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Feds finalize habitat protections for endangered rusty patched bumble bee

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is designating approximately 1.5 million acres of occupied critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee.
The designation covers 33 counties in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. The bumble bee is found primarily in urban and suburban areas in the Midwest, including metropolitan areas like Minneapolis-St. Paul; Chicago, Illinois; Iowa City, Iowa; and Milwaukee, Wis.

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Texas 17-year-old wins U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest

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A talented young artist from Texas has taken top honors at the National Junior Duck Stamp Art Contest.
A blue-winged teal by 17-year-old Nina Liang will grace the 2026-2027 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage the nation’s youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation and outdoor recreation. 

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Lake Champlain cooperative to treat New York’s Boquet River to control sea lamprey

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation will apply lampricide to portions of the Boquet River in New York. 
This marks the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative’s 36th season of sea lamprey control following over 107 successful treatments since they began in 1990.

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Hunters and other conservationists can lead by example when it comes to reducing window collisions with wood cocks, other birds

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In the cold of February, a bird was found dead on the sidewalk of Philadelphia, killed after colliding with a building window. It was an American woodcock, or timberdoodle – an iconic game bird of eastern North America, adored by nature lovers and hunters alike.
According to the banding and encounter data managed by the U.S. Geological Survey’s Bird Banding Lab, part of the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Maryland, this woodcock was a female, age 2, banded in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, in January 2023, just one year before its death.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service debuts new federal and junior duck stamps

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The 2025-2026 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp – commonly known as the Duck Stamp – went on sale recently. The new Federal Duck Stamp and its younger sibling, the Junior Duck Stamp, debuted at a special event hosted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the Mack’s Prairie Wings in Stuttgart, Arkansas. 

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Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York seeking public input on draft compatibility determination for research and surveys

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is announcing a 14-day public review and comment period on a draft compatibility determination for research and survey activities at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in New York. The public review and comment period is open from June 9 through June 22, 2025. 

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reopens public comment period for monarch butterfly Endangered Species Act listing proposal

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reopening the public comment period for a proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
The proposed rule includes species-specific protections and flexibilities to encourage conservation of the butterfly under section 4(d) of the ESA. The comment period will be reopened for 60 days, until May 19, 2025, to give all interested parties an additional opportunity to comment on the proposed rule.

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USFWS proposes recovery plan for imperiled mussels

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They have quirky names and often are mistaken for stones, but freshwater mussels are very much alive and perform critical ecological functions in rivers and streams. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently published a recovery plan to save four imperiled mussels protected under the Endangered Species Act: the rayed bean, sheepnose, snuffbox, and spectaclecase.

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