Cooperative Agreement NR209104XXXXC012

The Lake County Watershed Protection will identify priority areas and watersheds and assist with watershed assessments for Clear Lake and Cache Creek in Lake County, California under a $100,000 cooperative agreement award from the United States Department of Agriculture National Resources Conservation Service. The award is part of the Soil and Water Conservation CFDA 10.902 program, which provides conservation technical assistance to organizations through locally-based conservation...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program will provide $186,488.68 to Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation (HSU Foundation) to conduct a 2-year study on the Klamath River estuary. The objectives are to document pre- and post-dam removal effects on fish communities, compare traditional fish sampling methods with eDNA metabarcoding, and establish an early detection network for aquatic invasive...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) will provide $150,000 to the Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council to continue implementing erosion control treatments and expand inventory efforts to identify additional high-priority sediment source sites in the Scott River watershed and nearby watersheds in Northern California. The key objectives...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary Award: The Scott River Watershed Council received a $172,101 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631), effective October 1, 2025 through January 31, 2029. The award funds habitat restoration activities in Wildcat Creek, a tributary to the Scott River in the Klamath Basin ecoregion of Siskiyou County, California. Deliverables: The project will construct in-stream...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded $187,945 to the Scott River Watershed Council under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) effective October 1, 2025, through January 31, 2029. The awardee will deliver instream and riparian habitat restoration services on a 500-foot section of the Scott River tailings reach in Etna, California. Specific products include the construction of ten engineered log structures designed to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5), awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $893,800 on August 30, 2025, to the Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County under the Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority (CFDA 10.693) program. The agreement supports fuels reduction and vegetation management activities on 199 acres of non-National Forest System lands in the wildland-urban interface (WUI)...

The Scott River Watershed Council will receive $189,859.56 under a five-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8, through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), to conduct instream and riparian habitat restoration in the Scott River watershed in California from September 1, 2023 through September 1, 2028. Specifically, the Council will install 15 engineered log jam structures and 8 smaller log structures to...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 8, under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA, CFDA 15.648) program, awarded $182,625 to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission (PSMFC) on August 1, 2025, for Phase Two of the Sacramento River Tributaries Non-Natal Rearing Evaluation Project. This cooperative agreement extends through May 19, 2028, and focuses on multi-year pre-restoration monitoring of seasonal tributaries...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Lake County Watershed Protection District on September 11, 2025, under the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902). The award funds a conjunctive use study for the Adobe Creek Reservoir and repair of a detention structure on Kelsey Creek in California, with a completion date of September 30, 2028. These activities directly support the program's core objectives of improving fish habitat,...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $311,490.80 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Smith River Watershed Council, a non-profit organization in Reedsport, Oregon. The grant, with a performance period from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2030, will fund ecological restoration and watershed management projects within the 236,437-acre Smith River watershed in southwest Oregon. Key...