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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a $4,666,515 Cooperative Agreement to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Coastal Zone Management Habitat Protection and Restoration Competition (CFDA 11.473 - Office for Coastal Management). The funding will be used to restore 57 acres of former cranberry bogs to a functioning wetland system in the town of Yarmouth, Massachusetts. Restoration...

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 awarded a $1,333,334 Project Grant under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) program to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) to permanently protect 851 acres of a high-priority coastal wetland ecosystem along the Sippican River in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. This project will conserve diverse wetland habitats, including emergent marshes, shrub swamps, forested wetlands, and...

The Department of Fish & Game Division of Ecological Restoration received a $1,501,430 Project Grant under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) to implement the Windswept Bog Ecological Restoration Project. This project will restore over 43.8 acres of decreasing coastal wetland habitats on a retired cranberry bog site in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Key restoration activities include removing berms and water control...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) awarded a $160,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) to Northeast Wetland Restoration, a sole proprietorship located in Berwick, Maine. The purpose of this 5-year project is to correct marsh surface hydrology and improve salt marsh resilience to climate change and sea level rise at the 141-acre Little River Estuary in the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine. Northeast...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Town of Falmouth, MA a $1,052,500 Project Grant under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to restore diadromous fish habitat and improve public access along the Coonamessett River watershed. During the grant period from July 2023 to September 2025, the Town will remove 7 culverts, replace 4 with river crossings connected by public trails, and restore 2,700 linear feet of riparian and in-stream habitat across 5 former cranberry bogs,...

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. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $184,932 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to Oregon State University (OSU). The funding will support a retrospective assessment of seagrass restoration efforts over the past several decades in two Oregon estuaries, Coos Bay and Yaquina Bay. The project will evaluate species richness, abundance, and performance metrics of seagrass at restoration sites and compare them to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,448,107 Project Grant to the Inland Fisheries & Wildlife Department of Maine under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614). The grant will fund the Jordan River Coastal Restoration Project, which aims to restore coastal marsh and reestablish aquatic connectivity in a productive coastal wetlands ecosystem near Acadia National Park. The restoration activities will reverse coastal marsh loss, provide...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630) to the Town of Weymouth Town Hall in Massachusetts. The funding will support the removal of a low-head dam on the Old Swamp River, which will open 20.34 miles of river and tributary habitat for anadromous fish species like river herring. The dam has severely impeded fish passage, and its removal is expected to provide critical spawning habitat restoration. This voluntary, community-based...