Cooperative Agreement 02FC601603

The National Audubon Society Inc. will receive $390,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 to implement post-construction adaptive management techniques at the Great Meadows Marsh Unit of the S.B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge from April 29, 2022 to December 31, 2026. Funded activities under the Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Activities program (CFDA 15.677) include invasive species control through herbicide...

This $496,130 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration program (CFDA 15.658) will support the acquisition and permanent protection of 1,112 acres of tropical rainforest habitat within the Cerro San Gil Watershed Protection Reserve in Guatemala. American Bird Conservancy will work with local partner Fundacion Para El Ecodesarollo Y La Conservacion (Fundaeco) to add the acquired land to the...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) provides $944,148 to restore and maintain healthy floodplain forest ecosystems and wildlife habitat along the Upper Mississippi River in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa. The funding will support the salary and fringe benefits of a forestry specialist to evaluate forest conditions, develop management prescriptions, and implement restoration methods...

This Project Grant award of $651,150 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) to the National Audubon Society Inc., a non-profit conservation organization. The funding will support a 5-year initiative to engage private landowners in Vermont to address the biodiversity crisis through collaborative conservation efforts focused on landscape-scale restoration. The project aims to protect...

The National Audubon Society, Inc. was awarded a $103,451 Cooperative Agreement by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. The agreement, with a performance period from November 1, 2024 to October 31, 2029, will support monitoring of small egret and heron nesting in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park. The recipient will conduct on-the-ground monitoring during each breeding season from...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $927,465.00 Project Grant to the National Audubon Society Inc., a non-profit organization, under the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation program (CFDA 15.635) to strengthen shorebird conservation efforts in Parita Bay, Panama. The grant supports a 2-year project period from June 29, 2023 to June 29, 2025. Through this award, the National Audubon Society will provide a range of conservation, environmental...

The National Audubon Society, Inc. was awarded a $2,564,032.05 Cooperative Agreement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The award, with a performance period from August 2024 to August 2027, will support the organization's efforts to develop and promote a "bird friendly" maple syrup production and marketing program. Key objectives include increasing climate change adaptation,...

Under a $114,654 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain will restore 80.39 acres of wet pine savanna habitat near the Mississippi Sandhill Crane Refuge. The project utilizes mechanical mulching, chemical mowing, and bush hogging techniques to establish alternative restoration methods and explore their ecological and economic viability. This effort builds on the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), awarded a $183,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Tucson Audubon Society to mitigate the spread of noxious weeds and manage woody vegetation in Arizona. The award period is from July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. Key activities include manual removal of noxious weeds, herbicide treatment, chainsaw removal of woody species, vegetation surveys, seed collection, restoration, and...

This $1,421,821 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) supports the acquisition and long-term stewardship of approximately 275 acres of land within the Onondaga Lake watershed in New York. The project aims to implement the preferred restoration alternative of land preservation to address natural resource damages, as outlined in the 2017 Onondaga...