Contacting
the Office:
Regional
Director: Tom Melius
Deputy Regional Director:
Charlie Wooley
e-mail: MidwestNews@fws.gov
1 Federal
Drive
Ft. Snelling, MN 55111
Phone: 612-713-5360
Fax: 612-713-5280
TTY: 1-800-877-8339 (Federal Relay)
Office
Facts
-
Regional
Office Staff: 150
-
Entire
Regional Staff: 1,088
-
FY
2006 Regional Budget: $86 million
Assistant
Regional Directors
Administration:
Christopher Jensen
Ecological
Services:
Lynn Lewis
External
Affairs:
Jason Holm
Fisheries:
Vacant
Law
Enforcement:
Greg Jackson
Migratory
Birds and State Programs:
John Chrisitan
National
Wildlife Refuge System:
Nita Fuller
Special
Assistant (Science)
Teresa Woods
Purpose
The Regional
Office provides a central headquarters to facilitate partnership, administrative,
budgetary, operational, personnel and policy execution between the National Office in Washington, D.C., and field offices located throughout the region.
Organization
The Region
is managed by the Regional Director with the assistance of a Deputy Regional
Director, six Program Assistant Regional Directors (Budget and Administration, Ecological Services, External Affairs, Fisheries, Migratory Birds and State Programs, and the National
Wildlife Refuge System), a Special Agent in Charge of Law Enforcement and a Special Assistant to the Regional Director for Partnerships.
Offices
Administration
612-713-5306
Information
Technology Management 612-713-5115
Contracting
612-713-5200
Diversity/Civil
Rights 612-713-5380
Ecological
Services 612-713-5350
External
Affairs 612-713-5360
Federal
Assistance 612-713-5130
Finance
612-713-5240
Fisheries
612-713-5111
Law Enforcement
612-713-5320
Human
Resources 612-713-5230
Refuges
and Wildlife 612-713-5400
Safety
612-713-5235
Solicitor
612-713-7100
State
Programs and Migratory Birds 612-713-5326