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Service Issues Incidental Take Permit for Pine Tree Wind Farm in Kern County

Mimic cavesnail

Endangered Species Act

Two Central Texas Aquatic Species Will Not Be Listed Under the Endangered Species Act

Image of a Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly

Endangered Species Act

Service Reopens Comment Period for Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly Critical Habitat Proposal

Spectacled eider

Migratory Species

Diving into the Mysterious World of Sea Ducks

a brown slender salamander on mossy rocks and mud

Endangered Species Act

Public Comment Period Reopened for Salamander Proposed Listing and Critical Habitat

Panama City crayfish

Habitat Restoration

Crayfish Chronicles

Service approves updated habitat conservation plan for San Diego Gas & Electric

Wildlife Management

A wave of emotion

Desert Tortoise walking in the desert

Endangered Species Act

BLM, USFWS review potential impacts of Northern Corridor highway in Utah

Hatchlings, pluck, and long goodbyes

Two Service employees show a teacher the fish tanks in the back of a truck.

Endangered Species Act

A brown owl with white streaks and spots sits in a tree with green moss and needles.

Endangered Species Act

Service Seeks Public Comment on Draft Strategy to Manage Invasive Barred Owls

Image of dam with bridge overhead and fish passage structures in the foreground

Service and partners file settlement agreement with FirstLight for improved fish passage, flows

a large bird with outstretched wings flies low over a grassy wetland

Habitat Restoration

Environmental Agencies To Fund Wetland, Floodplain, and Groundwater Restoration in Tewksbury

Female Grizzly Bear

Wildlife Management

As Grizzly Bears Emerge from Dens, Wildlife Managers Ask Public to Help Keep Bears Wild

Views of the Texas wild rice beds in the San Marcos River.

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Endangered Species Act protection for two native freshwater mussels

Endangered Species Act

Service lists rare moth under Endangered Species Act

Freshwater mussel shell

Endangered Species Act

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

Joshua tree with mountains in the distance

Endangered Species Act

Second review finds Joshua trees do not require protection under the Endangered Species Act

Freshwater mussel shell

Endangered Species Act

Service Protects Longsolid and Round Hickorynut Mussels Under Endangered Species Act

older female red wolf crossing a field

Endangered Species Act

Service Delays Publication of Final Revised Recovery Plan for the Red Wolf

Top down view of a brown and black catfish like fish in a viewing box.

Endangered Species Act

Service Protects Population of Frecklebelly Madtom Under Endangered Species Act

Three fingers hold a prostrate milkweed in bloom.

Service Lists Rare South Texas Milkweed as Endangered

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.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Availability of Pearl Darter Draft Recovery Plan

Mr. Snake, a Louisiana pinesnake that helps the U.S. Forest Service with education and outreach, smells with his tounge July 11, 2022.

Endangered Species Act

Louisiana Pinesnake Proposed Critical Habitat FAQs

Two people crouching beside an ice cube tray filled with water and insects, which is set on an identification key.

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Mitchell County, N.C. Students Learn About Animals of the North Toe River

Biologist beside a boulder, teasing through moss and dirt with a pair of tweezers.

Endangered Species Act

Tracking a needle in a haystack – monitoring the endangered spruce-fir moss spider

Students walking across a broad, rocky beach to a shallow river

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Students in North Carolina's Yancey County Hit The Water

Sea Otters Are Unlikely Helpers in Our Fight Against Climate Change

a portrait of a hanging bat with large ears, folded arms, and a fuzzy brown body

Endangered Species Act

Saving the tricolored bat

Endangered Species Act

Tricolored Bat Frequently Asked Questions

Endangered Species Act

Persistence pays off on Palos Verdes Peninsula

Metal grate running across a road with adjacent ground covered in straw.

Wildlife Management

NCDOT Helps Ensure Safe Passage for Wetland Animals

Two people standing in a forest looking up, one using binoculars

Wildlife Management

Snapshot: Applying a Gentle Touch to Improving Habitat for an Endangered Flying Squirrel

Crocodile vs. Climate

Flowering plants in front of an office building

Habitat Restoration

Service Creates a Home for Pollinators in Asheville, N.C.