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Public comment period open for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service environmental assessment for Little Yellow River remeandering at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge

Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge Heavy Equipment Operator Key to Habitat Restoration

MTMNM New Superintendent

Sandhill Cranes Nest for the First Time at Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge

Wildlife Management

National Elk Refuge to Host Open Houses & Webinar

Emergency closure of early teal hunt on Area C Hunt Unit at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge

Oceans of Trash

A small, mostly yellow-green bird with black and light blue markings on its breast and face perched on a thin branch

Lower Rio Grande Valley seeking public input

Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst named Service’s Military Conservation Partner of the Year

USFWS at EAA AirVenture

Working in Wildland Fire Management

A medium-size brown, gray and black birds standing in shallow blue water with sparse vegetation in the foreground

Habitat Restoration

Coming soon: 125-acres of coastal wetland in the Otay River Estuary

A young girl talks with a group of adults at an outdoor event

History and Culture

On the shoulders of giants

Habitat Restoration

High school students help restore Connecticut’s Great Meadows Marsh

Communing with, and through, nature

a white and gray whale fin emerging from the ocean

Wildlife Wonders

The monument in your backyard

History and Culture

Theodore Roosevelt & the Teddy Bear

Wildlife Wonders

“The Coolest Mammals on Earth”

Wildlife Wonders

Discovering turtles at Northern Maine National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Empowering people to fight aquatic invasive species

Urban Wildlife Conservation Day

Migratory Species

Putting a stop to bird collisions

Saltmarsh Sparrow mother and chicks huddled in nest in salt marsh

The sparrow that speaks for the marsh