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Posing directly in front of the camera is a an olive to brown turtle looking away with its head turned to the right of the image.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan Now Available for Pearl River Map Turtle

Yellow and purple flowers blooming near a farm.

National Agriculture Day

Four yellow to red flower bracts grow in a field among grass and other flowers.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Swale Paintbrush Available

A waterway surrounded by vegetation

Endangered Species Act

Missouri Determination Key Released

a fish and wildlife service biologist and military personnel dressed in fatigues looks down at a container with a lizard

Partnering with the Military to Find Lizards

A small brassy colored fish with a light colored background.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Virtual Public Hearing on Proposed Endangered Species Listing for Fish Lake Valley Tui Chub

Taylor's checkerspot nectars on a small flower

Endangered Species Act

Puget Sound Energy HCP and Draft Environmental Action Statement Available for Comment

Permitting Approved to Boost Energy Reliability

Bumble bee on swamp sunflower at Okefenokee Swamp.

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Nationwide Conservation Benefit Agreement for Bumble Bees

Endangered Species Act

Streamlining ESA Consultations for the Benefit of Wildlife

three different landsacpes: swamp, shoreline, grasses.

History and Culture

9 Ways We Protect America's Wild Places

Grizzly bear standing on a slope

Grizzly Bear Illegally Killed in North Idaho, Reward Offered For Information

Posing directly in front of the camera is a an olive to brown turtle looking away with its head turned to the right of the image.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan Now Available for Pearl River Map Turtle

Four yellow to red flower bracts grow in a field among grass and other flowers.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Swale Paintbrush Available

A waterway surrounded by vegetation

Endangered Species Act

Missouri Determination Key Released

A small brassy colored fish with a light colored background.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Virtual Public Hearing on Proposed Endangered Species Listing for Fish Lake Valley Tui Chub

Taylor's checkerspot nectars on a small flower

Endangered Species Act

Puget Sound Energy HCP and Draft Environmental Action Statement Available for Comment

Permitting Approved to Boost Energy Reliability

Bumble bee on swamp sunflower at Okefenokee Swamp.

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Nationwide Conservation Benefit Agreement for Bumble Bees

Endangered Species Act

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan and Draft Environmental Assessment

Three photos spliced into one that shows three different freshwater mussels species.

Endangered Species Act

Availability of Three Draft Recovery Plans for Guadalupe River Basin Mussels

A small, dark green and globe-shape cactus covered in long ribbon-like spines blends into the rocky landscape.

Endangered Species Act

Fickeisen Plains Cactus and Peebles Navajo Cactus Draft Recovery Plan Available

Image of a Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly Available

a small green and gray turtle is held between a thumb and finger

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Endangered Sonoyta Mud Turtle Available

Yellow and purple flowers blooming near a farm.

National Agriculture Day

a fish and wildlife service biologist and military personnel dressed in fatigues looks down at a container with a lizard

Partnering with the Military to Find Lizards

Endangered Species Act

Streamlining ESA Consultations for the Benefit of Wildlife

three different landsacpes: swamp, shoreline, grasses.

History and Culture

9 Ways We Protect America's Wild Places

Grizzly bear standing on a slope

Grizzly Bear Illegally Killed in North Idaho, Reward Offered For Information

Manatee resting in a body of water with a school of mangrove snappers..

Wildlife Management

Prescott Grant Program Awards for Fiscal Year 2025

Carolina box turtle touch

Wilderness Day Camp Offers Local Youth a Rare Escape to the Outdoors.

Science and Technology

Rufa Red Knot Delaware Bay Annual Report

Deer with antlers pauses in tall, dry grass and looks towards camera.

Endangered Species Act

Columbian White-tailed Deer: A Conservation Comeback in the Pacific Northwest

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

Saving the Louisiana Pinesnake

Threatened western snowy plover and chick at Huntington State Beach in California.

Endangered Species Act

California: “Lifeguarding” Threatened Western Snowy Plovers at a California Beach

A white, black and grayish least tern sits facing the camera on a sandy beach. Her chick is visible underneath her.

Migratory Species

Promoting Successful Tern Nesting and Healthy Waterfowl