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An aerial view of a dry creek on the left and a blue body of water on the right, separated by green trees.

Habitat Restoration

$5 Million in BIL Funding Set to Transform Habitat for Bull Trout in Gold Creek

Aerial image of a native seed farm with rows of bright colors and mountains along the horizon under a blue sky.

The art of growing native seed in California

Land Management

Interior Establishes Willamette Valley Conservation Area in Oregon

Intern in river holding a freshwater mussel

Meet the Future of Conservation

The orange arm of a construction excavator reaches into a river to break apart a dam

Habitat Restoration

Of herring and humans

Crayfish in hand

Claws for Celebration

Partners Find Non-Lethal Answers to Grizzly Bear Interactions on Montana Ranches

Pollinators transform a neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut

Photo of Crooked Creek after a dam removal

Habitat Restoration

Fish Passage and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

A monarch butterfly crawls on a small whorled milkweed amidst dried grass and shrubs.

Habitat Restoration

Ranch for At-Risk Youth Converts Farmland Back to Desert Wetland

2023 Recovery Champion Award: Christy Hand

Iowa Topeka Shiner Partnership Named Recovery Champions

Three images of the dam. 1. Full dam on a rocky stream, 2. Partial dam, part of the structure is gone, 3. open river bed and earthen streambanks held in place with canvas and rock.

Land Management

Little River Dam Removal — Virginia

Freshwater spring

Adventures on the Water

Three people standing on a tractor-pulled seed planter, with a large tractor tire in the foreground.

Land Management

Snapshot: Planting the Seeds of Pollinator Conservation. Literally.

Two men in uniform smiling in an outdoor setting

El legado de una familia en la conservación

An ‘ākohekohe sits on a branch. It has a black body with orange patches strewn throughout its body. An orange circle outlines its eye.

Decision-making in a new era of conservation

A stream from above filled with bundles of logs

Habitat Restoration

Recovering From Wildfire With a Little Inspiration From Beavers

Two staff members show off a Topeka shiner found in a restored oxbow

Habitat Restoration

From endangered to empowered: The Topeka shiner’s journey

A metal structure dams a ditch and prevents water from flowing out.

Habitat Restoration

Water: The lifeblood of a swamp

Habitat Restoration

Apalachicola Comeback

Photo of new culvert near sports fields in Springville, Alabama

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at work in Alabama

Finding purpose along the Detroit River

A small brown bat with a silver band on its wing resting on a piece of bark with thin, frilly, silvery-green vegetation

First, find the bats

Science and Technology

Conserving at Flyway Scales

Mitch Osborne leads a group around restored sections of Cripple Creek, July 2023

From Bush Planes to Arctic Dives, Mitch Osborne Has Served Alaska High and Low

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act

The road to recovering the endangered James spinymussel

Cluster of about seen small white flowers radiating from a green stalk.

Endangered Species Act

Successful Protection and Management Efforts Keep Venus Flytrap off the Endangered Species List

Endangered Species Act

An Endangered River Worth Saving

Taking in the scenery at a Partners for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Restoration training held in Montana Photo credit: Jeffrey Drummond/USFWS

FWS Scholar Matthew Hodges

Photo of arch which facilitates fish passage in St. Clair County, Alabama.

Migratory Species

Team Wins Big in Alabama

To catch the bat, you must become the bat

Habitat Restoration

Celebrate Earth Day 2023

Wildlife Wonders

Rare bee found in Wisconsin by pollinator task force

Partnerships Make Conservation Possible

Two men in uniform smiling in an outdoor setting

A family legacy of conservation

Saving native prairie in Oregon's Willamette Valley

A man wearing a cowboy hat and a woman walk hand-in-hand across a grassy field

Stewards of the Land: Black Leg Ranch

Cows in a grassy pasture next to a trench

Working Lands Win for Kincaid’s Lupine

Blue water ripples through tall marsh grass. In the foreground there is a Gooseberry Island covered in trees. In the background is a small pier with docked boats.

History and Culture

Turning Tribal trust into a conservation community

Partners break ground on largest salt marsh restoration on East Coast

Jennifer and Chad Kunz with Curt Francis, all standing next to a utility vehicle on a grassland

Habitat Restoration

Stewards of the Land: Kunz Farm, A Story of the Great American West

A beaver chews on a stick while sitting in a pond

Leave it to Beaver: Partners Collaborate on Beaver Dam Analog Project

Craig Larson kneels on grasslands next to prairie flowers

Stewards of the Land: Craig Larson, ‘Banker by Day, Farmhand by Weekend’

West Texas landscape

Habitat Restoration

Partners For Fish and Wildlife Restores Thousands of Acres for Texas Wildlife in 2022

Gwen Kolb’s Mission Statement – Stewardship, Restoration and Relationships

windmill and flowers in the prairie

Habitat Restoration

Monitoring Grassland Restoration for Wildlife, Communities

October meeting: Friends of Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery

October Meeting

The Butterfly Effect: A Small Voice with a Big Story

A man in brown jacket a baseball hat stands in a field

Service Staff Member Recognized by Local Conservation District as “Partner of the Year”

Endangered Species Act

Gopher Tortoise Notice of Findings FAQs

A small yellow turtle lies in the sand

Endangered Species Act

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Completes Gopher Tortoise Review

A furry, beaver-like animal perches in the mud of a coastal wetland. It uses its paws to gather marsh grass roots to eat.

Habitat Restoration

Good riddance to bad rodents

Habitat Restoration

Partnerships help the survival of agriculture and endangered species in the Mojave Desert

Partners Program celebrates landowner's conservation success

Prairie with white and yellow flowers and coniferous trees in the distance

Habitat Restoration

Bringing Back Native Prairie at a Washington Tree Farm

Migratory Species

The little stream that could, and will again

New England aster in bloom with big bluestem and a large wetland in the background studded with trumpeter swans

Conservation Partner of the Year

A ruby throated hummingbird hovering upwards to a light purple flower to feed.

Land Management

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Manual

Wildlife Management

Burning for Butterflies

Fergus Falls Wetland Management District recipient of major donation

Land Management

Wildlife Corridors

Bill Sproul, a rancher wearing a button-up blue shirt and ivory-colored cowboy hat, crouches in grass with his horse visible in the background

Stewards of the Land: Ranchers on the Front Lines of Conservation

Male yellow-faced bee

Habitat Restoration

State Wildlife Grants Fuel Conservation in the Hawaiian Islands

Habitat Restoration

Partners fix roads, and habitats, in southwest Georgia

A Family Dairy Farm Helps Recover a Threatened Flower

Habitat Restoration

Long time, longleaf pine restoration pays off in Mississippi

Endangered Species Act

Building a bridge for endangered species and Tennessee neighbors

Habitat Restoration

The partnership-driven conservation of an urban fish

a frog in water.

Wildlife Management

The return of red-legged frogs

Habitat Restoration

South Carolina Partners for Fish and Wildlife helps longleaf pine, red-cockaded woodpecker

Rooting for water quality

Land Management

Enhancing Wildlife Corridors in Nevada

Birds in rice fields

Land Management

Maximizing every drop

Habitat Restoration

Map reading in Mimbres Valley

four men looking at a culvert

Wildlife Management

Summit Lake Paiute Tribe clears spawning path for threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout

Habitat Restoration

It takes a village to raze a dam

Several Texas fatmucket mussels rest on a sandy beach.

Mussel Building

Land Management

The Farm Bill Conservation Programs and Coastal Program

A dense stand of dozens of tall, slender longleaf pine trees

Longleaf Pine for Georgians

Mission Possible: FWS Partners with Local Austin Preserve

The O'Tooles: Polar Opposites of the Bundys

An aerial view of a dry creek on the left and a blue body of water on the right, separated by green trees.

Habitat Restoration

$5 Million in BIL Funding Set to Transform Habitat for Bull Trout in Gold Creek

Aerial image of a native seed farm with rows of bright colors and mountains along the horizon under a blue sky.

The art of growing native seed in California

Intern in river holding a freshwater mussel

Meet the Future of Conservation

The orange arm of a construction excavator reaches into a river to break apart a dam

Habitat Restoration

Of herring and humans

Crayfish in hand

Claws for Celebration

Partners Find Non-Lethal Answers to Grizzly Bear Interactions on Montana Ranches

Pollinators transform a neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut

Photo of Crooked Creek after a dam removal

Habitat Restoration

Fish Passage and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

A monarch butterfly crawls on a small whorled milkweed amidst dried grass and shrubs.

Habitat Restoration

Ranch for At-Risk Youth Converts Farmland Back to Desert Wetland

2023 Recovery Champion Award: Christy Hand

Three images of the dam. 1. Full dam on a rocky stream, 2. Partial dam, part of the structure is gone, 3. open river bed and earthen streambanks held in place with canvas and rock.

Land Management

Little River Dam Removal — Virginia

Freshwater spring

Adventures on the Water

Three people standing on a tractor-pulled seed planter, with a large tractor tire in the foreground.

Land Management

Snapshot: Planting the Seeds of Pollinator Conservation. Literally.

Two men in uniform smiling in an outdoor setting

El legado de una familia en la conservación

An ‘ākohekohe sits on a branch. It has a black body with orange patches strewn throughout its body. An orange circle outlines its eye.

Decision-making in a new era of conservation

A stream from above filled with bundles of logs

Habitat Restoration

Recovering From Wildfire With a Little Inspiration From Beavers

Two staff members show off a Topeka shiner found in a restored oxbow

Habitat Restoration

From endangered to empowered: The Topeka shiner’s journey

A metal structure dams a ditch and prevents water from flowing out.

Habitat Restoration

Water: The lifeblood of a swamp

Habitat Restoration

Apalachicola Comeback

Photo of new culvert near sports fields in Springville, Alabama

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law at work in Alabama

Finding purpose along the Detroit River

A small brown bat with a silver band on its wing resting on a piece of bark with thin, frilly, silvery-green vegetation

First, find the bats

Science and Technology

Conserving at Flyway Scales

Mitch Osborne leads a group around restored sections of Cripple Creek, July 2023

From Bush Planes to Arctic Dives, Mitch Osborne Has Served Alaska High and Low

Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act

The road to recovering the endangered James spinymussel

Endangered Species Act

An Endangered River Worth Saving

Taking in the scenery at a Partners for Fish and Wildlife Habitat Restoration training held in Montana Photo credit: Jeffrey Drummond/USFWS

FWS Scholar Matthew Hodges

To catch the bat, you must become the bat

Photo of arch which facilitates fish passage in St. Clair County, Alabama.

Migratory Species

Team Wins Big in Alabama

Habitat Restoration

Celebrate Earth Day 2023

Wildlife Wonders

Rare bee found in Wisconsin by pollinator task force

Partnerships Make Conservation Possible

Saving native prairie in Oregon's Willamette Valley

Two men in uniform smiling in an outdoor setting

A family legacy of conservation

A man wearing a cowboy hat and a woman walk hand-in-hand across a grassy field

Stewards of the Land: Black Leg Ranch

Blue water ripples through tall marsh grass. In the foreground there is a Gooseberry Island covered in trees. In the background is a small pier with docked boats.

History and Culture

Turning Tribal trust into a conservation community

Cows in a grassy pasture next to a trench

Working Lands Win for Kincaid’s Lupine

Partners break ground on largest salt marsh restoration on East Coast

Jennifer and Chad Kunz with Curt Francis, all standing next to a utility vehicle on a grassland

Habitat Restoration

Stewards of the Land: Kunz Farm, A Story of the Great American West

Craig Larson kneels on grasslands next to prairie flowers

Stewards of the Land: Craig Larson, ‘Banker by Day, Farmhand by Weekend’

A beaver chews on a stick while sitting in a pond

Leave it to Beaver: Partners Collaborate on Beaver Dam Analog Project

West Texas landscape

Habitat Restoration

Partners For Fish and Wildlife Restores Thousands of Acres for Texas Wildlife in 2022

Gwen Kolb’s Mission Statement – Stewardship, Restoration and Relationships

windmill and flowers in the prairie

Habitat Restoration

Monitoring Grassland Restoration for Wildlife, Communities

October meeting: Friends of Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery

October Meeting

The Butterfly Effect: A Small Voice with a Big Story

A man in brown jacket a baseball hat stands in a field

Service Staff Member Recognized by Local Conservation District as “Partner of the Year”

Endangered Species Act

Gopher Tortoise Notice of Findings FAQs

A furry, beaver-like animal perches in the mud of a coastal wetland. It uses its paws to gather marsh grass roots to eat.

Habitat Restoration

Good riddance to bad rodents

Habitat Restoration

Partnerships help the survival of agriculture and endangered species in the Mojave Desert

Partners Program celebrates landowner's conservation success

Prairie with white and yellow flowers and coniferous trees in the distance

Habitat Restoration

Bringing Back Native Prairie at a Washington Tree Farm

Migratory Species

The little stream that could, and will again

New England aster in bloom with big bluestem and a large wetland in the background studded with trumpeter swans

Conservation Partner of the Year

A ruby throated hummingbird hovering upwards to a light purple flower to feed.

Land Management

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Manual

Wildlife Management

Burning for Butterflies

Fergus Falls Wetland Management District recipient of major donation

Land Management

Wildlife Corridors

Bill Sproul, a rancher wearing a button-up blue shirt and ivory-colored cowboy hat, crouches in grass with his horse visible in the background

Stewards of the Land: Ranchers on the Front Lines of Conservation

Male yellow-faced bee

Habitat Restoration

State Wildlife Grants Fuel Conservation in the Hawaiian Islands

Habitat Restoration

Partners fix roads, and habitats, in southwest Georgia

A Family Dairy Farm Helps Recover a Threatened Flower

Habitat Restoration

Long time, longleaf pine restoration pays off in Mississippi

Endangered Species Act

Building a bridge for endangered species and Tennessee neighbors

Habitat Restoration

The partnership-driven conservation of an urban fish

a frog in water.

Wildlife Management

The return of red-legged frogs

Habitat Restoration

South Carolina Partners for Fish and Wildlife helps longleaf pine, red-cockaded woodpecker

Rooting for water quality

Land Management

Enhancing Wildlife Corridors in Nevada

Birds in rice fields

Land Management

Maximizing every drop

Habitat Restoration

Map reading in Mimbres Valley

four men looking at a culvert

Wildlife Management

Summit Lake Paiute Tribe clears spawning path for threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout

Habitat Restoration

It takes a village to raze a dam

Several Texas fatmucket mussels rest on a sandy beach.

Mussel Building

Land Management

The Farm Bill Conservation Programs and Coastal Program

A dense stand of dozens of tall, slender longleaf pine trees

Longleaf Pine for Georgians

Mission Possible: FWS Partners with Local Austin Preserve