The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will receive $253,116.68 through December 31, 2025 from the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System grant program to conduct the Copper Basin Community Harvest Assessment. The assessment will provide updated information on the harvest and use of subsistence resources by residents of Copper Basin communities in Alaska through household surveys, ethnographic interviews, and analysis....
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's (NPS) Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $104,766.14 to the Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission (AITRC) to identify the current distribution of harvestable fish species in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. The project will map the locations of key fish populations including Arctic grayling, burbot, Dolly Varden, lake trout, rainbow trout, and whitefish. This information will help inform...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will support geologic resource management in Alaska's national parks under a $1.32 million cooperative agreement from the National Park Service. Awarded on July 15, 2021 and running through December 31, 2025, this funding through the NPS's Natural Resource Stewardship program will support the development of geologic resources inventory reports. As the principal means for NPS to evaluate and improve landscape and marine resources on lands and waters within...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $311,239 to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game to update baseline data on the customary and traditional uses of fish and wildlife by residents of four Alaskan communities near a national park. The objective is to use standard social science methods, including surveys, interviews, and participant-observation, to...
This $682,107 Project Grant awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Pacific Salmon Treaty Program (CFDA 11.438) is funding a multi-faceted effort to mitigate economic impacts from reductions in Chinook salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska. The key components of the program include: Hatchery fish marking, tagging, and evaluation; hatchery enhancement projects; and hatchery research. Sub-awards to entities like the Alaska...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) engages the Klamath Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization, to determine trends in bird communities within several national parks in southern Oregon and northern California. From 2026-2028, field crews will survey breeding bird populations in parks including Crater Lake, Lassen Volcanic, Redwood, and others, to identify bird species present, their relative...
This $215,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (under CFDA #15.685 - National Fish Passage Program) to the Kenai Soil & Water Conservation District is focused on improving fish passage for high priority salmon species in Alaska. The project aims to replace priority culverts that currently act as fish passage barriers with properly sized and engineered structures designed to mimic natural stream characteristics and allow passage...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (CFDA 15.954 - National Park Service Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education) provides $209,093.00 in funding to Kijik Corporation to document the baseline status of conservation values and human-made features on lands under a conservation easement. The goal is for the Park to accomplish legally required work through this tribal partnership. The award period runs from July 30, 2025 to July 31, 2027. Kijik Corporation, an...
This $374,473 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program to Conservation Science Partners, Inc. supports a collaborative research project to investigate the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems in National Park units. The key activities under this project include assessing trends and drivers of climate impacts on stream temperatures, estimating thermal...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.686 National Fish Habitat Partnership) provides $166,450.00 to the University of Washington to quantify how recent climate change has altered the productivity of sockeye salmon nursery lakes in the upper Nushagak River region of Alaska. The key objectives are to monitor water temperature regimes in lakes across the Wood River and upper Nushagak systems, and then use this data to build growth...