Cooperative Agreement L25AC00211

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Smith River Alliance Inc. a $348,199 cooperative agreement under the National Fish Passage program to replace an undersized culvert barrier with a fish-passable structure on a tributary to Morrison Creek in northern California. The culvert replacement will improve access to 1.1 miles of habitat and support the National Fish Passage program's goal of reconnecting habitat fragmented by barriers. Specifically, Smith River Alliance...

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 $600,000 in funding to the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited (BBCTU) and its partners to restore habitat for sensitive fish species in Montana's Blackfoot River watershed. Key project activities include removing one aging agricultural dam, replacing two culverts with aquatic organism passage structures, and eliminating fish...

This $143,505 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) will support the Smith River Alliance, a non-profit organization, to remediate a fish passage barrier on Tryon Creek in the Smith River watershed in California. The project will replace a culvert with a prefabricated bridge to restore 1.3 miles of upstream habitat and improve fish passage, floodplain connectivity, and riparian habitat...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Nez Perce Tribe to fund the design and implementation of a partial ground addition at the Wilson and Dorrance diversion locations on the Wallowa River in Oregon. This project aims to improve fish passage and access to 10 miles of critical spawning, rearing, and foraging habitat for spring Chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and...

This $260,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) will fund the removal of an existing undersized and failed culvert on Little Grass Valley Creek, a tributary to the Trinity and Klamath Rivers, and replace it with a properly-sized 13x10 elliptical culvert with an embedded bottom. This new structure will provide full, unimpeded fish passage for anadromous fish species including coho salmon, steelhead, and...

This $4,324,657.25 Project Grant award, issued on October 1, 2024 by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), will fund the Union Soil And Water Conservation District to improve fish passage and aquatic habitat in Catherine Creek and Willow Creek, Oregon. The key activities funded through this award include: Constructing a fishway around the Elmer Dam on Catherine Creek to restore volitional fish passage and improve...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded the Tehama County Resource Conservation District a $2,662,799.30 Project Grant under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to replace an undersized road crossing on Dye Creek. The project will restore over 10 miles of essential upstream habitat for several threatened fish species, including salmon, trout, and lamprey. The replacement of the undersized culverts, which often plug with sediment and debris,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $342,000 Project Grant to the Eagle Valley Soil And Water Conservation District. This grant supports the restoration of fish passage and habitat connectivity within the East Pine Creek watershed in Oregon, which is designated critical habitat for threatened bull trout. The key products and services to be delivered include removing fish passage barriers, designing and constructing engineered...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $2,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to the Resighini Rancheria, a federally recognized Native American tribe in California. The goal of the Lower Waukell and Junior Creeks Restoration Project is to replace two existing large culverts, elevate the roadway, and restore native vegetation to improve wetland habitat for at-risk fisheries and other tribal trust...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $1,415,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) in Alaska. The purpose of this project is to provide improved fish passage to high priority salmon species by replacing priority culverts that currently act as barriers with properly sized and engineered structures allowing passage for all life stages of these species. During the 2024 field seasons, KPB will manage the...