Partnerships The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service partners with other local, state and federal governments in an effort to be more efficient and effective in incident management and operations, as well as to enhance firefighter safety, protect lives, property and natural resources.

Blue Goose

The Pacific Region has entered into an interagency agreement with the Columbia Basin Job Corps Center in Moses Lake, WA, to establish and sponsor a standing type 2 fire crew. The crew will be known as the Blue Goose Crew and is the successor to a like crew which was hosted by the Centennial Job Corps Center in Nampa , ID , for many years. That crew was disbanded after the 2002 fire season when the Job Corps withdrew their support. More...

SEAT

During fire season 2006, The Pacific Region contracted for an exclusive use SEAT aircraft to be stationed at the Richland , WA , airport. This is the only exclusive use SEAT in the nation dedicated to National Wildlife Refuges. More...

Helitack

For the second year in a row, the Las Vegas Interagency Helitack Crew hosted detailers from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. This year’s detailers were Tom Merritt (Little Pend Orielle NWR), Ross Wise (Klamath Basin NWRC), and Kurt Thompson (Mid-Columbia NWRC). More...

Interagency Cooperative Engine Program

For the past four wildfire seasons, the Pacific Region has participated alongside the U.S. Forest Service on an interagency engine that provides wildland fire protection on Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, and State lands. More...