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USGS researchers at the Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (Idaho CRU) and graduate students at the University of Idaho are working with the Idaho Fish and Game (IDFG) on projects focused on better understanding the dynamics of steelhead fisheries in Idaho. These projects are highly collaborative, with IDFG identifying the most relevant research

USGS researchers at the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and private landowners to implement a successful cost-share program for restoring and stabilizing eroding shorelines.

USGS researchers at the Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit are working with Yellowstone National park to understand Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Yellowstone National Park generates \$834 million in economic benefits and supports about 9,000 jobs for the local economy. A key part of this economic engine are the animals that the public come to see and enjoy.

USGS researchers at the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and private landowners to implement a successful cost-share program for restoring and stabilizing eroding shorelines.

USGS researchers at the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and private landowners to implement a successful cost-share program for restoring and stabilizing eroding shorelines.

USGS researchers at the Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and private landowners are partnering to implement a successful cost-share program for restoring and stabilizing eroding shorelines.

A lunker bass weighing 11.7 pounds was captured at Lake Fork reservoir in Texas by a collaborating angler. USGS researchers at the Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are leading ongoing research with Texas Parks & Wildlife Department (TPWD) and volunteer anglers to explore a one-of-a-kind fisheries database.

In 2012, Matt co-founded (and now directs) the Wyoming Migration Initiative (migrationinitiative.org), whose mission is to advance the understanding, appreciation, and conservation of Wyoming's migratory ungulates. He teaches graduate seminars in quantitative analysis of spatial wildlife data, community ecology of wildlife, and migration ecology. 

Matt Kauffman, USGS Research Ecologist and Unit Leader of the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, along with another researcher, is downloading GPS location data from a collar during a moose capture in Wyoming.

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) were once widespread within sagebrush -grassland ecosystems of western North America, but populations have declined since the mid-1960s. . Roughly half of the sage-grouse’s remaining habitat is on federal land, most of it managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS)

John Veon (left, Arkansas Unit and University of Arkansas) and Jason Carbaugh (right, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission) learning feather identification at the Mississippi Wingbee. Photograph by the U.S. Geological Survey.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish biologists, Nicole Tatman (right, Big Game Program Manager) and Orrin Duvuvuei (left, Deer Program Manager) tag a pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) during a joint project with the New Mexico Unit. 

The Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, with support from the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission, is leading research to investigate the effects of commercial harvest on turtle populations and demography across the Delta ecoregion. Most turtle species are long-lived, mature at advanced ages, and have slow reproduction.

The Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, with support from the Arkansas Fish and Game Commission, is leading research to investigate the effects of commercial harvest on turtle populations and demography across the Delta ecoregion.  Most turtle species are long-lived, mature at advanced ages, and have slow reproduction.

USGS researchers at the Montana Fishery Research Unit are assessing the effectiveness of a nature-like fishway designed by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to allow upstream passage of migrating fish past the Huntley irrigation diversion dam on the Yellowstone River, which provides water to 30,000 acres of farmland.

USGS researchers at the Montana Fishery Research Unit are conducting a series of studies assessing prevention of losses of trout into agricultural irrigation diversion canals in the Bitterroot River drainage in collaboration with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

USGS researchers at the Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, through research efforts and a strong partnership with Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout population has rebounded such that anglers are fishing the lake again, outfitters are booking back-country trips, and grizzly bears are visiting Yellowstone cutthroat trout spawning tribu

USGS researchers at the Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are working with the Missouri Department of Conservation and The Nature Conservancy to determine how beaver-inspired engineering solutions can work in small streams in northern Missouri.

USGS researchers at the Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, through research efforts and a strong partnership with Yellowstone National Park the Yellowstone cutthroat trout population has rebounded such that anglers are fishing the lake again, outfitters are booking back-country trips, and grizzly bears are visiting Yellowstone cutthroat trout spawning tribut

The pallid sturgeon is a threatened species in the U.S. that lives mainly in the Missouri and lower Mississippi rivers. While research has provided valuable insights into its biology and ecology in these main rivers, there are still significant gaps in understanding how the sturgeon uses and depends on their tributaries.

USGS researchers at the Montana Fishery Research Unit conducted field experiments in the Big Hole drainage of southwestern Montana to determine the efficacy of Denil fish ladders to pass Arctic grayling and trout at low-head irrigation diversion dams.