Project Grant F20AP10267

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 City of Manitowoc received a $244,200 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to stabilize eroding streambanks, enhance riparian habitat, and improve water quality and aquatic habitats along Silver Creek and its estuary. The project activities will include final design, permitting, construction, oversight, and native revegetation within the stabilization areas and the larger riparian corridor. The key objectives...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $619,866 Project Grant under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program to the County of Marinette, Wisconsin. The 3-year grant, awarded on June 30, 2024, will fund the Marinette County Fish Habitat Enhancements Project Phase II. This project aims to increase the number of adult northern pike in Green Bay by evaluating and implementing projects to improve fish passage, create and restore...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) awarded a $500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) for the Lower Chippewa and Black River Confluences Floodplain and Bluffland Habitat Restoration Project. This 4-year project, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2028, will maintain and enhance at least seven different habitat types, including floodplain forest and sedge meadow,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658), awarded a $1,105,000 Project Grant to Brown County, Wisconsin on April 1, 2024. The grant aims to develop a water trail along the East River and enhance the instream fishery by removing impediments and creating aquatic habitats. Key project goals include: Increasing public access by creating two new ADA-compliant launch sites for canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards along...

The Oconto County Sherrif Department received a $139,472.35 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to undertake the WESO Dam Repair and Wetlands Restoration project. Funded under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration program, the project will involve constructing a new whistle tube structure, repairing the auxiliary spillway with heavy rip rap for erosion control, reseeding the dike to reestablish approved vegetation,...

The County of Brown in Wisconsin will receive $430,000 through August 31, 2026 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program (CFDA 15.658). The Northern Pike Restoration Project will improve northern pike spawning and wetland habitat along Duck Creek, the Suamico and East Rivers, and their tributaries. The project seeks to restore natural resources and their services that have been...

The Green Bay Metropolitan Sewerage District will receive $315,000 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) federal grant program to restore riparian corridors along 16 miles of Ashwaubenon Creek and 10 miles of Dutchman Creek in Wisconsin. Over the next three years, the Sewerage District will address water quality, riparian and instream habitat fragmentation, and degraded aquatic habitat through...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654) provides $247,000.00 to the County of Bayfield, Wisconsin to address critical infrastructure issues and restore aquatic organism passage to a Class 1 premier brook trout stream. The key activities include replacing a 12-foot round culvert with a bottomless arch structure to improve fish and aquatic organism passage, excavating the current...

This $618,176.83 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3, under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608), will fund habitat restoration activities along 17 miles of Beavertail Creek in Chippewa County, Michigan. The awardee, Huron Pines Resource Conservation and Development Council Inc. (dba Huron Pines), will replace two impaired road stream crossings on South Prentiss Bay Road to restore natural river processes,...