The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides financial assistance on a competitive basis to landowners interested in restoring wildlife habitat. There is no specific deadline to apply.

Financial assistance is provided in the form of cooperative agreements. Any privately-owned land is potentially eligible for restoration. Most of the applicants are individual landowners. Tribes, schools, local governments, businesses and organizations are examples of eligible applicants.

It is a goal of the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program to secure at least 50 percent of project costs, including cash and in-kind services, from non-Service sources. This goal applies to the program as a whole, and does not have to be achieved on a project-by-project basis.

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program supports on-the-ground restoration. It does not fund planning and research.

For more information contact David Putnam, USFWS, 814-234-4090 x236 or send email to David_Putnam@fws.gov .

5/27/2005