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National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey employees tour the greenhouse in Joshua Tree National Park greenhouse. The plants growing in the Joshua Tree National Park greenhouse will be used for revegetation and restoration efforts in the park.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist collecting an environmental DNA (eDNA) sample at Alchesay National Fish Hatchery in Arizona. (Image by Jennifer Graves, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist collecting an environmental DNA (eDNA) sample at Alchesay National Fish Hatchery in Arizona. (Image by Jennifer Graves, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

U.S. Geological Survey employees (from left to right) Matthew Clark, Laura Shriver, Morgan Cheyney, and Sarah Birchard after collecting data for the Land Treatment Digital Library at the Bureau of Land Management Phoenix District Office. 

Sarah Birchard (USGS) and Meghan Stan (NPS) explore habitat in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Photos by Laura Shriver (USGS).

USGS employee Laura Shriver collects RestoreNet data in northern Arizona in a field of native globemallows (Sphaeralcea parvifolia). Photo by Sarah Birchard (USGS).

USGS employees Matthew Clark, Laura Shriver, Morgan Cheyney, and Sarah Birchard celebrate data collection for the Land Treatment Digital Library at the Phoenix Bureau of Land Management District Office, Arizona.

A native globemallow plant blooms in the Joshua Tree National Park greenhouse. Photo by Laura Shriver (USGS).

Daniela Rojas-Cañizales, graduate student at the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, takes First Place award-winning poster, “Beyond the shell: Exploring the dimensions of sea turtle take in Bocas del Toro, Panama, Conservation Posters at the 44th International Sea Turtle Symposium in Kona, Hawaii.

 

Daniela Rojas-Cañizales, a graduate student at our Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, took First Place in Conservation Posters at the 44th International Sea Turtle Symposium in Kona, Hawaii (March 2026)! WTG!!!

Fish on! The new book, Understanding Recreational Fishers, brings together experts from the social sciences to explain how recreational fishing can be studied where people and the environment are closely linked. The book is useful for the public, students, social scientists, and ecologists.

A graphic depiction of what banders can learn from banding information. 

This is an image of a scientist holding a Pinto Abalone. Pinto abalone, once a familiar presence in Washington’s coastal ecosystems, have suffered a decline since.

This is an illustration of a Pinto abalone.

This is an image of a boat propeller with an invasive mussel infestation.

Two black bass (Micropterus spp.) caught during the 2026 Bassmaster Classic in Knoxville, TN held on the Tennessee River. The fish on the left is a smallmouth bass, the fish on the right is what is known by bass anglers as a “meanmouth,” which is a hybrid between Alabama bass (M. henshalli) and smallmouth bass (M. dolomieu). Tom Miles, TTU PhD student.

This is a photo of scientist, Ramona Rapp, holding a Lost River Sucker that was tagged in Klamath Falls, OR.

Clayton Raines, PhD, is a fish biologist at the Eastern Ecological Science Center in Leetown, WV.

Hatchery vulnerability range for key zebra mussel (Dreissena polumorpha) and quagga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) parameters. If your hatchery is within range of all the vulnerability parameters for a given organism, it is at risk for settlement.

This is an infographic detailing 6PPDQ toxicity levels in different fish species.

Purple owl’s clover (Castilleja exserta) blooming in the Sonoran Desert near Roosevelt Lake in the Tonto National Forest in March 2026. Photo by Sarah Birchard (USGS).