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Recent News About Us Fish And Wildlife Service
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Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge is seeking public review and comment on its Draft Compatibility Determination for research. We propose to continue allowing this existing use on the Refuge.
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William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge is seeking public review and comment on its Draft Compatibility Determinations. Under USFWS policy, compatibility determinations for existing uses on National Wildlife Refuges must be periodically reviewed and updated.
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Baskett Slouth National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Research Compatibility Determination
Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge is seeking public review and comment on its Draft Compatibility Determination for research. We propose to continue allowing this existing use on the Refuge.
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Service Seeks Comment on Voluntary Conservation Program to Benefit the Endangered Bolson Tortoise
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces the final recovery plan for the relict darter, a small fish species native to the Bayou de Chien watershed in western Kentucky listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Proposed Regulations Help Kick Off 50th Anniversary Celebration of Landmark Conservation Law
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, on behalf of the Department of the Interior, along with co-trustees for natural resources, the 1854 Treaty Authority, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Trustees), invite public comment on the draft Assessment Plan to assess natural resource damages resulting from the release of hazardous substances from the St. Louis River U.S. Steel site.
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Baskett Slouth National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Research Compatibility Determination
Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Compatibility Determinations
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Public Comment Period Open for William L. Finley NWR Compatibility Determinations
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Seeking Input on Draft Compatibility Determination for Grazing by Goats on an Experimental Basis to Control Invasive Plants at Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge.
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Weather and wildlife management activities have led to the temporary closures of several refuge roads to vehicles and/or general public access
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As far back as she can remember, Lucy Crespo hasn’t liked being indoors. Maybe it’s in her genes: she was born in Argentina, surrounded by forests and mountains, lush grass and plants, and rivers that ran by her home. The air was crisp and sweet, the water clear.
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In the sandy wetlands of the Illinois River Watershed, a race is underway beyond our view. Scientists of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources are working in earnest to observe and document the Illinois chorus frog, a tiny one- to one and a half-inch amphibian that once thrived throughout the floodplain, but which is now a threatened species in Illinois.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is delaying the effective date of the final rule to list two Distinct Population Segments (DPS) of the lesser prairie-chicken under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Decades of collaborative conservation efforts on U.S. Navy-owned San Clemente Island resulted in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s announcement today that five species – San Clemente Island paintbrush, lotus, larkspur and bush-mallow plants and San Clemente Bell’s sparrow have fully recovered and no longer require Endangered Species Act protection.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate critical habitat in parts of Tennessee and Virginia for the sickle darter, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in December 2022.
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In accordance with current policy, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) authorized the capture and transfer of f2754, a Mexican wolf who had left the Mexican Wolf Experimental Population Recovery Area (MWEPA) earlier this month.
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We at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know that America’s native bees and other pollinators continue to need everyone’s help.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is announcing the completion and publication of the final recovery plan for the Meltwater Lednian stonefly (Lednia tumana) and Western Glacier stonefly (Zapada glacier).
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The Fender’s blue butterfly, once thought to be extinct, is fluttering toward recovery under the Endangered Species Act. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified Fender’s blue butterfly from endangered to threatened and finalized a special rule