Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Headquarters
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

The mission of the Cooperative Research Units Program is to:

• Enhance graduate education programs that develop future natural resource managers and researchers.
• Deliver actionable and applied science for fish and wildlife management to cooperating agencies and organizations.
• Provide technical assistance to natural resource managers and researchers for the application of contemporary approaches to fish and wildlife management.

Each Unit consists of 2-5 federal scientists and 1-2 administrative specialists. Each Unit has a Leader who provides oversight to all Unit activities. Federal scientists hold faculty rank at their home institution, teach graduate level courses, offer workshops for graduate students and cooperators, and conduct research on a wide variety of natural resource topics. Research projects typically support graduate students and post-docs.

Please go to our home page to see a map with the location of our units.