Project Grant F15AP00172

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $262,003 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership program (CFDA 15.686) to the River Country Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc. for stream habitat restoration projects in Buffalo and Trempealeau Counties, Wisconsin. The grant will fund stabilization of 0.28 miles of streambank on Creek 24-13 and 0.57 miles of streambank on Danuser Creek. The projects aim to reduce bank erosion, sediment inputs, and phosphorus levels,...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was awarded a $2.48 million Project Grant from the Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 under the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The grant will fund six projects through March 2027 to improve habitat conditions and water quality in three Areas of Concern within the Great Lakes basin in Wisconsin. Projects include completing the Pickle Pond restoration by implementing stormwater best practices; constructing a fishway...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the Comfort Lake-Forest Lake Watershed District located in Minnesota. The grant funding will support public education and outreach, shoreline vegetation inventories, and bank restoration projects across the district's nine priority lakes, including Chisago County's Comfort Lake, Little Comfort Lake, Moody Lake, School Lake, and Birch Lake, as well as...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $156,164 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership. This two-year grant, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2026, will partially fund the Midwest Glacial Lakes Partnership Coordinator position and provide a small operations budget to implement the partnership's objectives. Key...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) received a $1.14 million Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5's Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) program. The award will support two projects delivering critical habitat restoration in Wisconsin waterways from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2025. Specifically, WDNR will replace an aging culvert on Little Balsam Creek to improve fish passage and open 5.07 miles of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program, awarded a $145,267 Project Grant to the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center, Inc. in Lanesboro, MN. The grant will fund the restoration of 230 linear feet of the Root River that has been damaged by flood conditions, which created highly erosive stream banks and a loss of fish habitat. The project will take place from July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The National Fish Habitat...

This $215,000 Project Grant was awarded on February 20, 2024 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) to the Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership (LNRP), a non-profit organization in Wisconsin. The funding will support the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Lake Michigan Coastal and Riparian Restoration Project Phase Four, which involves mitigating invasive forest insects and diseases, reducing stormwater runoff...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $191,320.00 to the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (LCSWCD) in Minnesota to conduct feasibility studies and design plans for restoration projects on the Beaver and Baptism Rivers. The goal is to address significant erosion and habitat degradation in these Minnesota Lake Superior North Shore streams that provide...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will evaluate habitat improvement of the St. Louis River Area of Concern through collecting and analyzing habitat construction and sediment quality data under a $396,586 Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded September 30, 2021. Deliverables will include data sets to generate biological metrics, sediment quality assessments, and biological and stream parameter measurements to quantify restoration efforts and evaluate progress...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources received a $2,132,846 Project Grant award from the Environmental Protection Agency's Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to administer four projects addressing high priority nonpoint source pollution concerns in the Fox River watersheds in Wisconsin. The three main projects will reduce agricultural nonpoint source loads in the Wuerches and Roy Creek, East River and Lower Fox River, and Plum and Kankapot Creek...