Cooperative Agreement P15AC00914

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...

Mackinac State Historic Parks will inventory archaeological collections from multiple sites under a $347,442 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant through August 2025. The grant supports hiring two full-time archaeology inventory assistants for three years to inventory, rehouse, and document objects in the Mill Creek Archaeological Collection as well as artifacts from Michilimackinac, French Farm Lake, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, and Mackinac Island. This represents the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,423,000 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology, in partnership with the Squaxin Island Tribe as a sub-grantee, to restore approximately 73 acres of coastal wetland habitat in Mason County, Washington. The project will restore 1.2 miles of Skookum Creek by re-aligning the channel to its historic alignment, restoring streamside channels, removing a...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $699,000.00 in funding to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Office of Coastal Management (ODNR OCM) to monitor wetland sites within the Lake Erie watershed in the Maumee River basin. The activities will involve sampling soils in multiple wetland restoration projects to measure parameters that predict phosphate retention and...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) was awarded a $837,500 Project Grant by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to control invasive species and restore approximately 110 acres of silver maple-ash swamps at Beaver Island and Buckhorn Island State Parks. The key activities funded include invasive species control, forest restoration plantings, deer impact...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will receive $219,507 from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative program to develop a restoration plan for the 115.3-acre Yanty Marsh coastal wetland on Lake Ontario. The design will include plans to create open water channels and potholes through dredging of cattail monocultures to provide fish and wildlife access to spawning and nesting sites while enhancing habitat. The...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658) will fund the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (MDEGLE) to collect sediment core samples and conduct probing transects upstream of the Allegan City Dam along the Kalamazoo River. The data collected will characterize the sediments down to pre-dam historic riverbed levels, which...

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) was awarded a $2 million Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) to restore 193 acres of native habitat at the Mad Horse Creek Wildlife Management Area. The restoration will include excavating tidal channels and removing invasive plant species from 59 acres of salt marsh. An additional 8.5 acres will be planted as high marsh and tidal...

The Northwest Straits Foundation, Washington State Parks, and the Skagit and Whatcom County Marine Resources Committees will develop a feasibility study, design, permitting, and initiate community outreach for the restoration of over 1,200 linear feet of shoreline, 9 acres of backshore, and adjacent upland habitat at Clayton Beach in Larrabee State Park, Skagit County, WA under a $122,716 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. The award...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) will receive $1,025,108 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) federal grant program to conduct invasive species control and habitat enhancements across the 52.1-acre Four Mile Creek Coastal Wetland in Youngstown, New York from July 1, 2022 through December 31, 2026. Specifically, OPRHP will expand ongoing efforts to map and control invasive plant species...