lover Bay and its tributaries. We have pioneered the work on the 

 striped bass and on the Atlantic sturgeon on the Atlantic side. 



On the salt water side, the Foundation is pursuing projects to re- 

 vitalize marine fisheries. And probably the best example I can cite 

 is our just-concluded last week buy-out of the West Greenland 

 NASCO sea salmon quota. 



Your Committee and Congress has spent millions of dollars in 

 the last decade trying to restore Atlantic salmon, but, basically, 

 large numbers of fish are not returning to our rivers to spawn. 

 This is largely due to the Greenland fishery which is harvesting 

 the spawners in the late summer by the hundreds of tons. 



Last week, we just purchased the entire 1993-1994 high seas 

 quota for Greenland which will enable some 88,000 spawning fish 

 to return to the natal rivers in the United States and Canada. 



Partners in Flight, our songbird initiative, is a classic example of 

 how we work. Two years ago, foundations and conservationists and 

 the agencies had their bell rung with the news that neotropical mi- 

 gratory birds had been declining for two decades. The news was 

 shocking not only because the declines were precipitous but be- 

 cause they occurred right under our noses. 



We designed and implemented a comprehensive, multi-jurisdic- 

 tional program that now includes 14 Federal agencies, all 50 State 

 fish and game agencies, 29 conservation organizations and, most 

 importantly, the forest products industry and a number of other 

 large corporate sponsors like U.S. Wind Power and Exxon. It is 

 conservation the way it ought to be done, targeted specifically on 

 the problem, encompassing public and private partners and actions 

 implemented before species become intensive care patients. 



Don Barry has mentioned our Gap Analysis project that — we im- 

 plemented that as a pioneer grant and is now a major program in 

 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 



I have alluded to our private lands program which is probably 

 our largest portfolio of grants now, and we feel we are making tre- 

 mendous progress in circumventing the traditional expense of wet- 

 lands acquisition and the problems associated with wetlands regu- 

 lation to get landowners to voluntarily work to restore lands, wet- 

 lands on their lands. 



Leadership training encompasses some of the Foundation's earli- 

 er activities. A Foundation grant created the Fish and Wildlife 

 Services upper management leadership development program, and 

 for several years the Foundation taught and organized the entire 

 program. 



The program doesn't teach biology. What it does focus on is com- 

 munication, conflict resolution, public policy formation, public rela- 

 tions, marketing, all the skills of the latter 20th Century that are 

 important to advancing conservation issues that are controversial. 

 Based on the success of our program, the Service now has a full- 

 fledged education and training program and a facility being built 

 in West Virginia that will serve not only the Service but other Fed- 

 eral agencies. 



Today we are in good shape, particularly as we go into fiscal year 

 1994. Secretary Babbitt has embraced the Foundation and has rec- 

 ognized the role that we have to contribute. He has asked for the 

 first increase in our base funding of 50 percent of a request of $7.5 



