The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 awarded a $152,400 Project Grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support restoration of 140 acres of habitat for the federally and state-listed endangered Houston toad at the Cedar Hill Ranch in Milam County, Texas from September 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. Key activities include selectively removing woody understory brush using...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $307,692 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The project aims to enhance the agency's ability to implement habitat restoration practices on private lands to benefit the endangered Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis) and other species of greatest conservation need in the state's pine-oak savanna ecosystems. Restoration activities include selective removal of understory brush...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.631 - Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program) provides $130,000.00 in funding to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) to restore 812 acres of privately owned grasslands in Texas. The goal is to reverse the downward trend of grassland wildlife species by managing invasive plant species and restoring native warm season grasses, forbs, and pollinator plants. This will improve...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 awarded the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department a $499,844 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.634) from September 1, 2023 to December 31, 2026. The grant will support efforts to conserve the endangered Houston toad through restoration of its pine-oak savannah habitat on private lands in eastern central Texas. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will hire a conservation delivery specialist to work with...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) provides $150,000 in funding to the Texas A&M Forest Service to deliver cost-assistance to individual private landowners in the Neches River and Cypress Basin watersheds of East Texas. The project aims to enhance habitat for federal trust and game species through brush management and prescribed fire on a minimum of 4,835 acres. Key...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The grant aims to reverse the downward trend of grassland wildlife species in Texas by restoring native warm-season bunch grasses, forbs, and pollinator plants on tamed pastures and hayland. Through this 5-year program, TPWD will work collaboratively with USFWS to enroll private landowners as...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The purpose of this 5-year award is to incentivize private landowners in Texas to restore native warm-season grasses, forbs, and pollinator plants on tamed pastures or hayland. These habitat restoration efforts will aim to reverse declines in grassland wildlife species by improving ground cover,...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...
This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) will fund longleaf pine restoration and habitat enhancement projects on state, private, and tribal lands across the Southeast United States. The prime awardee, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), will work with sub-grantees including the American Bird Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, The Longleaf Alliance, and the Land Trust For Louisiana to...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.670 - Adaptive Science) provides $578,690.48 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to assess the overwintering day-roost and foraging ecology of non-hibernating, migratory bat species at two military installations in Virginia. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4.5-year award include: Conducting intensive acoustic and mist-netting surveys to determine dormant...