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The Southwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service includes Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Our regional headquarters is primarily comprised of administrative offices, law enforcement, and the offices of our regional leadership.
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Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has updated its 2018 species status assessment (SSA) for the North American wolverine with an addendum that reflects new information received since 2018, including information from state wildlife agencies. The analyses contained in the 2018 SSA and the SSA...
It’s no secret that plant pollination is vital for human life. It’s necessary for countless other plant and animal species as well, and bees perform the majority of it worldwide. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops — which supply about 90 percent of the world’s nutrition — are pollinated by...
Land Management
In 2022, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added nearly 6,000 acres of public land to the National Wildlife Refuge System in Texas. This brings the total number of Service-managed lands in the state to nearly 700,000 acres at 21 National Wildlife Refuges and three National Fish Hatcheries.
Habitat Restoration
This year, the Service’s Southwest Region Science Applications Program and Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, USGS, the American Bird Conservancy and other partners are launching a new landscape-scale Grassland Effectiveness Monitoring (GEM) protocol to help quantify the effectiveness of a...