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Endangered Species Act

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan and Draft Environmental Assessment

Three photos spliced into one that shows three different freshwater mussels species.

Endangered Species Act

Availability of Three Draft Recovery Plans for Guadalupe River Basin Mussels

A small, dark green and globe-shape cactus covered in long ribbon-like spines blends into the rocky landscape.

Endangered Species Act

Fickeisen Plains Cactus and Peebles Navajo Cactus Draft Recovery Plan Available

Image of a Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly Available

Carolina box turtle touch

Wilderness Day Camp Offers Local Youth a Rare Escape to the Outdoors.

Science and Technology

Rufa Red Knot Delaware Bay Annual Report

Mr. Snake, a Louisiana pinesnake that helps the U.S. Forest Service with education and outreach, smells with his tounge July 11, 2022.

Saving the Louisiana Pinesnake

Deer with antlers pauses in tall, dry grass and looks towards camera.

Endangered Species Act

Columbian White-tailed Deer: A Conservation Comeback in the Pacific Northwest

a small green and gray turtle is held between a thumb and finger

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Endangered Sonoyta Mud Turtle Available

Two tan snails enlarged under a microscope

Endangered Species Act

Public Comment Open on Endangered Chupadera Springsnail's Draft Recovery Plan

Threatened western snowy plover and chick at Huntington State Beach in California.

Endangered Species Act

California: “Lifeguarding” Threatened Western Snowy Plovers at a California Beach

Northern California–Southern Oregon Fisher Not Warranted for Federal Protection

Endangered Species Act

Dunes Sagebrush Lizard Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan and Draft Environmental Assessment

Three photos spliced into one that shows three different freshwater mussels species.

Endangered Species Act

Availability of Three Draft Recovery Plans for Guadalupe River Basin Mussels

A small, dark green and globe-shape cactus covered in long ribbon-like spines blends into the rocky landscape.

Endangered Species Act

Fickeisen Plains Cactus and Peebles Navajo Cactus Draft Recovery Plan Available

Image of a Sacramento mountains checkerspot butterfly

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly Available

a small green and gray turtle is held between a thumb and finger

Endangered Species Act

Draft Recovery Plan for Endangered Sonoyta Mud Turtle Available

Two tan snails enlarged under a microscope

Endangered Species Act

Public Comment Open on Endangered Chupadera Springsnail's Draft Recovery Plan

Northern California–Southern Oregon Fisher Not Warranted for Federal Protection

A cluster of light green, cone-shaped flowers of Arizona eryngo blooms among other Arizona eryngo plants.

Endangered Species Act

Final Recovery Plan for Arizona Eryngo Available

small light tan colored fish rest on a sandy bottom

Endangered Species Act

Public Invited to Comment on Draft Recovery Plan for the Endangered Peppered Chub

White to pink flower petals erupt near the top center of a globe-shaped plant filled with white and brown needle-like leaves.

Endangered Species Act

Five-Year Status Review Recommends Delisting of Lloyd’s Mariposa Cactus

A slow moving, brown creek flows in a dense, leafy forest on a sunny day.

Endangered Species Act

Service Approves Conservation Agreement for Four Listed Species in Southeastern Arizona

Image of brook trout being held in stream.

Habitat Restoration

$1.4 million awarded for coastal conservation in northern Wisconsin

Carolina box turtle touch

Wilderness Day Camp Offers Local Youth a Rare Escape to the Outdoors.

Science and Technology

Rufa Red Knot Delaware Bay Annual Report

Mr. Snake, a Louisiana pinesnake that helps the U.S. Forest Service with education and outreach, smells with his tounge July 11, 2022.

Saving the Louisiana Pinesnake

Deer with antlers pauses in tall, dry grass and looks towards camera.

Endangered Species Act

Columbian White-tailed Deer: A Conservation Comeback in the Pacific Northwest

Threatened western snowy plover and chick at Huntington State Beach in California.

Endangered Species Act

California: “Lifeguarding” Threatened Western Snowy Plovers at a California Beach

Poweshiek skipperling sipping nectar

Science and Technology

When the Fate of a Species Rests in Your Hands 

A white, black and grayish least tern sits facing the camera on a sandy beach. Her chick is visible underneath her.

Migratory Species

Promoting Successful Tern Nesting and Healthy Waterfowl

Midwest mussel experts leading an emergent field

two bats hang upside down from the ceiling of a cave

Science and Technology

Harnessing technology to uncover the secrets of an endangered pollinator

Bright yellow flowers with long green stems growing outside

Endangered Species Act

Looking for Virginia sneezeweed? Check Missouri

Snorkeling swimming along the bottom of a shallow river

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Biologists find mussels persisting through two tropical storms

Two people standing in a river at night, looking up at a bridge

Endangered Species Act

Snapshot: Tropical Storm Helene’s Impacts on Area Bats Slowly Come Into Focus