The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used Recovery Act funds to improve Refuges, Hatcheries, Wetland Districts, and more throughout the country.

The video below highlights the benefits of the Recovery Act funds on the local communities, and the jobs it provided contractors, throughout the Northeast Region.  The following thirteen states make up the Northeast Region:

• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• Virginia
• West Virginia

Watch the video below to hear from contractors from Maine to Virginia on the Recovery-Act funded projects in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region.

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Video by Keith Shannon

Originally Posted 06/02/2011