Welcome to the Science Applications program!

What We Do

Our Services

Science Applications is a non-regulatory program within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that tackles conservation issues no single Service program or partner can address alone. We bring partners together to identify shared conservation priorities and deliver scientific information and tools partnerships need to achieve conservation goals across the landscape.

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Stories
A view into the woods of trees with vibrant red and orange leaves
Our Partners
Forests that work for people and wildlife
Through the Wildlife Conservation Initiative, we partner with willing private landowners on research and strategic conservation to help keep forests and their inhabitants healthy.
Rusty patched bumblebee on a bee balm plant (genus Monarda)
Get Involved
Bee a force for good
Through the funding and multi-agency collaboration under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Pollinator Task Force was established. The task force is now executing cutting-edge research, practicing adaptive management and strategic habitat conservation at scale, and providing tools to be...
A landscape covered with scrubby coastal vegetation
Science and Technology
Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge is bunny paradise
In September 2024, a team of biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MassWildlife and New Hampshire Fish and Game boarded a 40-foot aluminum landing craft and headed to Nomans Land Island for a week. This was no pleasure cruise. They were there to assess a new population of New England...
A view of the forested hills leads to a large open body of water below
The Highlands Conservation Act grant program at 20
Since 2004, the Highlands Conservation Act grant program has protected more than 16,000 acres in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut Highlands, putting conservation “on the map” for people and wildlife. As it marks two decades, the program has an expanded reach and updated...
A black and yellow bee on a pink flower with spiky extensions
Science and Technology
Connecting your work to pollinators
People across North America are progressing pollinator conservation every day. We're proud to be part of that progress. Our Center for Pollinator Conservation has two new, and updated, tools to help you find intersections between your conservation work, land management priorities and pollinator...
Foreground: USFWS Branded Helmet atop Hazard Cone. Background: Visitor Center of Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge
Modeling Sustainability: Rocky Mountain Arsenal Bird-Safe Glass Installation
Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, Colorado - Nearly invisible to the naked eye, dotted patterns are applied to the glass of the Visitor Center at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. While unassuming, these patterns are critical to the mission of the Refuge and the...
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Projects and Research

Science Applications leads or supports a variety of projects and initiatives across the country. Our role and level of engagement is customized to the needs of each partnership we work with. The common thread throughout our work is that each project or initiative focuses on an environmental challenge that is urgent, complex, occurs across a large geographic area, and involves a wide array of stakeholder groups. Examples of issues we work on include, but are not limited to:

  • North American pollinator conservation
  • Wildlife health
  • At-risk species conservation in a non-regulatory context