Cooperative Agreement F12AC00752

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Essex County Department of Public Works (Essex County DPW) to restore and reconnect riverine habitat within the Boquet River Watershed in Essex County, New York. The project will replace an existing dual culvert crossing over the North Branch of the Boquet River with a 120-foot bridge, which will remove an aquatic passage barrier and open 49 upstream...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $342,000 project grant to the Eagle Valley Soil And Water Conservation District in Oregon. The grant supports the removal of fish passage barriers and implementation of habitat restoration projects within the East Pine Creek watershed, which is designated critical habitat for threatened bull trout. The project aims to restore aquatic connectivity and improve migratory corridors for bull trout...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $326,874 National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) project grant to the City of Forest City, Iowa. The funding will be used to remove a 3-foot high low-head dam in Pammel Park along the Winnebago River and construct two rock cross vanes to facilitate fish passage. This project will reconnect 99 upstream miles of the river's mainstem into southern Minnesota, improving upstream passage for channel catfish, northern pike, yellow perch, and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,300,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to improve fish passage and restore aquatic habitat along the upper Clark Fork River in western Montana. The project aims to reconnect 27 miles of critical bull trout habitat by constructing fish passage improvements and installing fish screens at four remaining irrigation diversions that currently impede upstream passage and entrain...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Wallowa Lake Irrigation District in Oregon. The funding will be used to replace an existing diversion structure on the Wallowa River with a new adjustable diversion and fish ladder system. The project will also upgrade the intake structure for the Consolidated Ditch to include a vertical plate system with a fish bypass facility. This will improve water...

This U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 grant award under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA #15.685) will fund two key fish habitat restoration projects in Oregon. The $4,324,657.25 grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support the Union Soil and Water Conservation District in improving fish passage and habitat connectivity in the Grande Ronde River sub-basin. The first project will construct a fishway around the Elmer Dam on Catherine Creek to restore...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $150,000 Project Grant to the Nez Perce Tribe under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to fund the design and implementation of an additional partial fish passage at the Wilson and Dorrance diversion locations on the Wallowa River. This project aims to restore aquatic organism passage and connectivity, enabling access to 10 miles of critical spawning, rearing, and foraging habitat for species such as spring Chinook salmon, coho salmon,...

The Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) of Maine has received a $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to construct a new state-of-the-art fish lift at the Woodland Hydroelectric Project. This project aims to significantly improve access to over 600 miles of historic sea-run fish habitat and 60,000 acres of alewife habitat by modernizing the outdated 1960s-era fish passage at this...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $1,050,000 Cooperative Agreement to Waterwatch of Oregon on June 2, 2025, to be completed by June 2, 2028. The project aims to remove the ODFW-identified statewide fish passage priority barrier, Murphy Dam, and significantly improve access to 100 miles of spawning and rearing habitat on the Applegate River. It will also improve fish passage in the nearby Onion and Stringer Creek tributaries...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $100,000.00 to the Rhode Islands Chapter of Trout Unlimited to support the removal of the Capwell Mill Pond Dam on the Carr River in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The dam removal project aims to restore 8 miles and 24 acres of aquatic habitat for native brook trout and other species by reconnecting fragmented stream ecosystems within the Big River...