Cooperative Agreement L23AC00709

American Forests will provide $250,000 in climate-smart reforestation services to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks under a four-year cooperative agreement from the National Park Service's Natural Resource Stewardship program. Key activities include meeting with indigenous stewards to develop reforestation goals, evaluating assisted adaptation strategies, collecting tree cones, growing seedlings, planning post-fire recovery, and stakeholder engagement. American Forests will work with...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944), provides $137,489 to American Forests to coordinate and implement post-fire recovery and burned area plant materials projects supporting whitebark pine restoration at three large Washington national parks: North Cascades, Mount Rainier, and Olympic National Parks. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) prioritizing and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing a $6,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award through the FY2023 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Coastal Zone Management Habitat Restoration and Conservation Competition (CFDA 11.473 - Office for Coastal Management) to the California State Coastal Conservancy. This funding will support habitat restoration planning, engineering and design, habitat restoration implementation, and land conservation projects to increase climate...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will receive $8.3 million under a Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to restore high-priority habitat along three rivers in coastal Mendocino County, California. Funded through NOAA's Habitat Conservation grant program (CFDA 11.463), TNC will implement on-the-ground restoration at three sites focusing on floodplain and stream habitat improvement. The work will benefit endangered Central California coast coho...

The State Coastal Conservancy received a $1.4 million Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) to restore 14.3 acres of coastal wetlands and associated uplands in the Big Canyon Nature Park in Upper Newport Bay, California. The project will restore 1,900 feet of tidal and creek channels, 2.8 acres of tidal marsh, 7.3 acres of transitional wetlands, and 4.2 acres of coastal...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $7,000,000 Cooperative Agreement to the California State Coastal Conservancy under the Habitat Conservation program (CFDA 11.463) to restore floodplain rearing habitat for juvenile salmonids in Prairie Creek, a priority stream in Humboldt County, California. The project will complete the final downstream phase of work to elevate the habitat and create a salmonid stronghold, building upon several years of continuous...

This $2.7 million project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) will support restoration and enhancement of 159 acres of coastal wetlands and riparian habitats at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, California. The California Coastal Conservancy and East Bay Regional Park District will directly restore and enhance over 14.5 acres of wetlands and 144.5 acres of grasslands,...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $1,595,461 Project Grant to the State Coastal Conservancy under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) federal grant program. The grant will fund restoration of the Elk River Estuary in California from March 2021 through March 2025. Specifically, the grant award will support restoration and enhancement of 35 acres of coastal wetland habitat within the Elk River Estuary as part of the...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has awarded a $607,000.00 Cooperative Agreement to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFDA 10.715). This 10-year award will support collaborative watershed restoration projects in California that address critical environmental challenges such as hazardous fuel reduction, community wildfire protection...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is providing a $600,000 Cooperative Agreement award through the Office for Coastal Management (CFDA 11.473) to the State of California's State Coastal Conservancy. This funding will build the capacity of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve within the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to plan for and implement habitat restoration and conservation projects connected to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and...