Cooperative Agreement G18AC00324

This $321,978.24 Sport Fish Restoration grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.605) supports the New Mexico Department of Game & Fish (NMDGF) in developing and implementing conservation and management strategies to restore and manage Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout populations throughout their native distribution in New Mexico. Key activities include genetic analysis to determine genetic purity of the trout population, conducted under a $XX,XXX sub-award...

This $1,411,634.35 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports the final phase of a 25-year fisheries restoration effort in the Rio Costilla watershed in New Mexico. The grant to Trout Unlimited, Inc. will address the remaining fish passage barriers within the watershed to establish the largest metapopulation of Rio Grande cutthroat trout within its historic range. Additionally, the project aims to expedite fish...

This federal Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 (CFDA 15.634 - State Wildlife Grants Program) provides $177,365.00 to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to develop and implement conservation and management strategies to restore and manage Gila trout throughout their native distribution in New Mexico. The grant, which runs from January 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, is crucial to preventing declines and expanding the distribution and...

This U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Region 6 Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $100,000 and effective from July 2024 to July 2029, will support Trout Unlimited, Inc. in removing and replacing a road stream crossing structure on Middle Placer Creek in Colorado. This project aims to improve aquatic organism passage and provide access to 10 miles of high-quality stream habitat for native Rio Grande fishes, including Rio Grande cutthroat trout and Rio Grande...

This $303,200 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will enable Vermejo Park LLC to address the last remaining fish passage barriers in the Upper Costilla Watershed in New Mexico. The key activities include: 1) Removing an obsolete fish migration barrier, 2) Replacing four undersized and perched culverts with modern structures such as open-bottom box culverts and a natural-bottom squash pipe, and 3) Restoring the impacted...

This $110,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.686 - National Fish Habitat Partnership) supports a multi-faceted project to secure, restore, and maintain Yellowstone cutthroat trout populations in the Mill Creek subwatershed in Montana. The primary goals are to construct a fish barrier to protect 10 miles of headwater streams from invasive rainbow trout, and to restore degraded habitat in a 3-mile meadow reach of Mill...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $180,000.00 to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD) to restore habitat and eliminate a temperature and habitat barrier for Apache trout in the South Fork Little Colorado River. The funding will support on-the-ground habitat restoration activities along a 1.8-mile reach of the river, which was impacted by the 2011 Wallow Fire, to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $180,953 Cooperative Agreement to the Nevada Department of Wildlife under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to support research and implementation of a Lahontan cutthroat trout genetic rescue project. The project aims to evaluate the benefits of introducing new genetic material to small, isolated Lahontan cutthroat trout populations in northwest Nevada to aid in the recovery of this federally threatened species...

This $453,646 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.615 Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund) supports efforts by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to remove non-native rainbow trout and hybrids from Silver King Creek, the native habitat of the threatened Paiute cutthroat trout in California. The key project activities include using environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to identify areas with high densities...

This Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, supports efforts to restore the genetic integrity of the Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) population at Independence Lake in California. The $283,540 award, with a performance period from January 2025 to January 2028, will fund a program to selectively remove non-native rainbow trout (RT) and LCT-RT hybrids from Independence Lake and its...