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EXAMPLES OF COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS 

 INVOLVING THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE 

 AND THE NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION 



Partnership for Wildlife Act: The Fish and Wildlife Service is 

 presently working out details of a partnership with the Fish and 

 Wildlife Foundation and the 50 States as authorized by the newly 

 passed Partnerships For Wildlife Act to fund nonconsumptive fish 

 and wildlife conservation projects. Under this Act, the Service, 

 through appropriations, and the Foundation, through private 

 contributions, each contribute an equal amount to the Wildlife 

 Conservation and Appreciation Fund. The Fund is then used to match 

 State money so that each party contributes one third. Projects 

 will include a diverse array of public viewing, protection, and 

 education purposes involving animals that are not taken for sport, 

 food or fur. 



Blackfoot River Watershed Habitat Restoration Project: The 

 Foundation provided a $200,000 two-party matching grant to Fish and 

 Wildlife Service ($100,000) and The Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout 

 Unlimited (TU) ($100,000). The Service's half of the grant will 

 restore wetland and riparian habitats and establish perpetual 

 wetland/grassland conservation easements on private lands in the 

 watershed. The TU portion of the grant will help restore spawning 

 and fry rearing habitats for candidate and declining fish species 

 like the bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout, respectively. 

 Threatened grizzly bears, harlequin ducks, sandhill cranes, the 

 unique three-tipped sage/rough fescue plant community and other 

 trust resources are benefitted from the cooperative projects, 



Oklahoma Private Lands Initiative: A $217,500 Foundation grant 

 matched with $302,500 of non-Federal funding sources will begin 11 

 projects in three categories (private lands habitat restoration, 

 community education, and biological diversity) statewide. The 

 Service will complete habitat restoration demonstration projects on 

 private lands. The Nature Conservancy, Oklahoma Division of 

 Wildlife Conservation, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Program and Sutton 

 Avian Research will use funds to deliver such projects as: 

 statewide wildlife education/training workshops, grassland 

 dependent wildlife restoration projects, and biodiversity inventory 

 and planning in targeted areas of Oklahoma. Endangered mussels, 

 leopard darters, and red-cockaded woodpeckers in the Wichita 

 Mountain plateau. Federal candidate species in Oklahoma, species 

 specially adapted to Playa Lakes habitats and other species of 

 special concern in Oklahoma will benefit from this partnership 

 effort. 



Diamond Y Springs Preserve Project in Texas: A $50,000 grant from 

 the Foundation to be matched by private funds will assist in 

 restoring endangered species and other migratory and resident 

 species habitat on The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) preserve in west 

 Texas. Altogether, 1502 acres of desert scrub/shrub wetlands and 

 riparian habitat will be restored near springs (cienegas) in an 



