US Fish and Wildlife Service

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to delay a pilot program that would have applied a chemical treatment to improve water quality at Lake Mattamuskeet as a lawsuit against it continues.

Conservation groups argue the use of this chemical treatment will harm wildlife in a well-known bird sanctuary.

In April, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced $27.25 million will be invested in the Albemarle-Pamlico Sound. USFWS Director Martha Williams talks about this funding and its implications.

Conservation groups are suing the Forest Service over allegedly using misleading data to justify large logging projects in the Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest. Two other recently filed lawsuits take issue with proposed projects.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released its final land protection plan for the refuge in eastern North Carolina. The plan emphasizes working with willing private landowners to help expand conserved land.

An environmental group has sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its classification of red wolves. The world's only wild population of the species live in North Carolina.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service also released an updated red wolf recovery plan Friday calling for $328 million in spending over the next 50 years to get the red wolf off the endangered species list.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is poised to release a new recovery plan for the species. Its success will rely heavily on cooperation from private landowners.

Federal wildlife officials overseeing the world’s only wild population of endangered red wolves announced they are abandoning a 2018 plan to limit the animals’ territory and loosen protections for wolves that strayed from that area in eastern North Carolina.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to revise its recovery plan for red wolves.The Center for Biological Diversity sued the…