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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is embarking on an ambitious new effort to establish a Southwest Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Area. If successful, a new conservation area would allow the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) to work with willing landowners to protect the lands most important to our water and wildlife in one of the most biologically diverse regions in our country.
One of the more innovative inter-organizational conservation partnerships of recent years is entering a new phase. Ten years ago this October, staff from the National Wildlife Refuge Association approached an emerging group of private landowners focused on public-private partnerships with a tantalizing proposal. The landowners working solely as volunteers had incorporated a new organization, Partners for Conservation (now Partnerscapes), to work on the communication and partnership-building aspects of sustaining working landscapes.
