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purple with white wing tips flowers cluster along a matt of green among tan stones

Endangered Species Act

Service Announces Sentry Milk-Vetch Recovery Plan

Light green, lobed leaves grow in a basal rosette. Two slightly blooming yellow flowers erupt from the plant’s center.

Endangered Species Act

Services Approves Final Recovery Plan for Texas Golden Gladecress

A light grey rattlesnake coils defensively with an alpine trees bark in the background.

Endangered Species Act

Shedding Light on an Obscure Rattlesnake

a tan sea turtle lays on the sand under some grass

Endangered Species Act

Sea Turtle Nesting Season Kicks Off on the Texas Coast

cartoon of a woman silhouette in black walking with a suitcase in one hand and a turtle in a carrier in the other

Science and Technology

Pet Permit Applications For International Travel Digitized

A view of a dam and river surrounded by trees.

Migratory Species

Raritan River Fish Passage Initiative

Habitat Restoration

Restoring the Coasts

Endangered Species Act

Comment period reopened for monarch butterfly listing proposal

A small skipper is perched on yellow flowers.

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens comment period on the proposal to list the bleached sandhill skipper; Virtual public hearing scheduled for April 16

a black and yellow bee on an orange and yellow flower

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reopens Comment Period for Proposal to List Suckley’s Cuckoo Bumble Bee as Endangered

The spinytail crayfish is small and slender. It has a hard, reddish-brown shell with darker markings. Its tail is tapered with spiny ridges along the edges.

Endangered Species Act

Spinytail Crayfish Remain Strong

Science and Technology

Nomans Land Island National Wildlife Refuge is bunny paradise

a brown skink on a leaf

Endangered Species Act

Servicio Federal Propone Listar y Hábitat Crítico para Cuatro Especies de Eslizones del Caribe

Through calm, clear waters, an emerald-green spiral springsnail is shown, sitting on a tan rock with holes.

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Three Forks Springsnail Available

a black and yellow insect that's fuzzy

Endangered Species Act

Service Proposes to List Suckley’s Cuckoo Bumble Bee as Endangered, Seeks Public Comment

Endangered Species Act

Proposing critical habitat for four mussel species

Endangered Species Act

Proposal to list the eastern hellbender as endangered

Clusters of small white flowers with yellow centers that appear popcorn like, with green stems and leaves in the background.

Endangered Species Act

Service Proposes to Reclassify Rough Popcornflower from Endangered to Threatened

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterfly

A tan chipmunk with black and white stripes stands alert on a rock in a grassy area.

Endangered Species Act

Peñasco Least Chipmunk Listed as Endangered with Designated Critical Habitat

Trout in shallow cobbled brook.

Endangered Species Act

Service Finds Endangered Species Act Protections Not Warranted for Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout

Endangered Species Act

Recovery plan released for endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat

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

Endangered Species Act

Service Lists Swale Paintbrush as Endangered

A single Oregon spotted frog sitting in shallow water with duckweed and scattered vegetation.

Endangered Species Act

Service Announces a Final Recovery Plan for the Oregon Spotted Frog

cartoon of a tan wizard with a white beard and long white hair gesturing to a web page with arrows pointing to different boxes

Science and Technology

The Magic of Design

stick figure person and a piece of mail floating away

Science and Technology

Listening to Feedback

graphic illustration of two people with backpacks looking at a map and a rising sun on the horizon with the text "goal: improving satisfaction" and an arrow pointing to "mapping our your journey"

Science and Technology

Personas, Journey Maps, and Usability Testing

Endangered Species Act

Final NLEB and TCB Tools and Technical Assistance Frequently Asked Questions

Endangered Species Act

Conservation and Cooperation

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

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

Flat design graphic of wind turbines in the Ozark Mountains

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

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