Project Grant A19AP00156

The Hill Country Conservancy will provide land stewardship services under a $113,600 cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2. The award period is from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2026. Under the agency's Partners for Fish and Wildlife federal grant program (CFDA 15.631), the Hill Country Conservancy will deliver the Service's mission by providing financial and technical assistance to private landowners interested in...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program has awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Partnership For Gulf Coast Land Conservation Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide conservation and land management services across the Gulf Coast region. Under this 3-year award (Sep 1, 2024 - Sep 30, 2027), the organization will conduct due diligence activities such as appraisals, title examinations, environmental studies, and baseline assessments to support voluntary coastal...

Under a $114,654 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain will restore 80.39 acres of wet pine savanna habitat near the Mississippi Sandhill Crane Refuge. The project utilizes mechanical mulching, chemical mowing, and bush hogging techniques to establish alternative restoration methods and explore their ecological and economic viability. This effort builds on the...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $309,396 cooperative agreement to Protectores De Cuencas Inc. from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026 under the Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630). The agreement will support coastal and wetland restoration in two priority areas of the Northeast Ecological Corridor Nature Reserve in Puerto Rico. Specifically, Protectores De Cuencas Inc. will implement voluntary coastal habitat protection, restoration, and improvement...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), has awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation, Inc. (GULF PARTNERSHIP) to support its Project Assistance Program in Texas. The program provides upfront due diligence services, including appraisals, title examinations, environmental studies, and other necessary activities, to regional conservation organizations. This allows partners to leverage an additional $52M in...

The Land Conservation Assistance Network (LandCAN) will receive $125,000 through a cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program. LandCAN will develop and maintain the Alabama LandCAN website at www.alabamalandcan.org to provide landowners and other stakeholders centralized access to federal, state, and nonprofit conservation resources. The website will directly link users to county-level services and cross-link to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $200,640 Cooperative Agreement to Partners for Conservation, doing business as Partnerscapes, to enhance knowledge, skills, and abilities related to collaborative conservation implementation. The grant, part of the USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program, will support the expansion of the Partnerscapes Conservation Network, conduct outreach on collaborative conservation at scale, and assist the USFWS in delivering...

This $1,999,950 Cooperative Agreement was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The project, awarded to the Urban Forest Carbon Registry in August 2024, delivers three key solutions over 3 years to enable hundreds of land trusts to enroll thousands of rural landowners in carbon offset and ecosystem services programs: Technical assistance toolkits to help landowners assess eligibility,...

The State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, doing business as the Wildlife Conservation Board, received a $5.8 million project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 office under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support the acquisition of up to 1,394 acres of important habitat lands in California to benefit six federally listed or at-risk species as part of the East Contra Costa County...

The Walker Basin Conservancy will receive $262,790 through a cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) from June 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026. The conservancy will work to increase the availability of locally adapted native plant materials for habitat restoration in arid regions of Nevada's Great Basin. Specifically, the organization will collect seed from at least 20 native plant populations...