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Mule Deer at Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Ryan Moehring / USFWS. Posted on Flickr 3/24/17.

Coastline visitors will be sharing beaches from Washington state to Baja California, Mexico, with smaller residents as spring approaches. Breeding season for the western snowy plover begins in March and continues through September. Photo from the USFWS, from an article posted on the US Fish & Wildlife Service website, Pacific Southwest Region.

Pronghorn on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Tom Koerner/USFWS. Posted on Flickr by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 1/28/17.

A Mojave desert tortoise emerges from his home in the desert near Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Kimberleigh Field/USFWS. From the US Fish & Wildlife Service website, Pacific Southwest Region.

White-tailed jackrabbit on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge. As spring approaches, the white winter coat is slowly replaced with a brown coat on this white-tailed jackrabbit. Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS. Posted on Flickr by the US Fish & Wildlife Service, 3/22/17.

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Found on western public lands like Glacier National Park in Montana, mountain goats like this young one thrill visitors with their acrobatic feats. Often seen on steep, rocky slopes, they easily balance on rocks and scramble down cliffs in search of tasty grasses, mosses and lichens. Photo by Steve Muller. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 8/5/16.

A seldom-seen Wolverine. Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 8/12/16.

Once thought extinct – and then to be found as the rarest of mammals still living in the wild – the black footed ferret has grown from living at only one site in Wyoming to 28 different locations thanks to a captive breeding program. Shown are 3 black-footed ferrets in the wild. Photo by Kimberly Fraser, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Posted on the US Department of the Interior blog.