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Watershed Protection and Restoration Program

 

Photo: USFWS

Photo: USFWS

Photo: USFWS

 

BACKGROUND

Our Watershed Protection and Restoration Branch emphasizes working with others to protect and restore habitats for rare and important species throughout Washington.  We use a variety of Service programs to provide financial and technical assistance for habitat restoration projects on both private and non-private lands. Our technical assistance is most commonly related to project design, environmental compliance, and invasive species management. 

If you have a habitat restoration project you would like to implement with our assistance, please review our Habitat Restoration Activities Funding page. Feel free to contact one of our biologists with any questions you may have. Our dedicated staff of biologists is eager to help you.

 

PROGRAMS

• Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
• Puget Sound Coastal Program
• Chehalis Fisheries Restoration Program
• National Fish Passage Program
• Western Native Trout Initiative
• Fisheries Restoration and Irrigation Management Act (FRIMA)
• Aquatic Invasive Species
• Puget Sound Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration Project
  
  

STAFF

Washington Fish and Wildlife Office - Lacey
Name	Title	Project/Focus	Phone
Kevin Aitkin	Fish Biologist	Aquatic Nuisance Species	360-753-9508
Paul Bakke	Geomorphologist	Urban Streams Study, Technical Assistance	360-753-5836
Rich Carlson	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Puget Sound Coastal Program	360-753-5829
Judy Lantor	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Partners for Fish and Wildlife - Western Washington Prairies	360-753-6056
Tom McDowell	Supervisory Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Programs Management	360-753-9426
Ginger Phalen	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Puget Sound Coastal Program	360-753-5819
Miranda Plumb	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Chehalis Fisheries Restoration Program	360-753-9560
Paco Rodriguez	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Partners for Fish and Wildlife - Western Washington	360-753-4066
Curtis Tanner	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Puget Sound Nearshore Restoration Program	360-902-2815
Eastern Washington Field Office - Spokane
Carrie Cordova	Ecologist	Partners for Fish and Wildlife - Eastern Washington	509-893-8022
Kurt Merg	Restoration Ecologist	Partners for Fish and Wildlife - Palouse Prairie and Channeled Scablands	509-648-3680
Central Washington Field Office - Wenatchee
Tim McCracken	Fish & Wildlife Biologist	Partners for Fish and Wildlife - Central Washington	509-665-3508