Cooperative Agreement F23AC02076
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.664 - Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance) awarded the Connecticut River Conservancy (CRC) a $275,868.72 Cooperative Agreement on February 24, 2025 to continue and expand community science, education, monitoring, and outreach programs supporting migratory fish management goals in the Connecticut River watershed. The key project activities include: 1) designing and implementing community and applied science monitoring initiatives, 2)...
- This $120,000.00 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, funds Trout Unlimited, Inc. to work cooperatively with USFWS to restore, enhance, and reconnect brook trout habitat within the Connecticut River Basin in Vermont. The project will facilitate habitat restoration and barrier (dam and culvert) removal to enhance aquatic organism passage in the basin, in coordination with USFWS biologists....
- 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 Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 15.608). The grant will support the removal of an old earthen dam and pump house on Kimball Brook in North Stratford, New Hampshire. This project aims to reconnect four miles of pristine brook trout habitat in Kimball Brook, a direct tributary to the Upper...
- This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $1,505,814 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. for a project to remove the Breached Cannondale Dam on the Norwalk River in Connecticut. The project will reconnect over 6 miles of stream habitat for priority migratory fish species such as sea lamprey, alewife, blueback herring, American eel, American shad, and gizzard shad. Additional work will target the next upstream...
- This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $100,000.00 to the Rhode Islands Chapter of Trout Unlimited to support the removal of the Capwell Mill Pond Dam on the Carr River in West Greenwich, Rhode Island. The dam removal project aims to restore 8 miles and 24 acres of aquatic habitat for native brook trout and other species by reconnecting fragmented stream ecosystems within the Big River...
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Essex County Department of Public Works (Essex County DPW) to restore and reconnect riverine habitat within the Boquet River Watershed in Essex County, New York. The project will replace an existing dual culvert crossing over the North Branch of the Boquet River with a 120-foot bridge, which will remove an aquatic passage barrier and open 49 upstream...
- 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...
- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) to restore a road-stream crossing on Deer Creek. The project will replace a 7-foot diameter culvert with a 33-foot span timber bridge, reconnecting 5 miles of upstream channel to over 4 miles downstream. This will halt the annual input of up to 15 tons of sediment from road runoff entering Deer Creek, improving stream...
- This $1.2 million Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 will fund the restoration of aquatic connectivity in the North Branch Potomac River (NBPR) watershed in Maryland. The project, under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will remove eight barriers to improve connectivity along 30 miles of stream habitat that supports Eastern Brook Trout populations. Key activities include replacing two culverts, removing a dam,...
CONNECTICUT RIVER CONSERVANCY (CRC) AND THE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE (USFWS) HAVE BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO WORK COOPERATIVELY TO RESTORE, ENHANCE AND RECONNECT BROOK TROUT HABITAT WITHIN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER BASIN IN VERMONT. CRC WILL WORK ON TWO TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH HABITAT RESTORATION AND CONNECTIVITY: (1)CRC WILL FACILITATE THE DESIGN AND REMOVAL OF BARRIERS (DAMS AND OR CULVERTS) TO AQUATIC ORGANISM PASSAGE IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER BASIN IN COORDINATION WITH USFWS BIOLOGISTS. (2)CRC WILL FACILITATE THE RESTORATION OF IN-STREAM HABITAT THROUGH RIPARIAN RESTORATION IN COORDINATION WITH LOCAL PARTNERS, LANDOWNERS AND USFWS BIOLOGISTS. FOLLOWING THIS COOPERATIVE PROJECT, CRC WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH PARTNERS AND LANDOWNERS THROUGHOUT THE WATERSHED TO ACHIEVE RESTORATION OUTCOMES DEVELOPED THROUGH THE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLAN AND OTHER SHARED OBJECTIVES IDENTIFIED BY USFWS.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $75.0k | 7/15/24 | ||
| Not listed | $120.0k | 6/28/23 |