Cooperative Agreement L12AC20437

This Project Grant award of $400,000 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664) will fund the design and permitting phase of a pipeline project to connect the Montague Water Conservation District's main canal to the Big Springs Irrigation District's upper ditch. This pipeline would allow Montague's water to be delivered to Big Springs Irrigation District, reducing the need for pumping...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment program (CFDA 15.676) provides $526,533 to Conservation Legacy's Southwest Conservation Corps to assist the Arizona Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office in Whiteriver, Arizona with recovery actions for the threatened Apache trout. Over the 4-year period from September 2023 to December 2026, Conservation Legacy will place intern crews, including a crew leader and 7...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), will fund American Conservation Experience (ACE) to deliver the following key products and services: The $157,369.81 award will enable ACE to hire 9 interns to provide visitor services and assist with natural resource stewardship on federal lands. Specifically, the interns will directly serve over 2,000 visitors per day at 4 park visitor...

This $297,712 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports a watershed restoration planning and implementation project in the Putah Creek watershed in Northern California. The project aims to create new rock vanes and augment existing structures on tributary streams to trap sediment, increase base flows, and restore riparian vegetation in the region. This will help address issues like disruption of water supply,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $3,154,430 to Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization, to engage youth, veterans, and young adults in natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. Starting in the summer of 2025, the funding will support approximately 50 interns to complete 12 to 52-week science-based internships focused...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (CFDA 17.289 Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending) provides $272,000.00 in funding to the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, Inc., a non-profit organization, from February 1, 2024 to January 31, 2026. The project will empower underserved youth and young adults in Los Angeles through environmental projects, job skills training, and educational programs. Specifically, the...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $396,900.78 Project Grant to American Conservation Experience under the Youth Conservation federal grant program (CFDA 15.546) to recruit youth for conservation corps work maintaining public lands from September 2021 through September 2026. As described in the CFDA, this program aims to promote education, job training, citizenship, and natural and cultural resource stewardship through hands-on youth involvement. Under this award,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $268,500 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to finalize engineering designs and implementation plans to replace an undersized concrete box culvert on Strawberry Creek in McKinleyville, CA. The existing structure is a complete barrier to upstream fish passage for ESA-listed coho salmon and steelhead trout, as well as coastal cutthroat trout and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the Youth Engagement, Education, and Employment program (CFDA 15.676), provides $227,487.62 to support the recruitment of two maintenance crew members from the American Conservation Experience (ACE) to contribute to refuge maintenance projects at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. The ACE members will join a team working on conservation projects such as maintaining various trails, roads,...

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