Cooperative Agreement F17AC00711

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $191,320.00 in funding to the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (LCSWCD) in Minnesota. The agreement supports a feasibility study and design for restoration of the Beaver and Baptism Rivers, which are important spawning and wintering habitats for native brook trout. The key deliverables include two feasibility...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (under CFDA Program 15.608 - Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance) provides $329,464.74 to the University of Wisconsin System to study brook trout habitats and movements in Minnesota's Lake Superior tributary streams. The research aims to: 1) determine seasonal habitat use and movements of brook trout, brown trout, and steelhead trout; 2) assess habitat overlap and competition between native brook...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will provide $1,000,000 through a Cooperative Agreement to the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust to restore and enhance brook trout habitat in the Upper Kennebago River watershed in Maine from September 2022 to September 2025. As part of the Coastal Program, the project aims to apply habitat assessments to design restoration treatments incorporating large woody material installations. Treatments will recreate natural stream channels and accelerate recovery from a...

This $860,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded on May 1, 2024 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), will fund the restoration of a degraded portion of Kingsbury Creek, a trout stream in Proctor, Minnesota. The project aims to reshape the stream channel, plant native vegetation, and construct a floodplain to enhance the ecological value and community benefits of the waterway. Key outcomes include improved habitat for native fish species, increased recreational...

The Finger Lakes Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance will restore approximately two acres of spawning habitat in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario under a $712,621 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Working with partners including the Service, U.S. Geological Survey and New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the Alliance will place spawning bed material in the Black River mouth and Chaumont Bay. The project aims to benefit native fish species...

Trout Unlimited and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will cooperatively restore and reconnect salmon and brook trout habitat in New York's Saranac River Basin through a $286,018 Cooperative Agreement awarded under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program of the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5. Key products and services include Trout Unlimited facilitating the removal of barriers to aquatic organism passage in the Lower Saranac River. Additionally, Trout...

This $649,942 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 will fund research at Michigan State University to assess potential impacts of splake introgression on brook trout and lake trout populations in Lake Superior. As part of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the research team will conduct genomic sequencing on wild-caught brook trout and lake trout to determine if splake introgression is occurring and identify locations where it may be impacting the native...

This $618,176.83 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608), will fund habitat restoration activities along 17 miles of Beavertail Creek in Chippewa County, Michigan. The awardee, Huron Pines Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc. (dba Huron Pines), will replace two impaired road stream crossings on South Prentiss Bay Road to restore natural river processes,...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $120,038 cooperative agreement to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to restore aquatic organism passage for brook trout and other coldwater species in the North Branch Oconto River near Wabeno, Wisconsin. Key activities to be delivered through July 2022 to December 2024 include removing the final remnant logging dam blocking fish passage, restoring the stream...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to replace an undersized and failing culvert on Claybank Creek at Pine Creek Road in Manistee County, Michigan. This project will restore aquatic organism passage, enhance flood resiliency, and improve infrastructure at the crossing. The replacement culvert will reconnect 3.5 miles of upstream high-quality...