The Wildlife Habitat Council is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and WHC staff can be reached at: 

8737 Colesville Road, Suite 800
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Tel: 301-588-8994
Fax: 301-588-4629
E-mail: Whc@wildlifehc.org

In addition, WHC has several regional offices where local WHC staff manage Waterways for Wildlife programs and other regional activities. This voluntary, cooperative program promotes corporate and private sector leadership in the development of comprehensive, regional ecosystem management programs aimed at wildlife habitat enhancement. Contact WHC's main office to find a regional biologist close to your corporate project.

Great Lakes Regional Office

The Huron to Erie Project is a WHC Waterways for Wildlife program that engages the leadership of the private sector for the conservation and protection of the vast natural resources of the Lake Huron to Lake Erie corridor. Initiated in 1995 as the St. Clair River Project and expanded in 2006 to include the whole corridor, the project is coordinated by the WHC Great Lakes Regional Office in Detroit, Michigan. The Huron to Erie Waterways for Wildlife Project provides private and public land managers, conservation groups and communities with opportunities to participate in voluntary partnerships for the enhancement of wildlife habitat, water quality and the region's overall natural values through cooperative action, shared information and improved awareness.

The corridor is home to many species of fish, waterfowl, and wildlife, and is also an important convergence point for hundreds of thousands of waterfowl, songbirds and raptors during their annual migration along both the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. The project aims to restore and enhance fish and wildlife habitat in the basin by targeting private and public lands for improved migratory bird stopover sites, riparian shoreline naturalization, and increased connectivity of habitat areas. It is the hope of participants that by restoring and enhancing habitats, the biodiversity of the Lake Huron to Lake Erie corridor will be maintained or improved. 

WHC’s Great Lakes Regional Office also offers habitat program guidance to member companies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, western Ohio, and Wisconsin in the United States, as well as southwestern Ontario in Canada. 

Northwest Indiana Office

The Northwest Indiana – Southeast Chicago Office promotes and implements wildlife habitat enhancements, land restoration and reuse opportunities for private industrial properties and public lands. The projects will demonstrate the use of ecological enhancements on contaminated, degraded and underutilized properties through hands-on pilot projects. The program has received initial funding through the Chicago office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and several of WHC’s corporate members. 

The city of Hammond was selected for the pilot program in part because of its successful efforts to convert a 330-acre vacant industrial terrain into the award-winning Lost Marsh Environmental Recreation Area, a complex that offers residents a 27-hole golf course; biking, hiking and fishing facilities, and a home for the First TEE Youth Golf program.

The Texas Regional Office supports the 45 plus WHC sites, located throughout Texas. The Houston Waterways for Wildlife Project (HWWP) was initiated by WHC to establish and expand partnerships with the corporate, public and regulatory communities along the Houston Ship Channel and Galveston Bay Estuary system. WHC’s Corporate Campaign for Migratory Bird Conservation and the Texas/Gulf Coast Migration Project, are both regional companion programs. HWWP develops partnerships with the numerous WHC members, their business partners and important public and private conservation organizations located in the project area. 

Numerous WHC member facilities and nature preserves, including petrochemical members, are located along the Channel and its tributaries of Galveston Bay. The HWWP is designed to develop habitat tracts with significant impact and maximum benefit to wetland, aquatic and upland habitat in the Greater Houston region. The primary criteria for project sites are the acreage, wildlife habitat value and potential for enhancement. 

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