The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it will rehire the hundreds of probationary employees who were fired en masse on Feb.

Between 75,000 and 80,000 birds are estimated dead as a severe botulism outbreak rages at the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed to SFGATE.

Tule Lake is one of four incarceration camps in the National Park System that the federal government used during World War II to imprison people in the name of military defense. The military ...