Cooperative Agreement G17AC00151

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (under CFDA Program 15.608 - Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance) provides $329,464.74 to the University of Wisconsin System to study brook trout habitats and movements in Minnesota's Lake Superior tributary streams. The research aims to: 1) determine seasonal habitat use and movements of brook trout, brown trout, and steelhead trout; 2) assess habitat overlap and competition between native brook...

This federal Project Grant award of $449,324 from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program will fund a 4-year study by the Karuk Tribe of California to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration rates in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon in the Scott, Salmon, Trinity, and Klamath Rivers, and install an array of 32 acoustic receivers...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $999,929 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program to California Trout, Inc. for a 3-year project. The purpose of this grant is to monitor and evaluate the ecological impacts of removing the Klamath River dams, which will open over 400 miles of previously blocked fish habitat. Key project activities include using sonar, species composition sampling, and radio telemetry to estimate salmon and steelhead abundance and...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $261,870 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Program (CFDA 15.517) to the Yurok Tribe in California. The grant will fund a 4-year project to monitor juvenile salmon survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track up to 400 wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon from the Scott, Salmon, and Trinity Rivers to the Klamath River estuary. An array of 32 acoustic receivers will be...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $122,108 to Miami University to investigate how river fragmentation impacts the genetic diversity and gene flow of brook trout populations in the Upper Black River watershed in Michigan. The project will compare genetic variation in brook trout populations between stream segments with and without restored connectivity due to previous culvert replacement efforts....

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) will fund a $1,075,123 project to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River Basin in California over four years from 2023 to 2026. The Hoopa Valley Tribe will use acoustic tags to track the movement of wild and hatchery-raised juvenile Chinook salmon from the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program provides $299,994 to Oregon State University from September 2024 to August 2027. The award will fund the development of an R Shiny application to help natural resource managers assess how removing stream barriers could increase cold-water fish growth potential under current and future climate conditions. Additionally, the project will create a population dynamics simulation...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $342,000 project grant to the Eagle Valley Soil And Water Conservation District in Oregon. The grant supports the removal of fish passage barriers and implementation of habitat restoration projects within the East Pine Creek watershed, which is designated critical habitat for threatened bull trout. The project aims to restore aquatic connectivity and improve migratory corridors for bull trout...

This $450,260 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program supports research by the University of Montana to investigate the vulnerabilities of cutthroat trout predators and tailed frog prey to climate change in mountain streams of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. The research team will use a multidisciplinary approach combining DNA sequencing, physiology experiments, and computer modeling to test hypotheses about the thermal sensitivities and...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $175,705 Project Grant to Oregon State University under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program. The grant will fund a 27-month research project to monitor the dispersal and spawning patterns of juvenile Chinook salmon in Catherine Creek. Specifically, the grant will enable Oregon State University to use genetics-based parentage-based tagging (PBT) techniques to track the spatial distribution and migration of...