Project Grant 21DG11011700011

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Bureau of Land Management under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234), provides $124,999.71 to the Marys River Watershed Council (MRWC) to develop a process for removing downed trees from forest roads and using the salvaged materials for restoration projects in the Marys River and Mid-Coast watersheds in Oregon. The project aims to facilitate future habitat restoration efforts by acquiring and transporting...

This federal Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) provides $1,053,299.84 to the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) to perform preliminary engineering activities for the future construction of a wildlife overpass on US Highway 93 in Lake County, Montana. The project includes wildlife vehicle collision reduction infrastructure and associated highway improvements from reference point 41.2 to 41.6. This wildlife...

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. Bureau of Land Management awarded a Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Curry County Soil and Water Conservation District, doing business as the South Coast Watershed Council. Through this $127,607.84 award, the district will improve riparian and stream habitat conditions along Willow Creek, a major anadromous salmonid spawning and rearing tributary in the Floras Creek watershed. Key project activities include...

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...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington awarded $258,488 to Partnership For The Umpqua Rivers, Inc. under a Cooperative Agreement from January 3, 2022 to January 2, 2025. The funding supports culvert replacement work along Walker Creek as part of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program (CFDA 15.234). This program continues to provide supplemental funding for schools, roads, and additional employment opportunities through investments...

This $1,703,710.59 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243) supports the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) in conducting 54 biweekly crew projects and placing 11 individual placement members to complete natural resource and resiliency efforts across the target landscape in Montana. Key products and services include: 1,500 acres per year of phase 1 conifer removal in sage-grouse priority...

This Project Grant award from the Federal Highway Administration (CFDA 20.205 - Highway Planning and Construction) provides $490,000.00 to the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) to conduct a wildlife crossing feasibility study along US-93 (National Highway 7) from the Idaho border to Darby, Montana. The goal of the study is to identify strategies to reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions in Ravalli County. The project will analyze the feasibility of constructing wildlife crossings along...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management has awarded a $408,451 Cooperative Agreement (Federal Grant ID L24AC00102) to the Marys River Watershed Council to support the "ORWA SRS SHOTPOUCH CREEK PHASE III" project. This award is funded through the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) program, which provides grants for natural resource management and conservation projects on federal lands. Under this Cooperative Agreement, the...

This Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Project Grant award of $931,402 to Trout Unlimited, Inc., in partnership with the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) and the Clark Fork Coalition, will fund the design of infrastructure improvements at ten irrigation diversion sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin in western Montana. The project aims to provide fish and recreational boat passage, screen irrigation ditches, and improve...