Cooperative Agreement F17AC00411

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) provides $150,000 to the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation to restore coastal processes and functions at Adelma Beach in Discovery Bay, Washington. The project will remove 530 square feet of wooden bulkhead, including two cabins, spanning 115 linear feet of shoreline. This will restore sediment transport and habitat connectivity, as well as remove non-native vegetation and...

The Northwest Straits Foundation, Washington State Parks, and the Skagit and Whatcom County Marine Resources Committees will develop a feasibility study, design, permitting, and initiate community outreach for the restoration of over 1,200 linear feet of shoreline, 9 acres of backshore, and adjacent upland habitat at Clayton Beach in Larrabee State Park, Skagit County, WA under a $122,716 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. The award...

The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Foundation received a $152,500 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. The project will remove up to 1,200 linear feet of shore armor and pilings at the Clayton Beach site in Bow, WA to improve sediment transport processes and allow for the expansion of eelgrass beds and nearshore habitats. The project will also restore over 9 acres of beach and backshore habitat,...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 provides $106,900 to develop preliminary designs for the removal of Chambers Creek Dam and replacement of two barrier culverts on spring creek tributaries to Chambers Bay downstream of the dam on Chambers Creek Road in Steilacoom, Washington. The funding will also support technical investigations and reporting for regulatory compliance and project permitting under the official federal grant...

The South Puget Sound Salmon Enhancement Group was awarded a $8.4 million Cooperative Agreement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Habitat Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 11.463). The funding will support planning, design, and implementation of delta and floodplain channel restoration, culvert and road removal, and installation of engineered log jams in the Puyallup River Basin. This work aims to recover threatened Puget Sound Chinook salmon,...

The Puget Sound Restoration Fund received a $298,017 project grant award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under the Fisheries Development and Utilization Research and Development Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program (CFDA 11.427). The grant will fund work to develop methods for monetizing seaweeds and cockles that foul shellfish aquaculture farms in the Puget Sound region of Washington state between September 2021 and August 2023. The goal of the NOAA program is to...

The Washington State Department of Ecology was awarded a $1,423,333 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614). The grant will fund the acquisition of a conservation easement over 227.89 acres of undeveloped marine shoreline, pocket estuary, salt marsh and forested habitat on Steamboat Peninsula in Thurston County, Washington. This will permanently conserve over 2.5 miles...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,423,000 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology, in partnership with the Squaxin Island Tribe as a sub-grantee, to restore approximately 73 acres of coastal wetland habitat in Mason County, Washington. The project will restore 1.2 miles of Skookum Creek by re-aligning the channel to its historic alignment, restoring streamside channels, removing a...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614), awarded a $1,333,334 Project Grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology in partnership with the Great Peninsula Conservancy. The funding will support the permanent protection and conservation of 13.1 acres, including 11.1 acres of coastal wetlands, along 530 feet of the Eastern Hood Canal shoreline in Kitsap County, Washington. The protected habitat features...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $733,200 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) project grant to the Washington Department of Ecology, with the Skagit Land Trust as a sub-recipient, to acquire and permanently protect 26 acres and 1,750 feet of riverine shoreline on the Samish River in Skagit County, Washington. The project will restore approximately 3 acres of the property and provide public education and outreach. The sub-award to Skagit Land Trust...