Partners for Fish and Wildlife

We conserve the nature of America working with our partners ―agricultural and natural resource dependent communities, rural landowners, Native American tribal governments and indigenous island communities, watershed councils, coral reef advisory groups, universities, land trusts, State and Federal agencies, and many others.

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program is a voluntary partnership program that helps private landowners restore important fish and wildlife habitats on their lands.

Our priorities include:

• Contributing to the recovery of listed species;
• Precluding the need to list candidate and potential candidate species;
• Protecting the environmental integrity of the National Wildlife Refuges:
• Contributing to the implementation of the State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies and the Western Native Trout Initiative; and,
• Helping to achieve the objectives of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan, the North American Landbird, Hawai’ian Waterbird and Pacific Shorebird Conservation Plans, and other regionally based conservation plans.

A Field Based Program
Most Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program activities within the Pacific Region are handled by our Fish and Wildlife field offices.  Please select a program below to access more detailed information about activities in your area. 
The Oregon Program   The State Coordinator is located in Portland, Oregon. Our Oregon Partners Program is implemented through the combined efforts of biologists located at the Portland, Oregon FWO, the LaGrande, Oregon FWO suboffice, and the Willamette Valley National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) complex.

The Pacific Islands Program  The Pacific Islands Ecoregion includes the State of Hawai’i, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the territories of American Samoa and Guam, unincorporated U.S. possessions like Palmyra Atoll and Midway Atoll, and independent nations with Compacts of Free Association with the U.S.―the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The Pacific Island Ecoregion Coordinator is located in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Pacific Islands Partners Program is implemented through the combined efforts of the Ecoregion Coordinator and one part-time biologist working out of Honolulu FWO, and one part-time biologist working at the Hakalau Forest NWR.

Snake River Basin Partners Program The Snake River Basin Ecoregion includes eastern and central Idaho (all but the northern panhandle area of Idaho). Our Snake River Basin Ecoregion Coordinator is located in Boise, Idaho. Our Snake River Basin Partners Program is implemented through the combined efforts of one full time and two part-time biologist working out of our Upper Snake River Basin FWO in Boise, the Eastern Idaho sub-office in Pocatello, Idaho, and the South East Idaho NWRC (Bear River/Bear Lake).

Upper Columbia Basin Partners Program The Upper Columbia Basin ecoregion includes eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Our Ecoregion Coordinator is located in Spokane, Washington. Our Upper Columbia Basin Partners Team consists of part-time biologists working out of Spokane; the Central Washington Field Office in Wenatchee, Washington; the Turnbull NWR, the Columbia NWR, the Little Pend Oreille NWR, Mid- Columbia River NWRC, the Kootenai NWR, and the Mid-Columbia Fisheries Resource Office.

The Western Washington Partners Program Our Western Washington Ecoregion Coordinator is located in Lacey, Washington. Our Western Washington Partners Program team includes biologists working in our Western Washington FWO in Lacey, the Willapa NWR Complex, the Nisqually NWR, and the Washington Maritime NWR.

This program provides technical assistance and financial support towards habitat restoration and protection for native species throughout the Pacific Northwest.

The program’s philosophy is to work proactively with private landowners for the mutual benefit of declining Federal trust species and the interests of the landowners involved.

We work very closely with our State resource agencies to help establish priorities and identify focus areas with the greatest conservation need. The emphasis is restoration of degraded wetlands, native grasslands, streams, riparian areas, and other habitats to conditions as close to natural as possible.

Usually, a dollar-for-dollar cost share is achieved by working with landowners and a host of nationally based and local entities (e.g., Federal, State, and local agencies, soil and water conservation districts, and private conservation organizations).

Links

Partners for Fish and Wildlife National Website

Vision Document - Strategic Plan: The Coastal Program and The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, FY 2006 - 2010

State Contacts for the Vision Document - Strategic Plan: The Coastal Program and The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program