University of Georgia

The Chattahoochee Forest National Fish Hatchery joined forces with their partners to give 180 Freshman students from Fannin County High School an education on trout.

Habitat enhancement? Playing God? Johnny Appleseed-ing? Guerilla botany? No matter what it's called, the rare plants atop a stone mountain need all the help they can get.

FWS Biologist joined University of Georgia team in monitoring fish communities in the Conasauga River, Georgia.

ESA 50th Anniversary: More Important than Ever The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is the nation’s most important, and successful, tool to protect animals and plants at risk of extinction. The act currently covers 1,683 U.S. species and 646 foreign species. It serves as the emergency room for fish...

Georgia Ecological Services botanist, Mincy Moffett, visited the summit of Stone Mountain to survey granite rock outcrops for two federally listed plants, the Black-spored Quillwort and Pool Sprite.

On a spring night in 2007, Kurt Buhlmann sat on an overturned five-gallon bucket with a headlamp and a pair of binoculars, looking for wood turtles emerging from a streambank and clambering toward an adjacent farm field to nest. When he spied one of the rare reptiles, he would intercept it, carry...