Project Grant R18AP00110

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group (LCFWG), a non-profit organization in Montana, a $299,158 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554). The funding will enable LCFWG to continue collaborating with stakeholders to address water quality and temperature issues in the Lower Clark Fork Watershed. Key activities include reducing road impacts to the Thompson River, designing shovel-ready projects for revegetation and...

The Clarks Fork Yellowstone Partnership will receive $147,620 under a Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to complete outreach, river assessments, and restoration planning for the lower and middle reaches of the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River in Montana. Specifically, the Partnership will diversify its membership through outreach, conduct assessments of river conditions in the lower and middle...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $187,234 Project Grant under its Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557) to the Clark Fork Coalition in partnership with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. The purpose of this 17-month project is to develop a web-based decision support tool that integrates water data on key variables influencing instream flow and water quality in the Upper Clark Fork River basin in Montana. This decision support tool will help natural resource...

This Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART (Sustain and Manage America's Resources for Tomorrow) Project Grant award of $931,402 to Trout Unlimited, Inc., in partnership with the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) and the Clark Fork Coalition, will fund the design of infrastructure improvements at ten irrigation diversion sites in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin in western Montana. The project aims to provide fish and recreational boat passage, screen irrigation ditches, and improve...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $199,045.75 Project Grant under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to Trout Unlimited, Inc. to coordinate the development of a restoration plan for the Salt River Watershed in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The project will involve meeting with landowners, conducting habitat surveys and water quality monitoring, and developing a prioritized project list to address degraded aquatic, riparian, and wetland habitats within the...

The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $299,319 Project Grant to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) to continue coordinating watershed restoration planning in the Lower South Fork Boise Watershed in Idaho. The project will support stakeholder and community outreach, research on the feasibility of proposed projects, and production of a stakeholder-driven watershed restoration plan. This plan will help prioritize and implement future projects to...

This $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...

The Valley Soil And Water Conservation District, doing business as Valley SWCD, was awarded a $198,220 project grant from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation on May 19, 2023 under the Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554). The purpose of the grant is to establish the North Fork Payette River Watershed Coalition to address water quality issues, including nutrient loading and harmful algae blooms, in the North Fork Payette River watershed in west-central Idaho....

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $816,723 Project Grant under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580) to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) and the Hood River Watershed Group (HRWG). The funding will be used to complete the study and design of five stream restoration projects across the East Fork Hood River, Neal Creek, and Baldwin Creek sub-watersheds in north-central Oregon. The projects aim to remove two fish passage...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded Trout Unlimited, Inc. a $307,693 Project Grant under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to develop four projects in the Clark Fork River corridor near Missoula, Montana. The projects aim to improve fish passage and eliminate entrainment for bull trout and other native fish by evaluating irrigation district diversion dams, canal supply systems, and other infrastructure, and developing plans to reconstruct or replace these features to improve...