This Cooperative Agreement award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 (CFDA 15.631 - Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program) is focused on restoring aquatic habitat connectivity in Tennessee and Alabama. The primary recipient, the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA), will utilize the funding to implement a 5-year project to survey and prioritize aquatic barriers, develop comprehensive databases of fish habitats,...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has awarded a $170,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) to the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA), a non-profit organization. The goal of this 4-year project is to implement the National Fish Habitat Plan in the Southeastern United States, with a focus on identifying and prioritizing high-value aquatic habitats in the region. Key activities include revising the Southeast Aquatic Habitat...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $170,000 Project Grant to the Southeastern Association Of Fish And Wildlife Agencies, a non-profit organization, to implement conservation and restoration of aquatic habitats in the Southeast through the National Fish Habitat Partnership (CFDA 15.686) program. The grant supports the organization's operations to carry out planning, outreach, habitat restoration, aquatic connectivity analysis and remediation, and...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $409,944 Project Grant to the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608). The grant will support implementation of the National Fish Habitat Plan in the Southeast United States through two subprojects from March 1, 2023 to February 28, 2027. Subproject 1 will focus on enhancing riparian and streambank habitats in the Upper Chattahoochee...
This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Multistate Conservation Grant Program (CFDA 15.628) provides $153,570 to the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (SEAFWA) to upgrade and expand the North Atlantic Aquatic Connectivity Collaborative (NAACC) database. The project will extend the NAACC database's geographic scope to cover 16 states and territories in the southeastern U.S. that are part of the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP)....
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) provides $4,000,000 to restore fish passage to up to 14 miles of high-quality habitat in Southeast Alaska. The project will address barriers at 11 culverts on Native-owned and non-federal lands to improve passage for salmonid species, which are regional priorities. The Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition, a non-profit organization based in...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage (CFDA 15.685) program to the New River Land Trust. The project will implement an aquatic connectivity and habitat enhancement initiative along the North Fork Roanoke River in Blacksburg, VA. Key activities include removing one severe fish passage barrier, enhancing 0.5 mile of in-stream habitat through stream restoration and streambank stabilization, and...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the Upper Savannah Land Trust, a non-profit organization in South Carolina. The grant funding will be used to replace an inadequate road crossing on Horsepen Branch, a tributary of Cuffeytown Creek, in order to enhance habitat for the Carolina heelsplitter, a federally-listed freshwater mussel species. Specifically, the project will replace a...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service, through its National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685), awarded a $299,134 Cooperative Agreement to the Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group (SFEG) to open up 8.67 miles of high-quality habitat for salmonids in the Skagit watershed. The project will replace the final six barrier culverts on Carpenter Creek, a priority identified through a 10-year collaborative effort between SFEG, local tribal entities, and county governments. The...
This $420,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) will fund the replacement of a culvert on the South Fork of Running Creek in Idaho. The project aims to restore fish passage, improve riparian function, and increase climate resilience for endangered Snake River steelhead and bull trout. Removing the passage barrier will open up 3.84 miles of designated critical habitat with high intrinsic potential, nearly all of which...