U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Coastal Program

Overview

The Coastal Program is one of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s most successful and effective cooperative conservation programs.  The mission of the Coastal Program is to protect and recover Federal Trust Species (threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, marine mammals, and inter-jurisdictional fish) by supporting voluntary restoration, enhancement and protection of high-priority coastal habitats.  The Coastal Program provides financial and technical assistance to on-the-ground habitat restoration and protection projects through locally-based field coordinators in 22 coastal areas around the nation, and six field offices within the Southeast Region.  As a part of an on-going strategic planning effort, the Coastal Program is working with its Federal, State, local and non-governmental partners to identify geographic focus areas and develop targets to support conservation plans.

Priorities:

The Southeast Region with the Gulf, Atlantic, and Caribbean coasts is the largest, most diverse and most productive coastal area in the U. S., representing a wide diversity of  habitats ranging from the ecologically rare maritime forest, tropical rain forest, coral reefs, coastal dune lakes, and pocosin wetlands to great expanses of seagrass beds, coastal marsh, and bottomland forests.  The Coastal Program is working with other Service Programs and our many partners to identify opportunities and implement habitat improvement projects that benefit Federal Trust Species and other species of concern, including a goal to recover threatened and endangered species, support sustainable populations of candidate species, and preclude new listings.  Within this coastal area is located 62 National Wildlife Refuges with over two million acres of public trust lands, three of the four U. S. migratory bird flyways, approximately 300 estuarine systems that support 98 percent of all Gulf of Mexico and 94 percent of all southeast Atlantic commercial fishing landings, and numerous protected species and species of concern as identified in State Wildlife Action Plans and other strategic planning documents.

 

For More Information: http://ecos.fws.gov/coastal

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Southeast Region Coastal Program Coordinators

REGIONAL

Ronnie J. Haynes
Regional Coastal Program Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1875 Century Blvd, Suite 200
Atlanta, GA  30345
Telephone: 404-679-7138
Fax: 404-679-7081
Ronnie_Haynes@fws.gov

NORTH CAROLINA

Mike Wicker
North Carolina Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Raleigh Ecological Services Field Office
551-F Pylon Drive
Raleigh, NC  27636
Telephone: 919-856-4520 (ext. 22)
Fax: 919-856-4556
Mike_Wicker@fws.gov

SOUTH CAROLINA

Craig Aubrey
South Carolina Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Charleston Ecological Services Field Office
176 Croghan Spur Road, Suite 200
Charleston, SC  29407
Telephone: 843-727-4707 (ext. 212)
Fax: 843-727-4218
Craig_Aubrey@fws.gov

FLORIDA

Debbie Devore
South Florida/Everglades Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
South Florida Ecological Services Office
1339 20^th Street
Vero Beach, FL  32960
Telephone: 772-562-3909 (ext. 324) 
Fax: 772-562-4288
Debbie_Devore@fws.gov

Nicole Adimey
Tampa Bay Coordinator
7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite 200
Jacksonville, FL 32256-7517
Telephone: 904-731-3079
Fax: 904-731-3045
Nicole_Adimey@fws.gov

Melody Ray-Culp
Panhandle Program Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Panama City Ecological Services Field Office
1601 Balboa Avenue
Panama City, FL 34205
Telephone: 850-769-0552 (ext. 232)
Fax: 850-763-2177
Melody_Ray-Culp@fws.gov

CARIBBEAN

Beverly Yoshioka
Caribbean Program Coordinator
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
P.O. Box 491
Boqueron, Puerto Rico 00622-0491
Phone: 787-851-7297 (ext. 227)
Fax: 787-851-7440
Beverly_Yoshioka@fws.gov