Cooperative Agreement F13AC00845

The Department of Fish & Game Division of Ecological Restoration received a $1,501,430 Project Grant under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) to implement the Windswept Bog Ecological Restoration Project. This project will restore over 43.8 acres of decreasing coastal wetland habitats on a retired cranberry bog site in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Key restoration activities include removing berms and water control...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) was awarded a $2 million Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) to restore 193 acres of native habitat at the Mad Horse Creek Wildlife Management Area. The restoration will include excavating tidal channels and removing invasive plant species from 59 acres of salt marsh. An additional 8.5 acres will be planted as high marsh and tidal...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will receive $219,507 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program to develop a restoration plan for the 115.3-acre Yanty Marsh coastal wetland on Lake Ontario. The design will include plans to create open water channels and potholes through dredging of cattail monocultures to provide fish and wildlife access to spawning and nesting sites while enhancing habitat. The...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,541,128 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) Project Grant to the State Coastal Conservancy to implement the Lower College of Marin Corte Madera Creek Habitat Restoration Project. This project will restore approximately 1.5 acres of aquatic, tidal, transition zone, and riparian upland habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary through the partial removal of a concrete channel and the restoration of native habitats....

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $2 million Project Grant to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614). The grant will support conservation activities on the Todd Creek Tract in Georgia from February 2021 through December 2021. The Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program provides matching grants to coastal states for wetlands conservation...

The State Coastal Conservancy received a $1.452 million Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 8 under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) for the San Francisco Bay Coastal Wetlands Revegetation Project Phase III. The award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2027, supports continued invasive species removal and native habitat restoration in the San Francisco Estuary. Deliverables include the removal of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) to Northeast Wetland Restoration, a sole proprietorship located in Berwick, Maine. The purpose of this 5-year project is to correct marsh surface hydrology and improve salt marsh resilience to climate change and sea level rise at the 141-acre Little River Estuary in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine. Northeast...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623), awarded a $752,950.00 Project Grant to Metro on April 30, 2025. The grant will fund the restoration of 64 acres of degraded and drained peat wetlands in Clackamas County, Oregon. Restoration activities will include filling drainage channels, constructing ponds and swales, weed control, and dense planting to restore native wetland vegetation communities. The project aims to improve water...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $2,605,548.67 Project Grant to the City of Oakdale under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CFDA 15.648) program. The project will enhance approximately 22 acres of riparian and upland habitats along the lower Stanislaus River in California. Key activities include excavating 54,800 cubic yards of material to expand emergent wetlands, create side channels, and install alcoves and large wood structures to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,420,000 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology to implement phase 1 of a wetland restoration project along the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The project, conducted in partnership with the Stillaguamish Tribe as a sub-recipient, will restore 7.5 acres of historic wetlands, control invasive species, plant 95 acres of native trees and shrubs, and improve...