The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $350,000 Cooperative Agreement under its Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program to Friends of the Winooski River, Inc. for habitat restoration and connectivity projects within the Winooski River Basin in Vermont. The cooperative agreement, which runs from December 2024 to May 2026, will support the organization's efforts to remove barriers like dams and culverts to improve aquatic organism passage, conduct habitat restoration...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $248,678.97 Formula Grant to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for habitat conservation and enhancement activities under the Sport Fish Restoration program. The grant period runs from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The funding supports projects designed to restore, conserve, manage, and enhance sport fish populations for the benefit of recreational anglers in Connecticut, as...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $412,365.82 Formula Grant to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection for the period of March 1, 2021 through February 28, 2022. The funding supports activities under the Sport Fish Restoration federal grant program (CFDA 15.605), which aims to restore, conserve, manage and enhance sport fish populations for public recreational use. Specifically, the award will fund projects and initiatives...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $920,328 Formula Grant to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to support inland fisheries research and management activities from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Sport Fish Restoration federal grant program (CFDA 15.605), which provides funding to restore, conserve, manage and enhance sport fish populations for public use and benefit. Specifically, the...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the CFDA 15.630 Coastal Program provides $534,903 to the University of Connecticut to establish a collaborative group that will assess existing salt marsh resources, identify data gaps, and implement new data collection activities to fill those gaps. The project aims to determine when salt marsh sites are showing signs of poor health and require management action, and will deliver a new monitoring program that can...
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 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631), provides $200,000 in funding to the Essex County Department of Public Works (ECDPW) to restore, enhance, and reconnect brook trout habitat within the Lake Champlain Basin in New York. ECDPW will work cooperatively with partners and landowners throughout the watershed to achieve restoration outcomes developed through a watershed management plan and other shared...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $663,730 Formula Grant under the Sport Fish Restoration program (CFDA 15.605) to the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP). The grant supports activities to restore and enhance runs of diadromous fish in Connecticut by providing effective fish passage at existing barriers to fish migration. The expected outcomes include maintaining healthy and sustainable populations of diadromous fisheries...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage (CFDA 15.685) program to the New River Land Trust. The project will implement an aquatic connectivity and habitat enhancement initiative along the North Fork Roanoke River in Blacksburg, VA. Key activities include removing one severe fish passage barrier, enhancing 0.5 mile of in-stream habitat through stream restoration and streambank stabilization, and...