Amy Lueders

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Regional Director, Southwest Region
Address

500 Gold Ave. SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
United States

About Amy Lueders

Amy graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics. She began her career with the Bureau of Land Management in 1984 at the Washington Office as a mineral economist. She later held a number of budget development and program analysis positions. Amy then served as the Field Manager in Las Cruces, New Mexico, before moving to Nevada to serve as the BLM Nevada Associate State Director and advancing to the State Director position in New Mexico.  Amy was assigned to be the Southwest Regional Director, USFWS, in Albuquerque, New Mexico and began working with our agency in September of 2017. 

Throughout her Federal career with the Department of the Interior, she has worked hard to advance Tribal concerns and develop mutually beneficial solutions to issues. 

In The News

Texas fatmucket
Endangered Species Act
Seven Central Texas Mussels Listed Under Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing seven freshwater mussels found in Central Texas under the Endangered Species Act and designating 1,577 river miles of critical habitat for the species in the Colorado, Guadalupe, Brazos and Trinity river basins.
A biologist places a juvenile freshwater mussel into a river
Wildlife Wonders
First-Ever Freshwater Mussel Reintroduction in Texas
The San Antonio River Authority and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released freshwater mussels raised by Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery into the Mission Reach of the San Antonio River, marking the first time hatchery-produced freshwater mussels have ever been reintroduced into the wild in Texas.
Forested Wetland on San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge
Land Management
National Wildlife Refuge System in Texas Grows by More Than 9,000 Acres
Recent acquisitions by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have added more than 9,000 acres to the public lands managed by the National Wildlife Refuge System in Texas. From Columbia bottomlands on the Gulf Coast to grasslands in Central Texas and coastal prairie in the Rio Grande Valley, these...
Sandhill Cranes at Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
Land Management
Service Finalizes Land Protection Plan for Expanding Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released today a final land protection plan which allows for the protection of up to 700,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the Southern High Plains region along the Texas-New Mexico border as part of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge.
three whooping cranes
Land Management
Service Finalizes Land Protection Plans for Expanding Aransas and Big Boggy National Wildlife Refuges
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today released two final Land Protection Plans allowing for the conservation of up to 150,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes ecoregion of Texas.
A wild cat with brown, white, and black markings gazes upward
Endangered Species Act
Service Seeks Public Input on Plan to Expand Ocelot Range in South Texas
Once roaming widely across Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Arizona, in the U.S. ocelots have now been reduced to a small group in South Texas largely due to habitat loss. With this agreement, the East Foundation has proposed an innovative strategy to aid in the ocelot’s recovery by expanding their...