List of Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative (LPCI) partners

David Haukos photo

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.

Download a printable list of LPCI Partners.

Conservation Districts

New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts
Debbie Hughes, Executive Director, conserve@hughes.net (575) 562-0492

Federal Agencies

Farm Service Agency
David Hoge, Conservation and Environmental Programs Division, david.hoge@wdc.usda.gov, (202) 720-7674
Natural Resources Conservation Service
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Randy Howard, Wildlife Biologist, Randy_Howard@blm.gov, (575) 627-0266
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Heather Whitlaw, Field Supervisor, Heather_Whitlaw@fws.gov, (785) 539-3474

State Wildlife Agencies

Colorado Parks and Wildlife
Jonathan Reitz, Terrestrial Biologist, jonathan.reitz@state.co.us, (719) 691-9130
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism
Mike Mitchener, Wildlife Section Chief, mikewm@wp.state.ks.us, (620) 672-5911
New Mexico Game and Fish
Grant Beauprez, Wildlife Biologist, Grant.Beauprez@state.nm.us, (575) 478-2460
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
Matt Fullerton, Endangered Species & Private Lands Biologist, matthew.fullerton@odwc.ok.gov, (580) 571-5820
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Brad Simpson, Wildlife Diversity Biologist, Brad.Simpson@tpwd.texas.gov (806) 651-3475

Universities

Kansas State University
Dr. David Haukos, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Leader, dhaukos@ksu.edu
Oklahoma State University
Dr. Dwayne Elmore, Natural Resource Ecology and Management Specialist, dwayne.elmore@okstate.edu, (405) 744-9636
Texas Tech
Dr. Blake Grisham, Assistant Professor, blake.grisham@ttu.edu
New Mexico State University
Dr. Scott Carleton, New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Ecologist, carleton@nmsu.edu, (575) 646-7196