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Aerial view of a small island with sand and green vegetation on it, surrounded by deep blue water

A Beginner’s Guide to the National Wildlife Refuge System

People scattered across a brown hillside, kneeling and standing, with the lake, yellow trees, and dramatic clouds visible behind.

Seeking Board Leadership

Seedlings in crates ready to be planted as part of a thornscrub habitat restoration project at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Habitat Restoration

Thorns and All: Conservation Partners Show Love to Thornscrub Habitat in South Texas

Land Management

Rappahannock River Valley NWR Public Comment to Open the Cat Point Creek Unit

A wooden water control structure on the riparian shore of North Burnt Fork Creek

Habitat Restoration

Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge Releases Draft Environmental Assessment for Fish Passage Barrier Removal

McNeill-Peach Creek Unit at San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge

Land Management

Texas National Wildlife Refuges Grow by Nearly 6,000 Acres in 2022

Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge sunset

Land Management

Seeking comments on draft Land Protection Plan

Wildlife Wonders

Carol of the Birds: A Christmas Bird Count Story

an octopus sits half-buried in sediment on the ocean floor. It's tentacles curl up and rest against its head

Land Management

Notice of Intent published to draft Management Plan for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

Winter Programs and Tours at Pocosin Lakes NWR

A ponderosa pine looms tall from below, with frost covering the needles and blending the many scraggly branches into the gray-blue sky

Draft Compatibility Determination for Commercial Timber Harvest

Wildlife Wonders

Remains of woolly mammoths found in Marine National Monument

America's Great Outdoors

Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge seeks input on draft Compatibility Determination for cultural resource use.

Birds fly over desert wetland with mountains in background.

Wildlife Wonders

Ash Meadows is the Galapagos of the Mojave Desert

Habitat Restoration

A Breath of Fresh Air: Restoring Bottomland Hardwood Forests in Kansas

Wildlife Wonders

a vast wetland with water moving through marsh grasses

Habitat Restoration

Setting salt marsh standards

a man in Service uniform stands near a salt marsh with a refuge boundary sign behind him

Redefining conservation in a changing climate

a bear in a creek with snow on the banks

Wildlife Wonders

Sharing the landscape as bears wake up from hibernation

Wildlife Wonders

The oldest known common loons

A young woman fishing from a platform

Serenity on the Water