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Researcher holds a wood frog in Rocky Mountain National Park. Photo by Amanda Kissel (USGS).

Sagebrush ecosystems with (top) and without (bottom) invasive annual grasses near Billings, MT (Photos: David Wood, USGS).

National Early Detection and Rapid Response Information Systems Contact Information

James Meldrum (USGS-FORT) presents the results of a study about community preparedness for wildfire conducted with the City of Santa Fe Fire Department in front of a general public audience of Santa Fe, New Mexico, community members, May 2023.

Photograph of Summer Lake Wildlife Area, an important stopping spot for migratory birds on their spring and fall migration flights. 

This graphic provides a conceptual diagram of the National Early Detection and Rapid Response Information System.

This image provides a conceptual network diagram for Siren: The National Early Detection and Rapid Response Information System.

This is a screenshot of the INHABIT web-based decision support tool for invasive species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States

Field station intern takes a tree core with an increment borer. Photo by Masha Kazantsev.

Field station members hike to a site in the Bandelier National Monument backcountry. Photo by Melanie Wright.

Field station members hike across Sanchez Canyon in the Dome Wilderness. Photo by Melanie Wright.

What can you do to conserve the birds and the bees, even in the face of climate change? In some cases, small actions, such as maintaining a pollinator garden or avoiding pesticides can be important. Take the rusty patched bumble bee, once one of the most common pollinators in eastern North America.

This research effort is an interagency partnership between U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to model the social-ecological system that encompasses chronic wasting disease management in the United States.

A researcher checks an oak tree branch for signs the tree might begin producing acorns.

Looking east on Bullgate Pond at sunrise with lone tule white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons elgasi) in upper right, Summer Lake Wildlife Area, near Summer Lake, Oregon.

Climate and neighborhood spatial clusters across the greater sage-grouse range. 

A rusty-patched bumble bee drinks nectar from a Culver's root flower. Photo by Ian Pearse (USGS).

These scientists are working on The Great Salt Lake to determine the amount of water and qualities of it. This will help them in developing better management techniques that will work to support the migratory birds that frequent the area. 

Burmese python eggs hatch. Clutch temperatures increase to >2°C with activity and hatchlings explore pipe. Photographs are credited to USGS and were captured in Big Cypress National Preserve within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Florida, USA. From Currylow and others (2025). 

Select behavioral timeline with temperatures of photo-documented brooding Burmese python (Python bivittatus) on a clutch of eggs within a concrete pipe located within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Florida, USA. Images show female yawning, shivering, and shifting. From Currylow and others (2025).

Select behavioral timeline with temperatures of photo-documented brooding Burmese python (Python bivittatus) on a clutch of eggs within a concrete pipe located within the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, Florida, USA. Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana) entered pipe and promptly leaves.