Cooperative Agreement F13AC00395

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $350,000 Cooperative Agreement on December 18, 2024 to Friends of the Winooski River under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631). The purpose of the agreement is to restore, enhance, and reconnect riverine habitat within the Winooski River Basin in Vermont through the removal of barriers such as dams and culverts. The project will involve project administration, design oversight, and implementation oversight in...

The Otter Creek Watershed Habitat Restoration Project will receive $200,000 through a cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife federal grant program (CFDA 15.631). The Otter Creek Conservation District, in partnership with the Otter Creek Natural Resources Conservation District, will deliver habitat restoration services in the Otter Creek watershed in Vermont from April 2021 through December...

This $201,140 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program will support the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) in enhancing wetland restoration efforts across the state. The key activities under this two-year project include: 1) Coordinating wetland restoration partners to develop training for project designers and expand technical knowledge sharing; 2) Monitoring...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $302,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) to the Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. to develop preliminary designs for replacing two barrier culverts on Pond Mountain Brook in Kent, Connecticut. The project aims to reconnect over 3 miles of high-quality cold-water habitat for Eastern Brook Trout within the Macedonia Brook watershed. The culvert replacements...

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department (VFWD), in collaboration with the Vermont Natural Heritage Inventory (VNHI), was awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program. This 3-year project will advance the protection of Vermont's wetlands by mapping rare, threatened, and endangered (RTE) wetland plants and significant natural communities across the state. The project will share new...

This $120,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program will enable Trout Unlimited (TU) to work collaboratively with USFWS to restore, enhance, and reconnect brook trout habitat within the Connecticut River Basin in Vermont. TU will facilitate habitat restoration projects focused on removing barriers such as dams and culverts to improve aquatic organism passage. Following this project, TU will...

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...

This $499,025 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) will enable American Rivers, a non-profit organization, to remove the Washburn Mill Dam on the Mohawk River in Colebrook, New Hampshire. The dam removal project will restore 39.3 miles of river connectivity and 10 acres of cold-water brook trout habitat. This will improve public safety, habitat connectivity, fisheries population resilience,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $320,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program to Watersheds United Vermont Inc. (WUV) to restore upland, wetland, and riparian habitats in priority Vermont watersheds. The project aims to improve habitat for priority fish and wildlife species, including Brook Trout and migratory birds. Through collaboration with USFWS's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, WUV will implement habitat...

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation (VT DEC) will receive $333,334 under a Cooperative Agreement awarded on October 1, 2021 by the Environmental Protection Agency Region 1. The funding supports the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants program (CFDA #66.461) to improve understanding and protection of Vermont's wetlands through September 30, 2023. VT DEC will conduct standard ecological and water quality monitoring at wetland sites based on the Water Quality Group's basin...