HRI Seminar Series: Adriana Leiva

The Coastal Program is one of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s most effective resources for restoring and protecting fish and wildlife habitat on public and privately-owned lands.

Our ability to work on public and private lands and with a diversity of partners is necessary for implementing a coastal habitat conservation strategy, especially in coastal watersheds where land ownership is often a mosaic of private and public entities. This ability also creates a unique opportunity for the Service to deliver landscape conservation, maintain habitat connectivity and continuity, and to connect and engage partners with the Service’s conservation priorities and objectives.

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides free technical and financial assistance to landowners, managers, tribes, corporations, schools and nonprofits interested in improving wildlife habitat on their land.

Projects take place on working landscapes such as forests, farms and ranches. In Texas, both the Coastal Program and the Partners Program are housed under one office, the Texas Restoration Office. This presentation will highlight a few partnerships and different techniques used to restore or enhance habitat that benefit federal trust species including threatened and endangered species, migratory birds, and interjurisdictional fish.