Cooperative Agreement AID612A1400004

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a 24-month, $100,400 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Habitat Partnership program (CFDA 15.686) to The Nature Conservancy. The agreement will fund the collection, processing, and analysis of high-resolution 3D imagery in West Hawaii to guide habitat restoration efforts at six coastal sites (four anchialine pools and two fishponds) in partnership with the Hui Loko Network. This methodology will enable assessment of...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a 2-year, $218,746 Cooperative Agreement to The Nature Conservancy to restore the Kiholo Fishpond in North Kona, Hawaii. The project will focus on two key objectives: 1) Restoring estuarine and benthic habitat through vegetation management and sediment removal, and 2) Measuring and sharing the results of restoration efforts through scientific monitoring and...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) received a $133,176 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Habitat Partnership program (CFDA 15.686). The funding will enable ADF&G to continue its efforts to quantify and protect instream flows for salmon-producing rivers in Southwest Alaska, specifically the Aniak River watershed. This is the third phase of the project, which will maintain a streamgaging...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) to the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA), a non-profit organization. The goal of this 4-year project is to implement the National Fish Habitat Plan in the Southeastern United States, with a focus on identifying and prioritizing high-value aquatic habitats in the region. Key activities include revising the Southeast Aquatic Habitat...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to the Southeastern Association Of Fish And Wildlife Agencies, a non-profit organization, to implement conservation and restoration of aquatic habitats in the Southeast through the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. The grant supports the organization's operations to carry out planning, outreach, habitat restoration, aquatic connectivity analysis and remediation, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (CFDA 15.631 - Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program) is focused on restoring aquatic habitat connectivity in Tennessee and Alabama. The primary recipient, the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA), will utilize the funding to implement a 5-year project to survey and prioritize aquatic barriers, develop comprehensive databases of fish habitats,...

This $200,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will fund the Confederated Tribes Siletz Indians (C T S I) to perform habitat restoration and connectivity improvements on 40 acres of the valley floor and Fivemile Creek in Oregon. The project involves regrading the valley floor, removing cross-valley dikes, placing large wood structures, and establishing native plants to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $359,208 Cooperative Agreement to the Kenai Watershed Forum (doing business as Kenai Watershed Forum Inc.), a non-profit organization in Alaska, under the National Fish Habitat Partnership program (CFDA 15.686). This funding supports the Kenai Watershed Forum's efforts to coordinate the Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership, conduct invasive species surveys and eradication, deliver environmental education programs like Adopt-a-Stream, recruit and...

This $200,000 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) will support the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) in executing several key activities in 2025. These include: Supporting the Fish Habitat Program to protect and restore freshwater, estuarine, and marine habitats important for the region's sport fish species, as well as collaborating with various Fish Habitat Partnerships...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) provides $100,000.00 in funding to the Klamath Watershed Partnership, a non-profit organization in Oregon. The award will support a multi-phased project to address fish passage barriers and restore the degraded Ish Tish Creek on the organization's property. Phase I will involve stream analysis, modeling, and functional surveys to...