SARP recently partnered with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) to develop the Southeastern US Native Black Bass Keystone Initiative.  Through the initiative, partners will implement a 10-year plan developed in collaboration with more than 20 conservation organizations in the region that focuses on restoring healthy, genetically-secure, self-sustaining populations of endemic black bass species within their native ranges.  The plan identifies more than $31M in specific conservation actions.  The initial pilot project supported by the initiative will begin in summer 2010, and will focus on restoration of the State Fish of Texas, the Guadalupe bass.