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Private Lands Program
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides technical assistance to solve land management problems, identify partners, and coordinate restoration work on private lands. The Partners for Wildlife Program concentrates on restoring degraded freshwater and saltwater wetlands, riparian (stream-side) habitat, and habitat for migratory songbirds, endangered and threatened species, and fishes.
Restoration costs may be shared by any combination of governmental agencies, private organizations, and the private landowner. Cost-effective restoration projects that provide the greatest fish and wildlife benefit for the least money are most likely to receive attention from the Partners program. The landowner must commit to maintaining restored habitat for a minimum of ten years.
We work with private landowners in five counties in Minnesota to restore native prairie, floodplain forest, riparian corridors, and a variety of wetland habitats. We provide technical assistance, matching funds, and equipment to our cooperators as a means of realizing our mutual habitat restoration and enhancement goals.
Private landowners in western Minnesota who are interested in habitat restoration should contact our office. Of course, not all projects qualify for assistance, but calling us for a site visit to your land is the first step. If you are interested in habitat restorations, please contact us.
Since 1985, we have restored 1,750 wetlands on private land in the District, totalling nearly 5,200 acres. We continue to work with private landowners to restore wetland and grassland habitat in the District.
