The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Yurok Tribe a $1,020,849 Project Grant under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) to mitigate drought impacts and restore salmon habitat in the Klamath Basin. The grant provides funding for the following activities over a period from September 2024 to May 2027: McGarvey Creek Restoration Tribal Stewardship: 2 years of tribal stewardship, installation of 20 Constructed...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation awarded The Klamath Tribes a $780,000 Project Grant under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519). The grant will fund two key activities: Implementation of final restoration designs for the Williamson River Drought Resiliency Project at Rocky Ford Ranch. This will help the Tribe develop, manage, and protect their water and related resources. Provide funding to the Tribe to complete their NEPA compliance...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $999,929 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program to California Trout, Inc. for a 3-year project. The purpose of this grant is to monitor and evaluate the ecological impacts of removing the Klamath River dams, which will open over 400 miles of previously blocked fish habitat. Key project activities include using sonar, species composition sampling, and radio telemetry to estimate salmon and steelhead abundance and...
The Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Karuk Tribe of California a $944,750 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program to improve instream water availability, enhance fish habitat, and reduce water temperatures in Klamath River tributaries. The 3-year project, running from August 2024 to December 2026, will restore natural channel processes, fluvial patterns, and riparian conditions in 12 stream reaches that have been damaged by past placer mining activities....
This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519) will fund a $1,075,123 project to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration patterns in the Klamath River Basin in California over four years from 2023 to 2026. The Hoopa Valley Tribe will use acoustic tags to track the movement of wild and hatchery-raised juvenile Chinook salmon from the...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded the Karuk Tribe of California a $195,266 Project Grant under the Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection program (CFDA 15.519). The grant, awarded on July 15, 2025, will assist the Karuk Tribe in developing, managing, and protecting their fishery resources in response to the impacts of climate change, such as hotter summers and frequent droughts. The key activities to be performed under this grant...
The federal Project Grant award R24AP00566, funded by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Program (CFDA 15.517), supports a comprehensive effort to rehabilitate and restore areas affected by a major forest fire in the Klamath River watershed. The $1,218,774 award, with a performance period from August 2024 to December 2026, will enable the Yurok Tribe to: Address decimated riparian vegetation on 12 stream reaches, restoring over 300 acres of riparian zones...
This federal Project Grant award of $449,324 from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) program will fund a 4-year study by the Karuk Tribe of California to monitor juvenile salmonid survival and migration rates in the Klamath River basin. The project will use acoustic tags to track wild and hatchery-raised Chinook salmon in the Scott, Salmon, Trinity, and Klamath Rivers, and install an array of 32 acoustic receivers...
The Yurok Tribe was awarded a $11,600,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580). The grant will fund the tribe's efforts to perform data collection, design and fluvial analyses, and environmental compliance permitting for salmonid habitat projects and the removal of fish passage barriers on several creeks within their jurisdiction. Key activities include conducting site preparation, topographic...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $6,750,000 Cooperative Agreement (Award ID: R25AC00292) on January 17, 2025 to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) under the Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Program (CFDA 15.580). The funding will enable ODFW to study, design, and construct fish screens at unscreened diversion points along the Klamath River in Oregon. This effort supports the removal of the lower four Klamath River dams by Fall 2024, which...