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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Social Media Wins Webby Awards
In late April, the Service’s Digital Strategists as well as additional outreach and communications employees were recognized for their year-long efforts to celebrate the Endangered Species Act turning 50 years old.
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Into Twilight
The oceans are still a wonder with many areas still understudied. The Deep Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies (Deep-CRES) Program have ventured into the depths of American Samoa's mesophotic coral ecosystems to learn of their mysteries. Often overlooked, the Deep-CRES Program team hope to learn what lies...
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Plan to restore natural resources in Buzzards Bay targets Ram Island, home to endangered terns.
Federal and state trustee agencies have released the final restoration plan and environmental assessment to restore natural resources in Buzzards Bay impacted by the 2003 Bouchard Barge B-120 oil spill.
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Innovative restoration shows promise
Researchers took advantage of Great Meadows Marsh's altered state to test a new restoration technique benefitting saltmarsh sparrows. Their gamble paid off for the birds, as well as the state-endangered marsh pink plant. The local community has also embraced the changes.
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Partners launch new Connecticut River Migratory Fish Restoration Cooperative
Building upon decades of collaboration, the Connecticut River Migratory Fish Restoration Cooperative will provide a forum for state and federal fish and wildlife agencies and public partners to expand upon their ongoing work to restore and manage native migratory fishes and their habitats in the...
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USFWS, NOAA Propose Critical Habitat for Green Sea Turtles
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service announced a proposal to designate new areas of critical habitat to protect threatened and endangered green sea turtles. The proposed critical habitat areas include the states of California, Florida, Hawaiʻi, North Carolina...
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High Street Dam Removal
Construction crews have removed Bridgewater’s High Street Dam, which stood across the Town River for more than 100 years.
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Climate Change
Deputy Director Steve Guertin Presents Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Awards
After a series of delays due to the coronavirus pandemic, on behalf of the Council for the Conservation of Migratory Birds, Fish and Wildlife Service Deputy Director Steve Guertin was pleased to present awards to the 2021 and 2022 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Awardees: The...
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Trustees Sign Agreement to Cooperate on Natural Resource Damage Assessment Activities at Former Gas Plant Near Bremerton, Washington
Federal, state and Tribal natural resource trustees have signed an agreement to jointly conduct Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) activities for the Bremerton Gas Works Superfund Site.
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An End to Endlings
Endling is a word of recent vintage, first proposed in a letter to the editors of Nature on April 4, 1996, in which the correspondents wrote: “There is a need for a word in taxonomy, and in medical genealogical, scientific, biological and other literature, that does not occur in the English or any...
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Endangered Species Act
Saving the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle
Saving the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is one of the greatest Endangered Species Act success stories of our time. While continued efforts are needed to fully recover the species, actions undertaken for the species in the last 50 years are paying off and we are seeing increased numbers of Kemp’s ridley...
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After the Spill: Deepwater Horizon Series, Part 1
Thirteen years ago, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana exploded. Images of the fiery explosion and oiled wildlife were plastered across television screens and newspapers as 134 million gallons of oil spilled into the ocean. Even after coverage of the spill lessened, many...
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Habitat Restoration
Sea Turtles Need Help During Nesting Season
Sea turtle nesting season has begun and federal and state agencies are asking the people of Hawaiʻi to lookout for honu (Hawaiian green), honuʻea (Hawaiian hawksbill), and olive ridley turtles during the 2023 sea turtle nesting season. The people of Hawaiʻi can help by reporting any observations of...
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Partners break ground on largest salt marsh restoration on East Coast
After years of planning, conservation partners broke ground on the largest salt marsh restoration in the eastern U.S.
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Climate Change
Mariana Trench photos and videos
Located east of the Philippines, the Mariana Trench is massive. It is 120 times larger than the Grand Canyon and includes millions of acres virtually unknown to humans.
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Information meetings on Pipeline P00547 oil spill hosted by natural resource trustee agencies
State and federal trustee agencies for natural resources impacted by the October 2021 Pipeline P00547 oil spill off the coast of Huntington Beach in Southern California are hosting two virtual information meetings to update the public on the damage assessment effort and to solicit input for...
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Remains of woolly mammoths found in Marine National Monument
The:Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument: Where wooly mammoths once roamed, deep-sea corals and others now call home.
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Service invites public input on Marine National Monument Management Plan
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service invites public input on Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument Management planning
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Record numbers of American eels counted upstream of site of Bloede Dam in Maryland
The number of juvenile American eel using the eel-passage structure at the Daniels Dam on the Patapsco River this year was an estimated 36,500. In 2018, the total was just 36. Later that year, the Bloede Dam, the only downstream barrier preventing American eel from making their way to Daniels, was...
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Wildlife's most magical adaptations
It's a wild and magical world out there. Wildlife all across this enchanted earth have developed all kinds of adaptations both explained and unexplained. Read along to learn more about these mystical critters and their magic powers.
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Making Great Meadows marshy again
Once big enough to fit 1,400 football fields and seasonal home to Indigenous peoples, Great Meadows Marsh has been through a lot in the last four centuries. Now half the size and ailing from historical efforts to drain and fill it, as well as invasion by nonnative plants, the Stratford, Connecticut...
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Habitat Restoration
High school students help restore Connecticut’s Great Meadows Marsh
The first-ever “Salt Marsh Steward” program at Great Meadows Marsh in Stratford, Connecticut, employed 12 students from nearby high schools during Spring 2022. In a mutually beneficial arrangement, students worked part-time replanting portions of the marsh that had been excavated and graded as...
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Habitat Restoration
The monument in your backyard
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Monument is a national treasure
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Wildlife Wonders
Wilderness Day Camp 2022
Friends of Dale Hollow National Fish Hatchery invited NOAA to give this year's presentation at the annual Wilderness Day Camp
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For Parents and Educators
The sparrow that speaks for the marsh
Saltmarsh sparrows are among the species most imperiled by climate change, especially as sea level rise degrades their marsh home. But, as researchers track changes in the marsh in order to protect the birds, the birds are also teaching researchers about how to bolster the entire marsh system from...
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Climate Change
Testing Underway for Pilot Project to Return Endangered Salmon to Their Historic Habitat
State and federal biologists and engineers, in partnership with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, have begun testing an experimental system in Shasta Reservoir that could help collect young salmon from the McCloud River in future years.
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Endangered salmon returned home for first time since 1940s
When scientists proposed moving endangered winter-run Chinook salmon into historical habitat upstream of Shasta Dam this summer, they expected some people would doubt the seemingly new idea could work. But it wasn’t a new idea at all, and it had been proven long ago.
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Alaska fish passage project opens 70 miles of salmon habitat
The Little Tonsina River bridge project in Alaska's Copper River watershed was the nation's first Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-funded fish passage project to break ground. As of August 2023, the two lane, 100-foot floodplain-friendly bridge is open to traffic - vehicles over top and fish below!
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Habitat Restoration
Easing the squeeze on people and wildlife
San Diego County has more than 70 miles of coastline, home to hundreds of thousands of people as well as many wildlife species. The highly urban area is also congested, and conservation planning can be complicated.
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Habitat Restoration
Partners return winter-run Chinook salmon eggs to McCloud River
The Winnemem Wintu Tribe, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Monday celebrated the return of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon eggs to the McCloud River...
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Tufted puffins as sea sentinels
Have you ever peeped a tufted puffin? Chances are, you saw them during the summer breeding season: bright orange beaks, long golden feather head plumes, and a sharp white and black eye mask with red eyeliner that has earned them the name "clown of the sea." But when it comes to monitoring marine...
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Seabirds and the struggle against marine debris in the Gulf of Maine
An hour off the coast of Maine lie some of the state’s most unique environments: tiny sea islands that are largely uninhabited nesting sites for seabirds. But, these wild, remote islands–and the birds who nest there–are blighted by marine debris, like plastic waste and abandoned lobster traps. The...
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Environmental Achievement Award
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program, a multi-agency effort to restore the upper 152-miles of the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the confluence with the Merced River, recently received the Department of the Interior’s highest honor for environmental restoration.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, NOAA, State of Hawaiʻi Seek Public Comment on Draft Restoration Plan Addendum and Supplemental Environmental Assessment
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Health and the Department of Land and Natural Resources are seeking public comments on a draft restoration plan addendum and supplemental environmental assessment that will...
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Saving the St. Croix
Federal and state agencies from the U.S. and Canada have signed a statement of cooperation with the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Peskotomuhkati Nation at Skutik committing to a partnership dedicated to restoring the water quality and wildlife habitat of the St. Croix River.
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Federal Natural Resource Trustees Propose Construction of Riverside Park in East Newark
Plans to turn a former industrial site into a public riverfront park may soon become reality for area residents. The Department of Justice today announced the opening of a 30-day public comment period on an agreement that would credit BASF Corporation (BASF) for its contributions toward the design...
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Sea Turtles Need Help During Nesting Season
Sea turtle nesting season has begun across the state of Hawaiʻi. Honu (green sea turtle), honuʻea (Hawaiian hawksbill), and olive ridley turtles are nesting season begins mid-April and can last until September, and even as long as December. Federal and state agencies are asking for the publics help...
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America's Great Outdoors
For adventurous travelers and residents alike, America’s lesser-known public lands and waters are off-the-beaten-path places for invigorating outdoor recreation. National wildlife refuges, national forests, national marine sanctuaries and national conservation lands typically are uncrowded,...
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Report highlights potential marine debris threat to Gulf of Maine birds
A recently published report by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff and partners warns that marine debris in the Gulf of Maine could present a significant threat to birds, as it has elsewhere in the world.
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A Water Web of Conservation
As many as 20 interconnected restoration projects will soon be underway in New Jersey’s Raritan River watershed.
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