Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program is a voluntary partnership program that provides technical and financial assistance to non-Federal landowners to improve fish and wildlife habitats for Federal trust species (e.g., threatened, endangered, and candidate species, migratory birds, and other declining species). With more than half of New Mexico in private ownership, there are ample opportunities for habitat restoration on private land.

In New Mexico, private landowners generally provide 25 percent or more of the cost-share funding and/or in-kind services (labor, maintenance, and materials). One-to-one cost share often is achieved by partnering with a host of nationally based and local partners with wildlife habitat funding programs and technical expertise. We help bring landowners and other partners together on restoration projects to benefit from their expertise.

New Mexico Activities

• Restoring or improving habitat for migratory birds, and declining, threatened, endangered, and candidate species in:
  • Grasslands
  • Riparian (Streamside) corridors
  • In-stream
  • Forests and shrublands
  • Wetlands
• Fencing sensitive areas
• Controlling invasive and non-native vegetation
• Replanting native plants
• Installing wildlife or livestock water sources to benefit wildlife

For further information please contact:

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2105 Osuna Road, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113
Phone: (505) 346-2525
Fax: (505) 346-2542

Gwen Kolb, State Coordinator, 505-761-4711
Maceo Martinet, 505-761-4752
Angel Montoya, Las Cruces office, 575-525-4350
Magdalena Etemadi, Administrative Assistant, 505-761-4703

• Partners FAQ - PDF (616 KB)

• USFWS National Partners Program Web Site