The  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/new-chief-of-national-wildlife-refuge\/\"> Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"protect_children":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sniwla.org\/sniwla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}