Trout unlimited in association with the southeast alaska fish habitat partnership (SEAKFHP) seeks financial assistance through the national fish habitat partnership to continue to support coordination…

Award: Trout Unlimited, Inc. received a $126,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, effective September 1, 2025 through August 30, 2030. The award funds coordination and operational support services for the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership (SEAKFHP), a collaborative conservation initiative operating throughout Southeast Alaska.

Products and Services: Under this cooperative agreement, Trout Unlimited provides fiscal sponsorship and ongoing coordination services to advance SEAKFHP's fish habitat conservation mission. Key deliverables include partnership coordination and facilitation services to member organizations and regional stakeholders; implementation of priority actions outlined in SEAKFHP's revised Fish Habitat Conservation Action Plan (finalized December 2017); information sharing and inter-agency collaboration support; and continued stabilization of partnership operations to enable the delivery of high-quality conservation services. As a mature partnership, SEAKFHP leverages additional funding sources to address priority fish habitat conservation activities and participates in the NFHP project funding request process established through the America's Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act. The partnership's coordination infrastructure supports improved regional collaboration and relationship-building among federal, state, tribal, and private conservation partners.

Trout unlimited in association with the southeast alaska fish habitat partnership (SEAKFHP) seeks financial assistance through the national fish habitat partnership to continue to support coordination services of the partnership and to implement priority actions from the partnerships revised strategic action documents including the SEAKFHP fish habitat conservation action plan that was finalized in december of 2017 and are currently under revision.SEAKFHP provides a variety of coordination and facilitation services to our partner organizations as well as other natural resource managers and interested stakeholders throughout southeast alaska. Efforts to date have led to fostering relationships that provide a greater level of information sharing and improved collaboration within the region. SEAKFHP has matured significantly as a fish habitat partnership and is successfully leveraging other funding sources to address priority fish habitat conservation activities. Since 2021 SEAKFHP has been invited to participate in the nfhp project funding request process now being administered by the nfhp board per passage of the ACE act in october of 2020 and reauthorized in december of 2024. Partnership coordination is key in providing services to partner members and with continued support through FY25 nfhp operational funding these services will remain stable.trout unlimited continues to serve as a partner member of the SEAKFHP and provides the fiscal sponsorship to the partnership. Continuing to grow the partnership and focusing on the delivery of high quality services for the region through providing on going coordinator support is the basis for this funding request.