This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), provides $770,811 to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to design and implement a restoration plan for approximately 5 miles of the Sprague River in Beatty, Oregon. The key project activities include installing riparian fencing, providing off-stream stock water wells, and adding large woody structures to the river. These restoration efforts are...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $136,318 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Ohio State University. The project will develop a population model using statistical catch-at-age analysis to estimate age-specific abundance, mortality, and recruitment dynamics of nonnative channel catfish in the San Juan River basin. This model will assess how annual recruitment is impacted by spawner biomass and environmental variation,...
Under this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) Cooperative Agreement award, Trout Unlimited, Inc. and its partner organizations are implementing a $170,000 project to eliminate the risk of bull trout and redband trout entrainment in Long Creek on the Sycan Marsh Preserve in Oregon. The project involves designing, fabricating, and installing a fish screen on an unscreened irrigation diversion that currently poses a threat to the last remaining bull...
This $1,146,218 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664) supports the Klamath Basin Fisheries Collaborative's (KBFC) "PIT Tag Monitoring and Database Project" (PITTAG Project). The PITTAG Project aims to: Strengthen the KBFC network by facilitating information sharing and coordination among data collection entities working across the Klamath Basin. Expand and support...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination and Assistance program (CFDA 15.664) provides $300,000 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) for a 5-year research project from January 2025 to December 2029. The project aims to 1) further define the strontium isoscape (geographic delineation of naturally occurring strontium isotopes) across the Klamath Basin, and 2) use this information to assess changes in life history...
The University of California, Davis will analyze 281 otoliths collected from Battle Creek from 2001 to 2020 under a $119,628 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The analysis will determine habitat use and migratory patterns of Battle Creek spring-run Chinook salmon to leverage similar datasets from other Central Valley tributaries. This will synthesize how ESA-listed spring-run Chinook salmon populations in the Central Valley use...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) for the Wall Canyon Sucker Barrier Project. The overarching goal of this multi-year project is to permanently exclude non-native salmonid species, including brown and rainbow trout, from the upper reaches of Wall Creek in northern Washoe County, Nevada, in order to protect the population and occupied habitat of the...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $124,345 cooperative agreement to the Klamath Watershed Partnership under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to install low-tech process-based restoration structures in the North Fork Sprague River from August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2027. The Klamath Watershed Partnership and Service will work together to install beaver dam analogs and post-assisted log structures to improve water quality for...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $180,953 Cooperative Agreement to the Nevada Department of Wildlife under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to support research and implementation of a Lahontan cutthroat trout genetic rescue project. The project aims to evaluate the benefits of introducing new genetic material to small, isolated Lahontan cutthroat trout populations in northwest Nevada to aid in the recovery of this federally threatened species...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program will provide $186,488.68 to Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation to conduct a 2-year study on fish community composition variation and early detection of aquatic invasive species in the Klamath River estuary. The key activities and deliverables include: Conducting 2 years of monthly fish sampling in the Klamath River estuary using both traditional sampling methods and...