Project Grant F15AP00275

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $4,497,900 Project Grant to the State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support the Yolo HCP NCCP Giant Garter Snake Easement Acquisition Project to purchase a conservation easement protecting approximately 643 acres of high-quality habitat for the giant garter snake in northern California. The Yolo Habitat Conservancy will hold the easement and...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has awarded a $249,994.50 Cooperative Agreement to The Nature Conservancy to provide habitat enhancement services for the federally listed giant garter snake. This award is funded through the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246), which supports conservation activities for at-risk species across public and private lands. The project period runs from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2028. The Nature Conservancy, a non-profit organization...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,404,411.78 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Rattlesnake Conservancy Inc. on November 15, 2023. The purpose of the award is to support conservation and recovery efforts for the New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, a federally listed endangered species found in only three locations in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Key activities to be conducted under the...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) a $358,352.01 Project Grant under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) on October 1, 2024. This grant supports the DNR's efforts to survey and monitor populations of several threatened and endangered species in Georgia, including the Eastern Indigo Snake, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake, Wood Stork, and Sea Turtle. Key activities include: Deploying a seasonal field crew to...

The Department of Natural Resources in Georgia received a two-year, $328,345 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support several conservation and monitoring projects focused on protecting endangered species in Georgia, including maintaining an in-house field crew to survey eastern indigo snakes and eastern diamondback rattlesnakes on public and private lands. It will also fund efforts to...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $122,446 Project Grant to the University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center Division, Mayaguez Campus, with an award date of December 15, 2023. The grant funds a study to rapidly assess and sample the invasive populations of three large constrictor snake species (boa constrictors, reticulated pythons, and ball pythons) that have been rapidly invading Puerto Rico over the past few decades. The study aims to capture critical data on the...

This National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology Project Grant, awarded to Northern Arizona University, will fund a collaborative research effort to investigate the genomic basis of evolutionary innovations in squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes). The 3-year, $820,808 project will compile comprehensive genomic and phenotypic data for over 370 living and fossil squamate species, representing over 90% of squamate families. Using emerging comparative genomics and phylogenetics...

Federal Grant Award Summary The Iowa Department of Natural Resources received a $333,334 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) under the State Wildlife Grants Program (CFDA 15.634) to implement priority monitoring, research, and habitat management activities for three at-risk snake species across Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. The three-year award, effective January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2028, targets conservation of the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake (state...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the State Wildlife Grants (SWG) Program (CFDA 15.634), awarded a $676,500 Formula Grant to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the Gopher Tortoise Conservation Initiative (GTCI). Under this award, the Georgia DNR is working with public and private partners to permanently protect a minimum of 65 viable gopher tortoise populations (250 adult tortoises) across Georgia's coastal plain. To date, the DNR has protected 63 populations through...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), supports a comprehensive conservation research initiative focused on recovering the endangered Louisiana Pinesnake. The $232,668 award, granted to the Memphis Zoological Society, will fund several key activities over a 2-year period from June 2024 to May 2026. These include: improving cryopreservation and...