The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) to Northeast Wetland Restoration, a sole proprietorship located in Berwick, Maine. The purpose of this 5-year project is to correct marsh surface hydrology and improve salt marsh resilience to climate change and sea level rise at the 141-acre Little River Estuary in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine. Northeast...
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) received a $150,667 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 to test salt marsh restoration practices to advance conservation of the Saltmarsh Sparrow. Funded through the Competitive State Wildlife Grant (C-SWG) Program under the State Wildlife Grants CFDA #15.634, MDIFW will design and implement strategic, proactive conservation programs from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2026....
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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing $2,890,294 in federal funding through FY2023 to the Town of Wells and the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law National Estuarine Research Reserve Habitat Protection and Restoration Competition (CFDA 11.473 - Office for Coastal Management). This Cooperative Agreement award will support habitat restoration planning, engineering and design projects, habitat restoration...
The Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (Wells Reserve) was awarded a Cooperative Agreement under the Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves (CFDA 11.420) program by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The $888,967 federal grant award, with a total project cost of $1,258,525, will support the Reserve's operations, research, education, and stewardship activities from July 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025. Key products and services to be delivered...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,083,036 from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides funding for the operation of the Wells Reserve and its research, education, training, monitoring, stewardship, teacher workshops, administration, and Davidson Fellowship programs and projects. The award supports the Wells Reserve At Laudholm Farm, located in Wells, Maine, under the Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves federal grant program (CFDA...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623), provides $800,000.00 to permanently protect 85.25 acres within the Piscataqua River Estuary in York County, Maine. The funding will be used by the Great Works Regional Land Trust (GWRLT) to acquire the property in fee title, which includes 16.25 acres of freshwater and intertidal wetlands, 0.26 miles of shoreline, and 69 acres of uplands....
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $18,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Maine Department of Marine Resources (DMR) under the Habitat Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 11.463). The purpose of the award is for DMR to undertake initial planning and design steps to restore more than 400 acres of salt marsh on the West Branch of the Pleasant River. The project will replace and enlarge a culvert along Addison Road as part of a larger effort to replace six tidal...
The Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (Reserve) will receive $3.01 million in federal funding from the Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Coastal Zone Management Estuarine Research Reserves program (CFDA 11.420) for the period of July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The Reserve will use $780,500 in federal funds matched by $334,500 in non-federal funds to support operations and management, research, monitoring, education, teacher...