Project Grant F21AP04199

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $2,605,548.67 Project Grant to the City of Oakdale under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CFDA 15.648) program. The project will enhance approximately 22 acres of riparian and upland habitats along the lower Stanislaus River in California. Key activities include excavating 54,800 cubic yards of material to expand emergent wetlands, create side channels, and install alcoves and large wood structures to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $441,737.12 Project Grant under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) program (CFDA 15.648) to Cramer Fish Sciences, a small for-profit subchapter S corporation. The grant supports a multi-phase project to enhance and restore habitat for outmigrating juvenile salmon and steelhead on the Stanislaus River downstream of the Orange Blossom Bridge in California. The project involves comprehensive efforts across four phases, including...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4,082,015 Project Grant to the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580). The funding will support a study and preliminary design of a restoration project to benefit habitat in the Sacramento Valley of Northern Yolo County, California. The DWR will conduct hydrodynamic modeling, data collection, and surveying to develop a restoration plan that includes...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was awarded a $1.6 million cooperative agreement by the Bureau of Reclamation under the San Joaquin River Restoration Program to operate a salmon conservation and research facility from June 2023 through December 2024. The objective of the San Joaquin River Restoration Program is to restore spring-run and fall-run Chinook salmon populations to self-sustaining levels in the San Joaquin River watershed. Under this award, CDFW will develop and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $591,797.91 Project Grant to the Mid Klamath Watershed Council through the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 15.608) to improve conditions for native fish and aquatic species habitat in Siskiyou County, California. Under the award, set to be completed by March 31, 2025, the Mid Klamath Watershed Council will use a helicopter to place 120 pieces of large wood into 2.5 miles of West Fork...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $268,500 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to finalize engineering designs and implementation plans to replace an undersized concrete box culvert on Strawberry Creek in McKinleyville, CA. The existing structure is a complete barrier to upstream fish passage for ESA-listed coho salmon and steelhead trout, as well as coastal cutthroat trout and...

This $260,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) will fund the removal and replacement of an undersized culvert on Little Grass Valley Creek in Weaverville, California. The new 13x10 elliptical culvert will provide full, unimpeded fish passage for anadromous species like coho salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey to access five miles of cold water spawning and rearing...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded $861,000 under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to the Scott River Watershed Council on September 30, 2022 for completion by September 30, 2025. The Project Grant will support the Sugar Creek Coho Salmon Refugia Project Phase 2 and 3 to construct an additional one acre of slow, cold water rearing habitat connected to one acre of existing floodplain habitat. This will result in a total of...

This $552,500 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) aims to develop a partnership between local ranchers and the Yurok Tribe for a watershed-wide restoration planning and design project. The key objectives are to improve fish passage, habitat, aquatic connectivity, and water quality in the Little Shasta River, a 27.5-mile tributary to the Shasta River in California. The anticipated outcome is a shovel-ready restoration...

This $299,124 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program (CFDA 15.608) will support a monitoring project focused on the ecological restoration of the Klamath River in California. The primary objectives are to assess the reestablishment of salmon and steelhead populations as they return to their historical spawning grounds in the upper Klamath River basin following the removal of four dams. The...