Contacts
Nicholas Throckmorton, 202-208-5636
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking proposals from
states and territories for funding under the Landowner Incentive Program
(LIP), which is making $19 million in federal grant money available to state
and territorial fish and wildlife agencies for private landowners in 2005.
“ Private landowners and conservation groups want to
help conserve fish and wildlife but the costs of protecting, restoring, and
managing habitat can be prohibitive,” said Service Director Steve Williams. “The
Bush Administration is lending a hand to support the efforts of our valued
partners.”
The Landowner Incentive Program, a competitive grant program
for state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies, supports collaborative
efforts with private landowners interested in conserving natural habitat
while they continue to engage in traditional land-use practices.
It establishes or supplements existing landowner incentive
programs that provide technical or financial assistance to private landowners
for the protection, restoration, and management of habitat to benefit species
at risk, including federally listed endangered or threatened species as well
as proposed or candidate species on private land.
Landowners interested in participating in the program should
contact their state fish and wildlife or natural resources agency. The deadline
for states to submit proposals to the Service is April 18, 2005.
For more information on the grant programs and on how and where
to submit proposals, please visit the Service’s website at <http://federalaid.fws.gov/lip/lipguidelines.html>.
You may also contact: Landowner Incentive Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Division of Federal Assistance, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS-FA4020,
Arlington, VA 22203, phone (703) 358-2156.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal federal
agency responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife
and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American
people. The Service manages the 95-million-acre National Wildlife Refuge
System, which encompasses 545 national wildlife refuges, thousands of small
wetlands and other special management areas. It also operates 69 national
fish hatcheries, 63 Fish and Wildlife Management offices and 81 ecological
services field stations. The agency enforces federal wildlife laws, administers
the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory bird populations, restores
nationally significant fisheries, conserves and restores wildlife habitat
such as wetlands, and helps foreign governments with their conservation efforts.
It also oversees the Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds
of millions of dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to
state fish and wildlife agencies.
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