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Current Road Conditions at Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Image of brook trout being held in stream.

Habitat Restoration

$1.4 million awarded for coastal conservation in northern Wisconsin

Refuge to suspend recreation fees and visitor service activities at Brown Canyon

Wildlife Management

Interior Department Announces $102.9 Million for Wetland Conservation Projects

Sevilleta NWR Visitor Center with purple sage in bloom

Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge to suspend recreation fees

A silhouette of a ruby-throated hummingbird

Wildlife Wonders

Humming into Autumn

Land Management

Service Withdraws Land Protection Plan Expansion for Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge

ʻEkupuʻu standing on branch eating seeds after it was released at Midway Atoll

Wildlife Management

The Return of ʻEkupuʻu to Kuaihelani

decorative blue wavy line graphic

Fifth Announcement for Kuskokwim River Fishing Opportunities

Fireworks in the night sky

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Volunteers Shine in Local Parade

A close up of a blue jay with a peanut in the shell in it's beak. The blue jay is facing the camera straight on, with it's head turned to the right and has tiny new feathers coming in on it's head, otherwise it looks pretty bald. It's perched on a deck railing with many peanuts in front of it, with a blurred green background.

Wildlife Wonders

Science and Technology

Assistive technologies inspired by nature

Draft Environmental Assessment Available for Cooperative Agriculture Activities at Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public comment on draft Compatibility Determination for Cooperative Farming Program on Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge

March 29 update on Dads Lake Fire near Valentine, Neb

Dads Lake Fire Ignites at Valentine National Wildlife Refuge

Prescribed Burning Planned at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Land Management

Federal agencies partner to add land to Cape May National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey

Public Comment Sought on Proposal for Charles M. Russell Wetland Management District

A photo captures an Everglades snail kite as it snags a snail in its talons.

Land Management

Miccosukee Tribe, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Co-Stewardship

Habitat Restoration

More Than $25 Million To Protect and Restore Coastal Wetlands and Build Coastal Resiliency

Okefenokee Swamp is quiet at sunset.

Land Management

Minor Expansion of Acquisition Boundary

Two monarch butterflies sip nectar from a blooming blazing star plant

Promoting quality habitat on private lands

Secretary Haaland Establishes Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge

Coastal Delaware National Wildlife Refuge Complex Seeks Public Comment on Draft Compatibility Determinations

Habitat Restoration

Using fire to benefit habitat, wildlife and people

Wildlife Wonders

The oldest known common loons

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Draft Compatibility Determination

red ohia lehua flower

Listening to the Hilo Rain: Impacts of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death on Lei Making and Other Cultural Practices in Hawaiʻi

Family poses for tree planting at Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Volunteers, an Earth Day Celebration, and a Little Snow

Trash Cleanup Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Volunteers Spruce up the Swamp

Groundwork Hudson Valley Green Team Group Picture Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge

Spring Break Stewardship

Photo of blue-purple Wild Lupine flowers in the prairie of the Rapids Lake Education and Visitor Center parking lot

Wildlife Wonders

Heavy equipment on a dirt landscape with green vegetation and blue skies above

Habitat Restoration

Final Environmental Assessment for the Kootenai Floodplain Reconnection Project

Piping plover walking on a Delaware bay beach

Migratory Species

Interpretive Series: Plover Primetime

a uniformed officer poses for a picture at the edge of a Southern Texas landscape

SFWO Matthew McDonald