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Black creek crayfish in a green net

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes Listing the Black Creek Crayfish as endangered under the Endangered Species Act    

Biologist seated on the forest floor, closely examining a rock face

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Endangered Spider Search at the Top of the Smoky Mountains

Hands holding fish in viewing glass

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan Now Available for Barrens Topminnow 

A sea turtle attempts to nest, but tourists and their lights scared it back into the water.

A Shining Light

a brown relictual slender salamander rests on a decaying log

Wildlife Wonders

Sequoia's Slender Salamanders a Precious Sight

U.S. fisha dn wildlife staff talk with Fort Meade's Colonel Gore about stream restorationists Ben Hutzell speak with Colonel Gore and ARD Sharon Marino about stream restoration techniques

Habitat Restoration

Fort George G. Meade – A Strong Partner for Climate Resiliency and Wildlife

Endangered Species Act

Service Releases Five-Year Status Review for Marbled Murrelet

Endangered Species Act

Strategy to Manage Invasive Barred Owls to Protect Imperiled Spotted Owls

a bright orange lily with dark red speckles and anthers

Endangered Species Act

Service announces availability of draft recovery plans for three listed California plants

Person standing in the back of a flatbed truck examining artificial bat roosts

Endangered Species Act

Concerned about a construction project and how it may affect an endangered species?

Watercraft inspector physically inspecting two kayaks on top of truck roof rack for aquatic invasive species.

Preventing dreissenid mussels from entering Alaska

Endangered Species Act

Seeking public comment on Michigan habitat conservation plan

Panama City crayfish

Wildlife Management

Draft Recovery Plan Available for Panama City Crayfish

Female Grizzly Bear

Endangered Species Act

USFWS initiates process to evaluate restoration of grizzly bears in Bitterroot ecosystem

california tiger salamander in hand

Endangered Species Act

Aramis Solar Draft EA and HCP Available for Public Review

Black pinesnake resting, close

Final Recovery Plan for Threatened Black Pinesnake Now Available

Freshwater mussel with a prominant spine at the top of its shell sits on a red net

Endangered Species Act

Altamaha Spinymussel

A California tiger salamander on top of dead grass looks toward the camera

Sacramento Municipal Utility District Draft Environmental Assessment and Habitat Conservation Plan Available for Public Review

a black and white bird in flight over the ocean

Endangered Species Act

El Servicio finaliza la inclusión del diablotín como especie en peligro de extinción

a black and white bird in flight over the ocean

Endangered Species Act

Service Finalizes Listing of Black-Capped Petrel as an Endangered Species

5 brown coal darters in a viewing container.

Endangered Species Act

Coal Darter Proposal

Endangered Species Act

Service proposes protections for West Virginia spring salamander

Photograph of one Pinaleno talussnail on rock.

Endangered Species Act

Two Arizona Land Snails Do Not Warrant ESA Listing

Endangered Species Act

Draft recovery plan released for endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat

Grasses with tall seed heads and conifer trees in the distance

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: 48 hours in search of one of the world’s rarest spiders

From top to bottom, blue skies, purple mountains, desert landscape with small shrubs all tan. Small body of stream-like water in the middle

Land Management

Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge – unique, worth every ounce of effort

Habitat Restoration

Partners Give Golf Course Second Life to Benefit People and Wildlife

Extreme close-up of a tiny brown snail.

Endangered Species Act

How a River Was Moved to Save Tiny Snails

A large light green and brown frog

Taking a Leap of Faith: Harnessing the Power of Community in Conservation

Freshwater mussel survey in southeast Georgia

2023 ACF Basin Freshwater Mussel Workshop

Researchers assemble a mussel silo

Endangered Species Act

Comments sought for Draft Environmental Assessment for the Designation of Critical Habitat for the Louisiana pigtoe

a crayfish in a net

Endangered Species Act

Proposed Listing of the Brawleys Fork Crayfish - Proposed 4(d) Rule and Proposed Critical Habitat; Frequently Asked Questions

Person kneeling down putting a plant in the hole in the ground

Habitat Restoration

Snapshot: Pollinator Garden Comes to Asheville, North Carolina Community

key deer doe swimming by red mangroves

MANGROVES: invaluable to wildlife, coastal ecosystem

Endangered Species Act

The road to recovering the endangered James spinymussel

What in the pollen are we up to?