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
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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
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

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Working with private landowners in South Carolina

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program 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...

Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
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Working With Private Landowners in the Caribbean

Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program/Programa Compañeros para la Vida Silvestre

Established in 1992, the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides financial and technical assistance to private landowners and other eligible entities for voluntary, on-the-ground...

Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
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Working With Private Landowners in Florida
Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program in Florida

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife (PFW) Program delivers on-the-ground habitat restoration projects that benefit at-risk and federal trust species including threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and anadromous...

Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
Resilience and risk mitigation
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Georgia Partners for Fish and Wildlife
The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program strives to help private landowners with fish and wildlife habitat restoration on their land. Georgia is the biggest State east of the Mississippi River and more than 90 percent of the land in Georgia is privately owned. The future health of Georgia’s land...
Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
Resilience and risk mitigation
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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.

Who's Eligible?...
Project
Habitat management
Habitat restoration
Invasive species management
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Idaho Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
Partners Program in Idaho  Summary

Our nation’s private landowners are critical to the success of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s mission to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants and their habitats.  The Service has many tools and programs for...

Project
Habitat restoration