Cooperative Agreement S07AP12431

The Canaan Valley Institute will receive $200,000 through a cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 to implement a barrier/dam removal project on the Little River in Virginia. Under this Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program award, CVI will conduct project planning, assessments, design, permitting, monitoring and restoration activities to remove one fish passage barrier (Little River Dam) and enhance 2 miles of stream and 5...

This $2,726,721.64 Formula Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction program) is for a project titled "COON HUNTERS ARCH" located in West Virginia. The project involves replacing a highway structure on County Road 5, including construction activities. The grant recipient is the West Virginia Division of Highways, a state government agency that manages and maintains West Virginia's transportation infrastructure. This grant...

This $110,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program, will fund stream restoration and riparian buffer improvements in Coweeta Creek, a tributary of the Upper Little Tennessee River in Macon County, North Carolina. The goal is to benefit endangered species including the gray bat, Indiana bat, northern long-eared bat, and eastern hellbender, as well as native trout...

This $260,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) will fund the removal and replacement of an undersized culvert on Little Grass Valley Creek in Weaverville, California. The new 13x10 elliptical culvert will provide full, unimpeded fish passage for anadromous species like coho salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey to access five miles of cold water spawning and rearing...

The County of Cook will receive $148,961.26 under a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to replace the Junco Creek Bridge from November 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025. The funding is provided through the Service's Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608), which aims to support State and Interstate Aquatic Nuisance Species Management Plans and activities. Under this award, the County will replace the Junco...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA) to restore a road-stream crossing on Deer Creek. The project will replace a 7-foot diameter culvert with a 33-foot span timber bridge, reconnecting 5 miles of upstream channel to over 4 miles downstream. This will halt the annual input of up to 15 tons of sediment from road runoff entering Deer Creek, improving stream...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), provides $499,999 to the Canaan Valley Institute to collaborate with federal, state, and local partners to remove a hazardous low-head dam on the McClure River in Clinchco, Virginia. This dam removal project will fully reconnect 22 miles of the McClure River, benefiting the federally threatened Big Sandy crayfish within its critical habitat by allowing movement...

This $298,511.67 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.685 - National Fish Passage Program) will fund a project to reconnect approximately 8 miles of upstream habitat for brook trout passage in Sheridan Creek and its tributaries in Albert Township, Michigan. The project aims to address issues caused by undersized culverts, such as erosion, stormwater pollution, and impediments to sediment and woody debris transport, by fully replacing the culverts with a...

This U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cooperative agreement, awarded under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), provides $200,000 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to remove a fish passage barrier on the Little Bois Brule River and restore connectivity to 1.5 miles of coldwater habitat in the Bois Brule River watershed in Wisconsin. The project will reconnect spawning and thermal refuge habitat for native brook trout and other coldwater species, improving their resilience to climate change....

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to replace an undersized and failing culvert on Claybank Creek at Pine Creek Road in Manistee County, Michigan. This project will restore aquatic organism passage, enhance flood resiliency, and improve infrastructure at the crossing. The replacement culvert will reconnect 3.5 miles of upstream high-quality...