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July 5 , 2006
Project Coordinator Contact:
Stewart Fefer
(stewart_fefer@fws.gov;
207-781-8364 x17)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine Coastal Program Website Launched
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine Coastal Program is delighted to announce the launching of our new website at www.fws.gov/northeast/gulfofmaine. The new website is designed to clearly describe who we are and what we do, and lead conservation partners to helpful resources for identifying priority habitats or implementing on-the-ground habitat protection and restoration initiatives. Our new website includes:
- contact information,
- staff directory,
- driving directions to our office,
- recent news releases produced by our office. (News releases are available in html format for on-screen viewing and are also available for journalists as a downloadable media package, complete with Microsoft Word text and high resolution photos suitable for publication).
- an overview of the work we do and the kinds of technical and biological support we offer,
- resource information on federal grant programs we have used in Maine to support ambitious habitat protection and restoration initiatives,
- lists of useful fact sheets, reports and key websites,
- access to biological data and habitat maps, and
- an ecological orientation to the Gulf of Maine
In the past decade, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gulf of Maine Coastal Program has been instrumental in working with conservation partners to bring more than $32 million in federal funds to support Maine conservation projects, leveraging those federal funds 5:1. We have collaborated with a diverse array of federal and state agencies, non-government conservation organizations, town officials, business partners and landowners to:
- identify high priority areas for habitat protection and restoration,
- permanently protect more than 1.6 million acres of important habitat for migratory birds, searun fish and federally threatened and endangered animals, and
- complete habitat restoration projects at more than 140 sites, including seabird nesting islands, salt marshes and rivers
For more information on what we do and how we can help, check out our new website!
We developed the website with professional support from Headwaters Writing & Design, based in Camden, Maine. Please feel free to get in touch with Stewart Fefer at Gulf of Maine Coastal Program at 207-781-8364 if you have comments on the website, questions about our office activities, or potential projects to discuss.
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Gulf of Maine Coastal Program is one of 21 Coastal Program offices in the United States, established by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to build partnerships to identify, protect and restore nationally significant habitat for fish, wildlife and people.