Cooperative Agreement 00E01579

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554), will fund capacity-building and implementation activities to increase the health and resilience of the Upper Yellowstone and Shields River watersheds in Montana. The $299,533 award to Montana Freshwater Partners, Inc. will support: 1) formalizing the Park County Water Initiative to coordinate stakeholder collaboration; 2) developing a website to house prioritized...

The Weber River Partnership received a $358,770 Project Grant from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) awarded on December 23, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. The partnership will strengthen organizational capacity and facilitate basin-wide collaboration among diverse stakeholders in the Weber River Basin of northern Utah, including local landowners, canal companies, agricultural interests, recreation outfitters, state...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (CFDA 15.078) provides $1,340,879.80 to Mountain Hydrology LLC to conduct a 3-year project focused on improving snow monitoring and water supply forecasting in the Wind River Range of Wyoming. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Conducting annual spring airborne LiDAR snow surveys over 10 watersheds in the Wind River Range to...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $199,045.75 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to coordinate the development of a restoration plan for the Salt River Watershed in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The project will involve meeting with landowners, conducting habitat surveys and water quality monitoring, and developing a prioritized project list to address degraded aquatic, riparian, and wetland habitats within the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) provides $354,256 in funding to Colorado State University (CSU) to complete the following key products and services: Develop a Quality Assurance Project Plan, progress reports, and a final report to ensure project compliance and document progress. Update the National Wetland Inventory (NWI) mapping for the Colorado Front Range region. Assess the...

This $1,228,743.28 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Snow Water Supply Forecasting (CFDA 15.078) program aims to improve water supply forecasts by enhancing snow monitoring through emerging technologies like aerial LiDAR surveys. The project will identify locations with unique snowpack dynamics not captured by existing monitoring networks and evaluate how incorporating LiDAR-derived snow data can improve forecasting accuracy compared to relying solely on...

This Project Grant award, funded by the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554), will provide $299,189 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to establish the Snake River Headwaters Watershed Group in northwest Wyoming. The group will work to increase the health and resiliency of the Snake River Headwaters, which is facing challenges from declining snowpack, earlier runoff, and rapid development. Key activities to be carried out under this grant include: Forming the...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) provides $180,000 to researchers at Arizona State University to study the present and future flood mitigation services of wetland infrastructure across scales in two cities. The researchers will collect data on and model the stormwater management functions of wetlands in Gresham, Oregon and Valdivia, Chile, which both have extensive wetland coverage. Functions to be examined include surface water...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Water Resources Research Act (WRRA) Program (CFDA 15.805) provides $592,916 to the Nevada System of Higher Education's Desert Research Institute to develop a framework for predicting the impacts of wildfires on flood frequency in the western United States. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a dynamic parameterization algorithm to represent wildfire-driven changes in hydrologic parameters,...