The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department received a $264,174 Formula Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety federal grant program (CFDA 15.611). The grant will fund the establishment of standardized landscape-scale monitoring protocols for the Coastal Refugia Program on the Texas coast through December 2025. Audio recording units will be deployed to quantify waterfowl and...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 awarded the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department a $1,028,775 Formula Grant under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2027. The grant will support the establishment of flooded agricultural fields as migratory bird sanctuaries along the Gulf Coast of Texas to provide shallow water habitat for migrating, staging and wintering shorebirds and...
The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $423,239 Formula Grant under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education program (CFDA 15.611) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). The funding aims to support a study that will survey landowners across Texas to understand the factors that influence their engagement and commitment to wildlife conservation initiatives. Specifically, the research will: (a) uncover the decision-making factors behind...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $169,637 Formula Grant to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety federal grant program (CFDA 15.611). The grant funded a study from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022 to estimate optimal harvest management practices to attract three species of geese—Canada, white-fronted, and snow geese—to fields in Illinois. The study also aimed to determine the cause...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $860,595 Formula Grant on December 1, 2024 to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education program (CFDA 15.611). The grant will fund a comprehensive research project to investigate factors influencing the declining population of ring-necked pheasants in Texas, with the goal of informing conservation efforts for this important game species and other...
This $722,226 Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.611 - Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education) supports the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's (TPWD) ongoing efforts to map and track changes in Texas' landscape, vegetation communities, and land uses. The grant funding enables TPWD to maintain and update the Texas Ecological Mapping Systems spatial database, which is used to support habitat mapping for all native species...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) received a $2,134,388 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611). The grant will fund TPWD's work from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2028 to improve population monitoring and management of collared peccaries in western South Texas through four key activities. TPWD will develop and evaluate survey methods...
This $305,237 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program supports a 3-year study on the status and ecology of three state-threatened raptor species in Texas: the zone-tailed hawk, gray hawk, and common black hawk. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the state agency responsible for conserving Texas' natural resources, is the prime recipient for this award. The project will conduct...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $11,985,141 Formula Grant under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education program (CFDA 15.611) to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The purpose of this 2-year grant, effective from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2027, is to provide technical assistance concerning wildlife and natural resource conservation and management to landowners, managers, and other individuals and organizations through workshops,...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department was awarded a $212,974 Formula Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety federal grant program (CFDA 15.611). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to investigate woody species management techniques in Texas using Indicators of Biotic Integrity for Bottomland Hardwood Communities (IMBCR). A sub-award of $25,000 was...