What We Do

Voluntary Habitat Restoration

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides technical and financial assistance to landowners interested in restoring and enhancing wildlife habitat on their land. Projects are custom-designed to meet landowners’ needs.

Our Services

Partners for Fish and Wildlife: Biologist Kurt Waterstradt Meets with Swamp Lovers Inc. Landowners to Conduct a Site Visit at the SwampLovers Foundation Property in Cross Plains, Wisconsin
Partners for Fish and Wildlife: Biologist Kurt Waterstradt Meets with Swamp Lovers Inc. Landowners to Conduct a Site Visit at the SwampLovers Foundation Property in Cross Plains, Wisconsin | Image Details
Our locally based field biologists provide personalized attention and work one-on-one with landowners to:
  • Plan, implement, and monitor projects
  • Identify other partners
  • Identify funding sources
  • Provide permitting guidance, as needed.
Examples of habitat treatments include: 
  • Livestock exclusion fencing
  • Alternate water supply construction
  • Streambank stabilization
  • Restoration of in-stream aquatic habitats
  • Longleaf or shortleaf pine planting
  • Prescribed burning,
  • Native grass and forb planting
  • Wetland restoration/enhancement
  • Riparian reforestation
USFWS staff meeting with partners on working lands.
Farm Bill Conservation Programs
Helping to Deliver Conservation on Private Lands through the Farm Bill 

The conservation provisions of the Farm Bill provide billions of dollars a year for voluntary conservation of soil, water and wildlife habitat on private lands through delivery of financial and technical assistance to...

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Fish Passage Technical and Planning Assistance

The National Fish Passage Program provides financial and technical assistance for projects that improve the ability of fish or other aquatic species to migrate by reconnecting habitat that has been fragmented by a barrier such as a dam or culvert. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists...

Our Projects and Research

South Carolina coastal creek with marsh in the background and tree branches with Spanish moss hanging over the water
Working with private landowners in South Carolina
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program works with voluntary habitat improvement projects on private lands for the benefit of federal trust resources, such as endangered or threatened species and species being considered for federal protection. Biologists provide technical and financial...
Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
photo of culverts perched very high above stream bed, creating barrier to fish passage
West Virginia Partners for Fish and Wildlife
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife program provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners to restore and enhance fish and wildlife habitat on their property. The program’s focus is to restore habitat to benefit federally listed and at-risk species.
Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
Invasive species management

Our Laws and Regulations

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act provides for the restoration, enhancement, and management of fish and wildlife habitats on private land through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, a program that works with private landowners to conduct cost-effective habitat projects for the...

Laws, Agreements & Treaties