Loss and alteration of aquatic habitats are principal factors in the decline of native fish and other aquatic resources, and the loss of biodiversity. According to the Fish & Wildlife Service's strategic vision, seventy percent of the Nation’s rivers have altered flows, and 50 percent of waterways fail to meet minimum biological criteria. The Service has also documented that by 1990, approximately 53 percent of the Nation’s 221 million acres of wetlands had disappeared.
Goal: Americas streams, lakes, estuaries, and wetlands are functional
ecosystems that support self-sustaining communities and fish and wildlife.
Waterfowl Habitat Restoration
in Wisconsin’s Lake Superior Basin
By Ted Koehler
18 Mile Creek Culvert Replacement Video (7:13 seconds ~ 23 mb)
What is a Fish Barrier Video (resolution ..~.. high / low)
Fish Passage
Activities by the Ashland FWCO
>>>> Ashland Fish Passage Video (1:23 seconds ~ 12.4 mb)
Planning, Design and Construction of Fish Friendly Stream Crossings
Program Contacts
Fish & Wildlife
Management Assistance Offices
National Fish Passage Program
Fact Sheets (pdf); Habitat Conservation, Habitat Restoration, National Fish Passage Program, Fish Passage Decision Support System
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's
Coastal
Program - Great Lakes is developing innovative partnerships with local
and statewide land trusts and other conservation partners to identify and
protect some of the most valuable fish and wildlife habitat and species in
the Great Lakes basin. The program features non-regulatory,
partnership-based efforts to achieve its mission.
The Coastal Programs Mission is to
conserve healthy coastal ecosystems for the benefit of fish, wildlife and
people. It accomplishes this through cooperative partnerships that
identify, restore and protect habitat in priority coastal areas. It works
with a variety of partners, including other Federal and State agencies,
local and tribal governments, businesses, conservation organizations and
private landowners.
The Coastal Program is working to avoid further species declines by
enhancing coastal areas and securing funding for conservation, including
habitat restoration efforts.
The Ashland FWCO
assists Native American tribal
governments in wildlife and habitat management in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
Michigan. We also assist landowners in restoring
wetlands
and other habitats in eight northern Wisconsin counties under the Service's
Partners
for Fish & Wildlife (PFW) program. The
goal of the PFW program is to increase fish and wildlife on private lands
through habitat restoration.
Under this program the Ashland FWCO
provides technical and cost-share funding assistance to private
landowners in the planning, design, and construction phases of stream, riparian forest, wetland, ephemeral
wetland restoration and other wildlife habitat activities.
The Ashland FWCO welcomes questions or comments about fish and wildlife resources or about the programs of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Members of the staff are available for presentations to schools, civic groups, and others interested in fish and wildlife resources.
