The Alaska Department of Fish and Game received a $104,500 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters under the Migratory Bird Joint Ventures federal grant program (CFDA 15.637). The award period is from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant will support the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's work to track the survival of juvenile emperor geese using digital identification nanotags. The Migratory Bird Joint Ventures...
This $170,841 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program. The grant will support the Native Village of Brevig Mission, a federally recognized Tribal government in Alaska, in conducting a watershed assessment and long-term subsistence habitat protection for Hotsprings, Glacier Canyon, and Graphite Creeks in Alaska's Seward Peninsula. The project aims to benefit wildlife, their habitats, and...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $199,813 Project Grant to the Native Village of Eklutna (NVE) under the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program. The grant will fund the following key activities from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2027: Continuing to monitor salmon population trends and habitat use by juvenile and adult salmon within the Eklutna River. Continuing the collection of genetic samples of salmon to help assess population viability. Developing...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639), awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Native Village of Eyak (doing business as Ilanka Clinic) located in Cordova, Alaska. The grant funding will support two years of operational activities for the tribe's fisheries program, including: Estimating the 2024 and 2025 in-river abundance of Copper River Chinook salmon within 25% of the true value 95% of the time. Enumerating the daily passage of sockeye...
This Project Grant award, valued at $176,008 and provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program, supports the Hoonah Indian Association in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service to address significant data gaps on fish populations and water quality in the Hoktaheen watershed. The project will install and operate a fish weir with video monitoring to collect comprehensive records of sockeye and other important fish...
This $195,613 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Tribal Wildlife Grants program supports the Sun'Aq Tribe of Kodiak in addressing the invasive signal crayfish problem in the Buskin watershed of Kodiak Island, Alaska. The two-year grant (May 2024 - May 2026) will enable the tribe to continue dedicated eradication efforts, expand environmental DNA monitoring and analysis, conduct mark-recapture studies through a community crayfishing derby, and develop habitat...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $154,352 Cooperative Agreement under the Alaska Subsistence Management program (CFDA 15.636) to the Hoonah Indian Association, a federally recognized tribal government in Alaska. The project will establish a community-focused program to strengthen the reporting and involvement of the Huna Tlingit people in federal subsistence salmon management. Key activities include compiling existing data, collecting new social and...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639), awarded a $199,600 Project Grant to the Native Village of Tazlina (doing business as Tazlina Village Council) to conduct a comprehensive research study on wolf pack monitoring, range, distribution, and diet within the eastern portion of the Ahtna territory in Alaska. The project aims to develop tribal capacity for natural resource management while protecting culturally significant species and ecosystems...
This $376,034 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Tribal Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.639) program will support the Chilkoot Indian Association (CIA) in Haines, Alaska to build tribal capacity for monitoring culturally and traditionally important fish and wildlife populations using environmental DNA (eDNA) technology. The funding will enable the CIA to establish an environmental laboratory in Deish, Alaska to process the growing number of eDNA...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $200,000 Tribal Wildlife Grant to the Chickaloon Native Village for a 12-month Matanuska Watershed Historical and Contemporary Salmon Research Project. The project aims to: 1) describe salmon run timing, enumeration, and species composition in Moose Creek using foot surveys, 2) quantify juvenile salmon abundance in Premier Creek prior to restoration, 3) conduct a fish health survey to identify parasites of concern in Moose...