Project Grant 11DG11030300038

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance (CFDA 15.674) program provides $300,000 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, to conduct fuels reduction and habitat restoration activities on 300 acres of land adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California. Key project activities include removing or thinning...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $122,500 Project Grant to the Tule River Indian Tribal Council under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The objectives of the 5-year project are to address erosion, fuel load, and habitat concerns on the Tule River Reservation through stream and meadow restoration activities. Key proposed services include 35 acres of fuel treatments in meadows through...

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...

Under a $250,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1, the Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (CCFEG), doing business as Cascade Fisheries, will correct one (1) fish passage barrier to improve access to 1.45 miles of cold-water habitat for endangered fish species, including bull trout. Additionally, CCFEG will place locally sourced wood in up to 1 mile of Pole Creek to enhance instream complexity. This work is funded...

This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) will fund longleaf pine restoration and habitat enhancement projects on state, private, and tribal lands across the Southeast United States. The prime awardee, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), will work with sub-grantees including the American Bird Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, The Longleaf Alliance, and the Land Trust For Louisiana to...

Summary The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Region 8 awarded The Scott River Watershed Council a $172,101 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) effective October 1, 2025, through January 31, 2029. The award funds habitat restoration work in Wildcat Creek, a tributary to the Scott River in the Klamath Basin Ecoregion of Northern California. The project will construct three wood structures and six beaver dam analogs (BDAs)—structures that mimic...

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 $141,504 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) will fund the construction of over 13 miles of fencing to exclude cattle from Parks Creek and Hole in the Ground Creek in Anderson, CA. This will protect and enhance 3.76 miles of in-stream and 23 acres of riparian wetland habitat, benefiting the federally listed Southern Oregon Northern California Coast Evolutionarily...

Cooperative Agreement Summary Trout Unlimited, Inc. received a $102,581 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2028. The primary deliverable is the restoration and replacement of fencing damaged by the 2024 Copperfield Fire on private property in the Sprague River sub-watershed near Chiloquin, Oregon, a significant tributary of Upper...

The Targhee Creek Instream and Riparian Habitat Restoration Project on the Slash E Ranch is a $288,642 federal grant award made by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685). The grant, which started in 2023 and will be completed by September 2026, aims to restore ecological integrity by reconnecting historic stream channels, enhancing 1.6 miles of Yellowstone cutthroat trout habitat, and restoring 45 acres of wetland....