This folder contains data contributed to the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) Data System by the Driftless Area Restoration Effort (DARE). DARE was recognized as a partner of NFHP in October 2007.
Summary
This folder contains data contributed to the National Fish Habitat Partnership (NFHP) Data System by the Driftless Area Restoration Effort (DARE). DARE was recognized as a partner of NFHP in October 2007.
The DARE fish habitat partnership was initiated as Trout Unlimited’s Home Rivers Initiative-TUDARE in 2003. To date, TUDARE is Trout Unlimited’s largest Home Rivers Initiative undertaken. In 2005, Trout Unlimited released a published report entitled, “The Driftless Area: A Landscape of Opportunities”. The report described natural resource challenges facing the Driftless Area and wide range of opportunities to improve land use and restore degraded stream habitat across the region. This report served as a call to action. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recognized the similarities between TUDARE goals and NFHAP goals and worked with Trout Unlimited and NFHAP officials to add DARE (formerly MDARE) as a pilot fish habitat partnership during early development of the NFHAP program. DARE was announced as a pilot partnership in November 2005 and recognized as a full partnership in October 2007. DARE and TUDARE are working in parallel towards similar goals.
