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a stone jetty with sparse trees cuts through a still lake that reflects blue skies and clouds

Land Management

Trustees Release Onondaga Lake Natural Resource Damage Assessment Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment Addendum

Land Management

Continued Decline of Wetlands Documented in New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report

a brown snake with yellow stripes rests on a log

Endangered Species Act

Final Roosevelt Dam Habitat Conservation Plan Amendment

Migratory Species

Where do birds go offshore? The answers may be blowing in the wind

Image of North Park phacelia, a small plant in muddy soil with purple flowers and green leaves

Endangered Species Act

North Park phacelia thrives due to conservation measures, proposed for delisting

Bushy whitlow-wort

Endangered Species Act

Rare South Texas Plant Proposed for Listing Under Endangered Species Act

Land Management

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Seeks Public Input on Proposed National Wildlife Refuge in Southern Maryland

Florida bonneted bat laying on a tree branch.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Critical Habitat for the Endangered Florida Bonneted Bat

various sized mussel shells on biologist’s hand above water.

Endangered Species Act

Conservation Agreement for Six Aquatic Species in the Trinity River Basin

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.

Flowering bush with yellow flowers in the Florida scrub

Endangered Species Act

Recovering the Florida Golden Aster

Habitat Restoration

Saving the Salt Marsh

palm of a hand extended holding about 16 snail shells

Endangered Species Act

Service Finalizes Listing of Magnificent Ramshorn Snail

a small rodent with a long thin tail and large rear feet

Endangered Species Act

Texas Kangaroo Rat Proposed Listing

Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst named Service’s Military Conservation Partner of the Year

A close-up underwater shot of an Apache trout swimming

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Delisting of Apache Trout

Image of a Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly

Endangered Species Act

Service Proposes Sacramento Mountains Butterfly Critical Habitat

Endangered Species Act

Federal Officials Seek Assistance in Investigation of Red Wolf Death

a brown snake with yellow stripes rests on a log

Land Management

Roosevelt Dam Habitat Conservation Plan Amendment

Yellow and white Fleshy-Fruit Gladecress

Endangered Species Act

Freshy-Fruit Gladecress Draft Recovery Plan

Endangered Species Act

Great Lakes piping plovers released at Cat Islands help species recover

Piping plovers released at Illinois Beach State Park help species recovery

A mussel sits on a yellow maple leaf

Endangered Species Act

Service proposes protections for green floater mussel

Endangered Species Act

Illinois chorus frog populations found stable, not warranted for listing

How Great Lakes communities are helping the endangered piping plover recover

A Western bumble bee nest sits on a paper plate

Wildlife Wonders

Western bumble bee’s nest discovered

Endangered Species Act

Rufa red knot revised proposed critical habitat FAQs

Pair of oregon chub swimming

Endangered Species Act

Celebrating ESA's 50th - First Fish Ever Recovered

A pearl darter in water. The common name, pearl darter, is derived from iridescent patches on its gill covers resembling the coloration of a pearl.

Pearl Darter Critical Habitat FAQs

Cows in a grassy pasture next to a trench

Working Lands Win for Kincaid’s Lupine

Hands holding a small brown rabbit

Endangered Species Act

Small but Mighty, the Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit Scratches out a Living in Sagebrush Habitat

Partners break ground on largest salt marsh restoration on East Coast

Boosting bat immunity

field of sagebrush on a clear, blue sky day

Sneak Attack: Researchers Explore Bacteria in Fight Against Invasives on Sagebrush Steppe

Women of Wildlife Feature

Sage grouse in Wyoming standing in snow and engaging in geophagy, which means eating dirt.

Wildlife Management

Eat Dirt? These Sage-Grouse Dig It!