Provide technical assistance to individuals, environmental consultants, privatelandowners, businesses, local municipalities, federal and state agencies, and non-governmental organizations…

New Hampshire Fish & Game received a $200,000 Sport Fish Restoration (CFDA 15.605) formula grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5, effective July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The award funds technical assistance services provided to individuals, environmental consultants, private landowners, businesses, local municipalities, federal and state agencies, and non-governmental organizations regarding development projects that may impact fish and wildlife habitats in New Hampshire. Key deliverables include project reviews, participation on technical committees, site visits, correspondence, and scientific recommendations for highway, bridge, public transportation, energy, and habitat alteration projects to avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse impacts to fish, wildlife, and their habitats.

The program emphasizes preservation, restoration, and enhancement of aquatic and riparian habitats. Personnel will conduct meetings, prepare technical analyses, and provide recommendations for project alternatives or implementation modifications designed to minimize adverse environmental effects or enhance habitat restoration success. Expected outcomes include the avoidance and mitigation of impacts to fish and wildlife populations, and the establishment of self-sustaining natural processes within the state's terrestrial, riparian, and aquatic ecosystem components. The award specifies no sub-recipients, with all work performed directly by New Hampshire Fish & Game.

Provide technical assistance to individuals, environmental consultants, privatelandowners, businesses, local municipalities, federal and state agencies, and non-governmental organizations inconsultation for highway, bridge, other public transportation projects, energy projects, alterations of fish andwildlife habitats, and other development projects to avoid, minimize, and or mitigate impacts or loss of fish andwildlife and their habitats in new hampshire. Technical assistance will also be provided for projects directlyinvolved with preservation, restoration and enhancement or aquatic and riparian habitats. Activities to beperformed include review of public transportation and energy projects and other projects potentially impactingfish and wildlife and their habitats and participation on related technical committees. Personnel will attendmeetings, review proposed projects, conduct site visits, make telephone calls, write correspondence, and preparescientific summaries to provide recommendations for alternatives or modifications to projects or to projectimplementation methods to minimize adverse effects to fish and wildlife populations and their habitats, or toenhance the success of habitat restoration efforts. Expected outcomes include the avoidance, minimization, andmitigation of adverse impacts to fish and wildlife and their habitats. In addition, new hampshire s fisherieshabitats will exhibit self-sustaining natural processes and linkages among its terrestrial, riparian, and aquaticcomponents. Intended beneficiaries include land use planners and decision makers whose activities can affect thehealth of the state s fish and wildlife resources, as well as those groups who are in a position to protect, conserve or enhance these resources. The public will benefit from appropriate conservation of the state s fishand wildlife. There are no anticipated sub recipients preforming work under this award.