national fish and wildlife foundation 2014 conservation investments Front cover: Elk (National Geographic) Back cover: Monarch Butterfly The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation works to protect and restore the health of ecosystems so our native species can thrive. Since our founding in 1984, we’ve become one of the largest conservation funders in the world. We bring public and private partners together to support science-based projects and community-driven solutions.

In Fiscal Year 2014, NFWF funded more than 800 conservation projects across the nation, generating an on-the-ground conservation impact of more than $668 million. UNITED STATES Dauphin Island Park & Beach Board National Wildlife Federation Dauphin Island Audubon Bird Alabama Longleaf Pine Restoration ALABAMA Sanctuary Restoration on Private Lands — III Alabama Wildlife Federation Restore and properly manage 133 acres Implement a proven model of active Native Warm Season Grass Establishment of globally important birding habitat landowner outreach, education and technical and Capacity Building — II on Dauphin Island by implementing a assistance to restore 4,000 new acres of Increase grassland habitat in Alabama by comprehensive prescribed burn regiment. longleaf pine and impact an additional breaking down the barriers to grassland $56,275 20,000 acres of longleaf pine. habitat creation through demonstration $125,000 sites, expanded partnerships and Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. educational materials. Evaluating a Catch Shares Pilot of Gulf Texas A&M University $105,360 of Mexico Headboats (AL, FL, TX) Reducing Incidental Capture of Evaluate performance of catch shares pilot Loggerhead Sea Turtles in Gulf of American Bird Conservancy program for Gulf of Mexico headboats. Mexico Trawl Fisheries (AL, FL, TX) Beach-Nesting Bird Conservation in the Project will assess the economic and Reduce incidental capture of loggerhead Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, TX) — III conservation performance of a catch shares sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. Project Protect vulnerable solitary and colonial beach pilot program. If the data and analysis show will certify turtle excluder device training and island-nesting birds such as Wilson’s and the headboat pilot to be successful, this for vessels and reduce turtle capture from snowy plovers, least terns and black skimmers project could lead to the implementation incidental shrimp trawl captures. from human disturbance. This project will of first large-scale recreational catch shares $99,103 implement protective measures such as signage, management in the Gulf of Mexico. symbolic fencing and educational outreach $100,000 The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. with help from local partners and volunteers. Longleaf Growth and Yield Model $165,000 Freshwater Land Trust Initial Data Collection Habitat Enhancement for the Evaluate longleaf growth and yield models, American Forest Foundation Watercress Darter and develop recommendations on how they Shortleaf Pine Restoration in the Enhance habitat for the watercress darter at can be improved. Project will also begin Alabama Cumberlands Roebuck Springs and educate a large audience collecting data that is determined to be Complete a landowner marketing campaign on the importance of Alabama’s endangered missing from current models. informed by current techniques and species. This project will also remove part of $28,750 consumer and attitudinal behaviors to engage an impervious parking lot and replace that private landowners in the restoration and area with bioswales, which will help control The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. enhancement of shortleaf pine. Partners stormwater runoff and increase available Longleaf Landowner Outreach and will work with landowners to restore over habitat for the watercress darter. Technical Expert Database 1,000 acres of shortleaf pine, enhance $30,000 Develop the first database of individuals over 2,500 acres of shortleaf habitat, and working to advance longleaf pine restoration engage 600 private landowners through Institute for Marine Mammal Studies and management on private lands across technical assistance. Stranding Response and Necropsies for Marine the range of longleaf pine. $243,378 Mammals in Gulf of Mexico (AL, LA, MS) $26,950 Respond to, conduct necropsies on and Auburn University collect tissues from stranded marine mammals The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. Mill Creek Urban Stream and in the Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters. Partnering to Restore Longleaf in Outdoor Classroom Restoration Project will provide coverage for the Marine the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Restore 400 linear feet of an urban stream in Mammal Stranding Network in the northern Partnership Landscape (AL, FL) Phenix City. Activities will incorporate water Gulf of Mexico. Advance restoration and management to quality education into local curricula to use $379,670 assist in recovering longleaf pine through with a renovated outdoor classroom. partner projects in the Gulf Coastal Plain $39,988 Marine Environmental Sciences Ecosystem Partnership. Partners will Consortium / Dauphin Island Sea Lab complete 26,500 acres of prescribed fire, Birmingham-Southern College Alabama Marine Mammal Stranding Network 500 acres of invasive species control, 1,500 Restoration at Village Creek Through Build capacity for the Marine Mammal acres of mid-story treatments and 447 acres the EcoScape Program Stranding Network in Alabama. Project of longleaf pine restoration on Blackwater Establish a riparian restoration and education will respond to marine mammal strandings River State Forest. program at one of the most damaged and out-of-habitat animals reported. $267,000 locations of Village Creek by establishing a $94,400 .30-acre bioswale/EcoScape park. This project The Nature Conservancy will restore conditions for species diversity Micah Brodsky, V.M.D. Consulting Talladega-Mountain Longleaf Pine and overall habitat health in Village Creek. Northern Gulf of Mexico Unusual Mortality Conservation Partnership (AL, GA) $28,750 Event Veterinary Assistance (AL, FL, LA, MS) Support on-the-ground restoration on state Build capacity for the Marine Mammal and private lands including the establishment City of Montgomery Stranding Network in the Northern Gulf of longleaf on 200 acres of private lands and Genetta Watershed Restoration of Mexico. Project will provide technical 300 acres of the Coosa Wildlife Management and Community Education expertise, respond to live and dead stranded Area, which serves as key habitat for the Plan trees and remove invasive species at marine mammals and necropsy dead stranded red-cockaded woodpecker. Project will Genetta Park and educate local students and animals to determine cause of death. enhance over 8,100 acres of longleaf through residents on water quality and community $84,766 prescribed fire and other management roles. Project will plant 15 trees and remove practices, with additional funding used to invasive species and debris on 2.5 acres in provide fire crew assistance. a park wetland. $280,000 $29,450

2 ALASKA Anchorage Park Foundation Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Alaska Department of Fish and Game Anchorage Greenbelt Restoration Eradication of Elodea from the Kenai Peninsula Statewide Coordination and Implementation Restore greenbelt riparian areas based on Eradicate elodea from the Kenai Peninsula. of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan Anchorage watershed management plans. Project will prevent the reintroduction of Work with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Project partners will engage 125 volunteers to elodea through targeted public outreach and on the development, coordination and connect the trails to restored riparian areas at prevent potential reestablishment of elodea implementation of the National Fish Habitat University Lake, Valley of the Moon Park and by implementing Early Detection / Rapid Action Plan in Alaska. Project will include Westchester Lagoon areas in conjunction with Response methods. landscape analysis and flow efforts to fill data the Youth Employment in Parks program. $39,985 gaps for anadromous fish catalog. $25,000 LGL Alaska Research Associates, Inc. $125,000 Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association Eulachon and Beluga Whales: Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Western Alaska Salmon Indicators of Ecosystem Health Electronic Monitoring Transition in Preliminary Risk Assessment Examine the role of eulachon fish and beluga Alaska Fixed Gear Fisheries Review and assess the status of salmon stocks whales as indicators of Cook Inlet ecosystem Transition electronic monitoring of estimate in western Alaska and explore strategies health. Project will collect and summarize catch in Alaska’s fixed gear fisheries fleets for rebuilding the stocks and improving data, identify information gaps and develop a from a pilot phase to an integrated at-sea sustainability. model of the relationships in a healthy Cook monitoring program by creating a structured, $24,584 Inlet ecosystem that contribute to a viable collaborative process that serves as a model beluga whale population. Bureau of Land Management $150,000 exportable to improve fisheries management Scenario Planning: Resource across the national. Development in the U.S. Arctic Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences $30,000 Use scenario planning to systematically assess Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association a range of energy and resource development Coordinate the efforts of 15 organizations Transitioning Electronic Monitoring from Pilot scenarios and their implications for the North working cooperatively at 16 sites across to Integrated Component of Management Slope of Alaska and adjacent seas through the Arctic to determine what limits the Construct a structured, transparent process 2040. Project will contribute to our mutual populations of high-priority shorebird species. involving stakeholder collaboration to understanding of the potential future state Project will increase the ability to target our transition electronic monitoring in Alaska’s of the social-ecological systems of the North hemispheric conservation activity at the fixed gear fleets. Project will incorporate key Slope and adjacent seas, and contribute life history stage that is actually limiting elements for success identified in other related to the refinement of specific research and the populations of these species, rather programs and create a model exportable to monitoring priorities. than guessing where conservation funds fisheries around the nation to improve fisheries $100,000 can best be spent. $69,233 management and conservation through this Bureau of Land Management cost-effective, at-sea catch accounting. Youth on the Land: Alaska Summer Interns Southeast Alaska Guidance Association $135,000 Hire 10 local young adults, and one local Ibeck Creek and Eyak River Alaska Pacific University Student Conservation Association intern to Watershed Stewardship Growing Alaska’s Farmers participate in meaningful hands-on projects Recruit Alaskan youth through the Alaska Build a framework for growing Alaskan that will increase their skills and their Service Corps Program and work with farmers to diversify economic opportunities knowledge of a variety of natural resource partners to provide the youth with on-the- and diversify food sources. Project will create management and environmental education- job mentoring and job skills development. educational infrastructure at Spring Creek related careers. Project will have youth interns A crew of seven AmeriCorps members will Farm, then develop an innovative farm complete a minimum of 80 hours during work for four weeks on projects that include training curriculum. the summer working to help enhance and mitigating human use impacts along a major $50,000 maintain the Campbell Tract, a 730-acre Coho spawning stream by reducing trails parcel of public land managed by the Bureau and stream crossings, revegetating stream Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust of Land Management in Anchorage that banks, redeveloping a historic recreational Local Fish Fund Inter-Generational Transfer includes creeks, forests and a network of trail by installing boardwalk sections, and Develop and deploy viable processes for recreational trails. removing invasive reed canary grass in order inter-generational transfer of fishery rights $15,000 to reestablish native plants and improve and best practices in Alaska. Project will use soil conditions. existing legal and financial mechanisms in Environment for the Americas $18,601 a novel way to achieve the goal of increased Celebrate Shorebirds: retention of economic benefits from fisheries Celebra las Aves Playeras U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Gulf of Alaska communities. Expand paid internships to eight Latino Effects of a Changing Climate on Wetlands, Invertebrates and Shorebirds $135,000 youths and partner with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Determine how a changing climate will Alaska Zoo, Inc. Management, and U.S. Forest Service sites in affect invertebrates and subsequently induce Polar Bear Transition Center four states to provide training and research. a trophic mismatch that will affect growth Provide a dedicated facility for the care of Interns will receive conservation education and survival of shorebird young. Project orphaned polar bears transitioning into and training in shorebird identification, will inform management decisions about captivity. Project will enhance conservation, mentoring from natural resource profes­ factors that may predispose shorebird research and educational opportunities. sionals and be exposed to research and species to be more or less tolerant of changes $50,000 education techniques. in the climate. $81,914 $71,995

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service programs which will engage local high school Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation Trust Applied Research on Polar and college students, Southwest Conservation Producing Low-Cost Plant Material Bears in the Chukchi Sea Corps members and community volunteers for Grassland Restoration Live-capture and release polar bears on in conservation and stewardship projects. Contribute to habitat restoration, while the sea ice of the Chukchi Sea. Project $74,800 also removing limiting factors to large-scale will uncover findings that are critical to restoration throughout the region. Project management in relation to development, Bureau of Land Management — will establish and/or enhance production of human-bear interactions, and a Arizona State Office native seed and hay on former agricultural changing climate. Bureau of Land Management Phoenix fields, which will greatly reduce long-term District Youth Initiative (AZ, CA) $103,655 costs of restoration activities at priority Engage local, underserved youth in natural conservation sites. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — resource conservation and restoration through $119,350 Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge a 16-week training and education program. Emergency Response to House Mice This award-winning youth conservation Friends of Verde River Greenway Introduction on St. George Island program connects urban youth with public Verde River Habitat Improvement Eradicate recently introduced house mice lands in formal environmental career training Train and educate underserved local young from St. George Island in the Pribilof Islands, and employs youth who complete actual adults to do watershed restoration on the Alaska. Project will help eliminate a variety target allocations that preserve America’s Upper Verde River on land managed by the of threats that house mice could have on natural and cultural heritage. Prescott National Forest. Project will engage populations of native species. $75,000 a crew of six corps members and two crew $9,848 leaders for 2,240 hours of conservation service Bureau of Land Management — over seven weeks. Safford Field Office U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Region 7 $49,766 Genetics-Based Mark-Recapture Youth Riparian Studies and Habitat Restoration of Pacific Walrus Hire 16 youth and engage interns through The Nature Conservancy Conduct a genetics-based capture-mark- the summer and school year to build Arizona Forest Restoration recapture project for Pacific walrus in order science, technology, engineering and Work with partners, contractors and local to estimate abundance and demographics mathematics skills by collecting water community colleges to restore ponderosa rates. Project will generate preliminary quality data, conducting plant community pine forest ecosystems. Project will provide estimates of survival, movement probabilities characterizations, assessing springs and workforce training to create jobs and improve and site fidelity, all of which will benefit engaging in surveillance for rare plant and business practices in northern Arizona’s future monitoring and management of the animal species. forest-based economy. population in a changing environment. $74,420 $25,000 $100,000 City of Phoenix U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Greening Wilson Elementary School District ARIZONA Arizona Fisheries Resources Office Construct 600 feet of engineered desert Apache Trout Population Recovery American Conservation Experience riparian habitat in a low-income Phoenix Remove non-native brown trout and brook Agua Fria National Monument neighborhood that will serve to build the trout on the White Mountain Apache Habitat Monitoring capacity of students and residents to sustain Tribe Reservation lands and surrounding Conduct wildlife, vegetation and riparian healthy urban ecosystems. Project will educate watershed in Arizona to increase the native, habitat monitoring, surveys and inventory of residents about the importance of this riparian genetically pure Apache trout populations. rangeland and wilderness areas on the Agua habitat and provide them with the knowledge Project will conduct fish barrier monitoring, Fria National Monument and along the Agua and tools to reintegrate desert riparian removal of non-native fishes from recovery Fria River on Arizona public land. Project will habitats back into their neighborhoods. streams and population monitoring to have provide meaningful professional experiences $30,000 an up-to-date population status that can for youth while also providing a benefit to be used to determine if a delisting package public land resources and users. Conservation Legacy should be developed. $15,000 Historic Railroad Trail and Camp $100,000 Davis Trail (AZ, NV) Arizona Game and Fish Department Expand the existing Colorado River Heritage University of Arizona Board of Regents Apache Trout Restoration — IV Greenway Park and Trails from Davis Dam Making Space for Monarchs Remove non-native brown trout and across the Colorado River to Laughlin, and Students in Phoenix brook trout to increase native Apache trout Arizona. Project will employ a crew of six Restore monarch butterfly habitat along populations. Project will continue barrier corps members and two crew leaders to the riparian corridor, providing students maintenance and monitoring in several construct and mark trail, install signage, with the opportunity to make a difference locations to ensure that non-native trout improve walkways and manage vegetation. in their community and environment. are not competing with or hybridizing with $49,600 Project will provide 1,320 students with native Apache trout. the opportunity to participate in the Water $200,000 Conservation Legacy Investigations Program, a year-long study of Navajo High School Crew (AZ, NM) Bureau of Land Management water that includes three units of study: water Lead a high school crew in completion resources and supply, water use and water in Gila Watershed Youth Employment of conservation projects on the Navajo in Conservation the environment. Nation. Project will complete stream bank $29,209 Hire a recent college graduate with a resource stabilization/restoration, trail maintenance, management background to help develop and wildlife fence repair and construction. and integrate Bureau of Land Management $25,000 and Arizona Gila Watershed Partnership

4 ARKANSAS American Rivers, Inc. California Conservation Corps The Nature Conservancy Meadow Restoration Through Engaging Youth as Watershed Stewards Kings River Nature Preserve Conservation Indigenous Fire Management Partner with federal, state, county, tribal and Purchase 608-acre tract of significant Restore six priority meadow sites using non-profit organizations to revitalize public segments of the Kings River. Acquisition indigenous fire management as a restoration lands in priority watersheds throughout will add over 2 miles of river and riparian tool, and design and implement a monitoring California. Project will hire 22 youths corridor to the Kings River Nature Preserve, program that will determine the impact to address watershed and fish habitat a 4,585-acre preserve that is Arkansas’ longest of this restoration on a range of ecological restoration needs. privately owned stretch of river corridor parameters and individual species. Project will $99,988 contribute to the testing of new techniques open to the public. California Conservation Corps $550,000 for restoration, coordination with Native American communities and the conservation Improving Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands Improve the Point Arena-Stornetta public CALIFORNIA of meadows that are integral to the health of priority species. lands by constructing a pass-through along Alliance for Climate Education, Inc. $94,286 a fence near Mendocino College, repairing Climate Education and Youth or replacing an existing fence at the Miner’s Leadership Development American Rivers, Inc. Hole road pass-through, and installing a Provide climate science and environmental Prioritizing Meadow Restoration California Coastal National Monument education for high school youth in the Bay for Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout sign at the Point Arena City Hall. Project Area. Project will also provide leadership Evaluate and prioritize all meadows in the will also repair a fence at the Point Arena opportunities for youth to facilitate climate Pine Creek watershed, improve Eagle Lake Lighthouse, continue with the replacement solutions in their schools and communities. rainbow trout habitat and accelerate the on the Lighthouse Road fence, and $25,000 pace of meadow restoration in Pine Creek. replace four gates. Restoration/enhancement alternatives for $15,000 American Conservation Experience meadows in the watershed will be built Greys Mountain Meadow Restoration Initiative from a sound geomorphic assessment and California Conservation Corps Recruit and train eight youths to restore the most effective management techniques San Joaquin River Partnership montane wet meadows in partnership with will be incorporated into restoration and Place two AmeriCorps members at the San Sierra National Forest and Yosemite/Sequoia enhancement plans. Joaquin River Partnership on behalf of the Resource Conservation and Development $82,214 California Conservation Corp’s Watershed Council. Activities will target the most Stewards Program. Project will include critical needs for repairing and stabilizing Audubon California watershed recovery and protection, education meadows, including the construction of rock Conservation of Aechmophorus Grebe and outreach, volunteer recruitment and step-pool or log-fabric step-falls structures at Colonies at Four Northern California Lakes — III member development. headcuts in eroded streams and living willow Conduct outreach and monitor $30,000 revetments and/or brush mattresses along Aechmophorous grebe colonies at four of the unstable channel banks. five top breeding lakes in northern California California Institute of Environmental Studies $25,000 and reduce loss of species at these sites by Post-Rat Eradication Monitoring of building public awareness and support, Scripps’s Murrelet on Anacapa Island American Conservation Experience reducing human disturbance and monitoring Assess population change in Scripps’s Youth Involvement in Condor Recovery nests and productivity. murrelet on Anacapa Island since black rat Recover California condors and their habitat $93,886 eradication in 2002. Project will compare on public and private lands through youth trends derived from spotlight surveys and nest stewardship, education and training projects. Briana Goodwin monitoring in 2001-2003 with those derived Project activities and training will include Contractor for Marine Debris in 2014 to develop the best assessment of radio tracking condors, habitat restoration Action Coordination Team’s West population change. (such as microtrash collection, native seed Coast Database (CA, OR, WA) $79,835 collection, seeding and invasive plant control), Provide administrative support to the outreach through public speaking and Marine Debris Action Coordination Team’s California Institute of Environmental Studies presentations, video and web design for nature West Coast Marine Debris Database. Scripps’s Murrelet Monitoring interpretation and mentoring other students The contractor will ensure active engagement on Anacapa Island — II through K-12 school programs. and coordination, and will help to accomplish Document nesting effort, hatching success $74,891 the team’s work plan. and rates of depredation for murrelet nests $17,500 monitored prior to and following the American Rivers, Inc. eradication of rats from Anacapa Island. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout and Bureau of Land Management — Project will also observe the recolonization of Meadow Restoration Arizona State Office nesting habitats that had been inaccessible to Restore meadows in the Carson and Truckee Bureau of Land Management Phoenix murrelets because of the presence of rats. watershed. Project will assess approximately District Youth Initiative (AZ, CA) $73,453 50 meadows over both watersheds and Engage local, underserved youth in natural prioritize them for restoration and establish resource conservation and restoration through California Trout, Inc. baseline aquatic habitat, species and a 16-week training and education program. Restoring Meadow Fisheries in the ecosystem conditions. This award-winning youth conservation Golden Trout Wilderness $683,587 program connects urban youth with public Work with partners to develop a collaborative lands in formal environmental career training model for meadow restoration. Project will and employs youth who complete actual complete prioritized restoration of five target allocations that preserve America’s meadows to benefit approximately 2,500 acres natural and cultural heritage. and approximately 25 miles of streams. $75,000 $239,820

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Center for Ecosystem Management Project will raise awareness about safe fish Fathom Consulting and Restoration consumption along the Los Angeles coastline Incorporating Closed Areas into Catch Flow Improvement in the Russian and the impact of human activity on the Palos Share Management (CA, OR, WA) River Watershed— II Verdes Shelf ecosystem. Incorporate closed areas into catch share Advance effort to recover a viable, self- $14,990 management of the West Coast groundfish sustaining population of coho salmon in the fishery. Project will develop and advance Russian River watershed. Project will restore Community Initiatives a collaborative proposal to reconfigure the a more natural seasonal flow regime in five Conserving and Restoring Sierra Valley Marsh Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area as part of priority watersheds, increase the viability of Conserve four contiguous properties in the post-rationalization management for West juvenile coho and numbers of returning adult heart of the Sierra Valley marsh and restore Coast groundfish. Specific activities include coho and increase water supply reliability wetland and wet meadow habitat for avian guiding post-catch share efforts to balance for water users. species of concern. Project will purchase 1,960 the goals of rebuilding with those of accessing $500,000 acres in fee and add them to the Maddalena target stocks; inform how under-sampled Preserve, as well as secure conservation but productive, high-relief rocky habitats are Center for Ecosystem Management easements on 16,500 acres. contributing to the rebuilding of constraining and Restoration $500,000 species; and inform bycatch avoidance San Francisco Bay Steelhead Trout Strategy plans of risk pools, fishing associations and Conservation Metrics, Inc. Draft a steelhead restoration strategy designed individual fishermen. Passive Acoustic Sensor Surveys for Detecting to be a component of a larger business plan $85,000 Ashy Storm-Petrels on Anacapa Island — III for NFWF’s San Francisco Bay Estuary Conservation Fund. Project will develop Develop and provide field protocols and Fishermen’s Marketing 10-year goals for steelhead restoration and instructions for deploying passive acoustic Association of Bodega Bay identify priority or “essential streams” for sensors on Santa Cruz and Anacapa Island. Regional Community Fishing Association restoration within the greater bay area and the Project will produce a report describing and Sustainability Planning critical actions needed to address ecological the presence/absence of ashy storm-petrel Create two new Community Fishing deficiencies and threats within these areas to acoustic activity at survey sites, nightly/ Associations in Bodega Bay and Bolinas. meet the 10-year goals. seasonal patterns of activity at occupied sites, Project will develop business, sustainability, $30,000 and relative rates of acoustic activity among and legal entity plans to drive regional occupied sites. economic, social and environmental Central California Seafood $15,233 sustainability. Project will result in a clear Marketing Association understanding of Bolinas and Bodega Bay CSUSB Philanthropic Foundation Securing and Expanding Collaborative as fishing communities and will empower Coastal Sage Scrub Conservation Fishery Advancements them to create opportunities and strategies and Environmental Education Secure and expand collaborative fishery that successfully interact with the Pacific Use a 68-acre reserve of undeveloped land in advancements in California. Project will groundfish catch share program. Chaparral habitat on perimeter of the campus create an efficient, viable, and more formalized $125,000 organizational structure and develop and of California State University, San Bernardino, implement a collective operations plan and for a one-year pilot education, instruction and Fresno Metro Ministry marketing plan. research program. Students in grades 5-12 Fresno Farm Sustainability $135,000 will engage in subsidized bus trips and tours Education and Certification of the “Land Lab,” learning about habitat Develop and test an agricultural sustainability Christine Petersen conservation and restoration. education and certification program for Fresno Channel Islands Seabird Lessons $50,000 area farmers that are participating in Fresno Raise awareness and increase protection of Food Commons, an innovative localized food Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District seabirds on the Channel Islands. Project will program. This program will offer assistance Conservation and Education Through help students and teachers better understand to six local growers in sustainable agricultural Demonstration Planter Boxes the value of Channel Islands seabirds and their practices and improve sustainable agricultural Educate over 6,400 students, teachers and habitats through an in-depth set of lessons on practices on 85 acres of farmland. customers on landscape water conservation seabirds and seabird restoration projects. $100,000 $17,580 and conserve over 7,000 gallons of water. This project will construct four demonstration Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed City of Corona Department planter boxes that highlight low-water Advancing Environmental of Water and Power irrigation systems and water-efficient plants. Stewardship in Marsh Creek Corona Library Conservation Garden $36,805 Improve stormwater management and and Education Strategies promote green infrastructure practices in Environment for the Americas Support interactive education features in a the region by engaging thousands of people Celebrate Shorebirds: Celebra las Aves Playeras new conservation garden located at a public in restoration and stewardship of Marsh Expand paid internships to eight Latino library in California’s Inland Empire. Project Creek. This multi-faceted project includes youths and partner with U.S. Fish and Wildlife will save two million gallons of water annually. green infrastructure planning, on-the-ground Service, Bureau of Land Management, and $40,000 restoration and robust community and youth U.S. Forest Service sites in four states to involvement in an important area of the bay- City of Los Angeles provide training and research. Interns will delta ecosystem. Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing Program — III receive conservation education and training $40,000 Continue the Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing in shorebird identification, mentoring from Program in the summer of 2014 by hosting natural resource professionals and be exposed 15 hands-on fishing sessions for 450 youths. to research and education techniques. $81,914

6 Friends of the Los Angeles River Institute for Wildlife Studies allow River Corps members to develop The Los Angeles River Rover Urban 2014 Raptor Monitoring on the Channel Islands important job skills, many of which will Wildlife Refuge Partnership Assess the status of the bald eagle and be applicable to conservation-based Engage community members through peregrine falcon on the Channel Islands by employment opportunities. school and public education programming observing them at their nest sites during $100,000 and the Los Angeles River Rover, a mobile the nesting season. Project will determine interactive educational center. This project nest site occupancy, nesting chronology, and Marina Del Rey Anglers will educate community members about the reproductive success. Marina Del Rey Anglers Youth Fishing — III valuable resources that the river provides for $390,339 Host 28 fishing trips for 500 youths in the wildlife and the opportunities for the public Santa Monica Bay. Project will educate youths to recreate along its banks. John Dutton Productions and counselors about local fish contamination $24,975 Fishing Outreach and Kiosk Video Production and safe fishing practices. Work with the Montrose Settlements $15,000 Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Restoration Program to create educational Muir Beach Stewardship and videos about fish contamination and safe Mattole Restoration Council Community Engagement fishing practices for kiosks situated in aquaria Planting for the Future: Community Build on a multi-year effort to remove and nature centers in Southern California. Based Riparian Restoration barriers to natural floodplain function $29,346 Enhance a partnership between local and engage a diverse range of community watershed organizations, schools and agencies members to restore native habitat in the Klamath Bird Observatory while providing extensive opportunities for Redwood Creek Watershed at Muir Beach. Bird Banding Internships for Underserved community members of all ages to participate Project will provide a valuable, hands- Community Youth (CA, OR) in local restoration activities. Project will on environmental education experience, Partner with the Bureau of Land include collecting 100 pounds of native while also accomplishing critical habitat Management, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. seed, propagating 15,000 plants, planting restoration tasks. Fish and Wildlife Service to expand an installations, removing invasive plants and $37,500 internship program and improve outreach site monitoring. to underserved communities, including $29,900 Great Basin Institute Native American and Hispanic youths. Generation Green: Lake Tahoe Program expansion will create four six- Merced Community College District Basin Management (CA, NV) month internship positions that will provide Merced College, Los Banos Food Forest Engage local youth in ecological conservation training and practical experience in bird Establish a sustainable woodland ecosystem and leadership development. Project will monitoring techniques, with an emphasis on as a learning laboratory, while providing teach students about conservation methods bird banding, foster an academic approach to healthy organic produce to students and and related job opportunities through a learning and a well-rounded curriculum in the surrounding community. The site will variety of on-the-ground work. field biology, and provide an opportunity to demonstrate environmental responsibility and $36,370 attain bird bander certification through the sustainability by composting campus green North American Banding Council. waste, providing an organic food source for Growing Solutions Restoration $60,804 students and the community and establishing Education Institute a living laboratory for conservation biology to Seabird Restoration on Santa Barbara Literacy for Environmental Justice be taught complementary to existing science Island in the Channel Islands Candlestick Point Eco-Stewards and arts curricula. Organize and execute two volunteer planting Yosemite Slough $50,000 trips and provide technical assistance on Advance land and water conservation, restoration planning efforts. Project will ecological health, environmental education NatureBridge advance seabird habitat restoration efforts and recreation through the engagement of Environmental Education and Stewardship on Santa Barbara Island in Channel community-based underserved youth. This for Underserved Youth Islands National Park. project will result in additional long-term Offer diverse, underserved youth the $16,969 rehabilitation and stewardship of Yosemite opportunity to learn hands-on science Slough, the largest tidal restoration in San through environmental education programs in Half Moon Bay Groundfish Francisco, integral to the water quality the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Marketing Association and livelihood of this highly developed Project will include observing seals from the Revitalization of Historic Half urban watershed. bluffs and studying the adaptations of tide Moon Bay Fishing Port $27,389 pool creatures in an intertidal marine lab. Revitalize sustainable fishing through $50,000 individual fishing quotas in Half Moon Bay. Los Angeles Audubon Society Project will support the development of Ballona Creek Watershed Restoration Point Reyes Bird Observatory dba plans to establish a cooperative fisherman- Restore acres of wetlands and coastal habitat. Point Blue Conservation Science owned facility for buying, processing and Project will provide hands-on learning San Francisco Bay Clapper Rail Strategy offloading, as well as provide assistance in with an environmental curriculum and Develop a business plan to sustain and branding, marketing, and business planning. student mentorship. increase populations of endangered California The goal of this project is to position the $39,940 clapper rail in San Francisco Bay. Project port of Half Moon Bay as a flagship for will determine the magnitude of possible innovative, sustainable fishing, successful local Los Angeles Conservation Corps population growth within a 10-year period, fishery management and a groundbreaking, Los Angeles River Restoration analyze related research and evaluations independent, fisherman-owned supply chain. Implement restoration strategies along and needs, find gaps in data and research, and $125,000 within the Los Angeles River as it flows identify and prioritize management actions. through some of the most underserved $30,000 communities in Los Angeles. Project will

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Regents of the University of Save The Bay The Los Angeles Rod and California — Davis San Francisco Bay Community-Based Reel Club Foundation Fishermen-Led Fishing Gear Restoration and Education Educating Youth About Safe Fishing Recovery and Recycling Restore 16.68 acres of wetland habitat, engage Charter local fishing boats to take youth Establish nodes of commercial fishing 4,500 community volunteers, and educate from organizations throughout Los Angeles gear collection and derelict gear removal in 2,000 (800 low income) students with Save County that work with disadvantaged youth North-Central California. Project will foster The Bay partners to ensure a cleaner and and families. Project will educate youths a fishermen-led derelict commercial crab healthier San Francisco Bay. The increase in about safe fishing practices and provide gear recovery and recycling effort in north- wetland habitat from this project will improve them with background information on central California through the California the ability of marshes to increase coastal contamination in the area. Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project resiliency, expand holding capacity during $10,000 including partnership ports in the Fishing flood events, reintroduce and reestablish for Energy Program. native plant species, control non-native and The Marine Mammal Center $109,085 invasive plant species, and increase native Emergency Response to plant biodiversity and higher quality Bay- Pinniped Patient Increase River Partners wide tidal marsh habitat. Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Panorama Vista Preserve Riparian $30,000 Stranding Network in California. Project Habitat Restoration and Education — II will build capacity in personnel, supplies and Work with agencies, conservation groups South Yuba River Citizens League vehicle operations to respond to the increased and community groups to enhance and Loney Meadow Pilot Restoration number of stranded pinnipeds being admitted manage the Panorama Vista Preserve to serve Implement a full-scale restoration project to The Marine Mammal Center. local residents and to promote community in Loney Meadows, a wetland complex $98,828 education. Volunteers and partners will with a long history of mining, grazing and conduct targeted ecological restoration recreational uses. Project will eliminate the The Nature Conservancy including weed control and the installation, threat of gullies in Loney Meadows channels, Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Recovery irrigation and monitoring of native reduce channel incision, improve floodplain at Independence Lake trees and shrubs. connectivity and groundwater recharge and Recover a self-sustaining population $30,000 improve meadow vegetation. of the native Lahontan cutthroat trout $201,141 in Independence Lake. Project will River Partners remove predatory non-native brook trout Rancho Breisgau Riparian Habitat Restoration Student Conservation Association at Independence Lake, then monitor Restore 306 acres of riparian habitat on Golden Gate National Recreation Area removal success and Lahontan cutthroat Rancho Breisgau, located at the confluence of Engage a local, community-based youth crew trout response. the Battle Creek and the Sacramento River, of two leaders and six high school students $180,000 3 miles downstream of the Coleman National at a new unit of the Golden Gate National Fish Hatchery, the largest anadromous Recreation Area known as Rancho Corral de The Nature Conservancy fish hatchery in the contiguous 48 states. la Tierra. The crew will build a new stretch Optimizing Restoration Investments in Project will hire 10 California Conservation of trail and improve drainage structures to the Truckee Watershed (CA, NV) Corps youths to enhance floodplain habitat prevent erosion on other trails. Prioritize headwater restoration and for salmonids, neotropical birds and other $10,000 conservation investments in the Truckee listed species. Watershed. Project will couple stakeholder $74,999 The Bay Institute Aquarium Foundation engagement with sophisticated watershed Educating Visitors to Marine modeling, a Resource Investment San Francisco Conservation Corps Mammal Haul-Out on the Impacts Optimization System model, to develop John King Community Garden of Derelict Fishing Gear Impacts recommendations for maximizing ecosystem Natural Resources Provide outreach on the impacts of marine service returns on investments and serve as a Protect and restore a community-based public debris. Project will educate a minimum of resource for coordination among the entities park, showcase innovative approaches to 500,000 visitors to PIER 39’s famous sea involved in watershed management. urban gardening and create seven landscape lions about the impacts derelict fishing $249,090 trainee positions. Project will build planter gear and other marine debris have on boxes, renovate the garden entrance and marine mammals. The Trust for Public Land install innovative rainwater collector benches. $77,021 Sardine Valley Ranch Acquisition $62,449 Acquire and protect a 569-acre property The Institute for Bird Populations within Sardine Valley. Project will protect Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Effects of Meadow Restoration on Bird Species approximately one third of an approximately Bird Specimen Processing and Barn Owl Continue effort to monitor the response 1,500-acre Sierra meadow complex through Cave Excavations on Santa Barbara Island of bird populations to Sierra Nevada a conservation easement or fee interest. Subsample, prepare and curate seabird and meadows restoration by preserving initial $250,000 raptor specimens collected within Channel post-restoration data for development of a Islands National Park for later access and long-term monitoring strategy. Project will study by researchers. Project will also involve monitor bird populations at seven restoration preliminary excavation in Barn Owl Cave projects and paired reference sites, employ on Santa Barbara Island to allow for better standardized bird monitoring and guidelines understanding of the history of the flora and for restoration and increase support by fauna present on the island. demonstrating positive bird responses $33,924 to restoration. $21,472

8 Trout Unlimited, Inc. U.S. National Park Service Colorado Youth Corps Association Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Seabird Habitat Restoration Veterans Green Corps and Bureau of Conservation (CA, NV, OR) on Santa Barbara Island Land Management Quarry Trail Provide support for a Lahontan Cutthroat Provide long-term conservation benefits to Lead an eight- to 10-member Veteran Trout (LCT) Coordinator who hires, trains multiple species, including Scripps’s murrelet Green Corp crew in the construction of and supervises range-wide field crews, and Cassin’s auklet, by restoring historically a new 8-mile trail system in the Stone coordinates communication and collaboration occupied seabird habitat on Santa Barbara Quarry. The crew will construct new tread, among stakeholders in LCT recovery and Island. Project will restore 4.5 acres of construct retaining walls, rock drains and works on public and private landowner seabird habitat at five different sites and plant rock-tread ramps to mitigate erosion and outreach and education. Project will also 5,000 native plants. increase accessibility. support Nevada Department of Wildlife’s $200,000 $11,000 Safe Harbors Biologist who is responsible for monitoring and oversight of private-lands University of California — Santa Cruz EnviroIssues agreements to enable LCT recovery projects Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Facilitating the Federal Family Executive on private lands. Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, Leadership Sage-Grouse Meetings (CO, OR) $450,288 MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Facilitate Federal Family Executive Increase capacity for management of Leadership Sage-Grouse meetings in Truckee Donner Land Trust river herring. Project will employ genetic Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado. Acquisition and Protection of Coppins Meadow analysis to provide fisheries managers $27,870 Acquire and protect Coppins Meadow, a with critical predictions for how proposed 153-acre mid-elevation wet meadow in the bycatch management scenarios will impact Environment for the Americas northern Sierra Nevada, which is part of a the most threatened alewife and blueback Celebrate Shorebirds: larger 17,000-acre conservation effort. herring stocks. Celebra las Aves Playeras $250,000 $99,982 Expand paid internships to eight Latino youths and partner with U.S. Fish and Truckee River Watershed Council Upper Salinas — Las Tablas Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Manage­ Dry Creek Tributary Restoration Resource Conservation District ment, and U.S. Forest Service sites in four Restore meadow function and improve water Centennial Creek Restoration states to provide training and research. Interns quality and habitat in one tributary to Dry Partner with the City of Paso Robles, will receive conservation education and Creek. Project will restore critical meadow National Resources Conservation Service, training in shorebird identification, mentoring habitat and degraded ephemeral stream reach One Cool Earth, and Terra Verde to restore from natural resource professionals and be and improve perennial stream reach. the natural ecology of Centennial Creek, a exposed to research and education techniques. $160,490 tributary of the Upper Salinas River. This $81,914 project will achieve awareness through Truckee River Watershed Council a personalized, community-based social Environmental Learning for Kids Middle Martis Creek Wetlands Restoration marketing campaign and teach low-impact Community Greening and Restoration Initiative Address meadow and stream degradation in design techniques to neighboring residents for Transform a degraded detention pond into the Sierra Nevada. Project will restore flow successful, long-term stormwater maintenance a destination natural area with off-street to historic stream channels and wetlands, in this densely populated urban area. connection to a national wildlife refuge. improving degraded meadows. $30,000 This project will educate the community $200,000 about the sources, fate and threats to the COLORADO water their communities depend on. Truckee River Watershed Council $30,000 Perazzo Meadows Restoration Monitoring Chama Peak Land Alliance Monitor hydrology of 325 acres of meadows San Juan-Rio Grande Riparian Four Corners School of Outdoor Education previously restored. Project will quantify Stewardship Program (CO, NM) Dolores River Restoration: Building hydrologic benefits of restoration through the Hire a full-time stewardship coordinator to on Youth Corps Success (CO, UT) collection of flow and groundwater data. connect private landowners with technical and Hire two youth conservation corps crews to $155,864 financial resources to increase conservation in provide 20 weeks of on-the-ground support riparian habitats in southern Colorado and work for the Dolores River Restoration U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — northern New Mexico. Project will increase Partnership on 50 acres of remote wilderness San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge and improve habitat for southwestern willow in three locations. Project activities will Invasive Plant Management and flycatcher by offering technical assistance to include treating and removing invasive Competitive Native Restoration 1,500 private landowners. tamarisk and other non-native plants, and Inventory and control invasive species $75,000 planting cottonwood and willow saplings within the San Francisco Bay Estuary. and native grasses to prevent erosion along Project will conduct preventative weed Colorado Youth Corps Association the Dolores River. Trail Maintenance in Western Colorado control by restoring critical estuarine $60,748 and terrestrial transition zones with Perform trail maintenance on single-track competitive native plants. and pedestrian trails in the Bureau of Land $25,000 Management’s Grand Junction Field Office’s district. Project will restore 0.5 miles of trail and engage 200 youth volunteers. $12,600

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Garden Park Paleontology Society Wildlands Restoration Volunteers Mill River Collaborative Hogbacks Open Space Restoration Myrtle Spurge Eradication Cooperative Mill River Flood Mitigation and Partner with the Mile High Youth Corps Weed Management Area Habitat Corridor Extension of Colorado Springs to restore and enhance Map and eradicate “A-listed” myrtle spurge Change the hydraulic capacity of the tidal the Hogbacks Open Space area. Project will from its epicenter in Northern Colorado. estuary to remove all private properties from employ a crew of 8-12 youth to close off Project will include removal of myrtle spurge 1% flood risk under existing permits and over 6 miles of user-created trails, enhance from over 800 distinct locations on county, create a native riparian buffer in the new 5.5 miles of existing trails and create 2.5 miles state and private lands on or near Arapaho greenway flood plain. of new trail to restore ecological function and Roosevelt National Forest. $3,750,000 provide outdoor recreational opportunities. $74,242 $73,742 National Audubon Society, Inc. CONNECTICUT Urban Oases in New Haven, Urban Groundwork Denver, Inc. Wildlife Refuge Partnership Urban Youth Conservation Career Ladder Citizens Campaign Fund for Provide habitat for migrating songbirds and Provide 38 low-income urban youths with the Environment, Inc. improve watershed health while engaging the natural resource education, training and Don’t Flush Your Drugs into community in environmental learning, citizen mentorship and hands-on restoration work Long Island Sound science and stewardship. This project will experience on public lands. Project will help Educate residents of Bridgeport, Connecticut educate students, their families, neighborhood urban youths obtain careers in conservation. about the negative environmental impact groups, and the general public about the of flushing unused medications into Long $30,000 value of urban green spaces for watershed Island Sound. Project will distribute 5,000 health and native wildlife, and demonstrate Rocky Mountain Field Institute, Inc. educational brochures, host a half-day how to reduce pesticide use, create riparian Fountain Creek Watershed Fire educational conference, give presentations buffer habitat and provide quality habitat for Restoration Initiative at three public high schools, and develop species of concern. a social media campaign. Complete fire restoration and flood $39,888 mitigation work in both the Waldo Canyon $10,000 fire scar and the Black Forest fire scar. Work National Audubon Society, Inc. Connecticut Fund for the Environment will promote healthy ecosystem recovery Creating Schoolyard Habitat for Native Birds Hyde Pond Fish Passage and and community involvement. Create three new and eight enhanced Riparian Restoration $30,000 schoolyard habitats at nine public schools Open up 4.1 stream miles and restore 8 acres to enhance upland habitat and serve as Trout Unlimited, Inc. of riparian habitat along Whitford Brook in outdoor classrooms to raise awareness about Strategic Conservation of Upper Colorado Old Mystic, Connecticut. Project will remove Long Island Sound in Fairfield and New River Native Fishes (CO, WY) an existing fish pass and barrier, restore the Haven counties, Connecticut. Project will Implement five on-the-ground projects with natural channel and streambed, and engage create habitats, train 50 teachers, design and benefits to native fishes of the upper Colorado 100 volunteers in project monitoring and implement master plans, and establish an River basin. Project will protect 250 miles, planting of the riparian corridor. expanded network of schoolyard habitats. $149,999 reconnect 100 miles and restore approximately $57,221 5 miles of native fish habitat. Connecticut River Museum $271,758 National Audubon Society, Inc. Invaders: They Come By Land, Sea and Air Bird and Beach Stewardship by a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Deliver education about invasive species Youth Conservation Corps Shorebird Hunting Regulation in the degrading the Long Island Sound watershed Deploy 10 students to encourage members Caribbean and South America (CA, VA) to 14,000 people. Project will develop exhibit of the public to share 63 acres of shoreline Understand shorebird harvest policies, and discovery lab, prepare a special feature with beach-nesting birds at Pleasure Beach determine harvest sustainability and provide newsletter and videos, conduct hikes and in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Project will train mitigation measures for shorebird hunting paddles exploring native and invasive species, students to educate beachgoers and monitor among the jurisdictions of the Caribbean Sea and hold an invasive species eradication day. nesting areas, and educate 35 staff from 10 and northern South America. Project will $57,216 municipalities about managing habitat areas. affect policy changes that lead to a sustainable Earthplace — The Nature Discovery Center, Inc. $41,159 harvest of shorebirds in these countries. Hands-on Student Water Quality $249,850 New Haven Urban Resources Initiative Monitoring to Solve Pollution Problems Implementing Green Infrastructure to Uncompahgre/Com, Inc. Deliver three hands-on environmental quality Manage Stormwater in New Haven Dominquez-Escalante Landscape Restoration monitoring and education programs on rivers Install eight bioretention swales and a 1,000- and Coordinated Weed Management Plan (CO) in the geography of Monroe, Darien and square-foot rain garden treating 2,810,000 Develop a coordinated weed management Ridgefield, Connecticut. Project will teach gallons of stormwater and providing 5 acres of plan for the Dominquez-Escalante Natural 35 high school students from 10 schools to habitat for birds, pollinators and other wildlife Conservation Area and the Dominquez conduct river, estuary, storm drain system, in a subwatershed of the West River in New Wilderness. Project will include treatment, and fisheries monitoring programs using Haven, Connecticut. Project will engage restoration and monitoring of invasive species Environmental Protection Agency-approved students, ex-offenders and community on a 380,300-acre landscape. protocols to detect pollution. members in maintenance and monitoring of $59,500 $34,149 green infrastructure for water quality benefits and conducting community education workshops­ focused on increasing “green” practices at home. $149,971

10 Northeast Organic Farming Association Solar Youth, Inc. through five stations focusing on stormwater, of Connecticut, Incorporated Long Island Sound Environmental plants/soils, shoreline species/habitat, a Demonstrating Green Infrastructure Leaders in Training coastal stormwater model, and recycling, to Manage Stormwater at Two Solar Youth will deliver a Long Island Sound- complementing other school science units. Connecticut Colleges themed program called Leaders-in-Training $4,546 Install green infrastructure projects to capture, for 10 7th- and 8th-graders focused on store and treat 181,518 gallons of stormwater preserving and protecting the sound in New University of California — Santa Cruz annually at Naugatuck Valley Community Haven, Connecticut. Project will teach science Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River College in Waterbury and Three Rivers concepts and environmental issues, provide Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, Community College in Norwich. Project will leadership training and implement service MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) train students about green infrastructure and learning projects in three neighborhoods. Increase capacity for management of then engage student volunteers in installing $57,222 river herring. Project will employ genetic rain gardens, a treatment meadow and rain analysis to provide fisheries managers barrels, while informing the public with signs South Central Regional Council with critical predictions for how proposed and educational outreach. of Governments bycatch management scenarios will impact $51,307 Creating a Regional Framework for Coastal the most threatened alewife and blueback Resilience in Southern Connecticut herring stocks. Northeastern Regional Association of Establish a regional framework for coastal $99,982 Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems resilience for 10 municipalities that run Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related along the entire central coast of Connecticut. University of Maryland Center Data Interpretation and Accessibility Project will integrate green infrastructure for Environmental Science Develop a data integration platform for principles, prioritize projects, and contribute Building the Long Island Sound existing storm-related resources that will to a regional coastal resiliency plan. Report Card (CT, NY) especially benefit U.S. States affected by $700,000 Build capacity to sustain ecosystem health Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access report cards in the Long Island Sound and intuitive data interpretation for all users State of Connecticut watershed in New York and Connecticut. including decision makers. Removal of Springborn Dam Project will expand capacity of local $520,000 Remove a hazardous, unused 26-foot-high groups in science communication, data dam that is blocking diadromous fish runs, integration, and report card development to Sea Research Foundation, Inc. fragmenting brook trout populations and create a template for executing a strategic Eco Splash Event! Celebrating holding back contaminated sediments. communications strategy. Long Island Sound $2,800,000 $99,156 Conduct Eco Splash!, a weeklong environmental awareness event in Mystic, The Nature Conservancy Wildlife Management Institute Connecticut, focused on the Long Island Ed Bills Fish Passage and Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Sound and its natural resources. Project Floodplain Restoration Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) will organize and host the event for up to Open up 8.3 river miles, restore 6 acres of Support several highly experienced habitat 30,000 residents, provide exhibit stations floodplain and wetlands and one-half mile of biologists to deliver technical assistance in about Long Island Sound, and promote riparian habitat along the East Branch of the high-priority areas to benefit New England hands-on engagement in on-the-ground Eightmile River. Project will remove a barrier, cottontail, golden-winged warbler, and stewardship activities. restore a natural channel, construct riffles for American woodcock. Project will support $8,982 fish, and seed and plant floodplain habitat coordination of research efforts, field test with native trees and shrubs. study design, sample analysis and increasing Sea Research Foundation, Inc. $150,000 early successional habitat. Toolkit for Education on Marine Debris $250,000 for Sustainable Oceans — II The Trust for Public Land Provide outreach on marine debris issues in Preserving the Last Coastal Forest Wildlife Management Institute fishing port communities. Project will build Acquire 1,000 acres of the largest unprotected Sustaining Young Forest Habitat upon a previously funded project to tailor, coastal forest between the Stewart B. to Support At-Risk Species replicate and export key marine debris activities McKinney National Wildlife Refuge and the Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce and resources to best fit public outreach mouth of the Connecticut River, America’s the decline of young forest habitat and efforts in port communities nationwide. first designated Blueway. The project’s 1,000- support restoration of key species in 17 states. $35,542 acre property encompasses three watersheds, Project will increase American woodcock and 114 acres of wetlands, 3,100 linear feet of New England cottontail population levels and Sea Research Foundation, Inc. watercourses, a 30-acre scrub-shrub swamp work toward an effort to halt the decline of Wetland and Coastal Grassland Restoration and 38 highly productive vernal pools. golden-winged warbler by 2019. at Dodge Paddock and Beal Reserve This land acquisition will support habitat $250,000 Restore 1-acre freshwater wetland and for river herring, 25 species of amphibians saltmarsh and .6 acres of dune /grassland and reptiles, 30 species of mammals and DELAWARE at Dodge Paddock and Beal Preserve in 57 species of birds. Delaware Department of Natural Resources Stonington, Connecticut. Project will remove $250,000 Delaware Bayshore Coastal invasive vegetation, replant with native plants, Town of East Lyme Resiliency: Mahon to St. Jones conduct monitoring, create a management Repair critical infrastructure and implement plan, and conduct community education Long Island Sound Stormwater/ Environmental Outdoor Classroom a system-wide approach to evaluate, plan, and stewardship. design and construct restoration and resiliency $45,316 Offer educational field trips for 200 third- graders in 10 classes about methods to treat strategies for coastal impoundments, wetlands and reduce stormwater flow into Long and sandy beach habitat. Island Sound. Project will rotate students $2,000,000

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Delaware Department of Natural Resources Stroud Water Research Center University of Delaware Delaware Bayshore Coastal Resiliency: Delaware River Watershed Technical Reducing Stormwater Volume and Nutrients Mispillion to Milford Neck Assistance Circuit Riders — Riparian with Biochar in New Castle County, Delaware Implement a system-wide approach Technical Assistance Treat 1.3 acres of roadway in New Castle to evaluate, plan, design and construct Provide technical assistance with a focus County Delaware. Project will use biochar restoration and resiliency strategies for coastal on agricultural conservation to grantees to treat stormwater, provide laboratory data wetlands and sandy beach habitat along the and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster to quantify system performance and share central Delaware bayshore. participants. Project will offer support, information with state Department of $4,500,000 oversight and capacity building with Transportation. prospective, new and existing grant recipients. $316,349 New Jersey Audubon Society Project will increase the ability and capacity Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability of organizations to develop, organize and Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science and Resilience Assessment carry out projects and generate results with Center Foundation, Inc. Safeguard societal and ecological values of the agricultural community that fulfill the Response to the 2013 Dolphin coastal impoundments from storm surges environmental outcomes sought by both Unusual Mortality Event and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their NFWF and the grantee. Aid in the investigation of the recently vulnerability and identify restoration options $57,320 declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting that enhance resilience. bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic $470,000 Sussex Conservation District Coast. Project will coordinate marine Building Local Government Capacity mammal stranding response and provide Northeastern Regional Association of in Sussex County, Delaware analysis on the cause of death. Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Work alongside nine Chesapeake $65,332 Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related municipalities to provide coordination Data Interpretation and Accessibility assistance and information sharing for green Wildlife Management Institute Develop a data integration platform for infrastructure projects. Project will increase Sustaining Young Forest Habitat existing storm-related resources that will capacity of the municipalities to identify and to Support At-Risk Species especially benefit U.S. States affected by implement green infrastructure projects, and Employ highly skilled conservation Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access increase green infrastructure best management professionals to reduce the decline of young and intuitive data interpretation for all users practices by 20%. forest habitat and support restoration of including decision makers. $128,024 key species in 17 states. Project will increase $520,000 American woodcock and New England University of California — Santa Cruz cottontail population levels and work toward RESOLVE, Inc. Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River an effort to halt the decline of golden-winged Delaware River Restoration Circuit Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, warbler by 2019. Rider — Agriculture Technical Assistance MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) $250,000 Provide technical assistance with a focus Increase capacity for management of on agricultural conservation to Delaware river herring. Project will employ genetic DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA River Restoration Initiative grantees and the analysis to provide fisheries managers Anacostia Watershed Society, Inc. Delaware Watershed Initiative participants. with critical predictions for how proposed Project will offer support, oversight and Promoting Awareness and Restoration bycatch management scenarios will impact in the Anacostia Wetlands capacity building with prospective, new and the most threatened alewife and blueback Restore tidal wetland habitat in the Anacostia existing grant recipients. Project will increase herring stocks. watershed. Project will remove 3 acres of the ability and capacity of organizations $99,982 to develop, organize and carry out projects phragmites, revegetate 10 acres of wetland and generate results with the agricultural University of Delaware habitat, and plant 500 square feet of community that fulfill the environmental Improving Manure Application Technology submerged aquatic vegetation. outcomes sought by both NFWF Improve upon existing manure application $200,000 and the grantee. technology to achieve efficient subsurface Casey Trees Endowment Fund $30,000 applications of solid and semi-solid Riparian Forest Restoration manures in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project in Washington, D.C. Riverhead Foundation for Marine Project will significantly reduce runoff and Engage over 800 volunteers and plant Research and Preservation vocalization of nutrients. 750 trees to restore five acres of impaired Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual $131,154 Mortality Event Emergency Support in National Park Service lands across several the Northeast Region (DE, MD, NJ, NY) University of Delaware sites in Washington, D.C. Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Modeling, Validation and Accretion Data $114,600 for Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge Stranding Network in the Northeast. District Department of the Environment Project will provide response and monitoring Develop hydrodynamic model for Bombay Green Infrastructure Retrofits of the Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Hook National Wildlife Refuge. Collect in Rock Creek Park Unusual Mortality Event. survey data to improve digital elevation Retrofit an 11-acre site with green $99,960 model and hydrodynamic data for validation. infrastructure in Washington, D.C. Project Collect marsh accretion rate data to assess will restore natural hydrology, prevent Stroud Water Research Center impact of sea level rise. flooding and erosion, and protect habitat of Flood Attenuation and Resiliency $400,000 in the Mid-Atlantic (DE, PA) the endangered Hay’s Spring amphipod. Project will reconnect floodplains, restore $500,000 wetlands, plant riparian forest buffers, install level-lip spreaders and restore natural wood loads to streams to slow and dampen the flood wave. $3,029,999

12 Green Diversity Initiative 2.0 Conservation Legacy Florida Fish and Wildlife Promoting Diversity in the Invasive Reptile Research in Conservation Commission, Fish and Environmental Community Everglades National Park Wildlife Research Institute Examine the current involvement of Assist with research designed to better Evaluation and Fisher Education of minorities holding leadership positions in the understand the biology of, and potential No-Trap Areas on Coral Reefs largest national environmental organizations control opportunities for, invasive reptiles Support effective management of coral and the foundations that support them. The in southern Florida. Project will increase systems throughout the Florida Keys by study will assess the current demographics scientific knowledge of the biology and reducing lobster trap impacts to corals reefs. of the largest conservation organizations impacts of invasive reptiles in Florida, Project will improve awareness of established and foundations, evaluate current efforts of reduce local populations of invasive reptiles, no-trap zones and regulations and increase these organizations to promote diversity, and prevent spread of populations into understanding of compliance and impact on explore the root causes for the general lack of Everglades National Park. neighboring corals. diversity in environmental organizations and $19,000 $72,961 recommend collaborative and positive actions that can be taken to increase diversity in the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge Gulf World Marine Park environmental community. Marine Mammal Stranding Marine Mammal Stranding Network $50,000 Response and Monitoring Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Provide rescue, recovery and treatment of Stranding Network in Florida. Project will Northeastern Regional Association of live, stranded marine mammals in northwest respond to marine mammal strandings and Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Florida. Project will monitor for morbidity, out-of-habitat animals reported. Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related mortality, human interaction and conduct $141,380 Data Interpretation and Accessibility public outreach. Develop a data integration platform for $140,600 Keep Pensacola Beautiful, Inc. existing storm-related resources that will Bayou Grande Living Shorelines especially benefit U.S. States affected by Escambia County Board of Restore oyster reefs and intertidal marsh Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access County Commissioners habitat on 1 acre at two locations in the and intuitive data interpretation for all users Jones Swamp Wetland Preserve Pensacola Bay system. This project will including decision makers. Patton Restoration provide nursery and foraging grounds $520,000 Improve ecologic function of 35 acres of for finfish, shellfish and wading birds, riparian buffer by restoring hydrology, as well as filter stormwater runoff and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership reducing invasives and replanting. Project will stabilize the shoreline. Disseminating the Importance of Natural also increase visitorship through installing $29,888 Resource Conservation and Outdoor Education educational signs, implementing outdoor Disseminate information regarding the programs and improving 2,500 feet of trail. Miami Science Museum economic value of federal natural resource $40,000 Virginia Key North Point Ecological Restoration conservation and outdoor recreation Restore 7 acres of coastal subtropical habitat programs, including jobs, tax revenues Florida Atlantic University Foundation, Inc. in south Florida and employ an innovative and local spending that this funding Indian River County Junior Science Fellows outreach platform to engage volunteers. This creates and leverages. Employ scientists to mentor team student project will utilize a unique portfolio of social $250,000 research projects in Coastal Oaks Preserve, a media, science exhibits and iconic eco-art 185-acre, environmentally sensitive property installations to promote participation in all Water Words That Work, LLC owned and managed by Indian River Land phases of the restoration effort. RiverSmart Homes: Seeking Success Trust along Indian River Lagoon in Florida. $99,524 with Residential Stormwater Reduction This project will create an ongoing group of Develop an outreach plan to help the Student Fellows who understand and know Micah Brodsky, V.M.D. Consulting District Department of the Environment how to provide solutions to environmental Northern Gulf of Mexico Unusual Mortality meet its stormwater reduction goals. Project problems in the community. Event Veterinary Assistance (AL, FL, LA, MS) will include in-depth interviews with 60 $40,000 Build capacity for the Marine Mammal homeowners, a survey of 5,000 homeowners, Stranding Network in the Northern Gulf and the creation of a detailed profile of the Florida Fish and Wildlife of Mexico. Project will provide technical willing homeowner. Conservation Commission, Fish and expertise, respond to live and dead stranded $30,204 Wildlife Research Institute marine mammals and necropsy dead stranded American Oystercatcher Habitat animals to determine cause of death. FLORIDA Restoration (FL, TX) $84,766 Restore and increase the amount of quality American Bird Conservancy high tide roost habitat available for the Northwest Florida State Beach-Nesting Bird Conservation in the American oystercatcher and improve the College Foundation, Inc. Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, TX) — III species’ apparent overwintering survival. Coastal Dune Lakes Monitoring and Protect vulnerable solitary and colonial beach- Project will use proven construction Restoration in Walton County and island-nesting birds such as Wilson’s and techniques and local materials to rebuild reefs Treat invasive plants and engage volunteers in snowy plovers, least terns and black skimmers at two roosts used by 90% of individuals. monitoring 58 water quality stations monthly from human disturbance. This project will $141,085 on 16 coastal dune lakes in Walton County. implement protective measures such as Project will focus on community education signage, symbolic fencing and educational and involvement. outreach with help from local partners $33,376 and volunteers. $165,000

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Oyster Recovery Partnership, Inc. The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. Youth Environmental Alliance, Inc. Oyster Shell Delivery for Restoration Partnering to Restore Longleaf in Community-Based Coastal Habitat Restoration Work in the Chesapeake Bay (FL, MD) the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Restore and protect coastal areas impacted by Provide at-cost delivery of oyster shell for Partnership Landscape (AL, FL) storms, erosion and sea level rise by replanting restoration activities in the Chesapeake Bay. Advance restoration and management to assist protective dunes, mangroves and adjacent $4,873,883 in recovering longleaf pine through partner uplands. This project will restore 4 miles of projects in the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem local beach habitats via dune plantings using PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd Partnership. Partners will complete 26,500 sea oats, railroad vine, dune sunflower, mixed Connectivity and Thermal History Tools acres of prescribed fire, 500 acres of invasive dune grasses, dune and upland shrubs. for Managers to Understand Resilience species control, 1,500 acres of mid-story $25,000 of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) treatments and 447 acres of longleaf pine Increase public awareness of the status and restoration on Blackwater River State Forest. GEORGIA threats to global coral reefs. Project will $267,000 develop a suite of products for delivery via Coastal WildScapes the Coral Reef Watch website describing The Nature Conservancy — Florida Cay Creek Wetland Demonstration temperature statistics experienced at coral Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Landscape: A Coastal Model reef locations worldwide and maps of coral Initiative (FL, GA) — II Create a wetland demonstration landscape reef connectivity and its role in recovery Provide funding assistance to Apalachicola to provide a tangible example of good from disturbance. Regional Stewardship Alliance member steward­ship and a model for coastal sustain­ $127,237 longleaf pine restoration projects and support ability. Project will leverage existing park existing longleaf management. Expand private infrastructure at Cay Creek Wetland Park Riverhead Foundation for Marine lands outreach workshops and pilot to provide educational outreach that will Research and Preservation $262,000 improve the understanding of wetland Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual natural communities and functions and Mortality Event Emergency Support in the The Nature Conservancy provide practical guidelines for sustaining Southeast Region (FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) Apalachicola Regional Stewardship wetland functions, habitats and wildlife in Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Alliance Cooperative Invasive private and community landscapes along the Stranding Network in the Southeast. Project Species Management Area coast of Georgia. will provide response and monitoring of the Support weed management on three federal $39,978 Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual conservation lands and adjacent private Mortality Event. property within the Apalachicola Regional College of William and Mary Investigating Population Dynamics $99,960 Stewardship Alliance Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. Project will of the Red Knot in Georgia Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife prioritize Early Detection/Rapid Response Monitor the red knot in Georgia, provide a Southeast Native Black Bass invasive plants. rigorous estimate of the population utilizing Conservation (FL, TX) $75,000 Georgia in the spring and fall, and develop Secure sustainable populations of Guadalupe a partnership to address the management bass and shoal bass through landscape-scale The Nature Conservancy needs of the species. habitat conservation in the Pedernales and Combating Invasives with Community $71,969 Chipola River watersheds. Project outcomes Volunteers and Education include increased percentage of stream reaches Utilize regional partnerships to create Georgia Department of Natural Resources in the Pedernales and Chipola with intact educational tools and coordinate volunteer Restoring Longleaf Pine on Big Lazer fish habitat and riparian vegetation, open opportunities, workshops and events to Creek Wildlife Management Area fish passage, reduced sediment loads and remove invasive species and increase awareness Prepare and plant mountain longleaf on genetically secure, self-sustaining populations in Central Florida. This project will remove 400 acres of cutover loblolly pine on of shoal and Guadalupe bass. invasive species on public and private lands state-owned land in Talbot County. This $218,000 and reduce re-infestation on conservation future longleaf forest will be managed in lands through increased detection and perpetuity with frequent fire and uneven-aged Tampa Bay Estuary Program response efforts while increasing visibility for regeneration to promote native groundcover Continuation of the Tampa Bay invasive species issues in central Florida. restoration for the benefit of bobwhite quail, Environmental Fund $25,000 Bachman’s sparrow and other savanna- Provide funding for Tampa Bay restoration, dependent species. research and education initiatives. University of Maryland Center $66,000 $170,000 for Environmental Science Pilot Report Template for Status and Riverhead Foundation for Marine Texas A&M University Trends of Coral Reef Ecosystems Research and Preservation Reducing Incidental Capture of in the United States (AS, FL) Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Loggerhead Sea Turtles in Gulf of Increase management capacity to evaluate Mortality Event Emergency Support in the Mexico Trawl Fisheries (AL, FL, TX) restoration efforts of U.S. coral reef systems. Southeast Region (FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) Reduce incidental capture of loggerhead Project will develop a status- and trends- Build capacity for the Marine Mammal sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. Project assessment framework and report card process Stranding Network in the Southeast. Project will certify turtle excluder device training that synthesizes biological, physical and will provide response and monitoring of the for vessels and reduce turtle capture from socio-economic data from two jurisdictions. Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual incidental shrimp trawl captures. $60,000 Mortality Event. $99,103 $99,960

14 South River Watershed Alliance United States Endowment for Conservation International Foundation River Cane Restoration Initiative Forestry and Communities, Inc. Developing a Community Restore 10 acres of river buffer along Savannah River Watershed Supported Fishery in Hawaii the South River. Project partners will Conservation (GA, SC) Develop a community supported fishery transplant and reestablish river cane, remove Perform mapping, planning and outreach in Hawaii as modeled after Local Catch invasive species and engage in targeted activities on working forests, agricultural Monterey Bay. Project will create a tool for watershed education. lands and other natural infrastructure in the identification of sustainable seafood $34,400 the Lower Savannah River Watershed. through the development of a sociocultural, Project will reduce water treatment costs and economic and environmental seafood The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. wildlife habitat. sustainability index; increase number of Fort Stewart/Altamaha Longleaf $47,500 fishers/suppliers engaged in a sustainable Restoration Partnership — II seafood supply business; increase profit Continue to build a significant local University of California — Santa Cruz margin for engaged fishermen; establish implementation team in southeast Georgia. Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River a local seafood business dedicated to Work will include longleaf planting and Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, sustainability and social impact; and improve habitat management. Project outcomes will MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) transparency within the seafood supply chain. include 14,000 acres burned on public and Increase capacity for management of $100,000 private lands, 800 acres of longleaf planted, river herring. Project will employ genetic one 5-acre groundcover demonstration analysis to provide fisheries managers Garden Island Resource Conservation area established, and two landowner with critical predictions for how proposed and Development, Inc. outreach field days. bycatch management scenarios will impact Invasive Weed Control in Northwest Kaua`i $300,000 the most threatened alewife and blueback Remove invasive species from 135 acres of herring stocks. native forest on northwest Kaua`i. Project will The Nature Conservancy $99,982 include a volunteer component that heightens Talladega-Mountain Longleaf Pine public awareness, leverages funds and engages Conservation Partnership (AL, GA) University of Georgia the community in direct conservation action. Support on-the-ground restoration on state Living Shoreline — Tybee Island $75,000 and private lands including the establishment Construct a living shoreline at the Burton of longleaf on 200 acres of private lands and 4-H Center on Tybee Island to halt erosion Hawaii Division of Forestry and Wildlife 300 acres of the Coosa Wildlife Management of a tidal stream. The living shoreline will Restoring Seabird Breeding Habitat Area, which serves as key habitat for the utilize oyster shell to provide habitat for on Kure Atoll — II red-cockaded woodpecker. Project will eastern oysters to settle upon and native Continue a long-term effort to remove non- enhance over 8,100 acres of longleaf through plants to halt erosion. native plants from 184 acres of seabird nesting prescribed fire and other management $25,000 habitat on Hawaii’s most significant seabird practices, with additional funding used to sanctuary. Project will result in improved provide fire crew assistance. HAWAII habitat quality for seabirds, increased $280,000 American Bird Conservancy population abundance for Laysan and black- Constructing a Predator-Proof Fence at footed albatrosses and brown and masked The Nature Conservancy — Florida boobies, and expansion of a resilient native Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge — III Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration plant community. Continue effort to create the first colonies Initiative (FL, GA) — II $650,000 Provide funding assistance to Apalachicola of threatened Newell’s shearwaters and Regional Stewardship Alliance member endangered Hawaiian petrels that are Kupu longleaf pine restoration projects and support completely protected from terrestrial predators. Hawaii Youth Conservation Corps existing longleaf management. Expand private Project will construct a predator-proof fence Engage five youth in seven weeks of lands outreach workshops and pilot at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, conservation and habitat restoration work. $262,000 eradicate non-native mammals from the Project will include watershed restoration, enclosure and translocate Newell’s shearwaters surveying, native species planting and Trees Atlanta, Inc. and Hawaiian petrels into the site. invasive weed removal. South Peachtree Creek and $511,712 $20,000 Veterans Hospital Restoration Restore 1/4 mile of South Peachtree Creek American Bird Conservancy National Park Service — that runs behind the Atlanta Veterans Saving Hawaii’s Imperiled Forest Birds — VI Haleakala National Park Administration Medical Center by planting Contribute to a long-term effort to save Restoring Hawaiian Petrel Habitat native species while giving access to patients Hawaii’s threatened native birds by working Protect approximately 1,450 acres of via a creekside mulch path. This project will with partners to implement on-the-ground Hawaiian petrel habitat by fencing off the stabilize the streambank, control erosion, projects. Project will increase and diversify area and removing feral goats, deer and restore wildlife habitat and provide controlled funding for the conservation of Hawaiian dogs. Project will construct approximately access to the area. birds and will work with local Hawaiian 2.9 miles of woven-wire barrier fences to $26,545 communities to increase their understanding safeguard petrel habitat. of and appreciation for the conservation of $518,000 native Hawaiian bird species. $273,096

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National Park Service — University of Hawaii Council School District #13 Haleakala National Park Mapping Water Quality Threats Council Rural Environmental Stewardship Revising Predator Management to Coral Reefs from Urban Storm Engage rural Adams County youth in for Hawaiian Petrels Water to Prioritize Mitigation natural resource restoration job training Review the current predator control program Identify sources of pollution for coral reefs in and conservation leadership experiences in for Hawaiian Petrels. Project will generate Hawaii. Project will gather data on land-based partnership with Payette National Forest a report summarizing effects of spatial sources of pollution in two west Maui priority professionals. Project will carry out established and temporal patterns in trapping success watersheds to allow management measures to watershed work plans to improve 24 acres and produce a dynamic predator control target areas contributing the greatest sources of habitat in the national forest and restore program that can be used as a model for of pollutants to coral reefs. 4 miles of ranchland riparian habitat. other programs. $66,525 $18,380 $250,000 University of Hawaii Friends of Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd Setting Nutrient Thresholds to Enhance Osprey Webcam Experience Connectivity and Thermal History Tools Coral Reef Health (AS, HI) at Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge for Managers to Understand Resilience Develop and apply a nutrient response Install a new webcam to display the nesting of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) assay for two species of corals and their and rearing activities of a pair of ospreys near Increase public awareness of the status and associated microbial communities in the the refuge’s visitor center. Project will promote threats to global coral reefs. Project will West Maui and Faga’alu priority watersheds. and enhance local and national interest in the develop a suite of products for delivery via Project will link water quality thresholds osprey nests, thereby increasing public interest the Coral Reef Watch website describing (nitrogen, phosphorus) to microbial and coral in the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge. temperature statistics experienced at coral physiological responses to create a tool for $3,658 reef locations worldwide and maps of coral management to assess impacts to reef systems reef connectivity and its role in recovery before coral mortality. High Country RC&D, Inc. from disturbance. $91,000 High Country Agriculture Land Enhancement $127,237 Provide technical assistance to help University of Hawaii — Manoa agricultural irrigators save energy, maximize The Coral Reef Alliance Threshold and Reduction Targets for Land- water use, enhance water quality, increase Outreach and Adaptive Management for Based Stressors to Coral Reefs (AS, HI) crop yield and improve local habitats. Project the West Maui Fishery Management Area Establish minimum response thresholds and will increase the viability of native species Provide outreach and training to increase threat reduction targets for sedimentation, including the Yellowstone cutthroat trout, compliance with coral reef management turbidity, nitrogen and phosphorus stress in trumpeter swan and sandhill crane. regulations in the Kahekili Herbivore the main reef-building corals of Hawaii and $55,000 Fisheries Management Area. Project will American Samoa. Project will couple these assess and communicate outcomes to date targets with other tools in development which Nez Perce Tribe to the local community, while also ramping will allow managers to assess threats to coral Nez Perce Youth Sustainability Education up engagement with stakeholders to ensure reefs and monitor their recovery at a finer Utilize the Tribe’s Cherrylane fish hatchery continued and increased compliance. scale and in a shorter timeframe. for a field day and provide sustainability $30,000 $89,008 coursework and training for Nez Perce Reservation youth. Areas of sustainability Tri-Isle Resource Conservation & IDAHO will include aquaculture, silvaculture, Development Council, Inc. sustainable agriculture, air quality, solid waste Promoting Watershed Bureau of Land Management — California management, non-point source management Stewardship in West Maui Boise District Collegiate Monitoring Program and stream restoration. Promote and facilitate specific watershed Employ two student monitoring teams $50,491 stewardship actions by West Maui residents. made up of well-qualified university students Project will build greater awareness of ocean seeking a degree in range management to Nez Perce Tribe and coral reef-related threats stemming conduct habitat assessments and monitoring Restore Wetland into Nature Park from land-based sources of pollution and in priority sagebrush steppe habitats for Environmental Education will inform consumer choices among Maui and riparian areas on Bureau of Land Restore a wetland on the edge of a tribal Island residents. Management (BLM) lands throughout the community by eradicating noxious weeds $47,700 Boise district. Participation in this program and planting native wetland plants. A nature will enable students to see the uses and trail with interpretive signs will be created U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service implications of their field research as they for community use. Models for Listed Seabirds on share the information they collect, make $44,434 the Main Hawaiian Islands data presentations and engage with grazing Develop and validate a decision support tool permittees, BLM specialists, and other Northwest Youth Corps to be used by conservation and ecosystem interested members of the public. Lake Cascade Habitat Management managers for planning, threat mitigation $11,500 and Youth Development and strategic habitat prioritization to help Hire six underserved youths for a new define conservation efforts for Newell’s conservation program based around shearwater and Hawaiian petrel. Project will education, land management and hands-on identify areas of conservation concern and conservation work as part of a larger effort will model the efficacy of threat management to expand opportunities for 100 Idaho teens. approaches to increase the long-term viability Project will connect youth to the outdoors of the populations. through habitat restoration and other $98,695 conservation-related projects at Lake Cascade. $49,947

16 Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Friends of the Chicago River National Audubon Society, Inc. Bridging the Divide: Helping Tribes Chicago River Constructed Habitat Structures Wild Indigo Urban Naturalist Training Preserve Traditional Culture Improve habitat in the Chicago River Train staff members from underserved Help tribal youths and elders preserve system through the installation of 400 communities and leaders of other traditional culture. Project will bring together multifunctional habitat structures that will community organizations to serve as urban traditional native knowledge and modern benefit a variety of fish species. Project will naturalists and promote stewardship of ecology, and introduce Tribal youths to make the river system more hospitable to local nature. This project will introduce career opportunities in natural and cultural many fish species and lead to improved underserved communities to the sand resource management. angling opportunities for local communities. prairies, sand savannas, woodlands, dune $15,000 $300,000 and swale ecosystems, and migratory birds of the Calumet region, and promote U.S. Forest Service Friends of the Forest Preserves habitat stewardship. New Invader Integrated Initiative Centennial Network Restoration $29,394 Intensify Early Detection/Rapid Response Along the Chicago River efforts at Frank Church Wilderness Establish the Centennial Network, an River Action, Inc. Cooperative Weed Management Area by organized system of volunteers who will Urban Watershed Restoration at establishing more efficient ways of utilizing conduct five large-scale restoration projects Green Valley Nature Preserve its resources. Project will treat approximately that enhance habitat along the North Branch Build off restoration efforts at Green Valley 600 acres of high-priority new or early of the Chicago River. Project will significantly completed in 2013 to restore the remainder invader species. reduce invasive vegetation, increase native of the 250-acre area and its tributaries, $75,000 plant cover and improve habitat diversity and restoring a critical urban watershed. Project streambank stability. will improve water quality and wildlife habitat ILLINOIS $271,313 throughout the watershed. $50,000 Chicago Park District Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance Restoring and Enhancing Habitat at Big Marsh Urban Agriculture Education INDIANA Enhance wetland and grassland habitat at and Community Greening Big Marsh in Chicago by controlling invasive Provide public education in sustainable Health and Hospital Corporation plant species, installing native plant species urban agriculture practices and use the of Marion County, Indiana and developing an ecological restoration plan. Conservatory’s resources to foster community Marion County Green Corridor Extension Project will contribute towards achieving the gardening and greening activities on Employ volunteer and partner resources desired ecological conditions at Big Marsh, Chicago’s West Side. This project will provide to develop an existing dirt path into an which include healthy wetland function and training, resources and materials to support ecofriendly, crushed-limestone trail with the re-establishment of state-listed plants and community groups creating and sustaining increased public access for education and wildlife populations. green spaces to improve underserved areas environmental stewardship. This project will $475,000 within the local community. extend an existing crushed limestone trail $25,000 along 6,000 feet. Chicago Public Schools, District 299 $31,575 Space to Grow: Greening Chicago Schoolyards Lake County Forest Preserve District Renovate four Chicago public school Lake Michigan Watershed Early Detection LaGrange County Community Foundation campuses to capture stormwater by Invasives Strike Team (IL, WI) Restoring Duff Lake Fen incorporating green stormwater infrastructure. Control populations of high-priority Restore 108 acres of degraded fen wetland Project will provide multiple benefits, invasive plant species using early detection and adjacent upland in northeastern Indiana. including reconnecting communities with in wetlands, grasslands, and ravines along Project will hydrologically and vegetatively their local public schools, providing green the Lake Michigan coastline in southern restore the lowland and upland portions of the space and significantly contributing to a Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Project site to a native grassland continuum as well as reduction in stormwater runoff across the city. will prevent habitat degradation associated improve habitat for species of concern. $271,313 with invasive plant infestations at high- $270,000 First Nations Development Institute priority habitats occupied by many rare and Little River Wetlands Project, Inc. Native American Models for Control of Local imperiled species. Urban Wetland Stewardship $397,265 Food Systems in the Midwest (IL, MN, WI) and Nature Education Develop the capacity of three Native Lake Katherine Nature Center Enhance habitats at three wetland preserves American organizations that are working to and Botanic Gardens in a large urban Indiana area. Project will create systemic change by increasing control Lake Katherine Pollinator Habitat also engage businesses and individuals in of local food systems. Project will expand Improvement Initiative environmental learning and conservation. efforts to provide high-quality and expanded Involve local students and volunteers in an $20,000 quantities of healthy and locally produced 18-month restoration project that improves foods to Native American communities, to Ohio River Foundation degraded wetland, prairie and forest at the Career Youth Training: Conservation progress toward organizational sustainability park. Project will directly improve habitat in the Ohio River Basin (IN, KY) and to uphold the natural resource and environmental quality at the site, provide Employ 21 high school seniors to install management goals of conservation plans hands-on opportunities for involvement at least 70 projects in Boone and Hoosier adopted in each of their areas. in environmental stewardship at Lake National Forests and Big Oaks National $25,000 Katherine as well as educate visitors, students Wildlife Refuge. Project work will protect and the surrounding communities about native fauna and reduce erosion and runoff. restoration at the park. $20,000 $34,004

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Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Inc. KANSAS LOUISIANA Hobart Marsh Restoration Friends of the Great Plains Nature Center, Inc. American Bird Conservancy Restore open wetland and associated Great Plains Nature Center Beach-Nesting Bird Conservation in the wet-mesic savanna habitat by controlling Communications Plan Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, TX) — III invasive species and reestablishing native Develop a media relations and special event Protect vulnerable solitary and colonial beach- plant communities in the Hobart Marsh management plan to increase visitation to and island-nesting birds such as Wilson’s and conservation complex. Project will restore the Great Plains Nature Center. Project snowy plovers, least terns and black skimmers 140 acres, reduce threats to adjacent sites, will increase the urban audience’s awareness from human disturbance. This project will and benefit several state-listed species. of the Refuge System’s mission, as well as implement protective measures such as $100,000 conservation and education. signage, symbolic fencing and educational Student Conservation Association $5,000 outreach with help from local partners Indiana Dunes Trail Maintenance and volunteers. $165,000 Deploy a Leader Team (Student KENTUCKY Conservation Association members with Morehead State University Audubon Nature Institute, Inc. previous experiences and training) at Indiana Boone Wetland and Native Plant Marine Mammal Response Support Dunes National Lakeshore for a three- to Restoration Initiative at Audubon Nature Institute four-week period starting in September. Utilize a number of partnerships to conduct Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Project will include a variety of trail an on-the-ground restoration of a riparian Stranding Network in Louisiana. Project will maintenance activities, including tread repair, zone. Project will engage 110 volunteers and respond to unusual mortality events, collect installing drainage structures and rehabbing restore 2 acres of habitat. data and perform marine mammal necropsies. various trail structures, including bridges. $22,397 $210,430 $26,155 National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. Institute for Marine Mammal Studies The Nature Conservancy — Indiana Cumberland Shortleaf and Woodland Stranding Response and Necropsies for Marine Cooperatively Restoring Indiana’s Grand Savannah Restoration (KY, TN) Mammals in Gulf of Mexico (AL, LA, MS) Calumet River Area of Concern Conduct restoration on 16,159 acres in the Respond to, conduct necropsies on and collect Develop and implement a cooperative and Cumberland Plateau. Management activities tissues from stranded marine mammals in comprehensive approach to early detection/ include prescribed fire, opening enhancement, the Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters. rapid response, invasive species control, timber stand improvements, and public Project will provide coverage for the Marine and restoration management in the Grand outreach field days. Long-term, the project Mammal Stranding Network in the northern Calumet River Area of Concern. Project will will return about 40% of the landscape Gulf of Mexico. contribute to the delisting of habitat-related to uneven age oak-hickory dominated $379,670 beneficial use impairments within the Grand forest, 25% to oak and oak-pine (shortleaf) Calumet River Area of Concern. woodlands, 10% to savannas, and 5% to International Sea Turtle Society $157,375 open grasslands. International Sea Turtle Symposium 2014 $217,000 Convene the 34th Annual Symposium on The Nature Conservancy — Indiana Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation in Managing and Restoring Habitat for Ohio River Foundation New Orleans in April 2014. Project will Species of Concern in Northeast Indiana Career Youth Training: Conservation have special focus on sea turtle populations Restore and manage wetland, stream, riparian, in the Ohio River Basin (IN, KY) in the Gulf of Mexico. It is expected that forest, and grassland habitat at three sites Employ 21 high school seniors to install 1,000 constituents will participate in in northeast Indiana. Project will protect at least 70 projects in Boone and Hoosier around 400 poster and oral presentations, and enhance populations of eight federally National Forests and Big Oaks National six capacity building workshops and five listed species. Wildlife Refuge. Project work will protect regional meetings. $129,490 native fauna and reduce erosion and runoff. $25,000 $20,000 IOWA Louisiana Department of University of Kentucky Research Foundation Wildlife and Fisheries The Nature Conservancy, Iowa Chapter Restoring Forest Wildlife Habitat Sustainable Agricultural Practices Sea Turtle Stranding and Nesting Surveys — II at Robinson Forest Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Upstream of Des Moines Reestablish hardwood forest habitat at Restore four to five oxbows comprising Stranding Network in Louisiana. Project will Robinson Forest by decompacting soil and respond to marine mammal strandings and 2 acres that remove 45% of nitrates, store removing invasive species. Project will restore 17 million gallons of flood water annually out-of-habitat animals reported. 36 acres with native trees to improve cerulean $261,660 and provide wildlife habitat for the federally warbler habitat. endangered Topeka shiner. This project $140,000 National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. will improve water quality downstream, Restoring Longleaf Pine in offer flood reduction downstream and West Central Louisiana provide wildlife habitat while maintaining Provide management plans and cost-share agricultural productivity. incentives to private landowners to restore $97,445 longleaf in the historical longleaf range of the Piney Woods in west central Louisiana. The project will restore 1,000 acres of longleaf and enhance 2,500 acres of longleaf ecosystem on private lands. $350,000

18 PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd Friends of Acadia Nobleboro Historical Society Connectivity and Thermal History Tools Youth Internships in Acadia National Park Damariscotta Mills “Lower Middle” for Managers to Understand Resilience Implement youth internships in the Fish Ladder Restoration — II of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) fields of natural resources management, Restore fish passage for river herring. Project Increase public awareness of the status and interpretation, education and maintenance. will complete the Damariscotta Mills fish threats to global coral reefs. Project will Project will facilitate 16 youth intern ladder restoration to ensure optimal fish develop a suite of products for delivery via positions hired by Friends of Acadia to work passage for river herring. the Coral Reef Watch website describing on projects in Acadia National Park in the $135,000 temperature statistics experienced at coral summer/fall of 2014. reef locations worldwide and maps of coral $50,000 Penobscot East Resource Center, Inc. reef connectivity and its role in recovery A Pilot Approach to Building from disturbance. Friends of Maine’s Seabird Islands Community Capacity for Ecosystem $127,237 Friends of Maine Seabird Islands Based Fishery Management Visitor Center Improvement Build capacity for pilot, ecosystem- Trailblazer RC&D Area, Inc. Improve the visitor center by installing two based fishery management development Giant Salvinia Control (LA, TX) new computers for visitor education and with fishermen and community assets Work with partners to implement multiple a series of photographs, which will depict in a region experiencing unprecedented strategies to help control giant salvinia in different features of the Refuge. ecosystem recovery. northwest Louisiana and northeast Texas. $3,075 $100,000 Project will collect species data, educate new audiences and create a weevil nursery. Island Institute The Friends of Aroostook National $35,523 Sustainability Planning for Maine Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Fishing Communities Curriculum for Aroostook National U.S. Geological Survey — Create a regional community sustainability Wildlife Refuge Outreach Southeast Ecological Science Center plan guide for Maine fishing communities. Create a curriculum on the refuge’s Gulf Sea Turtle In-Water Index Site Project will produce a thorough list of vetted, biodiversity for local schools, youth groups Establish the first in-water index site for sea practical options and resources for fishing and visitors. Project will educate people about turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. Project will communities to improve resiliency of their the refuge and get more people involved address gaps such as estimates of vital rates, industry and manage risks posed by shifts in in its mission. population connectivity and identification of regulatory and environmental conditions. $1,866 foraging areas. $62,500 $100,000 The Nature Conservancy — Maine Maine Department of Agriculture, Maine Stream Crossing Prioritization University of New Orleans Conservation and Forestry — and Habitat Restoration Habitat Is Where It’s At Maine Natural Areas Program Work with the Natural Resources Enhance 8 acres in three wetland habitats Cooperative Invasive Species Conservation Service to collect missing data in Bayou Sauvage Wildlife Refuge, while Management in Southern Maine on road-stream crossing to identify Farm Bill educating students and community members Create a Cooperative Invasive Species eligible landowners to engage in conservation. about wetland values. This project will allow Management Area in Kennebec County, Project will support the development of the under-served urban students and volunteers Maine. Project will result in a more nation’s first state-wide database detailing to gain a better understanding of the value of coordinated and sustained approach to structural impact and habitat potential the wetlands surrounding the urban center invasive species mapping, monitoring, for road-stream crossings for restoration of New Orleans through hands-on activities. outreach and early detection. prioritization. $42,188 $60,000 $115,000

MAINE Maine Department of Marine Resources University of California — Santa Cruz Increasing Monitoring Capacity for Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.), Inc. Sustainable Harvest of River Herring Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, Construct Fishways on the Penobscot Increase capacity for monitoring river herring MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) River for River Herring Passage runs. Project will utilize local trainings, online Increase capacity for management of Restore fish passage for river herring in platforms and outreach materials to engage river herring. Project will employ genetic Maine. Project will construct fishways at three partners and volunteers in monitoring river analysis to provide fisheries managers locations called for in the State of Maine’s herring runs to determine the possibility of with critical predictions for how proposed Operational Plan for the Restoration of sustainable harvests. bycatch management scenarios will impact Diadromous Fishes to the Penobscot. $103,227 the most threatened alewife and blueback $125,000 herring stocks. New Jersey Audubon Society $99,982 BioDiversity Research Institute Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability Restoring Diadromous Fish and Resilience Assessment (MA, Wildlife Management Institute Habitat in the Gulf of Maine MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Conduct inventories and prioritize barrier Safeguard societal and ecological values of Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) removals, install stream crossings and coastal impoundments from storm surges Support several highly experienced habitat fishways, and restore fish passage and habitat and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their biologists to deliver technical assistance in in alewife and Atlantic salmon distinct vulnerability and identify restoration options high-priority areas to benefit New England population segment. that enhance resilience. cottontail, golden-winged warbler, and $214,838 $470,000 American woodcock. Project will support coordination of research efforts, field test study design, sample analysis and increasing early successional habitat. $250,000

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Wildlife Management Institute Cacapon Institute, Inc. Land and Cultural Preservation Fund, Inc. Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Installing Best Management Practices Citizens Promoting Clean Water in to Support At-Risk Species at Schools in the Chesapeake Bay Frederick City Employ highly skilled conservation Watershed (MD, VA, WV) Engage citizens in city stream trash removal professionals to reduce the decline of young Install best management practices at schools and degraded stream bank restoration. Project forest habitat and support restoration of in the Upper Potomac and Shenandoah will test water quality to guide remediation key species in 17 states. Project will increase Valley. Project will engage more than of Frederick City’s drinking water supply and American woodcock and New England 6,000 students, teachers and volunteers in build a clean water campaign. cottontail population levels and work toward bay conservation. $57,568 an effort to halt the decline of golden-winged $51,559 warbler by 2019. LimnoTech $250,000 Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Port Tobacco Creek Restoration Enhanced Nutrient Removal Design in Charles County MARYLAND and Monitoring in Carroll County Restore a portion of Port Tobacco Creek Assist Carroll County with designing and in Charles County, Maryland. Project will Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. monitoring improved sand filters for the reconnect the stream to the floodplain and Stewardship Program for Healthy county’s stormwater management facility restore riparian habitat. Farm Streams in the Chesapeake retrofitting process. $40,000 Bay Watershed (MD, WV) $39,957 Show how barriers to landowner adoption Low Impact Development Center, Inc. of riparian forest buffers can be overcome Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Floodplain Study and Concept Designs for through whole farm planning, innovative Performance Enhancing Devices for Capitol Heights Watts Branch Headwaters funding strategies and training. Best Management Practices Assist the town of Capitol Heights $300,000 Synthesize data from expert input to inform in cleaning up Watts Branch and the recommendations for use of performance surrounding area to make it a more attractive AMEC Environment and Infrastructure, Inc. boosting soil media. Project will help develop area to live and work. Project will finalize a Stormwater Best Management Practices design specifications to translate research into preliminary floodplain study and prepare two in Rural Counties with Roadside Ditches application for implementation. potential concept designs. Produce a conceptual design for stormwater $344,384 $40,000 best management practices to be implemented in the public right-of-way in Chesapeake Conservation Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wicomico County. Landscaping Council Reforesting Abandoned Mine $39,990 Certification Program for Chesapeake Lands in Western Maryland Bay Landscape Professionals (MD, VA) Restore 238 acres of abandoned mine lands American Rivers, Inc. Standardize a comprehensive regional and stream buffers, including invasives Community-Based Herring Restoration certification for landscape professionals. removal and tree planting. Project will benefit in the Chesapeake Bay (MD, PA, VA) Project will help these professionals design, brook trout, golden-winged warblers and Develop a model for landowner engagement. install and maintain best management cerulean warblers. Project will use this model to increase practices such as rain gardens, tree planting, $125,000 future priority private land restoration conservation landscapes and cisterns. project success rates. $200,000 Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy $179,997 Agricultural Best Management Practices, Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, Inc. Implementation and Testing in the American Rivers, Inc. Wetland Restoration Project in the Choptank and Wye Watersheds Restoration of the Patapsco River: Chester River Watershed Provide technical assistance, design plans, Bloede Dam Removal Restore 27 acres of wetlands in partnership implementation and efficacy testing of Remove Bloede Dam from the Patapsco with landowners in the Chester River innovative agricultural best management River. Project will increase community watershed. Project will provide significant practices in the Choptank and Wye River resiliency to major storm events and provide pollution reduction benefits and help achieve watersheds on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. habitat for diadromous and other species. watershed implementation goals. $300,000 $2,480,000 $69,320 National Aquarium in Baltimore, Inc. Anacostia Watershed Society, Inc. Civic Works, Inc. National Aquarium Marine Stream Stewards Clean Waters and Jobs for Baltimore Youth Debris Outreach Initiative Educate and empower 400 students to Install bioretention and develop a training/ Achieve a significant increase in public implement low-impact development projects certification model for workers in Baltimore. awareness of the environmental threats at two schools in the Anacostia River Project will help make stormwater manage­ associated with marine debris. Project will Watershed. Students will learn about issues ment installations a viable career path. increase the awareness of visitors to the facing the Anacostia watershed, participate $200,000 National Aquarium in Baltimore via strategic in a field study of the river and implement exhibit content and directed educational low-impact development strategies (such Ecotone, Inc. outreach programs. as painting and installing rain barrels and Retrofit Feasibility Study in Walnut Pond $44,196 creating rain gardens) at their schools. Prevent excessively warm water from being $35,000 delivered to a first order tributary to the South Branch of Gunpowder Falls, a cold-water fishery with a documented native brook trout population. Project will evaluate potential solutions, engage stakeholders and develop a final design for renovation or retrofitting. $29,831

20 National Wildlife Federation Mid- Riverhead Foundation for Marine Town of North Beach Atlantic Regional Center Research and Preservation Protecting North Beach’s Saltmarsh Deep Green Community: Benefits Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual and Emergency Route Wildlife and Water in Baltimore Mortality Event Emergency Support in Create, restore and improve North Beach’s Increase native wildlife habitat in Baltimore the Northeast Region (DE, MD, NJ, NY) shoreline in Calvert County. Project will City neighborhood. Project will decrease Build capacity for the Marine Mammal prevent further erosion to North Beach’s stormwater runoff and foster a greater Stranding Network in the Northeast. Project 105-acre saltmarsh, protect the surrounding environmental awareness and stewardship will provide response and monitoring of the communities, and prevent damage to ethic within the Baltimore community. Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual MD-261, an emergency vehicle route. $200,000 Mortality Event. $540,000 $99,960 New Jersey Audubon Society University of California — Santa Cruz Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability Smithsonian Institution Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River and Resilience Assessment (MA, Imaging Sonar Run Counts of River Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) Herring in Chesapeake Bay — II MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Safeguard societal and ecological values of Develop a network of groups engaged in Increase capacity for management of coastal impoundments from storm surges river herring research and a draft plan for river herring. Project will employ genetic and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their monitoring spawning runs. Project will analysis to provide fisheries managers vulnerability and identify restoration options complete the development of rigorous with critical predictions for how proposed that enhance resilience. imaging sonar method for run counts. bycatch management scenarios will impact $470,000 $100,753 the most threatened alewife and blueback herring stocks. Northeastern Regional Association of Smithsonian Institution $99,982 Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Sustainable Reduction in Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related ‘Ghost Crab Pot’ Fishing University of Maryland Eastern Shore Data Interpretation and Accessibility Reduce the impact of Maryland derelict Improving Subsurfer Manure Develop a data integration platform for crab pots. Project will evaluate disabling or Management Technologies existing storm-related resources that will recovery technologies, engage watermen Lead the development of a hybrid auger– especially benefit U.S. States affected by and state agencies on sustainable solutions chain delivery system. Project will modify Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access and educate the public. the University of Maryland Eastern and intuitive data interpretation for all users $48,647 Shore’s “Subsurfer” unit to accept a chain including decision makers. delivery system. $520,000 St. Mary’s River Watershed Association Inc. $60,000 Fostering Behavior Change on a Neighborhood- Oyster Recovery Partnership, Inc. Scale in the St. Marys River Watershed Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Conducting Oyster Restoration for Maximum Engage neighborhoods in sustainable Center Foundation, Inc. Environmental Benefits in the Choptank River homestead best management practices Response to the 2013 Dolphin Re-populate 20 acres of oyster reefs in and individual behaviors. Project will Unusual Mortality Event Little Choptank River. Project will build foster a social competition to be the most Aid in the investigation of the recently community support, and collect and verify river-friendly neighborhood and increase declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting data needed to maximize oyster survival the use of best management practices bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic and long-term environmental benefits. across the watershed. Coast. Project will coordinate marine $300,000 $34,840 mammal stranding response and provide analysis on the cause of death. Oyster Recovery Partnership, Inc. The Conservation Fund $65,332 Oyster Shell Delivery for Restoration Increasing Resiliency in Maryland’s Work in the Chesapeake Bay (FL, MD) Greater Baltimore Wilderness Wildlife Management Institute Provide at-cost delivery of oyster shell for Map, analyze and assess central Maryland’s Sustaining Young Forest Habitat restoration of oyster reef habitat in the green infrastructure for opportunities to to Support At-Risk Species Chesapeake Bay. expand, protect and maintain a network to Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce $4,873,883 increase ecosystem resiliency and population the decline of young forest habitat and protection from impact of coastal storms. support restoration of key species in 17 states. Prince George’s County, Maryland $640,000 Project will increase American woodcock and Urban Retrofit Using Innovative New England cottontail population levels and Bioretention Design The Conservation Fund work toward an effort to halt the decline of Retrofit an office complex using bioretention Increasing Saltmarsh Acreage and Resiliency golden-winged warbler by 2019. facilities with two innovative technologies for Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge $250,000 developed under a previous NFWF grant. Increase saltmarsh acreage and enhancing The project will be combined with innovative resiliency for Blackwater National MASSACHUSETTS high-flow media to create a new design. Wildlife Refuge and Fishing Bay Wildlife Charles River Watershed Association $375,000 Management Area in southern Dorchester County. Project will create 25 acres of new Canoeing for Clean Water, Charles River — II saltmarsh, increase saltmarsh productivity and Restore habitat and recreation through generate an invasive plant eradication map. invasive weed eradication. This project will $3,500,000 mobilize hundreds of volunteers, involve large-scale mechanical harvesting and research, and create new river stewards. $30,746

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Community Development Partnership National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Management Institute Best Practices in Permit Bank Management Risk Reduction and Resiliency Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Improve best practices for fisheries permit Enhancement for Great Marsh to Support At-Risk Species banking in Massachusetts. Project will Through the creation of living shorelines, Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce provide technical assistance to fishermen infrastructure assessment, hydrodynamic the decline of young forest habitat and and deepen the utility of the Fish Hub. modeling and resiliency planning, project support restoration of key species in 17 states. Specific activities will include recruiting will reduce coastal community risk while Project will increase American woodcock and additional fishermen to utilize the Fish Hub enhancing ecosystem value. New England cottontail population levels and to strengthen their businesses, providing $2,940,000 work toward an effort to halt the decline of innovative financing options, enhancing the golden-winged warbler by 2019. aggregate data capability of the Fish Hub, and New Jersey Audubon Society $250,000 developing resource tools for business advisers Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability to utilize the Fish Hub. and Resilience Assessment (MA, MICHIGAN $75,000 MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) Safeguard societal and ecological values of Calhoun Conservation District Friends of the Great Falls Discovery Center, Inc. coastal impoundments from storm surges Restoring Aquatic Connectivity Promoting the Friends of the and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their to the Kalamazoo River Great Falls Discovery Center vulnerability and identify restoration options Replace two road–stream crossings in the Create a friends brochure with a tear-off that enhance resilience. lower reaches of the Pigeon River watershed membership form as well as a traveling exhibit $470,000 of southwestern Michigan. Project will box to distribute and share throughout the reconnect 11.6 miles of upstream and community. Project will increase the friends’ Northeastern Regional Association of 200 downstream miles of habitat with the membership within and beyond its present Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Kalamazoo River system providing enhanced area, thereby increasing the pool of volunteers Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related passage for many fish species, healthier available to help with refuge programs. Data Interpretation and Accessibility fish populations and aquatic habitat, and $4,020 Develop a data integration platform for improved habitat for several Michigan species existing storm-related resources that will of special concern. Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences especially benefit U.S. States affected by $168,354 American Oystercatcher Recovery —V Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) and intuitive data interpretation for all users Conservation Legacy Conserve and manage coastal habitat to including decision makers. Monitoring Algae at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore help recover the population of American $520,000 oystercatchers and associated beach nesting Monitor beaches at Sleeping Bear Dunes bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, University of California — Santa Cruz National Lakeshore for the presence of New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River dead birds and fish, while quantifying the Project will use best management practices Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, amount of algae accumulated on the beaches. to manage human disturbance and nest MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Project will conduct intensified monitoring predation, and will help coordinate regional Increase capacity for management of of beaches and coastal waters to provide efforts to benefit American oystercatchers. river herring. Project will employ genetic solutions to prevent beach fouling and reduce $209,781 analysis to provide fisheries managers botulism outbreaks. with critical predictions for how proposed $8,000 Massachusetts Department of Fish and bycatch management scenarios will impact Game — Division of Ecological Restoration the most threatened alewife and blueback Conservation Resource Alliance Removal of 10 Dams in Massachusetts herring stocks. Improving Aquatic Connectivity and Habitat in the Maple River Remove seven high-risk dams, complete $99,982 design and permitting to remove two Improve aquatic connectivity and riparian, additional dams and a technical assessment Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head wetland, and in-stream habitat in the Maple and concept plans for removal of a 10th dam, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head River and its tributaries. Project will result in identify and initiate 10 new priority dam (Aquinnah) Resiliency Proposal unrestricted aquatic species passage, wetland removal projects and offer hands-on dam Conduct four projects that cover assessments, restoration, the prevention of sediment from removal experience to students. planning and restoration activities to increase entering waterways, lower stream water $4,500,000 resiliency to tribal lands in future storms. temperature, and improved fish habitat. $670,000 $558,000 Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries Mass Shoreline Protection Using Wildlife Management Institute Conservation Resource Alliance Complex Reef Habitat Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Boardman River Fish Passage Restoration — II Plan a shoreline protection project designed Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) Represent the second phase of a project to attenuate wave energy and protect Support several highly experienced and that will restore connectivity to 160 miles of transplanted eelgrass through the creation networked habitat biologists to deliver the Boardman River. Project will reconnect of a submerged breakwater reef. technical assistance in high-priority areas 12.5 stream miles and restore in-stream and $240,000 to benefit New England cottontail, golden- riparian habitat along 1.2 miles of cold- winged warbler, and American woodcock. water stream, which will improve habitat for Project will support coordination of research many fish species. efforts, field test study design, sample analysis $1,500,000 and increasing early successional habitat. $250,000

22 Conservation Resource Alliance Niles City, Michigan Trout Unlimited, Inc. West Michigan Fruit Belt Conservation Alliance Dowagiac River Fish Passage Restoration Reconnecting Coldwater Habitat Prepare regional partners to rapidly Remove fish passage barriers and restore in Northwest Michigan Rivers implement 2014 Farm Bill Programs by stream channel and associated floodplain Conduct seven in-stream habitat supporting two locally knowledgeable habitat. Project will reconnect 159 stream improvement projects in the Manistee, Pine, conservation experts to engage landowners miles with 11,000 acres of wetlands and Little Manistee and Pere Marquette rivers in conservation projects. Project will result in restore two miles of cold-water stream habitat of northwestern Michigan. Project will an array of conservation outcomes, including for fish species. improve connectivity and restore 45 miles of easements, 100 conservation plans, and 30 $250,000 cold-water stream habitat, reduce flooding projects to restore and protect priority wildlife and damage caused by severe storm events, and fishery habitat. River Alliance of Wisconsin, Inc. and provide examples of science-driven river $180,000 Menominee River Area of Concern restoration techniques. Fish Passage (MI, WI) $250,000 Huron Pines Implement the third phase of a multi-phase Restoring Fish Habitat in the project to help restore lake sturgeon in the Wildlife Management Institute Cheboygan River Watershed Lake Michigan basin. Project will reconnect Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Replace road–stream crossings, install large 21 miles of historic spawning and rearing to Support At-Risk Species in-stream structures and control invasive plant habitat in the Menominee River with Employ highly skilled conservation species in the Cheboygan River watershed. Lake Michigan by providing upstream and professionals to reduce the decline of young Project will reconnect 20 upstream miles, downstream fish passage around two dams. forest habitat and support restoration of reduce sediment inputs, and improve habitat $2,883,495 key species in 17 states. Project will increase for brook trout, lake sturgeon and other fish. American woodcock and New England $470,392 Superior Watershed Partnership cottontail population levels and work toward Cooperative Weed Management an effort to halt the decline of golden-winged Huron Pines Resource Conservation in Central Upper Michigan warbler by 2019. & Development Council, Inc. Work with partners to expand successful, $250,000 Reconnecting Black River collaborative, invasive species management in Tributaries with Lake Huron Lake Superior and Lake Michigan watersheds. MINNESOTA Replace three priority road-stream crossings Project will expand public education programs along the Black River in northeastern and support a cooperative weed management Children and Nature Network Michigan. Project will reconnect 8.75 miles area coordinator and field crew. Sun Ray Green Library of the river with Lake Huron and provide $75,000 Demonstrate community-based conservation stream access for coaster brook trout and on the land that surrounds the Sun Ray other lake-run fish. The Greening of Detroit Public Library in Saint Paul, Minnesota. $32,053 Green Connections: Developing Project will help to create an outdoor reading Conservation Careers area featuring rain gardens and native plants. Michigan Department of Hire ten low-income Detroit youths to $98,403 Agriculture — Environmental participate in the Green Connections Stewardship Division Conservation Careers Program, an First Nations Development Institute Reducing Phosphorus Runoff in employment program designed to develop Native American Models for Control of Local Western Lake Erie Basin the next generation of conservationists. Youth Food Systems in the Midwest (IL, MN, WI) Provide local technical assistance staff will lead volunteers in tree planting activities Develop the capacity of three Native through Conservation Districts in the as part of their training and employment American organizations that are working to Michigan Western Lake Erie Basin to assist experience in an effort to cultivate leadership create systemic change by increasing control farmers with phosphorus reduction strategies. and communication skills. of local food systems. Project will expand Project will utilize the voluntary, confidential $59,750 efforts to provide high-quality and expanded Michigan Agriculture Environmental quantities of healthy and locally produced Assurance Program to reach farmers, and will The Nature Conservancy — Michigan foods to Native American communities, to result in measurably reducing nutrient loss Early Detection/Rapid Response of Invasive progress toward organizational sustainability and sedimentation. Plant Species along Eastern Lake Michigan and to uphold the natural resource $251,000 Survey and control invasive plant species management goals of conservation plans using Early Detection/Rapid Response adopted in each of their areas. Michigan Department of Natural Resources methodology throughout 11,000 acres along $25,000 Restoring Riparian and Aquatic Habitat Along the 505-mile shoreline of eastern Lake the Detroit River in Milliken State Park Michigan. Project will improve and protect Friends of Tamarac National Naturalize 350 feet of shoreline and improve coastal dune and wetland habitat for many Wildlife Refuge, Inc. aquatic habitat along the Detroit River at rare wildlife and plant species. Expanding Friends Outreach Capacity at Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge Milliken State Park. Project will increase $495,380 the populations of targeted fish, reptile and Create new outreach materials, enhance amphibian species in the project vicinity and Trout Unlimited — Schrems West volunteer recruitment, and design a contribute to the delisting of both Loss of Michigan Trout Unlimited new marketing strategy for the Nature Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Degradation Improving Cold Water Habitat for Brook Trout Photography Contest. Project will provide the of Fish and Wildlife Populations Beneficial Install in-stream structures, improve riparian Friends with the materials and capabilities Use Impairments in the Detroit River and aquatic habitat, and remove fish passage necessary to expand the Friends’ outreach Area of Concern. barriers in Kent County, Michigan. Project capacity and volunteer recruitment. $800,000 will positively impact five streams, one $5,000 wetland, and 22,000 feet of stream as well as reduce sediment inputs and improve habitat for fish species. $149,000

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Friends of the Prairie Wetlands River Keepers highly successful “Fire on the Forty” private Learning Center, Inc. Reforesting the Red (MN, ND) lands burning initiative taking place in Prairie Wetland Seasons Through the Lens Restore degraded riparian forest added to south Mississippi. Acquire five cameras to support the Junior public ownership. Forest restoration project $100,000 Friends in developing an art exhibit and will improve water quality and develop public to teach nature photography workshops to appreciation and use of urban stormwater best Mississippi State University the public. Project will increase community management practices. Developing Private Sector Capacity for Longleaf Restoration awareness and connection with the refuge $38,522 through the photo exhibit and workshops. Increase private-sector capacity and expertise $5,000 Spirit Mountain Recreation Area by providing longleaf conservation training to Controlling Runoff to Knowlton Creek foresters who work with private landowners. Great Plains Institute for Construct in-stream systems to reduce Project will also educate local private Sustainable Development, Inc. destructive peak flows in Knowlton Creek landowners and Girl Scouts and provide Minneapolis Small Business Energy Coaching within the St. Louis River System Area of financial incentives for longleaf replanting. Reduce energy use and improve economic Concern. Project will reduce sediment inputs The effort will restore 4,000 acres of longleaf well-being of 40 Minneapolis businesses. and allow for the restoration of impaired pine, enhance over 1,000 acres of longleaf Project will train local community habitat within a designated trout stream. habitat and engage 200 private landowners representatives to provide in-depth energy $600,000 through education and technical assistance. coaching for small businesses. $190,000 $50,000 Wildlife Management Institute Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Texas A&M University Lake County Soil and Water to Support At-Risk Species Reducing Incidental Capture of Conservation District Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce Loggerhead Sea Turtles in Gulf of Stewart River Stabilization and the decline of young forest habitat and Mexico Trawl Fisheries (AL, FL, TX) Habitat Improvement support restoration of key species in 17 states. Reduce incidental capture of loggerhead Stabilize the stream channel and improve Project will increase American woodcock and sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. Project aquatic and riparian habitat along 3,000 feet New England cottontail population levels and will certify turtle excluder device training of the Stewart River. Project will provide work toward an effort to halt the decline of for vessels and reduce turtle capture from increased habitat for aquatic organisms, golden-winged warbler by 2019. incidental shrimp trawl captures. improve water quality and enhance resiliency $250,000 $99,103 by increasing the ability of the stream to withstand high flows. MISSISSIPPI MISSOURI $378,471 City of Pascagoula, Mississippi Beloved Streets of America Land Stewardship Project Urban Forest Restoration in I.G. Levy Park The Beloved Streets of America Expand Soil Health Practices in Restore 1 acre of urban forest in a Pascagoula Urban Agriculture Initiative the Root River Watershed community park to increase bird habitat Utilize urban agriculture to revitalize Engage 125 farmers and landowners to near Whitehead Lake. Project partners will the community along a neglected area of improve grazing, soil health and cover remove invasive species, plant trees and Dr. Martin Luther King Drive through a cropping on 5,000 acres. Project will enhance plant rain gardens. partnership with Washington University bird and aquatic habitat and water quality in $25,001 and local grocery stores for the purchase and use of produce. Project activities will the Root River watershed. Institute for Marine Mammal Studies $135,355 include rehabilitating and renovating an Stranding Response and Necropsies for Marine abandoned commercial facility as a green Mississippi River Fund Mammals in Gulf of Mexico (AL, LA, MS) technology application. Mississippi River Conservation Volunteers Respond to, conduct necropsies on and collect $25,000 Restore floodplain and bluff woodlands tissues from stranded marine mammals in Community Action Agency of on the upper Mississippi River, engaging the Mississippi Sound and adjacent waters. St. Louis County, Inc. underserved youth populations and Project will provide coverage for the Marine Summer Farm Internships for Teens volunteers. This project will restore habitat Mammal Stranding Network in the northern and engage volunteers through community Gulf of Mexico. Employ 10 teens to learn urban agriculture, groups and educational volunteer experiences. $379,670 community engagement, and healthy diet $27,975 at two urban farms located within the two Micah Brodsky, V.M.D. Consulting low-income “food deserts” where the teens Pheasants Forever, Inc. Northern Gulf of Mexico Unusual Mortality live. Project farms will become neighborhood Minnesota Prairie Plan Implementation Event Veterinary Assistance (AL, FL, LA, MS) anchors, improve self-reliance, increase access Support a multi-partner approach to Build capacity for the Marine Mammal to healthy food and expand nutritional values. grassland conservation in the Prairie Pothole Stranding Network in the Northern Gulf $25,961 Region of Minnesota. Project will fund two of Mexico. Project will provide technical Quality Deer Management Association wildlife biologists to serve as local technical expertise, respond to live and dead stranded Private Landowner Cooperative Position assistance leads to deliver statewide programs marine mammals and necropsy dead stranded and Farm Bill programs to landowners animals to determine cause of death. Help fund a cooperative position between the that accomplish programmatic goals of the $84,766 Quality Deer Management Association and the Missouri Department of Conservation. Minnesota Prairie Conservation Plan. Mississippi Land Trust $250,000 Project will establish and maintain private Enhancing Pine-Grassland Habitat landowner wildlife management cooperatives. with Prescribed Fire $9,400 Apply fire on 7,760 acres of private lands to enhance bird habitat. Project builds on the

24 The Open Space Council for Montana Department of Fish, agencies to assess and leverage habitat and the St. Louis Region Wildlife and Parks bird responses to grazing BMPs. Lower Meramec Hands-On Stewardship Bear Management in the Cabinet-Yaak $100,000 and Watershed Education Region — III Implement a three-prong approach to Reduce human-caused grizzly bear mortalities Yaak Valley Forest Council the lower Meramec Watershed plan by through human-bear conflict prevention Yaak Valley Watershed Restoration Partnership restoring 500 miles of river, educating the and through increasing public awareness Collaborate with multiple partners on a public through “Watershed Cairns” art and and tolerance of bears throughout the summer pilot program to protect and improve university water-quality research. Data will Cabinet-Yaak region. Project will support a fisheries in the Yaak River basin. Project will be collected and analyzed from project sites bear management specialist who works with hire two youths to conduct sediment source throughout the lower Meramec Watershed. the local communities to reduce the risk of surveys in Yaak River tributaries, stream $25,000 attractant-related bear conflicts. thermograph monitoring, trail maintenance $50,000 and restoration on previously decommissioned MONTANA road prisms, and non-toxic weed treatment on Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative the banks of the Yaak River. Bureau of Land Management — Carnivores at the Crossroads: $5,600 Dillon Field Office A Partnership for Coexistence (MT, WA) Bear Trap Wilderness Biological Mitigate conflicts with carnivores in NEBRASKA Control Reestablishment biologically important landscapes by Reestablish biological control sites on Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory leveraging partnerships in the region to Business Plan and Monitoring Framework for populations of leafy spurge and spotted deliver leadership, proven innovations and knapweed to replace sites destroyed in a 2012 Grassland Birds in the Northern Great Plains scientific analysis. Project will provide Develop grassland bird conservation goals fire in Madison County, Montana. Project initial steps toward building a partnership will also treat smaller infestations that have and strategies to benefit the Northern Great of innovation, cross-fertilization and Plains. Project will expand existing monitoring reappeared since the fire. demonstration projects all targeted on $25,000 program to better measure conservation carnivore conflict reduction. action impacts on bird populations. $35,000 Missoula County Weed District $184,059 Engaging Youth in Natural Pheasants Forever, Inc. Resource Restoration Restoring Wildlife Habitat on Public Lands NEVADA Provide high school students with career Increase wildlife habitat on publicly held Bureau of Land Management — mentorship and on-the-ground experience lands in the Billings, Montana area by Winnemucca District in natural resource restoration work. leveraging the efforts of the Montana Using Riders to Restore Grazed Students will engage in mechanical and Habitat Partnership. Riparian Bird Habitat (NV, OR) biological noxious weed control, wildlife $40,000 Use riders, spring protection, seeding, habitat restoration, native seed collection, planting and weed treatment to restore fence removal, trail maintenance and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory riparian areas grazed by livestock. Project stream restoration. Business Plan and Monitoring Framework for will be a collaborative effort among $20,775 Grassland Birds in the Northern Great Plains several agencies and stakeholders. Develop grassland bird conservation goals $50,000 Montana Conservation Corps, Inc. and strategies to benefit the Northern Northern Great Plains Restoration Corps Great Plains. Project will expand Bureau of Land Management — California Employ 72 youths for 28 weeks of varied and existing monitoring program to better Youth Restoration of Forest and needed habitat restoration work. Project will measure conservation action impacts on Rangelands in Nevada expose youth to exceptional locations and bird populations. Expand partnership with the Nevada a wide variety of conservation issues in the $184,059 Conservation Corps and local Native Northern Great Plains. American tribes to employ, train, and mentor $65,000 Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation tribal and other youth to restore forests Ray Creek Acquisition — II Montana Conservation Corps, Inc. and rangelands in northern Nevada. A Aid in acquisition of a total of 988 acres 10-member crew will be hired to enhance Montana-Wyoming Reclamation Youth Corps within the proclaimed boundary of the Mobilize diverse youths from urban, rural about 400 acres of sage-grouse habitat and Helena National Forest and direct deed the restore forest and woodland on Carson City and tribal communities to participate in land to the U.S. Forest Service. Project will 12 weeks of high-value conservation projects District Bureau of Land Management lands. protect over 2 miles of westslope cutthroat $75,000 rich with learning and training opportunities. habitat and provides important habitat By working at Tiber Dam / Lake Elwell, for elk and deer. City of Fernley Canyon Ferry Reservoir, and Keyhole $9,400 Preliminary Engineering for the City of Fernley’s Reservoir, youths will contribute valuable Aquifer Storage and Recovery Program services to mitigate invasive weeds, improve World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Complete the necessary preliminary fencing to protect Bureau of Reclamation Grassland Bird Conservation in engineering for the diversion, conveyance, resources, plant trees and enhance recreation the Northwestern Region of the delivery, and subsequent use of water for facilities and learn about education and career Northern Great Plains the City of Fernley’s Aquifer Storage and opportunities in conservation fields. Assess best management practices (BMPs) Recovery Program. $35,000 and develop targets for habitat manipulation $250,000 and refinement to produce improved habitat for priority bird species on partner lands. Project will work with ranchers and ranchers’ groups to coordinate and communicate with

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Conservation Legacy Mason Valley Conservation District Smith Valley Conservation District Historic Railroad Trail and Camp Revegetation of Retired Farmlands Walker River Restoration and Davis Trail (AZ, NV) Revegetate several hundred acres of retired Noxious Weed Removal Expand the existing Colorado River Heritage farmlands. Project will complete installation Employ and train two youths to assist with Greenway Park and Trails from Davis Dam of drip irrigation systems, planting and abandoned farmland restoration efforts as a across the Colorado River to Laughlin, seeding, irrigation, monitoring, and weed result of water acquisitions during the 2015 Arizona. Project will employ a crew of six control and management. field season. Youths will gain experience corps members and two crew leaders to $167,781 in noxious weed identification,GPS /GIS construct and mark trail, install signage, data collection, native plant establishment improve walkways and manage vegetation. Nevada Department of Wildlife and drip irrigation operation, repair and $49,600 Pine Nut Mountains Habitat Restoration maintenance on 280 acres. Restore riparian and wet meadow ecosystems $30,248 Dayton Valley Conservation District as well as adjacent uplands within the Carson River Floodplain Rehabilitation Pine Nut Mountains located in the Summit Lake Paiute Tribe and Habitat Restoration Central Great Basin. Trout Assessment and Habitat Reestablish native and desirable vegetation $165,370 Restoration at Summit Lake and habitat on multiple properties along the Complete a thorough assessment of trout in Middle Carson River. Project will complete Nevada Land Trust Summit Lake, Nevada. Project will generate multiple weed treatments including herbicide South Fork Humboldt River population estimates, age structure and spot treatments, mowing, burning, and Canyon Conservation age-based mortality estimates for lake and re-seeding to eradicate invasive weeds and Secure protection for approximately 1,000 stream resident cutthroat trout populations reestablish native vegetation. acres of riparian habitat in the South Fork in Summit Lake basin and initiate riparian $250,000 Humboldt River Canyon. restoration projects. $125,000 $1,500,000 Great Basin Institute Vegetation and Habitat Monitoring Nevada Land Trust Summit Lake Paiute Tribe in the Walker Basin Acquisition of Property in Ash Canyon Developing Conservationists at Educate youth about important conservation Acquire approximately 45.5 acres of land and the Summit Lake Reservation work that is occurring in the Walker associated water rights (up to 20 acre-feet Offer six youths the opportunity to participate Basin and watershed. Project will employ of water) in the Ash Canyon and McEwen in a three-week summer internship at the a seven-member youth crew to collect watersheds of the Carson and Truckee Basins. Summit Lake Reservation in remote north-­ data using contemporary vegetation and $250,000 western Nevada. Interns will assist with habitat sampling techniques that have been existing resource management projects being Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe developed for nationwide use at multiple implemented by the Tribe’s Natural Resources Numana Dam, Indian Ditch landscape scales. Department to research, support, and conserve and Fisheries Project $74,996 fish, wildlife, plant and habitat resources. Complete four tasks to conserve water $31,000 Great Basin Institute for Pyramid Lake. Project will complete Coyote Springs Restoration engineering work on the Numana Dam, The Nature Conservancy Engage youth volunteers to help clean up and fish passage, Indian Ditch irrigation McCarran Ranch and Mustang reduce impacts of a recreational shooting area system, and hatchery pipeline to allow Ranch Ecosystem Restoration within the Coyote Springs Area of Critical more water to remain in the lower Truckee Improve and expand riparian habitat Environmental Concern through general River, Pyramid Lake. for migratory birds by reconnecting the site cleanup, decommissioning of illegal $1,400,000 Lower Truckee River to its floodplain and motorized activity, and fence enclosures to conducting extensive revegetation with native Pyramid Lake Fisheries concentrate use in previously disturbed areas. tree and shrub species. Pyramid Lake Quagga and Zebra Mussel $8,000 $499,624 Aquatic Species Plan Development Great Basin Institute Prevent the introduction of quagga and zebra The Nature Conservancy Generation Green: Lake Tahoe mussels into Pyramid Lake. Project will Optimizing Restoration Investments in Basin Management (CA, NV) develop and implement watercraft inspection the Truckee Watershed (CA, NV) Engage local youth in ecological conservation and decontamination protocols, construct Prioritize headwater restoration and and leadership development. Project will permanent decontamination areas and provide conservation investments in the Truckee teach students about conservation methods increased outreach and education to boaters, Watershed. Project will couple stakeholder and related job opportunities through a anglers and the general public. engagement with sophisticated watershed variety of on-the-ground work. $250,000 modeling, a Resource Investment $36,370 Optimization System model, to develop River Partners recommendations for maximizing ecosystem Habitat Restoration Planning at Great Basin Land & Water service returns on investments and serve as a Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge Summit Lake Region Protection Program resource for coordination among the entities Complete preliminary steps towards Restore 500 acres of grassland, riparian and involved in watershed management. wetland habitat restoration on the Stillwater acquisition of the 14,000-acre Soldier $249,090 Meadows Ranch in the Summit Lake Region National Wildlife Refuge. Project will develop of northwest Nevada in Humboldt County. restoration plan, secure permits and complete Project will complete due diligence and preliminary engineering work necessary for federal environmental compliance. future restoration. $250,000 $249,975

26 Trout Unlimited, Inc. Northeastern Regional Association of NEW JERSEY Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems American Littoral Society Conservation (CA, NV, OR) Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related Creating Resilient Habitats and Provide support for a Lahontan Cutthroat Data Interpretation and Accessibility Communities on Delaware Bay Trout (LCT) Coordinator who hires, trains Develop a data integration platform for Restore six Delaware bayshore sites, making and supervises range-wide field crews, existing storm-related resources that will habitats and towns more resilient to future coordinates communication and collaboration especially benefit U.S. States affected by storms and impacts of climate change and among stakeholders in LCT recovery and Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access associated threats. Innovative restoration and works on public and private landowner and intuitive data interpretation for all users protection techniques will promote long-term outreach and education. Project will also including decision makers. sustainability of the project. support Nevada Department of Wildlife’s $520,000 $4,750,000 Safe Harbors Biologist who is responsible for monitoring and oversight of private-lands Seacoast Science Center, Inc. American Littoral Society agreements to enable LCT recovery projects Establishing a New Marine Mammal Barrett’s Run Afforestation on private lands. Stranding Program for New Hampshire and Grassland Buffer $450,288 Establish a new marine mammal stranding Improve the buffer along Barrett’s Run in program at the Seacoast Science Center. Hopewell Township by afforestation and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Lahontan Project will fill the gap of coverage currently planting grasses on seven and a half acres of National Fish Hatchery Complex in New Hampshire for the Marine Mammal preserved land. Project’s buffer will address Pilot Peak Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Stranding Network. agricultural runoff, stormwater, habitat and Mark and Recapture Program $50,000 environmental education. Support the Pilot Peak Mark and Recapture $63,852 program, a study to track the performance University of California — Santa Cruz of Lahontan cutthroat trout. Project will Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Association of New Jersey identify and track Lahontan cutthroat trout Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, Environmental Commissioners in Pyramid Lake and provide resource MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Creating a Model for Local Green managers with information on the Pilot Peak Increase capacity for management of Infrastructure Practices Lahontan cutthroat trout stocking program river herring. Project will employ genetic Inform local officials about stormwater and in Pyramid Lake. analysis to provide fisheries managers create an impervious cover reduction plan. $250,000 with critical predictions for how proposed Project will install examples of green infra-­ bycatch management scenarios will impact structure as models for residents and officials. Walker River Paiute Tribe the most threatened alewife and blueback $75,000 Water Conservation Improvements Within herring stocks. the Walker River Indian Irrigation Project $99,982 City of Hoboken, NJ Determine cost-effective investments for Transforming Hoboken’s Block 12 into increasing the efficiency of tribal water Wildlife Management Institute a Green Infrastructure Asset diversions and reducing the net consumptive Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Incorporate green infrastructure into use of water associated with those diversions Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) Block 12’s neighborhood redesign in within the irrigation system. Support several highly experienced habitat Hoboken. Project will increase stormwater $250,000 biologists to deliver technical assistance in management, reduce sewer overflow and high-priority areas to benefit New England increase open space. NEW HAMPSHIRE cottontail, golden-winged warbler, and $250,000 American woodcock. Project will support New Hampshire Department of coordination of research efforts, field test City of Newark, NJ Environmental Services study design, sample analysis and increasing Newark Bay Wetlands Restoration Project River Restoration: Removal of early successional habitat. Develop a comprehensive restoration design Two Sawyers Mill Dams $250,000 plan as well as funding to restore and enhance Remove two dams to restore 11.2 miles of the degraded wetlands and habitat at a 12-acre Bellamy River to free-flowing, improve water Wildlife Management Institute site along the Newark Bay. quality, reduce flooding and remove a barrier Sustaining Young Forest Habitat $1,560,000 to diadromous and resident aquatic species. to Support At-Risk Species $550,000 Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce City of Ocean City, NJ the decline of young forest habitat and Restore Damaged Wetlands on Islands New Jersey Audubon Society support restoration of key species in 17 states. in Great Egg Harbor Bay Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability Project will increase American woodcock and Restore damaged wetlands on various and Resilience Assessment (MA, New England cottontail population levels and wetland Islands in Great Egg Harbor Bay by MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) work toward an effort to halt the decline of thin-layer placement of dredge materials and Safeguard societal and ecological values of golden-winged warbler by 2019. reclamation of former wetlands on Garret’s coastal impoundments from storm surges $250,000 Island using dredge materials. and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their $2,630,000 vulnerability and identify restoration options that enhance resilience. Friends of Great Swamp National $470,000 Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Friends of New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania Refuges Peer-to-Peer Coaching Host a two-day meeting for seven Friends groups to facilitate exchanging ideas, sharing expertise, networking, capacity building and educational instruction. $4,900

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Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. vulnerability and identify restoration options Northeastern Regional Association of Groundwork-Walkill Connection: that enhance resilience. Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Fostering Urban River Stewards (NJ, NY) $470,000 Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related Improve access to the Saw Mill River so Data Interpretation and Accessibility that residents living next to it can both New Jersey Audubon Society Develop a data integration platform for protect and enjoy the river. Volunteers will Synergistic Conservation existing storm-related resources that will restore riverbanks by removing invasives Strategies in the Highlands especially benefit U.S. States affected by and planting native trees. Enhance water quality by improving riverine Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access $35,410 and headwaters habitat through strategies and intuitive data interpretation for all users associated with forest connectivity and aquatic including decision makers. Little Egg Harbor Township connectivity of in-stream habitat. $520,000 Marsh Restoration and Replenishment, $132,213 Little Egg Harbor RESOLVE, Inc. Protect two towns by restoring several acres New Jersey Audubon Society Delaware River Restoration Circuit of marsh, preventing further erosion, opening Agricultural Best Management Practices Rider — Agriculture Technical Assistance clogged waterways, and replenishing a beach in the Kirkwood-Cohansey Cluster Provide technical assistance with a focus through the beneficial reuse of dredge spoils. Increase use of agricultural and forest best on agricultural conservation to grantees $2,130,000 management practices to protect water and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster resources. Project will reduce agricultural participants. Project will offer support, Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences impacts to streams, wetlands and groundwater oversight and capacity building with American Oystercatcher Recovery — V resources and develop a strategy for increased prospective, new and existing grant recipients. (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) cost-share for best management practices. Project will increase the ability and capacity Conserve and manage coastal habitat to $138,355 of organizations to develop, organize and help recover the population of American carry out projects and generate results with New Jersey Conservation Foundation oystercatchers and associated beach nesting the agricultural community that fulfill the Preventing Erosion, Restoring bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, environmental outcomes sought by both Hydrology in the Pine Barrens New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. NFWF and the grantee. Working at two preserves totaling 13,400 Project will use best management practices $30,000 to manage human disturbance and nest acres, project will manage water control predation, and will help coordinate regional structures, restore floodplain hydrology, Riverhead Foundation for Marine efforts to benefit American oystercatchers. inhibit unlawful off-road traffic in stream Research and Preservation $209,781 headwaters and protect native species. Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual $280,000 Mortality Event Emergency Support in Monmouth Beach, New Jersey the Northeast Region (DE, MD, NJ, NY) New Jersey Department of Monmouth Beach Resiliency Through Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Environmental Protection Marsh and Dune Restoration Stranding Network in the Northeast. Project Building Ecological Solutions to Construct coastal dune system to improve will provide response and monitoring of the Coastal Community Hazards town resiliency and restore plover, tern Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Develop, design and deliver green and skimmer habitat using 50,000 cubic Mortality Event. infrastructure techniques that add ecological yards of sand. Work includes design of 17- $99,960 acre marsh island. value and enhance community resiliency. $1,780,000 $3,440,000 Rutgers University Climate Resilient Green Infrastructure New Jersey Department of Musconetcong Watershed Association for the Raritan Basin Environmental Protection — Turkey Hill and West Portal Brook Restoration: Implement green infrastructure in portions of Office of Natural Resource Restoration Agriculture Best Management Practices the Raritan River Basin that are particularly Beneficial Reuse of Dredge Material Restore two tributaries to the Musconetcong vulnerable to climate change threats based to Restore Saltmarshes River using agricultural best management upon impervious cover reduction action plans. Leverage dredging for clear navigation practices in order to reduce nutrients and $820,000 bacterial contamination. channels to restore 90 acres of coastal marsh, $100,000 assess the effectiveness of this method Rutgers University and plan future projects on the Atlantic Digital Mapping Services for New Jersey Audubon Society Coast of New Jersey. Hurricane Sandy Program Beach Restoration at Southern $3,420,000 Provide NFWF a variety of digital mapping Seven Mile Island, New Jersey services to assist in the assessment of the New Jersey Department of Project will restore beach at Stone Harbor U.S. Department of Interior Hurricane Environmental Protection — Office Point to increase coastal resiliency, improve Sandy Coastal Resiliency Competitive of Natural Resource Restoration wildlife habitat and develop an adaptive Grants Program. Liberty State Park Saltmarsh and strategy for protection from future storms. $14,971 $1,280,000 Upland Enhancement Project Design a minimum of 40 acres of saltmarsh Rutgers University New Jersey Audubon Society creation and approximately 100 acres of Strengthening Marshes Creek Through Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability upland enhancement. Green and Grey Infrastructure and Resilience Assessment (MA, $250,000 Restore compromised Marshes Creek MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) saltmarsh and alleviate flooding in the Safeguard societal and ecological values of decades-old community of Tremley Point that coastal impoundments from storm surges adjoins the Creek in Linden using both green and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their and grey infrastructure. $2,720,000

28 Stroud Water Research Center NEW MEXICO Friends of the Bosque del Apache Delaware River Watershed Technical Chama Peak Land Alliance National Wildlife Refuge Assistance Circuit Riders — Riparian San Juan-Rio Grande Riparian Southwest Friends Peer-to-Peer Technical Assistance Stewardship Program (CO, NM) Mentoring Workshop Provide technical assistance with a focus Hire a full-time stewardship coordinator to Host a two-day mentoring workshop for on agricultural conservation to grantees connect private landowners with technical and 10 Friends groups. The workshop will consist and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster financial resources to increase conservation in of interactive, interest-driven sessions that will participants. Project will offer support, riparian habitats in southern Colorado and engage, educate and energize a new powerful oversight and capacity building with northern New Mexico. Project will increase network of Friends for Region II. prospective, new and existing grant recipients. and improve habitat for southwestern willow $4,875 Project will increase the ability and capacity flycatcher by offering technical assistance to of organizations to develop, organize and Friends of Valle de Oro National 1,500 private landowners. Wildlife Refuge carry out projects and generate results with $75,000 the agricultural community that fulfill the Friends of Valle de Oro National Wildlife environmental outcomes sought by both Conservation Legacy Refuge Strategic Planning and Training NFWF and the grantee. Navajo High School Crew (AZ, NM) Train members on the strategic planning $57,320 Lead a high school crew in completion process. Project will result in a strategic of conservation projects on the Navajo plan with goals, objectives and action steps The Nature Conservancy Nation. Project will complete stream bank to fulfill the Friends’ mission of supporting Restoring Paulins Kill Floodplain stabilization/restoration, trail maintenance, the refuge, fostering a conservation ethic, Forests and Functions and wildlife fence repair and construction. education and outreach, and assisting the U.S. Restore naturally regenerating floodplain $25,000 fish and Wildlife Service in developing the forests and improved ecological functions new refuge site. within a significantly degraded, permanently Conservation Legacy $5,000 protected, and contiguous riparian corridor Albuquerque Native American Urban Crew of the upper Paulins Kill. Lead one crew of 10 Native American Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust $99,759 participants for four weeks in the fall of 2014 Middle Rio Grande Southwestern in partnership with La Plazita Institute, Inc. Willow Flycatcher Habitat Program University of California — Santa Cruz The crew will complete conservation service Rio Grande Agricultural Land Trust Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River projects in the Department of Interior’s (DOI) will secure conservation easements and Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, newest Fish and Wildlife Refuge Valle de engage private landowners in conservation MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Oro in Albuquerque as well as other DOI and programs to improve and create habitat Increase capacity for management of tribal lands and waters. for southwestern willow flycatcher in the river herring. Project will employ genetic $25,000 Middle Rio Grande. Project will promote analysis to provide fisheries managers quality flycatcher habitat and overall riparian with critical predictions for how proposed Forest Guild, Inc. habitat protection to support the Working bycatch management scenarios will impact Expanding Youth Outdoor Lands for Wildlife program. the most threatened alewife and blueback Education and Employment $79,986 herring stocks. Recruit, hire and provide education and $99,982 training in forestry, ecology, and natural Rocky Mountain Youth Corps resource management for a six-member youth Pine Tree Loop Trail Rehabilitation Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science crew to work with the Cuba and Jemez Lead crew of seven New Mexico youths in Center Foundation, Inc. Ranger Districts in the Santa Fe National rehabilitation of the 4-mile Pine Tree Loop Response to the 2013 Dolphin Forest for nine weeks during the summer. trail within the Organ Mountain Desert Unusual Mortality Event Project will include closing user-created Peaks National Monument. Project will Aid in the investigation of the recently routes in the forest, repairing and constructing rehabilitate the 4-mile trail, clearing trail declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting fencing to protect riparian habitat, assessing of rock debris and vegetation overgrowth, bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic and mitigating headcuts and gullies in mitigating erosion on trail through installing Coast. Project will coordinate marine streams, and improving 10 miles of degraded or fixing in-place surface water controls, mammal stranding response and provide trails where they intersect with building up tread on trial, installing analysis on the cause of death. important springs. directional trail signs, and completing other $65,332 $38,735 trail maintenance needs. $12,000 Wildlife Management Institute Friends of Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Friends of Las Vegas National Wildlife Sawmill Community Land Trust to Support At-Risk Species Refuge Strategic Development Plan Arbolera de Vida Community Garden Employ highly skilled conservation Create a strategic development plan to Construct and manage a 1-acre community professionals to reduce the decline of young support the Northern New Mexico National garden in Albuquerque’s urban core. Project forest habitat and support restoration of Wildlife Refuge Complex. Project will result will take place on a former brownfield site in a key species in 17 states. Project will increase in a centralized, efficient tracking system and low to moderate income neighborhood. American woodcock and New England trained Friends members with the knowledge $41,319 cottontail population levels and work toward and tools necessary to build capacity for the an effort to halt the decline of golden-winged entire complex. warbler by 2019. $5,000 $250,000

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Student Conservation Association Azuero Earth Project Gowanus Canal Conservancy Statewide Wilderness Study Areas Promoting Toxin Free Lawns to Bioswale Maintenance Certification Program Employ a team of five young adults to work Improve Water Quality Develop a community education and for eight weeks on a variety of restoration Design and deliver a toxin-free lawn care certification program that will engage projects in wilderness areas, wilderness study program with education for homeowners community members in the stewardship of areas, and national monument lands under and landscapers in the Long Island Sound public green infrastructure measures. This the care and stewardship of the Bureau of watershed in Suffolk County, New York. project will train volunteer stewards and Land Management throughout New Mexico. Project will evaluate participant attitudes and license them to maintain any public right of The Restoration Team will restore wilderness motivations about lawn care, deliver toxin- way bioswale in the city of New York with areas by removing and naturalizing unwanted free lawn care and measure chemical guidance from parks officials. off-highway vehicle routes, installing vehicle reductions on 75 acres of lawn. $49,885 barriers and improving opportunities for $32,789 outdoor recreation by maintaining hiking and Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. horseback riding trails. Bronx River Alliance, Inc. Groundwork-Walkill Connection: Fostering $10,000 Bronx River Floatable Pollution Urban River Stewards (NJ, NY) Cleanup and Education Improve access to the Saw Mill River so Talking Talons Youth Leadership Address the issue of floatable pollution that residents living next to it can both Youth Crew Restoration Outreach entering Long Island Sound from the Bronx protect and enjoy the river. Volunteers will along the Bosque River by collecting 14,200 pounds of floatable restore riverbanks by removing invasives and Employ a six-member crew of urban and in three locations. Project will have paddle planting native trees. minority youth in conservation work that and pick-ups to remove floatables along the $35,410 benefits public lands. Project will provide river, at the city floatables collection boom, youth with in-depth education and training in and a shoreline pick-up at Soundview Park Groundwork USA diverse aspects of environmental restoration, on National Estuary Day. Restoration of Historic Concession monitoring and stewardship, as well as job $10,000 at Gateway National Park and organizational skill development in event Employ youth crews to restore the Bay management, networking and facilitation of City Parks Foundation 6 concession building, an historic facility community outreach events. Coastal Habitat Restoration damaged by Hurricane Sandy, at Gateway $47,322 Planning at Alley Pond Park National Park. Project will have youths Produce three restoration plans for up to replace ceilings, install dry wall, refinish NEW YORK 23 acres of tidal wetland and coastal forest in floors, and paint the interior and exterior, Alley Creek Watershed, New York. Project among other tasks. Alley Pond Environmental Center, Inc. will develop designs, cost estimates, custom $47,028 National Estuary Day Celebration specifications and/or regulatory guidance at Alley Pond Park using a community-driven model to inform Village of Sea Cliff, New York Conduct a National Estuary Day event habitat restoration and management of Hempstead Harbor 2014 Water for 250 people with exhibits and on-water local parkland. Quality Monitoring Program activities, conduct a cleanup to reduce $60,000 Conduct water quality monitoring of 14 litter into Long Island Sound, and present physical chemical, and biological indicators educational programs at five schools in Connecticut Fund for the Environment of pollution in outer and inner Hempstead Queens. Project will celebrate and raise Sunken Meadow Comprehensive Harbor, New York. Project will collect water the visibility of the sound at the Festival Resilience and Restoration Plan quality data, track improving and declining of Little Neck Bay on the western end of Impact more than 2 million visitors to water quality, and produce and disseminate a Long Island Sound. Sunken Meadow State Park each year, report to assist in management efforts. $9,052 strengthening the natural park ecosystem $55,000 while promoting long-term resiliency and American Farmland Trust benefitting fish and wildlife. Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Conservation Practices to Improve $2,500,000 American Oystercatcher Recovery — V Farm Soil and Water Quality (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) Work with 10 farm operators to adopt soil Cornell University Conserve and manage coastal habitat to health and advanced nutrient management Liquid Dairy Manure Technology help recover the population of American practices to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use by Demonstration oystercatchers and associated beach nesting 20% on 15 acres of vegetable farms in Suffolk Lead efforts to demonstrate both a drag hose bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, County, New York. Project will conduct and tank-mounted injection system for liquid New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. outreach, design financial risk management, dairy manure application on agricultural lands Project will use best management practices demonstrate on-farm best practices, monitor in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. to manage human disturbance and nest soil health and crop yield, and engage soil $21,842 predation, and will help coordinate regional health leaders. efforts to benefit American oystercatchers. $86,892 Friends of Wertheim National $209,781 Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Building Bridges to Birding at the New Jersey Audubon Society Wertheim National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability Create opportunities for bird watching and and Resilience Assessment (MA, identification at the Wertheim National MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. Project will Safeguard societal and ecological values of foster an awareness and appreciation for coastal impoundments from storm surges birds as well as build community relations by and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their introducing a diverse urban constituency to vulnerability and identify restoration options the wildlife of Long Island. that enhance resilience. $3,764 $470,000

30 New York City Department of New York City Department of RESOLVE, Inc. Environmental Protection Parks and Recreation Delaware River Restoration Circuit Rider — Jamaica Bay Head of Bay Oyster Restoration Tackling Mile-a-Minute Invasive Agriculture Technical Assistance Build upon previous oyster restoration Plant at Pelham Bay Park Provide technical assistance with a focus projects and larvae modeling efforts Tackle control of mile-a-minute on 60 acres on agricultural conservation to grantees to develop up to ½-acre donor and of coastal forest and grassland at Pelham and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster receiver oyster beds to evaluate oyster Bay Park. Project will apply mechanical, participants. Project will offer support, larvae recruitment. chemical and biological controls targeted to oversight and capacity building with $1,000,000 site conditions and infestation level, and then prospective, new and existing grant recipients. plant areas with 4,000 trees and 2,000 shrubs Project will increase the ability and capacity New York City Department of assisted by 15 volunteers. of organizations to develop, organize and Parks and Recreation $150,000 carry out projects and generate results with Bronx River Shoreline Restoration the agricultural community that fulfill the at Starlight Park Northeastern Regional Association of environmental outcomes sought by both Project will re-naturalize armored waterfront, Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems NFWF and the grantee. improve habitat and flood storage, create Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related $30,000 new wetland, remove contaminated soils, Data Interpretation and Accessibility and enhance stormwater management Develop a data integration platform for Riverhead Foundation for Marine along eleven acres. existing storm-related resources that will Research and Preservation $4,400,000 especially benefit U.S. States affected by Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access Mortality Event Emergency Support in New York City Department of and intuitive data interpretation for all users the Northeast Region (DE, MD, NJ, NY) Parks and Recreation including decision makers. Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Coney Island Coastal Resilience $520,000 Stranding Network in the Northeast. Project Greenstreets Project will provide response and monitoring of the Project will install about 14 “greenstreets,” Onondaga Environmental Institute Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual planted areas in the right-of-way engineered Restoring Native Brook Trout Mortality Event. to capture stormwater, in Brighton in Onondaga Creek $99,960 Beach, located on the Coney Island Install in-stream structures and stabilize peninsula of Brooklyn. stream banks at five sites along Onondaga Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc. $990,000 Creek within the Onondaga Nation territory Shore Corps: Green Stewards of New York. Project will improve stream Youth Workforce Program New York City Department of connectivity, riparian habitat and canopy Expand the Shore Corps program, a Parks and Recreation cover to improve habitat for brook trout and workforce training program for underserved Spring Creek Saltmarsh and other fish species. youth in Far Rockaway, Queens. In Coastal Upland Restoration $176,880 collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service, Restore 11 acres of saltmarsh and 16 acres the internship program will build leadership, of coastal upland in Spring Creek Park, Oswego County Soil and Water stewardship and job skills of 20 young people a Jamaica Bay tributary. Benefits include Conservation District over an 18-month period and expose them increased fish and wildlife habitat and Cayuga Inlet Hydrilla Eradication to mentors and careers in conservation and community resilience. Utilize extensive monitoring, sampling, environmental science and education. $4,270,000 education, outreach and in-field herbicide $50,000 treatments to eradicate hydrilla in the Cayuga New York City Department of Inlet. Project will prevent hydrilla from Shinnecock Indian Nation Parks and Recreation spreading into Cayuga Lake and beyond. Shinnecock Coastal Resiliency Stream Daylighting Plan for Water $75,000 and Habitat Restoration Quality and Resiliency Restore natural resilience and ecological Develop a master plan for the daylighting Peconic Green Growth, Inc diversity to about 3,250 feet of shoreline at of Tibbetts Brook to restore flow to the Developing Innovative Residential the Shinnecock Reservation on the eastern Harlem River for increased storm resiliency, Sewage Treatment Alternatives shore of Shinnecock Bay that was destroyed improved water quality and enhanced to Improve Water Quality by Hurricane Sandy. ecological services. Analyze and plan for innovative, clustered, $3,750,000 $250,000 decentralized wastewater treatment for five clusters, approximately 354 homes, in Orient, Skeo Solutions New York City Department of New York. Project will assess alternative Tioughnioga River Urban Headwaters Parks and Recreation treatment types, prepare engineering designs Green Infrastructure Plan Sunset Cove Saltmarsh and and costs, and research management, financial Create a prioritized action plan to reduce Maritime Forest Restoration and organizational options for site-based stormwater impacts in Cortland. Project will Restore up to 5 acres of wetland and 7 acres decentralized wastewater treatment to reduce establish an innovative green infrastructure of coastal upland habitat in Broad Channel nitrogen loading into the aquifer and surface model to improve water quality of former Island. The restored saltmarsh and maritime waters of Long Island Sound 50%-90%. working waterfronts in small, industrial cities. forest will increase ecological function and $60,000 $39,905 storm resiliency. $4,850,000

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Stroud Water Research Center natural infrastructure projects that will Wildlife Management Institute Delaware River Watershed Technical have significant flood water storage, Sustaining Young Forest Habitat to Assistance Circuit Riders — Riparian nutrient and sediment reductions and Support At-Risk Species Technical Assistance increased habit acreage. Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce Provide technical assistance with a focus $80,505 the decline of young forest habitat and on agricultural conservation to grantees support restoration of key species in 17 states. and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster Tioga County Soil and Water Project will increase American woodcock and participants. Project will offer support, Conservation District New England cottontail population levels and oversight and capacity building with A Comprehensive Conservation Riparian work toward an effort to halt the decline of prospective, new and existing grant recipients. Buffer Approach in New York golden-winged warbler by 2019. Project will increase the ability and capacity Offer fresh incentives to farmers hesitant $250,000 of organizations to develop, organize and to participate in traditional buffer programs carry out projects and generate results with while continuing to use conventional NORTH CAROLINA programs to provide a variety of the agricultural community that fulfill the Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, Inc. environmental outcomes sought by both cost-share options. Hickory Nut Gorge Weed Management — II NFWF and the grantee. $300,000 Control non-native invasive plant species in $57,320 University of California — Santa Cruz Hickory Nut Gorge southeast of Asheville, Suffolk County Department of Economic Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River North Carolina. Project will control invasive Development and Planning Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, species, protect and enhance native habitat Coastal Resiliency via Integrated MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) and rare communities and educate landowners Saltmarsh Management Increase capacity for management of about the threats posed by non-native Restore about 400 acres of tidal wetlands river herring. Project will employ genetic invasive species. and build capacity to rehabilitate 1,500 acres. analysis to provide fisheries managers $70,000 Integrated marsh management techniques with critical predictions for how proposed bycatch management scenarios will impact Riverhead Foundation for applied at Wertheim National Wildlife Marine Research and Preservation Refuge will be extended to state, county the most threatened alewife and blueback herring stocks. Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual and town wetlands. Mortality Event Emergency Support in the $1,310,000 $99,982 Southeast Region (FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) Susquehanna River Basin Commission University of Maryland Center Build capacity for the Marine Mammal Reducing Sediment Inputs from for Environmental Science Stranding Network in the Southeast. Project Marcellus Shale into Streams in the Building the Long Island Sound will provide response and monitoring of the Susquehanna River Basin (NY, PA) Report Card (CT, NY) Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Evaluate 3-plus years of monitoring data Build capacity to sustain ecosystem health Mortality Event. and develop an outreach program of report cards in the Long Island Sound $99,960 innovative strategies to reduce sediment watershed in New York and Connecticut. Project will expand capacity of local The Nature Conservancy inputs to streams through improvements to Onslow Bight Longleaf Pine stormwater management. groups in science communication, data Ecosystem Restoration — II $194,075 integration, and report card development to create a template for executing a strategic Enhance the longleaf ecosystem on existing The Nature Conservancy, New York communications strategy. conservation and private lands to further the Ausable Watershed Priority $99,156 ecological functioning of the Onslow Bight Culvert Upgrade Projects landscape. Project outcomes will include Replace at least three culverts in New York’s Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science mid-story treatment and planting of longleaf Ausable River watershed with designs that Center Foundation, Inc. pine on about 150 acres of The Nature will restore fish passage to at least 25 miles of Response to the 2013 Dolphin Conservancy (TNC) land and firebreak streams, mitigate future flooding and reduce Unusual Mortality Event construction and prescribed burning on about communities’ maintenance costs. Aid in the investigation of the recently 4,000 acres of state and TNC lands. $620,000 declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting $300,000 bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic The Seneca Nation of Indians Coast. Project will coordinate marine The Nature Conservancy — Allegany River/Reservoir Restoration mammal stranding response and provide North Carolina Chapter and Resiliency Project analysis on the cause of death. North Carolina Sandhills Longleaf Create a healthier habitat for aquatic species $65,332 Restoration Task Force — II within the Allegany Reservoir through Expand longleaf enhancement on protected restoration activities of in-stream habitat, Wildlife Management Institute and private lands in the North Carolina hydrology and stream connectivity, and flood Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Sandhills Significant Geographic Area. plain enhancement. Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) Project outcomes will include restoration $350,000 Support several highly experienced and of 400 acres of longleaf pine, enhancement networked habitat biologists to deliver of over 10,000 acres of existing longleaf Tioga County Soil and Water technical assistance in high-priority areas habitat, primarily through prescribed fire Conservation District to benefit New England cottontail, golden- and over 120 private landowners engaged in An Approach for Natural Infrastructure winged warbler, and American woodcock. longleaf restoration through outreach and Restoration in Tioga County, New York Project will support coordination of research technical assistance. Use aquatic habitats to locate restoration efforts, field test study design, sample analysis $300,000 sites that also reduce sediment and and increasing early successional habitat. nutrients. Project will design three large $250,000

32 The University of North Carolina Charlotte Black Swamp Conservancy 41 acres of mature forest habitat to benefit The Butterfly Highway: Restoring Great Black Swamp cerulean warblers. Connecting People and Nature Improve aquatic habitat along 1,300 feet of $80,563 Create new habitats for butterflies and stream and restore adjacent wetlands and other wild pollinator species in underserved forest within the Upper Maumee River Wildlife Management Institute neighborhoods in the city of Charlotte. watershed. Project will improve water quality, Sustaining Young Forest Habitat This project will have both social and enhance in-stream and riparian habitat, to Support At-Risk Species environmental outcomes. and reconnect the stream with the restored Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce $33,673 floodplain wetlands. the decline of young forest habitat and $95,000 support restoration of key species in 17 states. University of California — Santa Cruz Project will increase American woodcock and Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Conservancy for Cuyahoga New England cottontail population levels and Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, Valley National Park work toward an effort to halt the decline of MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Restoring Riparian Habitat in the Cuyahoga golden-winged warbler by 2019. Increase capacity for management of River Watershed $250,000 river herring. Project will employ genetic Control invasive plant species on riparian and analysis to provide fisheries managers upland habitat and restore forest habitat in OKLAHOMA with critical predictions for how proposed Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Project will American YouthWorks bycatch management scenarios will impact improve habitat on 136 acres and will address Texas Conservation Corps Sustainable the most threatened alewife and blueback a priority habitat project within the Cuyahoga Recreation (OK, TX) herring stocks. River Area of Concern. Recruit, train, and equip two teams of $99,982 $124,000 eight young adults from a multi-state and Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Cuyahoga River Community largely urban area to work in collaboration Center Foundation, Inc. Planning Organization with Conservation Corps and Bureau of Response to the 2013 Dolphin Fish Habitat Improvement in the Reclamation staff. Corps members will flag Unusual Mortality Event Cuyahoga River Ship Channel and GPS the trail system, including the Aid in the investigation of the recently Create five areas of fish habitat along inventory of any important natural features declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting industrial ship channel bulkhead using and sustainable trail challenges, and create a bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic structures designed to mimic the functions GIS map, database, analysis and trail narrative Coast. Project will coordinate marine of natural habitat. Project will provide for submittal to Reclamation staff for review. mammal stranding response and provide habitat needed by fish, connect upstream $30,000 analysis on the cause of death. and downstream habitat, and contribute $65,332 to delisting the beneficial use impairments OREGON for loss of fish and wildlife habitat and Briana Goodwin NORTH DAKOTA degradation of fish and wildlife populations Contractor for Marine Debris Action River Keepers in the Cuyahoga River area of concern. Coordination Team’s West Coast $293,221 Database (CA, OR, WA) Reforesting the Red (MN, ND) Provide administrative support to the Restore degraded riparian forest added to Doan Brook Watershed Partnership public ownership. Forest restoration project Marine Debris Action Coordination Team’s Improving Fish Passage and Aquatic West Coast Marine Debris Database. The will improve water quality and develop public Habitat in Doan Brook appreciation and use of urban stormwater best contractor will ensure active engagement and Remove a failed debris rack in Doan Brook coordination, and will help to accomplish the management practices. within the Cuyahoga River Area of Concern. $38,522 team’s work plan. Project will eliminate a fish passage barrier $17,500 Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory and improve hydrology and in-stream habitat Business Plan and Monitoring Framework for along 300 feet of the stream. Bureau of Land Management — Grassland Birds in the Northern Great Plains $179,927 Winnemucca District Using Riders to Restore Grazed Riparian Develop grassland bird conservation goals Northeastern Regional Association of Bird Habitat (NV, OR) and strategies to benefit the Northern Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Great Plains. Project will expand Use riders, spring protection, seeding, Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related planting and weed treatment to restore existing monitoring program to better Data Interpretation and Accessibility measure conservation action impacts on riparian areas grazed by livestock. Project Develop a data integration platform for will be a collaborative effort among several bird populations. existing storm-related resources that will $184,059 agencies and stakeholders. especially benefit U.S. States affected by $50,000 Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access OHIO and intuitive data interpretation for all users EnviroIssues Association of State Floodplain Managers including decision makers. Facilitating the Federal Family Executive Improving Community Resiliency through $520,000 Leadership Sage-Grouse Meetings (CO, OR) the National Flood Insurance Program Facilitate Federal Family Executive Ohio Department of Natural Resources Community Rating System (OH, RI) Leadership Sage-Grouse meetings in Beaver Creek State Park Forest Significantly reduce communities’ Portland, Oregon and Denver, Colorado. Reclamation and Planning vulnerability to the growing risks of coastal $27,870 storms, sea level rise, flooding, erosion and Implement forest-management activities at associated threats. Beaver Creek State Park. Project will create 5 acres of early successional habitat and $350,000

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Environment for the Americas Klamath Bird Observatory Port Orford Ocean Resource Team Celebrate Shorebirds: Celebra Bird Banding Internships for Underserved Business Planning to Support Financial las Aves Playeras Community Youth (CA, OR) Viability of the Port Orford Fishing Fleet Expand paid internships to eight Latino Partner with the Bureau of Land Develop financial goals and reports for Port youths and partner with U.S. Fish Management, U.S. Forest Service, and U.S. Orford Ocean Resource Team’s Community and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Fish and Wildlife Service to expand an Fishing Association in Oregon. Project will Management, and U.S. Forest Service sites in internship program and improve outreach secure technical and financial expertise and four states to provide training and research. to underserved communities, including engage fishermen to develop an application Interns will receive conservation education Native American and Hispanic youths. for credit to purchase permits and quota. and training in shorebird identification, Program expansion will create four six- $50,000 mentoring from natural resource month internship positions that will provide professionals and be exposed to research and training and practical experience in bird The Freshwater Trust education techniques. monitoring techniques, with an emphasis on Upper Sandy River Basin Aquatic $81,914 bird banding, foster an academic approach to Habitat Restoration learning and a well-rounded curriculum in Accelerate priority habitat restoration within Fathom Consulting field biology, and provide an opportunity to the stream channels and riparian areas of Incorporating Closed Areas into Catch attain bird bander certification through the Salmon River and Still Creek to improve Share Management (CA, OR, WA) North American Banding Council. fish habitat and watershed function. This Incorporate closed areas into catch share $60,804 project will increase production and survival management of the West Coast groundfish of juvenile and adult coho salmon, spring fishery. Project will develop and advance Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership Chinook salmon, winter steelhead, cutthroat a collaborative proposal to reconfigure the Gladstone Parks Habitat, Education trout and lamprey. Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area as part of and Job Readiness $50,000 post-rationalization management for West Expand natural area restoration on four acres Coast groundfish. Specific activities include at Meldrum Bar and Cross Parks. At-risk Tillamook Estuaries Partnership guiding post-catch share efforts to balance youth, students and volunteers will remove Growing Job Skills for Youth through the goals of rebuilding with those of accessing invasive plants and install native plants. Native Plants Restoration target stocks; inform how under-sampled $41,537 Engage young adults in the propagation of but productive, high-relief rocky habitats are native plants to restore riparian, wetland contributing to the rebuilding of constraining Oregon Water Resources Department and upland landscape in northwest Oregon. species; and inform bycatch avoidance Flow Gauges for the Upper Klamath Basin Project will involve more than 60 young plans of risk pools, fishing associations and Install 12 flow gauges in the Upper Klamath adults involved in all aspects of native plant individual fishermen. Basin and maintain them for one year. propagation and restoration and teach $85,000 $285,000 valuable on-the-job skills for a career in landscape restoration. Heart of Oregon Corps, Inc. Phoenix School of Roseburg $74,875 Tomorrow’s Conservationists: Youth Umpqua Resource Pathway at Work in Central Oregon Employ youths within Douglas County Trout Unlimited, Inc. Employ 14 rural youths ages 16-18 in for natural resource restoration and survey Lahontan Cutthroat Trout environmental and natural resources work. Project will offer opportunities to earn Conservation (CA, NV, OR) stewardship across four watersheds in the professional experience and college credits. Provide support for a Lahontan Cutthroat Ochoco National Forest. Youth will engage in $45,223 Trout (LCT) Coordinator who hires, trains mentoring relationships with natural resource and supervises range-wide field crews, Point 97 professionals and crew leaders, and will be coordinates communication and collaboration Semantic Web Technology for Marine Debris exposed to vital professional and educational among stakeholders in LCT recovery and opportunities that will facilitate and nurture Convene a Data Portal Developer Team to works on public and private landowner their profession growth for life-long careers. create a web-based tool that will meet the outreach and education. Project will also specific needs of the West Coast Governors $49,500 support Nevada Department of Wildlife’s Alliance’s Marine Debris and Regional Data Safe Harbors Biologist who is responsible for Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust Framework programs by using semantic web monitoring and oversight of private-lands Sun Creek Historic Channel Reconnection technology and case development methods. agreements to enable LCT recovery projects Reconnect Sun Creek to the Wood River Point 97 will identify the sources, sinks, on private lands. via the creation of a new Sun Creek stream environmental transport mechanisms and $450,288 corridor. Project will allow for the expansion human drivers of marine debris on land and of isolated bull trout and redband trout in the coastal environment. Verde, Inc. populations into their historic range. $110,000 Building Cully Park $60,000 Transform a 25-acre brownfield into Point 97 accessible environmental infrastructure that Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust West Coast Ocean Data Portal restores habitat, improves water quality, Deming Creek Critical Flow Enhancements and Upgrades engages the community, and provides green Restoration and Fish Passage Improve the West Coast Ocean Data jobs. Project includes restoration of a Permanently transfer instream water rights Portal by increasing its usability and 3.28-acre area. on Deming Creek to restore fish passage and functionality. Project will provide support $50,000 connectivity for redband and bull trout, and to and information on the regional ocean improve water quality for suckers. management issues identified by the West $200,000 Coast Governors Alliance and West Coast Regional Planning Body. $20,000

34 PENNSYLVANIA Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. approach to municipal separate storm Allegheny College Brandywine-Christina Watershed Restoration sewer system program compliance. Comparing Land Use and Fish Communities Restore water quality in the Delaware River $33,153 in the French Creek Watershed — II watershed by implementing agricultural best Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Bio-assess 20 previously unassessed streams management practices. The “whole farm” projects will complete conservation planning Cost-Effective Solutions for Accelerating in the French Creek watershed, a stream the Reduction of Nutrient and Sediment with especially high fish biodiversity. Project and prescribed practices. $250,000 Pollution in the Juniata River Basin will compare fish communities and presence Demonstrate strategic and cost-effective of eastern brook trout to watershed land Brandywine Valley Association, Inc solutions for accelerating the reduction use activities. Improving Water Quality in the of nutrient and sediment pollution. The $5,000 Brandywine-Christina Basin project will provide a framework for a Allegheny Land Trust Apply innovative as well as time-tested robust partnership in the Juniata Basin that Raising Dead Man’s Hollow techniques to restore three “red” streams maximizes technical assistance capacity, Through Community Service (impaired) to “blue” (unimpaired) in the conservation planning assistance, and Restore Dead Man’s Hollow, 440 acres of Brandywine-Christina Basin. Restoration agricultural best management practice conserved woodlands in Lincoln Borough will incorporate streambank stabilization, implementation. by funding an AmeriCorps employee to in-stream structures and a planted buffer of $200,000 native grasses, trees and shrubs. implement an extensive management plan Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance $300,000 and outreach. This project will mobilize Floodplain Restoration in Logan Park resources to implement the Dead Man’s Brodhead Watershed Association Restore Rife Run floodplain in Logan Park, Hollow Trail Plan, restore the ecology of the Green Infrastructure Plan for Lower Pennsylvania. Project will realign the stream area, and enhance the visitor experience. Brodhead Watershed channel, create wetlands and improve regional $38,825 Work with municipal partners and the water quality by removing legacy sediment. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Monroe County Planning Commission and $200,000 Reducing Private Property Conservation District to identify sources Delaware River Waterfront Corporation Stormwater in Yellow Breeches and of fecal coliform and other impacts to Pier 68 Park Restoration Middle James River (PA, VA) Brodhead Creek. Project will also develop a Restore Pier 68 and surrounding habitat Accelerate stormwater best management green infrastructure plan to reduce polluted run-off entering the streams, identify green areas. Project will create a public park with practice installations on private property recreational, educational and stewardship in two small watersheds in Pennsylvania infrastructure opportunities, and craft conceptual plans of appropriate projects. opportunities on Philadelphia’s central and Virginia. Project will use social Delaware River waterfront. marketing campaign, resource refinement, $62,804 $75,000 technical training, and cost-share programs Bucknell University to help promote and install these best Sampling Unassessed Streams Delaware Valley Regional management practices. in Central Pennsylvania Planning Commission $200,000 Survey at least 40 unassessed streams for Building Climate Hazard Resiliency in Chester City American Rivers, Inc. eastern brook trout. Project will determine Create a green stormwater infrastructure plan Community-Based Herring Restoration presence of book trout and offer at least and demonstration project, build resiliency in the Chesapeake Bay (MD, PA, VA) two Bucknell undergraduate students the opportunity for fieldwork experience. Data in neighboring municipalities, and address Develop a model for landowner engagement. repetitive loss properties in Chester. Project will use this model to increase will be used in the permitting process for $290,001 future priority private land restoration new development. project success rates. $11,000 Friends of Great Swamp National $179,997 California University of Pennsylvania Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Friends of New Jersey and Eastern Berks County Conservancy Eastern Brook Trout Sampling in Pennsylvania Refuges Peer-to-Peer Coaching Berks Conservancy Middle Schuylkill Westmoreland and Fayette Counties Host a two-day meeting for seven Friends Best Management Practices Sample brook trout populations from 20 groups to facilitate exchanging ideas, sharing Install agriculture best management practices previously unassessed streams utilizing methodology established by the Pennsylvania expertise, networking, capacity building and to reduce nutrients available to surface, educational instruction. ground, storm and drinking waters. Best Fish and Boat Commission. Project will $4,900 management practices will be developed with identify, enumerate, and release fish, collect physical habitat data, collect water quality the Natural Resources Conservation Service Indiana University of Pennsylvania data, and data will be used in the permitting in Conservation and Nutrient Plans and Research Institute process for new development. include manure storage, decommissioning of Delivering Farm Bill Programs Supporting $5,000 failed practices, stormwater, barnyard, silo, and Bog Turtle and Golden-Winged Warbler milkhouse controls, grazing and streambank Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Support existing conservation planner and fencing, stream crossings, riparian buffers, Implementation of Cooperative forester positions to continue to meet demand and cover crops. Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction to assist the Natural Resources Conservation $300,000 Plan for Pennsylvania Counties Service with delivery of conservation programs Move the York County and Blair County to benefit golden-winged warbler and bog Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System turtle. Project will result in increasing golden- work groups from the planning phase to winged warbler populations in an effort to the implementation phase. Project will also prevent Endangered Species Act listing, as well develop a case study on the cooperative as bolstered populations of bog turtles. $214,659

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Juniata College Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust Assessing Streams for the Surveying Upper West Branch Pennypack Watershed Stormwater Presence of Wild Brook Trout Susquehanna River Watersheds Treatment Wetland Assess 75 or more streams in central and Sample a minimum of 20 unassessed streams Establish a stormwater treatment wetland northwestern Pennsylvania for the presence from the West Branch Susquehanna River. in the Pennypack watershed to capture of eastern brook trout. Project will determine Project will determine presence of eastern stormwater runoff from an upgradient abundance of wild brook trout in these brook trout and also complete sampling on residential subdivision of approximately streams and the data will be used in the some listed streams that were not sampled 40 acres, and from approximately 20 acres permitting process for new development. in 2012 and 2013. of pasture and woodlands on the College $21,624 $5,000 Settlement property. $165,000 Lancaster Farmland Trust Lower Merion Conservancy Building a Framework for Restoration East Branch of Indian Creek Stormwater Pheasants Forever, Inc. in Upper Leacock Township Management Initiative Providing Technical Assistance to Landowners Gather data from stewardship consultations Lead four projects focused on improving in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed with all 45 farms in the sub-watershed of water quality, streamside buffers and habitat, Support six Farm Bill biologists in the Mill Creek. Project will develop an stormwater infiltration and community Pennsylvania. Project will provide technical agricultural best management practice’s engagement. Project will include conducting assistance to landowners in identified priority implementation plan for the area. stream bank plantings, creating rain gardens areas, primarily delivering Conservation $26,165 along an active pedestrian street, installing Reserve Enhancement Program practices. residential-scale rainwater management $418,830 Lancaster Farmland Trust devices at a local library and completing a Elevating Farms Beyond Compliance major streambank stabilization project. Red Barn Consulting, Inc. in the Pequea Creek Watershed $179,000 Developing Nutrient Management Implement a suite of best management Plans for Manure Injection practices on six strategic farms in the Pequea Lycoming College Deliver nutrient management programs based Creek Watershed. Project will enroll farmers Sampling Unassessed Waters in the on manure injection. Project will compare in a continuous improvement program to Upper Pine Creek Watershed the manure injection nutrient management elevate farms beyond compliance. Sample at least 40 previously unassessed programs to traditional surface broadcasting $383,744 waters in the upper Pine Creek watershed. for 120 to 200 clients in the south- Project will detect presence of eastern brook central Pennsylvania. LandStudies trout and data will be used in the permitting $60,000 Hemlock Township Fishing Creek process for new development. Watershed Assessment $11,000 RESOLVE, Inc. Address the significant flooding that in Delaware River Restoration Circuit Rider — September 2011 devastated the Fishing National Audubon Society, Inc. Agriculture Technical Assistance Creek Watershed. Project will assess the NESt (Neighborhood Provide technical assistance with a focus stream corridor and create a plan which will Environmental Stewardship) on agricultural conservation to grantees guide restoration priorities and expedite Implement a community engagement project and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster implementation. in Philadelphia, providing innovative participants. Project will offer support, $30,000 programs and habitat restoration work at the oversight and capacity building with refuge, at schools and in neighborhoods. This prospective, new and existing grant recipients. LandStudies project will implement hands-on programming­ Project will increase the ability and capacity Shickshinny Riverfront Green at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge, of organizations to develop, organize and Infrastructure Masterplan at schools, and in neighborhoods to increase carry out projects and generate results with Develop a master plan to address the the quality of habitat for birds and create the agricultural community that fulfill the significant flooding that in September 2011 better communities. environmental outcomes sought by both devastated the town of Shickshinny. Project $29,999 NFWF and the grantee. will assess the feasibility of proposed storm- $30,000 ­water management and green infrastructure Northeastern Regional Association of improvements, perform cost-benefit analyses Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems Stroud Water Research Center on proposed recommendations with a focus Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related Flood Attenuation and Resiliency on water quality and flood mitigation, provide Data Interpretation and Accessibility in the Mid-Atlantic (DE, PA) prioritization and include a visual assessment. Develop a data integration platform for Project will reconnect floodplains, restore $20,000 existing storm-related resources that will wetlands, plant riparian forest buffers, especially benefit U.S. States affected by install level-lip spreaders and restore natural LandStudies Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access wood loads to streams to slow and dampen Lake Lehman Habitat Remediation and intuitive data interpretation for all users the flood wave. Develop a plan for possible dam removal including decision makers. $3,029,999 to improve the existing conditions of the $520,000 sediment load at Lake Lehman and to Stroud Water Research Center create wetlands. Pennsylvania Resources Council Leveraging Agricultural Best $38,954 Creating Rain Gardens in the Management Practices and Forested Darby-Cobbs Watershed Buffers for Middle Schuylkill Create five high-visibility rain gardens in the Provide technical and financial assistance for Darby-Cobbs watershed as demonstration whole farm conservation that includes wide projects and catalysts for capacity building forested buffers, using Stroud Water Research on watershed stewardship best management Center’s “raise the bar” approach. practices via educational workshops. $300,000 $51,290

36 Stroud Water Research Center Temple University Trout Unlimited, Inc. Whole Farm Conservation with Forested Green Neighborhood Tool Kit Sampling Unassessed Streams in Kettle Buffers in the Lower Susquehanna Develop green neighborhood tool kits and Creek and Redbank Creek Watersheds and Upper Potomac Valleys train community-based organizations serving Sample a minimum of 75 previously Implement whole farm conservation in Philadelphia low-income neighborhoods. unassessed streams in the Redbank Creek and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Project This project will educate and empower Kettle Creek (Hammersley Fork and Cross will conserve and plant forested buffers on residents to take actions that improve Fork) watersheds. Project will detect presence 16-plus targeted farms in the area. sustainability. of eastern brook trout and use the data in the $449,864 $25,000 permitting process for new development. $22,000 Stroud Water Research Center The Conservation Fund Delaware River Watershed Technical Permanently Protecting Cherry Trout Unlimited, Inc. Assistance Circuit Riders — Valley Conservation Lands Surveying Unassessed Streams Riparian Technical Assistance Permanently protect 4,662 acres to serve in the Delaware River Basin Provide technical assistance with a focus as the keystone property in the Cherry Survey 75 previously unassessed streams in on agricultural conservation to grantees Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Project high-priority areas of the Delaware River and Delaware Watershed Initiative Cluster will conserve the property that will create basin in Pennsylvania. Project will document participants. Project will offer support, a contiguous corridor of more than 75,000 presence of the eastern brook trout and the oversight and capacity building with acres by linking the newly-created refuge data will be used in the permitting process for prospective, new and existing grant recipients. with the 70,000-acre Delaware Water Gap new development. Project will increase the ability and capacity National Recreation Area, in addition to $22,000 of organizations to develop, organize and connecting the refuge with thousands of carry out projects and generate results with acres of protected lands along the 2,180- University of California — Santa Cruz the agricultural community that fulfill the mile Appalachian Trail. It serves as habitat Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River environmental outcomes sought by both for bog turtles, raptors and neotropical Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, NFWF and the grantee. migrant songbirds. MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) $57,320 $500,000 Increase capacity for management of river herring. Project will employ genetic Susquehanna River Basin Commission The Pennsylvania State University analysis to provide fisheries managers Reducing Sediment Inputs from Surveying Eastern Brook Trout in with critical predictions for how proposed Marcellus Shale into Streams in the Unassessed Waters Statewide bycatch management scenarios will impact Susquehanna River Basin (NY, PA) Sample 75 previously unassessed sites in the most threatened alewife and blueback Evaluate 3-plus years of monitoring data and the summer of 2014 that are considered herring stocks. develop an outreach program of innovative “Unassessed Trout Waters” by the $99,982 strategies to reduce sediment inputs to Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. streams through improvements to storm­ Project will follow sampling protocols, University of Maryland water management. determine presence of eastern brook trout Environmental Finance Center $194,075 and use the resulting data in the permitting City of Scranton Stormwater process for new development. Asset Management Susquehanna University $22,000 Assess the current state of stormwater in Wild Trout Sampling in the the City of Scranton and provide financing Susquehanna River Basin The Trust for Public Land recommendations to help the City pay Sample 75 previously unassessed tributaries Strategic Investment Plan for for a transition from a reactive to a in the Susquehanna River Basin. Project Western Pennsylvania proactive approach. will determine presence of eastern brook Develop a restoration strategy to improve $40,000 trout while also collecting additional data critical habitats and populations of keystone on benthic macroinvertebrates; data will species in western Pennsylvania. Water Words That Work, LLC be used in the permitting process for $98,845 Promoting Stormwater Financing new development. Strategies Along the Susquehanna $22,000 Tookany / Tacony-Frankford Provide message research and development Watershed Partnership services to help the Foundation for Susquehanna University Jenkintown Creek Restoration Pennsylvania Watersheds educate Sampling Unassessed Waters in Install a rain garden and bioswale to convey, the community on the benefits of the North Central Pennsylvania store, and infiltrate stormwater from a parking stormwater authority. Sample at least 75 previously unassessed lot and driveway on the 50-acre Abington $34,238 streams in north central Pennsylvania and Friends School campus. Project will install a collect data on the presence of eastern brook stream buffer along 500 feet of the headwaters Western Pennsylvania Conservancy trout. Project will also gather information of the Jenkintown Creek. Kettle Creek and Potomac River on macroinvertebrate and algal communities $155,000 Unassessed Waters Sampling and data will be used in the permitting Sample a minimum of 40 previously process for new development. Trout Unlimited, Inc. unassessed streams in the Kettle Creek and $22,000 Aquatic Organism Passage and Potomac watersheds. Project will provide data Sediment Reduction in Kettle Creek on presence of eastern brook trout and other Continue 15 years of Kettle Creek watershed wild trout that can be used in the permitting restoration work by replacing a culvert. process for new development. Project will increase cold-water habitat and $10,000 reduce sediment erosion. $152,890

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Wildlife Management Institute Puerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund Northeastern Regional Association of Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Protecting Landscapes for Regional Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems to Support At-Risk Species and National Conservation Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce Purchase two parcels of land totaling Data Interpretation and Accessibility the decline of young forest habitat and 333 acres to be obligated to conservation for Develop a data integration platform for support restoration of key species in 17 states. perpetuity. Project’s purchases will help to existing storm-related resources that will Project will increase American woodcock and reduce fragmented ecosystems and to protect especially benefit U.S. States affected by New England cottontail population levels and over 400 animal and plant species. Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access work toward an effort to halt the decline of $280,000 and intuitive data interpretation for all users golden-winged warbler by 2019. including decision makers. $250,000 Ridge to Reefs, Inc $520,000 Stormwater Planters to Treat PUERTO RICO Contaminated Runoff in Guánica Rhode Island Coastal Resources Establish a community garden to address Management Council Island Conservation contaminated runoff that is currently pumped Rhode Island South Coast Habitat Desecheo Island Seabird Restoration into the waterfront at Guánica Bay, Puerto and Community Resiliency Partner with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Rico. Project will create a series of stormwater Restore 30 acres of saltmarsh within the Service to complete the implementation of a planters to mitigate contamination from the Ninigret Pond saltmarsh barrier complex multi-year project to remove invasive rhesus largest stormwater drainage area in the main through the beneficial reuse of dredged macaques from Desecheo Island, Puerto town area of this priority watershed and materials. Project will assess opportunities for Rico. Project will help restore critical seabird prevent harmful pollutants from reaching the additional projects in two other ponds. nesting habitat on the island. coral reef system that is in decline. $3,250,000 $65,000 $75,000 Town of Middletown, RI Point 97 RHODE ISLAND Sachuest Bay Coastal Resiliency Project Digital Deck Expansion for Create a resiliency hub to protect from Fisheries Data Reporting Association of State Floodplain Managers climate change issues: frequent and intense Leverage the success of a pilot project by Improving Community Resiliency through coastal storms, increased precipitation and expanding the use of the Digital Deck catch the National Flood Insurance Program flooding, sea-level rise and temperature- report application to at least 15 fishermen Community Rating System (OH, RI) driven changes to native species and habitats. from Puerto Rico, improve a desktop Significantly reduce communities’ $2,320,000 application for anglers who lack access to vulnerability to the growing risks of coastal mobile technology, and develop a roadmap storms, sea level rise, flooding, erosion and University of California — Santa Cruz for full implementation and adoption of the associated threats. Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Digital Deck system in Puerto Rico. $350,000 Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, $75,000 MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Increase capacity for management of PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd American Oystercatcher Recovery — V river herring. Project will employ genetic Connectivity and Thermal History Tools (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) analysis to provide fisheries managers for Managers to Understand Resilience Conserve and manage coastal habitat to with critical predictions for how proposed of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) help recover the population of American bycatch management scenarios will impact Increase public awareness of the status and oystercatchers and associated beach nesting the most threatened alewife and blueback threats to global coral reefs. Project will bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, herring stocks. develop a suite of products for delivery via New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. $99,982 the Coral Reef Watch website describing Project will use best management practices temperature statistics experienced at coral to manage human disturbance and nest University of Rhode Island reef locations worldwide and maps of coral predation, and will help coordinate regional Rhode Island Community Resiliency reef connectivity and its role in recovery efforts to benefit American oystercatchers. Planning with Green Infrastructure from disturbance. $209,781 Apply green infrastructure policies and $127,237 practices as part of larger ongoing storm- Narragansett Indian Tribe based and climate-based resiliency efforts. Protectores de Cuencas, Inc. Narragansett Indian Tribe Coast $400,000 Acceleration of Watershed Restoration Efforts Forest Assessment Grant Upstream of Coral Reefs in Puerto Rico Relate the pre- and post-Hurricane Sandy University of Rhode Island Accelerate restoration efforts in priority condition and establish an action plan Integrated Program to Enhance Puerto Rico watersheds, stabilize over for restoration and resiliency measures Coastal Resiliency 20 acres of drainage area and reforest over from future events. Develop management policies and practices 10 acres of land by constructing a native and $180,000 that will enhance coastal resiliency in conservation plant nursery. Project will yield Rhode Island using an integrated program up to 10,000 native trees and 10,000 vetiver New Jersey Audubon Society of environmental monitoring, modeling plants over two years, which will stabilize soils Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability and engineering. and Resilience Assessment (MA, and prevent erosion and run-off to coral reef $870,000 systems downstream. MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) $75,000 Safeguard societal and ecological values of coastal impoundments from storm surges and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their vulnerability and identify restoration options that enhance resilience. $470,000

38 Wildlife Management Institute Riverhead Foundation for Marine Project will result in about 30 acres of longleaf Northeast Forests Conservation for Declining Research and Preservation pine restoration and over 3,500 acres of Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin longleaf enhancement. Support several highly experienced and Unusual Mortality Event in the Southeast $163,038 networked habitat biologists to deliver Region (FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) technical assistance in high-priority areas Aid with the overall response to the 2013 United States Endowment for to benefit New England cottontail, golden- Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Forestry and Communities, Inc. winged warbler, and American woodcock. Mortality Event. Project will collect data Savannah River Watershed Project will support coordination of research from areas where gaps in coverage have been Conservation (GA, SC) efforts, field test study design, sample analysis identified in the Southeast region. Perform mapping, planning and outreach and increasing early successional habitat. $99,997 activities on working forests, agricultural $250,000 lands and other natural infrastructure in South Carolina Department the Lower Savannah River Watershed. Wildlife Management Institute of Natural Resources Project will reduce water treatment costs and Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Evaluation of Techniques to wildlife habitat. to Support At-Risk Species Reduce Crab Trap Float Loss $47,500 Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce Evaluate crab trap float losses for several the decline of young forest habitat and rigging designs. Project will remove and University of California — Santa Cruz support restoration of key species in 17 states. recycle derelict crab traps and conduct a Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River Project will increase American woodcock and survey and analysis of commercial crabber Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, New England cottontail population levels and float loss rates. MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) work toward an effort to halt the decline of $49,394 Increase capacity for management of golden-winged warbler by 2019. river herring. Project will employ genetic $250,000 South Carolina Wildlife Federation, Inc. analysis to provide fisheries managers Sewee Longleaf Conservation Cooperative with critical predictions for how proposed Wood-Pawcatuck Watershed Association Restoration and Outreach — II bycatch management scenarios will impact Pawcatuck River Watershed Flood Encourage the planting and proper the most threatened alewife and blueback Resiliency Management Plan management of longleaf pine in the Sewee herring stocks. Prepare of a flood and storm damage Longleaf Conservation Cooperative area in $99,982 resiliency management plan for the and around the Francis Marion National Pawcatuck River watershed. Forest. Proposed cost-share incentives will SOUTH DAKOTA $720,000 support the establishment of 190 acres of Lower Brule Sioux Tribe longleaf and prescribed burning of 5,000 acres Engaging Tribal Youth in Wildlife Habitat SOUTH CAROLINA of longleaf habitat. Restoration on Fort Pierre National Grasslands Anne Springs Close Greenway/ $86,250 Hire nine tribal youths between the ages of Leroy Springs & Co., Inc. The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. 15 and 25 to enhance landscape conditions for The Anne Springs Close Milliken Longleaf Pine Forest wildlife on Fort Pierre National Grasslands. Greenway Nature Preserve Habitat Restoration Project will include fence modification to Treat 160 acres affected by invasive plants Project includes establishment and improve passage for pronghorn antelope, and implement an invasive plant management maintenance of longleaf pine stands: 240 acres manual and mechanical control of invasive strategy. Project work will occur on the of planting, 210 acres of midstory control and weeds, planting native shrubs and reseeding Anne Springs Close Greenway, a 2,100 3,431 acres of prescribed burning. Properties of native grasses in select areas. acre environmental preserve that provides are large, averaging 2,485 acres. $25,000 stewardship for cultural, ecological and scenic $90,000 features including five bodies of water and Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory 40 miles of trails. The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. Business Plan and Monitoring Framework for Grassland Birds in the Northern Great Plains $100,000 South Lowcountry — ACE Basin Longleaf Ecosystem Restoration Partnership Develop grassland bird conservation goals Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Educate private landowners through and strategies to benefit the Northern American Oystercatcher Recovery — V workshops and academies and assist in Great Plains. Project will expand (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) longleaf planting and management through existing monitoring program to better Conserve and manage coastal habitat to fire and herbicide. Project will assist private measure conservation action impacts on help recover the population of American landowners with the planting of 1,000 acres bird populations. oystercatchers and associated beach nesting of longleaf, prescribed burning of 2,500 $184,059 bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, acres, herbicide application of 625 acres of New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. mid-story hardwood and an inventory of TENNESSEE Project will use best management practices 10,000 miles of road for cogon grass and American Conservation Experience to manage human disturbance and nest eradication treatments. Chimney Tops Trail Maintenance predation, and will help coordinate regional $280,000 and Restoration efforts to benefit American oystercatchers. Maintain and rehabilitate Chimney Tops $209,781 The Nature Conservancy Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Implementation Team for Park. Project will employ a crew of 10 youth Longleaf Restoration — II for seven weeks to undertake extensive trail Expand the Sewee Longleaf Conservation reconstruction using traditional skills and Cooperative work by continuing to coordinate natural materials. partner projects involving longleaf restoration, $45,640 education, data collection and mapping.

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National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. The Nature Conservancy of Brazilian pepper-tree populations to Cumberland Shortleaf and Woodland Elk River Watershed Buffer determine level of impact within the Savannah Restoration (KY, TN) Restoration Initiative management area and implement a pilot Conduct restoration on 16,159 acres in the Spearhead an initiative to address instream treatment project. Cumberland Plateau. Management activities habitat disturbances caused by agricultural $50,000 include prescribed fire, opening enhancement, practices and reduce nutrients and timber stand improvements, and public sedimentation in the Elk River. Project will Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. outreach field days. Long-term, the project engage over 200 private landowners, resulting Evaluating a Catch Shares Pilot of Gulf will return about 40% of the landscape in the restoration and enhancement of 250 of Mexico Headboats (AL, FL, TX) to uneven age oak-hickory dominated acres of riparian forest and 18 miles of stream. Evaluate performance of catch shares pilot forest, 25% to oak and oak-pine (shortleaf) $147,838 program for Gulf of Mexico headboats. woodlands, 10% to savannas, and 5% to Project will assess the economic and open grasslands. University of Tennessee conservation performance of a catch shares $217,000 Reforesting Reclaimed Mine pilot program. If the data and analysis show Land in Eastern Tennessee the headboat pilot to be successful, this Pheasants Forever, Inc. Reforest reclaimed mine lands in eastern project could lead to the implementation Cumberland Plateau Private Lands Capacity Tennessee to improve wildlife habitat value of first large-scale recreational catch shares Build Farm Bill biologist capacity in and stream health. Project will provide early management in the Gulf of Mexico. central Tennessee in order to promote and successional habitat for Cerulean warbler and $100,000 further enrollment in programs such as the habitat for mussels. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Environmental Quality Incentives Program, $140,000 Conservation Reserve Program and stateside Commission, Fish and Wildlife programs. Expected results include 600 Wolf River Conservancy, Inc. Research Institute landowners contacted, 8,000 acres of forest Wolf River Greenway Restoration — III American Oystercatcher Habitat under improved management and 500 acres Provide a land stewardship education Restoration (FL, TX) enrolled in riparian/upland habitat programs. program, including hands-on site restoration Restore and increase the amount of quality $59,800 projects to remove invasive, non-native plant high tide roost habitat available for the species on three sites in the Wolf River American oystercatcher and improve the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy watershed in Memphis. Project will engage species’ apparent overwintering survival. Advancing Watershed and students and volunteers in the removal of Project will use proven construction Restoration Education (AWARE) 15 acres of invasives. techniques and local materials to rebuild reefs Connect educational curriculum at Shelby $30,000 at two roosts used by 90% of individuals. Farms Park with the conservation projects $141,085 occurring in 2014 and 2015, demonstrating TEXAS conservation in action. This project will Friends of Hagerman National Wildlife American Bird Conservancy Refuge Foundation expand field trip and summer camp programs Beach-Nesting Bird Conservation in the with updated naturalist notebooks and field Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, TX) — III exploration activities highlighting ongoing Butterfly Garden Development Protect vulnerable solitary and colonial beach- watershed and wildlife habitat conservation Install a 0.44-acre native pollinator garden and island-nesting birds such as Wilson’s and projects to rehabilitate Patriot Lake, restore adjacent to the refuge’s visitor center to create snowy plovers, least terns and black skimmers upstream wetlands and reforest several fields habitat for pollinators. Project will provide from human disturbance. This project will bordering the Lake. an outdoor classroom, enhance the refuge’s implement protective measures such as $25,000 citizen science programs, and increase public signage, symbolic fencing and educational interest in the refuge. Shelby Farms Park Conservancy outreach with help from local partners $4,990 Wolf River Wetland Restoration and volunteers. Restore 1,133 acres of wetlands and $165,000 Friends of the Wildlife Corridor bottomland forest along the Wolf River Website Development for American YouthWorks Friends of the Wildlife Corridor at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Texas Conservation Corps Tennessee. Project will reestablish wetlands Develop a new and distinct Friends of Sustainable Recreation (OK, TX) previously drained by the channelization of the Wildlife Corridor website, which will Recruit, train, and equip two teams of the Wolf River. allow for sharing information with the eight young adults from a multi-state and $30,000 community, for sharing information among largely urban area to work in collaboration the Friends directors and for soliciting and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency with Conservation Corps and Bureau of accepting support. Saving Tennessee’s Cumberland Reclamation staff. Corps members will flag $5,000 Plateau Riparian Hemlock Forests and GPS the trail system, including the Strategically release predatory beetles within inventory of any important natural features Houston Wilderness 981 acres of hemlock conservation areas on and sustainable trail challenges, and create a Houston: Wild Urban Connections North Cumberland Wildlife Management GIS map, database, analysis and trail narrative Help underserved urban residents find, value Area and about 500 acres of hemlock- for submittal to Reclamation staff for review. and care for nature in their community by dominated riparian forest on Catoosa $30,000 targeting youths, city parks, neighborhood Wildlife Management Area. This activity will service, technical assistance and habitat City of Port Aransas, Texas restoration. This project will engage enhance and conserve 180 acres of hemlock Brazilian Pepper-Tree Control that sustain forest and riparian habitats critical community members through community Establish a cooperative weed management to numerous Greatest Conservation Need stewardship days and repeated exposure to area in Port Aransas, Texas, dedicated to the species identified in and near the boundaries national wildlife refuges through summer regional control of Brazilian pepper-tree. of these state natural areas. programs and the Woods Project. Project will establish baseline distribution $75,000 $50,000

40 Keep Austin Beautiful, Inc. Pharr San Juan Alamo ISD Southeastern Association of Colorado River Restoration in Montopolis Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Preserving Fish and Wildlife Install educational signage and host 10 for Future Generations Southeast Native Black Bass workdays to engage 1,400 volunteers in the Create natural habitats at three elementary Conservation (FL, TX) cleanup and restoration of 7 acres of wetland campuses in an effort to create a paradigm Secure sustainable populations of Guadalupe along the Colorado River. Volunteers will shift in the current attitude about bass and shoal bass through landscape-scale remove invasive chinaberry and Chinese conservation. This project will utilize habitat conservation in the Pedernales and tallow trees, which disrupt the natural education including formal education, Chipola River watersheds. Project outcomes ecosystem by out-competing native species, public awareness, and training as a include increased percentage of stream clean-up illegal dumping and trash runoff and process to promote the importance of the reaches in the Pedernales and Chipola with plant 100 trees and more than 1,000 native Tamaulipan Brushland ecosystem’s natural intact fish habitat and riparian vegetation, grass plugs along the shoreline. habitats and species. open fish passage, reduced sediment loads and $37,500 $45,650 genetically secure, self-sustaining populations of shoal and Guadalupe bass. Mountain View College PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd $218,000 Living Labs at Mountain View College Connectivity and Thermal History Tools Provide students and the local community for Managers to Understand Resilience Texas A&M Forest Service with hands-on experiences regarding of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) Facilitating Longleaf Conservation in the sustainability, conservation and growing Increase public awareness of the status and Longleaf Ridge Significant Geographic Area initiatives. This project will offer students threats to global coral reefs. Project will Promote restoration of 650 acres of new and urban neighbors a chance to explore develop a suite of products for delivery via longleaf stands and enhancement of over nature and receive information about the the Coral Reef Watch website describing 3,800 existing longleaf acres within the area’s flora and fauna, and to learn about food temperature statistics experienced at coral Longleaf Ridge Significant Geographic production systems. reef locations worldwide and maps of coral Area through coordinated technical $28,824 reef connectivity and its role in recovery assistance, education, outreach, and improved from disturbance. organizational capacity. National Park Service — $127,237 $300,000 Padre Island National Seashore Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Conservation — IX REAL School Gardens Texas A&M University Restore a nesting population of endangered Creating Learning Gardens to Foster Creation of the Applied Biodiversity Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in Texas. Project Environmental Stewards Sciences Conservation Scholars Program will protect nesting adult females on the Lead a community effort to establish five Develop a program that trains students in beach from off-road vehicle traffic and school-based learning gardens in north Texas decision making, conflict resolution, and predators, as well as promote environmental to serve as sites for hands-on conservation integration of natural and social sciences education and partnership efforts through and education. Project will boost academic to better understand the application of activities conducted by volunteers and achievement and environmental stewardship. scientific knowledge to policy matters and agency personnel. $100,584 governance. The program will focus on local $75,000 issues related to Gulf of Mexico ecosystems Resources First Foundation and energy development, and on broader National Parks Conservation Association Landowners Saving Lesser Prairie- questions related to the relationship between Lone Star Coastal National Chicken Habitat Initiative in Texas energy development, energy policy, and Recreation Area Mapping Establish the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Habitat natural resources. Identify and map high-value marine Initiative and expand the Houston-Metro $75,000 habitat areas against current and future Conservation Center website to include the public recreation access points in order to entire state of Texas. Project staff will engage, Texas A&M University minimize negative impacts to habitat while educate and enroll private landowners in Reducing Incidental Capture of increasing public awareness and support for voluntary efforts to conserve and restore Loggerhead Sea Turtles in Gulf of habitat preservation. habitat on their land for the lesser prairie- Mexico Trawl Fisheries (AL, FL, TX) $50,000 chicken by creating a specific web portal with Reduce incidental capture of loggerhead information on habitat conservation. sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. Project Northside Education Foundation $200,000 will certify turtle excluder device training Project ACORN for vessels and reduce turtle capture from Recruit students, parents, staff and other San Antonio River Foundation incidental shrimp trawl captures. community members from local schools to Transforming a Former Industrial $99,103 implement biodiversity improvement projects Yard into a Park along San Antonio’s public creekway park Engage 40 volunteers and plant over 250 Texas Rice Industry Coalition system. This project will engage community trees to transform a former industrial yard for the Environment members in community biodiversity in one of San Antonio’s most economically Middleton Marsh Wetland Restoration improvement events to plant and maintain disadvantaged neighborhoods into a unique, Construct 300 acres of high quality freshwater native trees and vegetation at five sites. interactive learning and recreational space for wetlands on the Texas Chenier Plain Refuge $25,175 local residents, school students and families. Complex and create a freshwater pumping Confluence Park will provide educational system. Project will be the final part of a long- opportunities, outdoor recreation space and term initiative to construct approximately pedestrian access to the San Antonio River 3,000 acres of high quality freshwater habitat and historic missions. on the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. $50,005 $67,500

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Texas State Soil and Water Foundation for the The Nature Conservancy Conservation Board Provo-Jordan River Parkway Great Salt Lake Shorelands Preserve Conservation Plans to Restore Jordan River Conservation and Water Share Acquisition Health of the Gulf Coast Get Into the River Festival Acquire 27 shares of irrigation company Provide assistance to the Natural Resources Collaborate with Salt Lake County on stock to secure permanent water delivery to Conservation Service to accelerate the restoration and improvements at the Redwood The Nature Conservancy’s Great Salt Lake development of conservation plans and Nature Area and Little Confluence as well as Shorelands Preserve. adoption of conservation practices in the Gulf work with TreeUtah and the Kennecott $100,000 Coast region of Texas that help improve and Nature Center of Murray to expand the reach restore the Gulf of Mexico’s overall health of environmental education and programming Utah State University/ through enhanced technical assistance and to underserved youth. Project will also host Utah Conservation Corps outreach efforts. a major community river festival with the Mill Canyon Dinosaur Tracksite $450,000 Jordan River Commission, municipal partners Collaborate with the Moab Bureau of Land and nonprofit organizations to increase Management Field Office to build a .24-mile Trailblazer RC&D Area, Inc. community awareness and improve perceptions trail around a popular dinosaur tracksite. Giant Salvinia Control (LA, TX) of the Jordan River’s 51-mile corridor. Project will include building dirt tread, Work with partners to implement multiple $75,006 boardwalk, fence and some shade structures, strategies to help control giant salvinia in as well as improvements on the trailhead. northwest Louisiana and northeast Texas. Four Corners School of Outdoor Education $5,000 Project will collect species data, educate new Dolores River Restoration: Building audiences and create a weevil nursery. on Youth Corps Success (CO, UT) Utah / Arizona Conservation Corps $35,523 Hire two youth conservation corps crews to Navajo Micro-Irrigation Demonstrations provide 20 weeks of on-the-ground support Construct and install demonstration UTAH work for the Dolores River Restoration micro-irrigation projects in the northern Partnership on 50 acres of remote wilderness Navajo Nation. Items installed will include American Conservation Experience pumps, pipelines, storage tanks, rainwater Beaver River Enhancement in three locations. Project activities will include treating and removing invasive harvesting sheds, on-farm water delivery Eliminate invasive species, tamarisk and tamarisk and other non-native plants, and systems, small greenhouses, and roadside Russian olive from portions of the Beaver planting cottonwood and willow saplings farmer’s market stands. River that are located on public land. Project and native grasses to prevent erosion along $20,000 will employ a crew of six youths. the Dolores River. $7,500 $60,748 VERMONT American Conservation Experience Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, Inc. Grand Staircase Escalante Partners Youth Virgin River Invasive Green Mountain National Forest Escalante Watershed Restoration Species Management Youth Conservationists Restore 48 acres of public and private lands in Partner with the St. George Bureau of Land Employ 20 youths to complete natural the Escalante Watershed in Southern Utah. Management to employ three youth interns resources restoration projects under Project will remove woody invasive species and three AmeriCorps crews of 10 youth and professional guidance in the Green Mountain and increase the number of sustainable and engage 120 volunteers to eradicate, control National Forest. All youths will complete healthy riparian communities. and remove invasive Russian olive, tamarisk riparian plantings, wetland restoration, early $75,000 and giant reed. Project will engage volunteers successional forest stand maintenance, trail in hands-on restoration activities through Grand Staircase Escalante Partners restoration, non-native invasive species six outreach events that will bring together Escalante Watershed Restoration — management and monitoring, and natural local urban and tribal youth, scout groups and Woody Invasive Control resource inventories. university students. Restore riparian habitat through removal of $50,000 $62,108 Russian olive, directly benefitting native plant Wildlife Management Institute Bureau of Land Management — and animal species habitat, while involving Northeast Forests Conservation for local communities and creating conservation Henry Mountains Field Station Declining Species (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT) job opportunities. Project will expose young Henry Mountains Fence Removal Support several highly experienced and adults to the natural world and to career Coordinate with the Utah Conservation networked habitat biologists to deliver opportunities in the conservation field. Corps to provide outdoor employment and technical assistance in high-priority areas $28,160 hands-on learning experiences for youth, to benefit New England cottontail, golden- which will result in significant improvements Jordan River Commission winged warbler, and American woodcock. to public land wildlife habitat. A three- West Valley City Stormwater Project will support coordination of research member youth crew will work with Bureau of Treatment/Wetland Restoration efforts, field test study design, sample analysis Land Management staff over a period of eight Restore a stormwater retention pond to a and increasing early successional habitat. weeks to improve wildlife habitat by removing functional wetland habitat while engaging $250,000 approximately 8-14 miles of fence, including community members and students. The site Wildlife Management Institute wire, posts, and poles from the mountain. will demonstrate creative ideas to rehabilitate $17,400 Sustaining Young Forest Habitat the heavily urbanized Jordan River. to Support At-Risk Species $49,564 Delta Waterfowl Foundation Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce Priority Waterfowl Research — III the decline of young forest habitat and Conduct research on wood duck breeding support restoration of key species in 17 states. ecology in southern Ontario and research Project will increase American woodcock and a range of management actions to manage New England cottontail population levels and phragmites in Utah. work toward an effort to halt the decline of $9,400 golden-winged warbler by 2019. $250,000

42 VIRGIN ISLANDS Back Bay Restoration Foundation College of William and Mary, Coral Bay Community Council, Inc. SOUND INVESTMENT: On The Ground Virginia Institute of Marine Science Sediment Run-off Reduction Projects Addressing Diverse Climate Planning, Protection and Preservation in Coral Bay, St. John Impacts on Urban Centers on the Werowocomoco Shore Install sedimentation reduction practices Restore 3,783 acres forested wetlands and Design best management practices for 1,300 in two drainage basins and make establish 1,650 feet of living shoreline feet of unprotected shoreline. Project will recommendations in other areas to continue (estuarine) in the Back Bay estuary and construct gapped sills to protect 300 feet sediment reduction efforts in Coral Bay, watershed of Virginia. of shoreline from continued erosion in an St John. Project will produce sediment $4,000,000 identified critical area. $199,000 reduction techniques that are designed to Cacapon Institute, Inc. be replicable throughout the U.S. Virgin Installing Best Management Practices Conservation Concepts, LLC Islands and elsewhere. at Schools in the Chesapeake Bay Caroline County Stormwater $67,010 Watershed (MD, VA, WV) Management Program Coordination PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd Install best management practices at schools Assist three jurisdictions with adopting and Connectivity and Thermal History Tools in the Upper Potomac and Shenandoah developing stormwater programs. Project will for Managers to Understand Resilience Valley. Project will engage more than also work with the jurisdictions to develop a of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) 6,000 students, teachers and volunteers in Memorandum of Understanding determining Increase public awareness of the status and bay conservation. how they will interact in the future. threats to global coral reefs. Project will $51,559 $15,498 develop a suite of products for delivery via Chesapeake Conservation Draper Aden Associates the Coral Reef Watch website describing Landscaping Council Mathews County Rural Ditch Enhancement temperature statistics experienced at coral Certification Program for Chesapeake Identify and recommend rural ditch reef locations worldwide and maps of coral Bay Landscape Professionals (MD, VA) enhancements to improve water quality reef connectivity and its role in recovery Standardize a comprehensive regional in Mathews County. from disturbance. certification for landscape professionals. $38,850 $127,237 Project will help these professionals design, Eastern Mennonite University Point 97 install and maintain best management Changing Agricultural Impacts on Digital Deck Expansion for practices such as rain gardens, tree planting, Shenandoah Headwaters Fisheries Data Reporting conservation landscapes and cisterns. Accelerate stream restoration and the Leverage the success of a pilot project by $200,000 adoption of agricultural conservation best expanding the use of the Digital Deck catch City of Norfolk, VA management practices. Project will integrate report application to at least 15 fishermen Expanding Citizen Water Quality a combined scientific and social approach in from Puerto Rico, improve a desktop Programs in Norfolk a rural community within the Shenandoah application for anglers who lack access to Expand existing city and non-governmental River headwaters. mobile technology, and develop a roadmap organization residential and community water $200,000 for full implementation and adoption of the quality improvement programs in the city of Digital Deck system in Puerto Rico. Norfolk, Virginia. Project will seek to instill Ecosystem Services, LLC $75,000 a sense of ownership in citizens through the Remediation of Severe Gully installation of stormwater best management Erosion in Kilmarnock VIRGINIA practices or habitat restoration projects on Develop a channel remediation plan for Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. their residential properties or in the adjoining three stormwater outfalls in Kilmarnock. Reducing Private Property public right-of-way. Project will rely on emerging innovative Stormwater in Yellow Breeches and $80,000 stormwater solutions such as regenerative Middle James River (PA, VA) stormwater conveyance. Accelerate stormwater best management City of Norfolk, VA $39,977 practice installations on private property Lafayette’s Future is Blue and Green Ecosystem Services, LLC in two small watersheds in Pennsylvania Create a green infrastructure planning Water Quality Restoration at and Virginia. Project will use social framework, design and install shoreline Edith J. Carrier Arboretum marketing campaign, resource refinement, eco-restoration projects and provide a technical training, and cost-share programs green infrastructure training program for Develop a stream restoration design to help promote and install these best veterans and youths. in Harrisonburg, Virginia and provide management practices. $4,640,000 stormwater outreach and education. $39,965 $200,000 College of William and Mary, American Rivers, Inc. Virginia Institute of Marine Science FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Inc. Community-Based Herring Restoration Reducing Bycatch Mortality in Crab Pots Blue Ridge Parkway Environmental Education in the Chesapeake Bay (MD, PA, VA) Test gear adaption for reducing ghost fishing Protect Blue Ridge Parkway’s viewshed and Develop a model for landowner engagement. in crab fisheries of the Chesapeake Bay. ecological buffer through tree plantings and Project will use this model to increase Project will employ commercial fishermen environmental education initiatives while future priority private land restoration to test biopanels and use color avoidance engaging over 200 volunteers and youth. project success rates. mechanisms to reduce bycatch mortality of This project will promote the Blue Ridge Parkway as a learning laboratory to develop $179,997 both actively fished regular pots and derelict peeler crab pots in the Chesapeake Bay. greater awareness and commitment to the $87,168 preservation of cultural and natural resources. $27,419

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George Mason University New Jersey Audubon Society The Nature Conservancy Quantifying Storm Surge Coastal Impoundment Vulnerability Enhancing Coastal Resilience on Attenuation by Wetlands and Resilience Assessment (MA, Virginia’s Eastern Shore Quantify storm surge attenuation rate in MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VA) This project will engage stakeholders and wetlands through integrating hydrodynamics Safeguard societal and ecological values of provide tangible science-based tools to monitoring, vegetation and micro- coastal impoundments from storm surges affect the development of more effective topographical surveying with state-of-the-art and sea-level rise. Project will evaluate their climate-hazard mitigation and risk reduction storm surge and wave modeling. vulnerability and identify restoration options strategies on the Eastern Shore. $440,000 that enhance resilience. $1,460,000 $470,000 James Madison University The Nature Conservancy Stream Restoration at James Northeastern Regional Association of Increasing the Resiliency of Madison University Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems American Oystercatchers — II Enhance a regional green infrastructure asset Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related Continue American oystercatcher by stabilizing and reconnecting 1,080 linear Data Interpretation and Accessibility conservation actions on Virginia’s barrier feet of degraded stream with function-based Develop a data integration platform for islands, including mammalian predator stream restoration, including floodplain existing storm-related resources that will management and increased stewardship wetland treatment cells. especially benefit U.S. States affected by activities. Project will result in high $200,000 Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access reproductive success, population increases, and intuitive data interpretation for all users increased educational awareness, and well- Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. including decision makers. informed management actions. Stormwater Partnership for Improved Water $520,000 $104,952 Quality in Isle of Wight County Develop a consistent, comprehensive approach Rappahannock Wildlife Refuge Friends Group The Piedmont Environmental Council, Inc. to stormwater best management practices to Camera Ready on the Rappahannock Enhancing Stormwater Management and increase water quality benefits for the Isle of River Valley National Wildlife Refuge Green Infrastructure in Loudoun County Wight County and the town of Smithfield. Use “GoPro” and wildlife cameras to Reduce sedimentation and nutrient loading of $29,885 capture events, activities and wildlife on three impaired streams in Loudoun County, the refuge to then be shared on Facebook Virginia. Project will retrofit a series of best Lynnhaven River 2007 and the website. Project will increase management projects on common grounds Innovation and Nitrogen Removal Analysis community awareness of the friends group of three homeowners associations and for Oyster Restoration in the Lynnhaven River as well as enhance environmental education create broad awareness of need for pollution Support two forward-thinking advances throughout the community. reduction practices through workshops and in oyster reef restoration in the Lynnhaven $3,177 community plantings. River. Project will design an alternative $200,000 substrate reef and a nitrogen removal analysis Riverhead Foundation for Marine for oyster reefs. Research and Preservation Town of Ashland, VA $200,000 Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Water Quality Retrofits at Unusual Mortality Event in the Southeast Ashland Police Department Middle Peninsula Planning Region (FL, GA, NC, SC, VA) Convert impervious parking at the Ashland District Commission Aid with the overall response to the 2013 Police Department. Project will change the Living Shoreline Incentive Program Mid-Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual overflow lot to reduce the overall impervious in the Middle Peninsula Mortality Event. Project will collect data area, insert permeable pavers and provide Accelerate protection of coastlines from areas where gaps in coverage have been stream restoration. vulnerable to erosion. Project will encourage identified in the Southeast region. $200,000 living shoreline installations and include $99,997 demonstration projects along with a Trout Unlimited, Inc. homeowner education program. Skeo Solutions Expanding Brook Trout Habitat $200,000 Eastern Shore Sewage Disposal Improvement in the Upper James River Assess residential pollution sources and create Expand the size of brook trout habitat Mount Vernon Country Club a targeted, cost-efficient and effective plan patches in the Upper James River watershed. Stream Restoration, Pond Removal and to improve sanitary disposal of residential Project will restore riparian buffers, reduce Sediment Mitigation in Lower Fairfax County sewage on the Eastern Shore. sedimentation and improve fish habitat on Restore stream bank in Fairfax County, $36,428 headwater streams. Virginia. Project will reduce sediment and $140,608 enhance pond water quality. Sustainable Chesapeake $60,000 Improving Manure Injection Technology U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Provide overall project management and Shorebird Hunting Regulation in the National Wildlife Federation coordination for the subsurface application Caribbean and South America (CA, VA) Schoolyard Habitats: Expanding National of manure initiative. Understand shorebird harvest policies, Wildlife Refuges to Urban Areas $100,000 determine harvest sustainability and provide Award competitive mini-grants to K-12 mitigation measures for shorebird hunting schools to create schoolyard wildlife habitats among the jurisdictions of the Caribbean Sea that reflect ecological elements of nearby and northern South America. Project will national wildlife refuges. Project will expand affect policy changes that lead to a sustainable refuge presence in urban areas and educate harvest of shorebirds in these countries. children about ecological processes in their $249,850 respective areas. $70,000

44 University of California — Santa Cruz reclamation approach. Project will result WASHINGTON Stock-Specific Bycatch Mapping for River in 31 acres of reforestation and 28 acres of Briana Goodwin Herring in the Gulf of Maine (CA, CT, DE, GA, hardwood forest stand improvement. Contractor for Marine Debris MA, ME, MD, NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, SC, VA) $67,045 Action Coordination Team’s West Increase capacity for management of Coast Database (CA, OR, WA) river herring. Project will employ genetic Virginia Department of Transportation Expanding the Toolbox for Best Provide administrative support to the analysis to provide fisheries managers Marine Debris Action Coordination Team’s with critical predictions for how proposed Management Practices for Virginia Department of Transportation West Coast Marine Debris Database. The bycatch management scenarios will impact contractor will ensure active engagement and the most threatened alewife and blueback Construct a stream and buffer restoration project within Virginia Department of coordination, and will help to accomplish the herring stocks. team’s work plan. $99,982 Transportation’s right-of-way. Project will determine if these natural practices can $17,500 University of Maryland be implemented throughout Virginia Clark Public Utilities Economic Impact of Improved Stormwater Department of Transportation’s Japanese Knotweed Control in the Management in Northern Shenandoah statewide system. Salmon Creek Watershed Evaluate the economic impact associated $200,000 Survey 15 stream miles and control knotweed with particular stormwater best management Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the Salmon Creek watershed through practices for communities in the northern a coordinated effort of treatment and Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Project will and State University Enhancing Adoption of Dairy Manure outreach activities with a diverse group of educate these communities on stormwater partners, landowners and volunteers. This practices and maximizes the return on their Injection Technologies in Virginia Use a novel pricing structure to kick-start project will remove knotweed, essential to stormwater investments. protecting native riparian habitat, and educate $40,000 and expand adoption of manure injection. Project will help to demonstrate how landowners about knotweed eradication. University of Virginia manure injection is a better alternative to $35,848 Conservation Interns and surface broadcasting. Conservation Northwest Conservation Scholars Support $210,652 Working for Wildlife Integrated Support summer conservation internships Planning and Outreach Virginia Polytechnic Institute for University of Virginia (UVA) students Conserve working lands and open space, at Virginia conservation organizations. and State University Evaluation of Liquid Manure restore forest health and wildlife habitats, Project will also support a graduate-level provide safer passage on Highway 97 and Conservation Scholar Fellowship for Injection Technologies Build on efforts by cooperative extension reduce wildlife conflicts with livestock. traditionally underrepresented groups $114,508 (specifically females) throughUVA ’s specialists, state and federal agency Department of Environmental Sciences, personnel and bay area farmers to advance Fathom Consulting and will host an annual meeting of interns the deployment of liquid manure injection Incorporating Closed Areas into Catch and graduate fellows from other universities technologies in high-density animal Share Management (CA, OR, WA) participating in the National Conservation production regions of the Shenandoah Incorporate closed areas into catch share Scholars Program. Valley of Virginia. management of the West Coast groundfish $100,000 $99,980 fishery. Project will develop and advance a collaborative proposal to reconfigure the Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation Virginia Tech Foundation, Inc. Roanoke Water Quality Monitoring Trawl Rockfish Conservation Area as part of A Community Effort to Restore Urbanna Creek post-rationalization management for West Provide restoration effort for Urbanna Create a water-quality monitoring program in Roanoke to measure toxin prevalence Coast groundfish. Specific activities include Creek in Virginia. Project will restore guiding post-catch share efforts to balance oyster populations, establish caged in drinking water and to determine if cyanobacterial blooms are increasing. the goals of rebuilding with those of accessing aquaculture colonies, and develop on-land target stocks; inform how under-sampled best management practices involving the Project will perform outreach, education and technical assistance by increasing but productive, high-relief rocky habitats are entire community. contributing to the rebuilding of constraining $56,455 the number of people with knowledge and changed behavior, improving habitat species; and inform bycatch avoidance plans of risk pools, fishing associations and Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science management monitoring and restoring individual fishermen. Center Foundation, Inc. habitat by increasing water quality and Response to the 2013 Dolphin reservoir restoration. $85,000 Unusual Mortality Event $25,000 Friends of the Issaquah Salmon Hatchery Aid in the investigation of the recently Lake Sammamish Kokanee: Wildlife Management Institute declared Unusual Mortality Event affecting A Model for Urban Stewardship bottlenose dolphins along the U.S. Atlantic Sustaining Young Forest Habitat to Support At-Risk Species Restore kokanee populations and improve Coast. Project will coordinate marine watershed health within the Lake mammal stranding response and provide Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce the decline of young forest habitat and Sammamish Urban Wildlife Refuge analysis on the cause of death. Partnership through volunteer-based $65,332 support restoration of key species in 17 states. Project will increase American woodcock and riparian restoration and diverse educational programming. This project will contribute Virginia Department of Forestry New England cottontail population levels and to riparian zone recovery through volunteer Reforesting Reclaimed Mined work toward an effort to halt the decline of projects and educational programming. Lands in Southwest Virginia golden-winged warbler by 2019. $31,615 Restore and improve forest and early $250,000 successional habitat through a forest

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Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Northwest Straits Marine Washington State Department Ecology of the Salish Sea Conservation Foundation of Fish and Wildlife San Juan Islands National Monument Crab Pot Escapement Study Sharp-Tailed Grouse Augmentation Community Weed Strategy Evaluate the impact of derelict gear from the Relocate sharp-tailed grouse from healthy Conduct weed inventory, mapping, Dungeness crab fishery. Project will determine populations in British Columbia and/ management and monitoring in the San the escapement rates of five different crab pot or southeast Idaho to augment small, Juan Islands National Monument. Project designs to inform state and tribal crab fishery isolated populations in Okanogan County, will enlist community volunteers and will be management policies. Washington. Project outcomes include conducted alongside a pilot project in the San $55,166 positive sharp-tailed grouse population Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge. responses, enhanced long-term population $20,750 Okanogan Land Trust viability, increases in genetic diversity and Implementing Working for Wildlife: connectivity of isolated subpopulations. Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Local Habitat Conservation $34,500 Ecology of the Salish Sea Protect open spaces and traditional Living Shoreline Restoration at Fisherman Bay agricultural uses to ensure working ranches WEST VIRGINIA Restore the living shoreline of Fisherman and forests coexist with wildlife. Project Bay through technical assistance to shoreline will work toward establishing a coordinated Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. owners, outreach to seasonal visitors, approach to pursuing and funding conser­ Stewardship Program for Healthy rehabilitation of healthy shellfish habitat and vation easement projects in the target region Farm Streams in the Chesapeake monitoring of environmental health. Project and complete one to two pilot projects. Bay Watershed (MD, WV) partners will train up to 50 local volunteers $294,688 Show how barriers to landowner adoption and provide an intensive design course to of riparian forest buffers can be overcome local students. Pierce Conservation District through whole farm planning, innovative $40,069 Meeker Creek Habitat Restoration funding strategies and training. Restore a 1,000-foot section of Meeker Creek $300,000 Kwiaht: Center for the Historical in Puyallup, transforming it from a man-made Ecology of the Salish Sea ditch into a natural stream channel. Project will Cacapon Institute, Inc. Restoration, Research and Monitoring in improve water quality by reducing untreated Installing Best Management Practices the San Juan Islands National Monument stormwater loading to the creek, improve at Schools in the Chesapeake Bay Hire six part-time conservation technicians to shading to the stream by restoring the riparian Watershed (MD, VA, WV) conduct restoration, research and monitoring vegetation, enhance juvenile salmon rearing Install best management practices at schools at the San Juan Islands National Monument. habitat by providing in-stream refuge, and in the Upper Potomac and Shenandoah Project will include tribal youth and regional enhance spawning habitat for salmon straying Valley. Project will engage more than veterans and will provide training in GPS- and from the Clarks Creek hatchery run. 6,000 students, teachers and volunteers in GIS-based mapping, mathematical modeling, $26,361 bay conservation. restoration field work, plant identification, $51,559 Seattle Tilth Association, Inc. ornithology, marine fish identification, Northeastern Regional Association of shoreline process modeling and juvenile Seattle Youth Agriculture and Wetlands Restoration Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems salmon research. Improving Northeast Coast Storm-Related $55,000 Provide work and leadership training to 100 underserved youth through wetlands Data Interpretation and Accessibility Lopez Island Conservation Corps restoration and agricultural training in Develop a data integration platform for San Juan Islands National Monument public spaces. This project improves water existing storm-related resources that will Environmental Education and Outreach quality and wildlife habitat while sustainably especially benefit U.S. States affected by Design and implement environmental producing food in a mixed use agricultural Hurricane Sandy. Project will improve access education lessons for crew members on the and 4-acre wetlands site. and intuitive data interpretation for all users nature and values of the newly designated $76,851 including decision makers. San Juan Islands National Monument. $520,000 Sound GIS The crews will conduct outreach at high-use The Potomac Conservancy, Inc. locations to share the stewardship message Development of GIS Data for West Coast Ocean Data Building a Conservation Hub in the and strengthen community involvement. Potomac River Headwaters $13,900 Support the West Coast Ocean Data Portal Action Coordination Team by working with Engage communities in protecting a Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative West Coast Ocean Data Network partners to 1,715-acre forested mountain. Project will Carnivores at the Crossroads: develop, enhance and connect their metadata unlock the potential to protect an additional A Partnership for Coexistence (MT, WA) catalogs, data and mapping services to the 1,500 acres of critical forested headwaters Mitigate conflicts with carnivores in West Coast Ocean Data Portal. in the Potomac River Basin. biologically important landscapes by $84,920 $50,000 leveraging partnerships in the region to Trout Unlimited, Inc. deliver leadership, proven innovations and University of Washington Training Women in Conservation Science An Innovative Approach to Conservation scientific analysis. Project will provide Actions in the Upper Potomac initial steps toward building a partnership Establish a training and capacity-building Demonstrate how existing resources can of innovation, cross-fertilization and program for women in conservation that implement cost-effective conservation action. demonstration projects all targeted on will provide summer internships to the best Project will work within an innovative carnivore conflict reduction. students to work in real-life conservation jobs partnership to fulfill and augment outreach, $35,000 with non-profits and government agencies. Project will also provide a fellowship to staffing, implementation, and monitoring one graduate student in a conservation- needs to reduce nutrient and sediment related discipline. loadings to the Chesapeake Bay tributaries. $100,000 $300,000

46 University of Maryland Douglas County Land & Water Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership, Inc. Environmental Finance Center Conservation Department Little Manitowoc River Coastal Financing Strategy for Berkeley County’s Allouez Bay Habitat Restoration Wetland Restoration Local Stormwater Management Restore 25 acres of emergent wetland in Restore the meandering stream and shallow Develop a set of comprehensive Allouez Bay within the St. Louis River open water connection between the Little recommendations for implementing a System Area of Concern. Project will Manitowoc River and the adjacent Lake financing strategy for Berkeley County’s result in improved habitat and forage Michigan coastal wetland. Project will local stormwater management program. quality for waterbirds and waterfowl, provide critical habitat for fish, birds and $39,948 reduced impact of invasive plant species, invertebrates, as well as restore natural reestablishment of wild rice. floodplain wetland conditions. Water Stewardship, Inc. $121,954 $391,480 Accelerating Conservation Implementation in the Potomac Basin First Nations Development Institute Ozaukee County, WI Accelerate implementation of cost-shared Native American Models for Control of Local West Branch Ulao Creek Fish water quality practices in the Potomac Food Systems in the Midwest (IL, MN, WI) Passage Restoration Basin of West Virginia. Project will employ Develop the capacity of three Native Remediate fish passage impediments in West a full-time conservationist specialist who American organizations that are working to Branch Ulao Creek in Ozaukee County. will work with the local Natural Resources create systemic change by increasing control Project will reconnect high quality wetland Conservation Service office to implement of local food systems. Project will expand and floodplain habitat and half a mile of conservation work. efforts to provide high-quality and expanded stream to the to the mainstem Milwaukee $92,031 quantities of healthy and locally produced River, the Milwaukee Estuary Area of foods to Native American communities, to Concern and Lake Michigan. Wes-Mon-Ty Resource Conservation progress toward organizational sustainability $69,576 and Development Project, Inc. and to uphold the natural resource Tygart Valley Conservation District management goals of conservation plans Ozaukee Washington Land Trust, Inc. Integrated Weed Control adopted in each of their areas. Restoring the Milwaukee River Watershed Leverage current financial incentives in a five- $25,000 Restore viable habitat within the Milwaukee county area to control weeds on grasslands River Watershed. Over 560 acres of wetlands, and develop a strategic plan for sustainable Friends of Horicon National Wildlife Refuge forests and grassland habitat will be restored long-term management. Project will increase Horicon National Wildlife Refuge as a result of this project. awareness of invasive species. Visitor Center Natural Landscaping $37,324 $15,000 Replace the existing visitor center landscaping with at least 60 different species of native River Alliance of Wisconsin, Inc. West Virginia Division of Forestry plants. Project will provide a resource Menominee River Area of Concern Using the Forestry Reclamation Approach to for education and demonstration, while Fish Passage (MI, WI) Reforest Previously Reclaimed Mine Land beautifying areas of interest for visitors. Implement the third phase of a multi-phase Restore 50 acres of mixed mesophytic forest $4,997 project to help restore lake sturgeon in the and wildlife habitat on previously mined Lake Michigan basin. Project will reconnect lands at a Boy Scout camp in West Virginia. Friends of the St. Croix Wetland 21 miles of historic spawning and rearing Project will plant American chestnuts and Management District habitat in the Menominee River with improve water quality. Observation Deck on the Oak Ridge Lake Michigan by providing upstream and $125,000 Waterfowl Production Area downstream fish passage around two dams. Improve wildlife viewing opportunities on $2,883,495 Wildlife Management Institute the Oak Ridge Waterfowl Production Area Sustaining Young Forest Habitat by constructing an observation deck with a Sixteenth Street Community to Support At-Risk Species spotting scope. Project will encourage the Health Center, Inc. Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce public to visit, support and learn about the Pulaski Park Urban Stormwater Management the decline of young forest habitat and Wetland Management District. Install three to four green infrastructure support restoration of key species in 17 states. $5,000 demonstration sites in a blighted urban Project will increase American woodcock and park along the Kinnickinnic River, which is New England cottontail population levels and Lake County Forest Preserve District undergoing a $75 million flood management work toward an effort to halt the decline of Lake Michigan Watershed Early Detection project to raise awareness and stewardship. golden-winged warbler by 2019. Invasives Strike Team (IL, WI) This project will restore riparian zones, make $250,000 Control populations of high-priority measurable pollutant reductions, improve invasive plant species using early detection stormwater capture and build capacity for WISCONSIN in wetlands, grasslands, and ravines along public/private partnerships. Brown County Land and Water the Lake Michigan coastline in southern $25,000 Conservation Department Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Project Removing Fish Passage Barriers and will prevent habitat degradation associated Improving Aquatic Habitat in Haller Creek with invasive plant infestations at high- priority habitats occupied by many rare and Restore Haller Creek’s original stream bed imperiled species. around a dammed pond and reconstruct $397,265 six road culverts. Project will remove impediments to reopen 300 acres of wetland to fish access and spawning. $68,890

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St. Croix County, WI WYOMING ASIA, INDIA, AND THE PACIFIC Cultivating Conservation in the Rush Montana Conservation Corps, Inc. Conservation International Foundation and Willow River Watersheds Montana-Wyoming Reclamation Youth Corps Improving Coral Conservation Multiple partners will collaborate to improve, Mobilize diverse youths from urban, rural Management Capacity in Samoa restore and manage grassland and water and tribal communities to participate in Build local knowledge, awareness and capacity resources in northwest Wisconsin’s high- 12 weeks of high-value conservation projects in marine protected area management in priority focus areas. Project will promote rich with learning and training opportunities. Samoa. Project will improve management of and implement conservation programs on By working at Tiber Dam / Lake Elwell, corals by maintaining updated data collection, private lands, civic engagement and public Canyon Ferry Reservoir, and Keyhole raising awareness of coral reef area benefits, involvement in conservation programs in Reservoir, youths will contribute valuable providing training on coral surveillance the watersheds, and a monitoring protocol services to mitigate invasive weeds, improve and coordinating management with to track the effectiveness of conservation fencing to protect Bureau of Reclamation American Samoa. program support and public participation. resources, plant trees and enhance recreation $62,620 $100,000 facilities and learn about education and career opportunities in conservation fields. Conservation Metrics, Inc. UEC/MVP Project, Inc. $35,000 Acoustic Monitoring of Seabirds on Urban Habitat Restoration Through Ta’u Island, American Samoa Community Engagement Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Deploy a network of eight acoustic sensors to Support the revitalization of a 24-acre Business Plan and Monitoring Framework for monitor the seabird community in the remote brownfield into an outdoor science classroom Grassland Birds in the Northern Great Plains national park of American Samoa on Ta’u and Milwaukee destination through a strong Develop grassland bird conservation goals Island. Project will document the range of volunteer land stewardship and community and strategies to benefit the Northern species breeding in the park and patterns of outreach program. Project activities will Great Plains. Project will expand activity, and compare relative rates of activity include intensive land management in the existing monitoring program to better at survey sites. first two critical growing seasons, installation measure conservation action impacts on $12,408 of plants and trees and establishment of bird populations. restoration research protocols. $184,059 Conservacion, Naturaleza y Vida (CONAVI) $25,000 Rapid Assessment of Sea Turtle Bycatch Trout Unlimited, Inc. Rates in the Gulf of Panama University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Strategic Conservation of Upper Colorado Conduct surveys in the main fishing ports Reestablishing Hexagenia Mayfly River Native Fishes (CO, WY) of Panama’s Pacific Coast and collaborate in Populations and Habitat Implement five on-the-ground projects with environmental education workshops to raise Transplant Hexagenia mayfly eggs and benefits to native fishes of the upper Colorado awareness about marine conservation. Project improve burrowing substrates in coastal areas River basin. Project will protect 250 miles, will produce an assessment of sea turtle and tributaries. Project will reestablish mayfly reconnect 100 miles and restore approximately bycatch rates and identify bycatch “hot spots.” populations, which will improve forage for 5 miles of native fish habitat. $20,000 many fish species. $271,758 $149,301 Conservation Society of Pohnpei Western Association of Enhancing Management of Wildlife Management Institute Fish and Wildlife Agencies Herbivorous Fish in Pohnpei Sustaining Young Forest Habitat Conifer Removal Mapping and Prioritization Identify reproductive life history traits and to Support At-Risk Species Provide conservation practitioners with assess habitat use and fishing vulnerability for Employ highly skilled professionals to reduce the tools necessary to prioritize conifer key commercial reef fish species in Pohnpei, the decline of young forest habitat and removal to proactively maintain sage grouse Micronesia. Project will build on existing support restoration of key species in 17 states. distribution and abundance. Project mapping state and stakeholder-driven conservation Project will increase American woodcock and will focus on priority areas within target initiatives that conserve fish around New England cottontail population levels and management zones. reproduction seasons and within locally work toward an effort to halt the decline of $150,000 managed marine areas. golden-winged warbler by 2019. $40,000 $250,000 Wildlife Conservation Society Trapper’s Point Wildlife Overpass Fauna & Flora International, Inc. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Interpretive Pullout Sustainable Livelihoods for Coral Invasive Species Control in East Create an educational site to build Conservation in the Philippines Central Wisconsin Wetlands understanding of and support for great Work to address the cyclical issues of poverty Restore high-quality wetlands by controlling migration conservation and increased and environmental degradation in the invasive plant species. Project will protect driver safety while protecting animals Coral Triangle by developing sustainable high-quality wetlands, preserve habitat for from disturbance. coastal livelihoods. Project will contribute species of greatest conservation need and rare $47,227 to improved coastal conservation in the species and prevent further habitat conversion Philippines through a sustainable coastal to invasive monocultures. Wyoming Game and Fish Commission fisheries enhancement program. $175,328 Wetland Enhancement in Ocean Lake $40,000 Wildlife Habitat Management Area Provide seasonal wetlands for birds migrating through central Wyoming by constructing a water delivery system and enhancing existing dikes. $85,000

48 Hatohobei Organization for Sea Change Consulting LLC University of Maryland — People and Environment Coral Reef Management Adaptation Center for Environmental Science Building Resilient Micronesian Tools for a Changing Coastline Pilot Report Template for Status and Trends of Coastal and Marine Resources Increase management capacity in the Coral Reef Ecosystems in the United States Improve management of coral reefs, fisheries Pacific to sustain coral reef systems and Increase management capacity to evaluate and shorelines by empowering communities the communities that depend on them in a restoration efforts of U.S. coral reef systems. to address threats to reefs and nearshore changing environment. Project will develop a Project will develop a status- and trends- systems. Project will provide direct support to guidance document that is aimed at building assessment framework and report card process several communities to develop specific resilience of Pacific island communities to that synthesizes biological, physical and socio- actions (e.g., zoning and rule development) a changing coastline by providing detailed economic data from two jurisdictions. that can immediately improve resource outreach and planning materials. $60,000 management and build capacity of $9,680 community facilitators. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Region 7 $45,880 Sea Turtle Association of Japan Genetics-Based Mark-Recapture Compiling Nesting Status of of Pacific Walrus Marianas Resource Conservation & Loggerhead Turtles in Japan Conduct a genetics-based capture-mark- Development Council Compile existing Northern Pacific loggerhead recapture project for Pacific walrus in order Revegetation of Bare Soils to Reduce turtle nesting data in a collaborative book to estimate abundance and demographics Sedimentation to Coral Reefs to clarify the current status of the threat rates. Project will generate preliminary Support sedimentation stabilization projects and nesting trends. Project will gather estimates of survival, movement probabilities in Guam to benefit coral reefs. Project will data for the book. and site fidelity, all of which will benefit establish a nursery to increase the availability $60,000 future monitoring and management of the of native plants for stream bank stabilization population of Pacific walrus. and targeted erosion control projects. University of Guam $100,000 $22,500 Coral Monitoring and Ecosystem- Based Management in Kosrae Wildlife Conservation Society Micronesia Conservation Trust Integrate a suite of existing and new Building Management Capacity in Socioeconomic Monitoring Team and monitoring datasets for applied use within the Taka Bonerate Marine National Park Data Compilation for Micronesia management policies on Kosrae, Federated Address critical information gaps by Provide critical support to strengthening States of Micronesia. Project will refine collecting, analyzing and sharing data on the management capacity and responses to coral organizational action plans of local partners to ecological, socioeconomic and governance reef conservation in Micronesia. Project will incorporate the recommended policies. status of the Taka Bonerate Marine National ensure that existing and future socioeconomic $49,335 Park, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and monitoring data for the region is compiled, train stakeholders to maintain these data stored and made accessible. University of Hawaii needs into the future. Project will improve $50,000 Setting Nutrient Thresholds management capacity of local government to Coral Reef Health and communities to protect 530,765 hectares PT Pet Norton Consulting International Develop and apply a nutrient response of marine habitat. In-Country Coordination: USAID — assay for two species of corals and their $74,952 Indonesia’s Marine Resources Program associated microbial communities in the Coordinate coral reef conservation efforts West Maui and Faga’alu priority watersheds. World Wildlife Fund, Inc. in the Coral Triangle Region. Project will Project will link water quality thresholds Decreasing Seabird Bycatch in work with the U.S. Agency for International (nitrogen, phosphorus) to microbial and coral Russia’s Pacific Fisheries Development-Indonesia Mission and the physiological responses to create a tool for Build on 10 years of experience partnering U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric management to assess impacts to reef systems with research institutes and the Russian Administration to implement Indonesia’s before coral mortality. Pacific fishing industry to further reduce marine resources program. $91,000 seabird bycatch in the Russian Far East $92,000 longline fishery and evaluate bycatch in University of Hawaii — Manoa driftnet fisheries. Project will result in PortMap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd Threshold and Reduction Targets for decreased take of seabirds through increased Connectivity and Thermal History Tools Land-Based Stressors to Coral Reefs use of paired streamers on longline vessels. for Managers to Understand Resilience Establish minimum response thresholds and $100,000 of U.S. Coral Reefs (FL, HI, LA, TX) threat reduction targets for sedimentation, Increase public awareness of the status and turbidity, nitrogen and phosphorus stress in threats to global coral reefs. Project will the main reef-building corals of Hawaii and develop a suite of products for delivery via American Samoa. Project will couple these the Coral Reef Watch website describing targets with other tools in development which temperature statistics experienced at coral will allow managers to assess threats to coral reef locations worldwide and maps of coral reefs and monitor their recovery at a finer reef connectivity and its role in recovery scale and in a shorter timeframe. from disturbance. $89,008 $127,237

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CANADA LATIN AMERICA AND Marine Stewardship Council Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum THE CARIBBEAN Promoting Marine Stewardship Council Certification to Fisheries in the Caribbean Habitat Conservation Strategy Centre for Resource Management in Alberta, Canada and Environmental Studies (CERMES), Encourage Caribbean fisheries, particularly Develop, implement and monitor a habitat The University of the West Indies those on the Meso-American-Reef, to engage conservation strategy on more than 42,000 Coordination of Global Socioeconomic in improvement projects that lead towards acres of native prairie. Project will include a Monitoring in Coastal Communities Marine Stewardship Council-certification. range management plan with a preferential Near Coral Reefs Project will promote sustainable fishing and the value of certified seafood in the region grazing system and recommendations for Coordinate a global socioeconomic with an emphasis on the Honduran and ecologically sustainable stocking rates, fence monitoring initiative for coastal management. Mexican spiny lobster fisheries. and stock water management, weed control Project will build upon 10 years of gathered $60,000 and riparian area management. socioeconomic data across six global nodes $120,000 that have worked with partners to facilitate Microwave Telemetry, Inc. community-based socioeconomic monitoring. Canadian Sea Turtle Network, Inc. Satellite Telemetry with Ringed $72,933 Mitigating Loggerhead Turtle Bycatch Teal to Determine Seasonal Movements and Vital Habitats in Atlantic Canadian Fisheries Conservacion, Naturaleza y Vida (CONAVI) Understand the population dynamics of Rapid Assessment of Sea Turtle Determine movements and feeding loggerhead sea turtles and mitigate their Bycatch Rates in the Gulf of Panama areas of ringed teals on the Don Pablo Ranch in Argentina. bycatch in Atlantic Canadian longline Conduct surveys in the main fishing ports $17,755 fisheries. Project will identify size and of Panama’s Pacific Coast and collaborate in genetic stock of loggerheads in Canada, environmental education workshops to raise MPA Enforcement International LLC improve function and use of dehooking awareness about marine conservation. Project Enhancing Enforcement Capacity in equipment and evaluate impact of will produce an assessment of sea turtle Priority Caribbean Coral Reefs hooking on turtles. bycatch rates and identify bycatch hot spots. Assess enforcement capacities for nine priority $100,000 $20,000 Caribbean coral reef areas and provide tailored Delta Waterfowl Foundation Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, Inc. enforcement training, recommendations and Priority Waterfowl Research — III Review of Capacity for Coral Conservation follow-up assistance to achieve long-term Conduct research on wood duck breeding in the Caribbean conservation goals. Project will benefit an estimated total of 55-60 participants, including ecology in southern Ontario and research Build upon previous peer-to-peer capacity- managers and field staff, as well as important a range of management actions to manage building workshops within priority Caribbean local enforcement partners. phragmites in Utah. marine protected areas. Project will address $69,650 $9,400 desired follow-up on sustainable financing and enforcement needs in the region. Hamilton Conservation Authority Smithsonian Institution $31,500 Lower Spencer Creek Instream Science Based Decision Making for Spiny Lobster Management Habitat Restoration Island Conservation Reconnect floodplain habitat with 300 Restoring Pink-Footed Shearwater Improve the efficacy of spiny lobster fishery management in Honduras through the use meters of Lower Spencer Creek, a tributary Populations in Chile — III of emerging technologies and analysis to western Lake Ontario in Canada. Project Remove invasive goats from Robinson Crusoe techniques. Project will work with both will improve fish passage and spawning Island, a critical step in a multi-year effort to the industrial fishery and local communities habitat for resident as well as migratory fish. eradicate invasive mammals from the pink- to foster stakeholder engagement in the $125,000 footed shearwater’s nesting grounds. Project management process and improve the will help prevent soil erosion and shearwater Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences availability of information for burrow destruction, thus improving nesting Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network decision-making. habitat across the island. Coordinate the efforts of 15 organizations $134,160 $449,997 working cooperatively at 16 sites across Utila Centre for Marine Ecology (UCME) the Arctic to determine what limits the Marine Applied Research, LLC Capacity Building for Effective populations of high-priority shorebird Management and Stewardship for Lobster Fishery Management species. Project will increase the ability to Coral Reefs in the Caribbean Build capacity for effective lobster fishery target hemispheric conservation activity Build on a subset of projects implemented management in Honduras. Project will at the life history stage to better target under the two-year Australia-Caribbean strengthen the capacity of key local conservation funds. Coral Reef Collaboration and focus on organizations to be able to manage $69,233 monitoring, management planning and their lobster fisheries and establish the community and stakeholder engagement. foundations for market-led solutions for Project will develop a monitoring program sustainable resource use. for Grenada and deploy stewardship $85,340 programs in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. $80,000

50 University of the West Indies MEXICO MPA Enforcement International LLC Protecting Critical Hawksbill Nesting American Bird Conservancy Enhancing Enforcement Capacity in Habitat in Barbados Protecting Townsend’s Shearwaters Priority Caribbean Coral Reefs Assess and mitigate the negative impacts on Isla Socorro, Mexico — III Assess enforcement capacities for nine of coastal development on hawksbill Work with partners to protect the sole priority Caribbean coral reef areas and nesting in Barbados. Project will construct breeding habitat for Townsend’s shearwater provide tailored enforcement training, and operate an information center to raise and other endangered species on Isla recommendations and follow-up assistance to awareness and protect hawksbills. Socorro, Mexico. Project will initiate the achieve long-term conservation goals. Project $72,504 full-scale eradication of feral cats, complete will benefit an estimated total of 55-60 infrastructure development to support participants, including managers and field U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service additional eradication and monitoring work staff, as well as important local enforcement Shorebird Hunting Regulation in the and implement monitoring activities for partners from relevant agencies and groups. Caribbean and South America Townsend’s shearwaters. $69,650 Understand shorebird harvest policies, $382,613 determine harvest sustainability and provide Marine Stewardship Council mitigation measures for shorebird hunting Bonneville Environmental Foundation Promoting Marine Stewardship Council among the jurisdictions of the Caribbean Colorado River Delta Water Trust Certification to Fisheries in the Caribbean Sea and northern South America. Project Temporary Acquisition Pilot Encourage Caribbean fisheries, particularly will inform policy changes that lead to Acquire temporary water rights for those on the Meso-American-Reef, to engage a sustainable harvest of shorebirds in environmental flows in the Colorado River in improvement projects that lead towards these countries. Delta. Project will provide funding to the Marine Stewardship Council-certification. $249,850 Colorado River Delta Water Trust to help Project will promote sustainable fishing and them secure temporary water rights in the the value of certified seafood in the region Mexicali Agricultural Valley. with an emphasis on the Honduran and OTHER INTERNATIONAL $50,000 Mexican spiny lobster fisheries. Asociacion Chelonia $60,000 Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation Trust Reducing Sea Turtles Bycatch in World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Spanish Atlantic Longliners Producing Low-Cost Plant Material for Grassland Restoration Planning for Development and Sea Level Rise Fill a data gap in the assessment of sea turtle Contribute to habitat restoration, while to Foster Hawksbill Recovery in Mexico bycatch in the large Spanish longline fleet in Assess the impact of changing environmental the Atlantic. Project will work with industry also removing factors that limit large-scale restoration throughout the region. Project conditions on nesting beaches in the wider to establish a voluntary data collection system Caribbean. Project will establish guidelines that provides much needed bycatch data while will establish and/or enhance production of native seed and hay on former agricultural for management to address development and not overly disrupting fishing operations. environmental changes like sea-level rise to $49,595 fields, which will greatly reduce long-term costs of restoration activities at priority minimize impacts to priority nesting beaches. World Seabird Union conservation sites. $100,000 World Seabird Conference in South Africa $119,350 Collaborate with the African Seabird Group International Boundary and to host the second World Seabird Conference Water Commission (USIBWC) in Cape Town, South Africa. The conference Laguna Grande Restoration — Phase II will focus on global seabird issues that require local/national/regional delivery to be effective, Transfer funds to the Mexican Section build capacity for seabird researchers in (named CILA) of the International Boundary developing countries and under-resourced and Water Commission (IBWC) to regions, and promote effective communication environmental enhancement of riparian areas between researchers. of the Colorado River Delta under Minute $75,000 No. 319 to the 1944 Water Treaty between the United States and Mexico. Project will restore dozens of acres along the Colorado River riparian corridor, prepare the area for instream flow deliveries and complete other habitat restoration as needed. $453,650

51 NATIONAL FISH AND FLORIDA Government Street Regional WILDLIFE FOUNDATION GULF Apalachicola Bay Oyster Restoration Stormwater Pond at Corrine Park Jones ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT Florida Fish and Wildlife City of Pensacola Treat stormwater runoff from 40 acres FUND PROJECT COMMITMENTS Conservation Commission Restore and manage 18 acres of oyster of a total 106-acre downtown basin that In the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon reef across a range of conditions to provide currently discharges untreated runoff explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, information that will allow managers directly into Pensacola Bay. BP Exploration and Production, Inc. and to maximize the resiliency of oysters in $2,106,500 Transocean Deepwater, Inc. each pled guilty Apalachicola Bay and more efficiently to criminal violations of federal law. The plea restore oyster resources throughout the LOUISIANA agreements in those cases require BP and Gulf of Mexico. Transocean, among other things, to make Caminada Beach and Dune Restoration $4,189,400 Increment II: Engineering and Design certain monetary payments to NFWF that Louisiana Coastal Protection are designated to fund projects benefitting Comprehensive Panhandle and Restoration Authority Gulf Coast natural resources injured as a Coastal Bird Conservation Provide the engineering and design work result of the spill. NFWF has established the National Audubon Society Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund to receive necessary for the second and final phase of Work in the Florida Panhandle with restoration of the Caminada Headland. and administer these funds. Funding was volunteers and State and Federal agency $2,654,832 obligated to the following projects under partners to improve nesting success of coastal the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund in birds through nest protection, stewardship, Caminada Beach and Dune Restoration FY 2014 in accordance with the terms of monitoring and outreach activities. Project Increment II: Construction the plea agreements. will also restore an important nesting island. Louisiana Coastal Protection $3,205,300 and Restoration Authority Restore 7.5 miles of critical beach and ALABAMA Eliminating Light Pollution on dune habitat on the easternmost end of the Sea Turtle Nesting Beaches Alabama Department of Conservation Caminada Headland. Sand from offshore Sea Turtle Conservancy and Natural Resources will be used to restore 455 acres of beach Alabama Department of Marine Resources Increase sea turtle nesting success on Florida and dune habitat. In addition to restoring Restore 600 acres of oyster reef by Panhandle beaches by solving artificial light and protecting important coastal habitat, placing new cultch material to increase spat problems on private properties that are known the restoration will provide storm buffering settlement and oyster production. to disorient thousands of hatchlings per year. to Port Fourchon. $1,500,000 This project will increase Alabama’s $144,550,000 oyster reefs by nearly 30 percent. Enhanced Assessment for Recovery of $3,750,000 East Timbalier Island: Gulf of Mexico Fisheries — Phase I Engineering and Design D’Olive Watershed Restoration Florida Fish and Wildlife Louisiana Coastal Protection Mobile Bay National Estuary Program Conservation Commission and Restoration Authority Restore degraded streams and install Enhance and expand fisheries-independent Provide the engineering and design stormwater management measures to reduce and fisheries-dependent data collection in work necessary for the restoration of sediment and nutrient loads to D’Olive the northern and eastern Gulf of Mexico in East Timbalier Island. support of fisheries stock assessments and Bay in order to enhance submerged aquatic $5,589,000 vegetation habitat. management efforts for red snapper and $6,781,000 other important reef fish species. Increase Atchafalaya Flow to $3,000,000 Terrebonne: Planning Fowl River Watershed Restoration — Phase I Louisiana Coastal Protection Escribano Point Coastal Habitat Mobile Bay National Estuary Program and Restoration Authority Restoration Management Implement measures to protect and restore Conduct a planning effort intended to Florida Fish and Wildlife 14 acres of coastal wetlands on Mon Louis advance implementation of a sediment Conservation Commission Island. Develop a watershed management diversion proposed from the Atchafalaya plan for Fowl River Watershed to identify Protect and restore coastal habitat of River into the Terrebonne basin to create, future conservation investments to Escribano Point within the Yellow River sustain and restore wetlands. Wildlife Management Area in Pensacola benefit the watershed. $4,604,850 $2,050,000 Bay. FWC will work with the Trust for Public Land to acquire key inholdings Lower Mississippi River Sediment within the reserve. Diversions: Planning $1,231,000 Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Escribano Point Coastal Habitat Conduct a planning effort intended to Acquisitions — Phase I advance implementation of sediment The Trust for Public Land diversions from the lower Mississippi Acquire two parcels associated with River, as recommended in the state’s FWC’s Conservation Area at Escribano Coastal Master Plan. Point, Santa Rosa County, and donate $12,760,187 the properties to the State of Florida. $500,000

52 Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion: TEXAS Engineering and Design Galveston Island State Park Louisiana Coastal Protection Marsh Restoration and Protection and Restoration Authority Texas General Land Office Support the engineering, design, permitting Restore, enhance and protect 30 acres and related activities associated with the of intertidal marsh habitat (intertidal proposed Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion fringe marsh, salt flat marsh, sand flat and project. The project will be designed to divert protected shallow water) at Galveston sediment-laden water from the Mississippi Island State Park. River through a self-contained channel $2,489,200 roughly 1.5 miles long, before outfalling into the mid-Barataria Basin. Gulf Coast Migratory Waterfowl $37,741,754 Habitat Enhancement Ducks Unlimited MISSISSIPPI Restore or enhance 3,000 acres of freshwater Coastal Bird Stewardship wetlands and promote shallow flooding of an Program in Mississippi additional 20,000 acres on fallow rice farms Mississippi Department of to provide critical migratory and wintering Environmental Quality habitat for waterfowl and shorebirds along Improve nesting success of coastal birds the Texas coast. through nest protection, stewardship $1,250,000 and monitoring at 22 key sites along the Oyster Reef Restoration in East Bay Mississippi coast, while educating the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department public on the importance of these habitats. Restore an additional 30 acres to a planned $1,604,000 130 acre oyster reef restoration project in the Coastal Stream and Habitat Initiative Galveston Bay ecosystem to increase oyster Mississippi Department of reef ecosystem services. Environmental Quality $840,000 Conduct conservation planning and design Powderhorn Ranch Land Acquisition — for on-the-ground restoration of several small Phase I coastal streams across the Mississippi coast. Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation $2,631,000 Acquire an initial tract of Powderhorn Mississippi Coastal Preserves Program Ranch as part of a larger multi-year, multi- Mississippi Department of partner effort to acquire, preserve, and Environmental Quality manage the entire 17,351 acre Powderhorn Assess invasive species infestations, perform Ranch located in Calhoun County. control measures and revegetate areas to $11,000,000 restore priority coastal habitat. Sea Rim State Park Coastal $3,300,000 Dune Restoration Mississippi Coastal Restoration Plan Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Mississippi Department of Rebuild the primary dune along the Sea Rim Environmental Quality State Park’s 5.3-mile Gulf of Mexico shore Provide an overarching framework for using native plants and sand fencing. the development and implementation of $189,400 programs and projects that restore and conserve Gulf Coast natural resources in Mississippi. $3,598,943

53 IMPACT DIRECTED U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California Department of Fish and Wildlife ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS Applied Research on Polar McGrath Lake Administrative Costs (IDEA) FISCAL YEAR 2014 Bears in the Chukchi Sea Disbursement to the California Department Live-capture and release polar bears on of Fish and Wildlife for administrative costs. PROJECT COMMITMENTS the sea ice of the Chukchi Sea. Project $18,000, Federal Civil Case NFWF’s IDEA department serves as a manager will uncover findings that are critical to and trustee for funds arising from legal and management in relation to climate change, California Department of regulatory actions involving natural resources development, and human-bear interactions. Parks and Recreation and the environment. These funds originate $43,655, Federal Criminal Case Montara State Beach Access Improvement primarily from court orders, settlements of Construct a parking lot and accessible picnic legal cases, regulatory permits, licenses, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service area and repair beach access stairway at north and conservation and mitigation plans. Climate Change Effect on Wetlands, end of Montara State Beach. Project includes Invertebrates, and Shorebirds measures to control runoff and reduce UNITED STATES Determine how climate change will affect existing erosion. invertebrates and subsequently induce a $428,810, Federal Civil Case ALABAMA trophic mismatch that will affect growth and survival of shorebird young and ultimately California State Coastal Conservancy Avian Research and Conservation San Francisco Bay Creosote Piling Removal Institute, Inc. affect shorebird population size. $46,995, Federal Criminal Case and Pacific Herring Restoration Project Aerial Imaging Surveys for Sea Turtles Implement a five-year subtidal habitat and in the Northern Gulf (AL, FL) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific herring restoration pilot project in Conduct high-resolution aerial imaging to Genetics-Based Mark-Recapture the San Francisco Bay involving the removal assess in-water abundance and distribution of Pacific Walrus of derelict creosote pilings and restoration of sea turtles while eliminating many of the Conduct a genetics-based capture-mark- of native eelgrass and oyster habitat for biases of boat-based surveys. recapture project for Pacific walrus in order to the benefit of Pacific herring and other $30,100, Federal Criminal Case estimate abundance and demographics rates. aquatic resources. $40,000, Federal Criminal Case $2,000,000, Federal Criminal Case ALASKA University of Alaska Foundation California Trout, Inc. Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Fulldome Documentary about Round Island Harvey Diversion Fish Passage Restoration Electronic Monitoring Transition in Alaska Fixed Gear Fisheries Begin production of a fulldome film about Elevate and stabilize the creek bed below Transition electronic monitoring from pilot the walruses at Round Island in the Walrus Harvey Diversion to restore fish passage for to integrated at-sea monitoring component Islands State Game Sanctuary in Alaska. the endangered Southern California steelhead in Alaska fixed gear fisheries by creating a $3,962, Species Recovery at a pre-existing fish ladder. structured, collaborative process that serves $140,000, State Civil Case ARIZONA as a national model. Central Coast Salmon Enhancement $20,000, Federal Criminal Case Various Recipients Pismo Creek Arundo Removal Havasu National Wildlife Refuge Improve spawning and rearing steelhead Bristol Bay Native Association Equipment Purchase Bristol Bay Summer Youth habitat, fish passage, and riparian canopy Purchase of equipment to monitor and by removing arundo along four miles of Stewardship Program 2014 protect habitat at Havasu National Provide Alaska Native students with the West Corral de Piedra Creek, a tributary Wildlife Refuge. to Pismo Creek. opportunity to experience the science and $15,600, Federal Criminal Case research of natural resources management. $15,000, State Civil Case $5,708, Species Recovery CALIFORNIA Conservation Science Research and Consulting Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences Audubon California 2014 Raven Studies in the Chuckwalla Arctic Shorebird Demographics Network Lake Isabella Willow Flycatcher Restoration Desert Wildlife Management Area Coordinate the efforts of 15 organizations Management of Southwestern Willow working cooperatively at 16 sites across Flycatcher habitat on Sprague Ranch. Research on the interaction between desert tortoises and common ravens the Arctic to determine what limits the $97,793, Mitigation populations of high priority shorebird species. in the Chuckwalla Desert Wildlife Management Area. $39,233, Federal Criminal Case California Conservation Corps North Fork Big River Coho Stream $56,369, Mitigation Native Village of Gambell Habitat Enhancement Corvus Ecological Consulting, LLC Continued Support for St. Lawrence Enhance the quality and quantity of coho 2014 Raven Studies in the Superior- Island’s Local Tribal Monitors salmon spawning and rearing habitat on the Cronese Desert Wildlife Management Support two seasonal Tribal Monitors in the North Fork Big River and James Creek by Area and Fort Irwin Conservation Area Native Villages of Gambell and Savoonga. increasing the complexity, frequency, depth, Tribal Monitors implement local marine and shelter of pools. Research on the interaction between desert tortoises and common ravens in mammal ordinances, interact with Tribal $21,760, State Civil Case subsistence hunters, and assess compliance the Superior-Cronese Desert Wildlife with voluntary walrus harvest trip limits. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Management Area and Fort Irwin Conservation Area. $12,000, Species Recovery Land Management of Mitigation Lands Management of land designated as mitigation $135,501, Mitigation for impacts associated with the Topaz Solar Farm project in San Luis Obispo County, California. $657,226, Mitigation

54 East Bay Regional Park District Heritage Environmental Consultants, LLC McBain Associates Crown Memorial Beach Groin Extension Campo Verde Solar Project 5-Year San Joaquin River Restoration Technical and Wetland Enhancement Post-Construction Burrowing Owl Monitoring Advisory Committee Services Remove and dispose of approximately 2,500 Perform five years of post-construction Assist and advise the San Joaquin River cubic yards of sand that washed off of burrowing owl monitoring for the Campo Restoration Administrator regarding the Crown Beach into the Elsie Roemer Marsh. Verde Solar Project. implementation of the San Joaquin River $36,500, State Civil Case $375,000, Mitigation Restoration Settlement. $64,500, Other Forensic Entomology Services Heritage Environmental Consultants, LLC Laguna Mountains Skipper Habitat Assessment and Mapping Mid Klamath Watershed Council Research of Potential Range Assess and map two parcels in Imperial Mid Klamath Off-Channel Coho Investigate potential habitats for the Laguna County to determine suitability for flat-tailed Rearing Habitat Project Mountains Skipper in a number of mountain horned lizard mitigation. Create off-channel coho rearing habitat at ranges in Southern California for suitable $6,000, Mitigation four sites, finalize feasibility studies at three habitat and survey potential presence sites, and fund monitoring, maintenance of the skipper. Institute for Wildlife Studies and graduate research at 10 existing sites. $20,496, Species Recovery Non-lead Ammunition Outreach and Education $153,648, Mitigation Implement a program to provide non-lead Friant Water Authority and outreach and education to hunters within the Montague Water Conservation District Bill Luce Consulting, LLC Southern California region, with focus on Montague Water Conservation District San Joaquin River Restoration Technical the Tehachapi and Transverse Ranges. Shasta River Flow Enhancement Project Advisory Committee Services $84,000,Mitigation Develop a long-term habitat enhancement Assist and advise the San Joaquin River project resulting in the permanent in- Restoration Administrator regarding the Island Conservation stream dedication of conserved water to implementation of the San Joaquin River Anacapa Island Restoration aid coho salmon. Restoration Settlement. Project Compendium Paper $75,075, Mitigation $47,952, Other Provide a scientific account of the ecological response 10-years post rat removal on Anacapa Natural Resources Defense Council Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center Island that can be used to communicate these San Joaquin River Restoration Technical 2014-2015 Educational and Volunteer results to a broad range of stakeholders. Advisory Committee Services Coordination Program $24,993, Other Assist and advise the San Joaquin River Fund the position of education coordinator Restoration Administrator regarding the for 12 months, and the full-time volunteer Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County implementation of the San Joaquin River recruitment coordinator position for 10 2014 Invasive Species Removal Project Restoration Settlement. months, along with administrative costs. Remove invasive species, primarily veldt $35,600, Other $116,280, State Civil Case grass and European beach grass, within the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex NewFields Companies, LLC Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center according to priorities established San Joaquin River Restoration Technical Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex — through the Restoration Task Force, and Advisory Committee Services Outreach, Preservation, and Visitor Serving monitor Nipomo Lupine. Assist and advise the San Joaquin River Task Force Collaboration Project $127,750, State Civil Case Restoration Administrator regarding the Support enhanced communication and implementation of San Joaquin River outreach, collections preservation and Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County Restoration Settlement. enhancement, collaboration, and Visitor 2014–2015 Conservation Strategy/ $55,380, Other Serving Task Force coordination at Management Plan Development for the the Dunes Center. Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex Oregon RFID $78,964, State Civil Case Develop a comprehensive Conservation Steelhead Monitoring in South Strategy / Management Plan for the San Francisco Bay Habitat Restoration Sciences, Inc. Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex as Purchase equipment for steelhead Land Management of Mitigation Lands directed by the Restoration Task Force. monitoring in South San Francisco Bay. Management of land designated as The product will identify areas and techniques $4,590.25, Mitigation mitigation for impacts associated with the to focus limited resources to achieve Greenhills Ranch project in San Diego conservation goals and objectives, set realistic Oregon State University County, California. measures for success, identify obstacles to Myxozoan Fish Disease $14,506, Mitigation achieving conservation goals, identify adaptive Research and Monitoring management approaches and identify a path Complete research currently in progress Hanson Environmental, Inc. forward to plan implementation. that specifically addresses the use of flow San Joaquin River Restoration Technical $323,596, State Civil Case manipulation as a management tool, and Advisory Committee Services develop models for predicting mortality Assist and advise the San Joaquin River Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County in juvenile coho salmon related to Restoration Administrator regarding the Pismo Preserve Land Acquisition Ceratomyxa Shasta. implementation of San Joaquin River Partial funding for the long-term preservation $107,951, Mitigation Restoration Settlement. of approximately 900 acres of property in the $40,880, Other Central Coast region of California. $350,000, Other

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Point Millerton Ranch, LLC SunPower Corporation U.S. Forest Service — Land Management of Mitigation Lands Land Management of Mitigation Lands Stanislaus National Forest Management of land in Madera County, Management of land designated for Shell Meadow Restoration California designated as mitigation for mitigation of impacts associated with the Stabilize and protect a 3.2-acre meadow impacts associated with the Tract 4870 project California Valley Solar Ranch project in located on the Stanislaus National Forest. in Fresno County, California. San Luis Obispo County, California. $22,300, Mitigation $13,009, Mitigation $690,444, Mitigation U.S. Forest Service — San Diego Association of Governments Tom Johnson Stanislaus National Forest Water Quality and Sediment Disposal Studies San Joaquin River Restoration Administrator Twomile Wolfins Meadow Restoration Conduct water quality assessments and Assist in implementation of the San Joaquin Preserve the hydrological function in Wolfin sediment disposal studies to guide the Buena River Restoration Settlement by overseeing Meadow-Main and Wolfin Meadow-North, Vista Lagoon Enhancement project. the Technical Advisory Committee and in turn improving the integrity of riparian $228,157, State Civil Case consulting on a variety of issues related to vegetative communities in ways that would the implementation. reduce future soil erosion and maintain viable Santa Barbara County — Agriculture $290,000, Other wildlife populations. Rincon Creek Arundo Removal $41,093, Mitigation Treat known infestations of arundo donax Thomas K. Moss along the riparian corridor of Rincon Creek Land Management of Mitigation Lands U.S. Geological Survey — with herbicides and physical removal. Management of land designated as Western Fisheries Research Center $6,000, State Civil Case mitigation for impacts associated with Myxozoan Fish Disease the Pletz Residence project in Monterey Research and Monitoring Santa Barbara Zoo County, California. Develop a series of models for predicting Nest Management of Condors $8,534, Mitigation mortality of juvenile coho salmon caused by in Southern California Ceratomyxa Shasta in the Klamath River. Monitor condor nests and collect data to Tortoise Research Group, Inc. $7,989, Mitigation determine the causes of nest failure and 2014 Raven Studies in the Chemehuevi apply appropriate long-term solutions. Desert Wildlife Management Area Various Recipients $50,000, Federal Criminal Case Research on the interaction between Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge Fund desert tortoises and common ravens Assist in the conservation and management Scott River Water Trust in the Chemehuevi Desert Wildlife of fish and wildlife resources on the Salton Emergency Stream Augmentation Management Area. Sea National Wildlife Refuge. for the Scott River $86,633, Mitigation $6,410, Mitigation Augment stream flows for salmonid benefit using a transaction between the Scott River Trout Unlimited, Inc. Ventana Wildlife Society Water Trust and Scott Valley Irrigation San Joaquin River Restoration Technical Contaminants Analysis of Condor District for a large-scale monitoring and Advisory Committee Services Eggs in Central California relocation effort. Assist and advise the San Joaquin River Analyze contaminants in condor eggs to $50,000, Mitigation Restoration Administrator regarding the better understand the effects on condor implementation of the San Joaquin River reproduction of fire retardants, rodenticides, Scott River Water Trust Restoration Settlement. antibiotics, heavy metals, and other Stream Flow Augmentation for $32,360, Other organochlorine compounds, and to better Coho Salmon in the Scott River understand DDT/DDE exposure in condors. Increase stream conditions for adult and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $29,972, Federal Criminal Case juvenile coho salmon in the Scott River McGrath Lake watershed during periods of low flow by Disbursement to benefit McGrath Lake. West Virginia University leasing water from agricultural diverters $5,000, Federal Civil Case Research Corporation through forbearance agreements. California Condor Flight Response $57,433, Mitigation U.S. Forest Service — Inyo National Forest in a Variable Meteorological and Kern Plateau Meadow Habitat Topographic Environment: Phase 1 Scott River Watershed Council Improvement Project Record movements of California condors Juvenile Coho Habitat Improvement Rehabilitate and enhance meadows, wetlands, to understand how their flight behavior Using Beaver Dams and stream aquatic habitat within the Kern (especially altitude above ground level) Work with beavers to increase the quality Plateau area of the South Fork Kern River responds to variation in topography and and quantity of juvenile coho salmon summer and Kern River watersheds. weather, as part of larger efforts to understand and winter rearing habitat in the Scott River $118,925, Mitigation how condor flight behavior may expose them and its tributaries in California. to risk from wind-energy facilities. U.S. Forest Service — Sequoia National Forest $57,518, Mitigation $30,000, Mitigation Long Meadow Restoration Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District Regain wetland ecosystem functions that were Yurok Tribe City of Yreka Post-Restoration Management lost through the effects of legacy grazing, or Restoring Off-Estuary Habitat in Provide support for post-restoration other unknown legacy land use, in the Kern Hoppaw Creek, Klamath River management to control invasive weeds River watershed. Create quality rearing habitat for natal and and maintain revegetation efforts at three $247,235, Mitigation non-natal juvenile coho salmon in an off- city-owned project areas. estuary tributary of the Klamath River and $60,820, State Civil Case assess restoration effectiveness. $124,918, Mitigation

56 COLORADO FLORIDA St. Andrew Bay Resource ACES Engineering Avian Research and Conservation Management Association, Inc. San Juan River Fish Recovery Fund Support Institute, Inc. Restoring Shorelines, Wetlands and Support work on the the Hogback Aerial Imaging Surveys for Sea Turtles Seagrasses in St. Andrew Bay Fish Barrier. in the Northern Gulf (AL, FL) Restore shorelines, wetlands, and seagrasses $94,036, Species Recovery Conduct high-resolution aerial imaging to using living shoreline techniques in assess in-water abundance and distribution St. Andrew Bay in Bay County. Monitoring Cal Poly Corporation — of sea turtles while eliminating many of the will document success. Project includes Irrigation Training and Research Center biases of boat-based surveys. education /outreach components. San Juan River Fish Recovery Fund Support $30,100, Federal Criminal Case $142,160, Federal Criminal Case Support work on the Hogback fish screen for the San Juan River. Audubon of the Western Everglades University of South Florida Grouper Authentication Mobile System $60,383, Species Recovery Collier County Shorebirds Donation Address shorebird conservation near Develop a grouper authentication system that Colorado River Water Conservation District Collier County, Florida. will produce and market a field-amenable Upper Colorado River Fish Recovery $5,100, Federal Criminal Case genetic detection technology to rapidly detect Support for lease of water from Elkhead illegal seafood substitution. Reservoir to benefit endangered fish in Florida Department of $25,000, Federal Criminal Case the Yampa River. Environmental Protection U.S. Geological Survey — $30,000, Species Recovery St. Andrews and St. Joseph Bay Aquatic Preserve Program Southeast Ecological Science Center Eagle Environmental, Inc. Protect, preserve, and restore aquatic resources Spatial Overlap of Fishing and Survival of Golden Eagles Fledged through administration of the St. Andrews Turtles in St. Andrew Bay in Colorado and Wyoming and St. Joseph Bay Aquatic Preserves to Quantify and characterize fishing activities Document mortality factors and movements enhance seagrass, shellfish, sea turtle, and and turtle habitat use in St. Andrew Bay of golden eagles from known nests in US FWS water bird populations. and develop an instructional pamphlet Region 6, then use this information to make $131,778, Federal Criminal Case for fisherman to help reduce mortality of informed decisions about laws, regulations, turtles as bycatch. and permits pertaining to eagles. Florida Fish and Wildlife $165,900, Federal Criminal Case $31,500, Federal Criminal Case Conservation Commission Shorebird and Habitat Protection, Wildlife Foundation of Florida, Inc. SWCA Environmental Consulting, Inc. Monitoring and Stewardship Oyster Reef Habitat Restoration Upper Colorado Fish Recovery Conduct shorebird surveys, protect in the St. Andrew Bay Goal Development shorebird nesting areas against disturbance, Restore 0.7 acres of native oyster reef Assist the authorized agencies in developing monitor shorebird foraging areas, and habitat in St. Andrew Bay. Restoration goals recovery goals for the four endangered capture and band shorebirds to determine include fisheries enhancement, water quality Colorado River fishes. Once developed, movement patterns. improvement, increased biodiversity, and these goals will be implemented by involved $189,769, Federal Criminal Case community engagement. agencies and stakeholders to facilitate $74,912, Federal Criminal Case management plans and strategies for delisting. Mote Marine Laboratory, Inc. $51,548, Species Recovery Conserving Marine Life in the Florida Keys HAWAII Conduct research, management, education, Ho’ilina Ranch Various Recipients conservation, and restoration of marine life Electrofishing Standardization Fence Maintenance and Ungulate and corals throughout the waters of the Control at Kona Forest Unit for Upper Colorado River Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and Provide technical assistance to standardize Maintain fences on conservation lands the Florida Keys. and remove feral ungulates from the Kona Upper Colorado River Fish Recovery $5,060, Federal Criminal Case Program’s electrofishing fleet. Forest Unit of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge. $6,175, Species Recovery National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $78,400, Other CONNECTICUT Law Enforcement Equipment Purchases LOUISIANA Soundkeeper, Inc. Purchase of law enforcement equipment Louisiana State University Agricultural Center Soundkeeeper Pumpout Program to assist in the location, identification, and abatement of resource violations within the Printing for Marine Debris Operation and Maintenance (CT, NY) National Sanctuaries, Refuges, and Parks of Educational Materials Maintain the Soundkeeper Mobile Pumpout the Florida Keys and adjacent waters. Program that covers the costs of boat Print banners and pamphlets to support $894, Federal Criminal Case marine debris education in Louisiana. pumpout service from Wesport, CT, to $3,594, Federal Criminal Case City Island, NY. Northwest Florida State $100,000, State Civil Case College Foundation, Inc. McNeese State University Restoration of Multiple Habitat Southwest Louisiana Air Quality Types in Walton County Monitoring and Analysis Provide community-based restoration Deploy an air quality monitoring network of 281.24 acres of coastal plain habitats: in southwest Louisiana, focusing on oil oyster, salt marsh, coastal dune lake, and refineries and related activities. The data will wetland. Project includes volunteer and be used to determine impacts on health and education opportunities. the environment. $62,836, Federal Criminal Case $485,000, Federal Criminal Case

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University of New Orleans Smith Creek Ranch LLC NEW YORK Research and Development of Turtle Excluder Smith Creek Ranch Habitat Improvement CEC Stuyvesant Cove, Inc. Devices for Louisiana Shrimp Fishery Improve stream condition and restore Solar One’s Green Design Lab Create the framework for a voluntary hydrology to an adjacent meadow by using Environmental Education Program pilot initiative that will address negative Pinyon and Juniper trees to mimic the natural Implement the “Green Design Lab” perceptions regarding the use of turtle stream activities of beavers. Project will K-12 program at MS 126 and PS excluder devices. The proposed project will demonstrate the efficacy of a relatively low- 110 in Greenpoint. Project will use involve working with Louisiana shrimpers. cost but highly effective restoration technique. interactive activities related to water, air, $203,583, Federal Criminal Case $19,600, Federal Criminal Case energy, materials, and food, along with student-led greening projects, to inspire MAINE STORM-OV, Inc. Oasis Valley Riparian Restoration students to participate in improving the environment and health of their schools, Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.), Inc. Remove salt cedar, a state-listed noxious homes and community. Improving Fish Passage in Maine’s weed, and restore natural stream flows $24,954, Other Atlantic Salmon Watersheds and native vegetation. Improve fish passage for Maine’s native $35,000, Federal Criminal Case Center for Educational Innovation — assemblage of sea-run fish through dam Public Education Association removals, fishway constructions, and the Various Recipients Brooklyn Native Wildlife Restoration placement of large woody debris. Nevada National Wildlife Refuge Project at MS 126 K $49,989, Federal Criminal Case Land and Water Acquisition Fund Create wildlife demonstration sites using Acquire replacement lands, waters or interests native plants, shrubs and shade trees at Passamaquoddy Tribe — Pleasant Point in lands or waters for national wildlife two MS 126 locations. St. Croix River Fish Passage refuges in Nevada. $24,998, Other Conduct a fish passage project in the $5,882, Mitigation St. Croix River watershed to enhance five Community Environmental Center, Inc. miles of stream for migratory and native NEW JERSEY Feasibility Study for Greenpoint species including river herring, Atlantic Community Compost Site salmon, and brook trout. American Littoral Society Determine the feasibility of developing a $40,000, Federal Criminal Case SpillSpotters Phase II: Coastal Stewardship and Education community compost site in Greenpoint. Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve Expand citizen oil-spill response and The study will examine community attitudes Restoration of Fish Passage in protection network by adding Sandy impacts, toward composting, siting options (ideally Two Coastal Maine Rivers technology, and training to the work of a brownfield site), the possibility of using Restore fish passage for sea-run fishes in learning about and protecting New Jersey’s compost to remediate soils in Greenpoint, Branch Brook, monitor use of the Branch coastal wildlife and habitat. and the costs and benefits of various Brook fish ladder by target species, and $67,000, Federal Criminal Case composting technologies. develop pre-restoration assessment of $12,500, Other Goff Mill Brook fish passage. NEW MEXICO Cornell University $20,000, Federal Criminal Case U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Passive Acoustic Monitoring of Lake Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge Sturgeon in the St. Lawrence River Basin MONTANA Expanding Migratory Bird Habitat at Monitor lake sturgeon using passive acoustic Various Recipients Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge monitoring to understand the occurrence Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuge Create restoration units to manage water and seasonality of sturgeon spawning and Restoration work on the Lost Trail National necessary for the restoration and maintenance migration ecology. Wildlife Refuge Restoration Project, funded of 80 acres and complement a perennial $9,684, Mitigation as part of the mitigation requirement related wetland/oxbow project at a 34-acre site. to the fish, wildlife, and habitat impacts of Project will benefit waterfowl, shorebirds, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) PPL Montana’s Kerr Project. wading birds, and other migratory birds, as Eel Passage Research Center $54,441, Mitigation well as invertebrates and native fish species. Develop and manage an eel passage $37,000, Other research center to help determine effective NEVADA ways to help migrating adult eels pass Wild Fish Engineering, LLC hydroelectric facilities. Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Sediment Deposition Investigation $1,150,000, Mitigation Carson Lake and Pasture Wetland Investigate management of sediment Habitat Improvement deposition problems at the Public Service Greenpoint Reformed Church Enhance approximately 1,200 acres of Company of New Mexico Diversion Dam Green Roof Feasibility Study wetlands by providing improved water fishway located on the San Juan River Determine the feasibility of installing a green delivery to Sprig Pond. Project activities in Fruitland, NM. roof on the Greenpoint Reformed Church, include repairing ditch banks and $4,845, Species Recovery located at 136 Milton Street. An engineering replacing control structures. study will be conducted to determine the $15,400, Federal Criminal Case strength and durability of the roof, originally constructed in 1848. A detailed description of roof conditions and an estimate for installation of a green roof will be prepared. $5,000, Other

58 Groundswell Community Mural Project Inc. Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, Inc. The Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. Environmentally Themed Mural 61 Franklin St. Garden Infrastructure Soil Cycle: A Mobile Compost Initiative Engage 15 local youths in the design and and Rain Harvest Build Conduct a mobile compost initiative to creation of a large-scale public artwork that Further the development of a self-sustaining be delivered at three Greenpoint schools explores the history of environmental justice New York City GreenThumb community (Citizens of the World Charter School, John and advocacy in Greenpoint. garden, including improving the planting Ericsson MS 126 and Northside Charter $25,000, Other space, constructing community education High School) using specially-designed cargo spaces, and rain water harvesting facility. bikes to collect organic wastes from local In Our Backyards, Inc. $25,000, Other schools, compost the wastes as the rider Improving Sustainable Practices at pedals, and allow the composting process to Java Street Community Garden Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, Inc. be monitored. Students will learn first-hand Improve sustainable practices at a Environmental Education Shed the basics of microbiology, the practice and GreenThumb community garden, including Provide hands-on environmental education benefits of urban composting, and also reduce a rainwater garden and stormwater collection through a research outpost dedicated to the organic waste generated by their schools. system, a perennial sidewalk garden, sheltered establishing and elevating the connection $25,000, Other community gathering space, native plants and between Greenpoint residents and their solar panels to serve as a renewable energy surrounding marine environs. Thousand Islands Land Trust source for the garden. $24,426, Other St. Lawrence River Tributary $19,178, Other Assessment Project — II Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, Inc. Hire two technicians that will assist with National Audubon Society, Inc. Floating Classrooms on conducting field sampling and research in For the Birds! Greenpoint at Public School 110 Greenpoint’s Waterways full collaboration with the U.S. Fish and The Monitor School Expand a waterways environmental Wildlife Service. Implement a “For the Birds!” environmental education program. Project will add two $35,519, Mitigation education program at the Monitor School 12- to 14-person canoes to the current (Public School 110). Project will move fleet of 25 small boats. Various Recipients between the classroom and Monsignor $24,693, Other St. Lawrence FEMRF Expenses McGolrick Park. Address impacts to fish resources in the $24,857, Other Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, Inc. Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River basin. Keeping Cigarette Butts Out of Newton Creek $61,403, Mitigation National Audubon Society, Inc. Deliver a campaign focused on raising For the Birds! Greenpoint at awareness of and putting an end to the YMCA of Greater New York — St. Stan Kostka Catholic Academy problem of inappropriately disposed cigarette Greenpoint Branch Implement a “For the Birds!” environmental butts fouling Newtown Creek. The campaign Green Beans Environmental Education education program at St. Stanislaus Kostka will couple the placement of cigarette disposal Deliver an educational program for children Catholic Academy. Project will move containers labeled with “Don’t put your butt ages 5–12. The effort will be a science, between the classroom and Monsignor in the creek” outside Greenpoint bars and technology, engineering, and math (STEM) McGolrick Park. restaurants with community education and program focused on environmental science, $24,857, Other publicity about the problem of cigarette nature, gardening, and technology that butts in the creek. educates over 200 local children every year. New York City Audubon Society, Inc. $24,660, Other The project will involve an after-school Urban Oasis in McGolrick Park program that takes place in and supports Create an urban oasis in McGolrick Park. Raritan Baykeeper, Inc. the Lentol Garden. Students will learn Project will entail identifying and planting Jamaica Bay Pump-out Boat Program — III about rainwater collection systems and native species, including wildflowers, that Travel throughout the bay pumping out environmental monitoring, and participate provide food and shelter for migratory recreational boat sewage holding tanks and in plant maintenance and composting. birds, inventorying birds before and after improving Jamaica Bay’s water quality. $22,750, Other planting, and engaging volunteers to plant $50,000, State Civil Case and maintain the species in McGolrick Park. NORTH CAROLINA $24,871, Other Soundkeeper, Inc. Soundkeeper Pumpout Program North Carolina Department of Newtown Creek Alliance Operation and Maintenance (CT, NY) Environment and Natural Resources North Henry Street End Restoration Planning Maintain the Soundkeeper Mobile Pumpout Water Quality Monitoring for River Herring Lay the groundwork for transforming the end Program that covers the costs of boat Monitor trends in water quality throughout of North Henry Street into an ecologically pumpout service from Westport, CT, to Albemarle Sound and its tributaries to restored and publicly accessible open City Island, NY. enhance fisheries management for river space and shoreline. $100,000, State Civil Case herring and all finfish species. $24,735, Other $70,000, Federal Criminal Case

Newtown Creek Alliance The Living Dock Design and build a biological “living” dock for the purpose of creating a prototype of combining aquatic remediation strategy, education and access for the Newtown Creek. $24,980, Other

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OREGON Conservation Management Teton Raptor Center, Ironside Bird Rescue University of California — Davis Institute at Virginia Tech Eagle Rehabilitation and Conservation Detecting Regulated Species in U.S. Soil Health and Water Quality Support two eagle rehabilitation Shark Fin Imports (OR, SC, WA) Project in Virginia centers in Wyoming. Describe the composition of a range of Hire a conservation agronomist who will $9,600, Federal Criminal Case U.S. shark fin import consignments and serve a 10-county region in the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula area. Project will U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — design approaches to increase field agents’ Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge success of detecting fins from regulated directly involve area landowners to improve soil and water quality. Conservation in Seedskadee and threatened species. National Wildlife Refuge $30,000, Federal Criminal Case $259,062, Federal Criminal Case Fund projects, programs, equipment, and Gloucester County, Virginia activities that benefit the Seedskadee SOUTH CAROLINA John’s Point Living Shoreline National Wildlife Refuge. University of California — Davis Install a living shoreline at the John’s Point $3,680, Federal Criminal Case Detecting Regulated Species in U.S. Public Boat Landing. Shark Fin Imports (OR, SC, WA) $58,955, Federal Criminal Case Describe the composition of a range of INTERNATIONAL U.S. shark fin import consignments and Various Recipients design approaches to increase field agents’ Great Dismal Swamp Fund AMERICAN SAMOA success of detecting fins from regulated Assist in repair and rehabilitation of the Great American Samoa Department of and threatened species. Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Marine and Wildlife Resources $30,000, Federal Criminal Case which was damaged by the South One Fire. American Samoa Marine Debris $86,737, Federal Civil Case Prevention Program TEXAS Create a measurable, community-based trash WASHINGTON U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Region 2 reduction and removal program to protect Lower Trinity River Habitat Restoration EarthCorps coral reef ecosystems in American Samoa. Acquire Ripkowski tract of land near the East Fork Hylebos Creek Wetland / $87,825, Federal Criminal Case Riparian Restoration Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge. Samoa Maritime Company Restore at least 10 acres of wetlands and $16,248, Mitigation American Samoa Faga’alu Quarry riparian forest surrounding Hylebos Creek in Design Implementation UTAH the East Hylebos Ravine to remove invasive plants, re-establish healthy forest processes, Fund additional beneficial design elements SWCA Environmental Consulting, Inc. and improve habitat. to the stormwater management engineering Rare Cactus Monitoring in the Uinta Basin — II $59,957, Community Service Payment plans for the Faga’alu Quarry. Continue to conduct range-wide $92,820, Federal Criminal Case demographic and habitat monitoring for University of California — Davis rare cactus to statistically quantify habitat Detecting Regulated Species in U.S. PUERTO RICO conditions and population processes. Shark Fin Imports (OR, SC, WA) University of Puerto Rico — Mayaguez $59,957, Mitigation Describe the composition of a range of Initial Assessment of Seagrass in Puerto Rico U.S. shark fin import consignments and Various Recipients Study anthropogenic impacts to seagrass design approaches to increase field agents’ habitats in Southern Puerto Rico, from Utah Prairie Dog Conservation Fund success of detecting fins from regulated Implement on-the-ground application Guánica to Santa Isabel using a stepwise and threatened species. approach with the goal of suggesting of the Conservation Strategy and Recovery $30,000, Federal Criminal Case Plan for the Utah prairie dog. conservation strategies. $149,605, Federal Civil Case $7,000, Mitigation WYOMING

VIRGINIA Eagle Environmental, Inc. RUSSIA Survival of Golden Eagles Fledged World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. in Colorado and Wyoming Native Oyster Restoration in the Lafayette Championing Caspian Sturgeon at the Document mortality factors and movements 2014 Winter Olympics (Russia) Implement a multi-faceted program that will of golden eagles from known nests in Region Support effective mechanisms of sturgeon foster the creation and restoration of native 6, then use this information to make informed oyster species and oyster reef ecosystems in conservation: traceability and labeling of decisions about laws, regulations, and permits frozen fish and caviar, and hydropower the Chesapeake Bay. pertaining to eagles. $200,000, Federal Criminal Case station water flow optimization. $31,500, Federal Criminal Case $100,000, Other

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