Project Grant R21AP10521

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,404,411.78 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Rattlesnake Conservancy Inc. on November 15, 2023. The purpose of the award is to support conservation and recovery efforts for the New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, a federally listed endangered species found in only three locations in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Key activities to be conducted under the...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 awarded a $152,400 Project Grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support restoration of 140 acres of habitat for the federally and state-listed endangered Houston toad at the Cedar Hill Ranch in Milam County, Texas from September 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. Key activities include selectively removing woody understory brush using...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) provides $196,454 to Coleman Valley Ranch LLC for a stream restoration project in Gerlach, Nevada. The project aims to reverse past erosion and degradation of an ephemeral stream, reconnect the stream-floodplain ecosystem, and enhance sagebrush and mesic habitats while supporting sustainable land use. Key activities include implementing natural stream restoration...

The Bureau of Land Management California Region awarded a $339,124 cooperative agreement to the California State University Fresno Foundation from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2025. The award will support repatriation and preservation efforts for the blunt nosed leopard lizard under the Threatened and Endangered Species program (CFDA 15.246). As part of the T&E Species program's goal of restoring habitat connectivity and combating climate change impacts, the cooperative agreement funding...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded $175,000 under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife federal grant program (CFDA 15.631) to Boies Ranch Inc. to implement grazing management practices that will enhance habitat for wildlife on the ranch's property in Elko County, Nevada from August 1, 2023 through September 30, 2027. Specifically, the Cooperative Agreement will support installing exclusionary fencing and developing off-site water sources across two...

This $141,504 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) will fund the construction of over 13 miles of fencing to exclude cattle from Parks Creek and Hole in the Ground Creek in Anderson, CA. This will protect and enhance 3.76 miles of in-stream and 23 acres of riparian wetland habitat, benefiting the federally listed Southern Oregon Northern California Coast Evolutionarily...

This $2.7 million project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration program (CFDA 15.614) will support restoration and enhancement of 159 acres of coastal wetlands and riparian habitats at Coyote Hills Regional Park in Fremont, California. The California Coastal Conservancy and East Bay Regional Park District will directly restore and enhance over 14.5 acres of wetlands and 144.5 acres of grasslands,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $4,497,900 Project Grant to the State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program. The grant will support the Yolo HCP NCCP Giant Garter Snake Easement Acquisition Project to purchase a conservation easement protecting approximately 643 acres of high-quality habitat for the giant garter snake in northern California. The Yolo Habitat Conservancy will hold the easement and...

The Oregon Desert Land Trust and partners received a $417,250 cooperative agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 through July 15, 2027. The funding is provided under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation federal grant program (CFDA 15.657) to assess, protect, and restore streams, springs, and wet meadows in Oregon's Trout Creek and Pueblo Mountains. Key activities over the five-year period include continuing to assess and prioritize wet...

This $100,000 cooperative agreement from 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), will fund replacement exclusion fencing to protect approximately 1.6 total stream miles of Fivemile Creek and associated spring habitats in Klamath Falls, Oregon. The Klamath Watershed Partnership, doing business as Klamath Watershed, will install fencing to reduce or eliminate cattle access to riparian...