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News on the work of the Asheville Field Office
![Snail crawling up a vertical rock face](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-08/2019%2005-Noonday%20globe%20hunt%20Nantahala%20Gorge-Peeples-Noonday%20globe%201.jpg?h=790be497&itok=Lun64D1W)
Endangered Species Act
![A striped fish, Roanoke logperch, swims along a rocky stream.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/images/2024-03/banner-final.png?h=a6668f0a&itok=IVVYCc6K)
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
![Person kneeling over a shallow pool, their hands in the water](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-09/20230921-Toes-in-the-Toe-Peeples-Yancey-Co-student.jpg?h=790be497&itok=u8YGiB2F)
Endangered Species Act
![Several people walking into a river](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-09/20230911-Haywood-Co-Kids-in-Creek-Peeples-Students-entering-water.jpg?h=790be497&itok=u72zys1t)
Endangered Species Act
![Grasses with tall seed heads and conifer trees in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-09/20230830-VA-Highlands-Spider-search-Peeples-Whitetop-field-view.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=feB2dsT1)
Endangered Species Act
Press Release
Endangered Species Act
![Photo of Sharon Dorsey, an intern with the Directorate Fellows Program.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-08/PHOTO%20OWL%20Sharon%20Dorsey%20Net.jpg?h=71976bb4&itok=hAPf_wbl)
Wildlife Management
Endangered Species Act
![Person kneeling down putting a plant in the hole in the ground](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-07/20230421-Klondyke-planting-Peeples-Reid-placing-plant.jpg?h=790be497&itok=NsiCW1__)
Habitat Restoration
![A mussel sits on a yellow maple leaf](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-04/Green%20floater%20mussel%20-%20Ryan%20Hagerty%20-%20USFWS.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=z9-9n17X)
Endangered Species Act
![Plant with a small white flower in the foreground, person in the background](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-07/20230707-Chimney-Rock-State-Park-white-irisette-survey-Peeples-White-irisette-beside-searcher.jpg?h=790be497&itok=8fq9_fVB)
Endangered Species Act
![A rusty-patched bumblebee on a white flower](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2020-12/010_Rusty-Patched%20bumblebee3%2C%20DanMullen%2C%20Creative%20Commons.jpg?h=38739364&itok=-IZdkqRJ)
Endangered Species Act
![Person bent over in a field, placing a marker flag in the ground](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-06/20230505-Camp-Alice-Peeples-Sue-placing-flag.jpg?h=790be497&itok=EQzS4zqn)
Habitat Restoration
Press Release
Endangered Species Act
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Endangered Species Act
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Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
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Endangered Species Act
![Two people crouching beside an ice cube tray filled with water and insects, which is set on an identification key.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-10/2022%2009-Mitchell%20Toes%20in%20the%20Toe-Peeples-Students%20with%20tray%20of%20insects.jpg?h=790be497&itok=UTxrJGhZ)
Endangered Species Act
![Biologist beside a boulder, teasing through moss and dirt with a pair of tweezers.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-09/2022%2009-Roan%20Mtn%20SFMS%20monitoring-Peeples-Sue%20Cameron%20searches%20for%20spiders%20%282%29.jpg?h=790be497&itok=sNGJWQ7S)
Endangered Species Act
![Students walking across a broad, rocky beach to a shallow river](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-09/2022%2009-ToesInTheToe-Yancey-Peeples-Students%20walking%20to%20river.jpg?h=790be497&itok=hZGEW-Rh)
Endangered Species Act
![Metal grate running across a road with adjacent ground covered in straw.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-09/2022%2009-Wildlife%20tunnel-Youngman.jpg?h=2acae37d&itok=8T1xS0Op)
Wildlife Management
![Two people standing in a forest looking up, one using binoculars](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-09/2022%2009-Big%20Tom%20Wilson%20spruce%20release%20marking-Peeples-Chris%20Kelly%20Matt%20Drury.jpg?h=790be497&itok=JvWewhnk)
![Flowering plants in front of an office building](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-08/2022%2008-Office%20garden-Peeples-Pollinator%20close-up.jpg?h=790be497&itok=n7nvrWqp)
Habitat Restoration
![Group of people walking along a dirt road past conifer trees and a scenic vista](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-08/2022%2006-Big%20Tom%20visit-Peeples-Heading%20into%20the%20backcountry.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=qrzCt2uV)
Habitat Restoration
![Compartmentalized trays holding soil and young trees](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-07/2022%2004-Southern%20Highlands%20Reserve-Peeples-Greenhouse%20spruce.jpg?h=790be497&itok=aCik-C1I)
Habitat Restoration
![Person standing on a river bank beneath a bridge watching a crew working on a catwalk](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-06/2022%2003-Hwy280-F%20Broad%20River%20bat%20boxes-Peeples-Holland%20watches%20DOT%20crew.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=HhEC-tP6)
Endangered Species Act
![Several adults in a semi-circle, listening to one person sitting on a truck tailgate](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-04/2022-03-Jay-Mays-gives-program-at-Stevens-Creek-Credit-Gary-Peeples.jpg?h=4362216e&itok=BzBXiUvX)
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
![Two people, back-to-back, planting in cleared soil](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-11/2021%2010-RAD-planting-Peeples-Holland-Youngman-Kim-Wiliiams-Credit-Gary-Peeples.jpg?h=790be497&itok=gWASDk-_)
Habitat Restoration
![Biologist pulling a red spruce tree from a trailer](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-08/2021-Sue-Cameron-offloading-red-spruce-Cherokee-National-Forest-Credit-Gary-Peeples.jpg?h=790be497&itok=dxVSbpwu)
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Wildlife Management
![Two people carry bags filled with young red spruce trees down a trail](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-02/2017%2009-Spurce%20rest-Peeples-Trees%20on%20pole.jpg?h=790be497&itok=UnqzoRs4)
Endangered Species Act
![Two snorkelers in a river, heads above water, conversing](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-02/2019%2008-French%20Brod%20stocking-Peeples-Jay%20Brittany%20talking.jpg?h=2f736eda&itok=27tNj_gU)
Endangered Species Act
![An endangered rusty patched bumblebee feeds at a flowering plant.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-06/rusty%20patched%20bumblebee-usfws.jpg?h=fe6f489e&itok=iV_tmNbW)
Endangered Species Act
![A small brown bat with large ears sits on a rock](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-11/Virginia_big-eared_bat_female.jpg?h=5f62bdfc&itok=ApDMxnwe)
Endangered Species Act
![Biologist kneeling on the ground in a forest, holding a young tree with root ball that she's about to plant](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2021-08/2017-Sue-Cameron-plants-a-red-spruce-on-Cherokee-NF-Credit-Gary-Peeples.jpg?h=790be497&itok=5Ru35GW9)
Land Management
![Underwater view of a snorkeler's face](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-02/2011%2006-Little%20River-Peeples-Jay%20Mays%20underwater.jpg?h=9ba8ce75&itok=XXQOZR52)
Endangered Species Act
![Woman holding a freshwater mussel](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-02/2017%2006-Recoery%20Champ-Peeples-Hoch%20looks%20at%20mussel.jpg?h=cd38cc78&itok=PN9OeZnU)
Endangered Species Act
![Snail crawling up a vertical rock face](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2022-08/2019%2005-Noonday%20globe%20hunt%20Nantahala%20Gorge-Peeples-Noonday%20globe%201.jpg?h=790be497&itok=Lun64D1W)
Endangered Species Act
![A striped fish, Roanoke logperch, swims along a rocky stream.](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/images/2024-03/banner-final.png?h=a6668f0a&itok=IVVYCc6K)
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Press Release
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
![A mussel sits on a yellow maple leaf](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-04/Green%20floater%20mussel%20-%20Ryan%20Hagerty%20-%20USFWS.jpg?h=56d0ca2e&itok=z9-9n17X)
Endangered Species Act
Press Release
Endangered Species Act
![Freshwater mussel shell](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-03/Longsolid%20Credit%20Dick%20Biggins.jpg?h=8fcc1e21&itok=Z-YJvB4P)
Endangered Species Act
![Freshwater mussel shell](/sites/default/files/styles/summary_photo/public/2023-03/Longsolid%20Credit%20Dick%20Biggins.jpg?h=8fcc1e21&itok=Z-YJvB4P)
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act
Endangered Species Act