Cooperative Agreement NA17NOS4510091

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to Delmarva R C & D Inc., a non-profit conservation organization, to restore degraded salt marshes in the Maryland Coastal Bays. The project aims to improve fish habitat, water quality, and coastal resiliency by reversing human impacts on at least 114 acres of salt marsh. Key restoration techniques include sediment addition to nourish degraded...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614), awarded a $1,448,107 Project Grant to the Inland Fishries Wildlife Department in Maine to restore coastal marsh and improve aquatic connectivity in a productive coastal wetlands ecosystem near Acadia National Park. The project, titled the "Jordan River Coastal Restoration Project," aims to reverse coastal marsh loss, provide future marsh migration space, and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded $806,990 under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) to the California Coastal Conservancy and Humboldt County Resource Conservation District to implement the Mad River Slough - Wadulh Lagoon Restoration Project. The Project will restore 48.6 acres of diked, subsided agricultural wetlands to estuarine and palustrine wetland habitats including salt marsh, brackish marsh, mudflat,...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $549,164 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to conduct a study on bird community changes in the St. Louis River Estuary (SLRE). The goal is to determine how recent remediation and restoration efforts in the heavily degraded SLRE have improved breeding habitat conditions for wetland-dependent birds at both the site and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,541,128 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) Project Grant to the State Coastal Conservancy to implement the Lower College of Marin Corte Madera Creek Habitat Restoration Project. This project will restore approximately 1.5 acres of aquatic, tidal, transition zone, and riparian upland habitat in the San Francisco Bay Estuary through the partial removal of a concrete channel and the restoration of native habitats....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under its Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), awarded a $3,260,366 Cooperative Agreement to the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) to implement the Clear Creek Reconnection Project in Wahkiakum County, Washington. The project will remove a culvert fish passage barrier on Clear Creek, a tributary to the Elochoman River, to restore access to upstream spawning grounds for threatened salmon and steelhead species. Key project activities include...

The Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District will receive $315,000 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) federal grant program to restore riparian corridors along 16 miles of Ashwaubenon Creek and 10 miles of Dutchman Creek in Wisconsin. Over the next three years, the Sewerage District will address water quality, riparian and instream habitat fragmentation, and degraded aquatic habitat through...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $302,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) to the Housatonic Valley Association, Inc. to develop preliminary designs for replacing two barrier culverts on Pond Mountain Brook in Kent, Connecticut. The project aims to reconnect over 3 miles of high-quality cold-water habitat for Eastern Brook Trout within the Macedonia Brook watershed. The culvert replacements...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $8,641,926 Cooperative Agreement under the Habitat Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 11.463) to The Nature Conservancy to restore estuary and salt marsh habitat along Bride Brook in Rocky Neck State Park in East Lyme, Connecticut. The key products and services to be delivered include: Completing initial planning and design steps to improve tidal connectivity between Bride Brook and Long Island Sound, supporting the migration...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664), awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant to the Klamath Drainage District Inc. to conduct a feasibility analysis for hydrologically reconnecting the Klamath River to the historic Lower Klamath Lake. This effort aims to restore critical wetland habitat that was lost due to historical water management practices in the Klamath Basin. The grant will support the development of a conceptual...