This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CFDA 66.616), will fund a $3,286,422 initiative to address environmental injustices and wetlands degradation impacting tribal communities in the Lake Winnebago watershed in Wisconsin. The key activities include: Building capacity for tribal communities to participate in water and wetland governance Integrating scientific data...
The Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians will receive $272,645 under a cooperative agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 to develop an updated Tribal Wetlands Program Plan. Funded through the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants program (CFDA 66.461), the agreement will support four objectives. Staff will attend wetland meetings and trainings to ensure quality monitoring using current scientific methods. Rapid assessments of five reference...
This Project Grant award of $491,882 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Non-State Member Support for the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan program (CFDA 66.487) provides funding to the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. The purpose is to support the implementation of the tribe's nutrient reduction strategy and build capacity to manage non-point source pollution within the Mississippi River/Atchafalaya River Basin. Key activities include...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants (CFDA 66.461) program, provides $138,962.00 in funding to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to develop support for the effective launch and early promotion of a newly issued, legislatively mandated Hydrologic Restoration General Permit (HRGP) in Wisconsin. WDNR will collaborate with the Wisconsin Wetlands Association to develop...
The Environmental Protection Agency Office for Water awarded a $290,000 cooperative agreement to The Association of State Wetland Managers Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023 under the National Wetland Program Development Grants and Five-Star Restoration Training Grant (CFDA 66.462) program. The purpose of this award is to increase the capacity of tribes to protect, restore, and mitigate impacts to tribal wetlands by providing training on innovative tools, wetland science, grant...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 awarded a $120,038 cooperative agreement to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to restore aquatic organism passage for brook trout and other coldwater species in the North Branch Oconto River near Wabeno, Wisconsin. Key activities to be delivered through July 2022 to December 2024 include removing the final remnant logging dam blocking fish passage, restoring the stream...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin a $110,510 Tribal Wildlife Grant to revise the tribe's 2013 wolf (Maiingan) management plan. The new "Lac Courte Oreilles Maiingan Relationship Plan" will incorporate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) as well as contemporary ecological, biological, and social science to guide wolf management within the tribe's ceded...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Environmental Justice Government-to-Government (EJG2G) Program (CFDA 66.312), funds the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to conduct outreach and education on water quality, fish consumption, and related health issues for Hmong, Hispanic, tribal, and rural communities in central Wisconsin. The key activities include training community health workers, developing outreach...
This $260,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (CFDA 66.926) will support environmental capacity building activities for the Ho-Chunk Nation in Wisconsin from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2026. The funding will enable the tribe to assess, monitor, and develop strategies for protecting human health and the environment. Key activities include working on policy related to energy, climate change,...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing a $260,000 Project Grant under the Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (CFDA 66.926) to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. This award will support the tribe's environmental capacity building activities, enabling them to assess, monitor, and develop strategies for protecting human health and the environment within the Menominee Reservation. Specifically, the funding will allow the tribe to: 1) Develop and maintain...