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These habitats support over 390 endangered and threatened species, many unique and endemic plant and animal communities, and a variety of land-use considerations. The Region's landownership patterns are also diverse and range from the largest contiguous wilderness area in the lower 48 States, the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, to the unique land tenure systems in the Pacific Island territories, to other important areas of biological diversity such as the Willamette Valley in Oregon with 96% private ownership. The Region includes the States of Hawai’i, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington and Pacific island Territories and U.S. affiliated States. This includes the Territories of American Samoa, Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and the Freely Associated States of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau under the Compacts of Free Association. These states and territories encompass over 158 million acres spread over a large area. The Pacific islands area of the Region is located throughout 4.9 million square miles of ocean, spanning 5 time zones and the International Date Line. The people of the different landscapes throughout the Region perceive, value, and manage their natural resources in ways unique to their respective regions and cultures. Our work is therefore accomplished by working with our partners― agricultural and natural resource dependent communities, rural and urban 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. Through these partnerships we strive to serve as conservation problem-solvers, developing and implementing collaborative species and habitat conservation strategies. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service |
The
Pacific Region encompasses extraordinary ecological diversity with
habitats ranging from tropical forests and coral reefs at Palmyra
Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, to old-growth rainforests west of the
Cascade mountain range of Oregon and Washington, to remote coastal
and Pacific islands teaming with millions of seabirds, to glacial lakes
and streams in Washington's Northern Cascades, to arid shrub-steppe
habitat in southern Idaho. 