Project Grant F17AP00537

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) program, awarded a $733,200 Project Grant to the Washington Department of Ecology to acquire and permanently protect 26 acres and 1,750 feet of riverine shoreline on the Samish River in Skagit County, Washington. The project, with a sub-award to the Skagit Land Trust, will restore approximately 3 acres of the property and provide public education and outreach. The acquisition and...

This federal Project Grant award of $752,950.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters Region 9 under the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623) program will restore 64 acres of degraded and drained peat wetlands in Clackamas County, Oregon. The project will involve filling drainage channels, constructing ponds and swales, weed control, and dense planting to restore hydrology and native wetland vegetation communities. The...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,423,000 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology, in partnership with the Squaxin Island Tribe as a sub-grantee, to restore approximately 73 acres of coastal wetland habitat in Mason County, Washington. The project will restore 1.2 miles of Skookum Creek by re-aligning the channel to its historic alignment, restoring streamside channels, removing a...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,420,000 Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA 15.614) grant to the Washington State Department of Ecology to implement phase 1 of a wetland restoration project along the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The project, conducted in partnership with the Stillaguamish Tribe as a sub-recipient, will restore 7.5 acres of historic wetlands, control invasive species, plant 95 acres of native trees and shrubs, and improve...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Chelan County Natural Resource Department a $629,606.85 Project Grant under the WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) program (CFDA 15.507) to restore wet meadow hydrology and floodplain connectivity in the 1,300-acre Camas Meadows in Washington state. The project aims to address incision and drainage issues that have degraded this critical natural water storage feature, which is located in the flow-limited Peshastin sub-basin of...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $903,075.04 Project Grant to the Klamath Watershed Partnership under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to undertake several wetlands restoration and enhancement activities in the Keno Reach of the Klamath River in Klamath Falls, Oregon from September 2022 through September 2027. Key deliverables include identifying opportunities for creating, restoring, and enhancing littoral and...

The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife received a $1,417,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 to support the R4 Milltown Island Estuary Restoration Project. The project aims to provide coastal wetlands conservation through restoration activities at Milltown Island in Washington state from January 2022 through December 2024. The funding supports the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Program (CFDA...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration (CFDA 15.614) program, awarded a $665,200 Project Grant to the Washington Department of Ecology to acquire and permanently protect 1.6 acres and 430 feet of marine coastline along Samish Bay in Skagit County, Washington. The project aims to remove development rights and support future restoration of the surrounding coastal wetland properties that are already under protection. As a sub-recipient,...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,013,207.73 WaterSMART (CFDA 15.507) grant to the Deschutes Land Trust to restore 124 acres of aquatic, floodplain, and upland habitat at the Ochoco Preserve in Crook County, Oregon. The project aims to create over 2 miles of new main baseflow stream channels, 1.5 miles of side channels, and over 11 acres of wetlands to support reintroduced Spring Chinook salmon and Summer steelhead populations. Additional planned restoration efforts include 37 acres of...

The Midcoast Watersheds Council (MCWC) was awarded a $246,425 Project Grant under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to develop designs for restoring 75 acres of tidal wetlands in the Alsea River estuary on the central Oregon coast. The objectives of this one-year design project are to assess site conditions, refine preliminary designs for a new bridge structure, update existing design plans, finalize flood modeling, submit the project...