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News Articles: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

A Northern Spotted Owl flies after a mouse jumping off the end of a stick in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore. To save the spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a plan to deploy trained shooters to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins.

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  • Environment

To save spotted owls, officials plan to kill a half-million of another owl species

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service strategy is meant to prop up declining spotted owl populations in Oregon, Washington and California by killing barred owls that have encroached into their territory.

July 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The Temple Mound Complex at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon in May. (Grant Blankenship/GPB News)

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  • News

Land preservation group acquires properties near Ocmulgee Mounds for 1st national park

A nonprofit organization dedicated to land conservation has acquired two parcels of land in Middle Georgia that will support efforts to establish the Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia’s first national park.

 

June 28, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge features live oak trees draped with Spanish moss, as pictured here on the north side of the peninsula, as well as saltmarsh, pine forests and shrublands.

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  • Politics

Along Georgia's coast, a call to Biden from the Gullah Geechee: Return part of our ancestral land

Expelled from their property by the military amid World War II, Black families in the Harris Neck Land Trust are asking President Biden for an executive order to “correct a moral wrong.”

May 21, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Okefenokee Swamp

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  • Environment

Okefenokee mine opponents, backed by feds, call for Georgia EPD to thwart Twin Pines dig

State regulators heard from dozens of conservationists and Okefenokee Swamp admirers who urged the state to reverse course on plans to allow an Alabama-based company to mine near the wildlife refuge.

March 06, 2024
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  • Jill Nolin
A manatee swims among seagrass in the Homosassa River on Oct. 5, 2021 in Homosassa, Fla.

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  • Animals

A Florida park just saw a record number of manatees gather together in its waters

Nearly 1,000 manatees gathered at Blue Spring State Park on one of the coldest winter days of the season. Here's why the growing number of manatees at the park is encouraging.

January 29, 2024
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  • Diba Mohtasham
The Key deer is the smallest deer species in North America. The deer live only in the low-lying Florida Keys. They are considered federally endangered, with an estimated population of around 1,000.

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  • Climate

A tiny deer and rising seas: How far should people go to save an endangered species?

The Key deer is losing the only place it lives, raising uncomfortable questions for the people tasked with keeping endangered species alive.

November 12, 2023
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  • Nathan Rott and
  • Ryan Kellman
The historical range of the Bachman's warbler included Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

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  • Environment

21 species have been declared extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says

The species, including birds, mussels and a bat, have been moved off the threatened and endangered list. They join 650 other species that have gone extinct in the U.S.

October 17, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
A female red wolf is shown in its habitat at the Museum of Life and Science in Durham, N.C.

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  • Animals

More endangered red wolves will be released in the U.S. under a legal settlement

There were only an estimated seven red wolves left in the wild when a coalition of conservation organizations decided to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

August 10, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
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  • Climate

The latest to be evacuated from California's floods? Bunnies

Rising rivers are stranding endangered riparian brush rabbits in California. Wildlife officials are searching out and relocating hundreds of them to help protect the species.

May 04, 2023
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  • Lauren Sommer
A gopher tortoise is seen at San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park in Gainesville, Fla. Gopher tortoises that are threatened by loss of habitat and development should be placed on the endangered species list in four southern states, environmental groups said Wednesday.

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  • Animals

Gopher tortoises in Southern states deserve federal protections, groups say

The tortoises imperiled by loss of habitat should be put on the endangered species list in four southern states, environmental groups said as they prepared to sue the U.S. government over the issue.

March 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press

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