Cooperative Agreement L20AC00061

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Wallowa Lake Irrigation District in Oregon. The funding will be used to replace an existing diversion structure on the Wallowa River with a new adjustable diversion and fish ladder system. The project will also upgrade the intake structure for the Consolidated Ditch to include a vertical plate system with a fish bypass facility. This will improve water...

The Cooperative Agreement award of $104,843 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports the Watts Toppin Fish Passage Project. This project, led by the Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council, will improve fish passage through the construction of a roughened channel at the Watts Toppin Irrigation Dam on Williams Creek, a major tributary of the Applegate River in Oregon. The project aims to benefit...

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 U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 grant award under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA #15.685) will fund two key fish habitat restoration projects in Oregon. The $4,324,657.25 grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will support the Union Soil and Water Conservation District in improving fish passage and habitat connectivity in the Grande Ronde River sub-basin. The first project will construct a fishway around the Elmer Dam on Catherine Creek to restore...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), provides $150,000 to the Nez Perce Tribe to add design and implementation of an additional partial fish passage at the Wilson and Dorrance diversion locations on the Wallowa River. The project aims to restore access to 10 miles of critical spawning, rearing, and foraging habitat for spring Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and Pacific...

Under a $250,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, the Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (CCFEG), doing business as Cascade Fisheries, will correct one (1) fish passage barrier to improve access to 1.45 miles of cold-water habitat for endangered fish species, including bull trout. Additionally, CCFEG will place locally sourced wood in up to 1 mile of Pole Creek to enhance instream complexity. This work is funded...

This $336,553 federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will fund the replacement of a diversion dam with a roughened channel in the Libby Creek watershed, a tributary to the Methow River in north-central Washington. The project will improve fish passage and ecological function, while reducing maintenance burdens for a private irrigator. Specifically, the 45-foot rock dam that...

The Rogue River Watershed Council was awarded a $1,615,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to restore natural processes at five sites on five streams in Oregon. This restoration work is expected to improve access to over 100 miles of spawning area and enhance habitat conditions on 1.2 miles of stream for native fish species. The award period runs from July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2029. The National Fish Passage...

This $620,300 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) supports a project to remove a pair of culverts in Chimacum Creek, Washington. The project aims to re-establish access to 2.59 miles of significant upstream habitat for coho, fall chum, steelhead trout, and other anadromous fish species. The existing culverts have a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife passability rating of only 33%, limiting access to the upper...

This $600,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 will fund fish passage restoration projects in the Tillamook Bay watershed in Oregon through December 2026. Trout Unlimited, Inc. will work with engineering services providers to design aquatic organism passage structures to replace three fish passage barriers. This will restore access for Chinook, chum, and threatened Oregon Coast coho salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and...