Join us as we visit with Cyndee Watson about the habitat restoration program through The Partners for Fish & Wildlife

The Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners for habitat restoration for Federal Trust Resources.  Our Program has been in existence for 38 years and we are honored to work with private landowners to find mutual goals and to help keep working lands working.  In 2022, we had our 35th anniversary and out the video at the link below together that tells our story.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program 35th Anniversary

Cyndee will be accompanied by Trent Teinert and Jacob Ogdee with the program and will provide some examples of some of our projects. 

About Cyndee: Cyndee Watson comes from a family with ranching and farming background as her grandfather farmed cotton, maize, and sorghum near Rotan, Texas.  Her uncle raised cattle and she has cousins that have dairy farms.  She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin majoring in Geography with an emphasis on Resource Management with a Zoology minor.  She later received her Masters degree in Biology with an emphasis on Wildlife Ecology from Texas State University.  While there, she conducted her thesis on Estimating the Probability of Detecting golden-cheeked warblers.  She started with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Student Career Experience Program in 2003.  She has worked on the recovery of 16 endangered karst invertebrates and was named the 2014 Recovery Champion for Region 2 for her work with those species.  She also worked on Mexican long-nosed bat recovery and was the Texas Section 6 Coordinator.  Since August 2016, she has been the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program State Coordinator for Texas.  Cyndee enjoys spending time in the outdoors hiking, biking, fishing, and camping with her husband Rick and12-year old daughter Lauren.