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The ³ÉÈËӰƬ Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is part of a nation-wide cooperative program, initiated in 1935, to promote research and graduate student training in the ecology and management of fish, wildlife and their habitats. The ³ÉÈËӰƬ Unit, formed in 1991 by a merger of the ³ÉÈËӰƬ Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit (est. 1950) and ³ÉÈËӰƬ Cooperative Fishery Research Unit (est. 1978), exists by cooperative agreement among the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the ³ÉÈËӰƬ Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Fairbanks (UAF) and the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI).

The ³ÉÈËӰƬ Unit sponsors graduate and post-doctoral research projects that range topically from productivity of fish and wildlife populations to effects of contaminants on coastal ecosystems, and geographically from southeast ³ÉÈËӰƬ rain forests to the tundra of southwest ³ÉÈËӰƬ and the North Slope. A Unit Coordinating Committee, composed of ADFG, UAF, USFWS, USGS, and WMI representatives, oversees the mission and program of the Unit.

³ÉÈËӰƬ Unit staff consists of a Unit Leader, four Assistant Leaders, a Fiscal Officer, and an Administrative Assistant. Unit scientists hold positions as research faculty with the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ Fairbanks, and have teaching appointments with the Department of Biology and Wildlife or the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

The ³ÉÈËӰƬ Unit is housed in the Laurence Irving Building on the West Ridge of the University of ³ÉÈËӰƬ campus in Fairbanks, ³ÉÈËӰƬ.