Federal assistance is being provided to develop a coordinated, standardized, and incremental monitoring strategy to apply an adaptive management approach to habitat conservation projects located in the Upper Mississippi River Basin (UMRB). To accomplish this goal, recipient intends to indentify scope of current monitoring efforts and identify gaps in monitoring needs related to aquatic habitat restoration in the UMRB, address key resource challenges, provide coordination services to partners, and develop and implement a landscape scale strategy for monitoring habitat restoration projects within the UMRB. These actions will help far beyond the scope of Fishers and Farmers Partnership (FFP) and the Plains and Prairie Pothole Landscape Conservation Cooperative. This project will enhance the individual fisheries management programs of multiple state and federal agencies charged with fisheries management and protection of our water resources. This is an opportunity for those focused on conservation delivery to work hand-in-hand with the best scientists in the nation to develop a long-standing monitoring strategy that will allow us to assess progress in meeting fish habitat conservation objectives in the long-term.