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Our mission begins with the words, "Working with others." We invite you to join us in conserving wildlife and wild places for today and for generations to come.
You can get involved by volunteering, partnering, sampling learning opportunities, taking part in education programs, and attending events. You can also comment on proposed rules and notices. Here’s how.
Volunteering
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Common Volunteer Opportunities
Careers and Internships
Are you passionate about conservation, science, nature, plants and wildlife? A career with us might be just what you’re looking for. It might also be the ticket if you’re into law enforcement, information technology, maintenance, real estate, engineering, communication, cartography, finance, budgeting and more.
Join us in advancing our mission of working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance, fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
Partnering With FWS
Partners are valuable allies to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and play a vital role in meeting the Service's conservation goals.
Featured Partners
Here are just a few of our nationals partners. You can view the full list of FWS partners, along with the regions and areas of focus our work together entails.
Learning Opportunities
We offer many types of learning opportunities including formal and informal training. Some of the education we offer includes job training, career enhancement training, and education for environmental or technical professionals and students.
Proposed Rules and Notices Open for Comment
Rulemaking is the policy-making process for agencies of the federal government. Each rule goes through a structured reviewing timeline, including a period for public comments. View policy open for public comment on regulations.gov.
Get Involved Stories
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Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is seeking public review and comment on its Draft Compatibility Determinations for bicycling, jogging, running, and cross-country skiing. We propose to continue allowing these existing uses on the Refuge. Under USFWS policy, compatibility determinations for...
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The refuge has prepared compatibility determinations for bicycling, research, scientific collection, surveys, environmental education and interpretation, wildlife observation and photography, cross-country skiing, and snowshoeing. These CDs renew and update existing uses. The Service will accept...
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This fall, America’s Wild Read is back in session featuring a biography of our national bird, The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America’s Bird by Jack E. Davis. Come join us on Thursday, November 16 at 3 PM EST for our online book discussion and share your thoughts and perspectives on a few...
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The name may be a mouthful, but monitoring avian productivity and survivorship, also called MAPS, is just a fancy name for keeping track of the health of our bird populations. Sorry, no lions, tigers or bears here.
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Nearly every seabird on the planet now eats plastic. Fish are eating microplastics — tiny beads found in cosmetics, lotions and toothpaste. Toxic chemicals bind to microplastics, and fish swallow these, too. When we eat the fish, we also swallow the microplastics and the toxins.