Project Grant F26AP00163

The Scott River Watershed Council will receive $123,518 through a cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631). The Council will restore approximately 1,000 linear feet of instream habitat and one acre of riparian habitat in the Scott River in Siskiyou County, California through construction of wood structures and riparian plantings. Eleven wood structures, including three...

The Scott River Watershed Council will receive $189,859.56 under a five-year Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8, through the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), to conduct instream and riparian habitat restoration in the Scott River watershed in California from September 1, 2023 through September 1, 2028. Specifically, the Council will install 15 engineered log jam structures and 8 smaller log structures to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (DOI) awarded a $187,945 Cooperative Agreement to the Scott River Watershed Council under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) to implement a salmon habitat restoration project along a 500-foot section of the Scott River in Etna, California. The project will construct 10 engineered log structures and plant native willows and cottonwoods to improve channel complexity, floodplain connectivity, and riparian habitat in the tailings reach of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $212,346.20 Cooperative Agreement grant under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to the Scott River Watershed Council, a non-profit organization in Etna, California. The project aims to restore up to 2 miles of coho salmon habitat within the Scott River watershed by using techniques such as installing beaver dam analogs and wood structures to re-establish natural stream processes and create slow water rearing habitat. The grant...

The Siskiyou Resource Conservation District (Siskiyou RCD) will receive $123,524.88 through a September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2026 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The funding supports the LOWER SCOTT RIVER SIDE-CHANNEL CONNECTIVITY AND HABITAT ENHANCEMENT PROJECT under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631). Through this cooperative agreement, Siskiyou RCD will work to deliver the Department of the Interior's...

The Siskiyou Resource Conservation District (SRCD) will receive $206,706.46 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife federal grant program (CFDA 15.631). The funding will support a wood loading and floodplain connectivity project in the South Fork of the Scott River in Etna, CA from September 30th, 2022 through September 29th, 2027. Specifically, SRCD will excavate two side...

The Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council (Vendor) will receive $100,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 (Agency) to implement the SCOTT RIVER EFM SEDIMENT REDUCTION PHASE 2 project from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2026. The award is provided through the Agency's Partners for Fish and Wildlife federal grant program (CFDA 15.631), which aims to deliver Agency priorities and...

The Scott River Watershed Council, a non-profit organization, received a $152,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The goal of this 4-year project is to make lands adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California more resilient to wildfire while concurrently restoring and conserving habitat for oak-associated...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) will provide $150,000 to the Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council to continue implementing erosion control treatments and expand inventory efforts to identify additional high-priority sediment source sites in the Scott River watershed and nearby watersheds in Northern California. The key objectives...

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...