Cooperating with the field office's Partners for Fish and Wildlife program staff were nine conservation-minded families in Northampton County, along with the newly established Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, and Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. Service and conservancy staff will work together over the next two years to restore or enhance 597 acres and protect 1,957 acres of migratory bird habitat that lie between the refuge, Fisherman Island National Wildlife Refuge, and Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.