Restore America's Estuaries | HabNet Coalition

HabNet Coalition

The HabNet Coaliton is a national alliance of more than 50 coastal organizations working to advance the mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Coastal Program. The Coalition, founded by Restore America’s Estuaries, is helping to provide a unified national voice in support of the Coastal Program. Member organizations of HabNet are kept informed of opportunities to support the Coastal Program through strengthened conservation partnerships, information sharing, and planning for healthy and resilient coastal communities. A two-page fact sheet is available for more information.

The Coastal Program is designed to support habitat conservation for Federal Trust Species in coastal areas by forming diverse voluntary partnerships with Federal, state, regional, and local agencies; non-governmental organizations; and private landowners. This collaboration is critical to recovering threatened and endangered species and preventing candidate species from becoming listed.

Since 1994 the Coastal Program has:

Restored nearly 270,000 wetland acres and 110,000 upland acres;
Restored 1,800 stream miles; and
Helped to protect over 2 million acres of coastal habitat

The Coastal Program has accomplished this work by partnering with coastal communities and providing technical and financial assistance at the local level. With locally-based staff actively engaged with diverse partners, the Coastal Program is able to effectively deliver on-the-ground habitat conservation results.

HabNet Members

American Fisheries Society	Marine Resources Council of East Florida
American Land Conservancy	Mass Audubon
American Littoral Society	Mattole Restoration Council
Anacostia Watershed Society	Muskegon River Watershed Assembly
Audubon of Florida	National Audubon Society
Avalonia Land Conservancy, Inc.	National Wildlife Federation
Bad River Watershed Association	The Nature Conservancy
Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust	North Carolina Coastal Federation
Casco Bay Estuary Partnership	Northwest Straits Foundation
Citizens for a Healthy Bay	Northwest Watershed Institute
Chesapeake Bay Foundation	The Ocean Foundation
Clinton River Watershed Council	Pacific Rivers Council
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana	People for Puget Sound
Columbia Land Trust	Restore America's Estuaries
Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce	Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation
Conservation Law Foundation	Sarasota Bay Estuary Program
Damariscotta River Association	Save The Bay-Narragansett Bay
Delaware Riverkeeper Network	Save The Bay-San Francisco Bay
Everglades Foundation	Save the Sound - CT Fund for the Environment
Friends and Volunteers of Refuges – FL Keys	Scenic Galveston, Inc.
Friends of Scarborough Marsh	Sheepscot Valley Conservation Association
Friends of the Bay	South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group
Galveston Bay Foundation	St. Andrew Bay Resource Management Assoc, Inc.
Great Land Trust	Tampa Bay Watch
Institute for Applied Ecology	Tillamook Estuaries Partnership
Kennebec Estuary Land Trust	Waterkeeper Alliance
Marin Audubon Society	Wildlife Forever

For more information or to become a member of HabNet, contact: Chris Lyons, Director of Government Relations, Restore America's Estuaries: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , (703) 524-0248

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