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Land Management
The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge is a natural gem. Yet it’s what’s hidden below the water that’s perhaps its most impressive feature. There, at densities up to 15 feet, lie millennia worth of decayed vegetation, or peat. The peat contains millions of tons of carbon that, otherwise, would...
Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $5,000 reward for information regarding a whooping crane found dead along Besi Lane in Mamou, Louisiana. The reward is for information leading to the arrest or criminal conviction of those involved.
Land Management
A fifteen-acre pollinator meadow is planted in Mills River, N.C. thanks to a partnership between the Service, the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, and, most importantly, the town of Mills River.
Habitat Restoration
The South Atlantic's iconic salt marshes are disappearing. A slew of federal, state, and nonprofit partners are trying to reverse the climate-fueled trend.
Wildlife Management
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces the availability of the draft recovery plan for the Panama City crayfish. Listed as threatened in January 2022, with a 4,138-acre critical habitat designation, this crayfish is only found in Bay County, Florida. Thought to be extinct, it was rediscovered...
Endangered Species Act
The final recovery plan for the Altamaha spinymussel (Elliptio spinosa), a mussel found in the Ocmulgee, Altamaha and Ohoopee Rivers in Georgia, is now available. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service) goal is to help this species flourish once again and remove it from the Federal List of...