In summary, Mr. Chairman, we look forward to enactment of 

 your draft legislation to reauthorize the National Fish and Wildlife 

 Foundation. We believe it is an organization that has proved its 

 worth. 



I would be a happy to respond to any further questions you may 

 have. Thank you. 



Mr. HocHBRUECKNER. Thank you, Mr. Barry. 



[The statement of Mr. Barry may be found at end of hearing.] 



Mr. HocHBRUECKNER. At this point, we would like to hear from 

 Mr. Amos Eno, Executive Director of the National Fish and Wild- 

 life Foundation. 



STATEMENT OF AMOS ENO 



Mr. Eno. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



I am Amos Eno, Executive Director of the Foundation. 



I am particularly pleased to be with you this morning. This is 

 the Committee that created the Foundation, that has supported us 

 since our existence and is largely credited with the success we have 

 had to date. 



We were created by Congress. Our mission is to forge partner- 

 ships. We forge these partnerships between our host agency, the 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a plethora of other Federal agen- 

 cies—ranging from NOAA to USDA to the Department of De- 

 fense—State agencies, and the private sector, including conserva- 

 tion groups, universities and very inclusively corporate America. 



Since our inception, the Foundation has funded 785 projects — 

 and that is in just under seven years — converting more than $28 

 million in Federal funds into $90.4 million in total grants for on- 

 the-ground conservation. That is a ratio of $2.09 of non-Federal 

 money for each Federal dollar appropriated to the Foundation. 



The projects have been conducted with seven Federal agencies, 

 61 State and Canadian provincial agencies, 36 colleges and univer- 

 sities and 207 different conservation groups ranging from The 

 Nature Conservancy and Ducks Unlimited here, to Manomet Bird 

 Observatory, Oregon Trout, Long Live the Kings in Washington. 



The Chairman has asked us to assess our effectiveness in con- 

 serving and restoring fish and wildlife resources. For the record, I 

 think we are an unmitigated success story on several levels. 



First, those 785 projects that we funded are important on-the- 

 ground contributions to fish and wildlife conservation. 



Second, many of the projects we funded have become institution- 

 alized and are now ongoing programs at the Federal and State 

 level. 



This is a critical point which I wish to emphasize and really a 

 distinguishing feature of how the Foundation operates. We could be 

 just another small pot of money reasonably well applied to a 

 worthy cause. However, our grants are designed to solve problems, 

 and we have an exceptional rate of return on institutionalizing our 

 prototypes at the State and Federal level where resources are ten 

 to a hundred more than what we bring to bear. 



Finally, by not funding lobbying and litigation, we have often im- 

 proved the effectiveness of many of our partners by bringing people 

 together to craft solutions that work that would stand the test of 



