Project Grant 201138424305182

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 $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...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,300,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to improve fish passage and restore aquatic habitat along the upper Clark Fork River in western Montana. The project aims to reconnect 27 miles of critical bull trout habitat by constructing fish passage improvements and installing fish screens at four remaining irrigation diversions that currently impede upstream passage and entrain...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to enhance riparian and instream habitat along one mile of the Wood River in Oregon. The project aims to add approximately 50 large woody debris structures to the river to increase habitat complexity and benefit species like bull trout, Lost River and shortnose suckers, and redband trout. Additional benefits are expected for riparian-dependent birds,...

The Finger Lakes Lake Ontario Watershed Protection Alliance will restore approximately two acres of spawning habitat in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario under a $712,621 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Working with partners including the Service, U.S. Geological Survey and New York Department of Environmental Conservation, the Alliance will place spawning bed material in the Black River mouth and Chaumont Bay. The project aims to benefit native fish species...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) provides $600,000 in funding to the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited (BBCTU) and its partners to restore habitat for sensitive fish species in Montana's Blackfoot River watershed. Key project activities include removing one aging agricultural dam, replacing two culverts with aquatic organism passage structures, and eliminating fish...

This $110,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.686 - National Fish Habitat Partnership) supports a multi-faceted project to secure, restore, and maintain Yellowstone cutthroat trout populations in the Mill Creek subwatershed in Montana. The primary goals are to construct a fish barrier to protect 10 miles of headwater streams from invasive rainbow trout, and to restore degraded habitat in a 3-mile meadow reach of Mill...

This $332,857 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species (CFDA 15.608) program will support a collaborative research project to evaluate characteristics of prey biochemistry and predator foraging that contribute to thiamine deficiency complex (TDC) in lake trout populations in the Great Lakes region. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) compare the nutritional quality of prey fishes in Lakes...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) for the Wall Canyon Sucker Barrier Project. The overarching goal of this multi-year project is to permanently exclude non-native salmonid species, including brown and rainbow trout, from the upper reaches of Wall Creek in northern Washoe County, Nevada, in order to protect the population and occupied habitat of the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), awarded a $490,000 Cooperative Agreement to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to support habitat restoration activities on the Sunrise Mountain Ranch in Klamath County, Oregon. The 5-year project, running from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2028, will focus on restoring aquatic, riparian, and floodplain habitats along the Sprague River and its tributaries on the 15,000-acre ranch. Key restoration...