Images

Wing of Southwestern Willow Flycatcher nestling on band day in 2017. 

This mallard duckling was captured in Suisun Marsh. USGS scientists are weighing, measuring and banding waterfowl to understand how they are using the marsh and for capture-recapture data. 

Two WERC technicians walk back from a placed trap with hands full. 

Metolius River, Smiling River Campground, Deschutes National Forest

USGS ecologists Molly McCormick (left) and Katie Laushman (right) conducting a seeding experiment that is a part of RAMPS, a new USGS-led initiative to improve restoration outcomes in

The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is frequently queried regarding the general status of endangered and threatened mussels in Missouri, a question that will remain incompletely answered until a sufficiently rigorous and comprehensive assessment and monitoring framework is implemented in Missouri.

Satellite images of the same wetland taken in 2008 and 2016 show a wetland restoration project has produced some gains in marsh area.

An aerial view of southeast Louisiana coastal marshes. 

This map shows the historic trend in wetland losses, with early losses in red and the most recent ones in purple.

Landscape view of the arid southwest in the four-courners region.

Male Wilson's Warbler on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska. This photo was taken on the Seward Peninsula as part of the Changing Arctic Ecosystem Boreal-Arctic Transition Zone program.

Monitoring riparian vegetation along the Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam

Blue vane traps are one method used to collect bees in experimental study fields and are then emptied after 24 hrs. Bee tissues are undergoing analyses for pesticide residues.

WERC researcher conducting elevation surveys in San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Chart showing changes in vegetation density in the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana, May 2015-May 2016. From a USGS Open File Report published in July 2017 by co-authors Elijah Ramsey III and Amina Rangoonwala,

Coastal ecosystem studies at Trinidad coast, California. 

Field crew install a Restoration Field Trial Network garden in the rangelands of Northern Arizona.

Looking out over a red alder forest with evergreen trees at Cascade Head Preserve in Oregon.

Four USGS scientists sampling pore water from a canoe in un-named lake approximately 340 meters downgradient of the Bemidji, Minnesota crude oil spill site.

A bat flies over a lake.

Piping plover adult flying over Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota.