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Working Internationally to Conserve the Brown Bear
Scientists at Alaska’s Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge are working with north Pacific Rim countries – including Russia and Japan – to protect brown bears from illegal poaching and conserve their remaining habitat....

Restoring Land to Its Pre-Settlement Days
Hundreds of previously farmed acres in North Dakota are bursting with color this summer, the result of a multi-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service project that has replaced non-native grasses with pre-settlement varieties of native grasses, wildflowers and shrubs....

New Population of Endangered Ambrosia Ready for Planting
Biologists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are stepping up efforts to preserve the endangered San Diego Ambrosia, found worldwide only in California’s San Diego and Riverside counties....

Wetland Restoration Influences Crocodile’s Comeback
After nearing extinction about 30 years ago, American crocodiles are now thriving in the brackish wetlands and salt marshes of South Florida and the Florida Keys. There are now 1,400 to 2,000 crocodiles in the United States, up from about 200 in the 1970s....

Save Endangered Snail; Rescue Rural School
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partnership to restore an antiquated sewage collection system may have saved not only an endangered snail, but also a rural, Missouri elementary school....