Southeast Region Headquarters

ATLANTA, GA - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is releasing the final revision of the Red Wolf Recovery Plan to guide recovery efforts for “America’s Red Wolf.” The original recovery plan for the Red Wolf was approved in 1982 and was revised in 1984 and 1990. The Service published a draft revised...

Yancey and Mitchell county, N.C. student explore streams in their community as part of the 2023 Toes in the Toe educational event.

Haywood County, N.C. Students Get Their Feet Wet During the 2023 Kids in the Creek Event

Following a review of the best available science, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is downlisting the relict darter, a small fish native to the Bayou de Chien stream system in western Kentucky, from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The Service is also implementing...

This summer, Sharon Dorsey, a graduate student at Virginia Tech, brought her organizational skills to the Service. As part of the Directorate Fellows Program, she’s gathering information on all the Service’s pollinator conservation efforts conducted over the last two years throughout the Southeast...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes placing three freshwater mussels, the Cumberland moccasinshell, Tennessee clubshell, and Tennessee pigtoe on the federal list of threatened and endangered species. Each of these species is being proposed for endangered species status.