Cooperative Agreement F17AC00491

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $261,870 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Program (CFDA 15.517) to the Yurok Tribe in California. The grant will fund a 4-year project to monitor juvenile salmon survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track up to 400 wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon from the Scott, Salmon, and Trinity Rivers to the Klamath River estuary. An array of 32 acoustic receivers will be...

This federal Project Grant award of $449,324 from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program will fund a 4-year study by the Karuk Tribe of California to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration rates in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon in the Scott, Salmon, Trinity, and Klamath Rivers, and install an array of 32 acoustic receivers...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $999,929 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program to California Trout, Inc. for a 3-year project. The purpose of this grant is to monitor and evaluate the ecological impacts of removing the Klamath River dams, which will open over 400 miles of previously blocked fish habitat. Key project activities include using sonar, species composition sampling, and radio telemetry to estimate salmon and steelhead abundance and...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) will fund a $1,075,123 project to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River Basin in California over four years from 2023 to 2026. The Hoopa Valley Tribe will use acoustic tags to track the movement of wild and hatchery-raised juvenile Chinook salmon from the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) federal grant program, awarded a $117,153.94 Project Grant to the Yurok Tribe for the "Assessment of Anadromous Salmonid Stocks in Blue Creek on the Lower Klamath River." This 1-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025, involves conducting weekly and bi-weekly spawning ground surveys to collect data on live fish, redds, and carcasses in Blue...

The Upper Sacramento River Salmon and Steelhead Resource Assessment project received $302,881 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Sport Fish Restoration Formula Grant program (CFDA 15.605) for the period of July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife will assess sport fish populations, public use and benefits, and boat access in the Upper Sacramento River to help restore, conserve, manage and enhance...

The Sacramento Region Water Forum received a $1,000,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) on August 21, 2025, to conduct programmatic evaluation and produce restoration site designs for juvenile salmonid rearing habitat along a 17-mile stretch of the lower American River in Sacramento, California. The primary deliverables include a baseline environmental assessment, wetland delineation study, and a comprehensive 60% design...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $207,000 Project Grant to support research titled "Understanding the Genetic and Physiologic Adaptations to Thermally Challenging Environments in Chinook Salmon." The award period is from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing knowledge and...

Federal Grant Award Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605), awarded $278,908.00 to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for the period July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The award supports the Upper Sacramento River Salmon and Steelhead Resource Assessment (USRSSRA), which provides essential population monitoring data for anadromous salmonid populations in the Upper Sacramento River Basin. This monitoring program...

This $450,260 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research by the University of Montana to investigate the vulnerabilities of cutthroat trout predators and tailed frog prey to climate change in mountain streams of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The research team will use a multidisciplinary approach combining DNA sequencing, physiology experiments, and computer modeling to test hypotheses about the thermal sensitivities and...