U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program in Louisiana
Background Priorities The partners for Fish and Wildlife Since 1988, Partners for Fish The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program is the U.S. Fish and and Wildlife biologists in program emphasizes the Wildlife Service’s primary Louisiana have completed over restoration of several priority mechanism for delivering 150 projects restoring over 15,500 habitat types by working in voluntary on-the-ground habitat acres of wildlife habitat. partnership with landowners, improvement projects on private conservation organization, and lands for the benefit of Federal The Partners for Fish and other interested groups, raising trust species. Biologists provide Wildlife program provides awareness of the threats and technical and financial assistance conservation leadership and challenges to each of these habitat to landowners who want to restore promotes partnerships with types, and investigating new and enhance fish and wildlife various agencies, organizations, techniques to improve our habitats on their property. Partners corporations, and landowners. restoration efficiency. Priority for Fish and Wildlife projects may habitats include: Two geographic focus areas, include improving habitat for • Bottomland Hardwoods ranging from the northwestern species such as migratory birds, • Longleaf Pine piney woods to the coast, have anadromous or migratory fish, • Prairies endangered or threatened species, been established for Louisiana. These focus areas are those • Cheniers or any other declining or imperiled • Streams and Riparian Areas species. portions of the state where we anticipate many, though not all, • Coastal Marshes future Partners for Fish and Accomplishments Wildlife projects will occur. For More Information For more information about the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Focus Areas in Louisiana Partners Program in Louisiana, contact Andy Dolan, State Coordinator, at phone number (337) 291-3119 or via email at: [email protected].
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program www.fws.gov/partners/ January 2007