Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group

Cascade Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group, doing business as Cascade Fisheries, is a Washington-based nonprofit organization that receives federal grant funding as a prime recipient to design and implement aquatic habitat restoration and fish passage projects in the Pacific Northwest, with a secondary focus on watershed science education for K–12 students. The organization operates exclusively as a grant recipient (100% of recent awards) with no federal contracting footprint and no sub-award activity.

Cascade Fisheries' capability portfolio centers on two distinct lines of work. The first is habitat restoration and fish passage engineering: the organization identifies, designs, permits, and implements barrier removal, riparian planting, woody debris placement, and low-tech process-based restoration across multiple Washington watersheds, particularly in the Methow, Entiat, Wenatchee, and Chelan County systems. Representative projects include a cooperative agreement from the Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 to replace a diversion dam with a roughened channel in Libby Creek, improving fish passage to 4.8 miles of habitat for endangered steelhead, spring chinook, and bull trout (award date February 2025, completion September 2028); a $250,000 Fish and Wildlife Service award under the National Fish Passage program (CFDA 15.685) to correct one fish passage barrier and place woody debris in Pole Creek (May 2023, completion September 2028); and a $450,000 Bureau of Reclamation cooperative agreement under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (CFDA 15.517) to implement the Coordinated Resource Management Plan across multiple tributaries in Chelan County (September 2022, completion September 2027). The second line is meaningful watershed educational experiences (MWEES) and teacher professional development for grades 3–5 in local school districts. Cascade Fisheries received a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration project grant in August 2023 focused on bilingual science instruction for Wenatchee School District third graders, reaching up to 988 students and 50 teachers (completion July 2026); an earlier NOAA project grant in August 2022 supported fifth-grade watershed education in East Wenatchee ($298,908, completion July 2024).

Customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 (10 awards, 91% of recent award count), with secondary funding from the Bureau of Reclamation (6 awards) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (3 awards). The combined potential value across all 23 recent awards totals $19 thousand, indicating that the source data captures nominal or placeholder values rather than the actual grant amounts; individual cooperative agreements and project grants range from $250,000 to $450,000 based on project descriptions, meaning the vendor's true annual grant capture is substantially larger than the stated aggregate. One award (the Peshastin Creek restoration cooperative agreement, October 2025) approaches completion inside the next twenty-four months. Activity has been modest and episodic — two to three awards per year over the past five years — reflecting the grant-based, project-driven nature of habitat restoration funding. The organization operates from Wenatchee, Washington, and coordinates with federal field offices including the Wenatchee River Ranger District, private landowners, tribal entities, and state wildlife agencies to implement restoration work and education programming across the North-Central Washington region.