The removal of three old dams along Massachusetts’ Coonamessett River has turned former industrial farmland into…
Tag: u.s. fish and wildlife service
Arizona’s Apache trout was pushed toward extinction by habitat loss and non-native trout; after decades of recovery it was delisted, and a new barrier protects 22 miles of habitat
Representative Image (AI-generated) Arizona’s Apache trout has made a remarkable recovery after decades of pressure from…
In 2014, Virginia removed a dam that had blocked migrating fish for over 70 years; nearly 130 miles of upstream spawning and nursery habitat reopened
For decades, a concrete barrier on Virginia’s Appomattox River stood between migratory fish and more than…
Nearly 70 years after Tucson’s Santa Cruz River ran dry, 2.8 million gallons of reclaimed water began flowing daily; within 4 months, 37 dragonfly and damselfly species were recorded
damselflyRepresenative image from Canva For much of the 20th century, the Santa Cruz River that winds…
In 2011, up to 30,000 rats were eradicated from Palmyra Atoll; five years later native tree seedlings jumped from fewer than 150 to more than 7,700
In 2011, conservation teams set out on one of the biggest rat eradications ever on a…
In 1954, aviation pioneer Glenn L. Martin donated over 2,500 acres of his Chesapeake Bay hunting preserve; today the refuge spans 4,548 acres and protects migratory birds
Chesapeake Bay (Image Credit: iStock) A piece of Chesapeake Bay marshland that once formed part of…
In 2024, Colorado stepped up restoration for the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse; two years later, a new project is expanding habitat protection
Preble’s meadow jumping mouse (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Colorado’s efforts to protect the threatened Preble’s meadow jumping…
In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband bought Connecticut’s Outer Island; in 1995 she donated it in his memory so it could remain protected for wildlife, research and education
Connecticut’s Outer Island (Image Credit: outerisland.org) In 1964, Elizabeth Hird and her husband, Basil Rauch, purchased…
Oregon’s Siletz Bay is restoring 37 acres of tidal wetland this summer, digging new channels where more than a century of diking turned marsh into pasture
Drift Creek Unit of Siletz Bay National Wildlife (Image Credit: Wikipedia) Oregon’s Siletz Bay is undergoing…
Hawaii had only 200 of these birds left. After 50 years of wetland restoration, more than 1,500 have returned
Why the Ae’o nearly disappeared Imagine a bird that was so close to extinction that there…