Cooperative Agreement F21AC03275

Under a $114,654 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain will restore 80.39 acres of wet pine savanna habitat near the Mississippi Sandhill Crane Refuge. The project utilizes mechanical mulching, chemical mowing, and bush hogging techniques to establish alternative restoration methods and explore their ecological and economic viability. This effort builds on the...

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 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to Delmarva R C & D Inc., a non-profit conservation organization, to restore degraded salt marshes in the Maryland Coastal Bays. The project aims to improve fish habitat, water quality, and coastal resiliency by reversing human impacts on at least 114 acres of salt marsh. Key restoration techniques include sediment addition to nourish degraded...

The State Coastal Conservancy will receive $1.421 million through March 1, 2023 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program to implement Phase 3B of the Prairie Creek Floodplain Restoration Project. The project will restore 0.9 miles of instream habitat, provide access to nearly 23 acres of floodplain and backwater habitat, and restore or conserve up to 19 acres of emergent wetland and nearly 24 acres of riparian vegetation in Humboldt County,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $2,207,796 Project Grant under the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623) to Ducks Unlimited Inc.'s Great Plains Regional Office. The grant will fund habitat conservation efforts in the Central Flyway migration corridor in Nebraska, including the Platte River, Rainwater Basin, and Sandhills regions. Key activities include permanent protection of over 20,000 acres of wetland and grassland habitats through...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) to the South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Wildlife Division. The grant funding will be used to directly restore, enhance, create, or manage 5,000 acres of grassland and wetland habitat in the Prairie Pothole Region of South Dakota by September 30, 2026. The key activities include seeding 1,300 acres of new native grasses and forbs, removing or...

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) received a $4.08M project grant from the Bureau of Reclamation under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) on August 25, 2025, to study and design a floodplain habitat restoration project in the Sacramento Valley of northern Yolo County. The award funds hydrodynamic modeling, data collection, and surveying activities to support preliminary design of a restoration initiative targeting the historic Colusa Basin Drain footprint....

This $980,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), supports a landscape-scale wetland and grassland restoration project in the Prairie Pothole Region of Minnesota. The key products and services to be delivered include: Restoring and rehabilitating 200 acres of wetland habitat and 200 acres of upland habitat by building resilient infrastructure, removing...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623), awarded a $1,604,000.00 Project Grant to the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation, doing business as Manitoba Habitat Conservancy, on January 17, 2025. This grant will enable the organization to perpetually protect 2,387 acres of high-quality wetlands and associated uplands in the Manitoba Prairie Habitat Joint Venture (PHJV) target landscapes through...

The Plumas Audubon Society received a $159,624 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration program (CFDA 15.658). The grant will fund efforts to protect nesting colonies of Western and Clark's grebes at Lake Almanor in California from human disturbance through January 2026. Specifically, the Society will construct nesting platforms with decoys and calls in deeper waters to encourage grebes...