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Close up of the brodiaea filifolia plant with purple leaves

Endangered Species Act

Celebrating the 20th Year of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

Wildlife Management

Take A Walk On The Wild(life) Side

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opens public review period for desert tortoise conservation plan

A stylized image of three fish, to the left a salmonid, in the middle, a larger sturgeon with a pointy nose and fins, and to the right a long, eel shaped Pacific lamprey

Science and Technology

New Ways Forward for Fish Passage in the Pacific Northwest

A small brown bat with what looks like white powder on its nose. The white is in fact a fungus.

Wildlife Wonders

Do "bat” an eye. These critters need our help!

A flowering bush with small pale pink flowers

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service completes 90-day finding for species in California, Nevada and Oregon

A bright yellow flower in a desert landscape with mountains in the background

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determines Las Vegas bearpoppy does not need ESA protections

Flat design graphic of wind turbines in the Ozark Mountains

New website launches to keep Carroll County informed about Nimbus Wind Farm project

Endangered Species Act

Service proposes protections for the Bethany Beach firefly

Look & listen: Get to know the 'feisty' Owens pupfish

Two butterflies on purple flowers with a building in the background

Snapshot: College Students Begin Semester-Long Service With Day at Asheville Pollinator Garden

Grizzly bear walking through a field

Endangered Species Act

Secure Food, Trash, Other Attractants: Help Protect Bears as They Prepare for Winter

A shrub-like plant with showy, bright orange flowers.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Gierisch mallow

mexican long-nosed bat

Endangered Species Act

Mexican Long-Nosed Bat Revised Recovery Plan

New resource provides guidance for wood-turtle friendly forest management

Seeking public comment for Alliant Wind Interstate Wind Project Habitat Conservation Plan

Two yellow and white speckled fish with slight frowns.

Endangered Species Act

The Service will Evaluate Sonora Chub's Critical Habitat

Seeking public comment on Cardinal Point Wind Project Habitat Conservation Plan

Endangered Species Act

Habitat Conservation Plan for Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle Available for Public Comment

Endangered Species Act

Draft Habitat Conservation Plan and Categorical Exclusion Available for Public Comment

Endangered Species Act

Service Finalizes Listing for the Pearl River Map Turtle

a photo or a small fish

Endangered Species Act

Service Seeks Comment on Proposed Critical Habitat for the Barrens Topminnow

A Mount Rainier white-tailed ptarmigan in summer plumage standing on light colored boulders

Endangered Species Act

Mount Rainier White-tailed Ptarmigan Federally Listed as Threatened Due to Climate Change Threat

Endangered Species Act

$48.4M for Collaborative Efforts to Conserve America’s Most Imperiled Species

California Condor soaring over mountains

Endangered Species Act

Informed Mitigation Hatches a Win for Condors

Bishop Paiute Tribe, USFWS and partners celebrate establishment of Owens pupfish sanctuary

Two smiling biologists flex their muscles along a river bank

Fighting for Underwater Underdogs

A monarch butterfly pollinates a yellow marigold flower.

5 Pollinator-Friendly Ways You Can Manage Garden Pests

Kevin Enge, left, FWC, and Travis Thomas, UF, right, pose while holding a large male Suwannee alligator snapping turtle with their boat and Suwannee River in the background. This is the 15th year the two men have been trapping and monitoring the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle to conserve and protect them.

Endangered Species Act

Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle

Habitat Restoration

Fish and Wildlife Service Pursues Nature-Based Solutions

A black and white marbled murrelet floating in calm water

Endangered Species Act

Revised Marbled Murrelet Inland Survey Protocol

a yellow bird with a short bill sits on a branch with green leaves

Birds on the Brink

Big Black rocksnails in water

Science and Technology

Extinct Mississippi snail rediscovered: landowner partnerships key to conservation success

Land Management

For Peat's Sake

National Guard protects last eastern population of rare butterfly

Proactive conservation supports species at risk