Each year, as autumn days grow shorter up north, sandhill cranes fly south toward Texas and Mexico. Many of them end their migration to spend winter at Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge by the Texas ...

MULESHOE, Texas (KCBD) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a plan to expand the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge’s acquisition boundary to 7 million acres. The boundary encompasses 14 ...

(Editor's note: In July, President Donald Trump's administration put an end to the previous administration's plan to increase the size of the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge from 6,400 acres to more than 700 ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this week released a final land protection plan which allows for the protection of up to 700,000 acres of wildlife habitat in the Southern High Plains region along ...

The Trump administration has stopped the expansion of the state’s oldest animal refuge. One of the goal’s of the expansion was to protect the sandhill crane. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / ...

MULESHOE, Texas (KFDA) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has withdrawn the final Land Protection Plan (LPP) for the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge. The final LPP, which was signed in June 2023, ...

Over a year ago, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service put in place a plan that would increase the size of the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge by 100,000%. However, U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

Texas congressman Jodey Arrington opposes an expansion of the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge. Of the three species cited in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for this expansion, sandhill cranes ...

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LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - A federal land expansion proposal for the Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge has been canceled. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Wednesday it is officially ...