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Rolling mountains with conifer trees and a partly cloudy sky

2024 - Weekly Highlights from the Asheville Field Office, Asheville, North Carolina

Man kneeling down, using loppers to cut small stems

Land Management

Snapshot: Biologists Assess Hurricane's Impacts to Wetlands

Two people using chainsaws to cut up a tree

Snapshot: Biologists Descend on North Carolina Wetland to Counter Invasive Tree

Woman at a microscope set up at at pickup truck

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Biologists Begin Assessing Area Streams Post-Hurricane Helene

Woman sitting on the forest floor examining something in a small tray she is holding

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Rare Spider Monitoring Season Comes to a Close in the Smoky Mountains Backcountry

Two butterflies on purple flowers with a building in the background

Snapshot: College Students Begin Semester-Long Service With Day at Asheville Pollinator Garden

Group of people sitting on a forest floor holding electronic devices

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: North Carolina Biologists Learn to Listen for Bats

Biologist seated on the forest floor, closely examining a rock face

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Endangered Spider Search at the Top of the Smoky Mountains

Snail crawling up a vertical rock face

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conducts Five-Year Status Reviews of 59 Southeastern Species

23 freshwater mussels laid out on a white mesh bag, next to a pair of calipers.

Searching for the Alabama Lampmussel

A striped fish, Roanoke logperch, swims along a rocky stream.

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to delist Roanoke logperch

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to list pyramid pigtoe mussel withdrawn

Snail crawling up a vertical rock face

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conducts Five-Year Status Reviews of 59 Southeastern Species

A striped fish, Roanoke logperch, swims along a rocky stream.

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to delist Roanoke logperch

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to list pyramid pigtoe mussel withdrawn

Endangered Species Act

10 Species Get Initial Reviews on Endangered Species Act Petitions

Endangered Species Act

Service Finds Listing Not Warranted for Three Southeastern Species

Endangered Species Act

Service Proposes Listing Three Eastern Freshwater Mussels Under the Endangered Species Act

A mussel sits on a yellow maple leaf

Endangered Species Act

Service proposes protections for green floater mussel

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conducts Five-Year Status Reviews of 67 Southeastern Species

Freshwater mussel shell

Endangered Species Act

FAQs - Endangered Species Act Protection for the Longsolid and Round Hickorynut mussels

Freshwater mussel shell

Endangered Species Act

Service Protects Longsolid and Round Hickorynut Mussels Under Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act

Effective date to reclassify northern long-eared bat as endangered extended

Endangered Species Act

Northern long-eared bat reclassified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act

Rolling mountains with conifer trees and a partly cloudy sky

2024 - Weekly Highlights from the Asheville Field Office, Asheville, North Carolina

Man kneeling down, using loppers to cut small stems

Land Management

Snapshot: Biologists Assess Hurricane's Impacts to Wetlands

Two people using chainsaws to cut up a tree

Snapshot: Biologists Descend on North Carolina Wetland to Counter Invasive Tree

Woman at a microscope set up at at pickup truck

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Biologists Begin Assessing Area Streams Post-Hurricane Helene

Woman sitting on the forest floor examining something in a small tray she is holding

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Rare Spider Monitoring Season Comes to a Close in the Smoky Mountains Backcountry

Two butterflies on purple flowers with a building in the background

Snapshot: College Students Begin Semester-Long Service With Day at Asheville Pollinator Garden

Group of people sitting on a forest floor holding electronic devices

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: North Carolina Biologists Learn to Listen for Bats

Biologist seated on the forest floor, closely examining a rock face

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Endangered Spider Search at the Top of the Smoky Mountains

23 freshwater mussels laid out on a white mesh bag, next to a pair of calipers.

Searching for the Alabama Lampmussel

Endangered Species Act

FAQs – Withdrawal of the pyramid pigtoe from listing consideration

Three people standing on a tractor-pulled seed planter, with a large tractor tire in the foreground.

Land Management

Snapshot: Planting the Seeds of Pollinator Conservation. Literally.

2023 - Weekly Highlights from the Asheville Field Office, Asheville, North Carolina