Cooperative Agreement F19AC00614

This Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Multistate Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 15.628) provides $176,029.00 to Colorado State University to develop databases of brook trout population and stream temperature data, model and rank hydrologic unit code (HUC) watersheds for trout habitat suitability, and visualize the spatial information for use by trout managers across the 16 states encompassing the brook trout's native range...

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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $3,000,000 to the Chickaloon Native Village in Alaska to restore natural hydrologic and ecological function in the Moose Creek watershed. The key objectives of this 5-year project are to: 1) design salmon habitat restoration for up to 5 miles of the upper Moose Creek watershed, 2) implement Phase 1 of salmon habitat restoration by reducing velocity barriers,...

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 $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...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $122,108 to Miami University to investigate how river fragmentation impacts the genetic diversity and gene flow of brook trout populations in the Upper Black River watershed in Michigan. The project will compare genetic variation in brook trout populations between stream segments with and without restored connectivity due to previous culvert replacement efforts....

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...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. The grant will fund the McCoy Creek Wet Meadow Restoration Project, a 2.1-mile stream restoration initiative on public lands managed by the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. The project aims to improve habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout and other native species by reconnecting the stream to its historic floodplain, enhancing wet...