NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

2018 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS

5 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is dedicated to sustaining, restoring and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats for current and future generations. NFWF will advance its mission through innovative public and private partnerships, and by investing financial resources and intellectual capital into science-based programs designed to address conservation priorities and achieve measurable outcomes. In Fiscal Year 2018, NFWF funded more than 750 conservation projects across the nation, generating an on-the-ground conservation impact of more than $483 million.

1 KEY NFWF CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS Projects supported by NFWF in fiscal year 2018 Projects supported by NFWF since founding in 1984 IN FISCAL YEAR 2018, THE NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION FUNDED MORE THAN 750 CONSERVATION PROJECTS ACROSS THE NATION. NFWF HAS SUPPORTED MORE THAN 17,250 PROJECTS SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1984.

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Puerto Rico

NOTE: Projects with Alaska multiple locations are represented once. Some locations are approximate. Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico not to scale

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United States and U.S. Territories Fiscal Year 2018 Conservation Investments

Alabama 07 Montana 41 Alaska 08 Nebraska 43 Arizona 10 Nevada 43 Arkansas 11 New Hampshire 44 California 12 New Jersey 44 Colorado 17 New Mexico 46 Connecticut 18 New York 46 Delaware 21 North Carolina 49 District of Columbia 22 North Dakota 50 Florida 23 Ohio 50 Georgia 26 Oklahoma 51 Hawaii 28 Oregon 51 Idaho 29 Pennsylvania 53 Illinois 30 Rhode Island 56 Indiana 30 South Carolina 57 Iowa 31 South Dakota 58 Kansas 32 Tennessee 59 Kentucky 32 Texas 60 Louisiana 32 Utah 62 Maine 34 Vermont 62 Maryland 35 Virginia 63 Massachusetts 36 Washington 64 Michigan 37 West Virginia 67 Minnesota 38 Wisconsin 68 Mississippi 39 Wyoming 68 Missouri 41 U.S. Territories 69

United States and International Fiscal Year 2018 Conservation Investments 72

Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund Fiscal Year 2018 Project Commitments 76

Impact-Directed Environmental Accounts Fiscal Year 2018 Project Commitments 80

5 ALABAMA Bat Conservation International Murphy High School Testing Ultraviolet Light and Polyethylene Living Shoreline of Western Mobile Bay (AL) UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Alabama Forestry Commission Glycol as a White-Nose Syndrome Stabilize 500 linear feet of shoreline Gopher Tortoise Soils Identification Management Strategy (AL, AK, Canada) along the western side of Mobile Bay to and Private Landowner Engagement (AL) Evaluate the efficacy of using two nontoxic restore functionality as a nursery area for FISCAL YEAR 2018 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS Identify private landowners in areas agents – ultraviolet light and polyethylene young estuarine organisms. Project will containing high-priority gopher tortoise soils glycol – to treat mine walls and reduce install oyster shell bags parallel to shore, or those in the vicinity of public lands being the prevalence of the fungus that causes establishing a natural breakwater from managed for gopher tortoise in Alabama. white-nose syndrome (WNS) on roosting Mobile Bay ship channel wave action and Project will result in an educational workshop surfaces in bat hibernacula. Project will plant emergent grasses between the oyster focused on providing information regarding test the two environmental cleaning agents shell bags and the shoreline. cost-share initiatives, beneficial management in three mines along the northern and $20,145 activities and best management practices for southern edges of the WNS spread to test the gopher tortoise. the potential of environmental cleaning as a New South Development and Training $14,000 WNS management strategy. Strategic Outreach to Expand Agricultural $111,760 and Wetland Conservation (AL, FL, GA, TX) Alabama Forestry Foundation Provide education and outreach services to Improving Habitat for At-Risk Species in Chicago Zoological Society private landowners to increase enrollment Southwest Alabama Longleaf Forests – II Enhancing the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin of agricultural and wetland properties in Engage family forest owners in southwest Identification System (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) the Natural Resources Conservation Service Alabama to restore and enhance longleaf Improve the functionality of the Gulf of Agricultural Conservation Easement Program. forests and improve habitat for at-risk Mexico Dolphin Identification System, a Project will identify and engage high priority species. Project will engage 450 landowners collaborative database of bottlenose dolphin landowners through informational workshops and improve 1,300 acres of longleaf forests photographic identification from researchers and technical assistance, with a priority of through planting, thinning, prescribed around the Gulf. Project will expand the working with underserved landowners. burning and invasive species control, existing tool for protection and restoration $370,133 benefiting gopher tortoises, eastern of bottlenose dolphins, allowing researchers hognose snakes and other at-risk species. to search online for individual dolphins North Carolina State University $150,000 within the catalogs of other collaborating Prescribed Fire Initiative within the researchers, to identify long-range Southeastern United States (multiple states) Alabama Forestry Foundation movements and determine the origins of Expand and accelerate the implementation Improving Habitat for At-Risk Species in the stranded dolphins. of prescribed fire to restore and enhance Alabama Cumberlands – II $60,000 longleaf pine habitat and other fire- Engage family forest owners in an area of dependent forest and grassland communities the Alabama Cumberlands designated as a Forest Landowners Association within the Southeast. Project will engage high priority landscape under the American Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building 1,000 landowners and fire practitioners Forest Foundation’s Southern Wood and Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing through technical assistance, training and Wildlife Initiative. Project will engage 250 Solutions – II (multiple states) outreach, including “Learn and Burn” landowners through assistance focused on Engage large family forest landowners in workshops, development of prescribed burn habitat protection and enhancement for longleaf restoration and at-risk species associations and Fire Festivals, to increase the at-risk aquatic species, with the expectation conservation throughout the historic use of prescribed fire. that 14 family forests will improve 80 acres range of the longleaf pine. Project will $130,000 of riparian forests and 12 miles of streams. assist landowners with the establishment $150,000 and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres Tall Timbers Research of longleaf pine, develop regulatory Strategic Prescribed Burn Assistance Alabama Wildlife Federation predictability tools for at-risk species on Private Lands in the Longleaf Legacy Catalyzing Private Landowner Contributions to endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, Landscape (AL, FL, GA) Alabama Gulf Coast Conservation – II reducing uncertainty for landowners Build capacity to increase prescribed Increase landowner engagement and wishing to manage for longleaf habitat burning on private lands across the Longleaf stewardship on at least 5,000 acres in conditions on their lands, and explore Legacy Landscape, a key private-land- Alabama’s Gulf Coast counties and lower market-based solutions to address the dominated area in northwest Florida, Gulf coastal plain. Project will benefit habitat economic constraints to large-scale longleaf southwest Georgia and south Alabama. for migratory shorebirds, waterfowl and restoration on private lands. Project will implement a variety of longleaf other wetland wildlife, as well as terrestrial $145,000 conservation assistance programs to burn birds and wildlife. 5,250 acres, prioritize future efforts based $84,224 Gulf Seafood Institute on the collection of key fire activity and Expanding the Gulf of Mexico Charter Boat conservation data and develop an innovative Alabama Wildlife Federation Electronic Logbook (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) and integrated outreach program across Longleaf Pine and Wildlife Habitat Restoration Expand the use of electronic logbooks in the organizations that will enhance future on Alabama Private Lands – V Gulf of Mexico by improving software and targeted longleaf restoration and prescribed Restore and enhance 5,000 acres of longleaf providing training and outreach to captains. fire application on private lands. pine on private lands within priority counties Project will increase the number of vessels $99,984 for longleaf pine and northern bobwhite with installed electronic logbook units in the restoration in Alabama. Project will engage at Gulf of Mexico resulting in more accurate least 100 private landowners and will assist data to fishery managers. landowners with identifying eligible incentive $661,298 programs for establishing and managing longleaf pine and associated wildlife habitat. $115,000

6 7 Texas A&M AgriLife Research The Nature Conservancy ALASKA Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Island Trails Network Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation Accelerating Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Increasing the Scale of the Alaskan Longline Marine Mammal Entanglement Prevention Jordan Creek Greenbelt Restoration Scholars Program (multiple states) Restoration on the Fall Line – III (AL, GA) Alaska Department of Fish and Game Electronic Monitoring Program and Habitat Restoration in Southwest Alaska and Stewardship (AK) Integrate undergraduates and graduates Accelerate longleaf pine restoration and Addressing Conservation-critical Needs of the Improve Alaska’s longline electronic Reduce entanglement and mortality of Restore 5.5 acres by eradicating invasive using a two-tiered program that will focus conservation on more than 19,000 acres of Aleutian Tern in Western Alaska (AK) monitoring program for vessels participating whales, Stellar sea lions and other marine plants, planting trees and shrubs, on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico public and private land in west Georgia and Address conservation-critical information in sablefish, halibut and Pacific cod fixed- mammals and increase awareness of the decommissioning an obsolete trail that ecosystems and energy development. east Alabama. Outcomes include planting needs related to the Aleutian tern through gear fisheries by providing electronic impact of entangling debris. Project will damages riparian habitat, implementing Project will appoint two graduate fellowships longleaf on 137 acres and implementing a collaborative study in three regions of monitoring (EM) hardware, field service engage volunteers from the public and the snow storage BMPs, and improving forest to serve as mentor assistants to guide a prescribed fire on 19,000 acres of existing Alaska, including Western Alaska, the Kodiak support for vessels and support for commercial fishing industry in efforts to structure and species diversity in Juneau’s small cohort of undergraduate interns as longleaf habitat, focusing on properties Archipelago and the Yakutat Forelands. stakeholder engagement. Project will result remove derelict fishing gear from prioritized Jordan Creek Greenbelt. Project will they develop their projects and internship buffering Fort Benning, as well as high Project will close data gaps in the breeding in electronic monitoring of up to 120 hook- locations in the Kodiak archipelago. restore fish and wildlife habitat, foster proposals. priority state and privately owned lands. ecology and natural history of Aleutian and line vessels that will reduce bycatch and $203,627 public land stewardship, provide nature- $200,000 $275,000 terns by assessing the efficacy of various improve the utility of EM data for fishermen based education opportunities for youth, colony-monitoring methods and through the and fishery managers. Manomet connect under-served community members Texas State University The Nature Conservancy development of a monitoring framework. $577,941 Determining Post-Breeding Sites for Arctic to nature and improve recreational Reddish Egret Conservation Plan for the U.S. Talladega Mountains Longleaf Pine Restoration $75,000 Coast Shorebirds of Conservation Concern (AK) opportunities. Gulf Coast (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) – III (AL, GA) Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Complete a large-scale effort using cutting $37,351 Develop a detailed conservation plan with Increase prescribed fire capacity through Alaska Department of Fish and Game Support Next Generation of Alaskan Fishermen edge tracking technologies to determine the prioritized actions, clear conservation the addition of a seasonal burn crew in east- Anadromous Cataloging and Fish Inventory in through the Deckhand Apprentice Program most important staging sites on the Arctic Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition outcomes and well-defined funding needs central Alabama and west Georgia. Project Drainages of the Kobuk and Koyukuk Rivers (AK) Coordinate and expand a statewide Coast for arctic breeding shorebirds. Project Klawock Lake Sockeye and Pacific Salmon to best support the reddish egret (REEG) in will support additional burning and montane Conduct a rapid, systematic inventory of apprentice program to promote resource will fill a major gap in understanding of the Management and Habitat Restoration (AK) the Gulf of Mexico. Project will contract an longleaf pine habitat restoration on the anadromous and resident fish distribution stewardship, community viability and habitat needs at the sites they use after Advance habitat restoration and expert on Open Standards for the Practice Talladega National Forest and other priority and associated aquatic and riparian opportunity in Alaska’s commercial fisheries. breeding on the Arctic Coast of Alaska to informed fisheries management while of Conservation and a research assistant to public and private lands, benefiting red- habitat in select drainages of the Kobuk Project will develop curriculum and prepare for southbound migrations to South building the capacity of tribal members facilitate webinars, host two workshops with cockaded woodpecker, Bachman’s sparrow and Koyukuk rivers. Project will select resources to guide the program expansion, American wintering sites. and residents of rural communities to the REEG working group, write plans and and other longleaf-dependent species. target streams to fill gaps in the coverage include additional vessels and fisheries, and $74,569 make salmon management decisions UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES aggregate existing focal foraging and nesting $179,989 of the State of Alaska’s Catalog of Waters promote entry-level job opportunities. in the Klawock Watershed. Project will data into an online database. Important for the Spawning, Rearing, $69,996 Saltwater develop a Community Action Plan for the $74,990 The Red Mountain Park Fund or Migration of Anadromous Fishes in Electronic Monitoring Pre-Implementation watershed that will address the decline of Riparian Restoration and Community freshwater habitats expected to support College of William and Mary, Virginia in Alaskan Pot Cod Fishery sockeye abundance, fill key information The Longleaf Alliance Education at Red Mountain Park (AL) anadromous fish populations likely to be Institute of Marine Science Expand electronic monitoring pre- gaps on habitat restoration, identify land Accelerating At-Risk Species Recovery in the Improve streams by removing invasive plants impacted by human activities. Dungeness Crab Trap Biodegradable Hinge implementation in the Alaska pot cod fishery management opportunities, enhance Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership and rubbish and planting native vegetation $48,170 Escape Mechanism (AK, WA) by installing electronic monitoring units community harvest management and result Landscape (AL, FL) while installing erosion control materials at Reduce ecological and economic impacts on up to 15 additional vessels. Project will in improvements in fisheries management. Accelerate recovery of declining and at-risk Red Mountain Park in Birmingham. Project Alaska Department of Fish and Game associated with lost gear in Washington and test an alternative service delivery model $61,010 species, including northern bobwhite, will fully restore 10 acres, and ensure the Investigating Survey and Monitoring Alaska. Project will incorporate an innovative focused on building cost effective data gopher tortoise and reticulated flatwoods longevity of the restoration by educating or Methodologies for Aleutian Terns (AK) bio-hinge mechanism into Dungeness crab collection infrastructure, data review and Takshanuk Watershed Council salamander within the western panhandle involving 1,825 community members. Implement a collaborative study during traps, testing an effective, inexpensive management processes to provide timely Water Quality Monitoring on the Chilkat of Florida and southern Alabama. Project $25,000 with the U.S. Forest Service, University of mechanism to disarm derelict traps. data to fisheries managers and facilitate and Chilkoot Rivers (AK) will support capacity to implement species- Alaska, Oregon State University, U.S. Fish and $140,568 electronic monitoring data integration. Expand existing stream temperature and specific management and monitoring, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wildlife Service and others, to investigate $445,858 chemistry monitoring programs to gather such as captive rearing of salamanders and U.S. Forest Service methodologies recommended during a Fairbanks Soil and Water baseline water chemistry data at three sites translocation of gopher tortoises, as well as Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas January 2018 Conservation Planning Meeting Conservation District Sea Lion Corporation on the Klehini River, a major tributary of

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED development of a National Bobwhite Quail and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species for estimating abundance of Aleutian terns Chinook Salmon Habitat Restoration Seabird Nest Protection at Kokechik Flats (AK) the Chilkat. Project will result in long-term Initiative Focal Area to support northern (multiple states) at colony sites within Alaska. Project will along the Chena River (AK) Project nesting seabirds from human monitoring of surface water quality that will bobwhite habitat restoration and recovery. Expand the aquatic environmental DNA advance methods and protocols for site-level Restore and improve over 10 acres of riparian disturbance at Kokechik Flats, Alaska, a allow for an assessment of the effects of $620,000 Atlas database, website, digital tools and population assessments to further advance habitat along the Chena River in Fairbanks private in-holding within the Yukon Delta both industrial development and changing sample repository to a national scale. Aleutian tern conservation and research to protect chinook salmon habitat. Project National Wildlife Refuge. Project will educate environmental conditions on fish and The Longleaf Alliance Project will expand the current coverage using unmanned aerial vehicles for assessing will partner with four natural resource-based subsistence hunters and harvesters about freshwater aquatic habitats in the Chilkat Longleaf Restoration in the Gulf Coastal Plain of the database of information important Aleutian tern abundance at colony sites and organizations and five volunteer groups to sensitive resources, provide designated and Chilkoot watersheds. Ecosystem Partnership Landscape – IV (AL, FL) to the conservation and management of experimental automated image analysis remove invasive species and utilize green staging and camping areas, recommend $16,723 Restore and maintain 112,958 acres of aquatic species to include waterways in to continue work refining methods and infrastructure methods to stabilize a section transportation routes through sensitive longleaf pine habitat within the western the 37 remaining states to inform strategic developing a monitoring framework. of Chena River streambank. nesting areas, develop written conservation The Conservation Fund panhandle of Florida and southern conservation investments for suppressing $54,600 $49,875 and management guidelines and outreach Eklutna River Fish Passage Barrier Alabama through plantings, prescribed invasives and increasing native populations. materials, and provide on-site attendants to Removal (AK) fire and invasive species control. Project $73,018 Alaska Geographic Association Farallon Institute monitor activities and provide outreach. Restore the Lower Eklutna River near will prioritize recovery of red-cockaded Connecting Anchorage Residents Integrating Seabird Data into Fisheries $87,349 Anchorage, Alaska, through a stream habitat woodpecker, gopher tortoise, eastern University of Florida to their Watersheds (AK) Management in Alaska restoration project. Project will benefit five indigo snake and reticulated flatwoods Evaluating Recreational Fishing Management Remove 20 acres of invasive European bird Evaluate the use of seabird food habits data Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition species of Pacific salmon (king, sockeye, salamander. Strategies for Red Snapper (AL, FL, LA, TX) cherry to provide improved habitat and in Alaska fisheries management, specifically Cooperative Weed Management Area (AK) silver, pink and chum), whose numbers are $300,000 Assess the recreational management opportunities for urban youth and families in fisheries stock assessments and models. Re-establish a cooperative weed currently greatly reduced, and the Eklutna strategies of red snapper by using simulation to become better stewards of local natural Project will focus on seabird data on the management area in Juneau that will ensure Dena’ina people, for whom the river is and assessment modeling, stakeholder resources through watershed education relative abundance and size and condition of long-term commitment for the inventory, important culturally. surveys and stakeholder workshops. Project and hands-on restoration. Project will break juvenile commercial fishes, information that assessment, prioritization and control of $86,000 will provide a framework for angling groups to down barriers for Anchorage’s diverse is limited for many fisheries, and establish invasive plants. Project will support ongoing explore management options to understand urban neighborhoods to access natural a working model for collaborative seabirds efforts to eradicate targeted infestations of the impacts on available catch and anglers’ resources by helping address priority habitat and fisheries research in Alaska that may be invasive plant species in the most ecologically access to the red snapper fishery. restoration issues within the city limits. exported elsewhere in the world. valuable and sensitive habitats in the area. $275,121 $52,959 $99,999 $29,100

8 9 U.S. Department of the Interior, Wildlife Conservation Society Grand Canyon Youth Western Association Ducks Unlimited Pheasants Forever U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Region 7 Mapping Common Eider Use of Beaufort Sea Native American Youth Restoring Ecological of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Arkansas Shallow Water Delivery of Conservation Technical Assistance Monitoring Sea Birds using Unmanned Aerial Barrier Islands (AK) Balance in Colorado River Watershed (AZ, UT) Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Wetland Conservation Capacity and Implementation of Early Successional Vehicles on the North Slope (AK) Evaluate the use of northern Alaska’s barrier Perform invasive species management and Western United States (multiple states) Increase staff capacity to implement habitat Habitat Practices (AR, LA) Aid in recovery efforts for Steller’s and island ecosystem by nesting seabirds. Project stream buffer enhancements along the Develop a regional strategy and supporting enhancement projects on existing Natural Work through Conservation Delivery spectacled eiders in Alaska by using UAS will map which islands between Prudhoe Bay, Colorado, Escalante, San Juan and Dirty Devil plans to increase organizational capacity Resources Conservation Service Wetland Network (CDN) partner organizations to (unmanned aircraft systems) and thermal- Alaska, and the Canadian border are the most rivers. Project will engage Native American and coordination among monarch butterfly Reserve Program (WRP/WRE) conservation conduct program promotion and strategic imaging software to increase nest discovery critical to the population in the event of an oil youth from the Southwest Conservation Corps conservation partners west of the Rocky easements in Arkansas. Project will identify marketing efforts on sustainable forest and monitoring methods for sea birds on the spill and will inform oil response planning. Ancestral Lands Program to restore 15 acres of Mountains. Project will develop and track existing WRP/WRE shallow water wetlands management to 600 landowners located in North Slope of Alaska. Project will include an $69,448 stream buffer zones, develop conservation and implementation efforts identified in the that need enhancement, implement southeastern Arkansas and northeastern outreach program that promotes community employment skills. Western Monarch Population Conservation restoration practices to improve hydrology Louisiana. Of the 600 landowners reached involvement in conservation, increased Yukon Delta Fisheries Development $202,832 Strategy, establish the Western Monarch and wetland functions and provide forest in year one, the project expects that 550 will knowledge of tundra-nesting sea bird Association and Pollinator Initiative Council, and management recommendations to improve receive one-on-one technical assistance by ecology and provide summer employment Researching Outmigration of Juvenile Chinook National Audubon Society transition milkweed data into the Crucial bottomland hardwood forest habitat that resource conservation organization staff to opportunities for local youth. Salmon at the Yukon River Mouth (AK) Audubon Arizona’s Downtown Owls Habitat Assessment Tool. will benefit waterfowl and other wildlife produce landowner management plans on a $60,000 Fill gaps in knowledge of juvenile Yukon Mobilize 150 volunteers to build artificial $120,000 species. minimum of 10,000 acres. Chinook salmon necessary to understanding homes for displaced burrowing owls in $317,526 $149,575 U.S. Department of the Interior, survival and recruitment dynamics. Project Phoenix and assist with active translocation U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Region 7 will quantify outmigration timing through efforts. Project will facilitate monitoring the ARKANSAS KKAC Foundation Pheasants Forever Studying Chinook and Chum Salmon the end of August, quantify juvenile birds as they adjust to their new homes and Land Conservation Program Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite on the East Fork Andreafsky River (AK) Chinook salmon size, growth, diet, energetic educate local communities about urban American Bird Conservancy for Underserved Landowners in Arkansas Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Collect data on Chinook and summer condition and smolting stage and provide wildlife habitats. Priority Bird Habitat Conservation Provide educational opportunities and Deliver technical assistance across six chum salmon escapement in the East Fork data on genetic composition of outmigrating $34,997 in the West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas technical assistance to underserved states to improve land-management Andreafsky River. Project will collect daily Chinook salmon. Region (AR, LA, OK, TX) landowners in Arkansas to increase practices for northern bobwhite and other migration counts, full season run timing, $82,105 Pheasants Forever Facilitate the establishment, development, awareness and participation in the Natural terrestrial wildlife. Project will include total seasonal escapement estimates, and Riparian Restoration Initiative to Benefit maintenance and success of Conservation Resources Conservation Service Agricultural 11,940 landowner contacts, 27,800 acres UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES annual age, sex and length composition Southwestern Willow Flycatcher in Arizona Delivery Networks in the West Gulf Coastal Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). under improved management practices, 720 of Chinook and summer chum salmon ARIZONA Increase participation in riparian habitat Plain/Ouachitas geography. Project will focus Project will work with underserved private plans with best management practices and spawning populations, which will be used restoration and protection across the state on building connections and relationships landowners, with an emphasis on increasing 6,000 acres covered with federal program by in-season subsistence fishery managers Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum of Arizona to benefit southwestern willow among partner delivery staff across the four- enrollment in ACEP through educational incentives. and be analyzed post-season to contribute Creating the Sonoran Desert Cooperative flycatcher. Project will work directly with state region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, workshops, and identifying and addressing $2,447,858 to Yukon River drainage-wide salmon run Weed Management Area (AZ) private landowners, land management Oklahoma and Texas to restore 277 acres of barriers to landowner participation, reconstructions and forecasts for the next Control buffelgrass, an invasive perennial agencies and local communities to bottomland hardwood forests and improve including heirs’ property title issues. Pollinator Partnership season. grass that threatens the rich biological implement Farm Bill practices designed to 92 acres of existing bottomland hardwoods. $331,153 Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes $37,200 and cultural diversity of the Sonoran improve riparian habitat for southwestern $263,221 for At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) Desert. Project will benefit improved weed willow flycatcher. National Wild Turkey Federation Develop a regional seed collection and U.S. Department of Agriculture, management across jurisdictions in Pima $179,865 Arkansas Forestry Commission Bottomland Hardwood Conservation native plant materials development program U.S. Forest Service County by increasing the number of acres Private Forest Conservation to Improve Partnership Initiative under the Agricultural in the Midwest to support monarch Addressing Conservation-Critical Information restored, increased numbers of volunteers The Nature Conservancy Northern Bobwhite Habitat in Arkansas Conservation Easement Program (AR) butterflies and rusty patched bumble Needs of the Aleutian Tern and improving invasive species management. Greening Affordable Housing for Nature, Increase technical assistance and Implement a three-year project to monitor, bees. Project will improve 10,000 acres in the Gulf of Alaska $99,910 Community Resilience and Human Well-being conservation program delivery on private evaluate and plan conservation activities on of pollinator habitat, collect 25 pounds Continue a collaborative study in the Gulf (AZ, CT, NM) forest land to benefit northern bobwhite existing Agricultural Conservation Easement- of milkweed seed and propagate 10,000 of Alaska during the 2018 field season Arizona State University Create demonstration projects in three in Arkansas. Project will provide technical Wetland Reserve Easement (ACEP-WRE) seedlings.

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED partnering with Alaska Department of Develop Solar Net Illumination to Reduce Sea cities to address community resilience assistance in selected focal areas to create program easements, specifically those $149,000 Fish and Game, University of Alaska, Turtle Bycatch in Coastal Gillnet Fisheries (AZ) and improve green infrastructure by 44 miles of fire breaks, 13,000 acres of where bottomland hardwood stands have Oregon State University, U.S. Fish and Develop solar-powered illuminated fishing creating an urban forest and greenspace in prescribed burns and 3,000 acres of forest reached or are approaching site conditions The Nature Conservancy Wildlife Service, and others, to address nets to reduce sea turtle bycatch in gillnet Albuquerque, New Mexico; creating green stand improvement. that warrant management. Project also will Restore Wetland Forest conservation-critical information needs fisheries worldwide. Project will provide a stormwater infrastructure in Bridgeport, $179,800 evaluate Kentucky warbler new properties and Stabilize Agricultural Floodplains of the Aleutian tern. Project will address more affordable gear option will increase Connecticut; and depaving surfaces and for wetland and bottomland hardwood in the Upper Cache River (AR) information gaps including breeding season the durability of the gear and reduce the planting trees in Phoenix, Arizona. Projects Bat Conservation International restoration opportunities and the potential Restore 1,000 acres of wetland and movements, colony distribution and need for batteries and additional handling, will plant 270 trees and reach out to 950 Testing Ultraviolet Light and Polyethylene for enrollment in the ACEP-WRE. bottomland hardwood habitat under the abundance, productivity, and diet, to further while maintaining target catch and bycatch people to implement green infrastructure Glycol as a White-Nose Syndrome $188,175 Natural Resources Conservation Service’s advance Aleutian tern conservation and reduction goals. and develop supportive communities. Management Strategy (AL, AK, Canada) Agricultural Conservation Easement research. $75,000 $250,000 Evaluate the efficacy of using two nontoxic North Carolina State University – Wetland Reserve Easement (ACEP- $75,000 agents – ultraviolet light and polyethylene Prescribed Fire Initiative within the WRE) program, install best management CDP North America U.S. Department of the Interior, glycol – to treat mine walls and reduce Southeastern United States (multiple states) practices along 10 miles of tributary ditch, University of California – Santa Cruz Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service the prevalence of the fungus that causes Expand and accelerate the implementation re-engineer 3 miles of two-stage ditch Developing Tools to Prevent Extinction and in Cities (multiple states) Habitat Restoration and Reintroduction white-nose syndrome (WNS) on roosting of prescribed fire to restore and and engage approximately 30 landowners Recover Threatened and Endangered Seabirds Build capacity of communities in 18 cities of Endangered Gila Topminnow surfaces in bat hibernacula. Project will enhance longleaf pine habitat and other through outreach and technical assistance. (AK, CA, HI, Canada) across the United States to help them in Bylas Springs (AZ) test the two environmental cleaning agents fire-dependent forest and grassland Together, these activities will reduce Utilize a new meta-population viability implement sustainable infrastructure for Remove invasive plant species from 1,000 in three mines along the northern and communities within the Southeast. Project sediment and nutrients flowing into the model approach in order to make stormwater management, urban wildlife meters of spring habitat in the Bylas Springs southern edges of the WNS spread to test will engage 1,000 landowners and fire riverine system and improve habitat for improved seabird conservation decisions. habitats and tree canopy improvement. Complex to restore endangered Gila the potential of environmental cleaning as a practitioners through technical assistance, wildlife. Project will identify the most at-risk Project will perform targeted outreach to topminnow habitat in spring-fed ponds. WNS management strategy. training and outreach, including “Learn $500,000 species and their breeding sites in order cities to increase knowledge of sustainable Project will improve instream habitat through $111,760 and Burn” workshops, development of to improve the conservation status of infrastructure financing as well as develop hydraulic restoration and remove entrained prescribed burn associations and Fire seabirds and prevent the listing of seabird cities’ use of online tools to document green sediment prior to fish reintroduction in ponds Festivals, to increase the use of prescribed species in the future. infrastructure and habitat benefits. on the San Carlos Apache Reservation. fire. $249,984 $200,000 $39,778 $130,000

10 11 U.S. Department of Agriculture, CDP North America Channel Islands Restoration Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Island Conservation Klamath Watershed Partnership U.S. Forest Service Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments Tamarisk Treatment in the Sisquoc River Restoring Endangered Coho Salmon Habitat in Maintaining Knowledge Management Upper Sycan Bull Trout Critical Habitat Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas in Cities (multiple states) Watershed and Piru Creek Watershed (CA) the Coastal Redwood Creek Watershed (CA) Products for Globally Threatened Seabirds (CA) Protection (CA, OR) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Build capacity of communities in 18 cities Treat tamarisk trees with herbicide, pull out Restore the condition of the Redwood Creek Maintain and make publicly available two Protect critical habitat for bull trout in the (multiple states) across the United States to help them seedlings and monitor the success of past watershed by providing more habitat for key databases to support decision making Upper Sycan Watershed through 3 miles of Expand the aquatic environmental DNA implement sustainable infrastructure for treatments in the Sisquoc River and Piru juvenile salmon by installing small wood and prioritization for globally threatened fencing and hardened water gaps for cattle. Atlas database, website, digital tools and stormwater management, urban wildlife Creek watersheds within the Los Padres structures, beaver dam analogues and other seabirds, the Threatened Island Biodiversity Project will limit cattle access to the streams sample repository to a national scale. habitats and tree canopy improvement. National Forest. Project will result in GIS data creek and flood plain areas at Muir Beach. Database and the Database of Islands and in grazed meadows to benefit instream Project will expand the current coverage Project will perform targeted outreach to and a report that will include the numbers of Project will remove kikuyu grass from five Invasive Species Eradications. Project will habitat conditions, especially with respect of the database of information important cities to increase knowledge of sustainable adults treated, number of seedlings pulled key habitat hot spots at Muir Beach that produce database tools to support a range to spawning gravels, redds and refugia, and to the conservation and management of infrastructure financing as well as develop out, miles of streams and river surveyed, threaten the endangered Coho salmon in of island restoration activities, at scales of future streambank stabilization and shading aquatic species to include waterways in cities’ use of online tools to document number of acres treated, methods, maps, Southern Marin County and sustain efforts project planning, regional planning, and promoting additional water quality and the 37 remaining states to inform strategic green infrastructure and habitat benefits. tables, a database, photographs of all treated of communities along the watershed. global assessment of the conservation instream habitat improvements. conservation investments for suppressing $200,000 areas, and a plan for any untreated areas. $42,000 benefits provided by invasive mammal $54,000 invasives and increasing native populations. $475,795 eradications. $73,018 Central Coast Salmon Enhancement Hoopa Valley Tribe $75,000 Lava Beds-Butte Valley Resource Tracking Ecologically Significant Dry Season Channel Islands Restoration Development of an Integrated Fisheries Conservation District Instream Flows in South-Central California Tamarisk Treatment in the Upper Santa Ynez Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the Karuk Tribe Clear Lake Sage Grouse Habitat Improvement CALIFORNIA Strengthen flow tracking and accounting River Watershed (CA) Klamath Basin (CA, OR) Development of an Integrated Fisheries in Modoc National Forest, California methods in regions that have ecologically Apply herbicide treatments to tamarisk Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the Treat invasive western juniper trees in Clear Amador Resource Conservation District significant dry season instream flows that adults and seedlings in the upper other Klamath Basin stakeholders in the Klamath Basin – Karuk Tribe (CA) Lake Sage Grouse Active Management Developing Restoration Designs for Three are less than 1 cubic foot per second. headwaters of the Santa Ynez River completion of an accurate, comprehensive Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Area. Project will reduce risk of catastrophic Meadows on Eldorado National Forest (CA) Project will include an experimental watershed within the Los Padres National and prioritized Integrated Fisheries other Klamath Basin stakeholders in the wildfire, reverse resource degradation and Develop restoration designs for three flume and field component, as well as an Forest. Project will result in GIS data and Restoration and Monitoring Plan, detailing completion of an accurate, comprehensive improve the sagebrush steppe habitat. meadows and meadow boundaries totaling outreach and education component, to a report that will include the numbers of needs throughout the Klamath River and prioritized Integrated Fisheries $132,500 50 acres within the Power Fire boundary improve consistency among partners and adults treated, number of seedlings pulled Watershed, including its major tributaries. Restoration and Monitoring Plan, detailing UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES on Eldorado National Forest in California. increase probability of meeting regional out, miles of streams and river surveyed, Project will result in the publication of a final needs throughout the Klamath River LifeScape International Project will generate designs for 13 acres ecological enhancement and recovery number of acres treated, methods, maps, strategic plan for monitoring and restoration Watershed, including its major tributaries. Fire Impact on Mammal Communities of meadow, 37 acres of meadow boundary, goals. tables and a plan for any untreated areas. of Klamath River Basin native fishes. Project will result in the publication of in the Los Padres National Forest (CA) thin and remove conifers on 23 acres $72,351 $394,342 $50,000 a final strategic plan for monitoring and Use camera-trap surveys and GPS-collar of meadows and meadow boundaries restoration of Klamath River Basin native movement data to answer key questions and develop environmental compliance Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit County of Del Norte Humboldt State University fishes. regarding the impact of fire on the mammal documents which are required for future Sea Turtle Stranding Response Fuel Break Maintenance Sponsored Programs Foundation $50,000 community of Los Padres National Forest. restoration. along the West Coast of the United States in Six Rivers National Forest (CA) Comparison of Standard and Environmental Project will investigate the impact of fire on $186,681 (CA, OR, WA and Canada [BC]) Treat 300 acres of vegetation located within DNA Methods for Estimating Chinook Salmon Karuk Tribe the distribution of the terrestrial mammalian Build capacity for the West Coast Marine six strategically placed fuel breaks around Smolt Abundance in the Klamath River (CA) Restoration of Fire Adapted Landscapes within community, relationships among key species, American Bird Conservancy Mammal Stranding Network to respond to the community of Gasquet. Project will Compare standard and environmental Six Rivers National Forest, California predation rates affecting nesting California Building Capacity for Riparian Habitat five species of threatened and endangered provide additional defensible space and will DNA-based estimates of weekly and season Construct fire control features on 240 acres condors and fire’s potential to facilitate and Working Lands for Wildlife sea turtles: Western Pacific leatherback improve the overall health of the forest and totals of Chinook Salmon as a proxy for across four identified focal areas (Donahue, expansion of invasive feral pig populations. in Southern California turtle, Eastern Pacific green turtle, North protect private and public improvements by determination of relative abundance in Patterson, Roger’s Creek, Ti Bar) within the $196,800 Increase participation of private landowners Pacific loggerhead, Pacific olive ridley reducing risk to wildfires. aquatic environments at the Kinsman site on wildland-urban interface of the Six Rivers in California to restore riparian habitat and Eastern Pacific hawksbill. Project will $276,875 the Klamath River. The study, if successful, National Forest. Project will prepare areas to Los Padres Forest Association for southwestern willow flycatcher by increase response efforts for live and dead may serve as a foundation and justification see a reintroduction of fire processes, create Jesusita Fire Trail Restoration, Development

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED implementing on the ground riparian stranded sea turtles through assessment Fire Safe Council of Nevada County for applying the eDNA methods in other a more fire-safe environment for Karuk Tribe and Design (CA) restoration projects using NRCS conservation of existing capacity, standardization of data Restoration of the Wildland-Urban Interface areas within the Klamath-Trinity Basin and communities and establish improved fire Evaluate and design a trail plan for the practices. Project will engage 200 and protocols, distribution of supplies and of the Tahoe National Forest (CA) across the entire Pacific Northwest where control features for use during planned and trails affected by the Jesusita Fire, provide landowners and will improve management network-wide training sessions. Restore the wildland-urban interface of the similar approaches are applied for salmon. unplanned fires. advanced trail restoration training for the on 500 acres of riparian habitat to $50,000 Tahoe National Forest to a healthy forest $95,418 $380,126 Santa Barbara Frontcountry (SBFC) trail support the species recovery plan of the ecosystem by removing ladder fuels, tree community, and restore sections of those southwestern willow flycatcher. Channel Islands Restoration competition and educating residents to Humboldt State University Sponsored Klamath Lake Land Trust trails that are suffering from extreme erosion $258,413 Breeding Bird Habitat Restoration on the become Fire Adapted Communities. Project Programs Foundation Klamath Basin Feasibility Study to Identify damage. Project will include a trail training Potreros of the Sierra Madre Ridge (CA) will improve overall watershed resilience, Scott River Beaver Dam Analogues: Supplemental Water Storage Options (CA, OR) that will teach stakeholders how to assess California Deer Association Work with local cattlemen to explore the landscape connectivity, improve wildlife Implementation, Monitoring and Passage Conduct a feasibility study for potential and address trail needs. Warner Mountains Meadow Restoration near feasibility to use modified cattle grazing habitat quality and forage, and reduce the Assessment (CA) water storage in the Upper Klamath basin $74,485 Modoc National Forest (CA) practices to restore breeding bird habitat risk of catastrophic fire in areas occupied by Implement beaver dam analogues in and the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Perform meadow restoration on Alaska on the ridge of the Sierra Madre Mountains rare plants and endangered species. the Scott River watershed and monitor Refuge to help inform future water Los Padres ForestWatch Canyon, Dry Creek and Callie Spring totaling on the edge of the Zaca Fire scar. Project $297,111 their effectiveness with a particular focus management decisions. Project will assess Jesusita Fire Trail and Land Degradation 878 acres within the Warner Mountains will investigate whether managed grazing on evaluating fish passage. Beaver dam the physical and regulatory feasibility of Prevention (CA) near Modoc National Forest in California. regime will support native grassland, Friends of the Los Angeles River analogues will expand the area of suitable above and below ground water-storage Install trail barriers and signage to prevent Project will restore meadows, remove increase breeding bird populations and help LA River Wetland Habitat Restoration (CA) rearing habitat for juvenile Coho salmon options to assist in the potential for instream the degradation of trails and other land conifers and juniper, improve water flow, recover the populations of several declining Remove trash and debris and monitor water and other species, while the monitoring flow augmentation with the primary features by unauthorized motor vehicle use and monitor the restored areas, which will bird species. quality on an 11-mile stretch of the highly effort will clarify the potential benefit to fish purpose of potentially addressing instream in the area affected by the 2009 Jesusita benefit migratory corridors for mule deer, $59,117 impaired Los Angeles River in Los Angeles. populations and provide guidance for future needs for the federally listed aquatic Fire. Project will assess unauthorized motor antelope and sage grouse. Project will provide educational and volunteer efforts. species. vehicle use sites in the project area and $100,000 opportunities to 15,000 community members $129,428 $177,370 provide recommendations and guidance for and stage 10 large-scale community and the improvement or installation of barriers, corporate clean-up events to restore habitat signs and other solutions to restore habitat and implement trash prevention programs. and reduce erosion and invasive species. $49,930 $43,143

12 13 Los Padres ForestWatch National Audubon Society Pheasants Forever Point Reyes Bird Observatory Scott River Watershed Council Siskiyou Resource Conservation District Tamarisk Treatment along the Santa Ynez River Advancing the SageWest Communications Expanding Conservation of Working Lands Developing High Priority Meadow Restoration Floodplain Habitat Restoration Scott River Stream Restoration in the Los Padres National Forest (CA) Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) Designs for Lassen National Forest (CA) and Monitoring to Restore Coho Salmon and Sediment Reduction Program (CA) Apply herbicide treatments on invasive (multiple states) Maintain and expand technical assistance Identify and develop up to five high priority in the Klamath Basin (CA) Develop and implement streambank tamarisk from within the Santa Ynez River Elevate individual conservation efforts and capacity in key greater sage grouse focal meadow restoration designs for meadows Restore and monitor 0.6 acres of floodplain stabilization techniques to reduce impacts watershed from the Los Padres National Forest create a larger dialogue about the value and areas to strengthen working ranch lands within the Storrie Fire boundary on Lassen along an existing terrace adjacent to Sugar to water quality for two critical streambank boundary to Gibraltar Dam – large areas within need for sagebrush conservation. Project management to improve greater sage National Forest in California. Project will Creek and develop a design to connect an erosion sites on the Scott River mainstem. the Los Padres National Forest affected by the will engage in priority work groups, develop grouse populations. Project will improve assess 90 meadow data sets and group them additional 2 acres of cold-water refugia to Project will stabilize approximately 1,400 2007 Zaca Fire. Project will assess and treat 35 guidance documents, and organize partner grazing practices on 250,000 acres to by restoration need, develop restoration Sugar Creek or the Scott River. Project will feet of streambank and plant across 4 acres miles of streams in the target watersheds and meetings across the ecosystem. benefit greater sage grouse through group recommendations, perform meadow enhance Coho salmon summer and winter to minimize sediment contributions, protect will improve ecosystem health and prevent $34,200 technical assistance provided by 14 Strategic site visits and develop up to five meadow rearing habitat by offering velocity refuge in adjacent agricultural land, promote riparian further spread of the species in and around Watershed Action Teams members. restoration designs and associated the winter, productive feeding opportunities establishment, reduce solar loading affecting the Dick Smith Wilderness area. NCASI, Paper Industry Council $1,688,795 environmental compliance documents. and cool water refugia for salmonids in the water temperatures and improve instream $49,156 Pacific Marten Habitat Connectivity Model $431,290 summer. habitat complexity for anadromous species, for Lassen National Forest (CA) Pinnacles National Park Foundation $255,875 including threatened Coho salmon. Mendocino County Develop a Pacific marten habitat Sustaining Resilient Landscapes through Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation $80,000 Resource Conservation District connectivity model within the Storrie Fire Collaborative Weed Management (CA) Brushy Mountain Conservation Easement (CA) Siskiyou Resource Conservation District Promoting Water Conservation BMPs for boundary for Lassen National Forest in Expand capacity of the San Benito County Protect 26,144 acres of private forestland Lower Mill Creek Habitat Enhancement Siskiyou Resource Conservation District Salmon in the Navarro Watershed (CA) California. Project will develop a data-tested, Weed Management Area by increasing and rangeland within California’s wildland- for Coho Salmon (CA) South Fork Scott River Floodplain Restoration Promote best management practices that flexible model that Lassen National Forest outreach to the ranching community and urban interface through the acquisition of Perform a stream habitat assessment and Increased Habitat Complexity increase summer base flows, and provide can use for future marten habitat restoration carrying out projects on both public and a conservation easement. Project will assist across a 20-acre section of the Shackleford- for Coho Salmon (CA) water security for agricultural producers and management. private lands. Project will provide significant Mendocino County in wildfire preparedness Mill stream system, which supports a Restore floodplain function and instream during the critical seasons of spring, summer $254,736 benefits to listed species and rare habitats. by limiting residential housing and viticulture significant population of native Scott habitat complexity within a 1-mile reach of and early fall. Project will demonstrate, $78,308 development between U.S. Route 101 and River Coho salmon. Project will result in the South Fork Scott River for the benefit communicate and educate on the application Northwest California Resource the Mendocino National Forest. the development of a Conceptual Habitat of anadromous salmon species, including of water conservation and riparian Conservation & Development Council Plumas Corporation $275,000 Enhancement Plan aimed at increasing threatened Coho salmon. Project will UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES management BMPs for enhancing and Reducing Road-Sourced Sediment Loading for Foster Meadow’s Aquatic Organism Passage the volume of available rearing habitat for include the excavation of inset floodplains, optimizing stream flows, while ensuring on- Scott River Tributaries on EcoTrust Lands (CA) and Meadow Restoration on Eldorado Save The Bay juvenile Coho salmon. installation of large-wood structures/jams farm water security to benefit Pacific salmon. Reduce potential road-sourced sediment load National Forest (CA) Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline Community- $63,019 (spanning 600 feet of stream), and removal $149,595 from entering tributaries of the Scott River to Restore meadow and aquatic organism Based Restoration and Education (CA) of historic mining tailings and planting of benefit salmonid habitat and water quality passage at Foster Meadow on Eldorado Restore 2.9 acres of wetland habitat in Siskiyou Resource Conservation District native riparian trees. Mid Klamath Watershed Council through inventory and priority sediment National Forest in California. Project will Oakland, engage 2,000 local community Lower Scott Valley Stream $111,591 Creating and Restoring Off-Channel Habitat treatment projects. Project will treat at least enhance watershed hydrology by restoring volunteers, provide environmental Habitat Restoration (CA) along Humbug and Seiad Creeks (CA) 10 major stream crossings impacted by fires 21 meadow acres, opening a mile of stream, stewardship and science education to 1,000 Complete a habitat assessment and Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Create 22,000 square feet of off-channel in 2014 and 2017, including the improvement planting native vegetation, and monitoring students (600 from high-need schools), hydraulic analysis of a 200-acre section of Watershed Tamarisk Treatment Assessment habitat and enhance a 700-foot-long Klamath of culverts to convey 50-year flows, removal habitat and water flow benefits. coordinated with Save The Bay partners. the mainstem Scott River and implement Monitoring and Follow Up Treatment River side channel in the Klamath Basin. of culverts and installation of rock-filled fords $215,450 Ensure a clean and healthy San Francisco Bay an off-channel pond as refuge for over- on the Cuyama River (CA) Project will benefit Klamath River steelhead, with critical dips. and San Lorenzo Creek watershed. wintering and over-summering juvenile Conduct final assessment monitoring Coho salmon and Chinook salmon by $177,790 Plumas Corporation $30,000 Coho salmon. Project will plan for and of tamarisk treatment, and retreat as addressing key limiting factors affecting their Upper Humbug Valley Meadow Restoration prioritize stream restoration treatments necessary, on areas within the Cuyama River survival, including lack of low-velocity over- Oikonos – Ecosystem Knowledge Designs for Lassen National Forest (CA) Save the Redwoods League within an important Coho salmon migratory Watershed initially treated in 2017. The wintering habitat and lack of thermal refuge. Ashy Storm-Petrel Nest Module Development Develop meadow restoration designs for Conservation Easement on Mailliard Ranch corridor and provide an opportunity project team will monitor treated tamarisk $334,368 on Southern California Islands Yellow Creek 1 and 2 within Upper Humbug for the Protection of Redwood Forests for partnership building between local on 10 miles of Deal Canyon and Rancho

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Produce 200 safe artificial nesting sites Valley and the Storrie Fire boundary in Northern California landowners, private organizations, federal Nuevo creeks, monitor treated sections Mid Klamath Watershed Council for ashy storm-petrels in order to protect on Lassen National Forest in California. Place a conservation easement on the agencies and the Karuk Tribe. over approximately eight miles of Cuyama Horse Creek Supplemental Design Project (CA) breeding adults and chicks from predators Project will create restoration designs for 14,898-acre Mailliard Ranch working forest, $185,348 River, complete approximately 1,000 acres Develop a 100 percent fisheries design for on Southern California islands. Project will 47 acres of meadow, 90 acres of riparian which includes the Garcia and Navarro River of tamarisk treatment monitoring and 85 acres of the Horse Creek Valley with the build on eight years of experience designing and generate environmental compliance headwaters and upland habitat upon which Siskiyou Resource Conservation District provide direction for further monitoring and intent of increasing the number of spawning ceramic nesting modules for seabirds, create documents required for future restoration numerous aquatic and terrestrial special Lower Scott Valley Stream Habitat treatment. adult Coho salmon in the Klamath Basin. solutions for nesting storm-petrels in multiple implementation. status species depend. Project will conserve Restoration (CA) $35,001 Project will restore channel structure and habitats and test 3D printing methods to $300,834 high quality redwood, oak woodland and Restore 2.75 river miles of critical habitat complexity to a watershed that has suffered efficiently produce artificial nesting modules. riparian forests as well as support 28 miles for Coho salmon, Chinook salmon and Southern California Mountains impacts of past land use practices, yet is $30,000 Point Reyes Bird Observatory, of priority anadromous streams that provide steelhead trout within the mainstem Foundation situated to offer tremendous Coho salmon Point Blue Conservation Science habitat for migrating salmon and steelhead. Scott River through instream habitat Fuels Reduction Task Force for the San habitat potential. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Ashy Storm-petrel Working Group and $250,000 improvements. Project will develop Bernardino National Forest in Southern $131,541 Integrated Fisheries Restoration and California Monitoring Plan (CA) conceptual design plans involving a series California Monitoring Plan for the Klamath Basin (CA, OR) Develop an international Ashy Storm- Scott River Water Trust of instream habitat features and off- Create a fuels reduction task force Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Petrel Conservation Working Group, write Water Dedication Development channel rearing ponds to increase pool comprised of highly trained and seasoned Pilot a Sustainable Seafood Hub to Revitalize supporting Klamath Basin stakeholders in the a monitoring plan containing standardized in the Scott River Basin (CA) frequency and volume, add complex woody sawyers to prepare fuel reduction units the Fishing Economy in Northern California completion of an accurate, comprehensive methods for use throughout the species’ Advance negotiations of long-term and shelter structures, improve floodplain adjacent to and in sensitive meadow habitat Improve the value of landings for fishermen, and prioritized Integrated Fisheries range, and write an implementation plan with permanent water dedications and allow for connectivity, provide slow water rearing on 87-plus acres of the Mountaintop District expand public access to local, sustainable Restoration and Monitoring Plan, which will estimated budget for long-term maintenance the continuation of forbearance-based water areas, promote mature riparian forests and of the San Bernardino National Forest. seafood, and revitalize the fishing industry in detail needs throughout the Klamath River of the working group implementation of the dedications in the Scott River Watershed, sort spawning gravels. Project will restore essential habitat to 87 Monterey Bay ports. Project will emphasize Watershed, including its major tributaries. monitoring plan. Project will invite 10-20 ashy within high-priority reaches for Coho salmon. $180,374 acres of the Baldwin Lake Meadow unit and local and regional markets for sustainable Project will result in the publication of a final storm-petrel experts to provide guidance on Project will work with landowners to dedicate to 37 acres of the Bluff Mesa Meadow unit and traceable seafood, including West Coast strategic plan for monitoring and restoration monitoring plan and implementation plan flow to return hundreds of acre-feet back to via fuel thinning and prescribed fire. groundfish. of Klamath River Basin native fishes. development during two workshops to be help the system annually and provide for thousands $101,042 $101,826 $100,000 over two years. of feet in instream benefit. $80,379 $209,007

14 15 Student Conservation Association The Nature Conservancy Trout Unlimited U.S. Geological Survey University of California – Santa Barbara Yurok Tribe Performing Trail Maintenance San Miguel Island Rat Feasibility Study (CA) Reduce Entrainment of Native Fishes Analyzing Trends and Variability in Southern Restoration and Resilience of Endemic Bigcone Development of an Integrated Fisheries for Soda Creek and Indian Springs Evaluate rat-eradication strategies and through Installation of Fish Screens (CA, OR) California Ashy Storm-petrel Colonies (CA) Douglas-fir after the 2007 Zaca Fire Restoration and Monitoring Plan on Lassen National Forest (CA) methodologies in relation to high priority Address fish screening needs at five irrigation Acquire, integrate, review and analyze Map the distribution of bigcone Douglas- for the Klamath Basin – Yurok Tribe (CA) Perform trail maintenance for Soda Creek nontarget natural resources and make diversions on the Wood River in the Klamath available catch-per-unit-effort data for ashy fir in the Zaca Fire footprint, quantify Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and and Indian Springs for nearly eight miles site-specific recommendations for a rat River Basin to prevent entrainment of native storm-petrel throughout the California stand mortality and collect seed from other Klamath Basin stakeholders in the within the Storrie Fire boundary on Lassen eradication on San Miguel Island, California. fishes, including redband trout, bull trout Channel Islands to benefit understanding representative locations. Project will conduct completion of an accurate, comprehensive National Forest in California. Project will Project will result in a comprehensive and lamprey. Project will build upon ongoing of its status and conservation. Project will a landscape-scale assessment of restoration and prioritized Integrated Fisheries provide critical trail maintenance that will survey of existing rat eradication strategies partnerships and restoration efforts in the establish robust guidelines to monitor viability, combined with an assessment Restoration and Monitoring Plan, detailing reduce erosion and includes reduction and methodologies, and those on the Wood River and will reduce entrainment trends in relative abundance, and outline a of local-scale environmental conditions needs throughout the Klamath River of user-created trails, hazard tree and near horizon, in relation to the high value threats to socially, culturally and ecologically standardized, repeatable approach. associated with regeneration, to maximize Watershed, including its major tributaries. overgrown vegetation removal, sign nontarget resources that inhabit the important native fish species. $49,966 seedling survival in outplanting trials. Project will result in the publication of a final installation and other trail improvements. island. $139,863 $132,754 strategic plan for monitoring and restoration $130,509 $50,000 U.S. Geological Survey, of Klamath River Basin native fishes. Trout Unlimited California Water Science Center University of California – Santa Cruz $50,000 Tejon Ranch Conservancy The Nature Conservancy Russian River Coho Partnership (CA) Sediment Mobilization and Geomorphic Developing Tools to Prevent Extinction and Sacatara Canyon Springs Restoration (CA) Water Transactions to Benefit Chinook Refine and validate the effectiveness of Assessment of the Mainstem Klamath River Recover Threatened and Endangered Seabirds Yurok Tribe Restore 20 acres of wetland and desert Salmon and Support the Shasta River Water environmental flow restoration on fish, Below Iron Gate Dam (CA) (AK, CA, HI, Canada) Lower Bear Creek Stream riparian habitats that serve as important Transaction Program (CA) and food availability as estimated by Assess river corridor conditions and the Utilize a new meta-population viability and Floodplain Habitat Enhancement migratory and breeding habitat for a variety Secure approximately 500 acre-feet of water invertebrate drift. Project will develop flow geomorphic effectiveness of streamflow model approach in order to make improved to Benefit Native Salmonids (CA) of avian species, native amphibian species with short-term forbearance agreements recommendations that improve ecosystem in the Klamath River below Iron Gate seabird conservation decisions. Project Install constructed wood jams and and mammals in Kern County, California. with willing water right holders in the Shasta condition and facilitate environmentally Dam, and relate flow history to bed will identify the most at-risk species and rehabilitate riparian habitats in lower Bear Project will engage partners and volunteers River Watershed. Project will work with responsible water use mobility and conditions conducive to their breeding sites in order to improve the Creek to provide immediate and long-term to help remove 5 acres of invasive water rights holders to leave water instream $410,000 infectious diseases, particularly those conservation status of seabirds and prevent benefits to Chinook and Coho salmon, and vegetation, assess wildlife communities and when flows are at their lowest in late effecting juvenile salmonids. Project the listing of seabird species in the future. steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout. Project monitor growth of native riparian habitat. September just before the end of irrigation Trout Unlimited will collect baseline datasets and create $249,984 will facilitate the formation and maintenance UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES $44,666 season. Upper Sprague Riparian Protection and a foundational map for planning and of productive winter rearing habitats; $58,210 Enhancement to Improve Water Quality implementing future monitoring and Washington State University improve connectivity between riverine, The Nature Conservancy for Native Fish (CA, OR) interpreting river response to hydrologic Evaluating Meadow Restoration Techniques tributary and floodplain habitats; and Enhancing and Protecting Water The Student Conservation Association Complete riparian enhancement actions disturbance, including flow releases for for Sierra Nevada Amphibians (CA) increase riparian forest health and resilience. for Salmon through Voluntary Dedications Los Padres Young Adult in the Upper Sprague Basin to improve fish disease mitigation. Evaluate multiple meadow restoration $88,906 in the Shasta River Basin (CA) Conservation Team (CA) water quality in the Klamath Basin through $175,000 techniques and benefits for three Engage with partners in the Shasta River Evaluate and repair degraded trail, off- functioning riparian buffers to reduce endangered amphibians throughout Sierra Yurok Tribe Watershed to identify and implement highway vehicle route and roads throughout external phosphorus loading and decrease University of California – Davis Nevada in California. Project will study Water Quality and Habitat Restoration for voluntary solutions to enhancing flows areas impacted by the Jesusita and Zaca stream temperatures. Project will include Restoration and Resilience of Endemic Bigcone meadow restoration effects on the Yosemite Anadromous Fish in Blue Creek (CA) to benefit habitat for Chinook and Coho fires within the Los Padres National Forest. the installation of 5 miles of riparian fencing, Douglas-fir after the Zaca Fire II (CA) toad, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and Provide immediate and long-term benefits salmon. Project will assist three to eight Project will utilize a highly qualified team 15 acres of riparian planting, five off-stream Map the distribution of bigcone Douglas- mountain yellow-legged frog; create meadow to wild runs of Chinook and Coho salmon; landowners who are currently pursuing of young adults to improve trail and habitat watering systems and riparian grazing fir in the Zaca Fire footprint, quantify restoration technique recommendations. steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout; and Safe Harbor Agreements with the National conditions, and provide valuable on-the- management plans. stand mortality and collect seed from $25,000 Pacific lamprey by improving water quality, Oceanic Atmospheric Administration in ground experience in conservation and $140,653 representative locations. Project will promoting base flow restoration, and securing dedication of instream flows, land-management practices. include a landscape-scale assessment of Watershed Research and Training Center increasing habitat complexity and resilience which will ultimately result in up to 4,400 $115,853 The Trust for Public Land restoration viability, combined with an Thinning, Fuels Reduction and Resilience (CA) in the Blue Creek Watershed. Project will and 9,700 acre-feet of additional water Acquisition of Temescal Ranch assessment of local-scale environmental Conduct plantation thinning and fuels address sedimentation, water quality and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED being left instream when fish need it Trout Unlimited in Southern California conditions associated with regeneration, to reduction to restore and enhance critical hydrologic impairments associated with a most. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (CA, NV, OR) Acquire the 6,006-acre Temescal Ranch to maximize seedling survival in outplanting wildlife habitat attributes on 100 acres of legacy timber road; and increase habitat $99,566 Execute strategies identified in the help fill the largest gap in protected lands trials, and findings will support an adaptive forest plantations on the Shasta-Trinity complexity and resilience by adding large Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Business Plan in Southern California. Project will conserve management plan for long-term persistence National Forest. Project will use appropriate wood to fluvial habitats and planting riparian The Nature Conservancy by deploying a range-wide field crew to native habitats, wildlife corridors, streams of this important endemic species. silvicultural techniques and prescriptions to trees. French Meadows Forest Restoration assist in recovery actions and applying and other natural resources that support $68,665 help create late successional forest habitat $253,244 and Fuels Reduction Project, a Population Viability Model to design sensitive species like the California condor attributes that support threatened and Tahoe National Forest (CA) effective and cost-efficient sampling and Southern California steelhead, while also University of California – Santa Barbara endangered wildlife, while mitigating risk Conduct restoration planning, monitoring protocols for agency partners. supporting regional farms and expanding Evaluation and Restoration of Degraded from wildfire, competition and disease. COLORADO and fuels reduction on 29,117 acres of $242,463 outdoor recreation opportunities. Chaparral within the Piru Fire Perimeter II (CA) $112,022 forest land at the headwaters of the $500,000 Evaluate methods to restore chaparral Groundwork Denver Middle Fork American River on the Tahoe Trout Unlimited species into degraded sites within the Western Association Bear Creek Water Quality Outreach and National Forest in the northern Sierra Optimizing Flow for Ecosystem Productivity The Trust for Public Land Piru Fire perimeter in Los Padres National of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Residential Activities (CO) Nevada. Project will significantly reduce and Irrigation in the Upper Shasta River (CA) South Los Angeles Green Alleys Initiative (CA) Forest. Project will employ large-scale Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Improve the water quality and riparian the potential for severe wildfire that could Refine and validate the effectiveness of Engage local residents in planning, planting across a several acre area Western United States (multiple states) habitat of Bear Creek in Denver County, damage owl and goshawk habitat and environmental flow restoration on fish implementation, monitoring and focusing on eight species planted across a Develop a regional strategy to increase Colorado, while providing a career pathway reservoir operations, as well as determine and food availability as estimated by stewardship of the Central-Jefferson and heterogeneous landscape, and also plant organizational capacity and coordination for 34 low-income youth employees and the potential forest health and water yield invertebrate drift. Project will develop flow Quincy Jones Green Alleys Networks in out specific assemblages designed to either among monarch butterfly conservation stewardship opportunities for local residents co-benefits of forest fuels reduction in this recommendations that improve ecosystem South Los Angeles, to absorb runoff that withstand drought, or suppress invasive partners west of the Rocky Mountains. by offering education and resources watershed. condition and facilitate environmentally would otherwise impact the Los Angeles species or a combination that balances Project will develop and track implementation to reduce watershed human impacts. $351,897 responsible water use in the Shasta River. River and Pacific Ocean. Project will improve drought tolerance, re-sprouting ability and efforts identified in the Western Monarch Project will install green infrastructure to $39,672 stormwater management, water quality competitiveness while maximizing native Population Conservation Strategy, establish reduce runoff from residential properties, monitoring, restoration of native habitat, species richness. the Western Monarch and Pollinator Initiative coordinate community volunteer days to increased local groundwater supplies and $184,280 Council, and transition milkweed data into remove invasives, clean up trash and replant resilience to drought. the Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool. native species in the riparian habitat. $50,000 $120,000 $46,911

16 17 National Audubon Society Rocky Mountain Field Institute Upper Gunnison River City of New London Earthplace – The Nature Discovery Center Eastern Connecticut Conservation District Advancing the SageWest Communications Environmental Stewardship (CO) Water Conservancy District Developing a Natural Resource and Watershed Partnering for Pollution Prevention: Water Rain Gardens and Rain Barrels Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem Engage and educate an average of 2,300 Riparian and Wet Meadow Restoration Plan for New London (CT) quality monitoring of Impaired Waterways (CT) for Eastern Connecticut (multiple states) youth and adult community volunteers and Coordination in the Sagebrush Landscapes Conduct an assessment of the current Monitor eight impaired waterways bi-weekly Install an estimated 7,000-square-feet and Elevate individual conservation efforts and in Colorado Springs and throughout of Western Colorado condition of the city’s natural resources for water temperature, dissolved oxygen, 100 rain barrels in rain gardens in Eastern create a larger dialogue about the value and surrounding counties to restore 20 acres Enhance coordination, knowledge and and watershed health. Project will develop conductivity, fecal coliform and bacteria Connecticut. Project will prevent up to need for sagebrush conservation. Project of habitat impacted by fire and invasive technology transfer, and implementation a plan that provides a concrete vision for in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Project 8,581 gallons of stormwater from flowing will engage in priority work groups, develop species. Project will work with conservation of restoration structures that improve a sustainable and resilient urban shoreline will provide an update to a dataset of into Long Island Sound. guidance documents, and organize partner corps in addition to volunteers, supporting mesic habitats through landscape-scale community into the future. water quality conditions and work towards $84,996 meetings across the ecosystem. at least 75 corps member experiences who restoration projects. Project will utilize the $35,000 identifying sources of sewage pollution $34,200 will learn conservation employment skills. most appropriate restoration techniques impacting Long Island Sound. Housatonic Valley Association $30,000 to restore mesic habitats in the most cost- Connecticut Audubon Society $65,363 Collaborative Watershed Planning Pheasants Forever effective manner, through site prioritization, Rain and Pollinator Gardens for Schools (CT) for the Ten Mile River (CT, NY) Expanding Conservation of Working Lands in State of Colorado, development of methods and monitoring Guide student-led planning and installation of Earthplace – The Nature Discovery Center Develop a watershed management plan the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) Department of Natural Resources techniques, field assessments, design rain and pollinator gardens at schools in the The Unified Water Study Equipment Loan for the Ten Mile River in eastern Dutchess Maintain and expand technical assistance Greenback Cutthroat Trout Restoration workshops with experts, outreach to private Connecticut River Estuary, including Essex, Program: Collaboration in Embayment County, New York, and western Litchfield capacity in key greater sage grouse focal in the Canyon Lakes Ranger District (CO) landowners and funding for on-the-ground Deep River and Chester, Connecticut. Project Monitoring (CT, NY) County, Connecticut. Project will inform areas to strengthen working ranch lands Support native greenback cutthroat trout restoration work. will enhance existing schoolyard habitats, Manage an equipment, supplies and restoration and water quality activities management to improve greater sage recovery in Colorado by increasing suitable $149,639 adding features that reduce 4,675 gallons of technical resources loan program for focused on reducing nitrogen loads from the grouse populations. Project will improve habitat in the George Creek watershed. stormwater pollution while providing students up to 20 embayment groups and 200 Ten Mile River to the Housatonic River and grazing practices on 250,000 acres to Project will establish a metapopulation of Wetland Dynamics and teachers with an example of sustainable citizen science volunteers to support the Long Island Sound. benefit greater sage grouse through greenback cutthroats within the Canyon Gunnison Sage Grouse Collaborative Action conservation action for Long Island Sound. Unified Water Study for Long Island Sound $64,358 technical assistance provided by 14 Strategic Lakes Ranger District of the Arapaho Plan Project and Plan Development (CO, UT) $15,443 embayments in Connecticut and New York. Watershed Action Teams members. Roosevelt National Forest. Help to identify and prioritize on-the- Project will result in a greater number of IC Independent Consulting $1,688,795 $60,000 ground projects to benefit Gunnison sage Connecticut Audubon Society embayments being monitored providing Implementing and Improving Electronic grouse in each population so that when Wildlife Preserve Restoration Project (CT) important information from the first areas Monitoring in New England Fisheries UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory The Nature Conservancy funding for projects is available, partners Restore 33 acres of the H. Smith Richardson affected by pollution sources that impact (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI) Working Lands for Wildlife in the San Luis Prairie Canyonlands Big Horn Sheep and will have tools and guidance on where Wildlife Preserve to a coastal forest habitat in the health of Long Island Sound. Review and synthesize electronic monitoring Valley, Colorado Grassland Birds Restoration (CO) to focus project work. Project will work Westport, Connecticut. Project will improve $99,971 technologies, electronic reporting Implement wetland and riparian habitat Restore habitat for Cassin’s sparrow, chestnut to sustain both the Gunnison Basin and conditions for birds and other wildlife at technologies and data requirements to enhancement and restoration projects to collared longspur, lark bunting, McCown’s satellite populations of sage grouse for one of the largest open spaces in southwest Earthplace – The Nature Discovery Center better monitor catch, bycatch, discards and benefit southwestern willow flycatcher. longspur, Sprague’s pipit and Rocky Mountain future generations. Connecticut along the Long Island Sound. Water Quality Monitoring in Three Urban interactions with endangered, threatened Project will provide targeted outreach to bighorn sheep through pinyon juniper $63,500 $145,780 Watersheds (CT) and protected species within the New thousands of landowners through technical clearing and rotational grazing. Project will Conduct water quality monitoring in the England groundfish fisheries. Project and educational workshops and landowner focus on restoration strategies based on an World Wildlife Fund Connecticut Fund for the Environment Rippowam River, Norwalk River and Bruce will develop a plan for implementing visits. analysis of habitat and connectivity needs of Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale A Fishway for Pages Millpond Dam (CT) Brook in Connecticut to identify sources data modernization to address gaps that $195,852 the Purgatoire Canyonlands. of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Construct a fishway opening 5.35 river of pollution. Project will collect data at will satisfy scientific, enforcement and $110,643 (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) miles and 4.25 lake acres of fish habitat for each site, including dissolved oxygen, sustainable management needs. Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Update and expand geospatial data analysis, alewife, blueback herring and American eel conductivity, water temperature, fecal $79,940 Habitat Restoration and Community Outreach U.S. Department of Agriculture, called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape in North Branford, Connecticut. Project will coliform and E. coli, and identify sources along the South Platte River (CO) U.S. Forest Service change metrics for the Northern Great complete the restoration of this riverine of negative impacts to create a dataset of Lynde Point Land Trust Restore water control structures on Lesser Prairie Chicken Habitat Restoration (CO) Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand migratory corridor to Long Island Sound. water quality conditions to reduce bacteria Hepburn Living Shoreline Project (CT) permanent Wetland Reserve Program Replace 29 windmills with solar pumps to the previous versions by including northern $249,947 and nutrient inputs to Long Island Sound Construct a living shoreline on Long Island

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED easements along the lower South Platte River, benefit lesser prairie chicken nesting and Mexico, extending the analysis backward tributaries and reduce beach and shellfish Sound in Fenwick, Connecticut. Project restoring at least 40 acres of open wetland brood-rearing activities. Project will restore in time to capture historical change and Connecticut Fund for the Environment bed closures. will provide protection for the nearby and managing 200 acres of surrounding habitat on more than 30,000 acres and using the newest and best available data Fish Passage Projects (CT) $27,056 community and a 10-acre tidal marsh from habitat to support waterfowl, waterbirds and enhance the success of current translocation to track rates of agricultural conversion, Develop engineered designs for fishways at storms and rising waters. shorebirds. Project will educate landowners efforts of lesser prairie chickens, with the monitor previously converted lands, identify Whitford Pond Dam in Stonington and at Earthplace – The Nature Discovery Center $250,000 and invite other landowners to implement ultimate goal of restoring a viable population risk factors for remaining intact habitat and Alewife Cove Dam in Waterford, Connecticut. Water Quality Monitoring to Improve Fairfield wetland best management practices for to the Comanche National Grassland. target conservation work. Project will complete critical design work to County Waterways and Long Island Sound (CT) Manomet wildlife habitat along the river corridor. $75,000 $20,000 address the next barriers to fish migration Conduct water quality monitoring to Coastal Habitat Restoration for American $22,159 along two historically abundant diadromous help improve 10 waterways affected by Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast U.S. Geological Survey fish migratory river corridors. pollution in Fairfield County, Connecticut. (multiple states) Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory National Wildlife Health Center CONNECTICUT $99,987 Project will use the water quality data Coordinate the planning and Private Lands Conservation Developing and Testing Delivery Methods for collected to inform local government implementation of conservation action for for Grassland Birds in Southeast Colorado Vaccine Treatments to Reduce White-Nose City of Hartford Connecticut Fund for the Environment actions to reduce sewage pollution into American oystercatcher along the entire Implement grassland habitat enhancement Syndrome in Bats (CO, MN, TX, WI) Bright Green Hartford – Residential Rainwater Unified Water Study: Long Island Sound Long Island Sound. U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue and restoration on grassland habitats in Design and test mass-delivery methods Management for a Greener, Cleaner Embayment Monitoring (CT, NY) $74,493 the coastwide coordination of the American southeastern Colorado through enrolling for vaccines and other treatment options and Healthier Hartford (CT) Implement the Unified Water Study (UWS), oystercatcher recovery initiative and landowners in Farm Bill conservation as a strategy to reduce the occurrence Conduct a program to provide residents a water quality monitoring program in two Eastern Connecticut Conservation District compile lessons learned after a decade’s programs, which will be facilitated by a of white-nose syndrome in bats. Project with green infrastructure in Hartford, embayments; and engage five water quality Shewville Dam Fishway Design Project (CT) worth of targeted investments and embark private-lands wildlife biologist. Project also will develop and test an automatic spray Connecticut. Project will reduce 1.8 million monitoring groups in nine embayments Prepare an engineered plan for a fishway upon a new initiative to develop best will provide targeted outreach to thousands technology device for delivering treatments gallons of stormwater pollution annually providing them with technical support as on the Shewville Dam, Shewville Brook and management practices to restore wet and of landowners through technical and to bats as they fly into maternity roosts or from flowing into the Connecticut River and participants in the UWS in Connecticut and Ledyard Reservior, Connecticut. Project will dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and educational workshops and landowner visits. hibernacula for fall swarm and assess oral Long Island Sound. New York. Project will engage a coordinated complete critical design work to address a other breeding shorebirds along the Atlantic $151,237 consumption of treatment and effectiveness $177,310 effort to collect data on the health of bays and barrier to upstream alewife migration along Coast. of a topical delivery method through the use harbors to provide for synthesis about water a migratory river corridor of Long Island $150,000 of biomarkers. quality issues affecting Long Island Sound. Sound. $400,000 $99,991 $74,133

18 19 National Audubon Society Neighborhood Housing Services Northeast Organic Farming Association Solar Youth The Nature Conservancy University of Connecticut Audubon WildLife Guards: of New Haven of Connecticut Long Island Sound Summit Planning for Fish Passage Rapid Action Plans to Deliver Green A Coastal Youth Conservation Program (CT) Stormwater Management Education f(CT) Healthy Connecticut Towns and Video Project (CT) at the Starr Mill Pond Dam (CT) Infrastructure in Coastal Connecticut Employ high school students working with Provide education about Green Infrastructure for a Healthy Long Island Sound (CT) Engage urban youth in a Long Island Sound Develop an engineered plan for fish Plan, design and implement five Green local partners to steward, monitor and wastewater management systems in low- Offer training programs about organic Summit that will include curriculum and passage at the Starr Mill Pond Dam and for Infrastructure projects in communities in restore habitat, and increase knowledge income neighborhoods highly impacted by land-care practices and principles to 100 lessons, hands-on conservation activities restoration of the river corridor and upstream the South Central Region Basin, Connecticut. about protecting habitat and wildlife water pollution in New Haven, Connecticut. landscapers in Connecticut. Project will and creation of a Youth Voice Video impoundment in Middleton, Connecticut. Project will provide measurable annual among visitors to Sandy Point Beach and Project will seek to increase residents’ have landscapers commit to transitioning where the students will share what they Project will improve connectivity, restore reductions in stormwater pollution into Long Bird Sanctuary in West Haven. Project will understanding of the impact of water properties in their care to an organic learned about Long Island Sound with the freshwater wetlands and riparian buffer, Island Sound. complement ongoing efforts to restore and pollution and about the opportunities they program to foster reductions of nitrogen and public in New Haven, Connecticut. Project floodplain and aquatic habitat benefiting $234,712 sustainably manage Sandy Point, to engage have to decrease pollution into Long Island pesticide runoff into Long Island Sound. will increase urban youths’ awareness, resident as well as migratory species. people in stewardship and to increase Sound through simple, low-cost solutions. $36,682 knowledge, skills and motivation to protect $85,482 University of Connecticut knowledge among visitors. $10,000 and restore the Sound. Resilience Management and Restoration $27,181 Sea Research Foundation $10,000 The Nature Conservancy at Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve (CT) Neighborhood Housing Services Connections to Long Island Sound (CT) Producing and Implementing Develop a resilience management plan for and National Audubon Society of New Haven Use interactive exhibits, portable SoundWaters a Community-supported Long Island Sound restore coastal grassland and upland at the Engaging Communities Stormwater Management Programs estuarine-based tools and curricula and SoundWaters Bioextraction Seaweed Farm Blue Plan (CT, NY) Dodge Paddock/Beal Preserve in Stonington, through Schoolyard Habitats – V (CT) to Improve Water Quality (CT) interactive resources to engage and for Stamford (CT) Finalize the Long Island Sound Blue Plan Connecticut. Project will incorporate planning Create a network of schoolyard habitats at 25 Develop classroom-based programs and educate visitors and students about issues Install a seaweed farm to bioextract in Connecticut and New York. Project will for rising tides and storms to protect tidal schools in Fairfield and New Haven counties, community-based, volunteer-driven affecting Long Island Sound at the Mystic pollution from Stamford Harbor, Stamford, create a community-supported plan to wetlands, coastal grassland, beach/dune Connecticut. Project will connect local environmental events in New Haven, Aquarium, Connecticut. Project will reach Connecticut. Project will educate students, protect marine life in Long Island Sound. habitat and rocky intertidal shoreline. residents to Long Island Sound and empower Connecticut. Project will educate local approximately 750,000 individuals each year teachers and the public about the $44,986 $55,449 them to engage in its conservation. residents about how to reduce stormwater and promote environmental stewardship of benefits of bioextraction through seaweed $44,999 from their homes into the West River and Long Island Sound and its watersheds. aquaculture in the waters of Long Island Town of Berlin, Connecticut Long Island Sound. $44,966 Sound. A Fishway for the Railroad Pond Dam (CT) DELAWARE National Audubon Society $14,398 $38,307 Install a fishway at the Railroad Pond Dam UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Urban Oases: Community-Based Education Sea Research Foundation in Berlin, Connecticut. Project will open American Bird Conservancy and Outreach to Enhance Habitats Around New Haven Land Trust Partnering for Marine Debris and Trash The Nature Conservancy pond and river for fish to pass, including: Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black Long Island Sound (CT) Schooner Coastal Exploration, Stewardship, Prevention and Animal Rescue around Long Community-driven Nitrogen Action alewife, blueback herring, sea lamprey and Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Engage teachers, students and community and Environmental Education (CT) Island Sound (CT, NY) Planning for Southeastern Connecticut American eel. Bay Watershed (multiple states) members in enhancing urban green spaces Provide hands-on educational programming Offer education and stewardship Harbors and Bays (CT) $250,000 Develop guidance to target wetland habitat in the City of New Haven and Town of for underserved youth and families through opportunities focused on the impact of Develop a nitrogen action plan for harbors restoration and enhancement across the Hamden, Connecticut. Project will involve summer camp, on-the-water programs, marine debris on marine species, and and bays in Southeastern Connecticut. U.S. Department of Agriculture, entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project 12,000 people in local environmental outreach, and school-based programs focusing engage coastal and non-coastal community Project will identify and prioritize activities U.S. Forest Service will be using the output of two separate education to increase the availability of on protection of Long Island Sound. Project members in Connecticut and New York. to reduce nitrogen pollution entering Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas models to target conservation actions that habitat in urban parks and schoolyards for will increase appreciation and awareness of Project will increase public awareness to Southeastern Connecticut waters and Long and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species would benefit water quality and black ducks, migrating birds and other wildlife. and provide sustainable recreational activities reduce marine debris, trash and fishing gear Island Sound. (multiple states) in partnership with the U.S. Geological $44,918 to the Sound for more than 800 people. from entering Long Island Sound. $40,862 Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Survey and the Atlantic Coast and Black $45,000 $44,587 Atlas database, website, digital tools, and Duck joint ventures. National Audubon Society The Nature Conservancy sample repository to a national scale. $25,634 Urban Oases in New Haven Watershed (CT) New Haven Urban Resources Initiative Sea Research Foundation Greening Affordable Housing for Nature, Project will expand the current coverage Engage local residents in restoring 20 acres of Promoting Green Infrastructure through Sound Discoveries – Education through Community Resilience and Human Well-being of the database of information important Chesapeake Media Service urban green space in parks and schoolyards Monitoring & Evaluation of Bioswales (CT) Exploration (CT) (AZ, CT, NM) to the conservation and management of Increased Outreach to Local Governments in

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED to improve watershed health and provide Monitor Green Infrastructure (GI) bioswales Host an environmental education program Create demonstration projects in three aquatic species to include waterways in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through the quality habitat for migratory wildlife while to evaluate their capacity to improve water to immerse students and families in the cities to address community resilience the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Bay Journal (multiple states) also addressing critical community needs quality and reduce stormwater runoff; and habitats of Long Island Sound in Mystic, and improve green infrastructure by conservation investments for suppressing Create a new local government edition in underserved neighborhoods of greater conduct a communications program for Connecticut. Project will increase knowledge creating an urban forest and greenspace in invasives and increasing native populations. of the Bay Journal to provide education New Haven. Project will enhance habitat residents, the business community and the about the natural resources of the Long Albuquerque, New Mexico; creating green $73,018 for municipal staff in the vast majority of at 31 school/park habitat sites, improve public. Project will aid in the design and Island Sound and actions people can take to stormwater infrastructure in Bridgeport, the 1,800 local government jurisdictions management of 545 acres of private land and installation of GI systems in three New Haven improve it. Connecticut; and depaving surfaces and University of Connecticut within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. engage 12,000 people through outreach and river watersheds and in urban areas of the $8,651 planting trees in Phoenix, Arizona. Projects Addressing the Problem of Microplastics Project will provide information that restoration activities. Long Island Sound. will plant 270 trees and reach out to 950 in Long Island Sound Harbors (CT) will help them understand and achieve $49,994 $42,966 Sea Research Foundation people to implement green infrastructure Investigate microplastics and the impact their commitments to Chesapeake Bay Sound Spirit Week (CT) and develop supportive communities. of this type of pollution in harbors of the restoration efforts. Neighborhood Housing Services Northeast Organic Farming Association Conduct awareness and stewardship events $250,000 western Long Island Sound in Connecticut. $20,001 of New Haven of Connecticut designed to educate the public about the Project will develop a model monitoring Disconnecting Downspouts and Connecting Engaging New Landscaping Professionals ecological and economical importance of The Nature Conservancy program to assess the extent and impact Ducks Unlimited Partners in the West River Watershed (CT) in Nontoxic Landscaping Practices Long Island Sound. Project will teach up to Identifying Ecologically Significant Areas of microplatic pollution on habitats and the Conservation of American Black Duck in Install Green Infrastructure improvements at for Long Island Sound 40,000 individuals about actions they can for the Blue Plan – II (CT, NY) food web of Long Island Sound, educate Delaware, Maryland and Virginia residential sites in New Haven, Connecticut. Host two educational courses on nontoxic take to reduce their impact on the Sound, Engage scientists, technical experts and the about the issue, and develop management Implement the goals of the Working Lands Project will prevent 108,000 gallons of property management practices that engage 20 high school students in marine interested public to identify ecologically recommendations to address the problem. for Wildlife Farm Bill Program by targeting stormwater pollution annually from flowing reduce nonpoint source pollution entering debris related activities and engage up to significant areas (ESAs) for the Long Island $99,999 conservation of American black duck priority into the West River and Long Island Sound. Long Island Sound. Project will provide 300 people in conservation activities at four Sound Blue Plan in Connecticut and New habitat in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. $84,035 free training for about 70 local landscapers stewardship events. York. Project will develop one of the Project will work with producers and private to help them transition to practices that $9,978 foundational elements of a plan to protect landowners to implement voluntary Farm decrease common fertilizer, phosphorous important aquatic habitats of Long Island Bill conservation programs to protect, and pesticide use to reduce overall nitrogen Sound. restore and enhance habitat to benefit pollution from entering Long Island Sound. $45,000 American black ducks on private lands. $44,937 $272,564

20 21 Manomet University of Delaware Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay National League of Cities Institute FLORIDA Florida Forest Service Coastal Habitat Restoration for American Mapping and Demonstrating Biochar Potential Spring House Run Community Leadership in Community Resilience Florida Longleaf Pine Restoration Incentives Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast for Roadway Runoff Reduction in New Castle Water Quality Monitoring (DC) Conduct a series of demonstration projects Alachua Conservation Trust Provide technical and financial assistance to (multiple states) County (DE) Implement a citizen water quality monitoring by extending the Leadership in Community Ocala Regional Implementation Team – V (FL) implement longleaf ecosystem restoration Coordinate the planning and implementation Examine roadway soils in New Castle County, program on Spring House Run to collect Resilience pilot program of 10 cities to a Restore and enhance more than 6,300 on 1,300 acres of private lands within of conservation action for American Delaware, to ascertain soil and roadway data that will quantify the water-quality second cohort of seven cities. Project will acres of longleaf pine habitat on public priority areas in Florida. Project will market oystercatcher along the entire U.S. Atlantic locations most amenable to biochar improvements of a recent stream bed support a resilience-focused community and private lands in north-central Florida. to landowners to build interest in longleaf seaboard. Project will continue the coastwide amendment, a highly effective stormwater restoration project. Project will provide a event and 12 months of technical support. Project will expand foraging habitat for red- restoration, prepare forest management coordination of the American oystercatcher runoff reduction method. Project will baseline for community engagement and $248,111 cockaded woodpeckers in Ocala National plans to guide longleaf restoration efforts and recovery initiative and compile lessons demonstrate the long-term benefit of education to mobilize the local community as Forest, establish longleaf pine on lands provide financial assistance to landowners to learned after a decade’s worth of targeted biochar addition and create a map showing stewards of the watershed in which they live. Nspiregreen buffering Camp Blanding and increase offset planting and prescribed burning costs. investments and embark upon a new locations along county roadways where $45,723 RiverSmart Green Infrastructure (DC) prescribed fire capacity on private lands $150,000 initiative to develop best management biochar amendment is expected to have Develop a community-engagement plan through development of a prescribed burn practices to restore wet and dry sand habitats high, medium or low benefit. American Bird Conservancy and toolkit for the District Department association. Florida State University for oystercatchers and other breeding $49,723 Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black of Energy and Environment’s RiverSmart $240,000 Review Management Options to Reduce Sea shorebirds along the Atlantic Coast. Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake green infrastructure program. Project Turtle Vessel Strikes in Southern Florida $150,000 University of Maryland Center Bay Watershed (multiple states) will significantly increase the number of Chicago Zoological Society Explore opportunities to reduce vessel strikes for Environmental Science Develop guidance to target wetland habitat homeowners participating in the program and Enhancing the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin to sea turtles in Southern Florida. Project will Ridge to Reefs Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators restoration and enhancement across the installation of green infrastructure retrofits. Identification System (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) convene experts to identify strategies that Bioreactor Implementation Training and into the Chesapeake Bay Report Card entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will $40,078 Improve the functionality of the Gulf of can be implemented to reduce sea turtle Promoting (DE, MD) (multiple states) be using the output of two separate models to Mexico Dolphin Identification System, a vessel strike in Florida and assess challenges Increase the capacity of Nanticoke Make key improvements to the Chesapeake target conservation actions that would benefit Skeo Solutions collaborative database of bottlenose dolphin and opportunities. Watershed Alliance to site, design and build Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 water quality and black ducks, in partnership Anacostia Watershed Regional Messaging photographic identification from researchers $79,553 bioreactors within the Nanticoke watershed, as the definitive source for ecosystem health with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Initiative (DC, MD) around the Gulf. Project will expand the and promote the practice with other farmers status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project Atlantic Coast and Black Duck joint ventures. Develop a conservation-based regional existing tool for protection and restoration Forest Landowners Association throughout the watershed. Project will will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card $25,634 initiative designed to educate effected of bottlenose dolphins, allowing researchers Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES conduct targeted outreach to farmers, hold process and product by incorporating recent communities and broaden knowledge of the to search online for their individual dolphins Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing a farmer workshop and provide bioreactor lessons learned, incorporating new design Anacostia Watershed Society Anacostia River and watershed throughout within the catalogs of other collaborating Solutions – II (multiple states) tours to increase knowledge about this elements, developing indicators for nontidal Freshwater Mussel Restoration (DC) the District of Columbia, Montgomery County researchers, to identify long-range Engage large family forest landowners in practice. watershed areas. Restore populations of freshwater mussels by and Prince Georges County. Project will movements and determine the origins of longleaf restoration and at-risk species $49,994 $113,995 deploying more than 7,000 mussels to filter create a consistent and coordinated strategy stranded dolphins. conservation throughout the historic up to 26 million gallons of water annually to engage communities, neighborhoods, $60,000 range of the longleaf pine. Project will The Nature Conservancy Water Words That Work in the Anacostia River in the District of and citizens in conservation practices for assist landowners with the establishment Water Quality Project Prioritization and Training Chesapeake Bay Conservation Columbia, improving water quality conditions the Anacostia that will reduce nutrients and Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres Capacity Continuity in Sussex County (DE) Practitioners (DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) and aquatic biodiversity. Project will lay sediment entering the Chesapeake Bay. Restoration Modeling and Wetlands Reserve of longleaf pine, develop regulatory Improve water quality in the Chesapeake Help conservation practitioners successfully groundwork for future mussel restoration $44,911 Program Implementation in the Myakka River predictability tools for at-risk species Bay and local waters through the planning recruit and negotiate landowners’ efforts by determining suitable habitats and Basin (FL) endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, and design of wetland restoration and participation in the Conservation Reserve feasibility while educating more than 500 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Develop a unified hydrologic restoration reducing uncertainty for landowners water control structure installation in Enhancement Program, conservation people about the importance of freshwater U.S. Forest Service model and strategic outreach program wishing to manage for longleaf habitat Sussex County, Delaware. Project will result easements, agricultural best practices, mussels and engaging community members Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas to reach landowners within the 2,500- conditions and explore market-based in a prioritized list of high-impact, cost- manure and forest management plans and in mussel propagation. and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species acre Tatum Sawgrass marsh, a degraded solutions to address the economic effective wetland restoration and water habitat restoration projects to improve $33,099 (multiple states) floodplain marsh within the Myakka constraints to large-scale longleaf control structure projects, three secured water quality in the Chesapeake Bay Expand the aquatic environmental DNA River watershed. Project will provide a restoration on private lands.

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED projects on willing agricultural landowner watershed. Project will bring the expertise CDP North America Atlas database, website, digital tools and necessary tool for restoration planning and $145,000 property, and two training workshops for of the region’s most successful conservation Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments in sample repository to a national scale. implementation of the Natural Resources conservation professionals. field staff into a course designed for entry- Cities (multiple states) Project will expand the current coverage Conservation Service Wetlands Reserve Florida Fish and Wildlife $48,712 level and mid-career field staff. Build capacity of communities in 18 cities of the database of information important Easement (WRE) Program, with at least 150 Conservation Commission $24,978 across the United States to help them to the conservation and management of eligible wetland and agricultural landowners Replacement of Fisheries Management U.S. Department of Agriculture, implement sustainable infrastructure for aquatic species to include waterways in contacted throughout the Myakka River and Coral Rehab Equipment U.S. Forest Service stormwater management, urban wildlife the 37 remaining states to inform strategic watershed to increase enrollment in WRE. Replace buoys and revive coral nurseries Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA habitats and tree canopy improvement. conservation investments for suppressing $277,202 following Hurricane Irma’s destruction and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Project will perform targeted outreach to invasives and increasing native populations. in the Florida Keys. Project will improve (multiple states) Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay cities to increase knowledge of sustainable $73,018 Florida Department management of many economically Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Developing a Chesapeake Tree Canopy infrastructure financing. of Environmental Protection important fin fish species and enhance Atlas database, website, digital tools and Funding and Financing Guide (DC, MD, VA) $200,000 University of Maryland Center Longleaf Pine Restoration in Central Florida capacity to grow and propagate corals to sample repository to a national scale. Develop a Chesapeake Urban Tree Canopy for Environmental Science Establish and enhance 1,100 acres restore reef ecosystems. Project will expand the current coverage Funding and Financing document and hold a Chesapeake Media Service Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators into of longleaf pine habitat on four state $180,000 of the database of information important one-day workshop and provide one-on-one Increased Outreach to Local Governments in Chesapeake Bay Report Card (multiple states) parks and build partnership capacity for to the conservation and management of support for Metro Washington Council of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through the Make key improvements to the Chesapeake landscape-scale longleaf restoration in Florida Fish and Wildlife aquatic species to include waterways in Governments members. Project will serve Bay Journal (multiple states) Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 west-central Florida. Project will plant 300 Conservation Commission the 37 remaining states to inform strategic as a general guidance for all Chesapeake Create a new local government edition of as the definitive source for ecosystem health acres of longleaf pine and native ground SW Florida Coastal Wetlands Assessment conservation investments for suppressing communities on the funding and sustainable the Bay Journal to provide education for status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project cover species and remove invasive plants Assess ecosystem impact to coastal mangrove invasives and increasing native populations. financing of the programs, bolstered with municipal staff in the vast majority of the will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card and implement prescribed burning on an forests and marsh habitats from the Florida $73,018 short and compelling how-to case studies 1,800 local government jurisdictions within process and product by incorporating recent additional 1,000 acres of existing longleaf Keys to Tampa Bay. Damage assessments will from the Chesapeake region. the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Project lessons learned, incorporating new design stands, benefiting gopher tortoises and build upon existing field sites to maximize $49,188 will provide information that will help them elements, developing indicators for non-tidal other at-risk species. before / after data. Project will focus on understand and achieve their commitments watershed areas, and adding social, cultural $100,000 photographic recording of damage, plus to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. and economically relevant values. some field work soil sampling. $20,001 $113,995 $74,783

22 23 Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Manomet New South Development and Training Southeastern Association The Nature Conservancy U.S. Department of the Interior, Shareholders’ Alliance Coastal Habitat Restoration for American Strategic Outreach to Expand Agricultural of Fish and Wildlife Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Initiative – U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Creating Tools to Reduce Bycatch (FL) Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast and Wetland Conservation (AL, FL, GA, TX) Water Conservation through Smart Irrigation VI (FL, GA) Invasive Species Detection and Response (FL) Develop an electronic bycatch hot spot (multiple states) Provide education and outreach services Technologies for Agricultural Producers in the Establish 740 acres of longleaf pine and Establish strike teams for early detection to avoidance program to reduce red snapper Coordinate the planning and implementation to private landowners to increase Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin enhance an additional 30,000 acres of identify, and rapidly respond to eradicate of bycatch in the eastern Gulf of Mexico of conservation action for American enrollment of agricultural and wetland (FL, GA) existing longleaf habitat on the Apalachicola any found terrestrial invasives before they commercial grouper fishery to increase the oystercatcher along the entire U.S. Atlantic properties in the Natural Resources Deploy low-cost soil moisture sensors National Forest and other high-priority can establish footholds. Project will focus on impacts of the Gulf of Mexico Quota Bank. seaboard. Project will continue the coastwide Conservation Service Agricultural in the agricultural regions of southwest public and private lands within the eastern south Florida and the eastern Everglades, Project will develop a bycatch hot spot coordination of the American oystercatcher Conservation Easement Program. Project Georgia and northwest Florida to conserve panhandle of Florida and southwest near national wildlife refuges. reporting tool, engage up to 30 qualifying recovery initiative and compile lessons learned will identify and engage high priority 834 cubic-feet per second annually in the Georgia. Project will improve habitat for $65,000 commercial grouper fishermen and reduce after a decade’s worth of targeted investments landowners through informational Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River numerous at-risk species and will support up to 60,000 pounds of red snapper bycatch. and embark upon a new initiative to develop workshops and technical assistance, with Basin and educate growers on the effective the recovery of the federally threatened U.S. Department of the Interior, $59,107 best management practices to restore wet and a priority of working with underserved methods of irrigation. Project will aid local Eastern indigo snake through captive U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and other landowners. economies dependent on these water breeding and release on restored longleaf Key Deer Habitat Assessment (FL) Gulf Seafood Institute breeding shorebirds along the Atlantic Coast. $370,133 sources and benefit freshwater species, pine habitat. Assess damage from Hurricane Irma to Expanding the Gulf of Mexico Charter Boat $150,000 including six federally listed mussels, the $280,000 habitat of Florida Key deer, an endangered Electronic Logbook (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) North Carolina State University threatened Gulf sturgeon, Shoal bass and subspecies of the white-tailed deer endemic Expand the use of electronic logbooks in the Museum of Science Prescribed Fire Initiative within the numerous other fish species. The Nature Conservancy to the Lower Florida Keys. Project will provide Gulf of Mexico by improving software and Demonstrating Coastal Resilience in Greater Southeastern United States (multiple states) $200,000 Longleaf Pine Restoration and Management managers with insights into Irma-related providing training and outreach to captains. Miami and the Beaches (FL) Expand and accelerate the implementation in the Okefenokee/Osceola Landscape – II damages, habitat utilization and forage Project will increase the number of vessels Partner with a suite of local nonprofits, of prescribed fire to restore and Tall Timbers Research (GA, FL) availability to set restoration priorities and with installed electronic logbook units in the schools and municipalities to restore 17 acres enhance longleaf pine habitat and other Strategic Prescribed Burn Assistance Restore longleaf pine on family forest inform future funding requests. Gulf of Mexico resulting in more accurate of coastal wetland and dune habitats at three fire-dependent forest and grassland on Private Lands in the Longleaf Legacy lands damaged by the West Mims wildfire $140,000 data to fishery managers. different public land sites in Miami-Dade communities within the southeast. Project Landscape (AL, FL, GA) in south Georgia and northeast Florida. $661,298 County. Project will involve highly visible will engage 1,000 landowners and fire Build capacity to increase prescribed Project will establish 2,000 acres of longleaf U.S. Department of Agriculture, models, which will resonate across the region practitioners through technical assistance, burning on private lands across the Longleaf pine on fire-impacted lands and reduce fuel U.S. Forest Service UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Healthy Aquatics Marine Institute and progress toward a goal of 100 successful training and outreach, including “Learn Legacy Landscape, a key private-land- loads on 50,000 acres of existing longleaf Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Establishing a Seedbank and Spawning Stock climate adaptation sites over 10 years and Burn” workshops, development of dominated area in northwest Florida, forests through thinnings and prescribed and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species for 12 Native Floridian Coral Species (FL) throughout Greater Miami and the Beaches. prescribed burn associations and fire southwest Georgia and south Alabama. burns, reducing the likelihood of future (multiple states) Develop a coral aquaculture system to $287,748 festivals, to increase the use of prescribed Project will implement a variety of longleaf catastrophic wildfires. Expand the aquatic environmental DNA supply genetically diverse coral larva for fire. conservation assistance programs to burn $275,000 Atlas database, website, digital tools and growth, experimentation and out planting National Audubon Society $130,000 5,250 acres, prioritize future efforts based sample repository to a national scale. of resilient genetic stocks of corals to Florida Grasshopper Sparrow Recovery on the collection of key fire activity and The Longleaf Alliance Project will expand the current coverage Florida reefs. Project will construct nine Oversee the project and ensure funds are Northwest Florida State conservation data and develop an innovative Accelerating At-Risk Species Recovery in the of the database of information important modules to house and protect 20 colonies distributed to the principle implementing College Foundation and integrated outreach program across Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership to the conservation and management of each of 12 species of native Florida corals organizations, Archbold Biological Station Restoring Oyster Populations in Choctawhatchee organizations that will enhance future Landscape (AL, FL) aquatic species to include waterways in from extinction through seed banking with and the Rare Species Conservatory Bay Through Community Stewardship (FL) targeted longleaf restoration and prescribed Accelerate recovery of declining and at-risk the 37 remaining states to inform strategic genetic identification. Foundation. This project will liaise with a Restore 2 acres of oyster habitat in fire application on private lands. species, including northern bobwhite, conservation investments for suppressing $100,000 recovery expert formally working with San Choctawhatchee Bay, an estuary found $99,984 gopher tortoise and reticulated flatwoods invasives and increasing native populations. Diego Zoo. Maintain close coordination with in Okaloosa and Walton counties of salamander within the western panhandle $73,018 Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute the Everglades Foundation and respective Northwest Florida. Project will engage 150 Texas A&M AgriLife Research of Florida and southern Alabama. Project Advancing Dietary Estimation Tools for the members of federal and state agencies. oyster gardeners, 450 students and 400 Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation will support capacity to implement species- University of Florida Southern Resident Killer Whale Population (FL) $23,245 additional community members and will Scholars Program (multiple states) specific management and monitoring, Evaluating Recreational Fishing Management

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Develop new tools to assess the diet of enhance the declining oyster population Integrate undergraduates and graduates such as captive rearing of salamanders and Strategies for Red Snapper (AL, FL, LA, TX) wild killer whale populations during the National Wildlife Federation by constructing three new oyster reefs using a two-tiered program that will focus translocation of gopher tortoises, as well Assess the recreational management under-studied winter months to inform prey Longleaf Restoration on Private Lands (FL) and colonizing new reefs with community- on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico as development of a National Bobwhite strategies of red snapper by using simulation management. Project will use existing blood Provide technical assistance to private grown oysters. ecosystems and energy development. Quail Initiative Focal Area to support and assessment modeling, stakeholder samples from SeaWorld San Diego for amino forest owners to restore longleaf pine $40,000 Project will appoint two graduate fellowships northern bobwhite habitat restoration and surveys and stakeholder workshops. Project acid compound specific stable isotope analysis in priority areas in Florida. Project will to serve as mentor assistants to guide a recovery. will provide a framework for angling groups to to estimate diet and foraging habitats of assist private landowners with developing Old Dominion University small cohort of undergraduate interns as $620,000 explore management options to understand Southern Resident killer whales during winter comprehensive management plans, Research Foundation they develop their projects and internship the impacts on available catch and anglers’ months when field work is most difficult. promote Farm Bill programs, teach Improving Coral Reef Restoration proposals. The Longleaf Alliance access to the red snapper fishery. $60,365 longleaf pine management, and increase Using Native Herbivorous Crabs (FL) $200,000 Longleaf Restoration in the Gulf Coastal Plain $275,121 participation in certification programs Enhance the density of native Ecosystem Partnership Landscape – IV (AL, FL) Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association leading to restoration and enhancement of herbivorous crabs on coral reefs to reduce Texas State University Restore and maintain 112,958 acres of University of Maryland Center Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery 3,900 acres of longleaf pine habitat. overabundance of algae to enhance survival Reddish Egret Conservation Plan longleaf pine habitat within the western for Environmental Science Allocation Trusts (multiple states) $150,000 of naturally reproducing and transplanted for the U.S. Gulf Coast (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) panhandle of Florida and southern Coral Reef Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Develop a new approach to fishery trusts corals. Project will support local and Develop a detailed conservation plan with Alabama through plantings, prescribed Cards and System-Wide Synthesis (FL, PR, VI) that will be used as a model for multiple National Wildlife Refuge Association Caribbean-wide efforts to restore coral prioritized actions, clear conservation fire, removal of competing hardwoods, Develop a status and trends assessment fisheries, including, but not limited to, the New Land Conservation in South Florida reefs by developing and implementing outcomes and well-defined funding needs and invasive species control. Project will framework and report card process to England Groundfish and the Gulf of Mexico Engage private landowners to increase new strategies to maximize natural coral to best support the reddish egret (REEG) in prioritize recovery of several rare species synthesize biological, physical and socio- Reef fishery, by assessing current permit bank enrollment in the Natural Resources recruitment and coral transplant success. the Gulf of Mexico. Project will contract an including the red-cockaded woodpecker, economic data from Puerto Rico, the U.S. models, exploring small business growth, and Conservation Service Agricultural $96,839 expert on Open Standards for the Practice gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, and Virgin Islands and the Florida Flower Garden exploring community buy-in and stewardship. Conservation Easement Program, with a of Conservation and a research assistant to reticulated flatwoods salamander. Banks. Project will expand on previous Project will result in up to five new trust and goal of protecting 8,000 acres of habitat. facilitate webinars, host two workshops with $300,000 investments to support a National Coral permit bank business structures and up to five Project will identify high-priority lands the REEG working group, write plans and Reef Monitoring Plan through the National programmatic models that will respond to the and conduct outreach to underserved aggregate existing focal foraging and nesting Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s changing needs of the fishing community. landowners in South Florida. data into an online database. Coral Reef Conservation Program. $99,882 $338,901 $74,990 $107,964

24 25 Volunteer Action Center Blue Heron Nature Preserve Georgia Department of Natural Resources National Wildlife Federation Pheasants Forever The Nature Conservancy of Broward County Restoring Urban Wetlands at the Blue Heron Shorebird Assessment along Coastal Georgia Restoring Wildlife Habitat and Longleaf Pine Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite Accelerating Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Project ROC: Reclaiming Our Coastline (FL) Nature Preserve (GA) and South Carolina (GA, SC) on Private Lands in Georgia Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Restoration on the Fall Line – III (AL, GA) Restore 21,512 square feet of coastal Engage 300 volunteers to restore 2.5 acres Study and assess body conditions and Engage 40 private landowners to establish Deliver technical assistance across six states Accelerate longleaf pine restoration and habitat, including beach dunes, mangrove of wetlands in Atlanta, Georgia, by removing stress levels of five shorebird species at and enhance 2,700 acres of longleaf pine to improve land-management practices for conservation on more than 19,000 acres of wetlands and forests to improve water at least six invasive plant species and other remote and disturbed sites along coastal habitat in Georgia. Project will support northern bobwhite and other terrestrial public and private land in west Georgia and quality and habitats for sea turtles, vegetation not suited for wetlands and Georgia and South Carolina. Project will a wildlife biologist position that will wildlife. Project will include 11,940 landowner east Alabama. Outcomes include planting migratory birds and coral reefs and develop supplement the area with appropriate fill knowledge gaps, mitigate disturbance provide technical assistance to private contacts, 27,800 acres under improved longleaf on 137 acres and implementing community capacity to sustain these local native plantings. Project also will develop and conduct nesting and roosting site landowners, develop forest management management practices, 720 plans with best prescribed fire on 19,000 acres of existing natural areas in Palm Beach, Broward and educational curricula to facilitate research restoration planning. An additional project plans and connect landowners with Farm management practices and 6,000 acres longleaf habitat, focusing on properties Miami-Dade counties. Project will educate and education opportunities involved in this will investigate migration patterns of red Bill programs and other sources of financial covered with federal program incentives. buffering Fort Benning, as well as high 1,000 students and 16 teachers and engage project to bring children and scientists to the knots, which has important implications for assistance to implement conservation $2,447,858 priority state and privately owned lands. 500 volunteers to plant approximately wetlands safely. forage quality and disturbance during their practices benefiting northern bobwhite and $275,000 20,000 ecologically important coastal $30,778 refueling at Delaware Bay. other longleaf and grassland-associated Southeastern Association plants, including 75 mangroves and 100 $75,000 wildlife. of Fish and Wildlife The Nature Conservancy other trees. CDP North America $140,000 Water Conservation through Smart Irrigation Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Initiative – $46,000 Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments Georgia Forestry Commission Technologies for Agricultural Producers in the VI (FL, GA) in Cities (multiple states) Improving Longleaf Habitat New South Development and Training Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Establish 740 acres of longleaf pine and WearWare Build capacity of communities in 18 cities for At-Risk Species in Southwest Georgia Strategic Outreach to Expand Agricultural (FL, GA) enhance an additional 30,000 acres of Reducing Cetacean Bycatch by Expanding a across the United States to help them Engage family forest owners in southwest and Wetland Conservation (AL, FL, GA, TX) Deploy low-cost soil moisture sensors existing longleaf habitat on the Apalachicola Portable Electronic Monitoring System (FL) implement sustainable infrastructure for Georgia to implement forest restoration Provide education and outreach services to in the agricultural regions of southwest National Forest and other high-priority Increase the effectiveness of bycatch stormwater management, urban wildlife and management practices that improve private landowners to increase enrollment Georgia and northwest Florida to conserve public and private lands within the eastern mitigation activities using more inclusive habitats and tree canopy improvement. habitat for at-risk wildlife, including gopher of agricultural and wetland properties 834 cubic-feet per second annually in the panhandle of Florida and southwest Georgia. data sets to rapidly and economically Project will perform targeted outreach to tortoises and eastern indigo snakes. Partners in the Natural Resources Conservation Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Project will improve habitat for numerous identify critical bycatch interactions with cities to increase knowledge of sustainable will educate landowners on sustainable Service Agricultural Conservation Easement Basin and educate growers on the effective at-risk species and will support the recovery minimal disruption to industry in Florida. infrastructure financing as well as develop forest management practices, and will Program. Project will identify and methods of irrigation. Project will aid local of the federally threatened Eastern indigo UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Project will result in reduced cetacean cities’ use of online tools to document provide technical and financial assistance engage high priority landowners through economies dependent on these water snake through captive breeding and release bycatch and expand the range of electronic green infrastructure and habitat benefits. to establish and enhance more than 2,500 informational workshops and technical sources and benefit freshwater species, on restored longleaf pine habitat. monitoring platforms through a modular, $200,000 acres of longleaf pine habitat on private assistance, with a priority of working with including six federally listed mussels, the $280,000 portable piece of equipment to be used lands. Project outcomes will encourage underserved landowners. threatened Gulf sturgeon, Shoal bass and interchangeably among shore-based East Decatur Greenway active forest management, which will $370,133 numerous other fish species. The Nature Conservancy stations, small scale and medium-sized Habitat Restoration benefit at-risk and game species, such as $200,000 Landscape Recovery after West Mims Fire (FL) vessels. and Environmental Education (GA) northern bobwhite. North Carolina State University West Mims wildfire impacted 150,000 $106,312 Restore habitat at a former brownfield site in $150,000 Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Tall Timbers Research acres in the Okefenokee/Osceola Significant Atlanta, including removal of invasive plants Southeastern United States (multiple states) Strategic Prescribed Burn Assistance Geographic Area, including more than 30,000 and planting native trees. Project will engage Limestone Valley Resource Conservation Expand and accelerate the implementation on Private Lands in the Longleaf Legacy acres of private land. Funds are needed GEORGIA nearby schools to create an environmental and Development Council of prescribed fire to restore and Landscape (AL, FL, GA) to assist public and private landowners education plan for the site and incorporate Conserving Fish and Mussels enhance longleaf pine habitat and other Build capacity to increase prescribed with reforestation efforts, including the American Rivers signage and management plans for the site in the Conasauga River Watershed (GA, TN) fire-dependent forest and grassland burning on private lands across the establishment of longleaf pine on impacted Water Efficiency for Streamflow Restoration with community partners. Implement priority conservation actions communities within the southeast. Project Longleaf Legacy Landscape, a key private- acres and management activities to reduce the in Georgia’s Upper Flint River System $30,000 to reduce nutrients, sediments and other will engage 1,000 landowners and fire land-dominated area in northwest likelihood of another catastrophic wildfire. Implement a peak demand management pollutants in runoff. Project will improve practitioners through technical assistance, Florida, southwest Georgia and south $275,000 program in the Fayette County Water System Forest Landowners Association Conasauga River water quality in support of training and outreach, including “Learn Alabama. Project will implement a variety

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED to conserve water and increase flows within Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building published recovery plans for 10 of the listed and Burn” workshops, development of of longleaf conservation assistance The Nature Conservancy the ecologically significant shoal habitat Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing fish and mussel species in the basin. prescribed burn associations and fire programs to burn 5,250 acres, prioritize Talladega Mountains Longleaf Pine of the Flint River. Project will help reduce Solutions – II (multiple states) $268,113 festivals, to increase the use of prescribed future efforts based on the collection of Restoration – III (AL, GA) impacts to stream flows, especially during Engage large family forest landowners in fire. key fire activity and conservation data Increase prescribed fire capacity through drought conditions, improving habitat for longleaf restoration and at-risk species Manomet $130,000 and develop an innovative and integrated the addition of a seasonal burn crew in east- species of concern, which include the shoals conservation throughout the historic Coastal Habitat Restoration for American outreach program across organizations central Alabama and west Georgia. Project spider-lily, bluestripe shiner, shoal bass and range of the longleaf pine. Project will Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast Park Pride that will enhance future targeted longleaf will support additional burning and montane several species of federally endangered assist landowners with the establishment (multiple states) Briarlake Forest Park Restoration (GA) restoration and prescribed fire application longleaf pine habitat restoration on the freshwater mussels. and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres Coordinate the planning and Restore 15 acres of urban, mature forest on private lands. Talladega National Forest and other priority $75,000 of longleaf pine, develop regulatory implementation of conservation action for habitat to improve local area green water $99,984 public and private lands, benefiting red- predictability tools for at-risk species American oystercatcher along the entire infrastructure (via improved stormwater cockaded woodpecker, Bachman’s sparrow Athens Land Trust endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue intake, outflow and drainage) in the Echo The Longleaf Alliance and other longleaf-dependent species. Establishing the Northeast Georgia reducing uncertainty for landowners the coastwide coordination of the American Lake corridor in Georgia and remove Fort Stewart/Altamaha Longleaf Restoration $179,989 Cooperative Weed Management Area wishing to manage for longleaf habitat oystercatcher recovery initiative and invasive vegetation threatening the Partnership – IV (GA) Establish the Northeast Georgia Cooperative conditions on their lands and explore compile lessons learned after a decade’s forest tree canopy and the forest habitat. Establish and enhance 11,000 acres of Trees Atlanta Weed Management Area to address the market-based solutions to address the worth of targeted investments and embark Project will engage five local resource longleaf pine habitat in the Fort Stewart/ Browns Mill Community negative effects of invasive species on economic constraints to large-scale longleaf upon a new initiative to develop best management partners and 100 trained Altamaha Significant Geographic Area of Forest Restoration (GA) natural habitats in Georgia’s Piedmont in restoration on private lands. management practices to restore wet volunteers to manually remove 15 acres Georgia. Project will restore longleaf habitat Restore 6.1 acres at Browns Mill in Southeast the Athens region. Project will increase $145,000 and dry sand habitats for oystercatchers of invasive vegetation from intermittent on public and private lands, including several Atlanta, the first forest of its kind in Atlanta local capacity for invasive species and other breeding shorebirds along the streams beds, tree canopy and forest floor. properties recently acquired to restore to incorporate community-accessible fruit education through workshops and site Atlantic Coast. $25,000 populations of gopher tortoise. and nut trees as well as community gardens visits, implement demonstration projects $150,000 $250,000 into a neighborhood park. Project will include and result in 30 acres of improved habitat restoration of the riparian buffer and creek through effective management and invasive while connecting area youths and adults to species removal. ecological and conservation opportunities. $84,072 $29,500

26 27 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife Pacific Rim Conservation University of Hawaii Idaho Department of Water Resources The Henry’s Fork Foundation U.S. Forest Service Reclaiming Kure Atoll’s Runway Locating Breeding Colonies of Newell’s Derelict Fishing Gear Removal within Flow Restoration to Benefit Chinook Salmon, South Fork of the Snake River Initiative (ID) Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas for Seabird Habitat (HI) Shearwater and Hawaiian Petrels on Oahu (HI) Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Steelhead and Native Trout (ID) Restore 1 mile of Rainy Creek, improving and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Convert 1 acre of runway substrate on Kure Conduct focused, intensive ground Monument (HI) Improve tributary flows for the benefit 66 miles of instream habitat in the Snake (multiple states) Atoll to quality nesting habitat in a pilot searches at locations identified as calling Execute a large-scale derelict fishing gear of Chinook salmon, steelhead and native River in Idaho with 50 local volunteers. Expand the aquatic environmental DNA project designed to protect and increase hot spots for Newell’s shearwater and removal effort from the remote islands trout populations. Project will identify, Project will support riparian restoration Atlas database, website, digital tools and nesting habitat for black-footed albatross, Hawaiian petrel on Oahu to determine and atolls within the Papahanaumokuakea assess, prioritize and implement new water and conservation easements to sustain sample repository to a national scale. Laysan albatross and other seabirds. Project if birds are breeding on the island, or Marine National Monument. Project will transactions by working in a voluntary habitats and engage the local community Project will expand the current coverage will identify priority restoration sites and simply prospecting. Project will identify reduce the impacts of derelict fishing gear to manner with water users in the Upper in recreational access and stewardship. of the database of information important develop safe and efficient techniques for the presence of the birds throughout the critical habitats for more than 7,000 marine Salmon River Basin and the Teton River Basin. $45,013 to the conservation and management of converting hard crushed coral runway breeding season, previously thought to and avian species, and dispose up to 50 $793,900 aquatic species to include waterways in substrate to nesting habitat protected from be extinct on the island, and protect any metric tons of removed derelict fishing gear. Trout Unlimited the 37 remaining states to inform strategic periodic flooding. remnant populations. $500,000 Idaho Soil and Water Trout Unlimited’s Bridge to Bridge conservation investments for suppressing $65,000 $30,051 Conservation Commission Restoration (ID) invasives and increasing native populations. University of Hawaii Creation of Idaho Sagebrush Landscape Address 1,250 feet of highly impaired $73,018 Oahu Economic Development Board The Trust for Public Land The Promise and Perils of Pampas Grass Restoration Specialist Position (ID) river reach of the Big Wood River in Community-led Stream Restoration Acquisition of the Waimea Native Forest Control on Maui (HI) Create and support a technical specialist Idaho to enhance instream habitat in the Ala Wai Watershed (HI) on the Shores of Oahu, Hawaii Accelerate control of a pampas grass in Idaho who will focus on restoring, for native redband trout and endemic HAWAII Gather stream bed data to monitor and Acquire in fee the rugged 3,716-acre infestation in the West Maui watershed using enhancing and/or protecting sagebrush Wood River sculpin, restore 25 acres of assess stream sites, remove trash and Waimea Native Forest on the North Shore helicopters to detect and control individual steppe across Idaho, maintaining and cottonwood forest and floodplain habitat American Bird Conservancy debris and invasive species, and plant native of Oahu, Hawaii, to complete the protection plants. Project will include analysis of building strong partnerships, communicate and re-establish wetlands and riparian Establishing New Populations vegetation to protect 6.5 miles of stream of the entire Waimea watershed from geospatial data and parallel development of with broad audiences, and ensure a well- areas. Project will engage 70 volunteers of Endangered Seabirds at Kilauea Point banks and prevent erosion on the island mountaintop to the ocean. Project will new technologies to help advance control of trained workforce delivers landscape-scale and reach the entire community of the National Wildlife Refuge (HI) of Oahu. Project will present findings at secure suitable habitat for the Newell’s this population toward eventual eradication. conservation. Project will result in landscape Wood River Valley because of its location Continue work to establish a new colony neighborhood meetings and aggregate shearwater, Hawaiian hoary bat, Oahu $95,480 scale improvements from implementation and connection to project partners and of endangered Hawaiian seabirds in the and visualize data on online platforms to elepaio and numerous other threatened across jurisdictional boundaries and positive educational elements. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Nihoku Restoration Area within Kilauea demonstrate effectiveness and support each and endangered species; as well as protect University of Hawaii – Manoa impacts to sage-steppe obligates and $29,326 Point National Wildlife Refuge (KPNWR), of the seven neighborhoods that will submit the headwaters of two major streams Increasing Awareness of Fisheries Rules (HI) associated species across Idaho. Kauai. Project will complete translocation designs for neighborhood-wide stream bed that flow undiverted to Waimea Bay and Increase the opportunities for local $200,000 U.S. Department of the Interior, of 20 endangered Hawaiian petrel and up restoration plans in a Community Design the Humpback Whale National Marine communities to participate and provide U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to 20 threatened Newell’s shearwater to Challenge. Sanctuary informed input to a statewide initiative to Legacy Philanthropy Works Restoration of Mesic Habitats in the Owyhee the Nihoku site on KPNWR, a protected $50,000 $600,000 effectively manage 30 percent of Hawaii’s Developing Incidental Groundwater Recharge Sagebrush Landscape (ID) fenced area free of invasive predators and nearshore environments by 2030. Project Markets (ID, WY) Restore and improve mesic habitats for developed to support translocation efforts. Pacific Rim Conservation U.S. Department of Agriculture, will finalize key messages and implement Implement a pilot market for incidental greater sage grouse, Columbia spotted $214,998 Creating Resilient Seabird Colonies U.S. Forest Service outreach tactics to increase awareness of groundwater recharge in the Teton Basin frog and the interior redband trout by through Predator-Proof Fencing in Hawaii Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas the 30x30 Initiative and encourage public to improve wetland health, base flows and developing a conservation approach American Bird Conservancy Identify, visit and assess the conservation and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species participation in scoping meetings. stream flows in the Teton River. Project will on a private ranch in Owyhee County, Saving Hawaii’s At-risk Forest Birds – X fencing potential adjacent to three nesting (multiple states) $40,383 result in an additional 5,000-10,000 acre feet which contains a series of riparian areas Build upon the conservation actions previously locations of Newell’s shearwaters and Expand the aquatic environmental DNA of water in the Teton Basin aquifer annually. and approximately 250 acres of flood completed by a strong partnership to protect Hawaiian petrels on Kaua’i and provide Atlas database, website, digital tools, and Zoological Society of San Diego $149,514 irrigation dependent wet meadows used Hawaiian forest birds. Project will attempt to implementation plans for these fences to sample repository to a national scale. Reintroduction of the ‘Alala to Hawaii Island seasonally as pasture. Project will focus reintroduce up to 20 Maui parrotbills; conduct serve both as social attraction sites, and Project will expand the current coverage Continue the successful captive propagation National Audubon Society on water conveyance and water storage predator control on Maui and Kauai; restore hopefully capture active burrows within. of the database of information important and reintroduction of the ‘Alala, an iconic Advancing the SageWest Communications infrastructure in order to improve and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED habitat on Maui and the Big Island; maintain Project will identify preferred fencing to the conservation and management of and charismatic Hawaiian bird species. Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem maintain wetland and wet meadow 47 miles of fence around palila critical habitat; alignment, and assess the feasibility, cost aquatic species to include waterways in Project will rear approximately 15 juveniles (multiple states) habitats on the ranch. conduct the palila population survey; conduct and benefits of various fencing strategies the 37 remaining states to inform strategic and release 11 to 13 juveniles into Elevate individual conservation efforts and $75,000 remote sensing and acoustic surveys on Kaua for the preferred fencing alignment and conservation investments for suppressing intensively restored and managed native create a larger dialogue about the value and and guide management for these species; the initiation of necessary compliance in invasives and increasing native populations. forest habitat following a thoroughly vetted need for sagebrush conservation. Project Western Association and develop a comprehensive community anticipation of building the fence. $73,018 and peer-reviewed reintroduction plan. will engage in priority work groups, develop of Fish and Wildlife Agencies engagement strategy. $34,888 $65,401 guidance documents, and organize partner Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the $344,586 University of California – Santa Cruz meetings across the ecosystem. Western United States (multiple states) Pacific Rim Conservation Developing Tools to Prevent Extinction $34,200 Develop a regional strategy and Bishop Museum Creating Resilient Seabird Colonies through and Recover Threatened and Endangered IDAHO supporting plans to increase Applied Marine Research to Support Translocation (HI) Seabirds (AK, CA, HI, Canada) Pheasants Forever organizational capacity and coordination Management of Papahanaumokuakea Marine Utilize translocation to create new breeding Utilize a new meta-population viability Friends of the Teton River Expanding Conservation of Working Lands in among monarch butterfly conservation National Monument (HI) colonies of black-footed albatrosses, Bonin model approach in order to make Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Habitat the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) partners west of the Rocky Mountains. Perform multidisciplinary research to petrels and Tristrams storm-petrels on improved seabird conservation decisions. Restoration in Teton Creek (ID) Maintain and expand technical assistance Project will develop and track determine how predicted environmental James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge Project will identify the most at-risk Stabilize and restore instream and riparian capacity in key greater sage grouse focal implementation efforts identified stressors will affect key species and on Oahu. Project will protect seabirds species and their breeding sites in order habitat in a priority stream reach on Teton areas to strengthen working ranch lands in the Western Monarch Population habitats at French Frigate Shoals in the from the impacts of predators, changing to improve the conservation status of Creek, a Yellowstone cutthroat trout management to improve greater sage Conservation Strategy, establish the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National ocean conditions and storm events through seabirds and prevent the listing of seabird spawning tributary to the upper Teton River. grouse populations. Project will improve Western Monarch and Pollinator Initiative Monument. Project will explore the trophic predator-proof fencing, translocation of species in the future. Project will restore habitat conditions and grazing practices on 250,000 acres to Council, and transition milkweed data into connections between shallow and deep- missing seabird fauna to the main islands of $249,984 function to support native trout spawning benefit greater sage grouse through the Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool. sea ecosystems for prey and refugia, and Hawaii and restoring the coastal ecosystems and passage, create corridor connectivity, technical assistance provided by 14 Strategic $120,000 determine how sea level rise will impact to which birds are moved. improve water quality and quantity, Watershed Action Teams members. low-lying sand and coral reef habitats and $299,365 and promote integrated land and water $1,688,795 associated species such as sea turtles, conservation. seabirds and monk seals. $73,598 $899,829

28 29 ILLINOIS Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Trout Unlimited Groundwork Cincinnati/Mill Creek U.S. Department of Agriculture, Polk Soil and Water Conservation District Increasing the Capacity of the Newly Created Driftless Partnership: Engaging Landowners Community-Driven Restoration in Cincinnati’s U.S. Forest Service A Targeted Community Approach to Improving Audubon International Northwest Illinois CWMA in Water Quality and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill Mill Creek (IN, OH) Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin (IA) Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat on and Land Stewardship Co-op (IL) Programs (IL, IA, MN, WI) Restore 28 acres of wetland, riparian and and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Apply the Agricultural Conservation Golf Courses (multiple states) Advance the newly established Northwest Engage agricultural producers in developing prairie habitat to benefit wildlife, including (multiple states) Planning Framework (ACPF) Tool within Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf courses Illinois Cooperative Weed Management conservation practices and science-based the state-threatened black-crowned night Expand the aquatic environmental DNA the Fourmile Creek, Walnut Creek, and in a 10-state area to support pollinators such Area and Land Stewardship Co-op with the tools that restore cold-water streams and heron, and people in Cincinnati’s Mill Creek Atlas database, website, digital tools and Mud/Camp/Spring Creek Watersheds in as the monarch butterfly. Project will provide addition of new organizational partners promote grass-based grazing systems. watershed and Muscatatuck National sample repository to a national scale. Central Iowa to target the installation technical assistance and native, regionally to the effort. Project will control invasive Project will restore 20 miles of stream, Wildlife Refuge. This project will engage Project will expand the current coverage of conservation practices. Project will appropriate seed while raising awareness species, increase the rate of prescribed fire, reduce/eliminate bank erosion, reconnect 921 participants, including 800 middle and of the database of information important use outputs from the ACPF tool to about pollinators through educational increase the rate of volunteer participation streams to their floodplains and install a high school students, 40 teachers, 21 youth to the conservation and management of assist outreach to landowners and signage and demonstrating how to manage and training, and educate private landowners suite of critical habitat practices for fish, employees and 60 adult volunteers from aquatic species to include waterways in implementation of conservation practices commercial properties sustainably. about invasive species control within a four- shorebirds, amphibians, reptiles and other local neighborhoods and diverse partner the 37 remaining states to inform strategic outlined in Natural Resource Conservation $150,000 county area of northwest Illinois. aquatic biota. organizations. conservation investments for suppressing Service programs, including wetlands, $99,994 $149,247 $37,964 invasives and increasing native populations. bioreactors and saturated buffers. Champaign County Soil and Water $73,018 $231,280 Conservation District Openlands U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pollinator Partnership Headwaters Invasive Plant Partnership (IL) Space to Grow: U.S. Forest Service Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes for Trout Unlimited Establish a Cooperative Weed Management Greening Chicago Schoolyards (IL) Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) IOWA Driftless Partnership: Engaging Landowners in Area and increase awareness and action by Construct six schoolyard habitats that have and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Develop a regional seed collection and native Water Quality and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill volunteers and professionals to better assist a total design retention capacity of 900,000 (multiple states) plant materials development program in Audubon International Programs (IL, IA, MN, WI) land managers and others in preventing, gallons, remove 250,000 square feet of Expand the aquatic environmental DNA the Midwest to support monarch butterflies Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat on Engage agricultural producers in developing detecting and responding to invasive plants impermeable surface and restore 6.1 acres Atlas database, website, digital tools and and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will Golf Courses (multiple states) conservation practices and science-based in east central Illinois. Project will decrease into public green space and plant 140 trees sample repository to a national scale. improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf tools that restore cold-water streams and introductions of invasive plants in the area at six Chicago public schools. Project will Project will expand the current coverage collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed and courses in a 10-state area to support promote grass-based grazing systems. and improve reporting and managing of new provide training and workshops to 150 of the database of information important propagate 10,000 seedlings. pollinators such as the monarch butterfly. Project will restore 20 miles of stream, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES and long-existing plant infestations. Chicago Public School teachers and engage to the conservation and management $149,000 Project will provide technical assistance and reduce/eliminate bank erosion, reconnect $75,469 300 volunteers. of aquatic species to include waterways native, regionally appropriate seed while streams to their floodplains and install a $50,000 in the 37 remaining states to inform Save the Dunes Conservation Fund raising awareness about pollinators through suite of critical habitat practices for fish, Friends of the Chicago River strategic conservation investments for Enhancing Habitat and Public Access on the educational signage and demonstrating shorebirds, amphibians, reptiles and other Improving Fish Passage in Mill Creek Pollinator Partnership suppressing invasives and increasing East Branch of the Little Calumet River (IN) how to manage commercial properties aquatic biota. and the Cal-Sag Channel (IL) Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes native populations. Restore habitat and enhance public use sustainably. $149,247 Reconnect Mill Creek to the Cal-Sag for At-Risk Pollinators (multiple states) $73,018 along the East Branch of the Little Calumet $150,000 Channel by removing two shelf-structures, Develop a regional seed collection and native River (EBLC). Project will restore more than U.S. Department of Agriculture, which block fish passage from the Cal-Sag plant materials development program in Village of Park Forest 200 acres and enhance restoration efforts by CDP North America U.S. Forest Service Channel. Project will open up 2.5 miles the Midwest to support monarch butterflies Park Forest Green Infrastructure incorporating 262 acres into landscape-level Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas of high-quality stream habitat, benefiting and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will for Stormwater Management (IL) conservation planning to guide restoration in Cities (multiple states) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species more than 17 species of fish. improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, Convert 2.5 acres of existing turf into projects along the EBLC. Build capacity of communities in 18 cities (multiple states) $248,327 collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed and demonstration rain gardens in three local $274,000 across the United States to help them Expand the aquatic environmental DNA propagate 10,000 seedlings. parks. Project will engage 1,500 community implement sustainable infrastructure for Atlas database, website, digital tools and Friends of the Forest Preserves $149,000 members to create rain gardens out of The Nature Conservancy stormwater management, urban wildlife sample repository to a national scale. Centennial Volunteers Network Restoration depressional areas immediately upstream of Restoring Calumet Coastal Wetlands habitats and tree canopy improvement. Project will expand the current coverage along the Chicago River (IL) Shedd Aquarium Society storm sewer inlets to positively impact water through Collaborative Restoration and Project will perform targeted outreach to of the database of information important

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Implement Phase III of the Centennial Engaging Communities quality by retaining water and allowing it to Management (IL, IN) cities to increase knowledge of sustainable to the conservation and management of Volunteers Network project to expand in Stewardship of Local Waterways (IL) infiltrate and recharge groundwater before Control invasive species and enhance coastal infrastructure financing as well as develop aquatic species to include waterways in and mature self-sustaining communities Engage community members in volunteer discharging to Thorn Creek in Park Forest, wetland habitat at five sites in the bistate cities’ use of online tools to document the 37 remaining states to inform strategic of habitat restoration volunteers at Cook days to restore 5 acres of habitats, including Illinois. Calumet region. Project represents the third green infrastructure and habitat benefits. conservation investments for suppressing County forest preserves. Project will wetlands, ephemeral ponds, oak savanna, $30,000 phase of a successful regional restoration $200,000 invasives and increasing native populations. increase efforts to recruit, train and mentor woodland and prairie in Cook County, partnership and will restore 123 acres of $73,018 volunteers at new and established forest Illinois. Project will engage 700 volunteers hemi-marsh, dune swale, wet prairie and Ducks Unlimited preserve sites, empowering volunteers and benefit a range of species, including INDIANA emergent marsh habitats to benefit target Restoring Iowa’s Wetlands to Improve Water World Wildlife Fund effectively manage and implement habitat blue-spotted salamanders, chorus frogs and migratory bird species, such as least bittern, Quality, Flood Resilience and Wildlife Habitat Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale of restoration activities, such as invasive spring peepers. Audubon International king rail and pied-billed grebe. Restore 152 acres of wetlands to reduce the Plowprint Analytical Tool (multiple states, species control establishing native $34,574 Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat $574,508 nutrient runoff, improve water quality, Canada and Mexico) vegetation. on Golf Courses (multiple states) mitigate local and downstream flooding, Update and expand geospatial data analysis, $110,398 The Nature Conservancy Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf courses The Student Conservation Association and provide waterfowl and wildlife habitat called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape Restoring Calumet Coastal Wetlands through in a 10-state area to support pollinators such Calumet Tree Conservation Corps (IN) in 37 north-central Iowa counties. Project change metrics for the Northern Great Plains Illinois Conservation Foundation Collaborative Restoration and Management as the monarch butterfly. Project will provide Reduce stormwater and sediment runoff will improve wetlands and restore shallow ecoregion. Project analysis will expand the Wolf Lake Native Prairie Restoration (IL, IN) technical assistance and native, regionally and restore degraded habitat in the Grand lakes with turbid or algal conditions previous versions by including northern and Public Use Enhancement (IL) Control invasive species and enhance coastal appropriate seed while raising awareness Calumet and Little Calumet Rivers. Project that are overrun with invasive fish and Mexico, extending the analysis backward in Create native prairie habitat for pollinators wetland habitat at five sites in the bistate about pollinators through educational will add 72,275 gallons of stormwater vegetation. time to capture historical change and using and improve public access to Wolf Lake at Calumet region. Project represents the third signage and demonstrating how to manage storage capacity by strategically planting $250,000 the newest and best available data to track the William W. Powers State Recreation phase of a successful regional restoration commercial properties sustainably. 1,000 native trees in riparian zones rates of agricultural conversion, monitor Area. Project will implement community- partnership and will restore 123 acres of $150,000 and offer training in basic arboriculture previously converted lands, identify risk prioritized improvements to the site, hemi-marsh, dune swale, wet prairie and to residents across the region to build factors for remaining intact habitat and target enhancing habitat quality and public access emergent marsh habitats to benefit target capacity and sustain project impact through conservation work. to this important natural resource and migratory bird species, such as least bittern, long-term maintenance. $20,000 recreation area. king rail and pied-billed grebe. $161,466 $165,599 $574,508

30 31 KANSAS North Carolina State University LOUISIANA Forest Landowners Association Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation National Wild Turkey Federation Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building Swamp Restoration in the Pontchartrain Basin, Pineywoods Longleaf Restoration – VI (LA) Miami County Conservation District Southeastern United States (multiple states) American Bird Conservancy Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing Southeast Louisiana Establish and enhance 7,150 acres Bull Creek Park Native Habitat Establishment Expand and accelerate the implementation Priority Bird Habitat Conservation Solutions – II (multiple states) Restore 31 acres of swamp through of longleaf pine in a six-parish West- on Former Cropland (KS) of prescribed fire to restore and in the West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas Engage large family forest landowners in planting new trees and monitoring 5,090 Central Louisiana Ecosystem Partnership Convert 80 acres of degraded farmland to enhance longleaf pine habitat and other Region (AR, LA, OK, TX) longleaf restoration and at-risk species trees that are already in the ground. Conservation Area anchored by the Fort diverse prairie habitat to improve water fire-dependent forest and grassland Facilitate the establishment, development, conservation throughout the historic Project will increase storm surge protection Polk/Kisatchie National Forest Significant quality in the Bull Creek stream system in communities within the southeast. Project maintenance and success of Conservation range of the longleaf pine. Project will for the largest urban areas and benefit 18 Geographic Area. Project will provide Johnson County, Kansas. Project will provide will engage 1,000 landowners and fire Delivery Networks in the West Gulf Coastal assist landowners with the establishment species of concern, including bald eagle, financial assistance to plant longleaf and critical habitat for declining populations practitioners through technical assistance, Plain/Ouachitas geography. Project will focus and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres prothonotary warbler, mottled duck, enhance existing habitat with prescribed of grassland birds, native bees and other training and outreach, including “Learn on building connections and relationships of longleaf pine, develop regulatory swallow-tailed kite, Louisiana black bear fire, as well support landowner outreach pollinators. and Burn” workshops, development of among partner delivery staff across the four- predictability tools for at-risk species and alligator snapping turtle. and technical assistance through field days $30,554 prescribed burn associations and fire state region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, $114,000 and development of forest management festivals, to increase the use of prescribed Oklahoma and Texas to restore 277 acres of reducing uncertainty for landowners plans. World Wildlife Fund fire. bottomland hardwood forests and improve wishing to manage for longleaf habitat Land Trust for Louisiana $298,953 Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale of $130,000 92 acres of existing bottomland hardwoods. conditions on their lands, and explore Expanding Partnerships to Advance the the Plowprint Analytical Tool (multiple states, $263,221 market-based solutions to address the Agricultural Land Easements Program in North Carolina State University Canada and Mexico) Pheasants Forever economic constraints to large-scale longleaf Louisiana Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Update and expand geospatial data analysis, Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite CDP North America restoration on private lands. Expand private and public partnerships Southeastern United States (multiple states) called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments $145,000 and provide technical assistance through Expand and accelerate the implementation change metrics for the Northern Great Deliver technical assistance across six states in Cities (multiple states) easement procurement on the first of prescribed fire to restore and Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand to improve land-management practices for Build capacity of communities in 18 cities Gulf Seafood Institute Agricultural Land Easements (ALE) project in enhance longleaf pine habitat and other the previous versions by including northern northern bobwhite and other terrestrial across the United States to help them Expanding the Gulf of Mexico Charter Boat Louisiana on a rice farm in Vermilion Parish. fire-dependent forest and grassland Mexico, extending the analysis backward wildlife. Project will include 11,940 implement sustainable infrastructure for Electronic Logbook (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Project will demonstrate the efficacy of the communities within the Southeast. Project in time to capture historical change and landowner contacts, 27,800 acres under stormwater management, urban wildlife Expand the use of electronic logbooks in the ALE program through the Vermilion Parish will engage 1,000 landowners and fire using the newest and best available data improved management practices, 720 habitats and tree canopy improvement. Gulf of Mexico by improving software and prototype, develop a constituency for the practitioners through technical assistance, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES to track rates of agricultural conversion, plans with best management practices and Project will perform targeted outreach to providing training and outreach to captains. program, and determine viable pathways training and outreach, including “Learn monitor previously converted lands, identify 6,000 acres covered with federal program cities to increase knowledge of sustainable Project will increase the number of vessels for securing dedicated non-federal matching and Burn” workshops, development of risk factors for remaining intact habitat and incentives. infrastructure financing as well as develop with installed electronic logbook units in the funds to further implementation of the prescribed burn associations and Fire target conservation work. $2,447,858 cities’ use of online tools to document green Gulf of Mexico resulting in more accurate ALE program on rice farms, which provide Festivals, to increase the use of prescribed $20,000 infrastructure and habitat benefits. data to fishery managers. critical overwintering habitat for numerous fire. Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves $200,000 $661,298 migratory birds. $130,000 Restoring Shortleaf Pine in Kentucky $40,106 KENTUCKY Establish 165 acres of shortleaf pine and Chicago Zoological Society Expanding Resources into Action Pheasants Forever enhance an additional 432 acres of existing Enhancing the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Land Conservation Program for Farmers Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association Delivery of Conservation Technical Assistance CDP North America shortleaf pine habitat by thinning hardwood Identification System (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) and Ranchers (LA, MS) Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery and Implementation of Early Successional Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments in species and introducing prescribed fire on Improve the functionality of the Gulf of Provide technical assistance to limited Allocation Trusts (multiple states) Habitat Practices (AR, LA,) Cities (multiple states) three nature preserves in eastern Kentucky. Mexico Dolphin Identification System, a resource farmers and ranchers in Louisiana Develop a new approach to fishery trusts Work through Conservation Delivery Build capacity of communities in 18 cities Project will reduce the threat of southern collaborative database of bottlenose dolphin and Mississippi to increase awareness that will be used as a model for multiple Network partner organizations to conduct across the United States to help them pine beetle infestations and improve habitat photographic identification from researchers and participation in the Natural Resources fisheries, including, but not limited to, program promotion and strategic marketing implement sustainable infrastructure for for numerous wildlife species, including bats, around the Gulf. Project will expand the Conservation Service Agricultural the New England Groundfish and the efforts on sustainable forest management stormwater management, urban wildlife wild turkey, northern bobwhite and several existing tool for protection and restoration Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). Gulf of Mexico Reef fishery, by assessing to 600 landowners located in southeastern habitats and tree canopy improvement. rare plants. of bottlenose dolphins, allowing researchers Project will develop educational materials current permit bank models, exploring Arkansas and northeastern Louisiana. Of

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Project will perform targeted outreach to $120,000 to search online for their individual dolphins and host workshops to inform landowners small business growth, and exploring the 600 landowners reached in year one, cities to increase knowledge of sustainable within the catalogs of other collaborating of best land conservation practices and community buy-in and stewardship. the project expects that 550 will receive infrastructure financing as well as develop U.S. Department of Agriculture, researchers, to identify long-range opportunities to enroll their lands in ACEP. Project will result in up to five new trust one-on-one technical assistance by resource cities’ use of online tools to document green U.S. Forest Service movements and determine the origins of $299,700 and permit bank business structures and conservation organization staff to produce infrastructure and habitat benefits. Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas stranded dolphins. up to five programmatic models that will landowner management plans on a $200,000 and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species $60,000 Friends of City Park respond to the changing needs of the fishing minimum of 10,000 acres. (multiple states) New Orleans City Park Lagoon System community. $149,575 Kentucky Department Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Ducks Unlimited Restoration and Invasive Species Removal (LA) $99,882 of Fish and Wildlife Resources Atlas database, website, digital tools, and Enhancing Wetland Easement Habitat Remove invasive water hyacinth growth, Tierra International Foundation , Wildlife Biologist in Eastern Kentucky – III sample repository to a national scale. in Louisiana plant native tree species and shoreline MQVN Community Development Tierra Foundation Engage farmers and tobacco growers Project will expand the current coverage Increase staff capacity to implement grasses, and engage and enhance Corporation Mangrove Air Seeding: An Innovative in eastern Kentucky to implement best of the database of information important habitat enhancement projects on existing community stewardship through education New Orleans East Lagoon Maxent Community Approach to Habitat Conservation (LA) management practices on at least 800 to the conservation and management of Natural Resources Conservation Service about the importance of the lagoon system Stewardship (LA) Utilize an innovative mangrove air-seeding acres of cropland to reduce erosion and aquatic species to include waterways in Wetland Reserve Program (WRP/WRE) and habitats in New Orleans. Project will Improve management of at least 4 acres technique to establish mangrove habitat improve soil health and water quality. the 37 remaining states to inform strategic conservation easements in Louisiana. plant 560 trees, remove invasive plants of habitat by planting native species on in Louisiana. Project will establish wetland Project will focus on transitioning tobacco conservation investments for suppressing Project will identify existing WRP/WRE on 6.5 acres and engage 1,150 volunteers riparian buffers to increase stormwater habitat for a variety of Species of Greatest growers to conservation tillage practices invasives and increasing native populations. shallow water wetlands that are in need from local communities to support the management and runoff mitigation in New Conservation Need and several species and promote conservation practice $73,018 of enhancement, implement restoration restoration outcomes. Orleans. Project will monitor water quality at listed as conservation priority in the 2015 implementation on the total farming practices to improve hydrology and wetland $25,000 six sites to evaluate efficacy while installing Louisiana Wildlife Action Plan. operation while leading to improved water functions, and provide forest management community trash and debris collection $166,148 quality within the region as well as positive recommendations to improve bottomland equipment at strategic sites and conducting effects on wildlife, such as the Blackside hardwood forest habitat that will benefit extensive community education and outreach Dace and the Little Wing Pearly Mussel. waterfowl and other wildlife species. by training 10 teachers in watershed $190,000 $317,526 stewardship curriculum to engage students and families on best practices. $47,184

32 33 Texas A&M AgriLife Research MAINE Maine Audubon Society Passamaquoddy Tribe – Pleasant Point Center for Watershed Protection Indiana University of Pennsylvania Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation Restoring Aquatic Connectivity for Critical Pennamaquan River Watershed Alewife Stream Stabilization Design (MD) Research Institute Scholars Program (multiple states) Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.) Eastern Brook Trout and Diadromous Fish Restoration and Community Outreach (ME) Build capacity of the Audubon Naturalist Improving Forest Health on Private Lands to Integrate undergraduates and graduates Reconnecting Eastern Brook Trout and Atlantic Populations (ME) Repair two fish ladders in the Society to implement a high-priority Benefit Golden-Winged Warblers (MD, PA, VA) using a two-tiered program that will focus Salmon Habitat on the Kennebec Increase abundance and distribution of Pennamaquan River currently watershed restoration project by designing Continue the efforts on private land to on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico and Piscataquis Rivers (ME) eastern brook trout and diadromous fish, inhibiting river herring passage into the a plan for stabilization of the Clean Drinking meet the goals of the Natural Resource ecosystems and energy development. Project Replace three undersized culverts on including Atlantic salmon, in blocks of high Pennamaquan River Watershed in Maine. Stream at the Woodend Nature Sanctuary Conservation Service’s Working Lands for will appoint two graduate fellowships to serve tributaries to the Upper Kennebec and elevation forest in the Saco, Presumpscot, Project will engage 15 tribal community inside the Washington, D.C., beltway. Project Wildlife program and increase populations as “mentor assistants” to guide a small cohort Piscataquis rivers to restore access to Penobscot and Kennebec river basins of members to help construct and install will deliver a design for all four segments of golden-winged warblers and associated of undergraduate interns as they develop historic habitat for eastern brook trout Maine. Project will result in replacement of the improved fish ladders and restore of the stream that are “shovel-ready,” and forest bird species in Pennsylvania, Maryland projects and internship proposals. and Atlantic salmon in Maine. Project 34 high priority stream crossing barriers and migratory connections to the river, tripling can be implemented in sequential phases as and Virginia. Project will engage at 2,000 $200,000 will restore 21.74 miles of high quality access to 66 miles of historic high quality the current river herring population. funding becomes available. private landowners and enroll at least cold-water habitat and restore natural stream habitat, using the U.S. Forest Service $23,232 $49,954 3,000 acres in Working Lands for Wildlife Texas State University ecological processes to the streams, Stream Simulation Design methodology, an by utilizing conservation planners and field Reddish Egret Conservation Plan including sediment movement, nutrient ecosystem-based approach for constructing U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Watershed Protection foresters to implement best practices in for the U.S. Gulf Coast (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) processing and movement of wood. road-stream crossings. U.S. Forest Service Stormwater Retrofit Plan and Design (MD) strategic locations. Develop a detailed conservation plan with $194,025 $156,913 Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Identify opportunities to install stormwater $1,169,163 prioritized actions, clear conservation and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species retrofits in the town of New Market and outcomes and well-defined funding needs Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association (multiple states) develop designs for a water quality retrofit Manomet to best support the reddish egret (REEG) Expanding Electronic Monitoring in the New Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery Expand the aquatic environmental DNA of the town’s fire pond. Project will develop Coastal Habitat Restoration for American in the Gulf of Mexico. Project will contract England Groundfish Fisheries (ME, MA, NH, RI) Allocation Trusts (multiple states) Atlas database, website, digital tools and a plan for better managing stormwater Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast an expert on Open Standards for the Expand participation in electronic Develop a new approach to fishery trusts sample repository to a national scale. runoff to both improve water quality and (multiple states) Practice of Conservation and a research monitoring from 20 to 30 vessels in that will be used as a model for multiple Project will expand the current coverage address localized drainage issues as well as Coordinate the planning and assistant to facilitate webinars, host two the New England groundfish fishery to fisheries, including, but not limited to, of the database of information important address the safety concern of the fire pond implementation of conservation action for workshops with the REEG working group, improve accountability through video the New England Groundfish and the to the conservation and management while enhancing water quality treatment. American oystercatcher along the entire write plans and aggregate existing focal monitoring and reduce bycatch. Project will Gulf of Mexico Reef fishery, by assessing of aquatic species to include waterways $48,190 U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES foraging and nesting data into an online update technology, plan for industry cost current permit bank models, exploring in the 37 remaining states to inform the coastwide coordination of the American database. sharing and strengthen partnerships with small business growth, and exploring strategic conservation investments for Chesapeake Media Service oystercatcher recovery initiative and $74,990 fishermen, the National Marine Fisheries community buy-in and stewardship. suppressing invasives and increasing Increased Outreach to Local Governments in compile lessons learned after a decade’s Service and scientists resulting in improved Project will result in up to five new trust native populations. the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through the worth of targeted investments and embark U.S. Department of Agriculture, long-term fisheries management. and permit bank business structures and $73,018 Bay Journal (multiple states) upon a new initiative to develop best U.S. Forest Service $541,109 up to five programmatic models that will Create a new local government edition of management practices to restore wet Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas respond to the changing needs of the fishing the Bay Journal to provide education for and dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Gulf of Maine Research Institute community. MARYLAND municipal staff in the vast majority of the and other breeding shorebirds along the (multiple states) Develop Machine Learning Software to Reduce $99,882 1,800 local government jurisdictions within Atlantic Coast. Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Electronic Monitoring Costs in New England Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Project $150,000 Atlas database, website, digital tools, and (ME, MA, RI) Midcoast Conservancy Developing a Chesapeake Tree Canopy will provide information that will help them sample repository to a national scale. Develop activity recognition algorithms Improving Fish Passage and Habitat for Funding and Financing Guide (DC, MD, VA) understand and achieve their commitments National Wildlife Federation Project will expand the current coverage to identify fishing activity to decrease Multiple Diadromous Fish Species on the Develop a Chesapeake Urban Tree Canopy to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. Maryland Stormwater Success Stories of the database of information important video review time, and data storage Sheepscot River (ME) Funding and Financing document and hold $20,001 Create a resource that packages the most to the conservation and management requirements on vessels using a Modify a fish passage barrier on the a one-day workshop and provide one- compelling information and stories of of aquatic species to include waterways maximized retention bycatch monitoring Sheepscot River in Alna, Maine, to reconnect on-one support for Metro Washington Dewberry Engineers stormwater best management practices in the 37 remaining states to inform approach in the New England groundfish multiple anadromous fish species, including Council of Governments members. Project Cecil County Stormwater Outreach (MD) and use them to educate communities

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED strategic conservation investments for fishery. Project will install software river herring, Atlantic salmon and sea-run will serve as a general guidance for all Build Cecil County’s capacity for outreach regarding stormwater financing and create suppressing invasives and increasing on vessels, document the process brook trout, to historic stream habitat. Chesapeake communities on the funding and education to municipal employees an educational network that helps put more native populations. for incorporating automation into an Project will restore access to 167 miles and sustainable financing of the programs, and county residents by enhancing and projects into the ground. Project will target $73,018 electronic monitoring program, and of stream habitat and 847 acres of pond bolstered with short and compelling how-to building on their existing efforts with a municipalities, local agency staff and local present results in a best practices report. habitat to enhance long-term population case studies from the Chesapeake region. focus on improved water quality and overall government officials; however, the resources University of Florida $450,266 sustainability and provide access to refugia $49,188 Chesapeake Bay Watershed health. Project created will be available to the public and Evaluating Recreational Fishing Management for cold-water aquatic species. will develop an employee-training program, adaptable to various user needs. Strategies for Red Snapper (AL, FL, LA, TX) IC Independent Consulting $73,700 American Bird Conservancy and create stormwater best management $50,000 Assess the recreational management Implementing and Improving Electronic Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black practice operation and maintenance strategies of red snapper by using Monitoring in New England Fisheries Nobleboro Historical Society Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake guidelines. Ridge to Reefs simulation and assessment modeling, (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI) Damariscotta Mills Fish Ladder Post- Bay Watershed (multiple states) $35,048 Bioreactor Implementation Training stakeholder surveys and stakeholder Review and synthesize electronic monitoring Restoration Efficiency Study (ME) Develop guidance to target wetland habitat and Promoting (DE, MD) workshops. Project will provide a technologies, electronic reporting Conduct study to evaluate river herring restoration and enhancement across the Ducks Unlimited Increase the capacity of Nanticoke framework for angling groups to explore technologies, and data requirements to passage efficiency over the Damariscotta entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project Conservation of American Black Duck Watershed Alliance to site, design and build management options to understand the better monitor catch, bycatch, discards and Mills Fish Ladder, which was restored will be using the output of two separate in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia bioreactors within the Nanticoke watershed, impacts on available catch and anglers’ interactions with endangered, threatened in 2016 to allow access to high quality models to target conservation actions that Implement the goals of the Working Lands and promote the practice with other farmers access to the red snapper fishery. and protected species within the New spawning habitat in Damariscotta Lake in would benefit water quality and black ducks, for Wildlife Farm Bill Program by targeting throughout the watershed. Project will $275,121 England groundfish fisheries. Project Maine. Project will compare fish ladder in partnership with the U.S. Geological conservation of American black duck priority conduct targeted outreach to farmers, hold will develop a plan for implementing efficiency before and after restoration by Survey and the Atlantic Coast and Black habitat in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. a farmer workshop and provide bioreactor data modernization to address gaps that first determining the rate of fish passage Duck joint ventures. Project will work with producers and private tours to increase knowledge about this will satisfy scientific, enforcement, and over the ladder during the 2018 river $25,634 landowners to implement NRCS Farm Bill practice. sustainable management needs. herring spawning run, and then comparing conservation programs to protect, restore $49,994 $79,940 results to a similar study completed prior to and enhance habitat to benefit American the restoration of the fish ladder. black ducks on private lands. $10,000 $272,564

34 35 Shorerivers University of Maryland Center Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Gulf of Maine Research Institute Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association Town of Amherst Williston Lake Watershed Assessment for Environmental Science Expanding Electronic Monitoring in the New Develop Machine Learning Software to Reduce Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery Remove Nitrogen at Wastewater Plant (MA) and Management Plan (MD) Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators England Groundfish Fisheries (ME, MA, NH, RI) Electronic Monitoring Costs in New England Allocation Trusts (multiple states) Amherst will install flow monitoring systems Complete a watershed plan for the Williston into the Chesapeake Bay Report Card Expand participation in electronic monitoring (MA, ME, RI) Develop a new approach to fishery trusts that on effluent and return activated sludge at the Lake watershed in Caroline County, (multiple states) from 20 to 30 vessels in the New England Develop activity recognition algorithms to will be used as a model for multiple fisheries, Amherst Wastewater Treatment Plant. Project Maryland, to identify sources and quantities Make key improvements to the Chesapeake groundfish fishery to improve accountability identify fishing activity to decrease video including, but not limited to, the New will improve process control for nitrification of nutrients and sediment loads impacting Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 through video monitoring and reduce review time and data storage requirements England Groundfish and the Gulf of Mexico and denitrification, resulting in a reduction Williston Lake and ultimately the Choptank as the definitive source for ecosystem health bycatch. Project will update technology, plan on vessels using a maximized retention Reef fishery, by assessing current permit bank of nitrogen loading to the Connecticut River, River. Project will create a management status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project for industry cost sharing and strengthen bycatch monitoring approach in the New models, exploring small business growth, and which drains into Long Island Sound. plan with a prioritized list of actions that the will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card partnerships with fishermen, the National England groundfish fishery. Project will exploring community buy-in and stewardship. $17,650 Girl Scouts, farmers and other watershed process and product by incorporating recent Marine Fisheries Service and scientists. install software on vessels, document the Project will result in up to five new trust partners can use as a blueprint to help lessons learned, incorporating new design $541,109 process for incorporating automation into and permit bank business structures and Town of South Hadley reduce inputs and improve the water quality elements, developing indicators for non-tidal an electronic monitoring program and up to five programmatic models that will Enhancing Nitrogen Removal at the South of the Lake. watershed areas. Connecticut River Watershed Council present results in a best practices report. respond to the changing needs of the fishing Hadley Wastewater Treatment Plant (MA) $48,971 $113,995 A Watershed Monitoring Strategy to Support $450,266 community. Replace one mechanical aerator at the the Long Island Sound Nitrogen Strategy $99,882 South Hadley Wastewater Treatment Plant, Skeo Solutions Water Words That Work (MA, NH, VT) Housatonic Valley Association Chicopee, Massachusetts. Project will result Anacostia Watershed Training Chesapeake Bay Watershed Create a watershed-scale monitoring strategy Creating Road-Stream Crossing Management Manomet in increased nitrogen removal, improving Regional Messaging Initiative (DC, MD) Conservation Practitioners to add nutrient and other water quality data Plans to Pass Eastern Brook Trout and Reduce Coastal Habitat Restoration for American water quality in the Connecticut River, which Develop a conservation-based regional (DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) in the Connecticut and Housatonic River Flood Risk (MA) Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast drains into Long Island Sound. initiative designed to educate effected Help conservation practitioners successfully watersheds of Massachusetts, New Hampshire Create road-stream crossing management (multiple states) $145,000 communities and broaden knowledge of the recruit and negotiate landowners’ and Vermont. Project will add to the current plans for municipalities in the Berkshire Coordinate the planning and implementation Anacostia River and watershed throughout participation in the Conservation Reserve effort to implement the Long Island Sound Hills of Massachusetts that prioritize culvert of conservation action for American Trout Unlimited the District of Columbia, Montgomery Enhancement Program, conservation Nitrogen Reduction Strategy for the large river replacements, improve fish habitat and oystercatcher along the entire U.S. Atlantic Targeting Municipalities and Landowners to County and Prince Georges County. Project easements, agricultural best practices, systems that drain into Long Island Sound. reduce flood risk. Project will develop seaboard. Project will continue the coastwide Improve Stream Health (MA, VT) will create a consistent and coordinated, manure and forest management plans and $39,361 management plans for five towns that coordination of the American oystercatcher Assist municipalities, private landowners UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES conservation stewardship strategy to engage habitat restoration projects to improve will serve as a tool to secure financing for recovery initiative and compile lessons and contractors to prioritize stream communities, neighborhoods, and citizens water quality in the Chesapeake Bay Connecticut River Watershed Council implementation of culvert replacements learned after a decade’s worth of targeted connectivity and cold-water habitat in conservation practices for the Anacostia watershed. Project will bring the expertise Restoring Riparian and Instream Habitat that improve aquatic connectivity for investments and embark upon a new restoration projects using available data that will ultimately reduce nutrients and of the region’s most successful conservation for Trout (MA, NH, VT) eastern brook trout. initiative to develop best management on road-stream crossings. Project will use sediment entering the Chesapeake Bay. field staff into a course designed for entry Provide targeted outreach and technical $85,399 practices to restore wet and dry sand habitats the new Forests for Fish program to recruit $44,911 level and mid-career field staff. assistance to landowners to implement for oystercatchers and other breeding six municipalities and 75 landowners to $24,978 riparian, instream habitat and water quality IC Independent Consulting shorebirds along the Atlantic Coast. increase land under easement by 200 acres The Nature Conservancy projects in priority eastern brook trout Implementing and Improving Electronic $150,000 and develop restoration plans based on Improving Management of Family Forestland Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore sub-watersheds of the Middle and Upper Monitoring in New England Fisheries culvert replacement prioritization. Using a Landowner Service Model to Optimize Green Stoop Challenge (MD) Connecticut River. Project will plant riparian (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI) Massachusetts Department of Fish and $66,433 Outcomes (MD) Engage communities in Baltimore’s Harris buffers on 6 acres and increase wildlife habitat Review and synthesize electronic monitoring Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration Enhance management of private family Creek watershed to plant and maintain 450 as well as create 3 miles of restored instream technologies, electronic reporting Planning for Restored Aquatic Connectivity for U.S. Department of Agriculture, woodlands in western Maryland by tree pits. The planting of the tree pit will be habitat through large wood and log jam technologies, and data requirements to Eastern Brook Trout on the Manhan River (MA) U.S. Forest Service utilizing a landowner service model that as important as the tree itself and will be additions that increase structural complexity. better monitor catch, bycatch, discards and Complete final engineering designs and Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas coordinates the full spectrum of available used to engage residents in sustainable block $199,672 interactions with endangered, threatened submit permit applications to remove a fish and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species private and public service providers to meet building exercises. Project will train 300 local and protected species within the New passage barrier that is a significant public (multiple states) the needs of landowners implementing residents as tree pit gardeners who will learn Cornell Cooperative Extension Association England groundfish fisheries. Project hazard in Southhampton, Massachusetts, Expand the aquatic environmental DNA

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED best management practices. Project will about the benefits of green infrastructure of Suffolk County will develop a plan for implementing on the Manhan River, a tributary of the Atlas database, website, digital tools and implement forest stewardship and habitat and native plants, reconnect to their historic Bycatch Avoidance Network Expansion for data modernization to address gaps that Connecticut River. Project will lead to sample repository to a national scale. improvements that maintain and enhance waterways and compete with neighboring Georges Bank Haddock and Northern Red will satisfy scientific, enforcement and reconnection of 27 miles of eastern Project will expand the current coverage age and structural diversity for early blocks to have the greenest stoops. Hake (MA, NJ, NY, RI) sustainable management needs. brook trout habitat in a state-designated of the database of information important successional, mature and late successional $29,998 Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Network $79,940 cold-water fishery and the elimination of to the conservation and management of habitat on a total of 400 acres owned by 20 to identify and report real-time bycatch a public safety risk that would impact the aquatic species to include waterways in different landowners. of butterfish, river herring, windowpane, Lowell Parks and Conservation Trust availability of drinking water to a portion of the 37 remaining states to inform strategic $199,960 MASSACHUSETTS yellowtail flounder, haddock and northern Engaging Community in Monitoring, the town. conservation investments for suppressing red hake. Project will reduce bycatch Stewardship and Education (MA) $51,000 invasives and increasing native populations. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance in Southern New England fisheries by Restore 3 acres and 1,000 linear feet of $73,018 U.S. Forest Service Developing the Massachusetts providing active vessels with real-time riverbank abutting the Concord River Springfield Water and Sewer Commission Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Shellfish Initiative spatial and temporal bycatch data. Greenway in Massachusetts to improve Enhancing Nitrogen Removal at the Springfield and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Develop the Massachusetts Shellfish $60,939 habitat and restore anadromous fish Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility (MA) MICHIGAN (multiple states) Initiative plan to build capacity for shellfish to the Sudbury-Assabet-Concord River Install nitrogen sensors and use information Expand the aquatic environmental DNA stakeholders and maximize the economic CVision Consulting Watershed while engaging local youth and from those sensors to improve operations Audubon International Atlas database, website, digital tools and and environmental benefits of shellfish Electronic Monitoring Video Review (MA) adults through educational programs and during the biological treatment process Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat sample repository to a national scale. resources, including oysters, quahogs, surf Develop open source video review tools for a volunteer stewardship and monitoring at the Springfield Regional Wastewater on Golf Courses (multiple states) Project will expand the current coverage clams, mussels, razor clams, steamers and the fisheries management community to program. Project will include five resource Treatment Facility. Project will eliminate Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf courses of the database of information important bay scallops. Project will include more than accelerate the delivery of accurate electronic management partners, 75 local volunteers nitrogen discharges by 1,000 pounds in a 10-state area to support pollinators such to the conservation and management of 500 stakeholders who will develop goals monitoring data. Project will result in a and 12 schools, engaging more than 2,000 annually into the Connecticut River, which as the monarch butterfly. Project will provide aquatic species to include waterways in and guidance for balancing the growing and semiautomated video review and expanded community members to provide over 250 drains into Long Island Sound. technical assistance and native, regionally the 37 remaining states to inform strategic competing demands for shellfish resources. use of computer vision in the New England monitoring observations. $51,146 appropriate seed while raising awareness conservation investments for suppressing $100,000 groundfish fisheries, which reduces the cost $27,232 about pollinators through educational invasives and increasing native populations. of fisheries data collection and review. signage and demonstrating how to manage $73,018 $128,085 commercial properties sustainably. $150,000

36 37 Clinton Conservation District Kent Conservation District National Audubon Society Conservation Corps The Conservation Fund U.S. Geological Survey Assistance for Maple River Watershed (MI) Protecting Our Mid and West Michigan Sustaining Birds of the Great Lakes – II (MI, NY) Twin Cities Adopt-a-River Restoration (MN) Boundary Water Canoe Area (MN) National Wildlife Health Center Increase the availability of technical Soil and Water Resources Restore critical habitat for migratory Improve 6 miles of riparian wetland, remove Acquire 10,000 acres of land within and Developing and Testing Delivery Methods for assistance to landowners in the Clinton through Engineering Support shorebirds and waterfowl across 449 acres of 1.5 acres of invasive vegetation and improve around the Boundary Water Canoe Area Vaccine Treatments to Reduce White-Nose County area of the Maple River watershed. Protect thousands of acres of water quality some of the highest priority coastal wetland 1,489 acres of habitat along the Mississippi Wilderness, a 1 million-acre wilderness Syndrome in Bats (CO, MN, TX, WI) Project will engage landowners through and habitat on agricultural land by designing complexes in the Great Lakes region. Project and Minnesota rivers near Minneapolis and area within the Superior National Forest of Design and test mass-delivery methods for outreach programs, assist in the and installing backlogged engineered will leverage the resources of 10 partner St. Paul. Project will engage 1,000 community northeastern Minnesota. Project will protect vaccines and other treatment options as a development of conservation plans and conservation practices in mid and west organizations to implement landscape scale volunteers, with 15 teachers receiving habitat of 69 species of greatest conservation strategy to reduce the occurrence of white- implement conservation practices aimed at Michigan. Grow conservation partnerships restoration activities, including invasive training to implement an environmental need, including the Canada lynx, spruce nose syndrome in bats. Project will develop and improving soil health and water quality. between National Fish and Wildlife species control, native plantings and curriculum within their youth programs. grouse, Connecticut warbler, shortjaw cisco, test an automatic spray technology device for $189,600 Federation, Natural Resources Conservation improvement of water-control capacity. $43,940 boreal owl, boreal chickadee, spoonhead delivering treatments to bats as they fly into Services, a local conservation district and $593,476 sculpin and black-backed woodpecker. maternity roosts or hibernacula for fall swarm Conservation Resource Alliance private landowners who account for the Cook County Soil and Water $500,000 and assess oral consumption of treatment Restoring Total Aquatic Connectivity (MI) majority of Michigan’s natural areas. The Nature Conservancy Conservation District and effectiveness of a topical delivery method Rectify and restore the three remaining $198,000 Conserving Michigan’s North Point Peninsula Restoring Aquatic Connectivity (MN) The Nature Conservancy through the use of biomarkers. aquatic species passage barriers within the Acquire in fee 1,384 acres of Michigan’s North Reconstruct a road stream crossing and Restoring Riparian Forest Resilience (MN) $400,000 entire Carp Lake River. Project will restore Keweenaw County Road Commission Point Peninsula, which includes 4 miles of railroad crossing on Fredenberg Creek, a Restore forest cover, diversity and aquatic organism passage for brook trout Improving Fish Passage Great Lakes shoreline. Project will safeguard tributary to the Two Island River 1.5 miles resilience along 55 miles of priority riparian World Wildlife Fund and other cold-water species, improve at Central Creek Crossing (MI) this pristine area, which includes habitat for from Lake Superior. Project will restore forests adjacent to Lake Superior and its Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale degraded riparian habitat benefiting Replace a perched culvert impeding aquatic migratory birds and coastal wetlands that are access to nearly 2 miles of high-quality priority North Shore tributaries. Project of the Plowprint Analytical Tool species such as the federally endangered connectivity for priority native brook important habitat for fish, wildlife and rare cold-water habitat for brook trout as well will help maintain and restore habitat (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) Hungerford’s crawling water beetle, and trout. Project will improve the road stream plants. as reduce sediment and phosphorus inputs strongholds for brook trout and other Update and expand geospatial data analysis, reduce sediment loading up to 15 tons per crossing by installing a concrete structure, $500,000 into the waterway and improve the health of priority cold-water fish. called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape year. widening and naturalizing the streambed the Sable and Lincoln River watersheds. $249,419 change metrics for the Northern Great Plains $300,000 resulting in the reconnection of more than Pollinator Partnership $100,000 ecoregion. Project analysis will expand the 1.57 miles of high-quality habitat, including Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes Trout Unlimited previous versions by including northern UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES County of Ottawa potential spawning areas. for At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) Dakota County Driftless Partnership: Engaging Landowners in Mexico, extending the analysis backward in Restoring Bayou Connectivity and Grand River $110,000 Develop a regional seed collection and native Restoring Habitat for Pollinators (MN) Water Quality and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill time to capture historical change and using Shoreline Stability at Riverside Park (MI) plant materials development program in Restore and enhance nearly 900 acres Programs (IL, IA, MN, WI) the newest and best available data to track Restore the hydrologic connection between Macomb County Public Works Office the Midwest to support monarch butterflies of prairie and woodland in Minnesota to Engage agricultural producers in developing rates of agricultural conversion, monitor the 26-acre Kirby Bayou and the Grand Sterling Relief Drain Daylighting and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will support monarch butterflies, rusty patched conservation practices and science-based previously converted lands, identify risk River, and stabilize 500 feet of riverbank and Green Infrastructure Retrofit (MI) improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, bumble bees, and other pollinators. Project tools that restore cold-water streams and factors for remaining intact habitat and target to reduce sediment and improve water Redesign and retrofit 1 mile of the Sterling collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed, and will also develop a native plant materials promote grass-based grazing systems. conservation work. quality. Project will reconnect access to Relief Drain corridor in Macomb County as propagate 10,000 seedlings. program and engage 100 volunteers to Project will restore 20 miles of stream, $20,000 rare bayou habitat for species of greatest green infrastructure to daylight, store and $149,000 harvest milkweed seed and propagate reduce bank erosion, reconnect streams concern such as lake sturgeon, northern infiltrate stormwater from the 1,870-acre milkweed seedlings. to their floodplains and install a suite of pike and snuffbox. urban drainage district. Project will create U.S. Department of Agriculture, $150,000 critical habitat practices for fish, shorebirds, MISSISSIPPI $184,113 more than 50 acres of diverse native habitat, U.S. Forest Service amphibians, reptiles and other aquatic biota. plant 5,000 trees and intercept 28 lateral Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Minnesota Land Trust $149,247 Chicago Zoological Society Huron Conservation District storm drains to add more than 10 million and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species St. Louis River Estuary Coastal Wetland Enhancing the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Landowner Technical Assistance gallons of urban stormwater storage capacity. (multiple states) Revegetation (MN) Urban Roots MN Identification System (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) in Saginaw Bay $602,183 Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Restore and enhance native riparian and Engaging Local Youth (MN) Improve the functionality of the Gulf of Mexico Provide planning and technical support Atlas database, website, digital tools, and emergent coastal wetland vegetation Restore 10.4 acres of lowland hardwood Dolphin Identification System, a collaborative

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED to improve soil heath and water quality in Marquette County Conservation District sample repository to a national scale. communities on up to 200 acres in the St. forest and mixed emergent marsh to improve database of bottlenose dolphin photographic the high-risk and high-need Saginaw Bay Landowner Technical Assistance Project will expand the current coverage Louis River Estuary. Project will integrate water quality and enhance habitat for great identification from researchers around the watershed. Project will provide planning in Michigan’s Central Upper Peninsula of the database of information important revegetation practices with grading and blue herons, egrets, bald eagles and other Gulf. Project will expand the existing tool and technical support to landowners to Support a soil conservationist for a three- to the conservation and management of excavation of aquatic habitat to accelerate waterfowl around Little Pig’s Eye Lake in for protection and restoration of bottlenose facilitate the timely installation of soil year term to increase private, nonindustrial aquatic species to include waterways in comprehensive habitat restoration St. Paul, Minnesota. Project will employ 30 dolphins, allowing researchers to search online health and water quality best management landowner participation in forest the 37 remaining states to inform strategic outcomes and improve stopover and teen interns who, along with 400 volunteers for their individual dolphins within the catalogs practices. management planning and implementation conservation investments for suppressing breeding habitat for Canada warbler, blue and hired restoration crews, will restore the of other collaborating researchers, to identify $184,844 of recommended conservation practices invasives and increasing native populations. winged teal and common tern. woodland and wetlands. long-range movements and determine the within the central Upper Peninsula. $73,018 $95,192 $49,998 origins of stranded dolphins. Huron Pines Resource Conservation $236,457 $60,000 and Development Council Stearns County Soil and Water U.S. Department of Agriculture, Enhancing Brook Trout Habitat Mason-Lake Conservation District MINNESOTA Conservation District U.S. Forest Service Expanding Resources into Action in the Pigeon River (MI) Farmer-led Approach to Reduce Sediment Technical Assistance to Farmers Participating in Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Land Conservation Program for Limited Restore natural river function, reduce and Nutrient Loading in the Lincoln and Sable Audubon International Agricultural Water Quality Certification and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Resource Farmers and Ranchers (LA, MS) aquatic organism passage-impeding flow Watersheds (MI) Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat on Accelerate implementation of voluntary (multiple states) Provide technical assistance to limited velocities and enhance the recreational Improve the health of the Sable and Lincoln Golf Courses (multiple states) conservation practices as part of Expand the aquatic environmental DNA resource farmers and ranchers in Mississippi capacity of the Pigeon River. Project will River watersheds by reducing sediment and Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf courses a comprehensive natural resource Atlas database, website, digital tools and and Louisiana to increase awareness and reconnect 55 upstream miles of aquatic nutrients input through the implementation in a 10-state area to support pollinators such conservation plan for the Upper Mississippi sample repository to a national scale. participation in the Natural Resources habitat and decrease sediment loading by of Farm Bill conservation practices. Project as the monarch butterfly. Project will provide River Basin. Project will provide additional Project will expand the current coverage Conservation Service Agricultural 0.5 tons annually. will expand landowner technical assistance technical assistance and native, regionally technical assistance for 24 animal waste of the database of information important Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). $225,000 capacity to implement priority conservation appropriate seed while raising awareness management systems and 40 erosion to the conservation and management of Project will develop educational materials and practices, such as cover crops, field borders, about pollinators through educational control projects required for producers and aquatic species to include waterways in host workshops to inform landowners of best filter strips and improve nutrient management signage and demonstrating how to manage landowners to become certified, leveraging the 37 remaining states to inform strategic land conservation practices and opportunities practices on 10,000 acres of farmland. commercial properties sustainably. state Clean Water funds, Farm Bill programs conservation investments for suppressing to enroll their lands in ACEP. $188,424 $150,000 and NRCS conservation practices. invasives and increasing native populations. $299,700 $199,447 $73,018

38 39 Forest Landowners Association Mississippi Land Trust Texas A&M AgriLife Research U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pheasants Forever Clark Fork Coalition Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building Mississippi Landowner Outreach and Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation U.S. Forest Service Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite Water Transaction Development Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing Conservation Technical Assistance Program Scholars Program (multiple states) Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) in the Upper Clark Fork, Blackfoot, Solutions – II (multiple states) Expand upon past outreach efforts Integrate undergraduates and graduates and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Deliver technical assistance across six states and Bitterroot Rivers (MT) Engage large family forest landowners in and implement a three-year technical using a two-tiered program that will focus (multiple states) to improve land-management practices for Identify, implement and monitor water longleaf restoration and at-risk species assistance capacity-building project in on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico Expand the aquatic environmental DNA northern bobwhite and other terrestrial transactions in the Upper Clark Fork, conservation throughout the historic partnership with the USDA’s Natural ecosystems and energy development and Atlas database, website, digital tools and wildlife. Project will include 11,940 landowner Bitterroot and Blackfoot River sub basins of range of the longleaf pine. Project will Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) broader questions on energy development. sample repository to a national scale. contacts, 27,800 acres under improved Montana. Project will improve streamflows assist landowners with the establishment to improve landowners’ understanding Project will appoint two graduate Project will expand the current coverage management practices, 720 plans with best and aquatic habitat conditions for native and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres and participation in NRCS conservation fellowships to serve as mentor assistants of the database of information important management practices and 6,000 acres trout. of longleaf pine, develop regulatory programs in Mississippi. Project will to guide a small cohort of undergraduate to the conservation and management of covered with federal program incentives. $689,408 predictability tools for at-risk species improve water quality, enhance wildlife interns as they develop their projects and aquatic species to include waterways in $2,447,858 endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, populations and meet landscape-level internship proposals. the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Ducks Unlimited reducing uncertainty for landowners conservation priorities. $200,000 conservation investments for suppressing Pollinator Partnership Restoring Connectivity wishing to manage for longleaf habitat $300,000 invasives and increasing native populations. Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes for on Montana Grasslands conditions on their lands, and explore Texas State University $73,018 At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) Protect privately owned parcels in key market-based solutions to address the Mississippi Land Trust Reddish Egret Conservation Plan Develop a regional seed collection and native grassland landscapes in north-central economic constraints to large-scale longleaf Mississippi Longleaf Pine Ecosystem for the U.S. Gulf Coast (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) plant materials development program in Montana through the USDA Agricultural restoration on private lands. Restoration Develop a detailed conservation plan with MISSOURI the Midwest to support monarch butterflies Land Easement Program. Project will identify $145,000 Establish 325 acres of longleaf pine and prioritized actions, clear conservation and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will and contact willing landowners to conserve enhance an additional 4,760 acres of outcomes and well-defined funding needs to Audubon International improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, properties left unprotected by wetland- Gulf Seafood Institute existing longleaf habitat with prescribed best support the reddish egret in the Gulf of Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed, and specific programs; provide nonfederal Expanding the Gulf of Mexico Charter Boat fire in the Piney Woods landscape of Mexico. Project will contract an expert and a on Golf Courses (multiple states) propagate 10,000 seedlings. cost-share on the easements; and cover Electronic Logbook (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) south Mississippi. Project will support research assistant, host two workshops with Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf $149,000 a portion of the staff costs associated Expand the use of electronic logbooks in the long-term capacity for prescribed burning the working group, write plans and aggregate courses in a 10-state area to support with the identification, development and Gulf of Mexico by improving software and by stimulating private prescribed fire existing foraging and nesting data into an pollinators such as the monarch butterfly. U.S. Department of Agriculture, establishment of the Agricultural Land UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES providing training and outreach to captains. contractors, training and assisting private online database. Project will provide technical assistance and U.S. Forest Service Easements. Project will increase the number of vessels landowners with burns on their own $74,990 native, regionally appropriate seed while Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas $150,000 with installed electronic logbook units in the lands, and engaging the forest industry in raising awareness about pollinators through and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Gulf of Mexico resulting in more accurate prescribed fire efforts. The Nature Conservancy educational signage and demonstrating (multiple states) Montana Conservation Corps data to fishery managers. $116,857 Floodplain Reconnection and Hydrological how to manage commercial properties Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Musselshell River Cooperative Weed $661,298 Restoration at Loch Leven (MS) sustainably. Atlas database, website, digital tools and Management Area (MT) National Audubon Society Install water-control structures to flood the $150,000 sample repository to a national scale. Establish a Cooperative Weed Management Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain Bridging Data Gaps in the Northern Gulf interior of Loch Leven, a batture island in Project will expand the current coverage Area set along the Musselshell River Educational Awareness and Trail Construction through Comprehensive Monitoring (MS) Mississippi, anticipated to reconnect the CDP North America of the database of information important Watershed in central Montana. Project will at Bayou Auguste (MS) Bridge key data gaps concerning the tract to the Mississippi River. Project will Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments to the conservation and management of create an Integrated Weed Management Restore Bayou Auguste through trash status, distribution and conservation help restore hydrology to 6,000 acres of in Cities (multiple states) aquatic species to include waterways in Plan and implement an invasive species and invasive removal from more than needs of priority shorebird species in the bottomland hardwood forested wetlands Build capacity of communities in 18 cities the 37 remaining states to inform strategic treatment and mapping project utilizing 10 acres, and the installation of a trail northern Gulf of Mexico. This project will and improve water quality through sediment across the United States to help them conservation investments for suppressing Montana Conservation Corps AmeriCorps providing opportunities for the community, re-establish and expand standardized and nutrient reduction. implement sustainable infrastructure for invasives and increasing native populations. members and local volunteers. especially the neighborhood children migratory and breeding bird surveys $500,000 stormwater management, urban wildlife $73,018 $45,011 and surrounding schools, to develop a on the barrier islands of Mississippi, habitats and tree canopy improvement. stronger understanding and stewardship which will augment ongoing work on the The Nature Conservancy Project will perform targeted outreach to Montana Department of Natural Resources

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED of the bayou. Project will utilize strategic mainland of Mississippi. This project also Oyster Restoration in the Lower Wolf River cities to increase knowledge of sustainable MONTANA and Conservation partnerships to design and implement the will extend and expand a snowy plover Watershed (MS) infrastructure financing as well as develop Support for Water Transfers trail plan while engaging more than 100 banding program. Restore 5 acres of subtidal oyster reef cities’ use of online tools to document green Clark Fork Coalition to Instream Flows FY18 (MT) community volunteers in Biloxi, Mississippi. $113,000 habitat in the lower Wolf River Watershed infrastructure and habitat benefits. Granite Creek Bull Trout Restoration (MT) Assist organizations developing water $30,000 within the Bay of St. Louis to benefit oysters $200,000 Restore and enhance native populations of transactions with review and coordination North Carolina State University and associated species. Project will utilize bull trout in the Granite Creek and greater of project proposals. Project will efficiently Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association Prescribed Fire Initiative within the cultch-deployment and then monitor Heartland Conservation Alliance Upper Lolo watershed. Project will open up process instream flow applications to legally Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery Southeastern United States (multiple states) impacts on local water quality, oyster Municipal Farm Habitat Restoration through currently inaccessible high-quality habitat protect water from transactions for instream Allocation Trusts (multiple states) Expand and accelerate the implementation reef development and associated finfish Community Engagement (MO) for spawning and cold-water refugia while purposes. Develop a new approach to fishery trusts of prescribed fire to restore and utilization of historically lost oyster reef. Restore 35 acres of habitat and engage reducing negative impacts from road $40,652 that will be used as a model for multiple enhance longleaf pine habitat and other $29,958 more than 500 individuals from urban sediment entering the system. fisheries, including, but not limited to, fire-dependent forest and grassland communities in Kansas City, Missouri. $66,368 Montana Land Reliance the New England Groundfish and the communities within the Southeast. Project The Trust for Tomorrow Project will support fish and wildlife habitat, Conservation of Ringling Ranch (MT) Gulf of Mexico Reef fishery, by assessing will engage 1,000 landowners and fire Wetland Restoration Assistance Program (MS) urban forestry, water quality education Clark Fork Coalition Acquire the Ringling Ranch conservation current permit bank models, exploring practitioners through technical assistance, Increase capacity in Mississippi to provide and monitoring, and outdoor recreational Reconnecting Upper Clark Fork Basin Aquatic easement, an Agricultural Lands Easement small business growth, and exploring training and outreach, including “Learn targeted landowner outreach and activities while improving community and Riparian Corridors (MT) through the Natural Resources and community buy-in and stewardship. and Burn” workshops, development of education for increasing new enrollment understanding of how fish and wildlife Enhance aquatic and riparian habitats of Conservation Service in Carter County, Project will result in up to five new trust prescribed burn associations and Fire in NRCS’s Agricultural Conservation conservation and clean water contribute to the Upper Clark Fork River basin to provide southeastern Montana. Project will protect and permit bank business structures and Festivals, to increase the use of prescribed Easement – Wetland Reserve Easement community well-being. movement corridors for bull and westslope more than 21,000 acres of rangeland, native up to five programmatic models that will fire. (ACEP-WRE) program. Project will provide $49,935 cutthroat trout and other wildlife. Project will grasslands and greater sage grouse habitat. respond to the changing needs of the fishing $130,000 assessment and implementation planning reconnect six tributary streams to the river, $300,000 community. for the enhancement and management of remove 13 fish passage barriers, re-water up $99,882 bottomland forests on existing easements. to 18 miles of aquatic habitat and improve 11 $296,170 miles of riparian habitat. $110,808

40 41 Montana Land Reliance The Blackfoot Challenge Trout Unlimited World Wildlife Fund Pheasants Forever Great Basin Land and Water Conservation of Cattle Company Ranch (MT) Connectivity and Conflict Management for Instream Flow in the Upper Clark Fork and Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Grassland Conservation Acquisition and Conservation Activities to Acquire the Weaver Cattle Company Large Carnivores in the Rocky Mountains (MT) Blackfoot River Basins of Southwest Montana the Plowprint Analytical Tool (multiple states, in the Sandhills of Nebraska Benefit Pyramid Lake and Summit Lake (NV) conservation easement, located in Chouteau Expand the proven practice of carcass Develop water right leases and water Canada and Mexico) Accelerate working lands programs Facilitate land and water acquisition and and Blaine counties in north-central removal, bear-resistant containers, electric management agreements that work to Update and expand geospatial data analysis, that assist ranchers and landowners in conservation activities to benefit two natural Montana, a preferred habitat for sage fencing and range riders to much of augment stream flow and critical habitat called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape managing their land for livestock and desert terminal lakes in Nevada: Pyramid grouse. Project will protect the 9,985-acre western Montana in partnership with 10 for native trout species throughout the change metrics for the Northern Great wildlife. Project will work with private Lake in Washoe County and Summit Lake property and reseed 1,500 acres of cropland landowner-led watershed collaboratives. Upper Clark Fork River basin and Blackfoot Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand landowners to control invasive eastern in Humboldt County. Project will facilitate on the property into native grassland for Project will serve to reduce livestock River sub-basin. Project will reconnect key the previous versions by including northern red cedar and provide technical assistance the acquisition of water rights and related sage grouse and other grassland species. loss while building trust for long-term tributaries to their main stems and restore Mexico, extending the analysis backward to seed cropland back to grass to restore property interests from willing sellers $150,000 conflict resolution and result in fewer chronically de-watered stream reaches. in time to capture historical change and and enhance 80,000 acres of Sandhills within, contiguous to and/or upstream of large carnivores being removed from the $113,523 using the newest and best available data grasslands. the Pyramid Lake Paiute Indian Reservation, National Audubon Society population due to conflicts with humans. to track rates of agricultural conversion, $211,153 which surrounds Pyramid Lake; and advance Advancing the SageWest Communications $150,001 Trout Unlimited monitor previously converted lands, identify conservation activities and the acquisition Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem Rock Creek Fish Passage (MT) risk factors for remaining intact habitat and Pheasants Forever of real property, including fractionated (multiple states) The Nature Conservancy Reconnect bull trout and westslope cutthroat target conservation work. Support for Nebraska Sandhills interests in Indian allotments and water Elevate individual conservation efforts and Conservation of Cornwell Ranch (MT) trout habitat in the Rock Creek watershed by $20,000 Conservation rights, in cooperation with willing sellers create a larger dialogue about the value and Acquire a conservation easement on replacing irrigation infrastructure, installing Build capacity in the Nebraska Sandhills and willing participants located within, need for sagebrush conservation. Project approximately 4,000 acres of native fish screens, protecting riparian habitat, and to address the spread of invasive cedar contiguous to, or nearby the Summit Lake will engage in priority work groups, develop grassland and restore approximately 800 improving road crossings on private and NEBRASKA and grassland conversion to cropland Paiute Indian Reservation and the Summit guidance documents, and organize partner acres of native grassland in northern federal agency lands. Project will protect and in an area critical to numerous species Lake watershed. meetings across the ecosystem. Valley County, Montana, directly adjacent restore migratory native trout populations, National Audubon Society in decline. Project will improve 30,000 $20,000,000 $34,200 to the Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area. and improve resilience by reconnecting Support of Conservation Ranching Program acres by working one-on-one with private Project will protect and improve habitat tributary habitats, improving stream flow and (NE, SD) landowners to restore intact grasslands Humboldt Watershed Prickly Pear Land Trust for numerous species, including at-risk providing thermal refugia. Support the market-based Conservation by mechanically removing invasive tree Cooperative Weed Management Area Support of MALT/NRCS Agricultural Land grassland songbirds, greater sage grouse $98,500 Ranching Program, which focuses species, promoting and demonstrating Humboldt Watershed Invasive Plant UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Easement Program (MT) and pronghorn. on implementing bird-friendly land prescribed fire, writing prescribed grazing Management Project (NV) Support the Montana Association of Land $150,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture, management practices through technical plans and reseeding converted areas back Work in partnership with several agencies Trusts and Natural Resources Conservation U.S. Forest Service assistance and market-based connection to to native grasslands. within the Humboldt River Watershed to Service’s (NRCS) Montana Agricultural Westslope Cutthroat Trout Recovery (MT) landowners. Project will grow the program’s $180,000 treat weeds and restore treated areas to Land Easement (ALE) Program Coordinator The Nature Conservancy Construct a fish passage barrier to remove impact by expanding into the state of functioning vegetative communities by position. Project will provide critical Restoring High-elevation Mesic Seeps and non-native brook trout and re-establish Nebraska and strengthen impact in western World Wildlife Fund creating more suitable wildlife habitat. additional capacity to process more than Streams in Southwest Montana native westslope cutthroat trout along 33 South Dakota by providing professional Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Project will prevent or hinder the spread of 140,000 acres of Montana ALE projects that Develop an integrated suite of projects to miles of connected habitat in the Selway technical assistance to enrolled ranchers. of the Plowprint Analytical Tool noxious weeds through early detection and NRCS has obligated to fund. restore sage grouse brood-rearing habitats Watershed on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge $198,928 (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) removal. $143,421 in stands of mountain big sagebrush near National Forest. Project will improve stream Update and expand geospatial data $90,000 mesic seeps and streams. Project will and riparian habitat, decrease sediment Nebraska Community Foundation, analysis, called the Plowprint, to evaluate Ranchers Stewardship Alliance further collaboration between ranching, delivery from roads, restore vegetation and Rainwater Basin Joint Venture landscape change metrics for the Northern National Audubon Society Restoration of Milk River (MT) agency and conservation communities, and improve irrigation infrastructure. Addressing Eastern Red Cedar Great Plains ecoregion. Project analysis Advancing the SageWest Communications Utilize a community-led partnership to quantify outcomes to understand how rock $79,999 in the Nebraska Sandhills will expand the previous versions by Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem implement restoration and enhanced and brush structures and conifer removal- Improve management on 27,625 acres of including northern Mexico, extending (multiple states) management in Montana’s Milk River techniques increase soil moisture, expand U.S. Department of the Interior, grasslands in Nebraska’s Sandhills. Project the analysis backward in time to capture Elevate individual conservation efforts and Grasslands. Project will focus on transitioning the extent of mesic vegetation, increase Bureau of Land Management will include 17,250 acres of mechanical historical change and using the newest create a larger dialogue about the value and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED expiring Conservation Reserve Program the abundance of forbs and insects for Modification of Woven Wire Fences (MT) removal of invasive cedar, construction of and best available data to track rates of need for sagebrush conservation. Project lands into working rangeland and improving sage grouse broods, and influence songbird Modify existing woven wire fences that harm, grazing infrastructure to manage against agricultural conversion, identify risk factors will engage in priority work groups, develop management of non-native grass plantings, populations. block or hinder daily wildlife movements, re-infestation, and the hiring of a burn boss for remaining intact habitat and target guidance documents, and organize partner including the conversion of existing marginal $115,000 seasonal migrations and access to forage and to provide training, plan and implement conservation work. meetings across the ecosystem. cropland to perennial cover of native grasses water throughout the Northern Great Plains. prescribed fire as well as a geospatial $20,000 $34,200 and forbs through reseeding. The Trust for Public Land Project will replace woven wire fence in eastern red cedar inventory for the Sandhills $300,000 Conservation of the Swift Creek-Stillwater crucial pronghorn winter range and high-use documenting distribution and density across Pheasants Forever Forest Linkage of Montana areas to wildlife-friendly specifications. the landscape. NEVADA Expanding Conservation of Working Lands Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Acquire 13,398 acres of critical watershed $50,000 $300,000 in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) Effectiveness Monitoring for Declining and forestland in the Swift Creek-Stillwater CDP North America Maintain and expand technical assistance Grassland Bird Species within the Northern Forest Linkage Area of Montana. Project World Wildlife Fund Nebraska Community Foundation, Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments capacity in key greater sage grouse Great Plains (MT, ND, SD, WY) will prevent subdivision and development Advancing Black-footed Ferret Recovery Rainwater Basin Joint Venture in Cities (multiple states) focal areas to strengthen working ranch Collect data on bird abundance and from neighboring resort town, enhance through Innovative Delivery of Sylvatic Plague Grassland and Wetland Enhancement in Build capacity of communities in 18 cities lands management to improve greater occupancy of priority grassland bird landscape-scale connectivity, ensure public Vaccine Baits to Prairie Dogs (MT, SD) Nebraska’s Mixed Grass Prairie Region across the United States to help them sage grouse populations. Project will species to evaluate and quantify impacts recreational access as well as conserve 91 Improve the accuracy and speed of existing Engage landowners in management implement sustainable infrastructure for improve grazing practices on 250,000 of conservation investments. Project will percent of the Lazy Creek watershed, 13 unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and all- practices to improve habitat for grassland stormwater management, urban wildlife acres to benefit greater sage grouse focus on three strategies for conservation miles of streams and critical habitat for terrain vehicle (ATV) bait delivery prototypes bird and waterfowl in the Rainwater Basin. habitats and tree canopy improvement. through technical assistance provided projects: conservation easements, grassland grizzly bear, Canada lynx, bull trout, and a and build additional models that can be Project will improve management on 1,500 Project will perform targeted outreach to by 14 Strategic Watershed Action Teams restoration and grazing management projects variety of other plant and animal species. used to protect prairie dogs from sylvatic acres of grazing lands, develop grazing cities to increase knowledge of sustainable members. within the Northern Great Plains region $895,000 plague at black-footed ferret reintroduction plans as well as incorporate grazing as a infrastructure financing as well as develop $1,688,795 with comparisons providing an assessment sites in the Northern Great Plains. Project management practice to promote desired cities’ use of online tools to document of which programs are benefiting priority will advance recovery of the black-footed habitat for waterfowl and grassland nesting green infrastructure and habitat benefits. grassland bird species and help guide future ferret through efficient, operational UAS and birds on 750 acres of protected ranch $200,000 investments. ATV delivery of sylvatic plague vaccine baits lands. $235,155 to prairie dogs. $300,000 $75,000

42 43 Trout Unlimited Connecticut River Watershed Council The Conservation Fund Association of New Jersey Groundwork Elizabeth Pheasants Forever Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (CA, NV, OR) A Watershed Monitoring Strategy to Support Eastern Brook Trout Habitat Restoration (NH) Environmental Commissioners Great Swamp Community Partnership (NJ) Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite Execute strategies identified in the Lahontan the Long Island Sound Nitrogen Strategy Restore habitat for eastern brook trout on Installation of Green Infrastructure in the Engage 12 youth from the Green Team and Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Cutthroat Trout Business Plan by deploying (MA, NH, VT) 5,435 acres of Beebe River headwaters Upper Salem Watershed (NJ) another 350 from community programs, Deliver technical assistance across six a range-wide field crew to assist in recovery Create a watershed-scale monitoring strategy in central New Hampshire by removing Improve water quality in the Upper Salem such as the City Summer program, YMCA, states to improve land-management actions and applying a population viability to add nutrient and other water quality obstructions to fish passage and mitigating Watershed focus area by improving Boys and Girls Club, and Kean University to practices for northern bobwhite and other model to design effective and cost-efficient data in the Connecticut and Housatonic impacts of sedimentation and erosion stormwater management. Project will focus restore 1.5 acres of the Great Swamp Refuge terrestrial wildlife. Project will include sampling protocols for partners. River watersheds of Massachusetts, New from roads. Project will install bridges on on treating stormwater by applying green in New Jersey. Project will share skills with 11,940 landowner contacts, 27,800 acres $242,463 Hampshire and Vermont. Project will add five tributaries as well as relocate and infrastructure practices where stormwater staff and the Friends of the Great Swamp, under improved management practices, to the current effort to implement the Long reconstruct more than 3.5 miles of road, has never been treated to make measurable creating a new generation of environmental 720 plans with best management practices Walker Basin Conservancy Island Sound Nitrogen Reduction Strategy for reconnecting 6 miles of spawning habitat. improvements in water quality. leaders and engaging a host of Refuge staff and 6,000 acres covered with federal Water Acquisitions Grant No. 1: the large river systems. $100,000 $130,000 and volunteers at two sites in Elizabeth River incentives. Walker Basin Restoration Program (NV) $39,361 Trotters Creek site and near the Peterstown $2,447,858 Purchase approximately 6,600 acre-feet of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Burlington County Community Center. surface water located in the Walker River Connecticut River Watershed Council U.S. Forest Service Soil Conservation District $30,788 Pinelands Preservation Alliance Basin, Nevada, for the primary purpose of Restoring Riparian and Instream Habitat Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Soil Health Initiative Improving Shoreline Community Resilience restoring Walker Lake. These acquisitions for Trout in the Connecticut River Watershed and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species for the Kirkwood-Cohansey (NJ) Manomet and Beach Habitat Management (NJ) would achieve approximately 9.8 percent (MA, NH, VT) (multiple states) Increase local knowledge and participation Coastal Habitat Restoration for American Promote natural revegetation, sediment of the overall goal to restore the lake to a Provide targeted outreach and technical Expand the aquatic environmental DNA in federal Farm Bill programs by partnering Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast accretion and dune formation to protect 66 12,000 total dissolved solids level. assistance to landowners to implement Atlas database, website, digital tools and with conservation agencies and operators (multiple states) miles of back beach area from beach raking $19,800,000 riparian, instream habitat and water sample repository to a national scale. in the Kirkwood-Cohansey subwatershed. Coordinate the planning and and off-road vehicles Project will allow a quality projects in priority eastern brook Project will expand the current coverage Project will employ outreach and education implementation of conservation action for portion of the beach to function as habitat Western Association trout sub-watersheds of the Middle and of the database of information important programs, demonstration projects, as well American oystercatcher along the entire and begin the process of dune formation to of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Upper Connecticut River. Project will plant to the conservation and management of as mini grants to improve the number of U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue protect communities during storms. Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the riparian buffers on 6 acres to reduce stream aquatic species to include waterways in working farms applying soil and water the coastwide coordination of the American $199,998 Western United States (multiple states) temperatures and increase wildlife habitat as the 37 remaining states to inform strategic conservation practices to agricultural land oystercatcher recovery initiative and UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Develop a regional strategy and supporting well as create 3 miles of restored instream conservation investments for suppressing in order to improve farm practice efficiency compile lessons learned after a decade’s The Nature Conservancy plans to increase capacity and coordination habitat through large wood and log jam invasives and increasing native populations. and farm infiltration for healthier soils. worth of targeted investments and embark Fish Passage and Habitat Restoration for among monarch butterfly conservation additions that increase structural complexity. $73,018 $50,200 upon a new initiative to develop best Diadromous Fish in the Paulins Kill River (NJ) partners west of the Rocky Mountains. Project $199,672 management practices to restore wet and Restore access to 20 miles of the lower will develop and track implementation efforts Conserve Wildlife Foundation dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and Paulins Kill River and its tributaries for identified in the Western Monarch Population IC Independent Consulting NEW JERSEY of New Jersey other breeding shorebirds along the Atlantic American eel, sea lamprey, American shad Conservation Strategy, establish the Western Implementing and Improving Electronic Monitoring the Delaware Bay Coast. and other diadromous fish. Project will Monarch and Pollinator Initiative Council, Monitoring in New England Fisheries American Littoral Society Shorebird Stopover (NJ) $150,000 improve water quality, restore floodplain and transition milkweed data into the Crucial (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI) Expanding Beach Restoration Efforts in Continue work on the New Jersey Shorebird and riparian habitat, and restore natural Habitat Assessment Tool. Review and synthesize electronic monitoring Delaware Bay for Red Knots (NJ) Project, a program of integrated monitoring New Jersey Audubon Society channel hydraulics and sediment transport $120,000 and electronic reporting technologies, and Continue beach and intertidal oyster reef and management projects focused in the Creating and Enhancing Golden-Winged as well as increase recreational use of the data requirements to better monitor catch, restoration efforts in Delaware Bay, adding stopover period in May, has been the Warbler, Northern Bobwhite and Black Duck river. bycatch, discards and interactions with up to 5,000 cubic yards of coarse-grained center of conservation of the Delaware Bay Habitat in New Jersey $100,000 NEW HAMPSHIRE endangered, threatened and protected sand to Cooks Beach, New Jersey, a feeder Stopover for more than 20 years. Project Engage private landowners to improve species within the New England groundfish beach that supplies sand to other beaches will involve the trapping and tagging of habitat for golden-winged warbler, northern The Nature Conservancy American Rivers fisheries. Project will develop a plan for vital to red knots and horseshoe crabs. shorebirds in coastal New Jersey, resulting bobwhite and American black duck in focal Restoring Paulins Kill Floodplain Forests Final Designs for Fish Barrier Modifications implementing data modernization that Project will raise the elevation of the existing in an increased understanding of the areas across New Jersey. Project will improve and Functions – III (NJ)

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED on the Upper Connecticut River (NH, VT) will satisfy scientific, enforcement and berms to reduce the risk of overwash from flyway network used by red knot and the habitat for focal species on more than 430 Restore degraded riparian buffers and Complete final engineering designs and sustainable management needs. storms and create an intertidal oyster reef importance of the Bay to their survival. acres, restore 155 acres of habitat, monitor stabilize eroding stream banks in the Upper permitting for three fish barrier modifications $79,940 adjacent to the beach. $150,000 population response on 500 acres, and help Paulins Kill headwaters and Restoration Alley. on cold-water tributaries of the Upper $250,000 sustain 100 local community jobs. Project will improve floodplain function, Connecticut River in New Hampshire and New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Cornell Cooperative Extension Association $269,116 reconnect riparian habitat and improve water Vermont. Project will set the stage for Conservation of Turtle Habitat (NH) Associação para Conservação das Aves do of Suffolk County quality through new reforestation efforts in implementation that restores natural river Protect, enhance and increase habitat for Brasil – SAVE Brasil Bycatch Avoidance Network Expansion for North Jersey RC&D Area 10 acres floodplain and management of an processes, reconnects more than 45 miles of Blanding’s, spotted and wood turtles in New Building Community Support for Critical Red Georges Bank Haddock and Northern Red Fostering Farmer Engagement for existing 4-mile restoration corridor. historic habitat for eastern brook trout. Hampshire by providing expert technical Knot Habitat at Lagoa do Peixe National Park, Hake (MA, NJ, NY, RI) Implementation of Agricultural Best $144,606 $114,990 assistance to private landowners within Brazil (NJ) Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Network Management Practices (NJ) high-priority turtle areas. Project will provide Build local community support for Lagoa to identify and report real-time bycatch Increase implementation of agricultural best Trout Unlimited Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance continued and enhanced technical assistance do Peixe National Park in Brazil, a critical of butterfish, river herring, windowpane, management practices in the Lower-Middle Expand Native Eastern Brook Trout Patches Expanding Electronic Monitoring in the New that will help complete strategic conservation wintering and staging habitat for red knot yellowtail flounder, haddock and northern Musconetcong and Lopatcong watersheds in the Upper Delaware River Basin (NJ) England Groundfish Fisheries (ME, MA, NH, RI) and recovery projects for these species. and other shorebirds. Project will identify red hake. Project will reduce bycatch in in the New Jersey Highlands. Project will Protect and restore native upper Delaware Expand participation in electronic $150,100 and map ecosystem services through a Southern New England fisheries by providing engage farmers in the region through a free River brook trout habitat. Project will monitoring from 20 to 30 vessels in the participatory process, sharing these values active vessels with real-time spatial and soil/manure testing initiative that includes expand the number of brook trout patches New England groundfish fishery to improve Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire with a broader audience using a social temporal bycatch data. farm assessment and farmer education, a from 57 to 61 and reconnect 7.5 miles of accountability through video monitoring Partnership for Blanding’s, Wood and Spotted marketing-based approach led by local $60,939 free cover crop and nutrient management habitat throughout the watershed. and reduce bycatch. Project will update Turtle Habitat Conservation (NH) students. Project will involve students in the consulting service, as well as providing $89,815 technology, plan for industry cost sharing Conserve 875 acres of habitat and restore 10 International Shorebird Survey and build funding to leverage conservation practice and strengthen partnerships with fishermen, acres of habitat for Blanding’s, spotted and local pride in the protected area through an implementation. the National Marine Fisheries Service and wood turtle in New Hampshire. Project will exchange with Delaware Bay schools. $171,000 scientists resulting in improved long-term reach out to 55 landowners to provide training $50,000 fisheries management. or technical assistance on land conservation $541,109 and restoration options for their land. $141,737

44 45 U.S. Department of Agriculture, New Mexico Department of Game and Fish The Nature Conservancy Citizens Campaign Fund Connecticut Fund for the Environment Group for the East End U.S. Forest Service William S. Huey Wildlife Management Area Integrating Watershed and Urban Tree for the Environment Unified Water Study: Long Island Sound Habitat Restoration Stewardship Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Habitat Enhancement (NM) Canopy Restoration Practices Educating to Protect Marine Life and Eliminate Embayment Monitoring (CT, NY) at Hallock State Park Preserve (NY) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Enhance backwater stream habitat on with Workforce Development (NM) Single-use Plastics (NY) Implement the Unified Water Study (UWS) Conduct public and partner outreach (multiple states) the William S. Huey Wildlife Management Perform instream restoration activities Conduct comprehensive public education to a water quality monitoring program in two and education programs, environmental Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Area through bank sculpting, restoration along 2 acres of Tijeras Arroyo River reduce the impact of plastic polluting Long embayments; and engage five water quality stewardship activities, remove invasive plants, Atlas database, website, digital tools, and with native vegetation, improvement tributaries to enhance watershed health, Island Sound beaches, bays and harbors, monitoring groups in nine embayments and develop a habitat restoration plan to sample repository to a national scale. of water input and removal of tamarisk plant native trees in neighborhoods in in Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York. providing them with technical support as inform management of the 225-acre Hallock Project will expand the current coverage along the Pecos River. Project will improve Albuquerque’s South Valley to alleviate heat Project will gather 500 pledges to reduce participants in the UWS in Connecticut and State Park Preserve, Riverhead, New York. of the database of information important habitat for Pecos pupfish, Rio Grande vulnerability and drought while partnering common throw-away plastic use and engage New York. Project will engage a coordinated $67,542 to the conservation and management of cooter, southwestern willow flycatcher with a local tree nursery and greenhouse 200 volunteers in coastal clean-ups. effort to collect data on the health of bays aquatic species to include waterways in and multiple other aquatic and riparian to benefit the local workforce. Project will $45,000 and harbors to provide for synthesis about Housatonic Valley Association the 37 remaining states to inform strategic species. train and employ approximately 33 local water quality issues affecting Long Island Collaborative Watershed Planning for the Ten conservation investments for suppressing $250,000 youth to plant more than 200 trees in two Citizens Campaign Fund Sound. Mile River (CT, NY) invasives and increasing native populations. neighborhoods. for the Environment $99,991 Develop a watershed management plan $73,018 Playa Lakes Joint Venture $200,008 Septic Change-Out Education Program (NY) for the Ten Mile River in eastern Dutchess Sustainable Water Supply for Clovis Through Deliver a comprehensive education project to Cornell Cooperative Extension Association County, New York, and western Litchfield Community-based Playa Restoration (NM) World Wildlife Fund educate homeowners about the importance Bycatch Avoidance Network Expansion for County, Connecticut. Project will inform NEW MEXICO Partner with residents, farmers and Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale of upgrading their on-site septic system and Georges Bank Haddock and Northern Red restoration and water quality activities ranchers to proactively address a declining of the Plowprint Analytical Tool to provide tools and information to allow Hake (MA, NJ, NY, RI) focused on reducing nitrogen loads from the New Mexico Association municipal water supply by restoring part (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) them to more easily apply for assistance Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Network Ten Mile River to the Housatonic River and of Conservation Districts of the Ogallala Aquifer through: playa Update and expand geospatial data grants to fund these upgrades in the Towns of to identify and report real-time bycatch Long Island Sound. Grazing Management Enhancements (NM) restoration and protection, reduced use analysis, called the Plowprint, to evaluate Huntington, Smithtown and Riverhead New of butterfish, river herring, windowpane, $64,358 Implement brush control, installation of of irrigation-based agriculture and better landscape change metrics for the Northern York. Project will help homeowners switch yellowtail flounder, haddock and northern alternate water sources, water pipelines and surface water management. Project will Great Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will to new innovative alternative septic systems red hake. Project will reduce bycatch in Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, New York fence lines in upland areas adjacent to the work with 120 members of the community expand the previous versions by including that reduce nitrogen into Long Island Sound. Southern New England fisheries by providing Hempstead Harbor 2018 Water Quality UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Pecos, Black and Delaware rivers and Red to develop workshops to assist producers northern Mexico, extending the analysis $45,000 active vessels with real-time spatial and Monitoring Program – X (NY) Bluff, Brushy and Salt Grass draws within in learning how they can restore playas backward in time to capture historical temporal bycatch data. Conduct water quality monitoring of physical, Eddy County, New Mexico. Project will focus resulting in an estimated 700 wetland and change and using the newest and best Citizens Campaign Fund $60,939 chemical and biological indicators of pollution on restoration of grassland ecosystems, thousands of upland acres. available data to track rates of agricultural for the Environment in outer and inner Hempstead Harbor and enhanced distribution of livestock and $250,000 conversion, monitor previously converted Sound Gardening: Why Your Grass Choice Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Glen Cove Creek, Nassau County, New York. enhancement of water quality, quantity and lands, identify risk factors for remaining Matters (NY) Implementing Electronic Vessel Trip Reporting Project will inform management of Hempstead rare aquatic species within these rivers. Rocky Mountain Youth Corps intact habitat and target conservation work. Launch an educational campaign aimed at Develop and implement a voluntary cost- Harbor, an embayment of Long Island Sound. $247,500 South Valley Ecosystem Restoration (NM) $20,000 homeowners to provide guidance about the shared electronic monitoring and reporting $89,900 Recruit and hire 21 local Corps members types and correct grass seed to use on lawns program to support fisheries conservation New Mexico Department of Game and Fish to transform 4 acres of a vacant lot and in Nassau and Suffolk counties, New York. and management. Project will increase data Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, New York Improving Habitat for At-Risk Mussel an adjacent stormwater retention facility NEW YORK Project will provide homeowners with tools accuracy and timeliness for New York fishery- Hempstead Harbor 2019 Water Quality within the Pecos River (NM) into a southwest riparian habitat and to reduce their impact on the Long Island dependent data by advancing education and Monitoring Program – XI (NY) Construct a bypass for hypersaline waters education facility outside Albuquerque American Littoral Society Sound and to encourage practices to reduce training for electronic vessel trip reporting Conduct water quality monitoring in that enter the Black River in Eddy County, in New Mexico. Project will engage Long Island Sound Beach Cleanup – VI (NY) nitrogen (from fertilizers) and pesticides using an eTrips mobile application. Hempstead Harbor, Nassau County, New New Mexico, to benefit Texas hornshell 50 additional volunteers to construct Deliver beach cleanups along 191 miles from entering the Sound’s river, streams, $84,558 York. Project will inform management of mussel and its associated host fishes. Project recreation facilities, restore ecological of shoreline at 58 sites in the Long Island tributaries and embayments. Hempstead Harbor, an embayment of Long will increase the total available habitat to functions, improve water quality and Sound watershed of New York. Project will $9,996 Earthplace, The Nature Discovery Center Island Sound.

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Texas hornshell by 6.7 miles, a 77 percent provide environmental education educate volunteers about how they can Collaboration in Embayment Monitoring (CT, NY) $75,000 increase in available habitat. programs to the community. prevent marine pollution in Long Island City Parks Foundation Manage an equipment, supplies and $118,843 $50,000 Sound. Planning and Coordination for Coastal Forest technical resources loan program for Maritime Explorium at Port Jeff Harbor $10,000 Habitat Management in Bronx Park (NY) up to 20 embayment groups and 200 Rain Gardens at Port Jefferson Harbor: Linking New Mexico Department of Game and Fish The Nature Conservancy Develop a management plan for 170 acres citizen science volunteers to support the Water, Wildlife and Waterways (NY) Managing Pecos Pupfish Habitat Greening Affordable Housing for Nature, Bronx River Alliance of coastal maritime forest in the Bronx Park, Unified Water Study for Long Island Sound Install native plant rain gardens in high in the Pecos Watershed (NM) Community Resilience and Human Well-being Waterway and Street Trash Elimination (NY) Bronx, New York. Project will contribute embayments in Connecticut and New York. visibility areas and provide natural Improve habitat for the remaining (AZ, CT, NM) Bronx River Alliance will collect and analyze to targeted restoration and management Project will result in a greater number of landscaping guidance to community stronghold of the state-threatened Pecos Create demonstration projects in three the sources of floatable trash on the Bronx of coastal maritime forest in an important embayments being monitored providing members in Port Jefferson, New York. pupfish through the creation of fish cities to address community resilience River sharing those results with the public urban Long Island Sound watershed. important information from the first areas Project will demonstrate to 800,000 visitors barriers that will protect the species from and improve green infrastructure by and public officials as well as educate $99,810 affected by pollution sources that impact how rain gardens improve the water quality sheepshead minnow invasion. Project will creating an urban forest and greenspace in and engage students in development the health of Long Island Sound. and biodiversity of Long Island Sound. result in improvement to more than 90 Albuquerque, New Mexico; creating green and delivery of outreach projects to local Connecticut Fund for the Environment $99,971 $43,626 acres of Pecos pupfish habitat benefiting stormwater infrastructure in Bridgeport, businesses to help reduce trash. Project Phillips Mill Fish Passage Project (NY) at least 30 percent of the core population, Connecticut; and depaving surfaces and will reduce 2,000 pounds of trash entering Connecticut Fund for the Environment Groundwork Hudson Valley Matinecock Court HDFC development of a long-term maintenance planting trees in Phoenix, Arizona. Projects Long Island Sound and reach 140 students will develop an engineered plan for fish Restoring a Critical Wetland (NY) Demonstrating Sewage Treatment plan for the barriers, and increased will plant 270 trees and reach out to 950 about the impact of litter on waterways passage at Phillips Mill Pond Dam on the Restore 2.5 acres of wetland by engaging 250 and Water Conservation Strategies (NY) coordination among managers, leading to people to implement green infrastructure and the Sound. Nissequogue River in Smithtown, New York. volunteers, Groundwork Youth Corps, the Install a wastewater harvesting system in more successful and efficient actions to and develop supportive communities. $34,712 Project will plan for fish passage to restore U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and partners the town of Huntington, New York. Project protect the species. $250,000 native migratory fish runs from Long Island associated with the Saw Mill River Coalition will result in the annual recapture of treated $63,828 Sound to upstream spawning habitat for the in Yonkers, New York. Project will focus on an sewage effluent for reuse as on-site drip first time in 300 years. important 6-acre wetland area along Saw Mill irrigation, and prevent nitrogen and total $99,999 River, a critical spot for a wide range of fish suspended solids from being discharged into and wildlife and other aquatic species with the Long Island Sound watershed. great potential for capturing stormwater. $250,000 $50,000

46 47 Nassau County Soil and Water National Audubon Society Salonga Wetland Advocates Network Town of Harrison Forest Landowners Association North Carolina Department Conservation District Sustaining Birds of the Great Lakes Long Island Sound Fresh Pond Festival (NY) Bringing Environmental Stewardship Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building of Agriculture and Consumer Services Planting for Clean Water Communities (NY) – II (MI, NY) Conduct a shoreline cleanup in Fort to the 2019 Play2Learn Festival (NY) Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing Improving Forest Habitat (NC) Assess priority areas, develop three green Restore critical habitat for migratory Salonga, New York. Project will increase Expand the annual Play2Learn Festival Solutions – II (multiple states) Increase capacity for private landowner infrastructure sites and conduct educational shorebirds and waterfowl across 449 acres of public awareness of and commitment to to introduce children to the principles Engage large family forest landowners in outreach to restore and enhance longleaf workshops for residents about water quality some of the highest priority coastal wetland to restoration and protection of the of conserving Long Island Sound. Project longleaf restoration and at-risk species pine and bottomland hardwood habitats on in Long Island Sound. Project will bring complexes in the Great Lakes region. Project environment of Long Island Sound. will offer a series of creative educational conservation throughout the historic range of family forest lands in southeastern North visible projects to community centers, local will leverage the resources of 10 partner $5,565 stations and provide information about local the longleaf pine. Project will assist landowners Carolina. Project will engage 300 private parks, schools and businesses. organizations to implement landscape scale stormwater pollution issues. with the establishment and enhancement of landowners to restore and enhance 8,250 $67,479 restoration activities, including invasive Sea Research Foundation $6,750 at least 2,000 acres of longleaf pine, develop acres of longleaf pine and bottomland species control, native plantings and Partnering for Marine Debris and Trash regulatory predictability tools for at-risk hardwood habitats benefiting numerous National Audubon Society improvement of water-control capacity. Prevention, and Animal Rescue around Long Town of Harrison species endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, declining and at-risk forest-dependent Be a Good Egg III: $593,476 Island Sound (CT, NY) Sustainability Planning (NY) reducing uncertainty for landowners wishing species, including northern bobwhite, Share the Shore with Shorebirds (NY) Offer education and stewardship Develop a drainage manual in Harrison, to manage for longleaf habitat conditions Swainson’s warbler and gopher frog. Provide an environmental education Natural Areas Conservancy opportunities focused on the impact of New York. Project will improve the current on their lands, and explore market-based $639,053 program “Be a Good Egg” encouraging Coastal Wetland and Forest Restoration marine debris on marine species, and stormwater management and set the stage for solutions to address the economic constraints people to share the shore with shorebirds Planning Project (NY) engage coastal and non-coastal community implementation of low-impact development to large-scale longleaf restoration. North Carolina State University at shorelines on Long Island, New York. Produce three restoration plans for up to members in Connecticut and New York. green infrastructure projects to address $145,000 Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Project will engage people to reduce threats 10 acres of tidal wetland and coastal forest Project will increase public awareness to stormwater pollution into Long Island Sound. Southeastern United States (multiple states) to coastal habitats and shorebirds, including in Hammond Cove and Harding Park, Bronx, reduce marine debris, trash and fishing gear $45,000 Manomet Expand and accelerate the implementation piping plover, least tern and common tern. New York. Project will develop designs, from entering Long Island Sound. Coastal Habitat Restoration for American of prescribed fire to restore and $36,037 cost estimates, custom specifications and/ $44,587 Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast enhance longleaf pine habitat and other or regulatory guidance using a community- NORTH CAROLINA (multiple states) fire-dependent forest and grassland National Audubon Society driven model to inform habitat restoration The Nature Conservancy Coordinate the planning and communities within the Southeast. Project Collaboration with Family Forest Owners to and management of local parkland and Identifying Ecologically Significant Areas Cape Fear Resource Conservation implementation of conservation action for will engage 1,000 landowners and fire Improve Habitat for Target Forest Birds (NY) engage the local community for feedback for the Blue Plan – II (CT, NY) and Development American oystercatcher along the entire practitioners through technical assistance, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Improve habitat for wood thrush and that will be incorporated in the final design Engage scientists, technical experts and the Assessing Aquatic Connectivity in the Black U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue training and outreach, including “Learn cerulean warbler in the northeastern plans in preparation for implementation. interested public to identify ecologically River Watershed (NC) the coastwide coordination of the American and Burn” workshops, development of region of the Upper Delaware Watershed. $99,976 significant areas (ESAs) for the Long Island Assess, rank and prioritize 200 culverts and oystercatcher recovery initiative and prescribed burn associations and Fire Project will provide technical assistance to Sound Blue Plan in Connecticut and New York. barriers for removal and/or restoration in the compile lessons learned after a decade’s Festivals. family forest owners and loggers to develop New York City Department Project will develop one of the foundational lower Black River Basin. Project will select up worth of targeted investments and embark $130,000 bird-friendly management strategies to be of Parks and Recreation elements of a plan to protect important to five barriers to evaluate for feasibility, and upon a new initiative to develop best integrated during timber harvests as well Expanding Environmental Stewardship aquatic habitats of Long Island Sound. develop preliminary engineering design and management practices to restore wet and The Nature Conservancy as provide loggers financial assistance to in the Alley Creek Watershed (NY) $45,000 construction estimates for future removal. dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and Blackwater Rivers Land Protection offset any monetary losses. Expand the Shorekeepers program in the $130,000 other breeding shorebirds along the Atlantic Purchase 2,200 acres of longleaf pine and $86,471 Alley Creek watershed to support long-term The Nature Conservancy Coast. bottomland hardwood forest habitat along volunteer participation in tidal wetland and Producing and Implementing a Community- CDP North America $150,000 the Black and Waccamaw Rivers in eastern National Audubon Society coastal forest restoration. Project will increase supported Long Island Sound Blue Plan Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments North Carolina. Project will safeguard more Engaging Stakeholders to Improve local stakeholder engagement through (CT, NY) in Cities (multiple states) Mecklenburg County Storm Water Services than 11 miles of river, provide habitat for Priority Bird Habitats (NY, VT) greater public participation in clean-up and Finalize the Long Island Sound Blue Plan Build capacity of communities in 18 cities Stevens Creek Stream Restoration Project (NC) dozens of at-risk wildlife species, create Provide technical assistance to landowners, restoration efforts, as well as train volunteers in Connecticut and New York. Project will across the United States to help them Restore approximately 1.9 miles of severely public access for hiking, hunting and foresters and industry to improve the mosaic as Shorekeepers to work in wetlands. create a community-supported plan to implement sustainable infrastructure for degraded stream in the Goose Creek boating, and protect a stand of the oldest of forest habitats to benefit multiple bird $45,000 protect marine life in Long Island Sound. stormwater management, urban wildlife Watershed, which has been identified known trees in eastern North America.

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED species, including golden-winged warbler, $44,986 habitats and tree canopy improvement. as habitat for the federally endangered $200,000 American woodcock, black-throated blue New York State Office of Parks, Recreation Project will perform targeted outreach to Carolina heelsplitter freshwater mussel. warbler and wood thrush. Project will restore and Historic Preservation The Whaling Museum Society cities to increase knowledge of sustainable Project will supplement the stream The Nature Conservancy 265 acres of young forest habitat, improve Strategic Hemlock Preservation to Sustain Sound Effects: A Public Conservation infrastructure financing as well as develop restoration project with stabilization North Carolina Sandhills Longleaf Restoration 900 acres of late successional habitat and Ecological Function and Protect Species of Education Series (NY) cities’ use of online tools to document green structures, which also will be used to Task Force – IV develop a pilot program with International Special Concern (NY) Deliver a year-long public education series infrastructure and habitat benefits. re-establish laboratory-propagated or Establish longleaf pine habitat and increase Paper that prioritizes procurement of wood Protect eastern hemlocks in New York State with hands-on learning and conservation- $200,000 transplanted freshwater mussels. the capacity of land managers to enhance fiber from forests being managed with bird- Parks from the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid based activities to inform people about the $120,000 existing longleaf habitat quality through a friendly techniques. to preserve this unique riparian habitat and effects of pollution on Long Island Sound. Clemson University seasonal burn crew and burn contractors $187,841 preserve stream quality. Project will expand on Project will teach 350 adult and elementary Identifying Habitat Requirements of the North Carolina Coastal Land Trust within the Sandhills region of North remediation actions being employed across school audiences about actions they can Carolina Heelsplitter to Inform Habitat Blackwater Rivers Land Protection Carolina, which is anchored by Fort Bragg National Audubon Society the East Coast and protect more than 40 acres take to improve the health of the Sound. Restoration and Species Recovery (NC, SC) Purchase 3,000 acres of longleaf pine and and the Sandhills Game Lands. Project will Improving Forest Management of riparian hemlock forests. $9,998 Identify and prioritize on-the-ground bottomland hardwood forest habitat along establish 410 acres of longleaf pine and in the Allegheny Highlands (NY, PA) $130,000 management actions to benefit the federally the Black and Waccamaw rivers in eastern enhance an additional 30,000 acres of Improve management of private family The Whaling Museum Society endangered Carolina heelsplitter freshwater North Carolina. Project will safeguard 7.5 existing longleaf habitat with prescribed forests in the Upper Allegheny and Research Foundation for State University SOUNDoff Event! Creating Long Island Sound mussel and its host fish, the bluehead chub, miles of river, provide habitat for dozens of fire, benefiting the federally endangered Sinnemahoning watersheds of New York of New York, SUNY Maritime College Stewards–III (NY) in the Lynches River watershed of the greater at-risk wildlife species, create public access red-cockaded woodpecker and other at-risk and Pennsylvania to increase young and Celebration of the Long Island Sound (NY) Host one-day public event, SOUNDoff! Pee Dee River Basin. Project will develop a for hiking, hunting and boating, and secure species. mature forest habitat structure to benefit Host a “Celebration of the Long Island to educate local communities about novel protocol to detect the mussel and host the protection of a stand of 1,600-year-old $259,500 cerulean warbler and golden-winged warbler Sound” event to educate 500 students and conservation of Long Island Sound in a fish from stream water via environmental bald cypress, the oldest known trees east of populations. Project will create at least 200 residents about the Sound. Project will hands-on accessible way. Project will reach DNA, apply the protocol to understand the Rocky Mountains. acres of young forest habitat and at least 550 include provide an array of educational 300 visitors who will leave the event with a habitat requirements of each species and $350,000 acres of mature forest habitat and assess stewardship activities to the community stronger understanding of their relationship synthesize the information gathered to 5,000 acres to prioritize future management. including water quality monitoring, shoreline to the Sound and with practical ways to prioritize actions to improve aquatic habitat. $149,437 clean-up and oyster restoration. contribute to a cleaner Sound. $175,000 $7,665 $7,408

48 49 The Nature Conservancy NORTH DAKOTA OHIO Groundwork Cincinnati/Mill Creek U.S. Department of Agriculture, Pheasants Forever Onslow Bight Longleaf Ecosystem Restoration Community-Driven Restoration U.S. Forest Service Improve Private Land Grasslands (TX) Project – IV (NC) Ducks Unlimited American Farmland Trust in Cincinnati’s Mill Creek (IN, OH) Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Provide technical assistance to private Restore and enhance at least 28,773 Protection of Habitat for Grassland Birds (ND) Partnering with Non-Operating Landowners Restore 28 acres of wetland, riparian and and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species landowners in Texas to improve grassland acres of longleaf pine habitat on priority Deliver working lands options that conserve and Farmers to Improve Water Quality (OH) prairie habitat to benefit wildlife, including (multiple states) habitat for priority species by engaging conservation lands within the Onslow grassland and wetland habitats through Utilize an agricultural stewardship the state-threatened black-crowned night Expand the aquatic environmental DNA landowners in voluntary practices known to Bight landscape in eastern North Carolina. incentivized leases, native grass planting, professional to directly engage non- heron, and people in Cincinnati’s Mill Creek Atlas database, website, digital tools and improve habitat for grassland birds. Project Project will establish 249 acres of longleaf grazing infrastructure enhancements, operating landowners and farmers who watershed and Muscatatuck National sample repository to a national scale. will develop detailed conservation plans pine and support a seasonal burn crew prescribed fire and wetland restoration. rent land in watersheds in Ohio to build the Wildlife Refuge. This project will engage Project will expand the current coverage guiding on the ground implementation to implement prescribed fire on at least Project will provide flexible and voluntary demand for conservation improvements 921 participants, including 800 middle and of the database of information important practices on 49,500 acres. 28,000 acres of existing longleaf around programs that benefit grassland species on rented lands. Project will develop high school students, 40 teachers, 21 youth to the conservation and management of $210,000 Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and while diversifying a producers’ operation, conservation plans, utilize tools to help employees and 60 adult volunteers from aquatic species to include waterways in other public and private lands, improving and better engaging the agricultural sector landowners and farmers communicate local neighborhoods and diverse partner the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Team Up to Clean Up habitat for Bachman’s sparrow, red- in implementing best management practices about conservation practices, and organizations. conservation investments for suppressing Eufaula Lake Wetlands Restoration (OK) cockaded woodpecker and the Carolina that promote sustainability. participate in professional meetings and $37,964 invasives and increasing native populations. Create 4 acres of wetland habitat to mitigate gopher frog. $214,966 trainings with USDA Natural Resources $73,018 pollution from stormwater runoff and flooding $266,000 Conservation Sources, conservation districts Ohio Department of Natural Resources from the city of Eufaula, Oklahoma. Project National Audubon Society and other professionals. Enhancing Forest Habitat through Oak-Hickory will improve water quality in Lake Eufaula and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Advancing the SageWest Communications $183,213 Restoration in Appalachian Ohio OKLAHOMA create habitat for plovers, avocets, sandpipers, U.S. Forest Service Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem Enhance habitat for a diversity of forest herons, rails and waterfowl and engage 56 Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas (multiple states) CDP North America wildlife in Appalachia Ohio by restoring American Bird Conservancy volunteers to build an interpretive area. and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Elevate individual conservation efforts and Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments oak-hickory forests. Project will complement Priority Bird Habitat Conservation $50,000 (multiple states) create a larger dialogue about the value and in Cities (multiple states) and expand the impact of an ongoing in the West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas Expand the aquatic environmental DNA need for sagebrush conservation. Project Build capacity of communities in 18 cities collaborative oak management project by Region (AR, LA, OK, TX) The Learning Center, Euchee Butterfly Farm Atlas database, website, digital tools and will engage in priority work groups, develop across the United States to help them focusing technical assistance at the landscape Facilitate the establishment, development, Tribal Alliance for Pollinators (OK) sample repository to a national scale. guidance documents, and organize partner implement sustainable infrastructure for scale, using a new inter-agency business maintenance and success of Conservation Build capacity for Native American tribes UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Project will expand the current coverage meetings across the ecosystem. stormwater management, urban wildlife model with key state and federal partners. Delivery Networks in the West Gulf Coastal in Oklahoma to support pollinator habitat of the database of information important $34,200 habitats and tree canopy improvement. $50,000 Plain/Ouachitas geography. Project will focus restoration. Project will coordinate between to the conservation and management of Project will perform targeted outreach to on building connections and relationships tribal nations and other partners, provide aquatic species to include waterways in Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory cities to increase knowledge of sustainable Pheasants Forever among partner delivery staff across the four- technical support, host training workshops, the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Effectiveness Monitoring for Declining infrastructure financing as well as develop Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite state region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, harvest seeds from milkweed and nectar conservation investments for suppressing Grassland Bird Species within the Northern cities’ use of online tools to document green Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Oklahoma and Texas to restore 277 acres of plants, and manage a website and seed bank. invasives and increasing native populations. Great Plains (MT, ND, SD, WY) infrastructure and habitat benefits. Deliver technical assistance across six states bottomland hardwood forests and improve $93,080 $73,018 Collect data on bird abundance and $200,000 to improve land-management practices for 92 acres of existing bottomland hardwoods. occupancy of priority grassland bird northern bobwhite and other terrestrial $263,221 World Wildlife Fund University of North Carolina – Wilmington species to evaluate and quantify impacts Cleveland Museum of Natural History wildlife. Project will include 11,940 landowner Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Fisheries Bycatch Assessment at Sea Turtle of conservation investments. Project will Restoring Wetland Habitat in the West Basin contacts, 27,800 acres under improved Audubon International of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Foraging Grounds in Colombia and Panama focus on three strategies for conservation of Mentor Marsh (OH) management practices, 720 plans with best Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) Implement onboard fisheries observer projects: conservation easements, grassland Improve habitat complexity and resilience management practices and 6,000 acres on Golf Courses (multiple states) Update and expand geospatial data analysis, programs to document the nature and restoration and grazing management through native plant reseeding, invasive covered with federal program incentives. Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape frequency of sea turtle interactions with projects within the NFWF Northern Great control and habitat creation in Mentor $2,447,858 courses in a 10-state area to support change metrics for the Northern Great Plains gillnet and longline fisheries off the coasts Plains region with comparisons providing Marsh. Project will restore 42 acres of pollinators such as the monarch butterfly. ecoregion. Project analysis will expand the of Columbia and Panama. Project will an assessment of which programs are wetland habitat for priority shorebirds and Pollinator Partnership Project will provide technical assistance and previous versions by including northern

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED compile information on distribution and benefiting priority grassland bird species and waterfowl, improve hydrology to 50 acres of Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes for native, regionally appropriate seed while Mexico, extending the analysis backward in bycatch risk for critically endangered Eastern help guide future investments. shallow emergent marsh, restore 10 shallow At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) raising awareness about pollinators through time to capture historical change and using the Pacific hawksbill and leatherback turtles, $235,155 pools and install a fish shelf to improve fish Develop a regional seed collection and native educational signage and demonstrating best available data to track rates of agricultural engage fishermen in best practices for turtle spawning habitat. plant materials development program in how to manage commercial properties conversion and target conservation work. release, and contribute to broader regional World Wildlife Fund $120,779 the Midwest to support monarch butterflies sustainably. $20,000 efforts to mitigate mortality from fishery Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will $150,000 interaction. of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, $54,957 (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) National Park collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed, and North Carolina State University OREGON Update and expand geospatial data analysis, Reducing Stormwater Runoff and Improving propagate 10,000 seedlings. Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Virginia Polytechnic Institute called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape Riparian Habitat in the Cuyahoga River $149,000 Southeastern United States (multiple states) Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit and State University change metrics for the Northern Great Watershed (OH) Expand and accelerate the implementation Sea Turtle Stranding Response Improving Eastern Hellbender Habitat on Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand Install a green stormwater management Wildlife Management Institute of prescribed fire to restore and along the West Coast of the United States Private Lands (NC, TN, VA) the previous versions by including northern system to reduce erosion and stormwater Developing a Landowner Outreach and enhance longleaf pine habitat and other (CA, OR, WA and Canada) Promote eastern hellbender habitat Mexico, extending the analysis backward runoff and improve habitat with invasive Communications Strategy in the Greenbrier fire-dependent forest and grassland Build capacity for the West Coast Marine restoration and conservation on private lands in time to capture historical change and species management. Project will reduce Watershed (OH, PA, WV) communities within the southeast. Project Mammal Stranding Network to respond to in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia using the newest and best available data stormwater runoff by 121,000 gallons Develop a detailed outreach strategy that will engage 1,000 landowners and fire five species of threatened and endangered by building relationships with landowners to track rates of agricultural conversion, annually and restore 29 acres of habitat. targets landowners in the Greenbrier practitioners through technical assistance, sea turtles: Western Pacific leatherback and communities in the target watersheds monitor previously converted lands, identify $266,272 watershed of eastern West Virginia to training and outreach, including “Learn turtle, Eastern Pacific green turtle, North identified. Project will improve riparian area risk factors for remaining intact habitat and create a mixed mosaic of forest habitat that and Burn” workshops, development of Pacific loggerhead, Pacific olive ridley condition and overall water quality within target conservation work. supports species of greatest conservation prescribed burn associations and fire and Eastern Pacific hawksbill. Project will the project waterways through conservation $20,000 need. Project will encourage landowners festivals, to increase the use of prescribed increase response efforts for live and dead actions focused on reducing nonpoint source to improve forest management practices fire. stranded sea turtles through assessment pollution and sedimentation. in this key watershed identified by both $130,000 of existing capacity, standardization of data $647,995 the American Forest Foundation and the and protocols, distribution of supplies and Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture. network-wide training sessions. $99,941 $50,000

50 51 Confederated Tribes Hoopa Valley Tribe Oregon Water Resources Department Trout Unlimited Trout Unlimited Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Integrated Fisheries Restoration and Support and Data Collection Channel Reconnection and Water Transfer Upper Sprague Riparian Protection and Benefits of Forest Stewardship Networks Flow Restoration Development (OR, WA) Monitoring Plan for Klamath Basin (CA, OR) for Water Transactions (OR) to Restore Critical Habitat (OR) Enhancement to Improve Water Quality among Family Woodland Owners (PA) Work with The Freshwater Trust, Trout Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Assist other Oregon grantees on water Restore habitat, improve water quality and for Native Fish (CA, OR) Demonstrate the utility of forest landowner Unlimited and Washington Water Trust to and other Klamath Basin stakeholders in transactions in Oregon watersheds that ensure reliable connectivity to unoccupied Complete riparian protection and stewardship networks for improving support and develop innovative voluntary the completion of a comprehensive and are tributary to the Columbia River, by critical habitat for the benefit of enhancement actions in the Upper Sprague management practices and forest habitat water transactions for instream flow prioritized Integrated Fisheries Restoration processing applications for allocations threatened bull trout, Oregon spotted frog, Basin to improve water quality in the structure on 1,000 acres of family-owned restoration to support salmonids. and Monitoring Plan, detailing needs of conserved water, instream leases endangered suckers and anadromous fish. Klamath Basin through functioning riparian woodlands through development of forest $126,760 throughout the Klamath River Watershed, and instream transfers, and providing Project will remove Threemile and Crane buffers to reduce external phosphorus management plans. Project will build two including its major tributaries. Project will for continued monitoring of water creeks from a series of irrigation ditches, loading and decrease stream temperatures. to four networks of neighboring forest Confluence Environmental Center result in the publication of a final strategic transactions on the Lostine River. Project return them to their historic channels, and Project will include the installation of 5 properties that all have stewardship plans and Lower Willamette Stewardship (OR) plan for monitoring and restoration of will protect water instream, and/or reconnect them to adjacent critical bull miles of riparian fencing, 15 acres of riparian actively manage for diverse stand ages and Deploy nine AmeriCorps members at seven Klamath River Basin native fishes. support projects to mitigate impacts of trout habitat, as well as complete funding planting, five off-stream watering systems habitats, increasing populations of species of local resource management organizations $50,000 groundwater pumping on surface water. of an instream water transfer to ensure and riparian grazing management plans. concern, including cerulean warbler, golden- to restore 14.5 acres of riparian habitat to $71,213 reliable flows in the restored channels. $140,653 winged warbler and American woodcock. improve water quality and watershed health Klamath Lake Land Trust $300,000 $74,907 throughout the Lower Willamette basin in Klamath Basin Feasibility Study to Identify Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Western Association Oregon. Project will engage 1,135 volunteers Supplemental Water Storage Options (CA, OR) Support for the Integrated Fisheries Trout Unlimited of Fish and Wildlife Agencies American Bird Conservancy to plant 16,400 native trees and shrubs and Conduct a feasibility study for potential Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the Increase Habitat Complexity in the Wood River Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black remove 14.5 acres of invasive vegetation. water storage in the Upper Klamath basin Klamath Basin (CA, OR) and Sprague River to Benefit Native Fish (OR) Western United States (multiple states) Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake $29,702 and the Lower Klamath National Wildlife Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Increase habitat complexity for native Develop a regional strategy and supporting Bay Watershed (multiple states) Refuge to help inform future water in supporting Klamath Basin stakeholders fishes through the addition of large woody plans to increase organizational capacity Develop guidance to target wetland habitat Deschutes River Conservancy management decisions. Project will assess in the completion of an accurate, debris along approximately 10 miles of and coordination among monarch butterfly restoration and enhancement across the Stream Flow Restoration in the Deschutes the physical and regulatory feasibility comprehensive and prioritized Integrated the Wood River and Sprague River in the conservation partners west of the Rocky entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project Basin (OR) of water-storage options to assist in the Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Klamath Basin. Project will benefit native Mountains. Project will develop and track will be using the output of two separate Restore streamflow in Oregon’s Deschutes potential for instream flow augmentation Plan, which will detail needs throughout fish species, including redband trout, Lost implementation efforts identified in the models to target conservation actions that UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Basin through water transactions. Project with the primary purpose of potentially the Klamath River Watershed, including River sucker, bull trout and lamprey, build western monarch population conservation would benefit water quality and black ducks, will improve habitat and water quality for addressing instream needs for the federally its major tributaries. Project will result in upon ongoing restoration in the respective strategy, establish the western monarch and in partnership with the U.S. Geological native fish, including salmon and federally listed aquatic species. the publication of a final strategic plan for watersheds, and prepare the watersheds pollinator initiative council, and transition Survey and the Atlantic Coast and Black listed steelhead trout. $177,370 monitoring and restoration of Klamath for recolonization and reintroduction of milkweed data into the crucial habitat Duck joint ventures. $441,937 River Basin native fishes. anadromous salmonids. assessment tool. $25,634 Klamath Watershed Partnership $100,000 $91,000 $120,000 Friends of Trees Upper Sycan Bull Trout Critical Habitat American Bird Conservancy Youth Restoration and Urban Forestry Protection (CA, OR) The Freshwater Trust Trout Unlimited Yurok Tribe Restoring Dynamic Forest Structure (PA) Leadership Training (OR) Protect critical habitat for bull trout in the Innovative Transactions to Restore Flow (OR) Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (CA, NV, OR) Development of an Integrated Fisheries Develop and implement a comprehensive Engage 30 youth in tree planting, tree care, Upper Sycan Watershed through 3 miles Implement voluntary, cooperative, market- Execute strategies identified in the Lahontan Restoration and Monitoring Plan for the forest management strategy in the Poconos managing volunteers and event-planning of fencing and hardened water gaps for based instream flow transactions through Cutthroat Trout Business Plan by deploying Klamath Basin – Yurok Tribe (OR) Cooperative Forest Management Area in activities using critical natural areas and cattle. Project will limit cattle access to the Columbia River basin in Oregon. Project a range-wide field crew to assist in recovery Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and northeastern Pennsylvania. Project will street tree projects as a basis for learning the streams in grazed meadows to benefit will implement existing instream flow actions and applying a Population Viability other Klamath Basin stakeholders in the target long-term availability of diverse in Portland, Oregon. Project will restore 5 instream habitat conditions, especially with agreements and work collaboratively with Model to design effective sampling protocols completion of an accurate, comprehensive forest age classes to benefit the entire acres and work with 1,000 volunteers to respect to spawning gravels, redds and landowners to develop new instream flow for agency partners. and prioritized Integrated Fisheries reproductive cycle of golden-winged teach concepts of proper tree planting and refugia, and future streambank stabilization transactions in critically de-watered streams $242,463 Restoration and Monitoring Plan, detailing warbler, cerulean warbler and wood thrush. care, managing stormwater, identifying and shading promoting additional water with high habitat potential to meet instream needs throughout the Klamath River $205,492

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED invasive and native plants, restoring habitat, quality and instream habitat improvements. flow targets and to benefit salmonid species Trout Unlimited Watershed, including its major tributaries. managing natural resources, enhancing $54,000 listed under the Endangered Species Act. Reduce Entrainment of Native Fishes through Project will result in the publication of a final American Bird Conservancy tree canopy, water quality monitoring and $895,895 Installation of Fish Screens (CA, OR) strategic plan for monitoring and restoration Restoring Multiple Forest Stages to Provide community outreach. National Audubon Society Address fish screening needs at five irrigation of Klamath River Basin native fishes. Habitat for Priority Birds in Pennsylvania $50,000 Advancing the SageWest Communications The Freshwater Trust diversions on the Wood River in the Klamath $50,000 Improve forest management practices Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem Innovative Transactions to Restore Flow River Basin to prevent entrainment of native on 3,200 acres of state-owned lands in General Klamath Tribal Administration (multiple states) in the Umatilla, Walla Walla fishes, including redband trout, bull trout the Pennsylvania Wilds of north central Upper Klamath Stream Restoration Elevate individual conservation efforts and and Upper Grande Ronde (OR) and lamprey. Project will build upon ongoing PENNSYLVANIA Pennsylvania. Project will create at least and Enhancement (OR) create a larger dialogue about the value Implement voluntary, cooperative and partnerships and restoration efforts in the 500 acres of young forest habitat, 140 acres Conduct stream restoration and and need for sagebrush conservation. market-based instream flow transactions Wood River and will reduce entrainment Allegheny County Conservation District of middle-aged forests and 500 acres of enhancement projects on private and Project will engage in priority work groups, in targeted streams in the Umatilla, Walla threats to socially, culturally and ecologically North Park Riparian Buffer Installation (PA) mature forest, utilizing prescribed fire and public lands within the Klamath Tribes develop guidance documents, and organize Walla and Upper Grande Ronde areas within important native fish species. Engage 20 volunteers to restore other methods to benefit species of greatest historic reservation, which includes partner meetings across the ecosystem. the Columbia River Basin in Oregon. Project $139,863 approximately 2.6 acres of multifunctional conservation need, including golden-winged installing stream structures, fish screen $34,200 will work collaboratively with landowners forest buffer by planting 500 native riparian warbler, cerulean warbler and wood thrush. and gravel placement, fence installation, to develop new instream flow transactions Trout Unlimited trees and shrubs along the North Fork of $199,999 planting and caging within the riparian Oregon Water Resources Department to meet in stream flow targets in critically Umatilla and Walla Walla Basin Water Pine Creek within North Park in Allegheny habitat, and monitoring to assess stream Flow Restoration Program Support (OR) de-watered streams with high habitat Transactions Development (OR, WA) County, Pennsylvania. Project will support American Rivers condition. Project will improve habitat Provide support for water transactions, potential for salmonid species listed under Implement water transactions, primarily planting native species of riparian trees Aquatic Habitat Connectivity in Laurel and water quality for the Klamath Tribes’ including allocations of conserved water, the Endangered Species Act. in the Umatilla Basin. Project will include and shrubs to promote soil stability, filter Highlands and Upper Allegheny (PA) historic salmonid fisheries, including instream leases, instream transfers to protect $210,565 working closely with the Confederated nonpoint source pollutants, and reduce Rectify four fish passage barriers in the Laurel Chinook, Coho and steelhead trout that water instream, and/or projects to mitigate Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to stormwater runoff and flooding. Highlands and Upper Allegheny areas of have been extirpated. impacts of groundwater pumping on surface prioritize reaches for project implementation $21,153 Pennsylvania to benefit wild brook trout and $100,000 water in Northeast Oregon. Project will to ensure best benefits for instream flow, freshwater mussels. Project will provide a process applications, track water rights data as well as analyzing data and pre- and post- total of 47.5 miles of reconnected habitat and and coordinate with flow restoration staff. monitoring. 1 mile of reconnected river side channel. $15,241 $56,924 $100,000

52 53 Audubon International CDP North America Ducks Unlimited Indiana University of Pennsylvania National Audubon Society Pollinator Partnership Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat on Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments Presque Isle Priority Wetland Restoration (PA) Research Institute Philly Wild (PA) Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes for Golf Courses (multiple states) in Cities (multiple states) Restore 800 acres of coastal wetland Monitoring Population Responses Implement 10 acres of habitat restoration At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf Build capacity of communities in 18 cities habitat at Presque Isle State Park of Golden-Winged Warbler and Other Focal projects and engage 3,500 community Develop a regional seed collection and courses in a 10-state area to support across the United States to help them through comprehensive invasive species Bird Species in Pennsylvania members throughout west and southwest native plant materials development program pollinators such as the monarch butterfly. implement sustainable infrastructure for remediation and revegetation of native plant Monitor population responses of golden- Philadelphia, creating a corridor of green in the Midwest to support monarch Project will provide technical assistance and stormwater management, urban wildlife communities. Project will build upon the winged warblers, cerulean warblers, space from the John Heinz National butterflies and rusty patched bumble native, regionally appropriate seed while habitats and tree canopy improvement. success of previous habitat restoration and American woodcock and associated forest Wildlife Refuge to East Park Reservoir in bees. Project will improve 10,000 acres raising awareness about pollinators through Project will perform targeted outreach to invasive species control efforts to restore bird species to habitat management actions Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. Project of pollinator habitat, collect 25 pounds educational signage and demonstrating cities to increase knowledge of sustainable critical habitat for numerous shorebirds, on private and public land in selected focal will engage youth and young adults in two of milkweed seed, and propagate 10,000 how to manage commercial properties infrastructure financing as well as develop wading birds and waterfowl species. geographies of western Pennsylvania. Project new programs to plant 3,000 native plants, seedlings. sustainably. cities’ use of online tools to document green $907,696 will quantify species occurrence and densities remove invasive plants on 15 acres and $149,000 $150,000 infrastructure and habitat benefits. at sites targeted for habitat improvement and enhance 1.5 miles of riparian buffer. $200,000 Foundation for California University of PA compare vegetation attributes to bird data to $49,275 Stroud Water Research Center Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania Creating Young Forest Habitat (PA) guide adaptive management strategies and Improving Soil Health and Stream Health Enhancing Critical Bird Habitat at Beechwood Center for Watershed Protection Create and restore young forest habitat planning for the region. National Wildlife Federation in the Red Clay and White Clay Creeks (PA) Farms Nature Reserve (PA) Stream and Floodplain Restoration for early successional species such as $293,001 NWF Choose Clean Water Coalition (PA) Work with farmers currently operating the Restore 5 acres of forest through invasive Crediting and Prioritization (PA) American woodcock, Appalachian cottontail Bring together regional stakeholders most agriculture acres at the headwaters species management and planting native Build the capacity of three municipal entities and golden-winged warbler in western Lancaster Farmland Trust and community members for a two- of the Red Clay and White Clay creeks to tree, shrub and perennials to improve and the Paxton Creek Watershed and Pennsylvania forestland. Project will result in Establishing an Effective Public-Private day educational experience. The 2018 implement best management practices for breeding and migratory habitat for scarlet Education Association through pollutant restoration of more than 270 acres of high Partnership for Water Quality (PA) conference will focus on enhancing and improved water quality. Project will restore tanagers and wood thrushes and associated reduction calculations to the development quality habitat and demonstrate techniques Develop a robust public-private partnership facilitating more cross-sector relationships approximately 20 acres of forested buffers species at Beechwood Farms Nature of criteria to prioritize 13 potential sites for that will be transferable other areas. to engage a variety of community across the Chesapeake Bay watershed in and address gaps in coverage throughout Reserve in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania. stream restoration. Project will reduce credit $159,500 stakeholders in advancing farmland order to encourage more collaboration in the area, as well as evaluate various Project will plant 190 trees, 195 shrubs and calculation risks, analyze upland retrofits to protection and stewardship to improve the restoration effort. innovative soil health methods for these 390 perennials while removing invasive enhance stream restoration performance Green Valleys Association water quality in local waterways and in the $45,000 farmers and others in region. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES species across 5 acres with the support and work with watershed partners to Providing Technical Assistance Chesapeake Bay. Project will assess the $249,984 of 205 volunteers through workshops and prioritize the projects. for Small Agricultural Operations (PA) feasibility of implementing a private land Penns Valley Conservation Association monitoring at nine locations in the reserve. $49,978 Provide planning, technical and financial protection and stewardship program and American Woodcock and Eastern Brook Trout Stroud Water Research Center $27,144 assistance for three small community create a plan, framework and timeline for Habitat Management in Penns Creek (PA) Installation of Agricultural Best Management Chesapeake Media Service agricultural livestock operations in implementation if expansion is feasible. Integrate woodcock habitat establishment Practices in the Middle Schuylkill (PA) Berks Nature Increased Outreach to Local Governments in three Schuylkill Highlands focus area $49,919 with brook trout habitat improvement Provide outreach and technical assistance Installing Whole Farm Agricultural Practices in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed through the subwatersheds of the French Creek. Project by establishing native riparian flora that to develop whole farm plans and the Middle Schuylkill (PA) Bay Journal (multiple states) will protect and improve the water quality McKean County Conservation District maintain cold water temperatures and implement best management practices. Install whole-farm agricultural best Create a new local government edition of in these streams by implementing best Building Capacity and Awareness stabilize river banks and planting seedlings Project will implement whole farm management practices utilizing Natural the Bay Journal to provide education for management practices to reduce sediment, for the Allegheny Plateau Invasive Plant at woodcock singing grounds. Project will conservation on a minimum of eight farms, Resources Conservation Service prioritized municipal staff in the vast majority of the nutrient and bacterial loading while working Management Area (PA) create 19 acres of woodcock habitat and provide technical assistance on all buffers farmer contracts and engineered designs, 1,800 local government jurisdictions within to preserve and maintain strong agricultural Establish the Allegheny Plateau Invasive enhance 1,450 feet of stream banks. installed, and promote the adoption of as well as partner investment within the the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Project operations within the cluster. Plant Management Area to build capacity $106,842 soil health and stream health measures focus areas of the Middle Schuylkill Cluster. will provide information that will help them $134,935 among contributing partner organizations, through farmer-to-farmer trainings. Project will follow Conservation and Nutrient understand and achieve their commitments educate the community, and develop a Pennsylvania Environmental Council Project will additionally engage the new Management Plans for crop production to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. Herbert, Rowland and Grubic volunteer network to identify, monitor Expansion of the Smart Stormwater poultry facilities in the area, providing an and soil health to recycle farm nutrients, $20,001 Conewago Creek Stream Restoration (PA) and map invasive plants that threaten high House Call Program (PA) opportunity to implement conservation on

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED resulting in the reduction of farm nutrient Assess a 2-mile reach of the Conewago Creek quality watersheds and species of concern Engage watershed organizations, private existing operations. impacts and in improved surface, ground Clauser Environmental and prioritize those areas at which stream such as brook trout. Project will result in an contractors and vendors to promote $249,619 and drinking water quality. Green Infrastructure Planning (PA) restoration projects will be most beneficial inventory from which to prioritize future and install residential best management $200,000 Identify green infrastructure and city greening to the watershed. Project will outline project invasive plant treatment activities across practices, such as rain barrels, rain gardens The ClearWater Conservancy opportunities in Wilkes-Barre, create concept costs, anticipated pollutant load reductions public and private lands of the Allegheny and stream side plantings through the of Central Pennsylvania Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art plans, and develop conceptual details for and long-term responsibilities associated with Plateau watersheds and forests. Upstream Suburban Philadelphia Stream A Strategic Conservation Action Plan for the Implementing a Whole-Farm Approach the various practices proposed. Project will each potential stream restoration project. $37,074 Smart Stormwater House Call Program. Scotia Barrens Wildlife Corridor (PA) in the West Branch Brandywine Creek develop conceptual designs for greening nine $49,996 Project will implement various large- and Support early successional forest habitats Watershed (PA) public spaces, a project report highlighting National Audubon Society small-scale restoration programs to reduce for golden-winged warbler and American Conduct landowner education and the green infrastructure opportunities and Indiana University of Pennsylvania Improving Forest Management stormwater runoff and related pollutants, as woodcock on privately owned forest lands outreach while implementing agricultural proposed practices, and a workshop with Research Institute in the Allegheny Highlands to Benefit well as improve habitat. in Pennsylvania. Project will partner with best management practices using a local elected officials, volunteers and staff. Improving Forest Health on Private Lands to Key Bird Species (NY, PA) $280,000 conservation professionals and volunteers whole-farm approach in the headwater $49,500 Benefit Golden-Winged Warblers (MD, PA, VA) Improve management of private family to prioritize locations for habitat restoration reaches of the West Branch Brandywine Continue the efforts on private land to forests in the Upper Allegheny and Pennsylvania Environmental Council activities as well as implement an outreach Creek subwatershed. Project will achieve Delaware River City Corporation meet the goals of the Natural Resource Sinnemahoning watersheds of New York Restoring Young Forest Habitat (PA) and education campaign to involve attained water quality status for currently North Delaware Riverfront Greenway (PA) Conservation Service’s Working Lands for and Pennsylvania to increase young and Restore young forest habitat with a mix of landowners and municipalities in a shared impaired streams by reducing the impacts Restore 45 acres of habitat, including Wildlife program and increase populations mature forest habitat structure to benefit white pine and quaking aspen on legacy commitment to restore, enhance and of agricultural run-off and supporting riparian coastal plain forest, intertidal marsh of golden-winged warblers and associated cerulean warbler and golden-winged mine lands in Moshannon State Forest. connect important young forest habitats in long-term water quality improvements to and upland meadows along the Delaware forest bird species in Pennsylvania, Maryland warbler populations. Project will create at Project will improve habitat conditions on the Scotia Barrens region. benefit habitat and drinking water supplies. River in the northeast neighborhoods of and Virginia. Project will engage at 2,000 least 200 acres of young forest habitat and 55 acres for early successional bird species, $87,053 $250,000 Philadelphia. Project will facilitate hands- private landowners and enroll at least 3,000 at least 550 acres of mature forest habitat, including golden-winged warbler and on restoration, environmental education acres in Working Lands for Wildlife by utilizing certify at least six consulting foresters to American woodcock, improve water quality, and community service opportunities for conservation planners and field foresters provide assistance to family forest owners and educate the public and industry on the 175 volunteers and provide job-training to implement best practices in strategic and assess 5,000 acres to prioritize future benefits of this technique across Appalachia. opportunities to young adults. locations. management. $61,895 $26,824 $1,169,163 $149,437

54 55 The Pennsylvania State University Water Words That Work RHODE ISLAND Manomet Forest Landowners Association North Carolina State University Understanding the Role of a Virus Closing the Deal With Rural Landowners: Coastal Habitat Restoration for American Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building Prescribed Fire Initiative within the in the Virulence of the Fungus that Causes Training Chesapeake Bay Watershed Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast Stakeholder Collaboration – II (multiple states) Southeastern United States (multiple states) White-nose Syndrome (PA) Conservation Practitioners Expanding Electronic Monitoring in the New (multiple states) Engage large family forest landowners in Expand and accelerate the implementation Use Pseudogymnoascus destructans (DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) England Groundfish Fisheries (ME, MA, NH, RI) Coordinate the planning and implementation longleaf restoration and at-risk species of prescribed fire to restore and enhance partitivirus (PdPV) and virus-free strains of Help conservation practitioners successfully Expand participation in electronic of conservation action for American conservation throughout the historic range of longleaf pine habitat and other fire- Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the recruit and negotiate landowners’ monitoring from 20 to 30 vessels in the oystercatcher along the entire U.S. Atlantic the longleaf pine. Project will assist landowners dependent forest and grassland communities fungus causing white-nose syndrome (WNS), participation in the Conservation Reserve New England groundfish fishery to improve seaboard. Project will continue the coastwide with the establishment and enhancement of within the Southeast. Project will engage to assess the role of the virus in virulence Enhancement Program, conservation accountability through video monitoring coordination of the American oystercatcher at least 2,000 acres of longleaf pine, develop 1,000 landowners and fire practitioners of Pd genes and spread of WNS. Project easements, agricultural best practices, and reduce bycatch. Project will update recovery initiative and compile lessons regulatory predictability tools for at-risk through technical assistance, training and will develop a virus-induced gene-silencing manure and forest management plans and technology, plan for industry cost sharing learned after a decade’s worth of targeted species endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, outreach, including “Learn and Burn” system using infectious clones of PdPV to habitat restoration projects to improve and strengthen partnerships with fishermen, investments and embark upon a new and explore market-based solutions to address workshops, development of prescribed burn test the role of potential virulence genes of water quality in the Chesapeake Bay the National Marine Fisheries Service and initiative to develop best management the economic constraints to large-scale associations and Fire Festivals, to increase the Pd, and develop virus-free or altered virus watershed. Project will bring the expertise scientists resulting in improved long-term practices to restore wet and dry sand habitats longleaf restoration on private lands. use of prescribed fire. strains as a WNS treatment strategy. of the region’s most successful conservation fisheries management. for oystercatchers and other breeding $145,000 $130,000 $263,168 field staff into a course designed for entry- $541,109 shorebirds along the Atlantic Coast. level and mid-career field staff. $150,000 Georgia Department of Natural Resources Pheasants Forever Tookany/Tacony-Frankford $24,978 Cornell Cooperative Extension Shorebird Assessment along Coastal Georgia Strategic Restoration of Northern Bobwhite Watershed Partnership Association of Suffolk County U.S. Department of Agriculture, and South Carolina (GA, SC) Habitat on Working Lands (multiple states) Restoration of Jenkintown Creek Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Bycatch Avoidance Network Expansion U.S. Forest Service Study and assess body conditions and Deliver technical assistance across six states at Conklin Recreation Center (PA) Culvert Assessment and Prioritization for for Georges Bank Haddock and Northern Red Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas stress levels of five shorebird species at to improve land-management practices for Remove 225 feet of concrete lining from a Aquatic Organism Passage (PA) Hake (MA, NJ, NY, RI) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species remote and disturbed sites along coastal northern bobwhite and other terrestrial channelized section of Jenkintown Creek Complete culvert assessments on at least 400 Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Network (multiple states) Georgia and South Carolina. Project will wildlife. Project will include 11,940 landowner and direct flows through a constructed stream-road crossings at priority locations to identify and report real-time bycatch Expand the aquatic environmental DNA fill knowledge gaps, mitigate disturbance, contacts, 27,800 acres under improved wetland feature to extend flow path. Project in Elk, Potter, and Blair counties, developing of butterfish, river herring, windowpane, Atlas database, website, digital tools, and and conduct nesting and roosting site management practices, 720 plans with best will convert 7,500 square feet of upland baseline crossing data that can be used for yellowtail flounder, haddock and northern sample repository to a national scale. restoration planning. An additional project management practices and 6,000 acres UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES area from turf to meadow, and will create planning physical projects and restoring red hake. Project will reduce bycatch in Project will expand the current coverage will investigate migration patterns of red covered with federal program incentives. a walking trail to expand recreational use connectivity in the area. Project will provide Southern New England fisheries by providing of the database of information important knots, which has important implications for $2,447,858 of the entire Conklin Recreation Center a final report to the local conservation active vessels with real-time spatial and to the conservation and management of forage quality and disturbance during their property. districts and host a workshop reviewing the temporal bycatch data. aquatic species to include waterways in refueling at Delaware Bay. The Longleaf Alliance $50,000 importance of aquatic organism passage, $60,939 the 37 remaining states to inform strategic $75,000 Longleaf Restoration in the Sewee Longleaf explaining the process of the assessment and conservation investments for suppressing Conservation Cooperative Landscape (SC) U.S. Department of Agriculture, highlighting the results of the work. Gulf of Maine Research Institute invasives and increasing native populations. Manomet Provide public and private landowner U.S. Forest Service $30,947 Develop Machine Learning Software to Reduce $73,018 Coastal Habitat Restoration for American outreach and assistance for longleaf Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Electronic Monitoring Costs in New England Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast establishment, enhancement and and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (MA, ME, RI) (multiple states) management in cooperation with the (multiple states) Restoring Aquatic and Forest Habitat Develop activity recognition algorithms to SOUTH CAROLINA Coordinate the planning and Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative Expand the aquatic environmental DNA on Youghiogheny River Tributaries identify fishing activity to decrease video implementation of conservation action for in South Carolina. Project will engage Atlas database, website, digital tools and to Benefit Multiple Species (PA) review time, and data storage requirements Chesterfield County Soil and Water American oystercatcher along the entire landowners through two workshops and sample repository to a national scale. Restore aquatic and forest habitat on the on vessels using a maximized retention Conservation District U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue provide technical and assistance to restore Project will expand the current coverage Youghiogheny River in the Laurel Highlands bycatch monitoring approach in the New Sandhills Longleaf Pine Conservation – VI (SC) the coastwide coordination of the American and enhance 2,200 acres of longleaf habitat, of the database of information important of Pennsylvania to benefit eastern brook England groundfish fishery. Project will Restore and enhance 1,638 acres of longleaf oystercatcher recovery initiative and prioritizing efforts on lands that will benefit to the conservation and management of trout, American woodcock, golden-winged install software on vessels, document the pine on private and public lands through compile lessons learned after a decade’s at-risk and listed species, such as the red-

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED aquatic species to include waterways in warbler, cerulean warbler and other priority process for incorporating automation into an longleaf plantings, mid-story hardwood worth of targeted investments and embark cockaded woodpecker. the 37 remaining states to inform strategic species that inhabit streams and young and electronic monitoring program, and present removal and prescribed fire. Project will upon a new initiative to develop best $150,000 conservation investments for suppressing mature forest habitat. Project will result results in a best practices report. expand a geospatial land-use inventory to management practices to restore wet invasives and increasing native populations. in 30 acres of young forest and riparian $450,266 help prioritize future restoration efforts and and dry sand habitats for oystercatchers The Longleaf Alliance $73,018 tree plantings, removal of two barriers to a native understory seed collection effort, and other breeding shorebirds along the Lowcountry-ACE Basin Longleaf Ecosystem fish passage, installation of 50 fish habitat IC Independent Consulting establishing 25 acres of native understory Atlantic Coast. Restoration Partnership – V (SC) University of Maryland structures and reduction of sediment runoff Implementing and Improving Electronic plants that will benefit species such as $150,000 Establish and enhance 3,000 acres of Center for Environmental Science by 35 tons annually. Monitoring in New England Fisheries northern bobwhite and Bachman’s sparrow. longleaf pine habitat on public and private Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators $199,998 (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI) $299,975 National Audubon Society lands and accelerate the recovery of into the Chesapeake Bay Report Card Review and synthesize electronic monitoring Pee Dee River-Winyah Bay federally listed and at-risk species within the (multiple states) Wildlife Management Institute technologies, electronic reporting Clemson University Forest Restoration Partnership (SC) Lowcountry and ACE Basin in South Carolina. Make key improvements to the Chesapeake Developing a Landowner Outreach and technologies, and data requirements to Identifying Habitat Requirements of the Engage at least 900 family forest landowners Project will establish longleaf pine on private Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 Communications Strategy in the Greenbrier better monitor catch, bycatch, discards and Carolina Heelsplitter (NC, SC) in sustainable management of longleaf lands, as well as Army Corps of Engineers as the definitive source for ecosystem health Watershed (OH, PA, WV) interactions with endangered, threatened Identify and prioritize on-the-ground pine and bottomland hardwood habitats property; existing longleaf habitat will be status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project Develop a detailed outreach strategy that and protected species within the New management actions to benefit the federally to benefit at-risk species in the Pee Dee enhanced through midstory hardwood will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card targets landowners in the Greenbrier England groundfish fisheries. Project endangered Carolina heelsplitter freshwater River-Winyah Bay landscape. Project will removal and prescribed burning; species- process and product by incorporating recent watershed of eastern West Virginia to will develop a plan for implementing mussel and its host fish, the bluehead chub, develop management plans, assist with Tree specific management for gopher tortoises lessons learned, incorporating new design create a mixed mosaic of forest habitat that data modernization to address gaps that in the Lynches River watershed of the greater Farm certification and connect landowners will include hatching and fostering up to 250 elements, developing indicators for non-tidal supports species of greatest conservation will satisfy scientific, enforcement, and Pee Dee River Basin. Project will develop a with resource management professionals eggs for release on restored habitat; and watershed areas. need. Project will encourage landowners sustainable management needs. novel protocol to detect the mussel and host to establish and enhance 6,000 acres of red-cockaded woodpecker recovery efforts $113,995 to improve forest management practices $79,940 fish from stream water via environmental longleaf pine and bottomland hardwood will be bolstered by installing at least 25 in this key watershed identified by both DNA, apply the protocol to understand forest habitat. artificial nest boxes. the American Forest Foundation and the habitat requirements of each species and $149,998 $300,000 Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture. synthesize the information gathered to $99,941 improve aquatic habitat. $175,000

56 57 The Longleaf Alliance Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Pheasants Forever World Wildlife Fund Limestone Valley Resource Conservation The Nature Conservancy Red-cockaded Woodpecker Conservation Tribal Youth Conservation Work Crew (SD) Using Decision-Support Tools to Strategically Advancing Black-Footed Ferret Recovery and Development Council Accelerating Restoration of Fire-Adapted Project on State and Private Lands (SC) Create a Tribal Youth Conservation Work Support Grassland Bird Conservation (SD) through Innovative Aerial and Ground-Based Conserving Fish and Mussels Habitats on the Cumberland Plateau (TN) Translocate 20 red-cockaded woodpeckers Crew that will perform tasks on tribal and Deploy a new generation of decision- Delivery of Sylvatic Plague Vaccine Baits to in the Conasauga River Watershed (GA, TN) Map fire adapted ecological systems, conduct (RCW) from the Francis Marion National public lands that benefit focal wildlife support tools for grassland bird conservation Prairie Dogs (MT, SD) Implement priority conservation actions a consensus-based stakeholder process Forest to state lands and private properties species. Project will improve pronghorn to strategically implement grazing Improve the accuracy and speed of existing to reduce nutrients, sediments, and other to prioritize sites for prescribed burns and enrolled in the South Carolina Department movement and reduce wildlife hazards, management systems on 10,000 acres of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) and all- pollutants in runoff. Project will improve implement prescribed burning in three high of Natural Resources safe harbor program monitor specific species of grassland birds, priority grassland throughout western South terrain vehicle (ATV) bait delivery prototypes Conasauga River water quality in support priority locations within the Cumberland in the South Carolina coastal plain. improve grassland bird habitat and mitigate Dakota. Project will identify grasslands with and build additional models that can be of published recovery plans for 10 of the Plateau and Mountains in Tennessee. Project Project will improve the demographic and impacts of sylvatic plague. the highest risk of conversion, including used to protect prairie dogs from sylvatic listed fish and mussel species in the basin. will improve forest habitat on 2,000 acres genetic health of this endangered species, $36,787 tracts enrolled in the Conservation plague at black-footed ferret reintroduction $268,113 with prescribed fire, drive habitat restoration supporting the objectives of the U.S. Fish Reserve Program that are nearing contract sites in the Northern Great Plains. Project management to the highest priority locations and Wildlife Service’s RCW Recovery Plan. National Audubon Society expiration and encourage stewardship and will advance recovery of the black-footed Lincoln County Soil Conservation District and maximize the future investments of all $117,476 Advancing the SageWest Communications enhancement. ferret through efficient, operational UAS and Elk and Duck River Watershed land managers in the region. Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem $399,809 ATV delivery of sylvatic plague vaccine baits Forest Initiative (TN) $149,996 U.S. Department of Agriculture, (multiple states) to prairie dogs. Establish 300 acres of shortleaf pine, U.S. Forest Service Elevate individual conservation efforts and Prairie Wildlife Research $75,000 develop forest management plans for The Nature Conservancy Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas create a larger dialogue about the value and Evaluation of Sylvatic Plague Mitigation 6,000 acres of family forestland and Old Shoal Creek Derelict Dam Removal (TN) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species need for sagebrush conservation. Project Effectiveness on Black-footed Ferret World Wildlife Fund restore 450 acres of forested riparian Restore fish passage and water quality in (multiple states) will engage in priority work groups, develop Populations (SD) Building Capacity in Northwest South Dakota buffers on degraded streams within priority Shoal Creek by removing Old Shoal Creek Expand the aquatic environmental DNA guidance documents, and organize partner Evaluate the effectiveness of two Sylvatic to Increase Grassland Bird Conservation subwatersheds of Tennessee’s Elk and Duck Dam. Project will re-connect almost 108 Atlas database, website, digital tools and meetings across the ecosystem. Plague mitigation tools on black-footed with Ranchers River watersheds. Project will develop miles of Shoal Creek and its tributaries and sample repository to a national scale. $34,200 ferret survival and recruitment in three Engage ranchers in northwestern South transferable tools to identify priority expand habitat for fish species of greatest Project will expand the current coverage South Dakota populations. Project will build Dakota to enhance nesting grassland- conservation sites, increase landowner conservation need. of the database of information important National Audubon Society upon current black-footed ferret recovery dependent bird habitat. Project will awareness on the benefits of sustainable $70,768 to the conservation and management of Support of Conservation Ranching Program efforts by monitoring treated ferret increase enrollment on ranch lands to forest management and riparian buffers, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES aquatic species to include waterways in (NE, SD) colonies to determine if the treatments better maintain habitats for grassland bird and improve water quality and habitat U.S. Department of Agriculture, the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Support the market-based Conservation are providing adequate protection, and species to help sustain ranching and to for northern bobwhite, prairie warbler, U.S. Forest Service conservation investments for suppressing Ranching Program, which focuses the project team will provide direct provide outreach on opportunities related amphibians and aquatic species. Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas invasives and increasing native populations. on implementing bird-friendly land vaccinations as needed. to voluntary monitoring and management $215,000 and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species $73,018 management practices through technical $124,895 practices for different species. (multiple states) assistance and market-based connection to $60,000 North Carolina State University Expand the aquatic environmental DNA landowners. Project will grow the program’s Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Atlas database, website, digital tools, and SOUTH DAKOTA impact by expanding into the state of Effectiveness Monitoring for Declining World Wildlife Fund Southeastern United States (multiple states) sample repository to a national scale. Nebraska and strengthen impact in western Grassland Bird Species within the Northern Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Expand and accelerate the implementation Project will expand the current coverage Ducks Unlimited South Dakota by providing professional Great Plains (MT, ND, SD, WY) of the Plowprint Analytical Tool of prescribed fire to restore and of the database of information important Improving Soil Health on Agricultural Lands technical assistance to enrolled ranchers. Collect data on bird abundance and (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) enhance longleaf pine habitat and other to the conservation and management of to Benefit Grassland Bird Habitat $198,928 occupancy of priority grassland bird Update and expand geospatial data analysis, fire-dependent forest and grassland aquatic species to include waterways in in the Prairie Pothole Region (SD) species to evaluate and quantify called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape communities within the southeast. Project the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Help landowners implement and monitor Pheasants Forever impacts of conservation investments. change metrics for the Northern Great will engage 1,000 landowners and fire conservation investments for suppressing soil health improvement practices on Expanding Conservation of Working Lands in Project will focus on three strategies Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand practitioners through technical assistance, invasives and increasing native populations. agricultural land using cover crops and other the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) for conservation projects: conservation the previous versions by including northern training and outreach, including “Learn $73,018 best management practices to enhance Maintain and expand technical assistance easements, grassland restoration and Mexico, extending the analysis backward and Burn” workshops, development of

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED waterfowl and grassland bird habitat in the capacity in key greater sage grouse grazing management projects within the in time to capture historical change and prescribed burn associations and fire Virginia Polytechnic Institute Prairie Pothole Region of South Dakota. focal areas to strengthen working ranch NFWF Northern Great Plains region with using the newest and best available data festivals, to increase the use of prescribed and State University Project will engage approximately 25 lands management to improve greater comparisons providing an assessment of to track rates of agricultural conversion, fire. Improving Eastern Hellbender Habitat producers to permanently adopt soil health sage grouse populations. Project will which programs are benefiting priority monitor previously converted lands, identify $130,000 on Private Lands (NC, TN, VA) farming practices benefiting approximately improve grazing practices on 250,000 grassland bird species and help guide risk factors for remaining intact habitat and Promote eastern hellbender habitat 25,000 acres of agricultural lands in high acres to benefit greater sage grouse future investments. target conservation work. The Conservation Fund restoration and conservation on private lands priority landscapes for waterfowl and through technical assistance provided $235,155 $20,000 Skinner Mountain Forest Shortleaf Pine in North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia grassland birds. by 14 Strategic Watershed Action Teams Restoration and Conservation (TN) by building relationships with landowners $133,970 members. South Dakota Soil Health Coalition Restore and enhance shortleaf pine and communities in the target watersheds $1,688,795 Improving Soil Health in Eastern South Dakota TENNESSEE ecosystems on the Skinner Mountain identified. Project will improve riparian area Ducks Unlimited Improve soil health, water quality and Forest Property located in Fentress and condition and overall water quality within Promoting Soil Health on Working Farms Pheasants Forever wildlife habitat, and improve the economic CDP North America Overton counties, Tennessee. Project the project waterways through conservation in Eastern South Dakota Restoration of Habitat and Productivity on and environmental performance of Scaling Green Infrastructure Investments in will establish 123 acres of shortleaf actions focused on reducing nonpoint source Promote soil health practices through a Saline Impacted Soils in South Dakota working lands in eastern South Dakota. Cities (multiple states) pine, enhance an additional 159 acres pollution and sedimentation. variety of educational opportunities and Address loss of agricultural production due to Project will provide follow-up to producers Build capacity of communities in 18 cities of existing shortleaf-hardwood forest $647,995 soil health monitoring on working farms in saline and sodic soils that is exacerbated by regarding continued conservation across the United States to help them through thinning and prescribed burning, the Prairie Pothole Region of eastern South two-crop rotations in South Dakota. Project practices and will develop a website tool implement sustainable infrastructure for and permanently protect 11,734 acres Wolf River Conservancy Dakota. Project will work directly with 50 will engage with 150 landowners to enlist 40 to assist producers in locating available stormwater management, urban wildlife with a working forest conservation Wolf River Greenway Restoration (TN) producers to design and implement soil participants and enroll 750 acres for high- grazing lands and improving management habitats and tree canopy improvement. easement. Remove 50 acres of invasives, plant 1,500 health monitoring systems to improve soil intensity treatments on select targeted areas. on 5,000 acres. Project will perform targeted outreach to $100,000 trees and clean up trash and debris from key health on 5,140 acres of cropland and 1,920 These areas will be used for demonstration $155,560 cities to increase knowledge of sustainable properties along the Wolf River in Memphis, acres of rangeland. field days to develop broader producer infrastructure financing as well as develop Tennessee. Project will engage 800 volunteers $268,609 interest in how this practice improves soil cities’ use of online tools to document green to protect and restore watershed features health, productivity and wildlife habitat. infrastructure and habitat benefits. and hydrological functions along the urban $223,197 $200,000 sections of the Wolf River. $38,924

58 59 TEXAS Forest Landowners Association Houston Wilderness Parks and Wildlife Foundation of Texas Texas A&M Forest Service Texas Rice Industry Coalition Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building Port of Houston Tree Planting (TX) Restoration of Private Grasslands Conservation of Texas’ Longleaf Ridge for the Environment American Bird Conservancy Stakeholder Collaboration & Developing Monitor the effectiveness of Port of within the Pecos River Watershed (TX) Restore and protect a portion of Longleaf Texas Coastal Plain Land Conservation Priority Bird Habitat Conservation Solutions – II (multiple states) Houston restoration efforts by placing air Work with private landowners to restore Ridge connecting the Angelina and Engage private landowners through in the West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas Engage large family forest landowners in and water quality and sediment monitoring or enhance 5,000-8,000 acres of grassland Sabine National Forests. Project will use strategic outreach and technical assistance Region (AR, LA, OK, TX) longleaf restoration and at-risk species devices along the waterway, navigating the habitat using a range of practices on a conservation easement to permanently to increase enrollment in the Natural Facilitate the establishment, development, conservation throughout the historic waterway to identity and record trees and private lands in the Pecos River Watershed protect 5,439 acres of managed timberland Resources Conservation Service Agricultural maintenance and success of Conservation range of the longleaf pine. Project will plants throughout the corridor and create a in Texas. Project will directly benefit a containing longleaf pine woodlands, Conservation Easement Program. Project will Delivery Networks in the West Gulf Coastal assist landowners with the establishment baseline of ecosystem services. Project will number of native species, including Baird’s beech slope forests, spring-fed creeks with focus on private lands adjacent to National Plain/Ouachitas geography. Project will focus and enhancement of at least 2,000 acres work with adjacent land owners and 250 sparrow, Pecos pupfish, Rio Grande chub, waterfalls, pitcher plant bogs and rare plant Wildlife Refuges, Texas Parks and Wildlife on building connections and relationships of longleaf pine, develop regulatory volunteers to restore riparian buffers and Rio Grande cooter and Sprague’s pipit, species. Department wildlife management areas, among partner delivery staff across the four- predictability tools for at-risk species analyze data collected at all stages. many of which have experienced significant $270,000 and other public lands to buffer these lands state region covering Arkansas, Louisiana, endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, reducing $50,000 declines that can be attributed to habitat and create corridors for wildlife, including Oklahoma and Texas to restore 277 acres of uncertainty for landowners wishing to loss, degradation and fragmentation at the Texas A&M Forest Service shorebirds, waterbirds and songbirds. bottomland hardwood forests and improve manage for longleaf habitat conditions Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association landscape level. Facilitating Longleaf Conservation in East Texas $130,000 92 acres of existing bottomland hardwoods. on their lands, and explore market-based Next Generation of Permit Banking and Fishery $250,000 Coordinate education, technical and $263,221 solutions to address the economic constraints Allocation Trusts (multiple states) financial assistance to restore, enhance and Texas State University to large-scale longleaf restoration. Develop a new approach to fishery trusts Pheasants Forever conserve the longleaf pine and bottomland Reddish Egret Conservation Plan Audubon International $145,000 that will be used as a model for multiple Accelerating Technical Capacity to Improve hardwood ecosystems in East Texas. Project for the U.S. Gulf Coast (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat fisheries, including, but not limited to, the Private Land Grasslands for Wildlife (TX) will continue to build on the momentum and Develop a detailed conservation plan with on Golf Courses (multiple states) Galveston Bay Foundation New England Groundfish and the Gulf of Provide technical assistance to private interest generated from previous projects. prioritized actions, clear conservation Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf Living Shoreline Habitat Protection (TX) Mexico Reef fishery, by assessing current landowners in Texas to improve grassland $300,000 outcomes and well-defined funding needs to courses in a 10-state area to support Build a living shoreline on the western permit bank models, exploring small habitat for priority species identified in best support the reddish egret in the Gulf of pollinators such as the monarch butterfly. shore of Galveston Bay. Project will restore business growth, and exploring community State Wildlife Action Plans by engaging Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Mexico. Project will contract an expert and Project will provide technical assistance and intertidal marsh while protecting coastal buy-in and stewardship. Project will landowners in voluntary practices known to Assessment of Wildlife Habitat (TX) research assistant, facilitate webinars, host native, regionally appropriate seed while upland habitats of a property owned by the result in up to five new trust and permit improve habitat for grassland birds. Project Provide helicopter flight time for project two workshops with the working group, and UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES raising awareness about pollinators through Galveston Bay Foundation. Outcomes include bank business structures and up to five will add two range/wildlife conservationists leaders, biologists, managers, and other aggregate existing foraging and nesting data educational signage and demonstrating approximately 800 feet of shoreline and more programmatic models that will respond who will develop detailed conservation personnel to identify and document possible into an online database. how to manage commercial properties than 3 acres of intertidal marsh restored. to the changing needs of the fishing plans guiding on the ground implementation damage from Hurricane Harvey along $74,990 sustainably. $132,000 community. practices on 49,500 acres. the Texas Coast. Project is the first phase $150,000 $99,882 $210,000 in moving forward with identifying and Texas Trees Foundation Gulf Coast Bird Observatory estimating potential restoration costs on ReTree Rowlett Creek (TX) Borderlands Research Institute, Texas Coastal Motus Network Tower Repair New South Development and Training San Antonio Bay Partnership these important wildlife habitats. Restore the urban forest Bob Woodruff Park Sul Ross State University Repair four Motus Wildlife Tracking System Strategic Outreach to Expand Agricultural Restoration of Freshwater Wetlands $10,860 in Plano, Texas, by designing and planting Marfa and Marathon Grassland towers, a coordinated hemispheric tracking and Wetland Conservation (AL, FL, GA, TX) and Ponds at Aransas NWR (TX) groves of approximately 125 native trees Enhancement (TX) system for all migratory bird species whose Provide education and outreach services to Repair freshwater well infrastructure on Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and an additional 500 seedlings to provide Conduct necessary brush management purpose is to facilitate landscape-scale private landowners to increase enrollment Aransas National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation of Wild and Native Fishes nesting, shelter, shade and water quality activities in the Marfa and Marathon research and education on the ecology and of agricultural and wetland properties Welder Flats Conservation Area damaged of the Chihuahuan Desert Ecoregion (TX) benefits. Project will engage 350 community grasslands utilizing herbicide treatments conservation of migratory animals. Project will in the Natural Resources Conservation by Hurricane Harvey. Project will improve a Restore and preserve wild and native fishes members in tree planting and invasive to improve grassland health as well as replace or repair broken masts and antennas Service Agricultural Conservation Easement large number of freshwater wetlands that of the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion, a species removal and will support the city’s pronghorn and grassland bird habitat. and the coaxial cable that runs between the Program. Project will identify and were overwashed with the storm surge, strongholds for 29 species of native fishes, stormwater management plan and tailor Project will treat 6,000 acres of grassland antennas and the sensorgnome box. engage high priority landowners through raising salinities and making them unusable including Pecos pupfish, Pecos gambusia, educational opportunities for the community using a landowner cost-share program, $6,130 informational workshops and technical for a number of wildlife species. Rio Grande darter, Rio Grande chub, Rio associated with project development.

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED monitoring pronghorn and grassland bird assistance, with a priority of working with $90,000 Grande silvery minnow and Chihuahua $50,000 responses to the treatment and resulting Gulf Seafood Institute underserved landowners. catfish. Project will restore 25 acres of in the creation of region-specific science- Expanding the Gulf of Mexico Charter Boat $370,133 Texan by Nature riparian habitats and deliver conservation The Conservation Fund driven management recommendations. Electronic Logbook (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Restoring Pollinator Habitat best management practices on 50,000 acres Laguna Atascosa Conservation Easement (TX) $250,000 Expand the use of electronic logbooks in the North Carolina State University in Rights-of-Way in Texas in focal watersheds. Protect 400 acres of native Tamaulipan Gulf of Mexico by improving software and Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Convene key stakeholders in Texas to $250,000 thorn scrub and coastal prairie on the Chicago Zoological Society providing training and outreach to captains. Southeastern United States (multiple states) develop strategies focused on pollinator Hardie tract, which helps connect the Enhancing the Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Project will increase the number of vessels Expand and accelerate the implementation habitat in rights-of-way. Project will develop Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Laguna Atascosa and the Lower Rio Grande Identification System (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) with installed electronic logbook units in the of prescribed fire to restore and a case study by restoring 350 acres of Integrated Disease Management System to Valley national wildlife refuges into a parcel Improve the functionality of the Gulf of Gulf of Mexico resulting in more accurate enhance longleaf pine habitat and other habitat in rights-of-way to support monarch Reduce White-Nose Syndrome Mortality (TX) containing more than 49,500 acres. Project Mexico Dolphin Identification System, data to fishery managers. fire-dependent forest and grassland butterflies and other pollinators. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will represents an additional 400 acres of a collaborative database of bottlenose $661,298 communities within the southeast. Project $110,000 establish an integrated disease management protection toward a 7,000-acre goal within dolphin photographic identification from will engage 1,000 landowners and fire system approach aimed at minimizing white- the Bahia Grande Coastal Corridor. researchers around the Gulf. Project will Houston Wilderness practitioners through technical assistance, Texas A&M AgriLife Research nose syndrome (WNS) mortality amongst $170,000 expand the existing tool for protection Galveston Bay Oyster Reefs and Migratory Bird training and outreach, including “Learn Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conservation tricolored bats in Texas. This project will use and restoration of bottlenose dolphins, Habitat Restoration (TX) and Burn” workshops, development of Scholars Program (multiple states) multiple mitigation approaches, including The Peregrine Fund allowing researchers to search online Establish three to four living shorelines that prescribed burn associations and fire Integrate undergraduates and graduates high-pressure steam cleaning, application Aplomado Falcon Restoration (TX) for their individual dolphins within include new oyster reef areas to stabilize festivals, to increase the use of prescribed using a two-tiered program that will focus of polyethylene glycol, and volatile organic Assess and replace highest priority original the catalogs of other collaborating bottom sediments, reduce wave energy, fire. on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico compound treatments, to reduce WNS- wooden nest structures with longer- researchers, to identify long-range improve hydrology in Galveston Bay and $130,000 ecosystems and energy development. related mortality, and slow the spread of lasting aluminum units in areas impacted movements and determine the origins of prevent erosion. Project will fortify wetlands Project will appoint two graduate fellowships Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causal by Hurricane Harvey. Project will focus stranded dolphins. to serve as natural levee systems that can to serve as “mentor assistants” to guide a agent of WNS. on grasslands and marshes of the barrier $60,000 provide storm protection to the Gulf Coast, small cohort of undergraduate interns. $315,072 islands along the Gulf of Mexico that serve as provide cleaner water and habitats. $200,000 primary habitat for the endangered northern $52,853 Aplomado falcon. $49,888

60 61 U.S. Department of the Interior, UTAH Wetland Dynamics National Audubon Society American Bird Conservancy Chesapeake Media Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Gunnison Sage Grouse Collaborative Action Engaging Stakeholders to Improve Priority Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black Increased Outreach to Local Governments Aransas National Wildlife Refuge Hurricane Grand Canyon Youth Plan Project and Plan Development (CO, UT) Bird Habitats in the Upper Hudson and Lake Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Recovery Clean Up and Assessments (TX) Native American Youth Restoring Ecological Help to identify and prioritize on-the- Champlain (NY, VT) Bay Watershed (multiple states) (multiple states) Repair infrastructure on Matagorda Island to Balance in Colorado River Watershed (AZ, UT) ground projects to benefit Gunnison sage Provide technical assistance to landowners, Develop guidance to target wetland habitat Create a new local government edition of gain access to the refuge and state wildlife Perform invasive species management and grouse in each population so that when foresters and industry to improve the mosaic restoration and enhancement across the the Bay Journal to provide education for management facilities damaged by Hurricane stream buffer enhancements along the funding for projects is available, partners of forest habitats to benefit multiple bird entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project municipal staff in the vast majority of the Harvey. Project will allow the U.S. Fish and Colorado, Escalante, San Juan and Dirty Devil will have tools and guidance on where species, including golden-winged warbler, will be using the output of two separate 1,800 local government jurisdictions within Wildlife Service to ultimately begin recovery rivers. Project will engage Native American to focus project work. Project will work American woodcock, black-throated blue models to target conservation actions that the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Project efforts on Matagorda Island. youth from the Southwest Conservation to sustain both the Gunnison Basin and warbler and wood thrush. Project will restore would benefit water quality and black ducks, will provide information that will help them $61,000 Corps Ancestral Lands Program to restore satellite populations of sage grouse for 265 acres of young forest habitat, improve in partnership with the U.S. Geological understand and achieve their commitments 15 acres of stream buffer zones, develop future generations. 900 acres of late successional habitat and Survey and the Atlantic Coast and Black to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. U.S. Department of the Interior, conservation and employment skills. $63,500 develop a pilot program with International Duck joint ventures. $20,001 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $202,832 Paper that prioritizes procurement of wood $25,634 Aransas NWR Debris Field Assessment (TX) fiber from forests being managed with bird- Conservation Concepts Map debris fields, placement of orphaned National Audubon Society VERMONT friendly techniques. Blossom Consulting and Engineering Creating a Fredericksburg Regional Response containers and potential HAZMAT related Advancing the SageWest Communications $187,841 Watershed Assessment for Stormwater to the Chesapeake Bay Program (VA) items, white goods, electronic goods, and Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem American Rivers Retrofit and Stream Restoration (VA) Develop a Fredericksburg area regional other items following landfall by Hurricane (multiple states) Completing Final Designs for Fish Barrier Rich Earth Institute Complete watershed and site assessments response for the Chesapeake Bay Phase Harvey. Project data will be used to implement Elevate individual conservation efforts and Modifications on the Upper Connecticut River Effluent Diversion Installations (VT) for stormwater retrofit and stream III Watershed Implementation Plan being a pre-recovery planning process where ground create a larger dialogue about the value and (NH, VT) Identify new sites to install innovative effluent restoration projects on two sites in developed by the Virginia Department of crew assessments may be ordered and need for sagebrush conservation. Project Complete final engineering designs diversion technology in Windham County, Shenandoah County. Project will develop Environmental Quality. prioritization of debris removal can be made. will engage in priority work groups, develop and permitting for three fish barrier Vermont. Project will secure sites to install a conceptual planning strategies, project $50,000 $10,343 guidance documents, and organize partner modifications on cold-water tributaries technology designed to reduce nitrogen from identification, designs and quantification for meetings across the ecosystem. of the Upper Connecticut River in New urine entering the Connecticut River and, future implementation. Ducks Unlimited U.S. Geological Survey $34,200 Hampshire and Vermont. Project will set ultimately, Long Island Sound. $39,107 Conservation of American Black Duck UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES National Wildlife Health Center the stage for implementation that restores $29,767 in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Developing and Testing Delivery Methods for Pheasants Forever natural river processes, reconnects more Canaan Valley Institute Implement the goals of the Working Lands Vaccine Treatments to Reduce White-Nose Expanding Conservation of Working Lands in than 45 miles of historic habitat for eastern Rich Earth Institute Aquatic Connectivity in the Upper for Wildlife Farm Bill Program by targeting Syndrome in Bats (CO, MN, TX, WI) the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) brook trout and increases the availability of Innovative Urine Diversion Technology to Clinch River Watershed (VA) conservation of American black duck priority Design and test mass-delivery methods Maintain and expand technical assistance cold-water refuges. Reduce Nitrogen in Long Island Sound (VT) Restore instream habitat, implement habitat in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. for vaccines and other treatment options capacity in key greater sage grouse focal $114,990 Install innovative technology to divert agricultural best management practices and Project will work with producers and private to reduce the occurrence of white-nose areas to strengthen working ranch lands urine, a source of nitrogen, at five sites assess the presence of eastern hellbenders landowners to implement NRCS Farm Bill syndrome in bats. Project will develop and management to improve greater sage Connecticut River Watershed Council in Windham County, Vermont. Project in the Upper Clinch River watershed. Project conservation programs to protect, restore test an automatic spray technology device for grouse populations. Project will improve A Watershed Monitoring Strategy to Support will prevent 350 pounds of nitrogen from will benefit 12 species of endangered and enhance habitat to benefit American delivering treatments to bats as they fly into grazing practices on 250,000 acres to the Long Island Sound Nitrogen Strategy urine entering the Connecticut River and, mussels, three threatened fish species and black ducks on private lands. maternity roosts or hibernacula for fall swarm benefit greater sage grouse through (MA, NH, VT) ultimately, Long Island Sound. the eastern hellbender by providing access $272,564 and assess oral consumption of treatment technical assistance provided by 14 Strategic Create a watershed-scale monitoring $115,720 to 30.2 acres of upstream habitat and 3 and effectiveness of a topical delivery method Watershed Action Teams members. strategy to add nutrient and other acres of instream habitat. Forest Landowners Association through the use of biomarkers. $1,688,795 water quality data in the Connecticut Trout Unlimited $65,000 Engaging Working Forest Landowners, Building $400,000 and Housatonic River watersheds of Targeting Municipalities and Landowners to Stakeholder Collaboration and Developing U.S. Department of Agriculture, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Improve Stream Health (MA, VT) Chesapeake Environmental Communications Solutions – II (multiple states) University of Florida U.S. Forest Service Vermont. Project will add to the current Assist municipalities, private landowners Subwatershed Analysis Engage family forest landowners in longleaf

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Evaluating Recreational Fishing Management Restoration of Fish Passage in Hall Creek (UT) effort to implement the Long Island Sound and contractors to prioritize stream and Landowner Outreach (VA, WV) restoration and at-risk species conservation Strategies for Red Snapper (AL, FL, LA, TX) Improve fish passage and resilience of Nitrogen Reduction Strategy for the large connectivity and cold-water habitat Conduct spatial analysis of six throughout the historic range of the longleaf Assess the recreational management remnant Colorado River cutthroat trout river systems that drain into Long Island restoration projects using available data on subwatersheds of the Potomac River pine. Project will assist landowners with strategies of red snapper by using simulation populations in historic habitat. Project Sound. road-stream crossings. Project will use the to identify priority areas to implement the establishment and enhancement of at and assessment modeling, stakeholder will replace an undersized, perched road $39,361 new Forests for Fish program to recruit six conservation and restoration activities. least 2,000 acres of longleaf pine, develop surveys and stakeholder workshops. Project culvert with a timber bridge to complete municipalities and 75 landowners to increase Project will design and develop a four- regulatory predictability tools for at-risk will provide a framework for angling groups to a series of barrier removals that will Connecticut River Watershed Council acres under easement by 200 acres and page brochure that details the process of species endemic to the longleaf ecosystem, explore management options to understand reconnect more than 10 miles of habitat. Restoring Riparian and Instream Habitat for develop restoration plans based on culvert conservation easements used for outreach and explore market-based solutions to the impacts on available catch and anglers’ $20,000 Trout in the Connecticut River Watershed replacement prioritization. and engagement with landowners in the address the economic constraints to large- access to the red snapper fishery. (MA, NH, VT) $66,433 target watersheds. scale longleaf restoration on private lands. $275,121 Western Association Provide targeted outreach and technical $47,035 $145,000 of Fish and Wildlife Agencies assistance to landowners to implement World Wildlife Fund Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the riparian, instream habitat and water VIRGINIA Chesapeake Environmental Communications GKY & Associates Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Western United States (multiple states) quality projects in priority eastern brook Watershed Assessment and Community Increase Stormwater Management the Plowprint Analytical Tool Develop a regional strategy and supporting trout sub-watersheds of the Middle and Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Engagement in Urbanna Creek Watershed (VA) on Private Properties (VA) (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) plans to increase organizational capacity Upper Connecticut River. Project will Developing a Chesapeake Tree Canopy Assess the drainage of the Urbanna Creek Identify potential stormwater retrofit Update and expand geospatial data analysis, and coordination among monarch butterfly plant riparian buffers on 6 acres to reduce Funding and Financing Guide (DC, MD, VA) Watershed, identify potential areas for opportunities on privately owned called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape conservation partners west of the Rocky stream temperatures and increase wildlife Develop a Chesapeake Urban Tree Canopy stormwater solutions and present a suite of properties, concentrating on nonprofit- change metrics for the Northern Great Plains Mountains. Project will develop and track habitat as well as create 3 miles of restored (UTC) Funding and Financing document options for stormwater solutions. Project owned properties, and define potential ecoregion. Project analysis will expand the implementation efforts identified in the habitat. and hold a one-day workshop and provide will engage the community by hosting two actions for the city of Falls Church to previous versions by including northern Western Monarch Population Conservation $199,672 one-on-one support for Metro Washington town hall-style meetings with local citizens, incorporate into future planning documents. Mexico, extending the analysis to capture Strategy, establish the Western Monarch Council of Governments members. Project business owners and students. Project will develop public outreach tools historical change and using the newest and and Pollinator Initiative Council, and will serve as a general guidance for all $45,754 while also identifying potential incentive to best available data to track rates of agricultural transition milkweed data into the Crucial Chesapeake communities on the funding and those private property owners considering conversion and target conservation work. Habitat Assessment Tool. sustainable financing of the UTC programs. participation. $20,000 $120,000 $49,188 $32,346

62 63 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Timmons Group University of Maryland College of William and Mary, Virginia Forterra NW Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Research Institute Identifying Green Infrastructure Projects Center for Environmental Science Institute of Marine Science Green-Duwamish River Association Improving Forest Health on Private Lands to in Petersburg (VA) Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators Dungeness Crab Trap Biodegradable Hinge Cooperative Riparian Improvement (WA) Whatcom County Stream Stewards Program; Benefit Golden-Winged Warblers (MD, PA, VA) Identify at least four specific sustainable into the Chesapeake Bay Report Card Escape Mechanism (AK, WA) Restore more than 1 acre of native plant Engaging Community in Restoration, Education Continue the efforts on private land to and feasible green infrastructure projects (multiple states) Reduce ecological and economic impacts communities along the Green-Duwamish and Stewardship (WA) meet the goals of the Natural Resource in the city of Petersburg, Virginia, to Make key improvements to the Chesapeake associated with lost gear in coastal River in King County, Washington. Project Restore 15 acres of riparian habitat to Conservation Service’s Working Lands for minimize pollutant-laden stormwater runoff Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 Washington and Alaska. Project will will engage 90 community members, plant improve water quality and habitat for Wildlife program and increase populations and address localized flooding. Project as the definitive source for ecosystem health incorporate an innovative bio-hinge 600 native trees and support 13 additional Chinook salmon, bull trout and steelhead of golden-winged warblers and associated will identify project extents, alignment, status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project mechanism into Dungeness crab traps, acres protected from future habitat salmon in Puget Sound and Whatcom forest bird species in Pennsylvania, Maryland constraints, quantifiable benefits (pollutant will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card testing an effective, inexpensive mechanism degradation in areas critical to salmon County, Washington. Project will engage six and Virginia. Project will engage at 2,000 reduction and/or hydraulic level of process and product by incorporating recent to disarm derelict traps. migration and recovery in Puget Sound. local resource management partners and private landowners and enroll at least service) and construction cost estimates, lessons learned, incorporating new design $140,568 $49,977 2,500 volunteers to plant 5,000 trees and 3,000 acres in Working Lands for Wildlife providing a list of defined and prioritized elements, developing indicators for non-tidal remove 6 acres of invasive vegetation. by utilizing conservation planners and field projects ready to proceed with funding and watershed areas. Confederated Tribes Foster Creek Conservation District $29,835 foresters to implement best practices in implementation. $113,995 of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Establishment of a Douglas County strategic locations. $49,969 Flow Restoration in the Walla Walla, Umatilla Cooperative Weed Management Area (WA) Northwest Fisheries Science Center $1,169,163 Water Words That Work and Upper Grande Ronde (OR, WA) Establish a cooperative weed management Evaluating Exposure of Southern Resident Virginia Polytechnic Institute Closing the Deal With Rural Landowners: Work with The Freshwater Trust, Trout area in Douglas County, Washington, to Killer Whales to Microbial Pathogens (WA) James River Association and State University Training Chesapeake Bay Watershed Unlimited, and Washington Water Trust to collaboratively address invasive weed issues Assess Southern Resident killer whale Building Adaptive Shorelines Hellbender Nest Boxes as an Innovative Conservation Practitioners support and develop innovative voluntary that degrade shrub steppe, wetland and vulnerability to infection using molecular in Tidewater, Virginia Restoration Strategy and Tool for Engaging (DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) water transactions for instream flow riparian habitat. Project will bring together screening of microbial pathogens. Project Develop a pilot living shoreline program Landowners (VA) Help conservation practitioners successfully restoration to support salmonids. a diverse group of stakeholders, including will inform stormwater management of in the Tidewater region of Virginia’s Restore critical shelter, nesting habitat recruit and negotiate landowners’ $126,760 private landowners, local, state and federal microbial pathogens in terrestrial runoff and James River watershed resulting in visible and population connectivity in Copper participation in the Conservation Reserve government, and nongovernmental sewage effluent that are showing up in killer demonstration projects and readily available Creek, Virginia, to enhance the long-term Enhancement Program, conservation Conservation Northwest organizations to create and begin to whales to help prioritize mitigation. training and technical resources. Project will population resilience of hellbenders. easements, agricultural best practices, Habitat Connectivity for Mule Deer, Lynx and implement the plan. $135,120 UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES hold three workshops, perform targeted Project will remove a fish passage barrier manure and forest management plans and Other Wildlife in the Okanagon Valley (WA) $100,000 outreach and engage 100 volunteers to create 247 acres of habitat and integrate habitat restoration projects to improve Coordinate partners seeking to secure and NMFS: Northwest Fisheries Science Center while implementing shoreline stabilization hellbender nest boxes as well as engaging water quality in the Chesapeake Bay improve landscape connectivity for mule Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Ecology Use Passive Acoustics to Monitor Southern techniques such as installing sills and oyster landowners to promote interest in further watershed. Project will bring the expertise deer, Canada lynx and other wildlife in the of the Salish Sea Resident Killer Whale Distribution and Habitat shell bags and planting marsh grasses. riparian conservation activities. of the region’s most successful conservation Okanagon Valley of Washington. Specific Winter Prey Use and Growth of Blackmouth Use (WA) $400,113 $64,999 field staff into a course designed for entry- activities include road closure and restoration Chinook Salmon in the San Juan Islands (WA) Determine distribution and habitat use level and mid-career field staff. on tribal lands, preparation of a site for Collect data from hatchery-marked of Southern Resident killer whales along Manomet Virginia Polytechnic Institute $24,978 installation of a wildlife highway underpass, resident Blackmouth Chinook salmon to coastal Washington. Project will conduct Coastal Habitat Restoration for American and State University and conservation program delivery through study annual variations in prey availability passive acoustical monitoring of whale Oystercatcher along Atlantic Coast Improving Eastern Hellbender Habitat on the local conservation district. and survival in the Salish Sea. Project will populations and evaluate distribution (multiple states) Private Lands (NC, TN, VA) WASHINGTON $235,000 engage recreational anglers to improve changes over time and in relation to prey Coordinate the planning and Promote eastern hellbender habitat understanding of this salmon population, availability. implementation of conservation action for restoration and conservation on private Cascade Forest Conservancy Farallon Institute which has experienced significant decline $132,248 American oystercatcher along the entire lands in North Carolina, Tennessee and Gifford Pinchot Aquatic Resilience (WA) Integrating Seabird Data into Fisheries and which historically may have been an U.S. Atlantic seaboard. Project will continue Virginia by building relationships with Improve the health and long-term resilience Management in Alaska (AK, WA) important component of the Southern Northwest Straits the coastwide coordination of the American landowners and communities in the target of aquatic and riparian systems along 8.5 Evaluate the use of seabird food habits Resident killer whale diet. Marine Conservation Foundation oystercatcher recovery initiative and watersheds identified. Project will improve miles of stream and 89 acres of wetland data in Alaska fisheries management, $35,700 Chinook Salmon Habitat Protection and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED compile lessons learned after a decade’s riparian area condition and overall water habitat in the southern Washington specifically in fisheries stock assessments Restoration in the Northwest Straits of Puget worth of targeted investments and embark quality within the project waterways Cascades. Project will reintroduce beavers, and models. Project will focus on seabird Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Sound (WA) upon a new initiative to develop best through conservation actions focused on install native riparian plants, including 8,500 data from various seabird monitoring Prioritize Fish Passage Barriers in the Cle Elum Increase prey availability of Chinook salmon management practices to restore wet and reducing nonpoint source pollution and native trees planted by 200 volunteers, and programs that provide information on the Ranger District for Salmonid Recovery (WA) for Southern Resident killer whales in the dry sand habitats for oystercatchers and sedimentation. develop a partnership for instream wood relative abundance and size and condition of Support native fish recovery by assessing Northwest Straits of the Puget Sound. other breeding shorebirds along the Atlantic $647,995 placement for fish habitat. juvenile commercial fishes. and prioritizing fish passage barriers in Project will restore and protect nearshore Coast. $26,601 $99,999 priority watersheds on the Cle Elum Ranger habitat for juvenile Chinook salmon and $150,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture, District. Project will identify problem fish implement priority actions of the Puget U.S. Forest Service Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit Fieldwork Communications passage features and will inform restoration Sound Partnership Action Agenda. North Carolina State University Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Sea Turtle Stranding Response Enhancing the Online Resource Network efforts. $138,030 Prescribed Fire Initiative within the and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species along the West Coast of the United States for the Electronic Monitoring and Reporting $31,791 Southeastern United States (multiple states) (multiple states) (CA, OR, WA and Canada) Community Oceans Initiative Expand and accelerate the implementation Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Build capacity for the West Coast Marine Provide greater access to information National Audubon Society Assessing the Impacts of Noise Exposure of prescribed fire to restore and Atlas database, website, digital tools and Mammal Stranding Network to respond to about electronic monitoring, electronic Advancing the SageWest Communications on Southern Resident Killer Whale Foraging enhance longleaf pine habitat and other sample repository to a national scale. five species of threatened and endangered reporting and fish tech programs across the Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem Efficiency (WA) fire-dependent forest and grassland Project will expand the current coverage sea turtles: Western Pacific leatherback United States through an expanding online (multiple states) Quantify the relationship between noise communities within the southeast. Project of the database of information important turtle, Eastern Pacific green turtle, North network. Project will advance conservation Elevate individual conservation efforts and exposure and foraging efficiency of Southern will engage 1,000 landowners and fire to the conservation and management of Pacific loggerhead, Pacific olive ridley efforts by promoting the adoption of data create a larger dialogue about the value and Resident killer whales to improve the quality practitioners through technical assistance, aquatic species to include waterways in and Eastern Pacific hawksbill. Project will management initiatives and modernization need for sagebrush conservation. Project of hunting habitat. Project will combine two training and outreach, including “Learn the 37 remaining states to inform strategic increase response efforts for live and dead of fishery management practices in the will engage in priority work groups, develop existing datasets to explore how mitigating and Burn” workshops, development of conservation investments for suppressing stranded sea turtles through assessment United States. guidance documents, and organize partner noise could the increase frequency and prescribed burn associations and fire invasives and increasing native populations. of existing capacity, standardization of data $40,005 meetings across the ecosystem. efficiency of killer whale foraging behavior festivals, to increase the use of prescribed $73,018 and protocols, distribution of supplies and $34,200 and the possible impacts of sound to the fire. network-wide training sessions. size of prey available to the population. $130,000 $50,000 $124,555

64 65 Okanogan Conservation District Trout Unlimited Washington Department of Ecology Washington Water Trust Chesapeake Environmental U.S. Department of Agriculture, Upper Columbia Steelhead Beaver Relocation in North Central Support for Development and Monitoring for Water Acquisition for Stream Flow Restoration Communications U.S. Forest Service Habitat Restoration in Johnson Creek (WA) Washington to Naturally Restore Washington State Water Right Acquisitions to Benefit Fish in the Okanogan Basin (WA) Subwatershed Analysis and Landowner Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas Design an implementation plan for restoring Salmonid Habitat Assist in the selection, assessment, Identify, develop and implement strategic Outreach for Potomac Land Conservation and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species spawning and rearing habitat for threatened Relocate 30 beavers and install 40 beaver coordination and management of water water transactions focused on salmon and Restoration (VA, WV) (multiple states) Upper Columbia steelhead in Johnson Creek, dam analogs in the Wenatchee River and right acquisitions in Washington State and and habitat recovery in the Okanogan Conduct spatial analysis of six Expand the aquatic environmental DNA a priority tributary to the Okanogan River. Entiat River basins to restore degraded manage monitoring of flow restoration Basin of Washington state. Project will subwatersheds of the Potomac River Atlas database, website, digital tools, and Project will assess current function and ecosystems for the benefit of Chinook transactions. Project will benefit flow work with the Confederated Tribes of to identify priority areas to implement sample repository to a national scale. develop a plan to restore floodplain and salmon, steelhead, bull trout, cutthroat restoration, fish and instream habitats. the Colville Reservation, landowners, conservation and restoration activities, Project will expand the current coverage channel habitat structure on a former hay trout, rainbow trout and other native $69,442 irrigation districts, conservation districts, providing a summary and interactive of the database of information important field. salmonids. Project will capture nuisance municipalities, counties and community mapping application that detail the analyses. to the conservation and management of $32,500 beaver from irrigation ditches, agricultural Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife groups to facilitate water management Project will design and develop a four- aquatic species to include waterways in lands and utility infrastructure, and release Electronic Harvest Reporting System (WA) solutions and stream and habitat page brochure that details the process of the 37 remaining states to inform strategic Pheasants Forever them to suitable locations on Forest Service Deploy an electronic reporting and restoration to directly leverage optimal conservation easements used for outreach conservation investments for suppressing Expanding Conservation of Working Lands lands as well as install beaver dam analogs monitoring software system for nontribal conditions for stream flows and fish. and engagement with landowners in the invasives and increasing native populations. in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) on public and private lands. commercial fishers and tribal fishers in $84,493 target watersheds. $73,018 Maintain and expand technical assistance $58,205 Puget Sound and Washington coastal $47,035 capacity in key greater sage grouse focal waters. Project will build on pilot projects Western Association University of Maryland Center for areas to strengthen working ranch lands Trout Unlimited to develop a complete mobile and web of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Chesapeake Media Service Environmental Science management to improve greater sage Columbia Cascade Water Transaction catch-reporting solution to serve up to Monarch Butterfly Conservation in the Increased Outreach to Local Governments Incorporating Novel Watershed Indicators grouse populations. Project will improve Development and Implementation (WA) 4,500 commercial and tribal fishers. Western United States (multiple states) in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed into the Chesapeake Bay Report Card grazing practices on 250,000 acres to Identify, prioritize and develop water $304,296 Develop a regional strategy and supporting through the Bay Journal (multiple states) (multiple states) benefit greater sage grouse through transactions with willing landowners in the plans to increase organizational capacity Create a new local government edition of Make key improvements to the Chesapeake technical assistance provided by 14 Strategic Methow, Entiat, Yakima and Wenatchee Washington Water Trust and coordination among monarch butterfly the Bay Journal to provide education for Bay Report Card, which has served since 2006 Watershed Action Teams members. sub-basins of Washington, with a focus Stream Flow Restoration for Steelhead and conservation partners west of the Rocky municipal staff in the vast majority of the as the definitive source for ecosystem health $1,688,795 on completing significant instream flow Other Fish Species in Walla Walla Basin (WA) Mountains. Project will develop and track 1,800 local government jurisdictions within status in the Bay and tidal tributaries. Project UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES enhancements to priority streams and Identify, develop and implement implementation efforts identified in the the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Project will improve the Chesapeake Bay Report Card Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group tributaries. Project will improve tributary strategic water transactions focused Western Monarch Population Conservation will provide information that will help them process and product by incorporating recent Restore Chinook Salmon Rearing Habitat instream habitat to benefit listed salmon on salmon and habitat recovery in the Strategy, establish the Western Monarch understand and achieve their commitments lessons learned, incorporating new design in the Skagit Forks Britt Slough (WA) and other fish species. Walla Walla, Touchet and Tucannon and Pollinator Initiative Council, and to Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts. elements, developing indicators for nontidal Reconnect 7.9 acres in the Skagit River $246,519 Basins of Washington State. Project will transition milkweed data into the Crucial $20,001 watershed areas. floodplain to restore high quality Chinook work with the Confederated Tribes of Habitat Assessment Tool. $113,995 salmon rearing habitat. Project will restore Trout Unlimited the Umatilla Reservation, landowners, $120,000 Downstream Strategies the outlet of Britt Slough to its historic path Okanogan Basin Water Transactions irrigation districts, conservation districts, Martinsburg Green Infrastructure Plan and Water Words That Work by clearing invasive weeds and replanting Development in Partnership municipalities and community groups to Whatcom Land Trust Demonstration Sites (WV) Closing the Deal With Rural Landowners: native vegetation. with the Colville Tribe (WA) facilitate water management solutions, Harrison Reserve: Kendall Community Outdoor Develop a Green Infrastructure Chesapeake Bay Watershed Conservation $97,058 Identify, prioritize and develop water stream and habitat restoration to directly Education Program (WA) Implementation Plan for Martinsburg, Practitioners (DE, MD, PA, VA, WV) transactions in the Methow and Okanogan leverage optimal conditions for stream Provide a safe, hands-on, equitable West Virginia, to guide implementation of Help conservation practitioners successfully Spokane Tribe sub-basins of Washington working in flows and fish in targeted watersheds. outdoor learning environment in rural new stormwater management practices recruit and negotiate landowners’ Building Fire Resistance collaboration with the Colville Tribe. Funding $68,834 Whatcom County, Washington and in an area with limited or no stormwater participation in the Conservation Reserve and Healthy Wildlife Habitat (WA) will increase habitat and instream flow in complete wetland/riparian restoration infrastructure. Project will create detailed Enhancement Program, conservation Improve fire resilience by thinning priority tributaries. Washington Water Trust and site improvements, including the designs and cost estimates for the highest- easements, agricultural best practices, overstocked trees on the Spokane $60,874 Stream Flow Restoration to benefit Salmon installation of an accessible boardwalk. priority sites to support the city’s efforts manure and forest management plans and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Reservation for a healthier, fire resistant and Trout in the Columbia Basin (WA) Project will restore a portion of Kendall to meet West Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay habitat restoration projects to improve water habitat as well as create and promote Trout Unlimited Identify, develop and implement strategic Creek, a salmon-inhabited stream and pollution reduction goals and build public quality in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. growth of fire-resistant aspen stands and Umatilla and Walla Walla Basin Water water transactions focused on salmon used by various bird species. awareness and understanding of green Project will bring the expertise of the region’s other native vegetation while creating Transactions Development (OR, WA) and habitat recovery in the Wenatchee, $30,000 infrastructure opportunities. most successful conservation field staff into browse and essential cover for deer, elk, Implement water transactions, primarily Methow, Walla Walla, Yakima and White $49,965 a course designed for entry-level and mid- moose and numerous bird species. Project in the Umatilla Basin. Project will include Salmon Basins of Washington State. Project career field staff. will reduce fuel loads and enhance wildlife working closely with the Confederated will work collaboratively with landowners, WEST VIRGINIA National Wild Turkey Federation $24,978 habitat on approximately 550 acres of land. Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation to irrigation districts, tribes, conservation Improving Outreach and Communications $225,000 prioritize reaches for project implementation districts, municipalities, counties and American Bird Conservancy to Private and Public Landowners in the Wildlife Management Institute to ensure best benefits for instream flow, community groups to facilitate water Optimizing Conservation Benefits to Black Greenbrier Watershed (WV) Developing a Landowner Outreach and SR3 SeaLife Response, as well as analyzing data and pre- and post- management solutions, stream and habitat Ducks and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Create a communications and outreach Communications Strategy in the Greenbrier Rehabilitation and Research monitoring. restoration for stream flows and fish in Bay Watershed (multiple states) strategy to engage landowners in Watershed (OH, PA, WV) Health Monitoring of Southern Resident Killer $56,924 targeted watersheds. Develop guidance to target wetland habitat the Greenbrier watershed of eastern Develop a detailed outreach strategy that Whales Using Aerial Photogrammetry (WA) $555,914 restoration and enhancement across the West Virginia in creating diverse forest targets landowners in the Greenbrier Use aerial photogrammetry to monitor the University of Washington entire Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project habitat that supports species of greatest watershed of eastern West Virginia to create health and nutritional status of individual Conservation Internships and Fellowship (WA) will be using the output of two separate conservation need. Project will partner with a mixed mosaic of forest habitat that supports Southern Resident killer whales across key Support training of a diverse group of models to target conservation actions that the Wildlife Management Institute and a species of greatest conservation need. Project habitats and foraging seasons. Project will undergraduate and early career conservation would benefit water quality and black ducks, consultant to develop effective language will encourage landowners to improve forest help prioritize prey species management scholars. Project will support 36 Conservation in partnership with the U.S. Geological that encourages landowners to improve management practices in this key watershed and restoration efforts to meet nutritional Scholars in summer internships held in Survey and the Atlantic Coast and Black forest management practices in this key identified by both the American Forest requirements and bolster recovery. Washington State in 2018 and 2019, while the Duck joint ventures. watershed identified by both the American Foundation and the Appalachian Mountain $139,997 second branch will support the development $25,634 Forest Foundation and the Appalachian Joint Venture. and launch of a pilot, year-long fellowship for Mountain Joint Venture. $99,941 alumni of the Conservation Scholars program $100,000 to work with federal agencies. $170,000

66 67 WISCONSIN Ozaukee County, Wisconsin US Fish and Wildlife Service Little Snake River Conservation District The Nature Conservancy North Carolina State University Enhancing the Milwaukee River Mequon- Wisconsin Driftless Area Southwestern Wyoming Sagebrush Habitat Upper Green River Basin Prescribed Fire Initiative within the Audubon International Thiensville Dam Fishway for Lake Sturgeon Monarch Butterfly Initiative Restoration Collaborative Migration Corridor Fencing Initiative (WY) Southeastern United States (multiple states) Monarchs in the Rough: Pollinator Habitat on Passage (WI) Conduct field surveys for pollinators and Conserve sagebrush habitat across a Partner with private ranch owners and Expand and accelerate the implementation Golf Courses (multiple states) Enhance the operation and function of the restore and enhance 750 acres of habitat 20-million-acre landscape in the Upper a local conservation district to modify, of prescribed fire to restore and Establish pollinator habitat at 500 golf courses nature-like fishway which provides aquatic in Wisconsin’s Driftless Area to support Green River watershed through the replace or remove up to 20 miles of enhance longleaf pine habitat and other in a 10-state area to support pollinators such organism passage around the Mequon monarch butterflies, rusty patched bumble Southwestern Wyoming Sagebrush problematic fences in the Hoback to Red fire-dependent forest and grassland as the monarch butterfly. Project will provide – Thiensville Dam on the Milwaukee bees and other pollinators. Project will Habitat Restoration Collaborative. Project Desert mule deer migration corridor. Project communities within the southeast. Project technical assistance and native, regionally River. Project will build upon existing lake provide baseline data about pollinators, will maintain, restore and enhance will collect wildlife collar data and local will engage 1,000 landowners and fire appropriate seed while raising awareness sturgeon reintroduction efforts by improving improve pollinator habitat on public and sagebrush habitat with particular partner knowledge to identify the highest practitioners through technical assistance, about pollinators through educational passability for lake sturgeon and other private lands, and enhance technical emphasis on intertwined mesic habitat priority segments to increase landscape training and outreach, including “Learn signage and demonstrating how to manage larger fish as well as increasing overall support for landowners. to benefit sagebrush and wet meadow permeability for wildlife and reduce and Burn” workshops, development of commercial properties sustainably. performance of the fishway. $149,999 dependent species; design and implement ungulate mortality. prescribed burn associations and fire $150,000 $200,000 conservation strategies for working wet $125,000 festivals, to increase the use of prescribed U.S. Department of Agriculture, meadows; and highlight the value of cross- fire. Ducks Unlimited Pollinator Partnership U.S. Forest Service jurisdictional capacity and coordination. World Wildlife Fund $130,000 Enhancing Wetland Habitat (WI) Project Wingspan: Enhancing Landscapes Expanding the National Aquatic eDNAtlas $150,000 Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Enhance a 234-acre impoundment and for At-risk Pollinators (multiple states) and Data Exchange for Freshwater Species of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Para la Naturaleza restore 25 acres of adjacent wetland habitat Develop a regional seed collection and native (multiple states) National Audubon Society (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) Assess and mitigate threats to Coral Reefs while creating a northern pike spawning plant materials development program in Expand the aquatic environmental DNA Advancing the SageWest Communications Update and expand geospatial data analysis, from the Quebrada Ceiba Watershed (PR) marsh. Project will improve critical wetland the Midwest to support monarch butterflies Atlas database, website, digital tools and Network across the Sagebrush Ecosystem called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape Implement a volunteer-based water habitat through water control management and rusty patched bumble bees. Project will sample repository to a national scale. (multiple states) change metrics for the Northern Great quality and coral reef health monitoring to benefit blue-winged teal, black tern and improve 10,000 acres of pollinator habitat, Project will expand the current coverage Elevate individual conservation efforts and Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand assessment and reforestation initiative priority fisheries in the Green Bay area. collect 25 pounds of milkweed seed, and of the database of information important create a larger dialogue about the value the previous versions by including northern in the municipality of Ceiba. Project $210,839 propagate 10,000 seedlings. to the conservation and management of and need for sagebrush conservation. Mexico, extending the analysis backward will achieve measurable ecological $149,000 aquatic species to include waterways in Project will engage in priority work groups, in time to capture historical change and and educational outcomes and inform UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Friends of Schlitz Audubon Nature Center the 37 remaining states to inform strategic develop guidance documents, and organize using the newest and best available data implementation of better management Creating Stormwater Wetlands and Improving Riveredge Nature Center conservation investments for suppressing partner meetings across the ecosystem. to track rates of agricultural conversion, practices for coral reefs in Puerto Rico. Flood Resilience (WI) Reintroduction of Lake Sturgeon in the invasives and increasing native populations. $34,200 monitor previously converted lands, identify $77,884 Create new and improve existing wetlands Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan Basin (WI) $73,018 risk factors for remaining intact habitat and to add 463,383 gallons of annual stormwater Reintroduce lake sturgeon breeding Pheasants Forever target conservation work. Protectores de Cuencas storage capacity and restore forested population to the Milwaukee River and U.S. Geological Survey Expanding Conservation of Working Lands $20,000 Evaluation of Best Management Practices for ravine habitat to improve flood resilience the Lake Michigan Basin. Project will repair National Wildlife Health Center in the Sagebrush Ecosystem (multiple states) Erosion Control in Guánica Bay Watershed (PR) and reduce sediment runoff. Project will hatchery infrastructure to continue annual Developing and Testing Delivery Methods Maintain and expand technical assistance Wyoming Game and Fish Department Implement 10-15 high priority restoration combine green stormwater infrastructure stocking of 1,000 fingerlings and engage for Vaccine Treatments to Reduce White-Nose capacity in key greater sage grouse Rangeland Improvements projects within the Guánica Bay best practices and habitat restoration to technical experts to conduct a preliminary Syndrome in Bats (CO, MN, TX, WI) focal areas to strengthen working ranch on the Spring Creek Watershed (WY) subwatershed, building upon efforts improve the resilience, function and quality spawning habitat assessment. Design and test mass-delivery methods lands management to improve greater Assist the Spring Creek Grazing Association to address recommended actions of of these habitats for species of concern, $76,000 for vaccines and other treatment options sage grouse populations. Project will with planning for range improvement the Guánica Bay/Río Loco Watershed including Blanding’s turtle and rusty patched as a strategy to reduce the occurrence improve grazing practices on 250,000 structures and practices for a variety of Management Plan. Project will evaluate bumble bee. Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers of white-nose syndrome in bats. Project acres to benefit greater sage grouse sagebrush/prairie dependent wildlife erosion control measure effectiveness, $116,632 Kinnickinnic River Trail Habitat Restoration (WI) will develop and test an automatic through technical assistance provided species. Project will improve wildlife develop user-friendly erosion assessment Restore 7 acres of riparian area, creating spray technology device for delivering by 14 Strategic Watershed Action Teams habitat and connectivity in the Spring Creek and best practices design tools and train Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District habitat for migrating and resident bird treatments to bats as they fly into members. portion of the Thunder Basin National interested groups in how to execute

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Implementation of the Milwaukee River species and pollinators, increasing native maternity roosts or hibernacula for fall $1,688,795 Grassland, including water development, erosion mitigation plans based on proven Watershed Project (WI) tree canopy and ecosystem resilience, swarm and assess oral consumption of fence conversion, cross fencing, cheatgrass cost-effective techniques. Implement adaptive approaches to reducing runoff into the river and ensuring treatment and effectiveness of a topical Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory spraying and rangeland aeration. $148,990 managing soil health, water quality and a safe space for people to enjoy nature in delivery method through the use of Effectiveness Monitoring for Declining $150,000 achievement of total maximum daily Milwaukee. Project will engage 515 local biomarkers. Grassland Bird Species within the Northern The Nature Conservancy loads for permit holders and agricultural volunteers and youth in experiential learning $400,000 Great Plains (MT, ND, SD, WY) Improve and Expand the Puerto Rico producers in the Milwaukee River with planting days and activities integrated Collect data on bird abundance and U.S. TERRITORIES Commercial Fishery Electronic watershed. Project will facilitate two into school lessons and planned river occupancy of priority grassland bird Reporting System producer-led watershed protection councils cleanups drawing on neighborhood and WYOMING species to evaluate and quantify PUERTO RICO Develop, improve and expand the and promote, plan and design conservation school connections to the area. impacts of conservation investments. adaptive electronic reporting system for practices to address soil and water quality. $49,518 Legacy Philanthropy Works Project will focus on three strategies Enterprise Community Partners up to 100 vessels in Puerto Rico fisheries. $120,000 Developing Incidental for conservation projects: conservation Enterprise Resilience Learning Collaborative Project will result in a fully functional Trout Unlimited Groundwater Recharge Markets (ID, WY) easements, grassland restoration and (PR, VI) electronic reporting system in Puerto Rico’s Milwaukee Public Schools Driftless Partnership: Engaging Landowners in Implement a pilot market for incidental grazing management projects within the Create and lead the CARES Learning commercial fisheries, which will improve Creating Greener, Healthier Schoolyards (WI) Water Quality and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill groundwater recharge in the Teton Basin NFWF Northern Great Plains region with Collaborative of Community Development catch accountability, monitor annual Renovate four Milwaukee schoolyards Programs (IL, IA, MN, WI) to improve wetland health, base flows and comparisons providing an assessment of Corporations from Puerto Rico and the catch limits, promote productive and by creating unique outdoor play spaces Engage agricultural producers in developing streamflows in the Teton River. Project will which programs are benefiting priority U.S. Virgin Islands. Project will deepen up sustainable fisheries, and improve Puerto designed to provide up to 4.7 million conservation practices and science-based result in an additional 5,000-10,000 acre grassland bird species and help guide to eight local organizations’ understanding Rico’s fisheries statistics collection and gallons of stormwater storage annually. tools that restore cold-water streams and feet of water in the Teton Basin aquifer, future investments. of resilience through developing business management. Project will install green stormwater promote grass-based grazing systems. Project annually. $235,155 continuity, engage 5,000 residents in $98,054 infrastructure best practices to create green will restore 20 miles of stream, reduce/ $149,514 readiness planning for local communities recreational facilities that provide improved eliminate bank erosion, reconnect streams and rebuild with resilience in mind to reduce environmental, social and economic health to their floodplains and install a suite of the impact of future disasters and events. benefits to students and communities. critical habitat practices for fish, shorebirds, $250,000 $440,000 amphibians, reptiles and other aquatic biota. $149,247

68 69 The Peregrine Fund U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk Emergency Response to 2017-Hurricanes Irma and Maria Enterprise Community Partners Provides immediate emergency actions Enterprise Resilience Learning Collaborative to save the endemic Puerto Rican sharp- (PR, VI) shinned hawk from extinction following the Create and lead the CARES Learning devastating impact of hurricanes Irma and Collaborative of Community Development Maria on their habitat in Puerto Rico. Project Corporations from Puerto Rico and the will establish the Phase-1 basis of a recovery U.S. Virgin Islands. Project will deepen up project that is likely to span five phases over to eight local organizations’ understanding a period of 20 years of resilience through developing business $25,000 continuity, engage 5,000 residents in readiness planning for local communities The Ocean Foundation and rebuild with resilience in mind to reduce Derelict Fishing Trap Removal and Effective the impact of future disasters and events. Management Planning in Puerto Rico $250,000 Conduct a comprehensive removal effort of abandoned fishing traps in Puerto Rico and North Carolina State University document the scale of unauthorized trap Prescribed Fire Initiative within the fishing in the territory. Project will couple Southeastern United States (multiple states) a large-scale derelict gear-removal effort Expand and accelerate the implementation with an assessment of illegal trap fishing of prescribed fire to restore and in collaboration with local and federal enhance longleaf pine habitat and other agencies and the fishing sector to improve fire-dependent forest and grassland compliance with trap fishing regulations and communities within the Southeast. Project help transition to legal gear. will engage 1,000 landowners and fire UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES $221,861 practitioners through technical assistance, training and outreach, including “Learn The Ocean Foundation and Burn” workshops, development of Expanding the Electronic Fisheries Reporting prescribed burn associations and Fire Platform to U.S. Virgin Islands Commercial Festivals, to increase the use of prescribed Fisheries (PR, VI) fire. Expand the electronic fisheries reporting $130,000 platform established in Puerto Rico to the U.S. Virgin Islands to improve fisheries The Ocean Foundation data. Project will apply mobile technology Expanding the Electronic Fisheries Reporting to collect fisheries data and combine data Platform to U.S. Virgin Islands Commercial capture and visualization capabilities which Fisheries (PR, VI) will support improved fisheries management Expand the electronic fisheries reporting $159,753 platform established in Puerto Rico to the U.S. Virgin Islands to improve fisheries U.S. Department of the Interior, data. Project will apply mobile technology U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to collect fisheries data and combine data

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Rescuing the Endangered Puerto Rican Parrot capture and visualization capabilities which Provide emergency funding to identify, ship will support improved fisheries management and store adequate food and other medical/ $159,753 care supplies for endangered Puerto Rican parrots following Hurricane Maria. Project University of Maryland Center for also will support temporary improvements Environmental Science to the facilities to ensure the overall care/ Coral Reef Ecosystem Status and Trends Report health of the population and provide Cards and System-Wide Synthesis (FL, PR, VI) additional resources. Develop a status and trends assessment $100,000 framework and report card process to synthesize biological, physical, and socio- University of Maryland Center economic data from Puerto Rico, the U.S. for Environmental Science Virgin Islands, and the Florida Flower Garden Coral Reef Ecosystem Status and Trends Report Banks. Project will expand on previous Cards and System-Wide Synthesis (FL, PR, VI) investments to support a National Coral Develop a status and trends assessment Reef Monitoring Plan through the National framework and report card process to Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s synthesize biological, physical and socio- Coral Reef Conservation Program. economic data from Puerto Rico, the U.S. $107,964 Virgin Islands and the Florida Flower Garden Banks. Project will expand on previous investments to support a National Coral Reef Monitoring Plan through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Conservation Program. $107,964

70 71 ASIA, INDIA AND THE PACIFIC CANADA University of California – Santa Cruz Developing Tools to Prevent Extinction and UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONAL Island Conservation Bat Conservation International Recover Threatened and Endangered Seabirds Seabird Restoration on Midway Atoll Testing Ultraviolet Light and Polyethylene (AK, CA, HI, Canada) Protect breeding albatross and other at-risk Glycol as a White-Nose Syndrome Utilize a new meta-population viability FISCAL YEAR 2018 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS seabirds on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Management Strategy (AL, AK, Canada) model approach in order to make Refuge through the eradication of the invasive Bat Conservation International will improved seabird conservation decisions. house mouse. Project will result in the evaluate the efficacy of using two nontoxic Project will identify the most at-risk absence of mice from the entire 452 hectares agents – ultraviolet light and polyethylene species and their breeding sites in order (1,117 acres) of Sand Island and end mouse glycol – to treat mine walls and reduce to improve the conservation status of predation that result in albatross mortality the prevalence of the fungus that causes seabirds and prevent the listing of seabird and nest abandonment, increasing both adult white-nose syndrome (WNS) on roosting species in the future. survivorship and reproductive success. surfaces in bat hibernacula. Project will $249,984 $1,000,000 test the two environmental cleaning agents in three mines along the northern World Wildlife Fund Island Conservation and southern edges of the WNS spread Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Understanding Behavior and Diets of Rats on to test the potential of environmental of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Tropical Islands in French Polynesia cleaning as a WNS management strategy. (multiple states, Canada, Mexico) Study two rat populations on Tetiaroa Atoll in $111,760 Update and expand geospatial data French Polynesia to determine how breeding analysis, called the Plowprint, to evaluate behavior and diet affect bait interaction Channel Islands Cetacean Research Unit landscape change metrics for the used in rodent eradication, a powerful Sea Turtle Stranding Response Northern Great Plains ecoregion. Project conservation tool employed globally. Project along the West Coast of the United States analysis will expand the previous versions will address knowledge gaps around invasive (CA, OR, WA and Canada) by including northern Mexico, extending rodent biology and diet on tropical islands Build capacity for the West Coast Marine the analysis backward in time to capture that will inform how best to treat the highest Mammal Stranding Network to respond to historical change and using the newest risk segments in order to protect seabirds. five species of threatened and endangered and best available data to track rates of UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONAL $60,260 sea turtles: Western Pacific leatherback agricultural conversion, monitor previously turtle, Eastern Pacific green turtle, North converted lands, identify risk factors Marine Environment Pacific loggerhead, Pacific olive ridley for remaining intact habitat and target and Resources Foundation and Eastern Pacific hawksbill. Project will conservation work. Implementing a Networked Approach increase response efforts for live and dead $20,000 to Protected Area and Ecosystem stranded sea turtles through assessment Management in the Philippines of existing capacity, standardization Explore best management practices of the of data and protocols, distribution of LATIN AMERICA Oriental Mindoro Marine Protected Area and supplies and network-wide training AND THE CARIBBEAN Fishery Network in the Philippines, a network sessions. of local government units undertaking coastal $50,000 Bahamas National Trust resource management. Project will provide Improving Capacity for Effective Management technical assistance and capacity building Hamilton-Wentworth Green Venture of Moriah Harbour Cay National Park for the network including governance and Reducing Flooding and Improving Water in the Bahamas planning, and monitoring and evaluation. Quality through Green Infrastructure Advance community awareness of Moriah $60,000 in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada) Harbour Cay National Park to increase Install a series of nine green stormwater support for approved management MPA Enforcement International infrastructure projects throughout systems. Project will engage community Increasing Enforcement Capacity for Coral Reef Hamilton’s Dundas neighborhood to members, install park signs and boundary Management in American Samoa increase stormwater storage by more markers, and establish a regional branch in Conduct a preliminary assessment of than 130,000 gallons annually. Project Exuma to support effective conservation enforcement capacity and implementation will remove pervious surface, install rain and management of the park. in American Samoa. Project will transfer gardens and engage the community to $30,206 the successful capacity-building model reduce significant flooding and the input and enforcement training techniques used of contaminants via stormwater runoff into BirdLife International in the Caribbean region to the Pacific. Spencer Creek and Hamilton Harbor. Reducing Bycatch of the Pink-footed $70,000 $122,201 Shearwater in Chile Reduce the bycatch of pink-footed PATH Foundation Philippines Nature Conservancy of Canada shearwaters in the Chilean artisanal purse Enhancing Community Management Capacity Improving Brook Trout Habitat and Water seine fishery that operates around the for Coral Reef Ecosystem Health Quality on Twelve Mile Creek (Canada) main breeding colony on Mocha Island. Increase local government and community Improve water quality, stream flow Project will construct 15 modified purse management capacity to conserve and temperature on Twelve Mile Creek seine nets for the fishery, monitor the biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems in six near Hamilton, Ontario, by removing effect of the improved net design on marine protected areas along the Verde impoundments from natural springs, seabird bycatch and increase awareness Island Passage in the Philippines. Project will restoring riparian habitat and reinforcing a of the mitigation measure throughout the enhance marine protected area planning, passage structure. Project will improve and fishery stakeholder community. reduce conflicts of use of ocean spaces, protect critical stream and riparian habitat $295,793 and provide economic incentives to reduce for brook trout on the headwaters of the last unsustainable fishing practices. remaining cold-water stream in the Niagara $59,717 Peninsula. $85,000

72 73 Centre for Resource Management and Parc National de la Guadeloupe Environmental Studies (CERMES), The Coral Reef and Human Dimensions Monitoring University of the West Indies in the Mesoamerican Reef Caribbean Coordination of a Global Monitoring Initiative Increase integration of coral and human for Coastal Management communities’ data in management of Facilitate the coordination and prioritized marine protected areas along the enhancement of six regional programs for Mesoamerican Reef. Project will implement coastal management. Project will facilitate bio-physical and socio-economic coral reef monitoring activities at established or monitoring training workshops in Belize new sites, and disseminate information and Honduras as well as perform site on global status, trends, and prospects for assessments in four prospective sites in six regional monitoring programs in the Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico. Caribbean, Central America, Brazil, South $59,367 Asia, Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. $54,000 Roatan Marine Park Reduce Threats to Coral Reefs Fauna & Flora International by Addressing Priority Capacity Needs Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch from Gillnets in Roatán Marine Park, Honduras and Blast Fishing in Priority Hawksbill Habitat Fill three priority capacity needs within the (Nicaragua) Special Marine Protection Zone Sandy Bay Characterize, map and evaluate the impact – West End through initiatives that address of artisanal fisheries in northern Nicaragua sustainable tourism, fisheries management on local hawksbill sea turtle populations. and financing. Project will reduce threats to Project will build a consensus among coral reefs within the Bay Islands National fishers and local and national authorities on Marine Park and inform management across feasible management measures to reduce Honduras. hawksbill mortality due to bycatch caused $47,734 by artisanal fisheries such as blast fishing and gill netting. The Ocean Foundation $78,897 Determine Vital Rates in Eastern Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtles (Mexico) New Jersey Audubon Society Expand a census of males in the Eastern Aerial Surveys for Shorebirds Wintering along Pacific leatherback sea turtle population Brazil’s North and Northeastern Coasts through genetic fingerprinting at four Conduct aerial surveys for shorebirds primary nesting beaches in Mexico to build wintering along Brazil’s north and a deeper understanding of genetic stock northeastern coasts, regions known to be structure. Project will provide information critically important wintering areas for red on likely sex ratios and parentage of the knot and semipalmated sandpipers that current leatherback population to help stage in Delaware Bay during migration. managers adapt conservation strategies to Project will collect data that will help help stabilize the declining trajectory of this evaluate efficacy of conservation actions population. implemented in the Delaware Bay directed $45,536

UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONAL AND STATES UNITED at the two species. $49,996 World Wildlife Fund Expanding the Spatial and Temporal Scale Oikonos – Ecosystem Knowledge of the Plowprint Analytical Tool Conservation of Pink-footed Shearwater (multiple states, Canada and Mexico) in Chile Update and expand geospatial data analysis, Advance conservation efforts for the called the Plowprint, to evaluate landscape pink-footed shearwater in all three of change metrics for the Northern Great the known Chilean breeding islands, Isla Plains ecoregion. Project analysis will expand Mocha and the Juan Fernández Islands, the previous versions by including northern and in continental Chile. Project will Mexico, extending the analysis backward address colony and at-sea threats through in time to capture historical change and direct actions to protect colonies from using the newest and best available data human harvest, and predation and habitat to track rates of agricultural conversion, degradation by non-native mammals, and monitor previously converted lands, identify aim to better understand fishery-related risk factors for remaining intact habitat and mortality, especially in the Chilean purse- target conservation work. seine fishery. $20,000 $325,000

74 75 ALABAMA FLORIDA Sea Turtle Conservancy Eliminating Light Pollution on Sea Turtle GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board Florida Department Nesting Beaches – Phase II (Amendment) Dauphin Island Bird Habitat Enhancement of Environmental Protection Amendment to address remaining priority light Program Restoration of Florida’s Coastal Dune Lakes pollution retrofits to Panhandle properties FISCAL YEAR 2018 PROJECT COMMITMENTS Enhance coastal bird habitat along 1 mile of (Amendment) and continue ongoing improvements to data recently restored beach and within an adjacent Amendment to complete removal of invasive collection and monitoring. 200 acre bird sanctuary on Dauphin Island, plant material and use fire management $957,000 Alabama’s only barrier island and a Global to restore wetland habitat and increase Important Bird Area. freshwater flows into Deer Lake, a unique The Atlanta Botanical Garden In the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion $1,631,900 coastal dune lake in the Florida Panhandle. Restoration of Florida’s Coastal Dune Lakes $2,760,214 (Amendment) Dauphin Island Sea Lab / Marine Amendment to complete removal of invasive and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP Exploration and Environmental Sciences Consortium Florida Fish and Wildlife plant material and use fire management Alabama Marine Mammal Conservation and Conservation Commission, to restore wetland habitat and increase Recovery Program (Amendment) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute freshwater flows into Deer Lake, a unique Production, Inc. and Transocean Deepwater, Inc. each Amendment to address higher than anticipated Enhanced Assessment of Gulf of Mexico coastal dune lake in the Florida Panhandle. stranding response and additional sampling Fisheries: Fisheries Dependent Monitoring $110,386 and data collection requirements. – Phase V pleaded guilty to criminal violations of federal law. The plea $621,100 Improve marine fisheries data collection for enhancement of stock assessments and LOUISIANA Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, fisheries management of important species agreements in those cases require BP and Transocean, Marine Environmental Sciences along Florida’s Gulf Coast. Project will collect Louisiana Coastal Protection Consortium harvest data for red snapper and other reef fish and Restoration Authority Coastal Habitat Restoration Planning Initiative from recreational and commercial fishermen. Adaptive Management: Louisiana River

among other things, to make certain monetary payments to (Amendment) $3,292,615 Diversions & Barrier Islands – Phase II GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND Undertake a bay-wide cultural resource survey Conduct adaptive management activities and hydrologic model to inform engineering Florida Fish and Wildlife related to river diversions and barrier islands in NFWF that are designated to fund projects benefiting Gulf and design and facilitate permitting of future Conservation Commission, Louisiana. Project will provide data, modeling coastal habitat restoration projects. Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and analyses to support the development, $1,345,300 Enhanced Assessment of Gulf of Mexico design and operation of river diversions and Coast natural resources injured as a result of the spill. NFWF Fisheries: Fisheries Independent Monitoring barrier island restoration projects. Mobile County Commission – Phase V $19,632,100 Salt Aire Shoreline Restoration Implement a significant and meaningful has established the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund to Protect and restore a degraded shoreline and expansion of the collection of fishery- Louisiana Coastal Protection and 30 acres of associated coastal marsh on the independent data in the northern and eastern Restoration Authority western shore of Mobile Bay. The 230 acre Gulf of Mexico. These data will be used to East Timbalier Island: Engineering and Design receive and administer these funds. Funding was committed Salt Aire property was acquired by the County assess the recovery of offshore assemblages (Amendment) through a 2015 GEBF award. in association with restoration efforts Amendment for additional data collection and $12,700,000 implemented in response to the Deepwater surveys needed to complete engineering and to the following projects under the Gulf Environmental Horizon oil spill; improve and expand single- design. National Oceanic species stock assessments for managed $2,228,700 and Atmospheric Administration, species; and foster improved ecosystem-based Benefit Fund during Fiscal Year 2018 in accordance with the National Marine Fisheries Service assessment and management capabilities. Louisiana Coastal Protection and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stranding $3,945,485 Restoration Authority Database (Amendment) Increase Atchafalaya Flow to Terrebonne: terms of the plea agreements. Since its inception in 2013, Amendment to a 2015 GEBF project to extend National Audubon Society Engineering and Design – Phase I and expand application of the new marine Comprehensive Panhandle Coastal Bird Advance design and critical environmental mammal stranding database across the Gulf Conservation (Amendment) regulatory review needed to construct a NFWF has awarded more than $1 billion to projects in the States and increase data collection and analysis Amendment to complete restoration of a river diversion to build, sustain and maintain to inform management. priority nesting island in Apalachicola Bay to wetlands within the Terrebonne Basin. Once $29,778 benefit coastal birds. constructed and operated, this diversion project Gulf States. $600,000 will restore freshwater influence in the basin The Conservation Fund and reduce wetland loss by approximately Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge National Oceanic 13,000 acres over 50 years. Acquisition – Phase I and Atmospheric Administration, $16,367,400 Acquire a 251-acre parcel on Fort Morgan National Marine Fisheries Service Peninsula for inclusion within the Bon Secour Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stranding National Wildlife Refuge. The property has Database (Amendment) been identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Amendment to a 2015 GEBF project to extend Service as among the highest priority for and expand application of the new marine acquisition and includes diverse coastal habitat mammal stranding database across the Gulf types. States and increase data collection and analysis $5,866,177 to inform management. $414,716

76 77 MISSISSIPPI National Park Service, Ducks Unlimited Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Gulf Islands National Seashore Restoration of J.D. Murphree WMA Water Dagger Island Restoration Project Mississippi Department Habitat Restoration: Management Infrastructure Construct a half-mile, nearshore breakwater of Environmental Quality Federal Lands Program - Phase I Remove marsh and other debris that settled and beneficially use dredge material Coastal Headwaters Protection Due Diligence Enhance and restore habitat on the mainland in interior compartment ditches in the J.D. to restore an island in order to protect Undertake a technical assessment to and barrier island units of Gulf Islands National Murphree Wildlife Management Area due approximately 5,236 acres of coastal habitat, determine the water quality and quantity Seashore in Mississippi. to extreme flooding from Hurricane Harvey. including 2,630 acres of seagrass in Redfish benefits to coastal bays for a potential $1,734,815 Project will directly benefit habitat critical for Bay, an area adjacent to Corpus Christi Bay. acquisition of approximately 48,000 acres waterbirds within the WMA. Project also will restore approximately 28 that would protect significant coastal U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Grand Bay $82,500 acres of coastal wetland habitat and create headwaters. National Wildlife Refuge oyster, invertebrate and fisheries habitat. $1,310,200 Habitat Restoration: Federal Lands Program - National Audubon Society $3,824,000 Phase I Matagorda Bay Rookery Island, Feasibility Mississippi Department Enhance and restore habitat within the Grand Study and Alternative Analysis (Amendment) The Conservation Fund of Environmental Quality Bay National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi. Amendment for additional assessments Bahia Grande Coastal Corridor Acquisitions – Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Conservation, $1,769,000 following Hurricane Harvey. Phase II Recovery, and Monitoring Program – Phase I $73,300 Acquire a 1,540-acre property to protect Engage state and federal agencies, academic TEXAS more than 4 miles of tidal frontage on Laguna institutions and conservation organizations National Oceanic Madre, and includes extensive coastal habitats to bolster the capacity of Mississippi’s marine American Bird Conservancy and Atmospheric Administration, such as emergent tidal wetlands, seagrass mammal and sea turtle stranding network. Beach-Nesting and Wintering Bird Protection National Marine Fisheries Service beds, mud flats and transitional habitats. Project will improve response to injured and Habitat Stewardship Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stranding Property will be added to the Laguna Atascosa or dead animals and develop a consistent Increase the number of breeding pairs and Database (Amendment) National Wildlife Refuge. scientific understanding of the causes of nesting success of beach nesting species and Amendment to a 2015 GEBF project to extend $2,000,000 mortality to inform management actions in protect wintering shorebirds through habitat and expand application of the new marine mammal stranding database across the the state. protection, monitoring and stewardship. The Conservation Fund GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND $9,933,900 $275,000 Gulf States and increase data collection and Sabine Ranch Acquisition analysis to inform management. Acquire 8,169 acres of the Sabine Ranch, a Mississippi Department Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program $72,790 tract rich in Chenier Plain habitats, including of Environmental Quality Nueces Bay Rookery Islands Restoration extensive fresh and intermediate tidal marsh, Pascagoula River Corridor Acquisitions (Amendment) Texas General Land Office coastal prairie, pond shore and salty prairie. Acquire more than 3,400 acres in the Lower Amendment to complete the design and Carancahua Bay Habitat Preservation and As a part of a larger 12,376 acres tract, which Pascagoula floodplain, including significant restoration of four important rookery islands in Enhancement – Phase I will be ultimately conveyed to the McFaddin bottomland hardwoods. Protection of these Nueces Bay. Develop engineering and design plans for an National Wildlife Refuge, this acquisition will properties will benefit various bird and fish $1,145,000 approximately 2-mile living shoreline along the secure the entire major watershed feeding species and will sustain water quality and western side of the mouth of Carancahua Bay Willow Sough Marsh, the largest remaining quantity benefits downstream. Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program to reduce further erosion and restore the bay’s coastal freshwater marsh in Texas. $11,849,800 Restoring Colonial Waterbirds hydrology. $10,199,101 on the Texas Coast $392,000 Mississippi Department Enhance and manage 35 colonial waterbird The Nature Conservancy of Environmental Quality rookery islands on the Texas coast from San Texas General Land Office South Padre Island Land Acquisitions – Phase I Reef Fish Assessment for Mississippi Coastal Antonio Bay to the Laguna Madre. Galveston Island State Park Marsh Restoration Acquire a 1,680-acre property on South Padre and Nearshore Waters – Phase II $363,400 and Protection – Phase III Island, which straddles the barrier island and

GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL GULF Perform an assessment of reef fish in Restore, enhance and protect intertidal marsh includes healthy, intact habitats including coastal Mississippi and nearshore Gulf Ducks Unlimited and other estuarine habitats at Galveston beach, dunes, intertidal marsh and mudflats waters through biological, environmental Cow Trap Lake Bird Nesting Island Island State Park through construction of an Property will be added to the Laguna Atascosa and fishery-dependent components that Improvements (Amendment) additional 7,600 linear-foot segments of rock National Wildlife Refuge. will provide necessary data resolution for Amendment to restore nesting habitat and breakwater within the Carancahua Cove area $2,575,000 reducing scientific uncertainty of factors signage following damage from Hurricane of West Bay. influencing red snapper and reef fish Harvey. $5,000,000 The University of Texas population structures. $186,400 Marine Science Institute $2,346,900 Texas General Land Office Rebuild Flight Cage and Enclosure Complex for Ducks Unlimited Salt Bayou (McFaddin NWR) Beach and Ridge Rehabilitated Birds National Oceanic Hydrological Restoration of Brazoria National Restoration Repair and rebuild a flight cage, bird enclosures and Atmospheric Administration, Wildlife Refuge Wetlands – Phase I Restore the beach ridge system along the and sea turtle rehabilitation pools at the Amos National Marine Fisheries Service Conduct engineering and design for future Gulf Coast within the McFaddin National Rehabilitation Keep (ARK) facility which were Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stranding restoration of 9,500 acres of freshwater Wildlife Refuge, between High Island and Sea damaged by Hurricane Harvey. Database (Amendment) wetlands on Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge Rim State Park on the Texas Upper Coast. This $194,600 Amendment to a 2015 GEBF project to extend that have been previously ditched and 17-mile beach ridge restoration project will and expand application of the new marine drained. Project will enhance habitat for a complete restoration of 20 miles of coastline, mammal stranding database across the suite of water bird species. protecting the largest estuarine marsh system Gulf States and increase data collection and $200,000 in Texas. analysis to inform management. $26,500,000 $43,012

78 79 ALASKA CALIFORNIA California State University, Stanislaus Surveys for San Joaquin Kit Foxes, IMPACT-DIRECTED Copper River Watershed Project Audubon California Tipton Kangaroo Rats, and Blunt-Nosed Enhancing Fish Passage and Implementing Lake Isabella Willow Flycatcher Restoration (CA) Leopard Lizards – II (CA) Snow Melt Filtration to Benefit Salmon and Continue to restore 1,150 acres of Determine the presence of listed species, ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Migrating Shorebird Habitat on Alaska’s southwestern willow flycatcher habitat including the San Joaquin kit fox, Tipton Copper River Delta (AK) to compensate for impacts of long-term kangaroo rat, and blunt-nosed leopard lizard, Restore connectivity to 1.5 kilometers of operations of Lake Isabella reservoir, in on Unit 15 of the Kern National Wildlife Refuge. FISCAL YEAR 2018 PROJECT COMMITMENTS upland stream channels by replacing a culvert cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of $4,834, Mitigation at mile 17 of the Copper River Highway with a Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife stream simulation culvert. Project will improve Service. California State University, Stanislaus passage for coho salmon on the Copper River $178,952, Mitigation Surveys for Tipton Kangaroo Rats Delta. and Blunt-Nosed Leopard Lizards (CA) NFWF’s IDEA department serves as a manager and trustee for $150,000, Federal Criminal Case Bajada Ecology Determine the presence of listed species, U.S. v. Polar Tankers, Inc. 2018 Raven Studies in Joshua Tree National Park including Tipton kangaroo rat and blunt-nosed and Pinto Mountains Critical Habitat Unit (CA) leopard lizard, on Unit 15 of the Kern National funds arising from legal and regulatory actions involving natural Manomet Conduct research on the interaction between Wildlife Refuge. Determining Avian Population Trends desert tortoises and common ravens in Joshua $5,310, Mitigation in the 1002 Area of the Arctic Tree National Park and Pinto Mountains Critical resources and the environment. These funds originate primarily National Wildlife Refuge (AK) Habitat Unit. California Trout Conduct a shorebird population survey $69,206, Mitigation Upper Shasta Coho Habitat Restoration (CA) of the 1002 Area in the Arctic National Improve coho salmon habitat and access to IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) from court orders, settlements of legal cases, regulatory permits, Wildlife Refuge that will support range-wide Bajada Ecology cold-water refugia in the Upper Shasta River. population trend-estimation goals, provide 2018 Raven Studies in Ord-Rodman Critical Project will add large woody debris structures, critical information and important baseline Habitat Unit (CA) augment gravel and improve a spring water licenses, and conservation and mitigation plans. data about the distribution and habitat use Conduct research on the interaction between alcove on Hidden Valley Ranch. of breeding shorebirds in the area, and help desert tortoises and common ravens in the $175,247, Mitigation target conservation actions locally and range- Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Unit. wide. $78,982, Mitigation Central Coast State Parks Association $79,714, Federal Criminal Case Oceano Dunes District Oso Flaco Boardwalk U.S. v. BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. California Department Update/Expansion Project (CA) of Fish and Wildlife Enhance visitors’ experiences at Oso Flaco Lake Wildlife Conservation Society California Department of Fish and Wildlife in San Luis Obispo County, California, through Protecting Coastal Lagoons in the Southern Endowment – Topaz Solar Farm (CA) education, expansion of the boardwalk picnic Chukchi Sea: Project Chariot Revisited (AK) Perform long-term management of mitigation table area to meet Americans with Disabilities Repeat historical surveys of four coastal land in San Luis Obispo County, California. Act requirements, and the installation of lagoons at Cape Thompson using standardized $258,569, Mitigation bilingual interpretive paneling. protocols. Project will provide essential data $117,200, State Civil Case for state and national response planning that California Department People of the State of California v. Union Oil prioritizes coastal lagoons across the entire of Fish and Wildlife Company of California dba Unocal southern Chukchi coast for deployment of California Department of Fish and Wildlife limited human and material resources in the Endowment - Wister Pond Water Source (CA) City of Pacifica event of an oil spill. Purchase water from Imperial Irrigation Pacifica Pier Restoration Project (CA)

GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL GULF $119,860, Federal Criminal Case District to benefit Wister Pond in San Diego Repair the Pacifica Pier so that it may remain U.S. v. BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. County, California. open to the public for recreational use. $21,552, Mitigation Project will provide contractual services for design and project management for repair ARIZONA California Department of Fish and Wildlife work, remove and replace lights, repair the California Department of Fish and Wildlife deck access lid and wooden hand rails, and Ecosystems Research Institute Endowment – Wister Pond Operation and develop design documents to solicit bids for San Juan River Habitat Assessment Maintenance (CA) a set of additional deck hatch covers that are (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) Conduct long-term operation and maintenance close to failing. Assess and monitor habitats in the San Juan of Wister Pond in San Diego County, California. $29,090, State Civil Case River to help meet the goals and objectives $17,102, Mitigation U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. of the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program. California Invasive Plant Council Corvus Ecological Consulting $75,810, Mitigation Controlling Invasive Sea Lavender 2018 Raven Studies in Fremont-Kramer Critical in San Francisco Bay Tidal Marshes (CA) Habitat Unit (CA) Geomni Eradicate invasive sea lavender in order to Conduct research on the interaction between San Juan River Digital Aerial Photography (AZ) maintain healthy wildlife habitat for the desert tortoises and common ravens in Conduct digital aerial videography of the San endangered Ridgway’s rail and salt marsh Fremont-Kramer Critical Habitat Unit. Juan River to track changes in river habitats. harvest mouse in San Francisco Bay tidal $129,612, Mitigation $53,300, Mitigation marshes. $198,995, Federal Criminal Cases (multiple prosecutions)

80 81 Corvus Ecological Consulting Great Basin Institute Koopmann Family Trust National Park Service Resource Conservation District Scott River Water Trust 2018 Raven Studies in Mojave National Great Basin Institute Wildlife Research California Department of Fish and Wildlife California Department of Fish and Wildlife – of the Santa Monica Mountains Water Dedication Development Preserve, Ivanpah Critical Habitat Unit, and Associate at Kern National Wildlife Refuge (CA) Initial and Capital – Koopmann Preserve (CA) Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment Riparian Oak Maintenance in the Scott River Basin (CA) Piute-Fenner Critical Habitat Unit (CA) Provide continued support to research Perform short-term management of mitigation – Mojave Milkweed (CA) in Lower Topanga Creek State Park (CA) Develop long-term and permanent water Conduct research on the interaction associate program that engages aspiring land in Alameda County, California. Perform long-term management of mitigation Continue maintenance, monitoring and planting dedications in the Scott River watershed for the between desert tortoises and common wildlife biologists in various activities, including $24,670, Mitigation land in San Bernardino County, California. of native riparian species with associated benefit of rearing coho salmon. ravens in the Mojave National Preserve, the management of protected species at Kern $2,620, Mitigation invasive species removal in the floodplain $12,237, Mitigation Ivanpah Critical Habitat Unit, and Piute- National Wildlife Refuge and the monitoring, Mendocino County and adjacent transitional habitat of lower Fenner Critical Habitat Unit. mapping and removal of target invasive Resource Conservation District Pacific Gas and Electric Company Topanga State Park located in the Santa Monica Southwest Wetlands $142,704, Mitigation species. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Acquisition of Sierra Health Foundation Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. Interpretive Association $9,780, Mitigation Endowment – Willits Bypass (CA) Property (CA) $44,857, State Civil Cases Assessment of Ecosystem Health at Tijuana Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee Perform long-term management of mitigation Fund acquisition of 542 acres of vernal (multiple prosecutions) River National Estuarine Research Reserve (CA) Renewable Energy Action Team Initial and Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center land in Mendocino County, California. pool property to fulfill certain mitigation Assess the effects of pollution at the Tijuana Capital, Manzana Wind (CA) Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center Educational $344,762, Mitigation requirements under the Pacific Gas and River Partners River National Estuarine Research Reserve. Perform short-term management of mitigation and Public Programs Coordinator Position (CA) Electric Company’s multiregion Habitat Panorama Vista Preserve Project will monitor bioindicators with a land in Kern County, California. Fund a full-time educational and public Mid Klamath Watershed Council Conservation Plan in Placer County, California. and Dos Rios Ranch Tree Planting (CA) primary emphasis on fauna, including mollusks, $11,373, Mitigation programs coordinator at the Guadalupe- Middle Creek Channel Rehabilitation Design $2,400,000, Mitigation Plant, monitor and maintain approximately crustaceans, and fish. Nipomo Dunes Center, a natural history Project (CA) 4,000 trees intended to offset tree removals $224,999 , Federal Criminal Case East Bay Regional Park District museum in Guadalupe, California. Project will Create a creek rehabilitation design plan for Pacific Gas and Electric Company in advance of projects covered by Pacific Gas U.S. v. W. Bockstiegel Reederei GmBH & Casey Property Acquisition, Contra Costa coordinate school programs, field trips, after- 3,300 feet of private property along Middle Payment into Escrow to Fund and Electric Company’s Master Streambed CO. KG and W. Bockstiegel GmBH & CO. County (CA) school programs, and public conservation and Creek, a vital tributary for coho salmon. Project Mitigation Actions under Bay Area Habitat Alteration Agreement at two developed wildlife Reederei KG MS “NILS B” Fund acquisition of approximately 320 acres by cultural events at the Dunes Center during the will increase and enhance salmonid rearing Conservation Plan (CA) habitat restoration sites within the San Joaquin IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) East Bay Regional Parks District, in partnership Dunes Center’s capital campaign to renovate habitat. Fund pending actions under the Pacific Gas Valley: Dos Rios Ranch in Stanislaus County Sundance Biology with the East Contra Costa County Habitat the new museum space. $92,187, Mitigation and Electric Company’s Bay Area Habitat and Panorama Vista Preserve in Kern County, Raven Reproductive Control: Conservancy, for the benefit of raptors and $160,000 Conservation Plan in San Mateo, Alameda, California. Engineering an Egg-Oiling Drone ( CA) raptor habitat. State Civil Case, People of the State of Mid Klamath Watershed Council Solano, and Fresno counties, California, $861,165, Mitigation Develop and field test an unmanned aerial $215,000 California v. Union Oil Company of California Mid Klamath Coho Rearing Habitat including specified acquisitions of mitigation system capable of oiling raven eggs in nests State Civil Cases and State Criminal Cases dba Unocal Enhancement Project – II (CA) lands, restoration of mitigation lands, and Salmon River Restoration Council built on electrical transmission towers. Project (multiple prosecutions) Enhance cover complexity through placement enhancement of mitigation lands. Salmon River Coho Rearing Habitat will contribute to long-term goals to manage Habitat Restoration Sciences of small woody debris and willow plantings $7,530,000, Mitigation Enhancement Project (CA) raven populations and allow for desert tortoise East Bay Regional Park District California Department of Fish and Wildlife within pools of the lower reaches of Klamath Restore and maintain habitat connectivity recovery. Casey Property Habitat Restoration Project (CA) Endowment – JAL Preserve (CA) River tributaries. Point Millerton Ranch within all tributaries of the Salmon River during $36,264, Mitigation Conduct initial habitat improvements as part of Perform long-term management of mitigation $50,188, Mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife the summer low-flow period and remove the long-term habitat management plan for the land in San Diego County, California. Endowment – Point Millerton (CA) and manipulate blockages to coho salmon Sundance Biology Casey property at Byron Vernal Pools Regional $12,186, Mitigation Mojave Desert Land Trust Perform long-term management of mitigation migration. Project will improve critical coho 2018 Raven Egg Oiling Implementation in Preserve in Contra Costa County, California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife – land in Madera County, California. salmon rearing habitat by increasing cover, pool Chemehuevi Critical Habitat Unit (CA) Project will install signs to prevent trespassing, Habitat Restoration Sciences Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment – $10,694, Mitigation depth and habitat complexity, with manual Conduct raven management actions and remove and replace 7,920 linear feet of fence, San Diego County Endowment Hidden Valley and Chuckwalla Desert Wildlife modifications and the addition of small and effectiveness monitoring in the Chemehuevi remove accumulated debris and hazardous – Greenhills Ranch (CA) Management Area (CA) Point Reyes National Seashore Association large wood and brush bundles. Critical Habitat Unit in an effort to reduce raven materials, restore a water well, and preform Perform long-term management of mitigation Perform long-term management of mitigation Dune Restoration Expansion Project: $2,440, Mitigation fecundity, decrease recruitment, and over time, weed abatement measures. land in San Diego County, California. lands in San Bernardino and Imperial Counties, Protecting Key Species from Extinction (CA) decrease raven abundances. $190,700, State Civil Cases and State $19,798, Mitigation California. Improve the quality and ecosystem function in Santa Barbara County Parks Division, $64,067, Mitigation Criminal Cases (multiple prosecutions) $74,677, Mitigation the area through restoration of coastal dune Community Services Department Habitat Restoration Sciences habitat immediately adjacent to California Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve Public Sundance Biology East Bay Regional Park District San Diego County Endowment – Jacumba Mojave Environmental Holdings marine waters. Project will link two large-scale Access Revitalization Project (CA) 2018 Raven Egg Oiling Implementation in Dotson Family (Breuner) Marsh Wetland- Solar Open Space Preserve (CA) California Department of Fish and Wildlife dune restoration projects. Maintain and improve American with Superior-Cronese Critical Habitat Unit and Fort Upland Transitional Planting (CA) Perform long-term management of mitigation Initial and Capital – Cuddeback-Kramer $99,622, Federal Criminal Cases Disabilities Act compliant visitor services at Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area (CA)

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED Restore 30 acres of wetlands and 25 acres land in San Diego County, California. Preserve (CA) (multiple prosecutions) Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve through Conduct raven management actions and of coastal prairie through the removal of bay $7,376, Mitigation Perform short-term management of mitigation public access improvements. Project will install effectiveness monitoring in Superior-Cronese fill and contaminated soil and the creation land in San Bernardino County, California. Prunuske Chatham, Inc. a new, prefabricated waterless restroom facility, Critical Habitat Unit and Fort Irwin’s Southeast of habitat to withstand sea level rise. Project HPR II $88,488, Mitigation Herndon and Reedley College Tree Replanting a new informational kiosk at the parking area, Conservation Area in an effort to reduce raven will protect the endangered Ridgway’s rail, California Department of Fish and Wildlife – San Joaquin Valley Habitat Conservation and new interpretive panels and benches along fecundity, decrease recruitment, and over time, California black rail and salt marsh harvest Initial and Capital and Endowment Myers Irrevocable Flying M Ranch Trust Plan (CA) the concrete walkway. decrease raven abundances. mouse. – California Valley Solar Ranch (CA) Flying M Ranch Project Conservation Plant more than 3,000 trees for the fulfillment $230,000, State Civil Case $60,244, Mitigation $115,000, Federal Criminal Cases Perform short-term and long-term Easement Acquisition (CA) of certain requirements under Pacific Gas People of the State of California v. Union Oil (multiple prosecutions) management of mitigation land in San Luis Under NFWF’s Sacramento District California and Electric Company’s Master Streambed Company of California dba Unocal The Bay Foundation Obispo County, California. Wetlands Mitigation In-Lieu Fee Program, Alteration Agreement and San Joaquin Valley Community Iceplant Removal Full Frame Productions $601,668, Mitigation obtain an exclusive and irrevocable option Habitat Conservation Plan. Save The Bay at the Ballona Wetlands (CA) California Endangered Species and Habitats to purchase a conservation easement as $720,147, Mitigation San Francisco Bay Transition Zone Manually remove iceplant monoculture patches Educational Video Projects (CA) Institute for Wildlife Studies a component of a compensatory wetland Restoration Project (CA) from approximately 1.5 acres of degraded Produce a series of educational videos and Non-lead Ammunition mitigation project entitled, “Flying M Ranch, Restore, maintain and monitor tidal marsh wetland habitat while broadening community public service announcements that focus Outreach and Education (CA) Vernal Pool Preservation and Enhancement transition zone habitat in San Francisco Bay. and public involvement at the Ballona Wetlands on northern California threatened and Implement a program to provide non-lead Project, Southern Sierra Foothills Vernal Pool Project will benefit wildlife including the Ecological Reserve located in Los Angeles endangered species and habitats, specifically outreach and education to hunters within the Service Area” in Merced County, California. endangered Ridgway’s rail and salt marsh County, California. Project will bring together the California tiger salamander, western snowy southern California region, focusing on the $25,000, Mitigation harvest mouse. a diverse range of community members and plover, San Joaquin kit fox, and coho salmon. Tehachapi and Transverse ranges. Project will $86,000, Federal Criminal Case students to participate in hands-on wetland $139,925, Federal Criminal Case help reduce the amount of lead fragments various federal criminal prosecutions restoration activities through organized events. U.S. v. Wildlife Management, LLC. exposed to California condors. $43,850, State Civil Cases $84,000, Mitigation (multiple prosecutions)

82 83 The Land Conservancy Truckee Donner Land Trust Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting Westervelt Ecological Services SWCA Environmental Consulting Coral Restoration Foundation of San Luis Obispo County Long-Term Land Management Fund for the Flying M Ranch Vernal Pool Preservation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endowment – Technical Assistance to the Upper Colorado Rapid Coral Reef Assessment Evaluating Effectiveness of Nipomo Lupine Truckee Meadows Restoration Project (CA) Enhancement Project Development Plan (CA) Ferrari Ranch (CA) River Fish Recovery Program (CO) and Emergency Restoration (FL) Recovery Management (CA) Establish a long-term land management Under NFWF’s Sacramento District California Perform long-term management of mitigation Assist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Conduct rapid assessment of “high value” sites Evaluate the current management strategy fund to be held by the Truckee Donner Land Wetlands Mitigation In-Lieu Fee Program, land in Solano County, California. coordination with the Recovery Program, along the entire affected reef tract, from Palm for the Nipomo lupine to better calculate Trust in trust for the perpetual management develop a project development plan for a $16,752, Mitigation with completing revision of four endangered Beach County through the Dry Tortugas. Project future management needs in San Luis Obispo and protection of the Truckee Meadows compensatory wetland mitigation project fish species recovery plans. Revised recovery will respond to sites identified by a survey team County, California. Project will evaluate the Restoration Project site. Project will generate entitled, “Flying M Ranch, Vernal Pool goals will be assimilated with past and for coral triage and stabilization. effectiveness of restoration efforts to provide up to 2.33 Aquatic Resource Released Credits Preservation and Enhancement Project, COLORADO new information, and consistent with the $109,723, Federal Criminal Case, appropriate habitat for Nipomo lupine within under NFWF’s Sacramento District California Southern Sierra Foothills Vernal Pool Service Endangered Species Act, implementing Various federal criminal prosecutions two of the identified Dune Protected Areas as In-Lieu Fee Program by restoring 6.56 acres Area.” Project will preserve and enhance vernal A. Lawrence Kolz regulations, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife referenced in the Guadalupe Nipomo Dunes of montane wet meadow habitat in Truckee, pool wetland resources and ensure long-term Standardization of Recovery Program Service handbook for recovery plan Escambia County Complex Conservation Plan. California, in the In-Lieu Fee Program’s Tahoe protection of the wetland resource functions Electrofishing Fleet (CO, UT) development. Bayou Grande Living Shoreline Project (FL) $11,421, State Civil Case Service Area. and values of the project site. Provide members of the San Juan River $21,120, Species Recovery Construct offshore oyster reefs and install People of the State of California v. Union Oil $31,415, Mitigation $169,080, Mitigation Recovery Implementation Program appropriate emergent marsh vegetation Company of California dba Unocal electrofishing fleet with guidelines for U.S. Department of the Interior, between the oyster reefs and mean high Truckee River Watershed Council Westervelt Ecological Services standardizing their electrode arrays to facilitate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 water line at three locations in the Navy Point The Land Conservancy Truckee Meadows Restoration Project (CA) Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank Credit standardization of the power output for Non-native Fish Management area of Bayou Grande, Pensacola Bay. Project of San Luis Obispo County Generate up to 2.33 Aquatic Resource Released Purchase (CA) electrofishing. on the San Juan River (CO, NM, UT) will improve priority fish and wildlife habitat, Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook Credits under NFWF’s Sacramento District Purchase by NFWF’s Sacramento District $3,375, Species Recovery Implement non-native fish management on improve water quality, reduce shoreline Interpretive Opportunities California In-Lieu Fee Program by restoring California Wetlands Mitigation In-Lieu Fee the San Juan River in accordance with the San erosion, strengthen coastal resilience, and and Visitor Service Amenities (CA) 6.56 acres of montane wet meadow habitat in Program of 0.17 Floodplain Mosaic Wetland Denver Botanic Gardens Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation restore oyster reef and emergent marsh habitat IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Construct a conservation park at Kathleen’s Truckee, California in the In-Lieu Fee Program’s Credit from the Cosumnes Floodplain Propagation of Uinta Basin Program. in the Pensacola Bay system. Canyon Overlook in the Lower Black Lake Tahoe Service Area. Project will fulfill a NFWF Mitigation Bank. The credit purchase fulfills Hookless Cactus (CO) $50,361, Mitigation $180,000, Federal Criminal Case Canyon Wetland Preserve, San Luis Obispo compensatory mitigation obligation resulting a NFWF compensatory mitigation obligation Grow at least 33 Uinta Basin hookless cactus to U.S. v. Briese Schiffahrts GmBh & Co. KG County, California. Project will provide free from the In-Lieu Fee Program’s authorized sale resulting from the In-Lieu Fee Program’s a size that is adequate for outplanting into their public access to the underserved communities of Aquatic Resource Advance Credits in the authorized sale of Aquatic Resource Credits wild habitat. Project will help mitigate cacti loss CONNECTICUT Fish and Wildlife Foundation of Florida of the Santa Maria River Valley for educational, Tahoe Service Area. in the Cosumnes/Mokelumne Rivers Aquatic on Bureau of Land Management lands. Invasive Lionfish Control and Management social and health purposes while showcasing $193,500, Mitigation Resource Service Area. $3,500, Mitigation Connecticut Fund for the Environment in the Coral Reef Systems the special natural resources unique to the $24,000, Mitigation Long Island Sound Ecosystem of Southeast Florida (FL) conservation property and Central Coast University of California, Santa Cruz Ecosystems Research Institute Health Report Card (CT, NY) Coordinate an education, research, and region. Updating the Database Management System Westervelt Ecological Services San Juan River Habitat Assessment Coordinate, distribute and the publicize the management initiative to reduce the $28,000, State Civil Case for Effective Use by the California Condor Bullock Bend Mitigation Bank (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) regional Long Island Sound Report Card over a population growth and spread of the invasive People of the State of California v. Union Oil Recovery Program (CA) Credit Purchase (CA) Assess and monitor habitats in the San Juan three-year budget cycle. lionfish species across southeast Florida. Company of California dba Unocal Continue updating a comprehensive database Purchase by NFWF’s Sacramento District River to help meet the goals and objectives $5,500, Federal Criminal Case Project will coordinate removal derbies to of critical information on the central and California Wetlands Mitigation In-Lieu Fee of the San Juan River Basin Recovery U.S. v. ODFJELL ASIA II remove thousands of non-native lionfish The Living Desert southern California condor flocks for use by Program of 0.59 Salmonid/Riverine Riparian Implementation Program. in one-day events, research attractants to Desert Tortoise Information the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Project will Credit from the Bullock Bend Mitigation $75,810, Mitigation Northeast States increase their capture and conduct collection, and Education Program (CA) update database to include information from Bank. The credit purchase fulfills a NFWF for Coordinated Air Use Management handling and culinary workshops. Print and distribute materials for “Cover Your calendar year 2017. compensatory mitigation obligation resulting Global Conservation Network VOC and Other Air Quality Aircraft $69,500, Federal Criminal Case Trash” outreach and education campaign. $2,000, Federal Criminal Case from the In-Lieu Fee Program’s authorized sale Colorado Pikeminnow Measurements over Connecticut U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Project will increase awareness in local U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. of Aquatic Resource Credits in the Cache/Putah Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) and Long Island Sound (CT) communities about the importance of Rivers Aquatic Resource Service Area. Use a population viability analysis to assess Conduct aircraft flights over Long Island Sound Florida Fish and Wildlife protecting desert ecosystems and desert U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal $82,600, Mitigation Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help and coastal Connecticut to collect atmospheric Conservation Commission tortoises. and Plant Health Inspection Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program measurements of volatile organic compounds Hurricane Irma Displaced Trap Retrieval $9,999, Mitigation Wildlife Services, National Wildlife Westervelt Ecological Services managers and species experts reach a (VOCs), including formaldehyde and other in the Florida Keys (FL) Research Center California Department of Fish and Wildlife downlisting decision. air toxics, affecting Connecticut. Project will Address the impacts of spiny lobster and stone

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED The Restoration Trust Raven Management Endowment – Maxwell Planned Unit $28,950, Species Recovery gather improved information on VOCs entering crab traps lost during Hurricane Irma in coastal The Restoration Trust Endowment for Desert Tortoise Protection (CA) Development (CA) Connecticut and will aid state air quality and inland areas of the Florida Keys. Project will – Bordoni Ranch (CA) Conduct wildlife damage management Perform long-term management of mitigation Miller Ecological Consultants planners in designing effective programs to restore sensitive habitats, including mangroves, Perform long-term management of the activities to control ravens for the protection land in Colusa County, California. Colorado Pikeminnow reduce the environmental and public health coral reefs, and seagrass beds where derelict Bordoni Ranch Mitigation Area in Solano of the federally listed desert tortoise in the $9,121, Mitigation Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) harms associated with VOC pollution, including traps may become entanglement hazards to County, California. Mojave and Colorado deserts located within Use a population viability analysis to assess ground-level ozone formation, organic endangered and threatened species. $9,441, Mitigation California. Westervelt Ecological Services Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help particulate matter and air toxics. $150,000, Federal Criminal Case $91,400, Mitigation Grasslands Mitigation Bank the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program $179,838, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Thomas K. Moss Credit Purchase (CA) managers and species experts reach a US v. SCP Management, LLC California Department of Fish and Wildlife Ventana Wildlife Society Purchase by NFWF’s Sacramento District downlisting decision. Florida Fish and Wildlife Endowment – Pletz Residence (CA) Releasing California Condors California In-Lieu Fee Program of 2.88 Seasonal $4,832, Species Recovery Conservation Commission Perform long-term management of mitigation in San Luis Obispo County (CA) Wetland Credits from the Grasslands Mitigation FLORIDA Post-Hurricane Irma Derelict Trap Retrieval land in Monterey County, California. Continue ongoing recovery effort for the Bank. The credit purchase fulfills a NFWF Pat Martinez and Debris Removal in the Florida Keys (FL) $3,046, Mitigation California condor in San Luis Obispo County, compensatory mitigation obligation resulting Standardization of Recovery Program Conservation Fisheries Address the impacts of traps lost during California. The project includes conducting from the In-Lieu Fee Program’s authorized sale Electrofishing Fleet (CO, UT) Okaloosa Darter Collection, Propagation, Hurricane Irma by removing derelict traps and Transition Habitat Conservancy releases of captive-raised condors and of Aquatic Resource Credits in the San Joaquin Provide members of the San Juan River and Reintroduction (FL) trap debris from coastal and inland areas of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife – monitoring condor populations. River Aquatic Resource Service Area. Recovery Implementation Program Fund the collection, propagation and Florida Keys. Project will recover 3,395 derelict Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment $50,000, Federal Criminal Case $403,948, Mitigation electrofishing fleet with guidelines for reintroduction of the federally threatened traps to assist with urgent wildlife and habitat – Fremont-Kramer (CA) U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. standardizing their electrode arrays to facilitate Okaloosa darter. restoration efforts. Perform long-term management of mitigation standardization of the power output for $31,175, Mitigation $132,892, Federal Criminal Case land in San Bernardino County, California. electrofishing. U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $104,839, Mitigation $1,275, Species Recovery

84 85 Mote Marine Laboratory Pulama Lanai MASSACHUSETTS Rehbein Enterprises Chem-Impex International Brooklyn Public Library Upgrade sea water system Kaheawa Wind Power Mitigation Lanai Lost Trail Stream Restoration (MT) Chem-Impex Calcein (NM) Greenpoint Library Environmental Education at the Mote Marine Lab Facility (FL) Hawaiian Petrel Protection Project (HI) Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Conduct stream restoration in the Lost Trail Purchase calcein powder to be used to mark Center – Youth Environmental Education (NY) Upgrade the sea water supply and filtration Expansion of ecosystem-level Hawaiian petrel Reducing Right Whale Entanglement National Wildlife Refuge. age-0 Colorado pikeminnow before they are Enhance the programs and services available system for the purpose of improving the colony management on the island of Lanai. through Derelict Fixed Gear Removal $5,908, Mitigation stocked into the San Juan River. at the Greenpoint Library and Environmental operation of educational, research, and Project will improve reproductive success in in Cape Cod Bay (MA) $7,466, Mitigation Education Center with the development conservation facility. Project will provide the areas that are currently under-protected from Remove fixed gear from the Massachusetts Bay River Design Group of a series of 12 environmental education necessary equipment to provide better water mammalian predators. Restricted Area during closed season to reduce Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge Ecosystems Research Institute workshops for youth, and acquisition of over quality and reliability for the live coral tanks. $100,616, Mitigation the entanglement risk to North Atlantic right Restoration (MT) San Juan River Habitat Assessment 200 born-digital environmental remediation $46,800, Federal Criminal Case whales. Project will partner with Massachusetts Provide project management and coordination (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) reports for public use. Project will increase U.S. v. Idaho Aquarium, Inc. Pulama Lanai Environmental Police, the Center for Coastal for the Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge Assess and monitor habitats in the San Juan access to free information and hands- Song Meter Purchase for Lanaihale Colony (HI) Studies, and local lobstermen to identify, Stream and Wetland Final Design project. River to help meet the goals and objectives on activities that support environmental St. Andrew Bay Purchase song meters and associated remove, and dispose of fixed-fishing gear. $25,345, Mitigation of the San Juan River Basin Recovery education, awareness and stewardship in the Resource Management Association equipment to monitor the Hawaiian petrel $93,839, Federal Criminal Case Implementation Program. Greenpoint community, while library staff Community-Based Habitat Restoration in St. colony on Lanaihale. U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. River Design Group $75,810, Mitigation gains the skills, confidence and tools needed Andrew Bay (FL) $7,726, Mitigation McGregor Meadows Waterfowl Protection to offer robust services that complement the Implement community-based living shoreline Massachusetts Maritime Academy Area Post-Construction Monitoring and Geomni environmentally friendly features of the new habitat restoration programs in the St. Andrew Roth Ecological Design International MARPOL Courses Wetland Delineation (MT) San Juan River Digital Aerial Photography (NM) library. Bay watershed. Project will restore and Improving Coral Reef Resilience for Marine Pollution Training (MA) Conduct post-construction monitoring and Conduct digital aerial videography of the San $25,286, Other enhance a total of 0.4 acres of coastal wetlands in West Maui through Floating Wetlands (HI) Provide a MARPOL course to students enrolled wetland delineation in McGregor Meadows Juan River to track changes in river habitats. and perform education and outreach activities, Design, fabricate and install an anchored floating in the Marine Safety and Environmental Waterfowl Production Area, as part of Kerr $53,300, Mitigation Carleton University resulting in habitat restoration that will wetland structure planted with native wetland Protection program at the Massachusetts Mitigation Project. St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) increase community resilience and enhance plants at a point of concentrated nutrient and Maritime Academy. Project will educate $6,441, Mitigation Jolie Products / DBA 123Ponds.com Conservation Strategy – II (NY) environmental stewardship. urban pollutant loading in a resort lagoon students on the annexes within MARPOL The Razorback Sucker Swimming Project (NM) Develop the St. Lawrence Fish Habitat $40,000, Federal Criminal Case tidally connected to the ocean. Project will help International Convention for the Prevention of River Design Group Conduct work to improve survival of stocked Conservation Strategy, which involves site U.S. v. Lagoon Landing, LLC improve water quality in the lagoon and increase Pollution from Ships through a six-week course. Swan River National Wildlife Refuge fish in the San Juan River by conditioning fish prioritization and development of a site list the long-term resilience of nearby coral reefs. $26,307, Federal Criminal Case Wetland Restoration (MT) before stocking. with recommendations for enhancement $99,966, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. MSC Ship Management (Hong Kong) Conduct wetland restoration assessment of $1,363, Mitigation activities. Project also includes the HAWAII U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Limited Swan River National Wildlife Refuge. implementation of team meetings, support for $26,083, Mitigation Syndel USA advancing proposed implementation projects, Conservation Metrics University of Hawaii The Research Foundation for the State Syndel Calcein (NM) creation of preliminary designs for projects, 2017 Automated Acoustic Surveys for 2018 Monitoring of Endangered Seabirds University of New York Purchase calcein powder to be used to mark along with GIS database maintenance, and Hawaiian Seabirds on Lanai (HI) on Lanai (HI) MARINE DEFENDERS: A Mariner NEVADA age-0 Colorado pikeminnow before they are the collection, processing, and reporting of Deploy a total of 23 automated acoustic Monitor and manage work on the Seabird Environmental Education Program (MA) stocked into the San Juan River. biological and physical monitoring data needed sensors to survey for Hawaiian seabird species Recovery Project, which will support the Educate seafarers visiting or sailing from ports Board of Regents, NSHE, $2,227, Mitigation to assess impacts on the fisheries of existing on the island of Lanai, Hawaii. Lanai Hawaiian petrel colony in coordination in Massachusetts about MARPOL and key U.S. obo University of Nevada, Reno and proposed implementation projects. $8,494, Mitigation with landowner efforts to do landscape level environmental laws, the extent and impact Spatial Analysis of Raven Management Data U.S. Department of the Interior, $24,750, Mitigation predator control. of oil pollution on the marine environment, for Desert Tortoise Critical Habitat (NV) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conservation Metrics $47,200, Mitigation and how to report violations to the U.S. Coast Create a database to store all collected data from Staff Biologist for San Juan River City Parks Foundation 2018 Automated Acoustic Surveys Guard. Project will create a mariner educational common raven surveys conducted between Recovery Actions (NM) Greening Greenpoint: for Hawaiian Seabirds on Lanai (HI) West Maui Soil and Water campaign focusing on seafarers visiting or 2013 and 2017 in desert tortoise critical habitat Contribute towards a San Juan River Recovery An Urban Forestry Plan (NY) Fund the 2018 analysis of remote acoustic Conservation District sailing from ports in Massachusetts by creating units. Project will perform data analyses to Implementation Program staff biologist to Implement a full inventory of trees and monitoring for the threatened Newell’s Sustained Sediment Reduction a documentary about intentional oil pollution answer key management questions and create conduct Recovery Actions. associated canopy cover, develop a shearwater, endangered Hawaiian petrel, and to Nearshore Reefs in West Maui (HI) from ships, a how-to guide for whistleblowers an interactive map for all surveyed areas. $133,384, Mitigation comprehensive urban forestry plan on the endangered band-rumped storm petrel on the Coordinate the de-watering and removal of and create educational content to be shared $90,864, Mitigation neighborhood scale, and implement the island of Lanai. sediment accumulated over decades from online and via posters and brochures. U.S. Department of the Interior, plan. Project will plant 500 new trees that $10,728, Mitigation Kahana Nui Basin to restore capacity for sediment $135,000, Federal Criminal Case Mountain View Business Group U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 will capture 787,500 gallons of stormwater

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED storage. Project will restore storage capacity for U.S. v. MSC Ship Management (Hong Kong) Desert Tortoise Spatial Decision Support Non-Native Fish Management annually, sequester 13,000 pounds of carbon Ho’ilina Ranch the top sediment-exporting watershed in West Limited System Porting to New Host (NV) on the San Juan River (CO, NM, UT) dioxide, install 325 tree guards around existing Fence Maintenance and Ungulate Control Maui, help reduce the chronic contributions to Port the Desert Tortoise Spatial Decision Support Implement non-native fish management on the trees, remove up to 25,000 square feet of at Kona Forest Unit (HI) high turbidity levels in the nearshore waters and System to a stable production environment San Juan River in accordance with the San Juan impervious concrete and reduce local air Fence conservation lands and remove feral hydrologically connected coral reefs will have MONTANA and ensure that the system is updated. Project River Basin Recovery Implementation Program. pollution. ungulates from the Kona Forest Unit of Hakalau enhanced resilience as this stressor is reduced. will support the Desert Renewable Energy $50,361, Mitigation $603,513, Other Forest National Wildlife Refuge. $199,760, Federal Criminal Case Forestoration Conservation Plan by identifying mitigation $444, Other U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Lost Trail Stream Restoration (MT) strategies and key areas for Mojave desert City Parks Foundation Conduct stream restoration in the Lost Trail tortoise recovery. NEW YORK Greening the Industrial Shoreline Malama Maunalua National Wildlife Refuge. $24,000, Mitigation of Newtown Creek in Greenpoint (NY) Restoring nearshore habitat in Maunalua Bay LOUISIANA $15,890, Mitigation Brooklyn Public Library Educate the community and raise awareness through the use of the Supersucker (HI) Greenpoint Library of the environmental conditions of Newtown Operate a supersucker to remove invasive alien Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana Montana Conservation Corps NEW MEXICO Environmental Education Center (NY) Creek. Project will train volunteers to identify algae threatening the coral reefs in Maunalua Pointe-au-Chien Cultural Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge Riparian Retrofit the Greenpoint Library to LEED local species of trees and plants and invite Bay. The project engages volunteers, Malama Heritage Protection Reef (LA) Restoration and Revegetation (MT) American Southwest Silver standards by adding a floor to house a volunteers to participate in a canoe-based and Maunalua staff, community members and Install a 394-foot oyster reef in Bayou Pointe-au- Conduct riparian restoration and revegetation Ichthyological Researchers community environmental education center. land-based survey of the creek’s shoreline, students in facilitating the return of native Chien. Project will aid in slowing the erosion of work in the Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge. San Juan River Channel Restoration Site Project will provide over 50 hours of access recording their observations in iNaturalist. species and creating a healthy nearshore the mounds and surround channels, support the $15,000, Mitigation Monitoring – II (NM) each week and 300 programs yearly promoting $53,826, Other habitat. ecosystem by providing cultch for new oyster Conduct larval and small-bodied fish environmental awareness, install 8,500 square $122,380, Federal Criminal Case growth and enhance the area’s cultural value. monitoring, in collaboration with New Mexico feet of intensive green roof, and replace U.S. v. Keoje Marine Co. Ltd. $2,500, Federal Criminal Case Department of Game and Fish, in restored 10,700 square feet of impervious surfaces with U.S. v. Marine Managers, Ltd. channels of the San Juan River. permeable pavers and rain gardens. $7,851, Mitigation $49,428, Other 86 87 Connecticut Fund for the Environment National Audubon Society New York City Audubon Society Open Space Alliance For North Brooklyn U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish Conservation Fisheries Long Island Sound Ecosystem Audubon New York’s For the Birds! The Newtown Creek Wildflower Roof Greenpoint Parks and Wildlife Service, New York Field Office Preventing Extinction Health Report Card (CT, NY) Environmental Education Program (NY) and Community Space – II (NY) Community Stewardship Program (NY) St. Lawrence Fish Enhancement, Mitigation of the Carolina Madtom in North Carolina (NC) Coordinate, distribute and the publicize the Deliver hands-on environmental education Create a teaching lab at the Newtown Creek Fund the hiring of a program manager to and Research Fund Expenses (NY) Enable captive breeding of Carolina madtom regional Long Island Sound Report Card over a programming to students at PS 110 The Wildflower Roof and Community Space by oversee an outreach program designed Support fish enhancement, mitigation and from the Neuse River basin and areas of the Tar three-year budget cycle. Monitor School, St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic installing scientific equipment, writing a to create a culture of stewardship around research projects in the St. Lawrence River. River basin. Project will capture and hold live $5,500, Federal Criminal Case Academy, PS 31 Samuel F. Dupont School, green-roof curriculum for pre-K to grade 5, and Greenpoint Parks, including McGolrick Park, $204,164, Mitigation individuals from the Neuse River basin, with U.S. v. ODFJELL ASIA II and PS 34 Oliver H. Perry School. Project will incorporating the lab into the space’s current WNYC Transmitter Park, and Newtown Barge the intent to breed them. cultivate new audiences and promote a culture educational programming. Project will install and Parks, as well as the Greenpoint and American U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. $50,000, Federal Criminal Case Council on the Environment, GrowNYC of stewardship by delivering adult and family- maintain a second bird-friendly green roof of playgrounds. Geological Survey, Great Lakes Science Center U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Lentol Garden Renovation (NY) focused environmental education workshops 2,014 square feet plus a 100-square-foot green $99,000, Other Assessment of Lake Sturgeon Habitat Energy Progress Renovate Lentol Garden, a community garden that will create opportunities for Greenpoint wall with the goals of increasing natural habitat Enhancement after 10 Years (NY) in Greenpoint, to restore a declining garden residents to learn about and engage with local access and species diversity in Greenpoint, PS 110K PTA Assess the status and effectiveness of a habitat Conserving Carolina to a vibrant neighborhood gathering spot, ecosystems. further reducing direct wet-weather flows to PS110 Garden Renovation (NY) improvement project in the St. Lawrence River Mud Creek Floodplain Connectivity spur neighborhood involvement, participation $100,089, Other Newtown Creek and local air pollution, and Renovate the playground on Monitor Street created 10 years ago to support lake sturgeon and Aquatic Habitat Restoration (NC) from community-based organizations, and the adding public green space for the community. next to PS110 by adding several planters reproduction. Conduct a large-scale, holistic restoration of growth of a wide variety of plants. Project will National Wildlife Federation $99,557, Other containing native trees and vines, raised beds $162,604, Mitigation degraded floodplain located at the confluence reactivate several dark and shady areas of the Greenpoint Eco-Schools: for agricultural development, and special of the French Broad River and Mud Creek in garden, replace mature plants inadvertently Creating a Legacy of Sustainability (NY) Newtown Creek Alliance seating for students. Project will improve the Various Recipients Henderson County. Project will restore natural destroyed by pest control efforts several years Reduce water use, energy use and solid waste Gateway to Greenpoint (NY) quality of life and education for the students Goose Bay Wetland Enhancement Project (NY) hydrology; enhance habitat for breeding ago, and install additional seating areas as well at four public schools using the Eco-Schools Create a community-driven plan for the and teachers of PS110, create a public garden Support the creation of a spawning pool to muskellunge, amphibians, reptiles and as educational signage throughout the garden. USA model to build environmental awareness, development of a 13,000 square-foot, city- for the Greenpoint community, and create enhance northern pike spawning habitat. birds; restore wetland habitat; restore native IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) $99,241, Other leadership, and stewardship among more than owned parcel at the corner of Greenpoint and natural habitat for pollinators. $154,674, Mitigation vegetation adapted to site conditions; improve 1,800 students, 125 staff, and thousands of Kingsland avenues in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. $83,724, Other water quality; and reconnect rivers to floodplains. Council on the Environment, GrowNYC community residents. Project will reduce solid Project will result in a site plan that generates Various Recipients $490,000, Federal Criminal Case McCarren Park Urban Farm waste by 25 percent, water use by at least 5 public space and environmental benefit The Research Foundation for the State Little Sucker Brook Walleye Spawning U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke and Green Infrastructure Corridor (NY) percent, and energy use by at least 10 percent, will allow New York City Department of University of New York Enhancement (NY) Energy Progress Design and implement a large garden/farm providing measurable environmental benefits Environmental Protection to move forward in St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat Support shoreline stabilization to reduce in McCarren Park to educate Greenpoint to the community. developing the parcel. Conservation Strategy (NY) sediment input as part of a project to improve Key-Log Economics residents and increase incidences of safe $728,290, Other $31,811, Other Continue to advance progress associated walleye spawning. Ecosystem Services in the Roanoke River Basin backyard gardening. with the Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy $12,665, Mitigation (NC, VA) $38,192, Other Neighbors Allied for Good Growth Newtown Creek Alliance partnership. The Fish Habitat Conservation Develop an ecosystem services framework and Strengthening Our Common Ground: Newtown Creek SAMPLES Project – II (NY) Strategy has led to a significant partnership Various Recipients analytical tools for the Roanoke River basin Gowanus Canal Conservancy Lead in Soils in Greenpoint (NY) Collect a season’s worth of water quality among resource management agencies, Otter Creek Wetland Enhancement Project (NY) so that stakeholders have robust information Improving Gowanus Canal Water Quality Provide Greenpoint residents with education sampling to provide vital information about the conservation organizations, and academia in Creation of channeling/spawning pool to available for developing conservation, restoration, Through Volunteer Stewardship (NY) on lead in soil. Project will promote and conditions of surface waters in Greenpoint’s the proactive management of fish habitat to enhance northern pike habitat. management and development plans. Conduct stewardship of tree pits and other facilitate practices for avoiding lead exposure, Newtown Creek. Project will share and distill improve natural reproduction of native fishes. $54,890, Mitigation $89,560, Federal Criminal Case public green spaces such as gardens and small thus expanding the network of environmental information with the Greenpoint community $592,300, Mitigation U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke parks. Project will steward 300 street trees, stewards and improving public health. through social media and a series of educational Vemco Energy Progress which will increase soil permeability and the $50,000, Other canoe trips on Newtown Creek and create a Town Square American Eel Telemetry Study (NY) volume of stormwater captured; remove 3,000 project booklet to summarize key findings and Go Green Activity Hub – II (NY) Purchase of acoustic receiver and flotation New River Conservancy pounds of trash from public space; install New York Botanical Garden outline ways in which Greenpoint residents can Sustain and grow Go Green BK Hub, an online collar for an American eel tracking study. North Carolina Aquatic Data Hub (NC) 470 native plant species; and engage 900 Conservatory Permeable Paver Stormwater help improve local water quality conditions. digital resource launched in April 2016. Project $40,675, Mitigation Establishment of a statewide standard set volunteers and 900 students to participate in Detention Lot Project (NY) $29,233, Other will increase participation in environmental of water quality parameters and protocols programs. Install 11,136 square feet of permeable pavers issues and projects, and result in a larger and Wildlife Conservation Society for collection by citizen scientists. Project $69,993, Federal Criminal Case in an existing impervious parking area. Project North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce more engaged community for environmental Enhance Propagation of Asian One-Horned will develop a robust statewide citizen U.S. v. A&L Cesspool Service Corporation will improve the water quality of the Bronx Curb Your Litter: Greenpoint – II (NY) stewardship across Greenpoint by organizing, Rhinoceroses at the Bronx Zoo (NY) water-quality monitoring framework that

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED River that in turn discharges into Long Island Implement a three-step process to reduce centralizing and presenting local environmental Enhance the Bronx Zoo’s breeding program for empowers interested residents to participate Horticultural Society of New York Sound by reducing the volume of runoff and the volume of litter and other waste in the issues, events and opportunities for the Asian one-horned rhinoceros with a custom- in the protection of North Carolina water and McGolrick Park Environmental Education the quantity of pollution. entire neighborhood through an assessment Greenpoint community. built restraint chute that will be designed to fit ecosystem quality while contributing to the Stewardship Project (NY) $10,589, State Criminal Case of current conditions, a coordinated $50,000, Other in one of the indoor rhino stalls at the Bronx data required to responsibly monitor and Enhance and maintain two native plant areas State of New York v. City of Yonkers education and outreach campaign and the Zoo’s Wild Asia facility. Project will enable staff to protect our water resources statewide. of McGolrick Park, the Urban Oasis Garden and implementation of infrastructure upgrades to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers collect blood, urine and/or fresh fecal samples $70,000, Federal Criminal Case the Native Pollinator Sanctuary in the primary New York City Audubon Society replace and/or complement current containers. Marsh Island Restoration Planning to monitor estrous periods, allow staff to U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke garden area. The Newtown Creek Wildflower Roof Project will recruit 50 local businesses to in Jamaica Bay (NY) conduct ultrasound examinations to follow fetal Energy Progress $75,000, Other and Community Space (NY) sign the Clean Greenpoint Pledge, convene Support the planning portion of a saltwater development during pregnancies, and reduce Install and maintain a large-scale, bird-friendly four neighborhood cleanup days, develop a marsh feasibility study in the interior of Jamaica the number of times rhinos would need to be North American Marine Environment Horticultural Society of New York green roof planted with native species with the curriculum guide for 8-12th grade educators Bay. chemically immobilized for veterinary purposes. Protection Association McGolrick Park Restoration (NY) goals of minimizing direct wet-weather flows and neighborhood leaders, and install 50 new, $300,000, Other $3,500, Federal Criminal Case OPERATION: COMPLIANCE (NC) Increase the environmental and community to Newtown Creek, creating natural habitat high-end litter baskets at priority intersections. U.S. v. Robert W. Newman Educate the seafarer and shoreside personnel on benefits provided by McGolrick Park. Project for birds and other species, and establishing a $15,000, Other U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish the need for MARPOL compliance and to provide will remediate environmental concerns, community space. and Wildlife Service, New York Field Office educational tools to support MARPOL compliance increase the sustainability of the park’s $162,901, Other North Brooklyn Community Boathouse Lake Sturgeon Restoration Project, Hatchery NORTH CAROLINA and reporting of noncompliance. Project natural areas, and increase opportunities for Environmental Education Shed – II (NY) Assistance (NY) will provide education about environmental community-focused education. Expand the Environmental Education Shed, Provide support for Lake Sturgeon restoration Carolina Marine Structures impacts of shipping on the marine environment; $128,455, Other a sustainable wetland laboratory with projects. Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge requirements for compliance; programs for multifaceted programming that demonstrates $25,000, Mitigation Water Control Structures (NC, VA) complying; risks of noncompliance; and methods green infrastructure systems and community- Install water-control structures on the Great and opportunities for reporting violations. led environmental stewardship in Greenpoint. Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. $53,600, Federal Criminal Cases $88,784, Other $71,500, Other (multiple prosecutions) 88 89 North Carolina Unique Places OHIO Siuslaw Watershed Council Lake Area Zoological Society Various Recipients Division of Parks and Recreation High Falls Dam Removal (NC) Lower North Fork Siuslaw Waterfowl Kiosk Renovation (SD) McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge Lake Waccamaw Hydrilla Control (NC) Acquisition and removal of High Falls Dam Monroe Soil and Water Helicopter Wood Placement Project (OR) Renovate the educational waterfowl kiosk at Berm Repair (TX) Eradicate the invasive aquatic plant Hydrilla in support of improving critical habitat for Conservation District Treat 10 miles of stream with large wood. the Bramble Park Zoo. Restore the berm at McFaddin National verticillata in Lake Waccamaw through use of the Cape Fear shiner, a federally endangered Erosion Control Project will increase the quantity and quality $4,500, Federal Criminal Case Wildlife Refuge to control the flow of water aquatic herbicides. Project will suppress hydrilla aquatic species. in Captina Creek Watershed (OH) of winter-rearing habitat for coho salmon and U.S. v. Silbernagel from the Gulf of Mexico into these marshes. growth in the lake preventing its spread and $1,000,000, Federal Criminal Case Plant native plants on a portion of the other anadromous fish within the Lower North Project will ultimately reduce salinities in the protecting the federally threatened Waccamaw U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Cranenest Creek. Project will prevent erosion, Fork Siuslaw River in Oregon. Star Lake and Clam Lake units of McFaddin. silverside and numerous endemic fish and Energy Progress reduce sediment, and improve water quality $204,930, Federal Criminal Case TEXAS $54,843, Federal Criminal Case mussels. in Cranenest Creek, which lies in the Captina various federal criminal prosecutions U.S. v. Thome Ship Management PTE, LTD $200,000, Federal Criminal Case University of North Carolina-Wilmington Creek Watershed. Tarver Abstract Company and Egyptian Tanker Company U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Bioaccumulation of Contaminants $4,800, Federal Criminal Case Siuslaw Watershed Council Acquisition of Land Energy Progress in the Lower Cape Fear River (NC) U.S. v. Donald E. Hercher North Fork Siuslaw Tidal Restoration in Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (TX) Investigate concentrations of three toxic metals Technical Assistance (OR) Acquire nearly 1 acre of land located within UTAH North Carolina in key indicator species throughout the food The Wilds Investigate baseline site conditions and the acquisition boundary of the Trinity River Wildlife Resources Commission web in the Lower Cape Fear River ecosystem Columbia Multiple Species Habitat restoration options for a 250-acre property on National Wildlife Refuge. A. Lawrence Kolz Aquatic Species Propagation (NC) to help assess threats to native wildlife. Project Conservation Plan American Burying Beetle the lower North Fork of the Siuslaw River in $1,200, Mitigation Standardization of Recovery Program Acquisition of equipment and supplies to will document interannual variations in metal Mitigation (OH) Oregon. Project will improve the health of the Electrofishing Fleet (CO, UT) outfit the upgraded Conservation Aquaculture exposure at multiple trophic levels resulting from Raise 200 pairs of American burying beetles to watershed and its ability to support healthy Texas A&M Forest Service Provide members of the San Juan River Center operated by the North Carolina Wildlife increased discharge from watersheds following be released as part of the Ohio Conservation populations of species, including coho salmon. Facilitating Longleaf Conservation Recovery Implementation Program Resources Commission. Project will allow the hurricanes or other storms over the two-year Plan. $15,000, Federal Criminal Case in the Longleaf Ridge electrofishing fleet with guidelines for North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission period of the study. $15,000, Mitigation various federal criminal prosecutions Significant Geographic Area – III (TX) standardizing their electrode arrays to facilitate IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) to increase capacity to produce numerous at- $138,581, Federal Criminal Case Provide education, outreach, and technical standardization of the power output for risk species via hatchery propagation. U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Upper Nehalem Watershed Council and financial assistance within the Longleaf electrofishing. $275,000, Federal Criminal Case Energy Progress OREGON Anchor Habitat Restoration Ridge Significant Geographic Area in east $3,375, Species Recovery U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke at Hyla Woods (OR) Texas. Project will restore 950 acres of longleaf Energy Progress U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Columbia Soil and Water Restore habitat for native coho salmon through pine, enhance an additional 4,400 acres of Ecosystems Research Institute Wildlife Camera Relocation (NC) Conservation District the placement of large woody debris within existing longleaf, and educate 200 private San Juan River Habitat Assessment North Carolina Move the Jordan Lake wildlife camera to a new Calhoun Large Wood and Riparian Lousignont Creek in Oregon. landowners. (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) Wildlife Resources Commission location across the Haw River. Enhancement Project (OR) $10,428, Federal Criminal Case $2,500, Federal Criminal Case Assess and monitor habitats in the San Juan Magnificent Ramshorn Propagation $2,800, Federal Criminal Case Design a project that will improve freshwater various federal criminal prosecutions U.S. v. Overseas Shipholding Group, Inc. River to help meet the goals and objectives and Restoration (NC) U.S. v. Dale Myers and riparian habitat for coho salmon and other of the San Juan River Basin Recovery Establish at least one population of the native salmonids. Project will add off-channel Upper Nehalem Watershed Council Texas Rice Industry Coalition Implementation Program. magnificent ramshorn in the wild in eastern U.S. Department of the Interior, habitat and large wood structures on a Beaver Dam Analogues for the Environment $75,810, Mitigation North Carolina. Project will support a biologist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5 tributary of the Nehalem River in Oregon. of the Nehalem Watershed (OR) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge Entrance to propagate magnificent ramshorn, identify Dan River Watershed Mussel Restoration $53,626, Federal Criminal Case Install a beaver dam analogue structure to Road Wetlands – II (TX) Global Conservation Network potential ponds for stocking, conduct habitat and Recovery (NC, VA) various federal criminal prosecutions improve dammed rearing habitat for three Construct 360 acres of wetland units on the Colorado Pikeminnow improvements in identified ponds, implement Develop a propagation technology and culture listed salmon species, including coho salmon, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge entrance Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) stocking, and conduct evaluations of stocking techniques for the James spinymussel, Atlantic Lower Nehalem Watershed Council within the upper Nehalem watershed in road. Project will provide a sustainable source Use a population viability analysis to assess success. pigtoe, green floater, and triangle floater; Lower Nehalem Rapid Bioassessment Oregon. Project will treat a total of 5.1 miles in of food and habitat for coastal shorebirds and Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help $100,000, Federal Criminal Case and produce yellow lampmussel juveniles. and Limiting Factors Analysis-Light (OR) four different stream reaches to address the other wildlife. the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Project will fund genetic analysis to evaluate Collect essential data regarding salmonid loss of legacy beaver habitat. $122,500, Federal Criminal Case managers and species experts reach a Energy Progress broodstock collection sites and establish viable distributions and abundance, and associated $166,815, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Thome Ship Management PTE, LTD downlisting decision. mussel release and monitoring sites in the watershed characteristics that may serve as various federal criminal prosecutions and Egyptian Tanker Company $28,950, Species Recovery Piedmont Conservation Council Roanoke River basin. limiting factors for salmonids. Project will Densons Creek Vented Wet Ford $180,000, Federal Criminal Case determine seasonal habitat limitations for coho Upper Nehalem Watershed Council Texas Rice Industry Coalition Improvement Project (NC) U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke salmon and develop a systematic approach to Salmon Anchor Habitat Improvement of for the Environment Miller Ecological Consultants

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED Improve the existing vented ford crossing over Energy Progress identify and implement restoration actions that Lousignont Creek (OR) Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge Colorado Pikeminnow Densons Creek to facilitate aquatic fish habitat address those limiting factors. Rebuild and enhance native coho salmon Entrance Road Wetlands – II (TX) Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) passage for state-endangered freshwater Virginia Polytechnic Institute $15,000, Federal Criminal Case habitat through the construction of log jams in Construct 360 acres of wetland units on the Use a population viability analysis to assess mussels, brook floater, and Savannah lilliput. and State University various federal criminal prosecutions Lousignont Creek in Oregon. Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge entrance Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help Project will transform the structure into a wet Assessment of the Dynamics and Biotic $52,030, Federal Criminal Case road. Project will provide year round habitat to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program ford crossing through the use of a series of Impacts of Fine Sediment in the Dan and Lower Nehalem Watershed Council various federal criminal prosecutions waterfowl, wading birds and shorebirds. managers and species experts reach a boulder cascades. Roanoke River Basins (NC, VA) North Fork Road Fish Passage Project (OR) $35,000, Federal Criminal Case downlisting decision. $32,000, Federal Criminal Case Conduct assessments of sediment transport Develop designs for replacing three fish U.S. v. Thome Ship Management PTE, LTD $4,832, Species Recovery U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke and deposition, instream benthic habitat, passage barriers along North Fork Road SOUTH DAKOTA and Egyptian Tanker Company Energy Progress and site-specific occupancy of silt-sensitive in Nehalem, Oregon. Project will improve Montgomery Archaeological Consultants fish species in 30 stream reaches distributed floodplain connectivity and access to a Ducks Unlimited Thomas E. Smith Cultural Resource Services The Conservation Fund across representative watersheds in the combined 4.12 miles of habitat for coho Denholm Wetland Restoration (SD) Land Acquisition Support for the Green River Canal Fish Screen (UT) Rocky and Deep Rivers Piedmont portion of the Dan-Roanoke river salmon, winter steelhead, chum, and fall Restore eight wetlands totaling 39.5 acres on for Columbia Bottomlands (TX) Conduct a Class III inventory of the Green River Conservation Corridor Initiative (NC) basin. Project analyses will be synthesized into chinook. the Denholm property, a tract of land owned by Provide support in developing land acquisition Canal Company’s proposed fish screen project Protection of 317 acres along the Deep River, a decision-support framework to help U.S. Fish $35,508, Federal Criminal Case Wetlands America Trust, a sister organization to opportunities for bottomland hardwood area in Emery County, Utah. which will be added to the Deep River State and Wildlife Service and partners prioritize the various federal criminal prosecutions Ducks Unlimited. Project will protect grassland habitat in the Texas Mid-Coast Refuge $34,999, Species Recovery Natural Area and Deep River State Trail. The riparian and floodplain management actions and all of the wetlands in perpetuity, with Complex. protection of these lands will preserve habitat needed to protect and enhance recovery of conservation easements held by the U.S. Fish $81,226, Mitigation for the federally endangered Cape Fear shiner. silt-sensitive fishes. and Wildlife Service. $1,300,000, Federal Criminal Case $189,998, Federal Criminal Case $16,408, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Various federal criminal prosecutions Energy Progress Energy Progress

90 91 Pat Martinez Carolina Marine Structures Virginia Polytechnic Institute Natural Resources Consultants Conservation Science Global Southern Environmental Standardization of Recovery Program Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and State University Lost Gillnet Removal in Puget Sound to Protect Assessing Risk to Golden Eagles Enforcement Network Electrofishing Fleet (CO, UT) Water Control Structures (NC, VA) Assessment of the Dynamics and Biotic and Restore Critical Marine Habitat (WA) From Turbine Development (WY) Advanced Environmental Crimes Provide members of the San Juan River Installation of water control structures on Impacts of Fine Sediment to Assist Remove up to 30 derelict gillnets from marine Conduct modeling risk of wind energy Training Program, Southern Environmental Recovery Implementation Program the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Conservation of Stream Fishes in the Dan and waters in Puget Sound, Washington. Project will development to golden eagles to develop site- Enforcement Network electrofishing fleet with guidelines for Refuge. Roanoke River Basins (NC, VA) clear areas of historically high concentrations specific models that can predict risk to golden Develop and administer Advanced standardizing their electrode arrays to facilitate $71,500, Other Conduct spatially explicit assessments of of derelict nets to protect critical habitats eagles and other raptors from turbines. Project Environmental Crimes Training Program standardization of the power output for sediment transport and deposition, instream for listed species including chinook salmon, will utilize telemetry data from golden eagles courses that provide classroom and practical electrofishing. Key-Log Economics benthic habitat, and site-specific occupancy of bocaccio rockfish, yellow-eye rockfish and trapped in Wyoming as input to spatially instruction for advanced investigation $1,275, Species Recovery Ecosystem Services in the Roanoke Rive Basin silt-sensitive fish species in 30 stream reaches marbled murrelet. explicit risk models built on resource selection techniques applicable to the investigation of (NC, VA) distributed across representative watersheds in $164,912, Federal Criminal Case functions. environmental crimes. State of Utah, Department of Natural Develop an ecosystem services framework the Piedmont portion of the Dan-Roanoke river U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $222,499, Federal Criminal Case $62,978, Federal Criminal Case Resources, Division of Wildlife Resources and analytical tools for the Roanoke River basin. Project analyses will be synthesized into U.S. v. PacifiCorp Energy U.S. v Wal-Mart, Inc. Miller Creek Watershed Restoration (UT) basin so that stakeholders have robust a decision-support framework to help U.S. Fish Restore instream, riparian, and upland habitats information available for developing and Wildlife Service and partners prioritize the WEST VIRGINIA Ecosystems Research Institute The Midwest Environmental in Miller Creek, a tributary to the Price River in conservation, restoration, management and riparian and floodplain management actions San Juan River Habitat Assessment Enforcement Association Carbon County, Utah. Project will encompass development plans. needed to protect and enhance recovery of silt- Allstar Ecology (AZ, CO, NM, UT, WY) Advanced Environmental Crimes activities ranging from beaver dam analogs $89,560, Federal Criminal Case sensitive fishes in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Development of Mitigation Plan for Assess and monitor habitats in the San Juan Training Program, Midwest Environmental to pinyon-juniper removal to target restoring U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Regions 4 and 5. TransCanada (WV) River to help meet the goals and objectives Enforcement Association and protecting sage habitat in the Miller Creek Energy Progress $189,998, Federal Criminal Case Develop Columbia Spruce Mountain of the San Juan River Basin Recovery Develop and administer Advanced Watershed. U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke conservation plan. Implementation Program. Environmental Crimes Training Program $110,707, Mitigation U.S. Department of the Interior, Energy Progress $43,921, Mitigation $75,810, Mitigation courses that provide classroom and practical IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 5 instruction for advanced investigation U.S. Department of the Interior, Dan River Watershed Mussel Restoration Virginia Polytechnic Institute West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Global Conservation Network techniques applicable to the investigation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 and Recovery (NC, VA) and State University Equipment Purchase for West Virginia Colorado Pikeminnow environmental crimes. Non-Native Fish Management Develop a propagation technology Framework to Guide Translocation of At-risk Division of Natural Resources Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) $130,364, Federal Criminal Case on the San Juan River (CO, NM, UT) and culture techniques for the James Aquatic Species in the Roanoke Reptile Conservation Program (WV) Use a population viability analysis to assess U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. Implement non-native fish management on the spinymussel, Atlantic pigtoe, green floater, and Dan River Basins (VA) Purchase equipment needed to support the Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help San Juan River in accordance with the San Juan and triangle floater; and produce yellow Develop a structured decision-making West Virginia Division of Natural Resources the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program Western States Hazardous Waste Project River Basin Recovery Implementation Program. lampmussel juveniles. Project will fund framework to guide translocations of four Reptile Conservation Program. Project will managers and species experts reach a Advanced Environmental Crimes $50,361, Mitigation genetic analysis to evaluate broodstock at-risk species: Roanoke logperch, orangefin provide the necessary pieces of equipment to downlisting decision. Training Program, Western States collection sites and establish viable mussel madtom, James spinymussel, and green monitor and conserve reptiles in West Virginia. $28,950, Species Recovery Hazardous Waste Project Utah Division of Wildlife Resources release and monitoring sites in the Roanoke floater. Project will focus on at-risk fishes and $10,988, Federal Criminal Case Develop and administer Advanced Utah Prairie Dog Habitat Improvement (UT) River basin with an emphasis on the Dan mussels in the Roanoke and Dan river basins. U.S. v. Michael P. Ellard Miller Ecological Consultants Environmental Crimes Training Program Purchase seed to complete a habitat River watershed. $94,000, Federal Criminal Case Colorado Pikeminnow courses that provide classroom and practical improvement project for Utah prairie dogs $180,000, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Population Viability Analysis (CO, UT, WY) instruction for advanced investigation at The Nature Conservancy’s Johnson Bench U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress WYOMING Use a population viability analysis to assess techniques applicable to the investigation of property in Garfield County, Utah. Energy Progress Colorado pikeminnow extinction risk and help environmental crimes. $20,372, Mitigation Virginia Polytechnic Institute Buffalo Bill Memorial Association the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, program $94,264, Federal Criminal Case Virginia Department and State University Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone managers and species experts reach a U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. Ute Indian Tribe of Environmental Quality Landscape Model to Predict Reach-Level and the American West (WY) downlisting decision. Tribal Sclerocactus Management Plan (UT) Fish Tissue Sampling Program in the Roanoke, Sources of Roanoke Logperch Larvae (VA) Install a permanent exhibition at the Draper $4,832, Species Recovery Implement the Ute Indian Tribe’s Sclerocactus Dan, and Yadkin River Basins (VA) Develop a spatially explicit model designed to Natural History Museum designed to expand U.S. TERRITORIES Management Plan. Continue and expand Virginia’s annual fish predict which reaches are likely sources for public engagement with the scientific Wyoming Stock Growers Land Trust $41,072, Mitigation tissue sampling, which currently collects fish larvae of the endangered Roanoke logperch. exploration and research into wildlife ecology Purple Sage Ranch Force Blue tissue at eight sites in the Dan River Basin, and Project will provide crucial new knowledge and human-wildlife connections to create a Conservation Easement (WY) Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands tests for aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, about early life history of Roanoke logperch community of critical thinkers who understand Secure a perpetual conservation easement Coral Reef Emergency Response

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED VIRGINIA beryllium, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, and which habitats are crucial for the species’ the ties that bind people and nature and act as on approximately 2,285 acres of the Purple Post-Hurricanes Irma and Maria manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, silver, persistence. responsible stewards of the future of Greater Sage Ranch. Project will ensure that the Deploy a team of four divers to conduct initial Canaan Valley Institute thallium, vanadium and zinc. Project will test $124,999, Federal Criminal Case Yellowstone and the American West. Project ranch retains its current open-space nature monitoring of corals damaged from Hurricanes Stream Habitat Restoration, Aquatic for PCBs, as a consumption advisory already U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke will highlight findings of multiyear research and protects a variety of important wildlife Irma and Maria. Project will conduct rapid Connectivity and Riparian Corridor exists in the Dan River and five additional Energy Progress projects on golden eagles and educate the habitats, including golden eagle breeding and triage and stabilization of as many corals as Enhancement (VA) sampling sites will be added in the Roanoke community on the significance of eagles to migration habitat. possible. Implement aquatic connectivity and stream and Yadkin river basins. Plains Indian cultures. $69,036, Federal Criminal Case $24,842, Federal Criminal Case corridor enhancement projects along the $357,685, Federal Criminal Case WASHINGTON $12,000, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. PacifiCorp Energy U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. North Fork Roanoke River to improve habitat U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke U.S. v. PacifiCorp Energy for the Roanoke logperch. Project will remove Energy Progress Islands’ Oil Spill Association HJR Reefscaping one fish passage barrier to restore 2.3 miles Oil Spill Response Trainings, Drills and Buffalo Bill Memorial Association NATIONWIDE Puerto Rico Coral Reef Emergency Response of aquatic connectivity and improve ½ mile Preparedness in the San Juan Islands (WA) Golden Eagle Reproduction and Diet Post-Hurricanes Irma and Maria instream habitat; enhance another ½ mile in- Maintain and increase oil spill-response in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin (WY) Retail Industry Leaders Association Conduct damage assessments, triage and colony stream habitat through stream restoration and preparedness in the San Juan Islands and Extend and expand the Draper Natural History Retail Compliance Assistance Center restoration of corals impacted by Hurricanes Irma streambank stabilization; establish 12 acres of surrounding straits. Project will help protect Museum’s long-term Golden Eagle monitoring Create and operate a retail compliance center. and Maria at priority coral reefs around Puerto riparian corridor habitat; and install 6,700 feet orcas and other endangered and threatened and research project to monitor reproduction $954,870, Federal Criminal Case Rico as suggested by the National Oceanic and of livestock exclusion fence to protect riparian species such as the marbled murrelet, western in as many as 60 nesting territories in the U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. Atmospheric Administration Restoration Center. buffer areas. grebe, tufted puffin, and the common murre. Bighorn Basin. Project will utilize new camera Project will rescue colonies of threatened and $299,999, Federal Criminal Case $74,100, Federal Criminal Case traps to compare nest deliveries with prey endangered species to have a greater chance of U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke U.S. v. Angelakos (Hellas) S.A. remains collected at selected nests. recovery and survival at the locations impacted Energy Progress $7,000, Federal Criminal Case by this project. U.S. v. PacifiCorp Energy $100,342, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. 92 93 Red Caribena de Varamientos INTERNATIONAL Photography: Gary Kramer (cover, blue-winged teal), Puerto Rico Manatee Conservation Center National Geographic (p. 3-4, terrain) Hurricane Maria Reconstruction Blue Marine Foundation Rebuild and make functional the enhanced Reviving Ecosystem Health manatee veterinary clinic and labs destroyed Through Oyster Restoration by Hurricane Maria. Project will construct new Reseeding of two of the largest native oyster quarantine pools and aquaculture tanks for beds in Europe, which have declined drastically maintaining and cultivating natural vegetation as a result of historic overfishing, disease for manatees. and invasive species. Project will enhance $200,000, Federal Criminal Case biodiversity, improve water quality and restore U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. the health of an entire ecosystem. $952,559, Federal Criminal Case Ridge to Reefs U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Seagrass Restoration on the South Coast of Puerto Rico Amazon Conservation Association Conduct seagrass planting, marine debris Protecting and Restoring Rosewood removal, education and outreach, and water in Amazonian Peru quality improvements to benefit seagrass on Plant 5,000 seedlings of Rosewood trees at the south coast of Puerto Rico. Project will the Los Amigos Conservation Concession and address several factors impacting sea grasses, Biological Station in Amazonian Peru, and including boating and recreational impacts, maintain them for two years to the point of marine debris and sewage and septic impacts. self-sufficiency. Project will be implemented $25,000, Federal Criminal Case by two local agroforestry technicians with U.S. v. Authority for the Port of Americas experience planting and managing tree crops under the growing conditions in Amazonian The Ocean Foundation Peru, and these trees will eventually serve Emergency Location and Removal as a seed bank for others who may wish to of Lost Fishing Gear in Puerto Rico reforest and conduct ecological restoration Conduct 15 trips in each of Puerto Rico’s coasts, that includes Rosewood, either for strict and 5 trips each in Culebra and Vieques to locate, conservation or for managed, nondestructive remove and destroy or recycle abandoned or lost leaf harvest. fishing gear. Project will conduct a total of 70 trips $115,000, Federal Criminal Case during the five-month project period and will U.S. v. Young Living Essential Oils cover all of Puerto Rico, including marine critical habitats, and areas important to commercial and recreational fishing. $107,721, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife Services Dog and Mongoose Control to Protect Nesting Sea Turtles at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge Remove feral dogs and mongooses to protect endangered sea turtles at Sandy Point National

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The project outcome anticipates a reduction of sea turtle nest depredation from 50 percent to less than 15 percent while reducing direct sea turtle attacks to zero. $48,983, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD.

WIDECAST: Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network Rapid Assessment and Management Actions After Hurricane Impacts on Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches in Puerto Rico Assess nesting habitat condition across the most important nesting beaches post Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Project will construct a spatially explicit inventory of areas with problematic beach erosion and debris accumulation to rapidly prioritize restoration actions. $30,038, Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD.

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