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WHC Locations The Wildlife Habitat Council is headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, and WHC staff can be reached at: 8737 Colesville Road, Suite 800 In addition, WHC has several regional offices where local WHC staff manage Waterways for Wildlife programs and other regional activities. This voluntary, cooperative program promotes corporate and private sector leadership in the development of comprehensive, regional ecosystem management programs aimed at wildlife habitat enhancement. Contact WHC's main office to find a regional biologist close to your corporate project. Arid Southwest Regional Office The Arid Southwest Regional Office grew out of a strategic partnership with Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. Freeport-McMoRan, a member of WHC since 2006, manages the partnership in affiliation with the activities of its Life-Cycle Analysis Team (LCAT) in Responsibilities of the LCAT include providing technical input into liability management strategies for the company and providing guidance on resource management and integrated approaches for land use planning at mine sites. As part if this initiative, WHC assists Freeport-McMoRan in the development of a systematic and reproducible biodiversity strategy across their portfolio. In addition, WHC works with LCAT to identify opportunities to enhance wildlife value and develop standardized methods to evaluate biodiversity and natural resources on Freeport-McMoRan’s corporate properties. WHC programs out of the Arid SW Regional Office also support corporate habitat programs in Great Lakes Regional Office The corridor is home to many species of fish, waterfowl, and wildlife, and is also an important convergence point for hundreds of thousands of waterfowl, songbirds and raptors during their annual migration along both the Atlantic and Mississippi flyways. The project aims to restore and enhance fish and wildlife habitat in the basin by targeting private and public lands for improved migratory bird stopover sites, riparian shoreline naturalization, and increased connectivity of habitat areas. It is the hope of participants that by restoring and enhancing habitats, the biodiversity of the Lake Huron to Lake Erie corridor will be maintained or improved. WHC’s Great Lakes Regional Office also offers habitat program guidance to member companies in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, western Ohio, and Wisconsin in the United States, as well as southwestern Ontario in Canada. Intermountain West Regional Office The Intermountain West Regional Office was established in 2008 to engage WHC member companies and potential new companies in the voluntary enhancement of wildlife habitat throughout the intermountain west. The region includes the states of Due to the vast differences in elevation throughout the intermountain west region, a variety of ecosystems are found, including short-grass and mixed grass prairie, pinyon-juniper woodland, cottonwood-willow riparian communities, sagebrush steppe and alpine meadows. Wildlife projects implemented in this region include habitat management for mule deer and elk, native prairie restoration, waterfowl and raptor species management, and control of invasive salt cedar, Russian olive, and several other species of herbaceous invaders. Northwest Indiana Office The city of Hammond was selected for the pilot program in part because of its successful efforts to convert a 330-acre vacant industrial terrain into the award-winning Lost Marsh Environmental Recreation Area, a complex that offers residents a 27-hole golf course; biking, hiking and fishing facilities, and a home for the First TEE Youth Golf program. Southwest Regional Office The Texas Regional Office supports the 45 plus WHC sites, located throughout Texas. The Houston Waterways for Wildlife Project (HWWP) was initiated by WHC to establish and expand partnerships with the corporate, public and regulatory communities along the Houston Ship Channel and Galveston Bay Estuary system. WHC’s Corporate Campaign for Migratory Bird Conservation and the Texas/Gulf Coast Migration Project, are both regional companion programs. HWWP develops partnerships with the numerous WHC members, their business partners and important public and private conservation organizations located in the project area. Numerous WHC member facilities and nature preserves, including petrochemical members, are located along the Channel and its tributaries of Galveston Bay. The HWWP is designed to develop habitat tracts with significant impact and maximum benefit to wetland, aquatic and upland habitat in the Greater Houston region. The primary criteria for project sites are the acreage, wildlife habitat value and potential for enhancement. |