Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program · •Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative Natural Resources Conservation Service: •Requested $1,829,000 over three years (2011-2013)

Partners for Fish and Wildlife ProgramU.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Oregon State Office

Klamath Falls Fish & Wildlife Office

Yreka Fish & Wildlife Office

• Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative

Natural Resources Conservation Service:

• Requested $1,829,000 over three years (2011-2013) • 2000+ acres• Existing funding (WHIP, EQIP)• multi-year, nonindustrial private forest lands• leverages resources; encourages partnerships• ?

Umpqua: 1000 acres

Mid-Klamath (Colestin): 600 acres

Mid-Klamath (California): 350 acres

• CCPI

Seventeen Project Partners

PROJECT FOCUS - Neotropical MigrantsKBO/ABC – Avian Breeding Bird surveys

UMPQUA Columbian white-tailed deer

KLAMATH – Gentner’s Fritillary, NSO, Pacific fisher

Lots of Project Partners:

Lomakatsi Restoration ProjectThe Nature ConservancyNatural Resources Conservation ServiceBLM, USFSKlamath Bird ObservatoryOregon Small Woodlands AssocDefenders of WildlifeOregon Department of ForestryOregon Department of Fish & WildlifeOSU Extension ServiceDouglas Soil & Water Conservation DistrictJackson Soil & Water Conservation District…

1000 acres Oregon white oak – Ponderosa pine

*Issue: juniper encroachment

Partners:

Klamath Soil & Water Conservation District

Keno Rural Fire Protection District

Klamath & Lake Community Action Services

Klamath Basin Audubon Society

Klamath Bird Observatory

Oregon Department of Forestry • climate-change proposal to USFWS/PFW