PFW-101 TABs 1-6
USFWS
Potpourri
PFW History
PFW Policy
100
What are two approaches for Partners Projects to be initiated?
1) Landowners come to you 2) You identify potential cooperators
100
What is the mission statement of the USFWS?
Working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
100
Hernando Cortez brought the first cattle to North America in what year?
1519
100
What bird is displayed on the official Partners for Fish & Wildlife logo?
Egret
100
What percentage of PFW program budget is, by policy, supposed to go on-the-ground?
70%
200
What was one of the 3 outcomes of the "Dry Cycle of the 1970's"?
a) Prairie potholes planted to crops b) Mississippi Delta cleared & planted c) Waterfowl populations plummeted
200
What was the first NWR?
Pelican Island
200

Name of Jim Stone's wife (i.e., Montana rancher in Ovando)  

Colleen
200
What was the original intent of the PFW program?
To restore waterfowl habitat on privately owned lands in the Prairie Pothole Regions of the upper Midwestern United States
200
How is private land defined in PFW policy?
Any land not owned by federal or state government
300
What was the one type of habitat restoration focus when Partners Program began?
Wetland Restoration
300
What year was the Migratory Bird Treaty passed?
1916
300
What does the acronym HabITS stand for?
Habitat Information Tracking System
300
What was the original name of the Partners Program when the program first started?
Partners for Wildlife
300
What is the minimum amount of years that are required for a Landowner Agreement?
10 years
400
What year did Congress pass the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act?
2006
400
What do they call the first 78 species listed as "endangered" in the US in 1967?
Class of '67
400

What priority species of trout are they working on in the Blackfoot Valley 

Bull Trout 

400

What is the National landowner group that we consider to be like a "friends" group to us?

Partners for Conservation

400
What is the current obligating document in our agreements process?
SF-424
500

What is one of the new DOI Secretary's Orders, including the priority emphasis and number.   

1) SO 3356 increase hunting and fishing opportunities 2) SO 3362 Improving habitat quality in Western big-game winter range and migration corridors.   

500
What does NAWCA stand for?
North American Wetlands Conservation Act
500

Who won best female vocalist of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.   

Miranda Lambert

500
Partners for Fish & Wildlife Program was established in this year?
1987
500
What is the PFW CDFA#?
15.631
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