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Program News

Here you can find news and stories related to the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Habitat Restoration

Using fire to benefit habitat, wildlife and people

Wildlife Wonders

The oldest known common loons

Land Management

Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Draft Compatibility Determinations

Land Management

Cape May National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Draft Compatibility Determinations

Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge Seeks Public Comment on Draft Compatibility Determination

red ohia lehua flower

Listening to the Hilo Rain: Impacts of Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death on Lei Making and Other Cultural Practices in Hawaiʻi

Land Management

Eastern Virginia Rivers National Wildlife Refuge Complex Releases Draft Compatibility Determination of Research and Surveys for Public Review

Habitat Restoration

Prescribed Burning Planned at the National Elk Refuge

Family poses for tree planting at Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge

Volunteers, an Earth Day Celebration, and a Little Snow

Trash Cleanup Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

Volunteers Spruce up the Swamp

Groundwork Hudson Valley Green Team Group Picture Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge

Spring Break Stewardship

Photo of blue-purple Wild Lupine flowers in the prairie of the Rapids Lake Education and Visitor Center parking lot

Wildlife Wonders

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeks public comment on draft Compatibility Determination for Cooperative Farming Program on Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge

March 29 update on Dads Lake Fire near Valentine, Neb

Dads Lake Fire Ignites at Valentine National Wildlife Refuge

Prescribed Burning Planned at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge

Land Management

Federal agencies partner to add land to Cape May National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey

Public Comment Sought on Proposal for Charles M. Russell Wetland Management District

A photo captures an Everglades snail kite as it snags a snail in its talons.

Land Management

Miccosukee Tribe, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Co-Stewardship

Habitat Restoration

More Than $25 Million To Protect and Restore Coastal Wetlands and Build Coastal Resiliency

Okefenokee Swamp is quiet at sunset.

Land Management

Minor Expansion of Acquisition Boundary

Two monarch butterflies sip nectar from a blooming blazing star plant

Promoting quality habitat on private lands

Land Management

Service Seeks Public Input to Improve Access to Federal Lands

Secretary Haaland Establishes Southern Maryland Woodlands National Wildlife Refuge

Groundwork Hudson Valley Green Team Group Picture Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge

Spring Break Stewardship

Photo of blue-purple Wild Lupine flowers in the prairie of the Rapids Lake Education and Visitor Center parking lot

Wildlife Wonders

Heavy equipment on a dirt landscape with green vegetation and blue skies above

Habitat Restoration

Final Environmental Assessment for the Kootenai Floodplain Reconnection Project

Piping plover walking on a Delaware bay beach

Migratory Species

Interpretive Series: Plover Primetime

a uniformed officer poses for a picture at the edge of a Southern Texas landscape

SFWO Matthew McDonald

Two uniformed Federal Wildlife Officers pose for a picture with a painted sign in the background on a hill reading "welcome to Kalskag"

Yukon Delta’s Refuge Law Enforcement

A Federal Wildlife Officer sits at the helm of a boat with the banks of the river visible through the window in front of him.

SFWO James (Jim) Reynolds

a federal officer at the helm of a river boat drives as his boat is tied to another boat with a family of five people

FWO Robert Sundown

Hooded Merganser taking off from the water with its feet splashing the water’s surface. A reflection of the Merganser appears below against the deep green of the water.

2025 Idaho Junior Duck Stamp Winners!

An image of a mallard duck sitting on water.

Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge is a Destination for Idahoans

Bangor High School student with wood turtle head-start

Wildlife Management

Schooling for turtles

A close up of a male American toad in a wetland calling for a mate by pushing air into his vocal sac.

Wildlife Wonders

What's all the croaking about?