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LPCI succeeds through partnership.
Within the NRCS-led LPCI partnership, more than 25 agencies, nonprofit organizations, universities, and private businesses pool resources and know-how to conserve rural agriculture and provide habitat for native wildlife. While LPCI partners embrace a broad range of interests, values, and organizational missions, we act together from the foundation of our shared goal to conserve lesser prairie-chickens.
LPCI partners expand the field delivery, science, and communications capacity for lesser prairie-chicken conservation. Several partner organizations pool funding to hire up to 13 range conservationists and wildlife biologists based in strategic habitat areas throughout the Southern Plains states. These LPCI partner field staff work one-on-one with landowners who chose to participate in LPCI’s voluntary range conservation programs. LPCI partners also fund a GIS mapping specialist who provides mapping support to all partner field staff.
We’ve highlighted some of our partner organizations in our on-going Featured Friend series.
Meet the many LPCI partners that collaborate to conserve lesser prairie-chicken habitat: Conservation Districts | Federal Agencies | State Wildlife Agencies | Universities | NGOs | Partnerships | Private Corporations
Download a printable list of LPCI Partners.
Conservation Districts
New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
Debbie Hughes, Executive Director, [email protected] (575) 562-0492
Federal Agencies
Farm Service Agency
David Hoge, Conservation and Environmental Programs Division, [email protected], (202) 720-7674
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Randy Howard, Wildlife Biologist, [email protected], (575) 627-0266
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Heather Whitlaw, Field Supervisor, [email protected], (785) 539-3474
State Wildlife Agencies
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Jonathan Reitz, Terrestrial Biologist, [email protected], (719) 691-9130
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism
Mike Mitchener, Wildlife Section Chief, [email protected], (620) 672-5911
New Mexico Game and Fish
Grant Beauprez, Wildlife Biologist, [email protected], (575) 478-2460
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Matt Fullerton, Endangered Species & Private Lands Biologist, [email protected], (580) 571-5820
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Brad Simpson, Wildlife Diversity Biologist, [email protected] (806) 651-3475
Universities
Kansas State University
Dr. David Haukos, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Leader, [email protected]
Oklahoma State University
Dr. Dwayne Elmore, Natural Resource Ecology and Management Specialist, [email protected], (405) 744-9636
Texas Tech
Dr. Blake Grisham, Assistant Professor, [email protected]
New Mexico State University
Dr. Scott Carleton, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Ecologist, [email protected], (575) 646-7196
Nongovernmental Organizations
CEHMM
Doug Lynn, Executive Director, [email protected], (575) 885-3700
D.M. Wood Foundation
Laura Wood, Executive Director, [email protected], (817) 716-3963
Kansas Forest Service
Jason Hartman, Fire Protection Specialist, [email protected], (785) 532-3316
Kansas Prescribed Fire Council
Barth Crouch, Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition Director, [email protected], (785) 452-0780
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
Rob Blumenthal, Communications Director, [email protected]
North American Grouse Partnership
Steve Riley, President, [email protected], (402)786-5547
Pheasants Forever
Jarad Wiklund, Public Relations Specialist, [email protected], (651) 209-4953
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
Laura Quattrini, Stewardship Program Manager, [email protected], (970) 482-1707 ext. 21
Texas Wildlife Association
Helen Holdsworth, Conservation Legacy Program Director, [email protected]
The Nature Conservancy
Rob Manes, State Director (Kansas), [email protected]
Dave Gori, Director of Science (New Mexico), [email protected]
Partnerships
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Heather Johnson, Mountain-Prairie Region Coordinator, [email protected], (303) 236-4316
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
Bob McCready, Deputy Coordinator, [email protected], (206) 780-1102
Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Ross Melinchuk, Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative Council Chairman, [email protected], (512) 389-4868
Private Corporations
ConocoPhilips
Eileen Dey, Stakeholder Engagement Manager, [email protected], (432) 688-9042

New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
Farm Service Agency
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism
New Mexico Game and Fish
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Kansas State University
Oklahoma State University
Texas Tech
New Mexico State University
CEHMM
D.M. Wood Foundation
Kansas Forest Service
Kansas Prescribed Fire Council
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
North American Grouse Partnership
Pheasants Forever
Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
Texas Wildlife Association
The Nature Conservancy
Partners for Fish and Wildlife
Playa Lakes Joint Venture
Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
ConocoPhilips
