Project Grant F22AP02974

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469), provides $400,000.00 in funding to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to address concerns of spreading aquatic invasive species (AIS) in the St. Louis River coastal wetlands and adjacent shorelines. The key activities under this grant include determining the location, extent, and impact of known AIS...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $173,560 Project Grant under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) program to Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Great Lakes / Atlantic Region Division. The purpose of the grant is to restore 35 acres of emergent marsh and submergent aquatic vegetation at historical waterfowl migration stopover sites in northeastern Wisconsin. This includes reestablishing native plants like wild rice and wild celery to...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MNDNR) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) to update the 2002 Lower St. Louis River Habitat Plan. The MNDNR will collaborate with partners such as the Wisconsin DNR and 1854 Treaty Authority to develop a cohesive, habitat-focused approach to evaluate progress, establish conservation targets, and create measurable metrics to...

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...

This $100,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, awarded under the Great Lakes Restoration (CFDA 15.662) federal grant program, will fund invasive species control and native plant restoration efforts on tribally significant coastal wetlands of the St. Marys River in Michigan's Eastern Upper Peninsula. The project will remove invasive plants such as purple loosestrife, Eurasian watermilfoil, narrow leaf cattail, and European frog bit, while leading native plant restoration...

This $980,000 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), supports a landscape-scale wetland and grassland restoration project in the Prairie Pothole Region of Minnesota. The key products and services to be delivered include: Restoring and rehabilitating 200 acres of wetland habitat and 200 acres of upland habitat by building resilient infrastructure, removing...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) Program (CFDA 15.658), awarded a $119,000 Project Grant to the Town of Ledgeview, Wisconsin to acquire approximately 33 acres of undeveloped land directly adjacent to the East River. The grant will permanently protect this riparian forest habitat, which contains high-quality feeding and nesting areas for migratory and resident birds, and also provides water quality,...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) provides $282,500 to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to support the acquisition of 22 acres of land on Point Au Sable, the largest coastal wetland complex along the east shore of Green Bay on Lake Michigan. This acquisition, to be completed by December 31, 2025, is adjacent to a previous 74-acre purchase by the...

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...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will evaluate habitat improvement of the St. Louis River Area of Concern through collecting and analyzing habitat construction and sediment quality data under a $396,586 Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 Project Grant awarded September 30, 2021. Deliverables will include data sets to generate biological metrics, sediment quality assessments, and biological and stream parameter measurements to quantify restoration efforts and evaluate progress...