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Desert bighorn sheep depend on free-standing water for survival. The USGS supports the US Fish and Wildlife Service at Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife...

The development of large-scale solar energy facilities is expanding quickly to meet growing electricity generation needs in the U.S. in the coming...

A threatened bird species is nesting in surprising areas. 

The 2024 Special Issue of the Rangeland Ecology and Management journal features 20 peer-reviewed articles that delve into the science of how, where...

The USGS Flagstaff Science Campus Open House on September 29 was attended by more than 300 people who learned about the diversity of sciences that we...

Get ready to launch into a day of discovery! Join us on September 29, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the USGS campus in Flagstaff, AZ, to explore...

Title:  Restoration of Dry and Degraded Lands

Date:  September 13, 2024, at 2:00-2:30 pm Eastern/11:00 am-12:00 pm Pacific 

Speaker: Seth Munson...

Common ecological knowledge holds that areas with more rain, like rainforests, house higher plant diversity than drylands. However, a new global study...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists compiled one year’s worth of soil and sediment erosion quantities occurring after large California wildfires...

In 2021, USGS and Grand Canyon Youth (GCY) launched a first-of-its-kind Partners in Science Colorado river expedition with an all-Indigenous...