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Whooping Crane Nest2025 Reunion – To be held in Madison, WI – May 12-14Announcing the 22nd Reunion of the FWS Retirees Association Welcome to Madison, Wisconsin, May 12 – 16, 2025 We are excited to announce more details for the next FWS Retirees Reunion! We have a...

Black Brandt at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska. Lisa Hupp, USFWS   Supplemental EIS Preferred Alternative Calls for Land Exchange and Road Within Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Comments due December 30, 2024.In a draft environmental impact...

Fire Suppression on Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska Will Be Tried as a Cost-Effective Measure to Combat Climate Change Baked with the around-the-clock summer sunlight and regularly peppered with lightning strikes, the Yukon Flats region in eastern...

Izembek Refuge Road / Land Exchange Update Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland withdrew a land exchange between the Interior Department and King Cove Corporation authorized by Secretary Bernhardt in July 2019. The Department determined the 2019 land exchange...

Treaty to Protect Ocean Life More than 190 countries have reached a landmark deal for protecting the biodiversity of the world’s oceans, agreeing for the first time on a common framework for establishing new protected areas in international waters. The treaty will not...

New Secretarial Order on Bison Restoration Secretary’s Order 3410 formally establishes a Bison Working Group (BWG), which will be composed of representation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS),...

Horseshoe Crab Harvest Prohibited on Many South Carolina Beaches to Protect Shorebirds Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be protected after a U.S. District Court in Charleston, South Carolina handed down an order prohibiting three groups...