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Welcome!
The Service's national Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program protects, enhances and restores important fish and wildlife habitats on private lands through partnerships. The voluntary cost-share program offers a chance to regain some of America's most important natural resources and builds on the strength and interest of committed individuals and organzations to accomplish shared conservation goals. Partners for Fish and Wildlife has offices in all 13 states of the Northeast Region.
What we do:
- Restore Federal trust species habitats on private lands, including tribal, county and municipal lands
- Restore wetlands, riparian, instream, and native upland habitats
- Remove barriers to fish passage
- Leverage funds and resources through efficient state, federal and private partnerships
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Partners News
Partners connects bog turtle habitat in N.J.
Restoring bog turtle habitat.
Credit: USFWS
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Eric Schrading with the Service's New Jersey Field Office worked at the end of April with a private landowner and the Sussex County Municipal Utilities Authority to restore close to a mile of land between two bog turtle wetlands and develop a wooded corridor for travel and protection.
Restored wetlands will help waterfowl, rare sparrow and other birds
Creating a vernal pool, a temporary body of water used by many types of wildlife for food and breeding.
Credit: USFWS
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The New Jersey Field Office worked with NRCS's Wetland Reserve Program to restore 278 acres of degraded wetlands in Downe Township in Cumberland County. The Service helped with a number of activities, including restoring vernal pools and removing obstructions to water flow. Returning tidal flow will restore habitat for the saltmarsh sparrow that nests in nearby healthy marsh.
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Last updated:
May 7, 2012
