Formula Grant F19AF00398

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $136,318 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Ohio State University. The project will develop a population model using statistical catch-at-age analysis to estimate age-specific abundance, mortality, and recruitment dynamics of nonnative channel catfish in the San Juan River basin. This model will assess how annual recruitment is impacted by spawner biomass and environmental variation,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. The grant will fund expansion of the Commission's aquatic plant nursery facility to increase production capacity from 3,500 plants in 2024 to 12,000 plants by 2027. This will support the Commission's efforts to establish self-sustaining native aquatic vegetation communities in eight reservoirs in 2024 and nine...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $456,244 Cooperative Agreement to the Las Vegas Valley Water District (LVVWD) under the FWS Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657). The objective is to recreate a 100-meter desert spring refugium for the federally endangered Pahrump poolfish at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas, Nevada. This project aims to establish an additional population of the Pahrump poolfish to increase the species' redundancy and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $342,000 project grant to the Eagle Valley Soil And Water Conservation District in Oregon. The grant supports the removal of fish passage barriers and implementation of habitat restoration projects within the East Pine Creek watershed, which is designated critical habitat for threatened bull trout. The project aims to restore aquatic connectivity and improve migratory corridors for bull trout...

This $283,540 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) supports efforts to restore the genetic integrity of the Lahontan cutthroat trout (LCT) population in Independence Lake, California. The key activities include: Selective removal of non-native rainbow trout (RT) and LCT-RT hybrids from Independence Lake and its tributary, Independence Creek, to reduce introgressive hybridization and maintain the LCT...

This $807,760 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) aims to transform 32 acres of cattle grazing pasture into productive wetland habitat on Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon. The key project activities include converting the land, planting native wetland vegetation, implementing water management practices, and establishing protocols for rearing juvenile endangered Lost River and...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) provides $453,646 to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) for a 3-year effort to remove non-native rainbow trout and hybrids from the native habitat of the threatened Paiute cutthroat trout in Silver King Creek, California. The grant will fund two key components: 1) Environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling to identify the presence and location of...

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $234,256 in funding to Conservation Fisheries, Inc. (CFI) to implement a 3-year demonstration project. The project aims to transition priority endangered fish propagation and reintroduction activities from CFI to National Fish Hatcheries (NFHs) in the Southeast region. This will increase the capacity of the U.S. Fish and...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $810,000 Project Grant to the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The grant will fund the completion of three replacement conservation barriers to protect Apache trout and other native aquatic species from invasive salmonid impacts, as well as an assessment of aquatic organism passage conditions at over 100 road crossings on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and Apache Sitgreaves National Forests....

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $124,345 cooperative agreement to the Klamath Watershed Partnership under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to install low-tech process-based restoration structures in the North Fork Sprague River from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. The Klamath Watershed Partnership and Service will work together to install beaver dam analogs and post-assisted log structures to improve water quality for...