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2016 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS and U.S. Territories On thecover: Ablackskimmer fishes inFlorida. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is dedicated to sustaining, restoring and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats for current and future generations. NFWF will advance its mission through innovative public and private partnerships, and by investing financial resources and intellectual capital into science-based programs designed to address conservation 3 priorities and achieve measurable outcomes. In Fiscal Year 2016, NFWF funded more than 860 conservation projects across the nation, generating an on-the-ground conservation impact of more than $353.8 million. United States and U.S. Territories once andsomelocations are approximate. NOTE: Projects with multiple locations are represented (Not to Scale) Hawaii (Not to scale) Alaska KEY Projects supported by NFWFsincefounding in1984 Projects supported by NFWFinfiscal year 2016 Projects supported by NFWFsincefounding in1984 Projects supported by NFWFinfiscal year 2016 n t mor T United States and U.S. Territories NFWF C ha he a ti N n 16,000 proj o e ational t n I ha n fi n 860 co onservation scal ye scal and Fish e c n t ar ar 2016. suppor has NFWF s s s e rva in W c ildlife ti e it o n proj s f investments F ou funded oundation n e d c t in s across t s across g in 1984. (Not to scale) Puerto Rico te d mor h e

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United States and U.S. Territories Fiscal Year 2016 Conservation Investments

Alabama 09 Montana 45

Alaska 10 Nebraska 46

Arizona 12 Nevada 46

Arkansas 13 47

California 14 New Jersey 48

Colorado 19 49

Connecticut 21 New York 50

Delaware 22 52

District of Columbia 23 North Dakota 53

Florida 24 Ohio 54

Georgia 26 55

Hawaii 27 Oregon 55

Idaho 29 Pennsylvania 57

Illinois 30 Rhode Island 61

Indiana 31 South Carolina 61 7 Iowa 32 62

Kansas 33 63

Kentucky 33 63

Louisiana 34 Utah 66

Maine 35 Vermont 67

Maryland 36 Virginia 67

Massachusetts 39 Washington 70

Michigan 41 West Virginia 72

Minnesota 42 Wisconsin 72

Mississippi 43 Wyoming 74

Missouri 44 U.S. Territories 74

United States and International Fiscal Year 2016 Conservation Investments 76

Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund Fiscal Year 2016 Project Commitments 82

Impact-Directed Environmental Accounts Fiscal Year 2016 Project Commitments 86 United States and U.S. Territories F U i nite scal Y scal d states e ar ar 2016 C an o d u n s e . rva s . T ti erritories o n in v e s t m ent s Alabama Birmingham-Southern College Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain Long-Eared Bat and Darter Habitat Restoration Best Practices for Effective Land Conservation Alabama Forestry Association and Education at Turkey Creek Nature Preserve in the Region Incentives for Planting Shortleaf Pine (AL) (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) in the Alabama Cumberlands - II Remove invasives and replant natives on 9 Promote best practices and efficiencies Provide financial assistance to private acres of habitat at Turkey Creek to support among various practitioners to achieve landowners for site preparation and habitat of the endangered vermilion darter, land conservation goals of emerging state planting shortleaf pine. Project will as well as bat populations including the only and federal conservation plans for the Gulf. establish 1,136 acres of shortleaf confirmed Alabama colony of threatened Project will provide capacity building and pine/upland savanna forest in the northern long-eared bats. Project will reduce technical assistance to partner organizations, Cumberlands of Alabama. stormwater runoff and enhance K-12 outdoor identify best practices and efficiencies for $150,000 classroom opportunities through creation of implementing landscape level conservation, a bioswale/native plant demonstration garden and assist in implementation by enhancing American Forest Foundation at the new Turkey Creek Classroom pavilion. collaboration among public agencies and Longleaf Restoration on Coosa $34,690 nongovernmental organizations. Wildlife Management Area and $247,500 Surrounding Areas (AL) City of Birmingham Restore 700 acres of longleaf pine on the Bertram A. Hudson K-8 School Manomet Coosa County Wildlife Management Area Bio-Retention System (AL) Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waterbird Conservation and engage and educate 2,000 adjacent Retrofit Bertram A. Hudson K-8 School with Framework (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) family forest owners on sustainable forest a bio-retention basin and pervious pavers. Work with federal and state agency and management practices and longleaf Project will include restoration planning nongovernmental organization experts to restoration. Project will provide technical and design, stream/site maintenance and develop a framework to achieve long-term assistance and conduct private landowner monitoring, outdoor learning and community conservation and recovery goals for targeted outreach activities including field days. outreach. Project also will reduce pollutant species of coastal waterbirds across the Gulf. $100,000 loads into Village Creek, a priority watershed, Project will build on existing business plans to help control the volume runoff exiting the create a set of strategies and associated actions American Forest Foundation site, and create educational opportunities and costs to guide coastal shorebird and Shortleaf Pine Restoration on for Birmingham City School students and the waterbird conservation projects throughout Lauderdale and Freedom Hills community about stormwater management. the Gulf over the next decade. Wildlife Management Area (AL) $36,781 $203,746 Restore 1,100 acres of shortleaf pine on Lauderdale and Freedom Hill Wildlife City of Montevallo Marine Environmental Sciences Management Area, which provides habitat Shoal Creek Stream Enhancement (AL) Consortium - Dauphin Island Sea Lab for endangered and threatened species, Restore and protect 3 acres of a heavily eroded Establishing a Mobile Conservation and 9 including the red-cockaded woodpeckers and section of Shoal Creek in Montevallo, Alabama. Resiliency Corps (AL) northern long-eared bats. Project will promote Project will engage students and volunteers Provide full-time, on-the-job education and shortleaf restoration and sustainable forest in stabilizing creek banks through dredging, training to a target population of 12 urban, management to family forest owners in the invasive plant removal and native replantings, disadvantaged young adults, ages 18 to 25 in surrounding area on the Cumberland Plateau. and educate the public on watershed health the Mobile area. Project will put to work two $194,000 and maintenance. A plant identification team leaders and 10 Corps members, restoring booklet produced by university students will 3 miles of stream, riparian buffer and wooded Audubon Nature Institute assist volunteers in restoration and educate on to benefit red belly turtles, yellow Reduced Impacts to Sea Turtles through the importance of native plantings to erosion crowned night herons, wood ducks, Shrimp Industry Engagement (AL, LA, MS) control. and other species. Increase sea turtle protection by expanding $26,318 $250,000 the “Tow the Time” education campaign for shrimp fishermen and implement community- Forest Landowners Association National Wildlife Federation based workshops for the skimmer fleet of the Fostering Large-Scale Working Forest Alabama Longleaf Pine Restoration northern Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Landowner Collaboration (Multiple States) on Private Lands - IV and Mississippi. Project will host industry Target working-forest landowners, as Restore and enhance 5,000 acres of workshops to educate fishermen on current well as companies that manage large longleaf and advance longleaf mapping and upcoming proposed regulations, forestland holdings for family owners, to and measurement in Alabama. Project will the logistics and benefits of turtle excluder identify opportunities for longleaf pine identify priority areas for longleaf restoration, devices, and the importance of carrying restoration and management. Project will provide landowners with technical assistance observers on their vessels. foster communication between the Forest to develop conservation plans, and offer $51,695 Landowner Association’s member network, educational opportunities including longleaf stakeholders and the U.S. Fish and workshops and field days. Wildlife Service to help landowners understand $125,000 and address regulatory barriers or disincentives to planting and maintaining longleaf pine. Operation Migration-USA $100,000 Whooping Crane Reintroduction to Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) Support monitoring and outreach efforts in support of conserving the critically endangered whooping crane and building a self-sustaining population in the Southeast. Project will support two staff positions during the three- season migration period and provide outreach to increase general awareness. $75,000 United States and U.S. Territories $100,000 benefits. resources toward the greatest conservation conservation plans, helping to target limited assistance support for developing strategic among the 17LITs and provide technical will increase communication and collaboration and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. P across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore that builds and improves partnership capacity coordinator, aunique, cross-cutting position Support the Local Implementation Team (LIT) and Outreach -II(MultipleStates) Capacity andLandowner Technical Assistance Coordinating Local Implementation Team The Longleaf Alliance $300,000 eastern indigo snake and gopher tortoise. cockaded woodpecker, reticulated salamander, species recovery efforts willcenter on the red- practices on public and private lands. Rare with prescribed fire and other management than 36,000acres ofexisting longleaf habitat 374 acres oflongleaf pine and improve more and technical assistance. P recovery, and private landowner outreach longleaf plantings, prescribed fire, rare species R Ecosystem Partnership Landscape FL)-III (AL, Longleaf Restoration intheGulfCoastal Plain The Longleaf Alliance $200,000 internship opportunity. research to support aone-month summer proposals. Each intern willconduct baseline they develop theirprojects and internship a smallcohort ofundergraduate interns as appoint two graduate fellowships to mentor biodiversity and natural resources. P development, energy policy and impacts on ecosystems and broader questions on energy on local issues related to Gulf ofMexico using atwo-tiered program that will focus Integrate undergraduates and graduates Scholars Program Applied Biodiversity SciencesConservation Texas A&MAgriLife Research $497,188 techniques. and willmonitor populations through genetic for restoration to benefit shoal and redeye bass priorities. P strategic method to identify restoration of the Savannah that willprovide amore Chattahoochee- basin and portions the habitat condition in the Apalachicola- Evaluate, through aGISthreat assessment, SC) GA, FL, (AL, through Native Black BassBusinessPlan Conservation ofShoaland Redeye Bass Southeastern Association ofFishandWildlife estore thelongleaf pine ecosystem through roject willtarget high-priority sites roject willplant roject will roject will roject roject

$325,000 habitat quality assessments. species, and monitor itsprogress to inform eastern indigo snake, afederally threatened incentives. P invasive species management and cost-share on ground cover restoration, fire planning, P removal and native ground cover plantings. habitat through prescribed fire, invasive plant more than 21,000acres ofexisting longleaf Plant 1,825acres oflongleaf pine and improve GA)-IV FL, (AL, Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Initiative The Nature Conservancy -Florida $499,631 105,000 acres. prescribed fire and willimpact greater than emphasize longleaf pine management and each ofthe five Gulf states. P ecosystem restoration technicians working in urban youths aswildland firefighters and and provide 18to 19jobs to underserved Build upon asuccessful pilot project to train MS, TX) LA, FL, (AL, Gulf Coast Prescribed Fire Mentoring Program The Nature Conservancy $100,000 agencies across state lines. between conservation organizations and private landowners, and foster collaboration conservation plan, increase partnerships with Dugdown corridor, support development ofa P in northwest and northeast Alabama. remnant montane longleaf pine ecosystems corridor, which contains one ofthe largest habitat withprescribed fire in the Dugdown improve 37,000acres ofexisting longleaf Establish 236acres oflongleaf pine and GA) (AL, Landowner Outreach andCapacityBuilding Dugdown Montane Longleaf Private The Nature Conservancy $275,000 enhance longleaf pine habitat. in financial assistance programs that will least five landowners committed toenrolling more than 2,000private landowners, withat prescribed fire on 13,800acres, and contact will plant longleaf on 1,900acres, implement emphasis on privately owned land. P west Georgia and east Alabama, withparticular conservation on more than 15,000acres in Accelerate and demonstrate longleaf pine GA)-II (AL, Restoration onPrivate Landsonthe Fall Line Accelerate Longleaf Pine Ecosystem The Nature Conservancy roject willeducate private landowners roject willincrease capacity within the artners willalsoreintroduce the roject willstrongly roject roject $105,025 the growth of astructured support network. capacity ofnext generation fishermen through businesses. P to operate successful, sustainable fishing fishermen that are educated and empowered Network, acoalition of young Alaskan Develop the Alaska Young Fishermen’s Network Building the Alaska Young Fishermen’s Alaska MarineConservation Council $129,743 of eulachon spawning inthewatershed. production method to estimate the biomass May and J spawning inthe Susitna River watershed during composition and biomass of eulachon Estimate age, the run timing, sex and size Susitna EulachonBiomass(AK) Alaska D epartment ofFishandGame $125,000 fish conservation. conservation actions such as anadromous efforts that build consensus around shared Alaska Fish Habitat P needs throughout Alaska.P protection, restoration and enhancement Support efforts to address fish habitat Habitat Partnerships inAlaska Statewide Coordination of National Fish Alaska D epartment ofFishandGame $69,576 western Alaska Native communities. promoting communication and collaboration in Delta region and conduct outreach activities in five communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim shorebird knowledge by conducting interviews P buff-breasted and semipalmated sandpipers. oystercatcher, bristle-thighed curlew, and including bar-tailed and marbled godwit, black and regional harvest data for shorebird species, Compile and summarize available Alaska state Estimates from Alaska Native Cultures Gathering Shorebird Subsistence Harvest Alaska Department ofFishandGame $122,079 from the oceanic stage. uncertainty surrounding recruitment dynamics developmental years, closing amajorgap in the driving seaturtle habitat use during theirearly on environmental and genetic mechanisms of Mexico. P sea turtles caught offshore inthe eastern Gulf Sample, satellite tag and track oceanic stage through Genetic Indicators MS) LA, FL, (AL, Important Sea Turtle Habitat Identification University ofCentral Florida Al roject willgather local and traditional as k a une. P roject results willinform research roject willbuild the leadership roject will use an egg-larval roject willusean egg-larval artnerships and continue roject will support roject willsupport Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust Environment for the Americas Saltwater Local Fish Fund: Removing Barriers for Young Celebrate Shorebirds Latino Internship Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring Fishermen in the Gulf of Alaska Groundfish Program (AK, CA, CO, OR, WA) for Alaska’s Pot Cod Fishery Fishery Offer training, mentorship and career Support pre-implementation of electronic Grow the Local Fish Fund to facilitate the development for Latino youths seeking monitoring on up to 30 vessels in the Alaska transfer of fishing rights from established to positions in natural resources, providing Pacific cod fixed gear fishery. Project will build emerging fishermen in Alaska. Project will interns with valuable field experiences in on successful pilot efforts to implement a redress financial barriers to entry into the Gulf shorebird research. The interns will serve as cost-effective data collection and management of Alaska groundfish fishery, increasing the cultural bridges between host sites with federal infrastructure that will provide timely and number of young fishermen with access and nongovernmental agencies and Latino accurate catch accounting data for fisheries rights tied to sustainable fishing practices. communities, where they offer education managers and support full implementation $150,000 programs about shorebirds and conservation. of electronic monitoring in the Alaska pot cod $91,839 fishery by 2019. Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center $595,048 Center for Education at Bison Hall (AK) Kenai Watershed Forum Become the “education central” for the wood Stream Watch Volunteers: Protecting Alaska’s Sitka Sound Science Center bison reintroduction project in Alaska. Project Native Fish Community Seawater Heat Pump (AK) will provide ongoing education, hands-on Support a staff person to help implement Construct the first seawater heat pump in learning for the public on the conservation Stream Watch, a volunteer-driven program the Sitka area, which will support sustainable efforts it took to reintroduce the endangered that provides fish habitat education while agriculture practices and decrease fuel wood bison to Alaska, how to keep it moving completing restoration projects on Alaska’s transport along the coastline. Project will forward, and how this may serve as a model Kenai Peninsula. Project will leverage agency provide an environmental solution for the for other wildlife conservation efforts. efforts by monitoring popular fishing sites, community of Sitka and its region in Southeast $25,000 installing plant protective fencing, removing Alaska by instituting a demonstration project litter, completing restoration projects, and at the Sitka Sound Science Center where job Chugach Regional Resources Commission educating the public. training, research and science education occurs. Develop Innovative Strategies for Assisting $25,000 $40,000 with Recovery of Hard-Shell Clam in South Central Alaska Manomet The Nature Conservancy - Alaska Establish sanctuaries at two barren beaches Monitoring Shorebirds in the Yukon Delta Shelikof Creek Stream Restoration (AK) to examine the bottleneck in recruitment (AK) - II Improve instream spawning and rearing and population recovery of littleneck clams, Complete the surveys designed under the habitat for juvenile coho salmon, as well as butter clams and basket cockles. Project will Program for Regional and International other non-anadromous fish in Shelikof Creek. aggregate three cornerstone clam species into Shorebird Monitoring in the Yukon Delta Project will replace many of the logjams that a sanctuary to provide basic information National Wildlife Refuge, a critical shorebird form productive habitats using nearby trees to 11 on life stages. nesting area. Project will help advance a broad improve coho and steelhead trout abundance $78,200 scale and multi-national effort to monitor the for recreational and commercial fishing size and trend of populations of shorebirds, opportunities, and strengthen their resilience to City and Borough of Yakutat, Alaska including red-necked phalarope, western stream and watershed disturbances. Yakutat Youth Community Corps (AK) sandpiper, dunlin, Wilson’s snipe, pectoral $41,780 Partner with AmeriCorps National Civilian sandpiper, ruddy turnstone and bar-tailed Community Corps and the Tongass National godwit. Trout Unlimited Forest Yakutat Ranger District to employ $95,395 Fish Habitat Conservation through the South- a youth crew in meaningful, hands-on east Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership conservation projects in coordination with Prince William Sound Science and Technology Coordinate activities for the Southeast Alaska multiple project partners. Project will expand Institute Fish Habitat Partnership (SEAKFHP) to perform community capacity to accomplish high-priority Copper River Delta Restoration at Snag Lake over a two-year period to support fish habitat habitat restoration projects while engaging (AK) conservation efforts in southeast Alaska for crew members in professional training Restore 10.5 acres of , plant 400 native all five Pacific salmon species, including coho. and natural resource land management trees, and aid migrating salmon by restoring Project will fill key information gaps through experiences within a remote and unique a beaver dam, creating juvenile fish refuges, a regional project inventory, conservation Alaskan landscape. and revegetating unauthorized vehicle stream strategies for nearshore areas and estuaries $49,994 crossings at Snag Lake near Cordova, Alaska. in southeast Alaska, and SEAKFHP partner Project will comprise the Delta Restoration technical support. Ecotrust Team, having youth volunteers participate $58,220 Expanding Fishing Business Market in a learning camp at Snag Lake to complete Opportunities for Fresh Frozen Seafood (AK, restoration activities in the summer of 2016 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Kodiak CA, OR) in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service - National Wildlife Refuge Address market barriers to fresh frozen fish Cordova Ranger District. Nesting Ecology of Kittlitz’s Murrelet on Kodiak using an innovative tool that measures seafood $25,000 Refuge (AK) - IV freshness. Project will partner with fishing Continue nesting ecology study of Kittlitz’s communities from Alaska to California to murrelets on Kodiak Refuge, including using increase consumer understanding in supply nest cameras to document nest survival, chain transparency, underutilized species, identify nest predators, and forage fish species and seafood freshness and quality. fed to chicks. Project results will provide $100,000 insights into how Kittlitz’s murrelets might react to oceanic regime shifts and how their populations might have been affected by past regime shifts. $60,000 United States and U.S. Territories $114,449 preseason purchasing commitments. processors through pricing premiums and and provide structure to guide fishermen and create demand with awell-recognized label support local fishing communities. P salmon to expand market opportunities and Apply the Fair Trade model to Bristol Bay Certification (AK) Bay through SalmonFishery Fair Trade Expand Market Opportunities for Bristol Wildfish Marketing $174,488 be promoted to seabird conservation planners. a user-friendly web-based format where itwill bycatch mitigation), and moving the tool into establishment ofnew colonies, fisheries interventions (reestablishment and adding additional potential conservation incorporating additional conservation threats, demographic impacts ofisland threats, by improving itsaccuracy inpredicting the model guide for seabird conservation planning Improve ameta-population viabilityanalysis Analysis (MultipleStates) Endangered Seabird Meta-Population Viability University ofCalifornia -Santa Cruz $129,118 of bears withUAS. and explore theutility ofmonitoring conditions and den detection probability, statistical relationships among environmental equipped with an infrared camera to estimate that usesan unmanned aircraft system (UAS ) P season, especially in areas near human activity. monitoring polar bears during the denning by optimizing techniques for detecting and interactions on the North Slope ofAlaska Minimize negative human-polar bear Dens intheArctic (AK) for Detecting andMonitoring Polar Bear Optimizing UnmannedAircraft Systems University ofAlaska -Fairbanks $80,764 their university experience. internships that continues throughout professionals working inhands-on team themwith practicing conservation at university and upon high schoolgraduation, school that for isnecessary success the science and math coursework inhigh internships. 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$38,192 Mexican garter snake. like theChiracahua leopard frog and and enhance habitats supporting species threatened riparian sacaton grassland, indicators, test specific treatments to restore will monitor study plots and watershed health Cienegas National Conservation Area. P at the Bureau ofLand Management Las design and implement restoration projects critical grasslands ofsoutheast Arizona, and building skills,learn to assesssite issues in Select youth to form aboard, train in team- in Southeast Arizona Las Cienegas National Conservation Area Youth Engaged Stewardship at the Cienega Watershed Partnership $96,810 in eastern Arizona. for reintroduction and recovery efforts and maintain millions ofnative fish pond that willbe large enough to spawn razorback sucker. P topminnow, desertpupfish, gilachub and for endangered native fish including gila Construct and maintain an aquatic refuge Marijilda Wash Native Fish Refuge (AZ) Native Fish Arizona GameandFishDepartment - $43,423 and community outreach. hand-on experience in conservation, mentoring students and the general public, and provide ponds, develop educational materials for crayfish and mussels from eight aquatic lakes/ aquatic resources, survey and remove invasive help improve knowledge ofthe state ofurban systems in the Phoenix-metro area. P ponds/lakes, three canals and two river stewardship for more than 85acres ofurban Monitor, restore and promote community in Metro-Phoenix (AZ) Waterways and Recreational Lakes Monitoring andConservation ofUrban Arizona State University $41,000 native species. and Russian olive and work to establish such assaltcedar, giant reed, tree ofheaven and chemical treatment ofinvasive species on species identification and themechanical training and support from agency experts crews. P in Arizona by engaging 16young people on four in the Gilaand V R and Support(AZ) Riparian Restoration Practical Training Arizona Conservation Corps estore 30acres ofriparian habitat roject willprovide crews with technical erde River watersheds roject willprovide an 8-acre

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Friends of Buenos Aires NWR Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau Organizational Development for the Friends Genomic Sequencing of the Endangered of Land Management - Rio Puerco Field Office of Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (AZ) Bakersfield Cactus (AZ, CA, NV, UT) Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program for Redesign the organization’s website to receive Partner with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Milkweed and Nectar Species (AZ, CO, NM, UT) online donations, make it more informative Palm Springs Office biologists to genetically Increase seed collection of milkweed and other and grow membership in order to better characterize the federally endangered nectar-producing species in portions of the support the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Bakersfield cactus, endemic to the southern four corners states and will work with partners Refuge’s mission. Project will post video and San Joaquin Valley, California. Project will clarify to increase commercial availability of seed pictures of endangered masked bobwhite the relationship with the more widespread and container plants. Project will produce a quail and an Adopt-A-Quail opportunity so beavertail cactus, identify morphological minimum of 12 pounds of milkweed seed and the public can contribute to the care of these traits correlated with different varieties, propagate more than 500 seedling plants. birds, offer pictures and an Adopt-A- and provide needed insight for project-level $86,916 opportunity to support interior fence removal, consultations under the Desert Renewable and print a 1-year supply of rack cards Energy Conservation Plan and the California U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau and brochures. High Speed Rail. of Land Management - Safford Field Office $6,630 $72,350 Bureau of Land Management Riparian Studies and Habitat Restoration (AZ) - II Gila Watershed Partnership Southwest Monarch Study Employ youths while advancing their science, Upper Gila Riparian Restoration (AZ) Arizona State Parks and Milkweed technology, engineering and mathematics Restore 200 acres of critical riparian habitat Conservation Consortium skills at the college level and exposing them to along the Upper Gila River by controlling Expand monarch habitats in Arizona by planting mentorship opportunities with Bureau of Land tamarisk and reestablishing native habitat seeds and seedlings of native milkweed in Management (BLM) professionals. Project will for threatened and endangered species. all 30 Arizona state parks and other Arizona give youths the opportunity to assist BLM in Project will create healthier and more resilient locations and by training citizen scientists to habitat restoration, natural resources inventory riparian ecosystems, reduce intense wildfire monitor the plantings. Project will plant 18,000 and condition assessment, prioritizing resources risks associated with tamarisk, enhance seedlings of multiple milkweed species favored for conservation, and aiding in planning efforts wildlife habitat for species of concern including by monarchs across Arizona. to continue hands-on work and collaboration Southwestern willow flycatcher and Western $88,950 with area partners. yellow-billed cuckoo, and provide a replicable $75,000 example for similar efforts around The Student Conservation Association the southwest. Student Conservation Association Arizona Arkansas $144,421 Field School Alumni Trail Interns Field five interns to work 14 weeks in the Keystone Policy Center Grand Canyon Association construction of a new 8-mile trail, the Copper Enhancing Monarch Habitat in Agricultural Historic Trail Restoration Work Program (AZ) Mountain Loop, a part of the Black Canyon Landscapes (Multiple States) 13 Work with local youth development and National Recreation Trail in Arizona. Project will Disseminate information to agricultural conservation groups to restore historic trails, involve youths using hand tools and chainsaws producers, private landowners and the public while developing a skilled workforce in Grand to clear vegetation from trail corridor, build dips to explain the role of agriculture in monarch Canyon National Park. Project will employ an and rolls, level, construct new tread consistent conservation. Project will build capacity eight-person youth crew for 12 weeks for with required standards, install water drainage to accelerate voluntary monarch butterfly inner-canyon wilderness trail work including structures as necessary, and add new signage. conservation on the agricultural landscape in repairing or replacing trail features, drainage $40,000 the 14-state eastern monarch corridor and devices and rock walls, and delineating catalyze agricultural community engagement. campsites. Trout Unlimited $30,000 $30,000 Long-Range Planning and Vulnerability Assessment of Southwestern Trout Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife National Audubon Society (AZ, CO, NM) Agencies Audubon Arizona’s Conservation Workdays Improve management effectiveness for native Developing a Central Flyway Monarch Promote a sustainable future for Phoenix Southwest trout by developing a more effective Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) residents by facilitating community-based multi-agency monitoring plan for trout Lead a regional and national coordination projects that create and enhance bird habitat, populations and habitats, and collecting stream process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch educate the diverse volunteer workforce temperature data from all available agencies Conservation Strategy for states located along about native plants and inspire participants and nongovernmental sources to develop the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Project to take personal action to benefit the shared a comprehensive network for the Southwest. will establish common habitat and population environment. Project will occur at the Rio Project will use spatial statistical models goals, and strategies and monitoring will be Salado Habitat Restoration Area in south for stream networks data to develop implemented at the state level. Phoenix, as well as at other public spaces a consistent set of high-resolution climate $144,750 in the community. scenarios for all streams and reaches $35,000 within streams. Pollinator Partnership $84,109 Ecoregional Seed Program for Monarchs across Eastern Broadleaf Forest (AR, IL, IN, MO, OH) Establish an ecoregional seed collecting program for the eastern broadleaf forest and provide technical assistance to public and private land managers in five states. Project will collect 300 pounds of milkweed seed and propagate 9,000 seedlings to support establishment of 4,700 acres of monarch butterfly habitat. $150,000 United States and U.S. Territories $50,000 community members. programs that willreach 1,000 of the watershed by conducting educational groups in this endeavor to enhance avital piece monitor stream health, and involve community remove invasive vegetation on 20acres, watershed. P trout in the greater LosAngeles River Enhance 12milesofhabitat for therainbow for theArroyo Seco ofSouthern California Rainbow Trout Restoration Project Arroyo Seco Foundation $394,117 capacity to implement fuels reduction projects. monitoring, and increasing Forest Service spotted owls, demonstrating benefits through fisher, Northern goshawks and California health and associated habitat for P fuels loadsand wildfire risks, improving forest making the project burn-ready, reducing . P 726 acres on the McKenzie portion ofthe Support prescribed burning on approximately and Prescribed Fire (CA) McKenzie Ridge FuelTreatment American Rivers $113,351 local restoration and monitoring capacity. in the restoration process, and increase the engage agencies and local stakeholder groups complete permit-ready restoration designs, to quantify benefits ofmeadow restoration, the condition ofthe valley, initiate monitoring and riparian habitat. P table to maintain and expand wet meadow the stream channel and raising the water of Faith V R Faith Valley Meadow Restoration (CA) American Rivers $74,231 their career skills. and mentoring allyouth participants to build speaking and presentations on conservation, invasive plant control and out-planting, public California condors, habitat restoration such as to youths. 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$95,922 to accommodate 60additional sealion pups. and equipment costs, and build eight pens dry dedicated hotline response, cover fish, gasoline lead roles in stranding operations, providea qualified and trained volunteers to fulfill counties. P Mortality Event in Santa Barbara and V associated with the California sealionUnusual Elevate response and rehabilitation efforts Counties (CA) Mortality Event inVentura andSanta Barbara Response to MarineMammal Unusual Channel IslandsMarine& Wildlife Institute $83,613 River Watershed. management area partners in the Carson and revegetation by four cooperative weed chemical application, mechanical removal restore habitat through increased hand-pulling, and yellow-billed cuckoo habitat. P improve Lahontan cutthroat trout, sage grouse restoration activities in riparian to areas Manage invasive species treatment and Management ofInvasive NV) Species (CA, Carson River Watershed Integrated Carson Water Subconservancy District $115,844 applicable Sierra-wide. provide federal agencies with aplanning tool prioritize meadow restoration needs, and approach, to determine desired conditions, framework, anintegrated meadow assessment apply aconservation strategy and prioritization in the Sequoia National Forest. P range ofKern River rainbow trout populations watershed, including the current and historical management and restoration a actions within P Rainbow Trout Recovery (CA) Prioritizing Meadow Restoration for KernRiver California Trout $160,984 and lasting ecological benefits. Coast coho salmon and provide sustainable facing Southern Oregon Northern California which willresult inreduction oflimiting factors summer water temperatures in P provide continuous fish passage and reduce Design anew means ofdiverting water that will Cardoza Ranch(CA) Parks Creek FishPassage Design andPlanning: California Trout $490,144 wildfire ignition in designated wilderness. ridgeline whichcould impede the spread ofa resilience and are strategically located atop a critical to overall watershed health and forest of National Forest S implement existing treatments on110acres Lake and Rush Creek watersheds. P affecting the J of alarge-scale, high-intensity wildland fire Improve forest resiliency and decrease the risk Pine Restoration (CA) June Mountain SkiArea Whitebark California Trout ropose prioritization offuture meadow roject willemploy sixfull-time une Lake and downstreamGrant ystem lands, which are roject will roject will reek arks Creek roject will roject will roject will roject will

entura Channel Islands Restoration Conservation Legacy Friends Of The San Pablo Bay Tamarisk Removal in the Sisquoc Wildlife Restoration Improvement Plan (CA, National Wildlife Refuge River Watershed (CA) MT, NM, SD) Friends of San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Eradicate tamarisk from 61 miles of the Employ five youths to sample salt ponds and Refuge Capacity Building (CA) Sisquoc River Watershed including the main survey birds on the Don Edwards National Increase the organization’s ability to support stem of Manzana Creek and the main stem of Wildlife Refuge in California. Project will include the mission of the National Wildlife Refuge Sisquoc River and their tributaries. Project will monitoring of mule deer, elk and mountain System, as well as the local San Pablo Bay, be conducted by staff members and a team lion responses to large-scale forest restoration Antioch Dunes, and Marin Islands National of volunteers in accordance with methods of treatments, surveying aquatic invasive species Wildlife Refuges in the conservation, protection treatment and eradication work laid out in the in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and and restoration of public lands. Project U.S. Forest Service’s Environmental Impact assessing sylvatic plague in small mammals and will improve the website to better serve Statement. Aquatic-registered herbicide their fleas in grassland prairie environments local communities, implement a customer will be applied by hand to tamarisk saplings of Badlands National Park to assist in relationship management system, upgrade and trees and tamarisk seedlings will be black-footed ferret recovery. accounting processes, and create a strategic pulled out by hand. $53,560 plan to increase sustainability $138,815 and effectiveness. Earth Island Institute $15,000 City of Los Angeles, Department of Davy Brown and Munch Creek Fish Passage Recreation and Parks Improvements (CA) Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing Program (CA) - V Provide future access to over 3 miles of creek Green Valley Creek Rainwater Continue the Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing habitat to the federally endangered steelhead Catchment Systems (CA) Program for the summer of 2016 and provide trout in the Manzana Creek watershed by Construct four rainwater catchment systems 15 fishing sessions for 525 young people eight developing 65 percent engineering designs at the Campbell and Redwood Hill Dairy to to 16 years old. Sessions will raise awareness for the removal of three instream migration supply water for irrigation and stock watering about safe fish consumption along the Los barriers. Project will work with the Los Padres during the summer dry season, eliminating all Angeles coastline, explain the impact National Forest and an engineering firm to dry season water extraction for non-potable of human activity on the Palos Verdes Shelf address two steelhead barriers at Davy Brown purposes from shallow alluvial wells along ecosystem, and provide a safe, hands-on creek and one barrier along Munch creek. Green Valley Creek and its tributaries. Project fishing experience. $42,462 will include construction of retaining walls, $15,000 installation of steel water tanks, filtration and Ecotrust conveyance infrastructure, pumps, pressure Concerned Resource & Expanding Fishing Business Market tanks and distribution pipes for stored water. Environmental Workers Opportunities for Fresh Frozen Seafood $130,000 Upper Sisquoc River Trail Restoration (CA) (AK, CA, OR) Complete numerous trail repairs on the upper Address market barriers to fresh frozen fish Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy 15 20 miles of the Sisquoc River Trail, which using an innovative tool that measures seafood Restoring Endangered Butterfly Habitat parallels the river and has been significantly freshness. Project will partner with fishing and Engaging Youth through degraded due to Zaca fire impacts. Project will communities from Alaska to California to Restoration Efforts (CA) help with the restoration of this trail system increase consumer understanding in supply Improve the ecosystem health of the federally and improve the ecosystem by reducing chain transparency, underutilized species, and endangered mission blue butterfly on 9.8 sediment runoff and contaminants and seafood freshness and quality. acres of habitat at Milagra Ridge in San improving safety of passage. $100,000 Mateo County, California by propagating and $55,966 introducing host and nectar plants that are Environment for the Americas resistant to fungal pathogens that threaten Confluence Resource Consulting Celebrate Shorebirds Latino Internship Program this species. Project will engage 206 volunteers Water Management Model Development (AK, CA, CO, OR, WA) from the adjacent Oceana High School and and Evaluation (CA, OR) Offer training, mentorship and career other community organizations in education Collaboratively develop and evaluate development for Latino youths seeking and volunteer activities from collecting seeds modifications and improvements to the positions in natural resources, providing to introducing host plants to the project site. Klamath Basin Planning Model and related interns with valuable field experiences in $32,791 analytical components. Model and related shorebird research. The interns will serve as products will be used by managers to cultural bridges between host sites with federal Great Basin Institute understand and assess likely consequences and nongovernmental agencies and Latino Vegetation and Sage-Grouse Habitat of alternative water management strategies communities, where they offer education Monitoring in the Walker Basin to threatened Coho salmon, endangered Lost programs about shorebirds and conservation. and Watershed (CA, NV) River and shortnose suckers, national wildlife $91,839 Provide paid youth internship positions refuges, other trust resources of the U.S. Fish acquiring valuable skills in field research and Wildlife Service, and Klamath Reclamation Fresno Metro Ministry techniques related to monitoring and Project irrigators. Valley Permaculture Farm (CA) conservation. Project will collect data to guide $100,000 Train small-scale farmers in intensive, proper treatment design, provide baseline permaculture agricultural methods that build data against which treatment effects may soil, conserve water, require less land, produce be measured, and enrich currently higher yields, and reduce the need for chemical existing data sets. based fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides in $19,998 Fresno. Project will teach small farmers about ecologically sound agricultural methods that they can apply to their own farms to improve the environmental and agricultural conditions of their small family farms. $75,000 United States and U.S. Territories $193,786 for restoration projects. in the region and expand themilkweed supply monarch butterfly habitat restoration efforts southwestern Oregon. P riparian areas and landings/roadsides in edges, meadows, natural forest openings, monarch butterfly habitat including woodland R Restoration Initiative Southwest Oregon Monarch Habitat Lomakatsi Restoration Project $99,389 electronically monitored fisheries data. and staff resources associated with reviewing help increase accuracy while reducing cost efficiently automate data review, which will datasets to write open source algorithms that computer programmers to use the image fishery. P and the New fishery England groundfish fisheries, the Eastern Tropical P species frequently caught in two majorU Build publicly available image datasets offish Systems (MultipleStates) Fish Identification for Electronic Monitoring Accelerate Development ofAutomated Kate WingConsulting $500,000 other practical considerations suchasaccess. activities, fueland conditions on the ground, location of units for future fire management wildland urban interface proximity, strategic to established cultural and ecological values, P of forests, watersheds and communities. to treat fuelbuildup that threatens thehealth as well asqualified, cost-effective contractors Council to utilize existing fuels and fire crews Collaborate with the Mid Klamath Watershed Six Rivers Forest Resiliency (CA) K $60,000 Klamath River corridor. off-channel refuge habitats along the middle at the enhancement ofcoho refuges and Support planning and design efforts directed Team Support(CA) Enhancement -PlanningandDesign Middle Klamath CohoRefuge Habitat K $100,000 critical home repairs in 2016. 30 veteran and active duty homeowners with Bernardino County, California. 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Western Klamath R occurring through thenationally recognized instream and upslope restoration projects restoration intern to participate in hands-on minority fisheries technicians, and onefull-time stewardship interns, three college-aged and National Forests to hire six teenage P Western Klamath Youth inRestoration (CA) Mid Klamath Watershed Council $184,497 throughout the Middle Klamath. to both natal and non-natal juvenile salmonids creeks and provide direct and proven benefits species in the Horse, China and LittleHorse habitat for coho salmonand other salmonid P Horse Creeks (CA) Enhancement inHorse, ChinaandLittle CohoHabitat Mid Klamath Watershed Council $99,429 implementation. one ofthose plans to propose to funders for 1.5 milesoftheHorse Creek V Create asuite ofrestoration plans for the upper Horse Creek Wood Loading(CA) Mid Klamath Watershed Council $49,964 stewardship projects. develop skillsand implement restoration and restoration professionals and agency staffto young adults the chance to work with Watershed. P Conservation Area and adjacent Mattole River and forest habitat in the King Range National R King Range Stewards (CA) Mattole Restoration Council $60,110 access to fresh, locally caught seafood. by ensuring restaurants and consumers have market value ofseafood for local fishermen Monterey, California. P distribution oflocally harvested seafood in manage the aggregation, processing and Develop abusiness planfor afish hub to to Monterey (CA) and Provide Local Sustainable Seafood Developing aFishHubto Improve Profits Monterey B $235,573 Shasta River. water sources found throughout the Upper habitat for coho salmonakin to cold spring P Development ofColdWater Habitat (CA) Montague Water Conservation District $44,262 prescribed burns. from national forest lands, and implement and habitat, remove priorityinvasive weeds P artner with the SixRivers and Klamath rovide high-quality rearing and spawning rovide adependable cold-water rearing roject willbenefit salmonfish passage estore and manage coastal prairie, riparian ay Fisheries Trust roject willgive local, underserved estoration P roject willincrease alley and choose alley and choose artnership. artnership.

NatureBridge Point Reyes Bird Observatory - Sequoia Riverlands Trust Environmental Education and Stewardship for Point Blue Conservation Science Carbon Farm Pilot at Kaweah Oaks Underserved Youth (CA) - II Farallon Ashy Storm-Petrel Population Preserve (CA) Offer multi-day experiential environmental Status Evaluation (CA) Combine several ways of reducing atmospheric science programs in national park settings for Investigate the population impacts carbon dioxide by “sinking” it into the underserved, diverse K-12 students from the of a drought-caused reduction in burrowing ground and plant material, increasing soil Bay Area and the Central Valley owl abundance in 2015 on ashy storm-petrel carbon, which provides multiple benefits for of California. Project will teach students basic (ASSP) survival and breeding success. Project water effectiveness, biodiversity and forage scientific principles and critical thinking skills will evaluate whether recent declines for ASSP production through a carbon farm pilot at by conducting hands-on scientific research have continued, will help strengthen overall Kaweah Oaks Preserve in California. Project in the field. support for management actions to benefit will also have a composting trial component $70,000 ASSP, and has the potential to provide strong and capture stormwater using constructed and scientific support for eradicating mice to natural swales for flood control, groundwater NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center reduce burrowing owls and thus increase recharge and seasonal wetlands. Assess Persistent Organic Pollutant Transfer ASSP survival and breeding success. $50,000 from Female Killer Whales to their Calves $50,000 (CA, TX, WA) Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District Conduct research on killer whales in human Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Parks Creek Fish Passage Implementation (CA) care at SeaWorld San Diego and San Antonio to Genomic Sequencing of the Endangered Reestablish fish passage for all life stages of quantify the transfer of pollutants from female Bakersfield Cactus (AZ, CA, NV, UT) salmonids in Parks Creek, the last significant killer whales to their calves during gestation Partner with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, spawning and refugia area in the Shasta River and lactation. Project will provide data on Palm Springs Office biologists to genetically watershed for coho salmon, by redesigning the percent reduction in female pollutant characterize the federally endangered the current fish passage barrier. levels and percent increase in calf pollutant Bakersfield cactus, endemic to the southern $114,980 levels needed by managers to better predict San Joaquin Valley, California. Project will clarify contaminant levels in Southern Resident killer the relationship with the more widespread Siskiyou Gardens, Parks and Greenways whales and assess potential risks associated beavertail cactus, identify morphological Association with contaminant exposure. traits correlated with different varieties, Lower Yreka Creek Restoration (CA) $114,857 and provide needed insight for project-level Increase spawning and rearing habitat for coho consultations under the Desert Renewable salmon and other salmonids in combination Pacific Marine Mammal Center Energy Conservation Plan and the California with the expansion of an existing beaver California Sea Lion Unusual Stranding Event High Speed Rail. population. Support 2016 (CA) $72,350 $96,000 Aid and support the overall response to the 2016 California Sea Lion Unusual Stranding Regents of the University of California - Siskiyou Resource Conservation District 17 Event. Project will provide support to those San Diego, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography Lower French Creek Off-Channel Habitat organizations that have been identified as Strengthen Resilience of Fisheries through Development (CA) needing additional coverage in the West State Commercial Fisheries Restore the natural channel form and Coast Stranding Region. Apprenticeship Program (CA) function and increase the carrying capacity $100,000 Develop a State Commercial Fisherman and condition of juvenile coho salmon by Apprenticeship Program to provide constructing an off-channel pond with coarse Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission opportunities for new entrants into California’s woody debris structures and associated Steelhead Distribution and Life cycle commercial fisheries. Project will develop a riparian vegetation in the floodplain of Monitoring in Manzana Creek (CA) progressive curriculum of classwork and lower French Creek. Research distribution, relative abundance on-the-water training for students, and will $74,981 and life cycle monitoring of steelhead in recruit veteran fishermen as employers. Manzana Creek. Project will hire two crew $118,181 Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs leaders through Pacific States Marine Fisheries Invasive Tamarisk Removal from the Santa Commission to lead four fisheries technicians Robin Satnick Maria and Santa Clara Watersheds (CA) and two California Conservation Corps Channel Islands Seabird Lessons (CA) Remove tamarisk from the Rancho Nuevo members to complete snorkel and spawning Develop a set of standards-based educational Creek and Deal Canyons, and portions of the surveys in and around the fire affected lesson plans to raise awareness and increase Cuyama River in the Cuyama River Watershed the area. protection of seabirds on the Channel Islands. and in the Sespe River and Piru Creek of the $198,991 Project will serve as an educational resource Santa Clara River watersheds. Project will to help teachers and students understand treat invasive tamarisk threatening habitat Plumas Corporation the reasons for restoring seabirds and the conditions for steelhead trout, arroyo toads, Sierra Meadow Restoration Design (CA) importance of this restoration to the future red-legged frogs, least Bell’s vireo, and Address limited organizational capacity of the Channel Islands. southwestern willow flycatcher within the in the Sierra Nevada for meadow restoration $16,425 Zaca and Piru Fire burn areas. project planning, as well as limited data on $60,001 the ecological capacity of functional meadows to address climate change. Project will complete design and data collection/analysis for three meadows, and environmental permitting for two meadows. Limited capacity of the region will be addressed with training and mentoring for local organizations in project design and planning. $219,347 United States and U.S. Territories $55,000 of their local creeks and watersheds. and inspire residents ofallages instewardship and habitat for wildlife, and engage, educate Plans. P identified intheSan P working at multiple locations that have been community-based rain gardens near the creeks, R Bay Watersheds (CA) Community Stewardship ofSanPablo The Watershed Project $200,000 the Hatton and Lombardo properties. contribute to the capital acquisition costs of of the important water rights. P agreement and eventual 1707dedication restored through an initial forbearance acquisition in recognition of the water flow Invest intheRancho Cañada property Carmel River Acquisition(CA) The Trust for PublicLand $320,238 Los P members and two project leaders, in the management team, consisting of10 team Forest. P Ranger District ofthe LosP future beetle infestations in theMount P inos 500 acres offorest land, and reduce the riskof catastrophic fire, improve management of R Los Padres Forest Restoration (CA) The Student Conservation Association $50,679 coverage among the fleet. achieve complete electronic reporting tablets and providing extensive trainings to distributing anadditional 40electronic logbook that successfully equipped over 150vessels by California. P passenger fishing vessel fleet inSouthern among theentire recreational commercial Implement electronic logbook reporting in Southern California Commercial Passenger FishingVessels Expand Electronic FishingLogbooks for Sportfishing Association ofCalifornia $21,000 near-stream well. the amount ofwater pumped from a used for irrigation and animals and will reduce water storage tanks. The stored water willbe property,the Henry including two 2,500-gallon will install arainwater catchment system on subwatersheds oftheRussianRiver. 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$235,601 in two Walker headwater streams. assess current brook trout eradication efforts staff to continue important outreach and cutthroat trout recovery activities and supports field crew for two years to implement Lahontan outreach. P trout fieldwork, and landowner and public management, oversight ofLahontan cutthroat ground expertise, partner coordination, project cutthroat trout coordinator to provide on-the- P NV,(CA, OR) Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Conservation Work Trout Unlimited $34,000 a summer surface diversion. Gregorio creek that willenable forbearance of Design an off-channel pond with a farm onSan Muzzi Farm (CA) Flow Restoration onSanGregorio Creek: Post/ Trout Unlimited $31,050 restore flow on San Gregorio Creek. will eliminate asummer surface diversion and Design an 18.5acre-foot off-channel pond that Klingman/Moty Farm (CA) Flow Restoration onSanGregorio Creek: Trout Unlimited $116,055 Klamath River Watershed. juvenile coho salmon in Cold Creek in the Improve passage and habitat for adult and Cold Creek CohoPassage andScreening (CA) Trout Unlimited $61,006 accommodate irrigation diversions. will provide year round fish passage and and installing roughened channels that eliminating three flashboard irrigation dams Improve fishpassage in Bogus Creek by Bogus Creek FishPassage (CA) Trout Unlimited $34,922 traffic and oilspills. species would bemost vulnerable to ship species, identifying at seaareas where the habitat availability and, for this highly-clumping conservation by connecting population to size estimates. P regional island- versus at sea-based population and resolve the inconsistency between population size, identify marine hot spots, for ashy storm-petrels to determine world Analyze existing and extensive at-sea data Spots at Sea(CA) Ashy Storm-Petrel Population Size andHot Triple HS-H.T. Harvey &Associates rovide continued support for aLahontan roject willalsosupport arange-wide roject outcomes willenhance $25,000 in forest stewardship. while alsohelping to develop future leaders sensitive areas, promoting watershed health will restore over 130acres ofecologically by the 257,000acre RimFire of2013.P National Forest that were adversely impacted restoration work onareas within the Stanislaus aged 18-25years oldinorder to perform P Rim Fire Restoration (CA) Tuolumne River Preservation Trust $500,000 and mountain yellow-legged frog. animal species such asP Lahontan cutthroat trout, and other plant and the threatened willow flycatcher, potential northern Sierra Nevada, provide habitat for water quality and public recreation in the corridors ofhigh-quality habitat for wildlife, floor. P goal ofacquiring the entire 1,317-acre valley riparian habitat inCarpenter V Acquire fee title to 600acres of wetland and Carpenter Valley Acquisition(CA) Truckee DonnerLandTrust $162,794 streams ofsimilarsize. elsewhere inLahontan cutthroat trout science and proven techniques vetted will proceed according to thebest available and review ofremoval methods. P consideration with partnering agencies Assist in removal efforts after careful Silver/Slinkard Creek Brook Trout Removal (CA) Trout Unlimited $500,000 watershed. thereby improving survival in the Russian River the impactofdiversions on coho salmon, outreach and on-the-ground projects to reduce Combine scientific and legal strategies with Improvement (CA) Russian River Watershed Flow Trout Unlimited $117,492 naturally reproduce. resident and ad-fluvial life history strategies to rainbow trout to exhibit thefull range ofstream Pine Creek watershed to enable Eagle Lake P enhancement activities within the watershed. and constraints for restoration and/or understanding ofthe opportunities in PineCreek by developing asound Accelerate the pace ofmeadow restoration Rainbow Trout (CA) Meadow Restoration to Recover Eagle Lake Trout Unlimited rovide seven internships to local young adults roject willrestore thelarge meadows inthe roject willconserve large connected acific fisher, wolverine alley, withthe

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U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest University of California - Berkeley WildAid Service - Los Padres National Forest, Restoration and Resilience of Endemic Bigcone U.S. Illegal Wildlife Demand Reduction Mt. Pinos Ranger District Douglas-Fir after the 2007 Zaca Fire (CA) Campaign (Multiple States) Building Capacity for Monarchs and Other Restore bigcone Douglas-fir after the Zaca Fire. Develop and implement a communications Native Pollinators on Public and Private Project will include mapping of forest stands campaign to raise awareness of wildlife Lands (CA) and their condition, analysis of environmental trafficking into the United States. Project will Strengthen and expand the Native Plant factors important for regeneration, collection reduce the demand for illegal wildlife and the Pollinator-Friendly Garden Program. Project and propagation of local seed, out-planting amount of illegal wildlife products smuggled will engage new cooperators and partners and evaluation of survival in the field, and into the U.S. contributing to lessening poaching through workshops and increase direct seeding synthesis of findings for the long-term adaptive pressure on endangered species, including and plant propagation using locally collected management of bigcone Douglas-fir. elephants, rhinos, tigers and pangolins. seed from all three native milkweed species. $171,606 $270,000 $65,835 University of California - Santa Barbara Yurok Tribe U.S. Department of Agriculture, Assessment and Management of Invasive Increasing Rearing Capacity and Habitat U.S. Forest Service - Klamath National Forest Riparian Plants in Los Padres Quality for Coho Salmon in a Lower Klamath Lower Beaver Creek Coho Salmon National Forest (CA) Tributary (CA) Off-Channel Habitat Restoration (CA) Assess the status of weeds that are potential Evaluate the restoration effectiveness of beaver Reconnect and restore, enhance or create biocontrol targets in the Los Padres National dam analogues (BDA) to increase the amount a continuum of off-channel habitats along the Forest. Project will develop regulatory of slow velocity rearing habitat available to length of the Mid-Klamath River and select compliance for biocontrol of invasive tamarisk, juvenile coho throughout the Klamath Basin tributaries that provide important winter and implement release of the northern tamarisk and further inform development of BDA design summer rearing refugia critical for the recovery beetle at infested sites, set up a monitoring and fish passage criteria in California. of Klamath River Southern Oregon Northern protocol to evaluate beetle establishment $108,911 California Coast coho salmon populations. and ecosystem responses, conduct surveys $72,428 for other potential biocontrol targets, and Colorado develop a prioritization guide for planning and U.S. Department of the Interior, implementation of weed biocontrol. City and County of Denver Bureau of Land Management $98,170 Urban Refuge Partnership with Denver Natural Acoustic Surveys to Monitor Ashy Resources at First Creek (CO) Storm-Petrels across the California University of California - Santa Barbara Engage youth corps and restore 200 acres of Coastal National Monument Evaluation and Restoration of Degraded prairie grassland habitat by managing noxious Use remote sensing to monitor ashy Chaparral within Piru Fire Perimeter (CA) weed and seeding native grass species. Project storm-petrels (ASSP), a crevice- and Assess impact of multiple overlapping fires and partners will remove an 8-foot perimeter fence, burrow-nesting seabird breeding in the drought on chaparral condition within Piru fire build a new parking lot and construct 6,600 19 California Coastal National Monument, at 17 perimeter to identify areas most susceptible to feet of new trail, adding to the existing First known or suspected ASSP colonies. Project degradation and takeover by invasive species. Creek Trail. Project will revive an area of open will determine presence/absence of ASSP and Project will utilize Student Conservation space for the public that has been underutilized seasonal and inter-annual vocalization patterns Association and undergraduate volunteers between Denver InternationalA irport and using passive acoustic sensors; results will assist and local K-12 students guided by graduate the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife with developing a standardized technique to students, to implement restoration trials at Refuge. monitor and track attendance trends among an acre scale or larger in order to directly $50,000 crevice- and burrow-nesting seabirds. restore degraded habitat and provide viable $203,853 methodology for future chaparral restoration. Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust $195,669 JE Canyon Ranch Conservation Easement (CO) U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish Place a conservation easement on the and Wildlife Service - University of California - Santa Cruz 48,230-acre JE Canyon Ranch in southeast National Wildlife Refuge Complex Endangered Seabird Meta-Population Colorado’s canyon country. Project will ensure Farallon National Wildlife Refuge Invasive Viability Analysis (Multiple States) the protection of critical habitat for the state’s House Mouse Eradication: Environmental Improve a meta-population viability analysis largest population of bighorn sheep, as well as Compliance (CA) model guide for seabird conservation planning many other large native mammals including Complete the environmental compliance by improving its accuracy in predicting the elk, mule deer, mountain lion, black bear and phase of the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge demographic impacts of island threats, beaver. house mouse eradication effort. Project will incorporating additional conservation $500,000 contribute toward effort of removing house threats, adding additional potential mice from the refuge to alleviate their impact conservation interventions (reestablishment Colorado Youth Corps Association on seabirds, including the rare ashy or establishment of new colonies, fisheries Putting Diverse Youth to Work storm-petrel and other native species. bycatch mitigation), and moving the tool into a for Conservation Statewide (CO) $170,000 user-friendly web-based format where it will be Engage three Colorado Youth Corps promoted to seabird conservation planners. Association-accredited youth crews $174,488 in restoration projects in partnership with Bureau of Land Management field offices. Project will employ youths from diverse background in riparian and instream habitat restoration work. $75,860 United States and U.S. Territories and the Dolores River R P Youth Corps Success(CO, UT)-II Dolores River Restoration: Buildingon Four Corners SchoolofOutdoor Education $9,664 with other local organizations. volunteer support and forming partnerships the refuge, which willcontribute to increasing a website and sponsor outreachat activities National Wildlife R effectively support the goalsof the Two P Increase organizational capacity to more Community andCapacityBuildingProject (CO) National Wildlife Refuge Founders andFriendsofTwo Ponds $91,839 programs about shorebirds and conservation. communities, where they offer education and nongovernmental agencies and Latino cultural bridges between host sites with federal shorebird research. Theinterns willserve as interns with valuable field experiences in positions in natural resources, providing development for Latino youths seeking Offer training, mentorship and career Program CO, (AK, CA, OR, WA) Celebrate Shorebirds Latino Internship Environment for theAmericas $12,189 nonnative tamarisk and Russian olive trees. River Watershed Council staff, while removing EagleService, County Open Spaceand Eagle by Bureau ofLandManagement, U Eagle County.P trout in rivers, remote streams and springs in habitat for endangered Greenback cutthroat inventory work that willprotect unique wildlife conducting essential restoration andeDNA which willprovide ahands-on experience Create two youth conservation internships, Restoration andEnhancement (CO) Eagle County Watersheds Inventory, Eagle River Watershed Council $73,500 improves campsites along the river. river, increases visibilityalong highways, and reduces wildfire risk,improves access to the that improves wildlife habitat and forage, through awatershed-level restoration project and volunteers with engagement opportunities in Utah and Colorado. P woody invasive speciesalong the DoloresRiver to finish thelast stages ofinitial of treatment artner with the CanyonCountry Youth Corps roject willprovide mentoring efuge. 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Western Governors Association National Audubon Society North American Marine Environment Federal-State Sage Grouse Task Force (CO) Advancing the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Protection Association Facilitate and host meetings of the Sage Grouse Initiative (CT, NY, NC, FL) Coastal Youth Stewards (CT) Task Force and, upon direction from the Task Protect, restore, enhance and manage priority Educate and engage 150 K-12 youth in 10 Force, create a report and/or inventory of shorebird habitats at roughly 75 sites across beach cleanups and in an educational program greater sage grouse conservation activities. Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and about the marine environment and marine Project will help to ensure that substantive Florida. Project will eliminate harmful human debris in the Southwest Coast Watershed. progress continues to be made toward the disturbances using new and innovative Project will prevent over 1,500 pounds of protection and restoration of key habitat techniques, protect the places that shorebirds debris from entering Long Island Sound across the sagebrush ecosystem, leading to need at critical times of their life cycles, assess waters and encourage students to become sustainable sage grouse populations and the impact of predators at selected sites, environmental stewards through hands-on strong western economies. advance the current knowledge of shorebird education about the impact of marine debris $20,000 demography, and address key knowledge gaps. on the Sound as well as other waterways. $150,000 $6,918 Connecticut National Audubon Society Norwalk Land Trust Connecticut Fund for the Environment Audubon WildLife Guards – Village Creek Salt Marsh Restoration Green Infrastructure for Beardsley Zoo (CT) A Coastal Stewardship and Youth Demonstration (CT) Install green infrastructure including enhancing Conservation Training Program (CT) Develop the planning and design to support existing lawn areas with 2,000 square feet Employ 10 students to encourage 3,000 restoration of 5 to 8 acres of degraded of bioretention gardens and tree pits, and members of the public to share about 10 acres intertidal salt meadows in Norwalk. Project replacing 4,000 square feet of impervious of coast with beach-nesting coastal waterbirds, will provide the foundation for a salt marsh 21 pavement with pervious pavers in Bridgeport, and provide coastal stewardship training to restoration program with a focused project Connecticut. Project will capture and treat 25 municipal employees to add to student plan that increases the likelihood of restoration 1 million gallons of urban stormwater stewardship efforts at Pleasure Beach in success in an important wildlife area. runoff annually. Bridgeport. Project will allow residents to enjoy $20,000 $149,834 the beach and allow piping plover and least terns to nest successfully. Sacred Heart University Earthplace - The Nature Discovery Center $35,000 Coastal Dune Restoration at Stratford Point (CT) Engaging Student Scientists for Restore 1.5 acres of coastal dune habitat in Long Island Sound (CT) National Audubon Society Stratford Point. Project will provide potential Engage 46 high school and undergraduate Expanding Urban Oases in the New Haven breeding habitat for piping plovers, least and citizen scientists in four experiential learning Harbor Watershed (CT) roseate terns, American oystercatchers programs about water quality and Long Employ a model of community-based urban and tiger beetles. Island Sound ecology using rivers, harbors land stewardship that engages multiple $115,199 and the Sound as the classroom and make stakeholders in restoration of urban green presentations about their research at public spaces to improve watershed health and Sea Research Foundation events in Fairfield County. Project will train provide quality habitat for migratory birds Sound Engagement for Families (CT) student participants for careers in conservation while also addressing critical community Conduct six hands-on Long Island Sound-based science and improve public knowledge and needs in the most underserved, overburdened conservation field programs, and a Long Island understanding of the Sound. neighborhoods of greater New Haven. Project Sound Day celebration for 4,000 community $32,829 will enhance 16 acres of habitat, complete members and 300 families in Mystic. Project an Important Bird Area conservation plan, will immerse families in hands-on learning and Farmington River Watershed Association engage 3,500 people through outreach, conservation activities that foster appreciation River Smart Community Stormwater Education and involve 900 volunteers. and stewardship of Long Island Sound. in the Farmington River Watershed (CT) $49,997 $9,300 Deliver “River Smart CT,” an education and outreach program focused on personal actions Sea Research Foundation to reduce polluted stormwater, to 4,000 people Stonington Harbors Water Quality Monitoring in the Farmington Valley. Project will increase and Education Initiative (CT) the number and variety of citizens who Monitor and identify local pollution sources understand the value of Long Island Sound and in near-shore areas and conduct a public take local action to protect its water quality. education program along the coastline of $31,174 Stonington. Project will reduce sources of nitrogen pollution into the Stonington coast and Long Island Sound. $24,672 United States and U.S. Territories $170,000 New England cottontail. and the development offorage areas to benefit American woodcock, and planting ofshrubs roosting fieldsand singing grounds to benefit vegetation management,of construction migration. P sites for brood rearing and in preparation for with interior forests, which use young forest species and bird species normallyassociated projects to benefit the young forest-dependent Implement avariety of forest management Species in New England(CT, ME, VT) MA, Habitat Management to Benefit Young Forest Wildlife Management Institute $44,814 opportunities to prevent gear loss. laws and regulations and explore legal state derelict fishing gear and vessel navigation England. P fishing gear and vessel interactions in New management strategies to address derelict Support development ofinnovative, proactive Gear (Multiple States) Removing Marine DebrisandPlacingFishing Understanding theLegal Framework for University ofMississippi $34,997 and restoring the Sound. and socialobjectives with an aimof protecting environment to achieve ecological, economic, which looks at human activities in the marine process needed for development ofaBlue Plan and New York. P Long Island Sound Watershed ofConnecticut to become part ofanonline resource for the natural resource and human use information and the public in development ofmaps and Engage scientists, government, industry A BlueMarinePlanfor LongIslandSound(CT, NY) University ofConnecticut $75,000 under this grant. one model project willbe completed directly populations in 20.5milesof streams. Only projects that willexpand salter brook trout and complete three model conservation up to 10prioritySalter Conservation Areas, is currently unknown, evaluate and identify will survey 80streams where brook trout status Conserve sea-run (salter) brook trout. P Northeastern United States (Multiple States) Brook Trout “Salter” Conserving inthe Trout Unlimited $59,983 Long Island Sound. connection between freshwater habitats and these projects, river health, and the critical and raiseherring, community awareness of set thestage for runs ofalewife and blueback in Centerbrook. P on the Falls River atributary to the lower Develop designs for fish passage at two dams Falls River (CT) Planning for Restoring FishPassage onthe The Nature Conservancy -Connecticut roject willimprove awareness of roject willinclude non-commercial roject will support the public roject willsupport the public roject will roject will roject roject

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Project will include training and management of Delaware’s First State groundwater, terrestrial and tidal monitoring staff at more than 500 small municipal separate National Historical Park resources. Project will stations, and deploy sensors in tributaries storm sewer system communities, stormwater engage over 300 students and community where oyster restoration is underway. managers in larger communities who are residents, increasing awareness and $50,000 responsible for stormwater education and understanding of water resources. outreach, local stormwater inspectors, and $25,000 Wildlife Management Institute industrial compliance managers at more than Technical Assistance Coordinators for Young 2,500 permitted sites. The Nature Conservancy Forests (Multiple States) $125,000 Deliver Advanced Nutrient Management Maintain technical assistance contractor Practices on the Delmarva Peninsula (DE, MD) positions in the 17-state early successional Dantzker Consulting Provide assistance to Soil Conservation forest habitat region to benefit New England Independent Evaluation of the Innovative Districts and other partners by strengthening cottontail, American woodcock, golden- Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Program and expanding the network of practitioners winged warbler, and over 60 other species of Independent, third party evaluation of the delivering agricultural conservation practices concern. Project will continue to develop new Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund’s Innovative on the Delmarva Peninsula. Project will approaches and outreach materials to better Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Program. continue to engage practitioners, including educate and encourage public and private $234,990 certified crop consultants and agricultural landowners to become actively involved in industry professionals, to better coordinate this effort. Earth Conservation Corps outreach and training for priority best $504,012 Partnership for Anacostia River Restoration management practices, and facilitate increased and Urban Bird Education (DC) delivery and adoption of conservation Continue partner collaboration and facilitate District of Columbia practices by producers. water quality improvement and restoration $49,320 America’s Wildlife Association programs focused on the Anacostia River, for Resource Education creating up to 8,500 square feet of new native The Nature Conservancy Conservation Law Educational Programming wetlands along the Anacostia River with the Increasing Nutrient Use Efficiency and for Law Students help of 200 volunteers. Project will create Improving Water Quality on Delmarva (DE, MD) Expand conservation educational programs workforce development for youths and engage 23 Expand collaborations with Delmarva for law students to grow understanding and and educate 60 members of the community agribusinesses to improve water quality by support for the North American model- while restoring riparian habitat along increasing the adoption of advanced nutrient based system of conservation and its legal the Anacostia River. management practices. Project will develop underpinnings. Project will offer internships for $49,988 public-private partnerships with at least law students, develop and offer conservation two agricultural retailers, perform jointly- law courses and seminars, and develop Greening Urban funded demonstration projects with farmers publications on conservation law supported Restoring the Anacostia River through to purchase equipment and management by and for law students. Stormwater Credits (DC) tools, develop local case studies, and reduce $50,000 Focus on developing a program that leverages annual loads of nitrogen by 105,250 pounds, the District of Columbia’s Stormwater phosphorus by 26,000 pounds and sediment Anacostia Waterfront Trust Retention Credit (SCR) Trading program by 791 tons. Proving a New Model of Self-Sustaining to increase stormwater management in $195,953 Stormwater Management in the the Anacostia Watershed. Project will help Anacostia River (DC) prove the viability of SRC trading as a way The Trust for Public Land Combine engineered bioretention-based to accelerate water quality restoration by Strategic Investment Plan for the Delaware stormwater treatment, stream restoration, targeting private investment in stormwater River Watershed (DE, NJ, NY, PA) stormwater job development, internships and management to the areas of greatest need. Develop a business plan to guide and prioritize educational activities in the Anacostia River $49,988 conservation and restoration throughout the MS4 area of the District of Columbia. Project entire watershed, integrating its programs, and will reduce nutrients, sediments and toxic RESOLVE developing overarching goals and strategies pollutants flowing into the Anacostia River and Agricultural Conservation in the Chesapeake to address key threats to its fish and wildlife. Chesapeake Bay and demonstrate the value of Bay Watershed (Multiple States) Project will develop strategic conservation the RainPay implementation model to leverage Assess the current capacity, needs and areas and statistics to support the report. private capital to accelerate cost-effective opportunities for agricultural conservation $98,845 stormwater management on private land in partners to provide watershed project the Bay watershed. management and technical assistance to $200,000 meet clean-water goals for the Virginia Piedmont, while enhancing the economic and environmental sustainability of farms. Project will increase the knowledge and awareness of program managers, policymakers and funders about technical capacity issues and options for agricultural conservation partners in the Chesapeake Bay region. $62,700 United States and U.S. Territories $15,000 management to volunteer development. covering everything from fund raising to board P Host aP Peer-to-Peer Conference (FL) DarlingWildlife Society 2017 “Ding” Ding arlingWildlife Society $100,000 science activities. conservation summer camps and citizen public awareness by leading environmental Springs, M ississippi while alsopromoting Coast in P protect seaturtlesalong 160milesofGulf in wildlife conservation. 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Museum of Science dba Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife The Longleaf Alliance Miami Science Museum Conservation of Shoal and Redeye Bass Team Capacity and Landowner Technical Coastal Habitat Restoration in through Native Black Bass Business Plan (AL, Assistance and Outreach - II Northeast Miami Dade County (FL) FL, GA, SC) Support the Local Implementation Team (LIT) Restore 1.48 total acres of tropical hardwood Evaluate, through a GIS threat assessment, coordinator, a unique, cross-cutting position hammock habitat near Oleta River State Park, the habitat condition in the Apalachicola- that builds and improves partnership capacity in northeast Miami-Dade County. Project Chattahoochee-Flint River basin and portions across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore partners will engage 300 volunteers over of the Savannah that will ultimately provide and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. Project a 1-year period, who will monitor restoration a more strategic method to identify target will increase communication and collaboration protocol, mechanically remove residual invasive restoration priorities. Project will target a among the 17 LITs and provide technical exotic plants, and replant 400 trees and shrubs, number of high-priority sites for restoration to assistance support for developing strategic all native to the tropical hardwood benefit shoal, redeye bass, and other species conservation plans, helping to target limited hammock biome. and will monitor populations of shoal and resources toward the greatest conservation $25,640 redeye bass through genetic techniques to benefits. determine the level of introgression over time. $100,000 National Audubon Society $497,188 Advancing the Atlantic Flyway The Nature Conservancy Shorebird Initiative (CT, NY, NC, FL) St. Andrew Bay Resource Gulf Coast Prescribed Fire Mentoring Program Protect, restore, enhance and manage priority Management Association (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) shorebird habitats at roughly 75 sites across Community-Based Habitat Restoration Build upon a successful pilot project to train Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and in St. Andrew Bay (FL) and provide 18 to 19 jobs to underserved Florida. Project will eliminate harmful human Implement community-based living shoreline urban youths as wildland firefighters and disturbances using new and innovative habitat restoration programs in the St. Andrew ecosystem restoration technicians working in techniques, protect the places that shorebirds Bay watershed. Project will restore and each of the five Gulf states. Project will strongly need at critical times of their life cycles, assess enhance a total of 0.4 acres of coastal wetlands emphasize longleaf pine management and the impact of predators at selected sites, and perform education and outreach activities. prescribed fire and will impact greater than advance the current knowledge of shorebird Outcomes include habitat restoration that will 105,000 acres. demography, and address key knowledge gaps. increase community resiliency and enhanced $499,631 $150,000 environmental stewardship. $88,000 The Nature Conservancy Northwest Florida State College Foundation Increase Longleaf Restoration Restoring Oyster Reefs in Choctawhatchee Bay Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Management Capacity in the through Community Stewardship (FL) Applied Biodiversity Sciences Okefenokee/Osceola Landscape (FL, GA) Restore and populate 1 acre of oyster habitat in Conservation Scholars Program Establish 300 acres of longleaf pine and Choctawhatchee Bay. Community stewards will Integrate undergraduates and graduates improve management of an additional 61,250 25 enhance the oyster population by constructing using a two-tiered program that will focus acres of existing longleaf habitat on public and two new oyster reefs and colonizing new on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico private lands, reducing hazardous fuel loads reefs with living oysters grown through the ecosystems and broader questions on energy in a highly fire-prone area. Project continues a Choctawhatchee Oyster Gardeners and Spat development, energy policy and impacts on successful collaboration with the Jacksonville On! Youth Outreach programs. biodiversity and natural resources. Project will Job Corps Center to train young people $39,993 appoint two graduate fellowships to mentor a classified as living below the poverty level to small cohort of undergraduate interns as they serve on longleaf restoration teams. Partners Operation Migration-USA develop their projects and internship proposals. will also conduct restoration workshops for Whooping Crane Reintroduction to $200,000 at least 200 private landowners. Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) $300,000 Support monitoring and outreach efforts in The Longleaf Alliance support of conserving the critically endangered Longleaf Restoration in the Gulf Coastal Plain The Nature Conservancy whooping crane and building a self-sustaining Ecosystem Partnership Landscape (AL, FL) - III Ocala Local Implementation Team (FL) - III population in the Southeast. Project will Restore the longleaf ecosystem through Establish longleaf pine on 472 acres and support two staff positions during the three- longleaf plantings, prescribed fire, rare species improve and maintain longleaf habitat on season migration period and provide outreach recovery, and private landowner outreach 5,200 acres of public and private lands. Project to increase general awareness. and technical assistance. Project will plant will support controlled burning and other $75,000 374 acres of longleaf pine and improve more management activities to assist partners than 36,000 acres of existing longleaf habitat managing longleaf habitat, refine spatial School Board of Orange County Florida with prescribed fire and other management priorities for restoration and maintenance Wekiva Aquaponics for Science, Technology, practices on public and private lands. Rare to guide future work, provide longleaf Engineering and Mathematics Learning (FL) species recovery will center on the red- management workshops, and build on existing Enhance the agriculture, culinary arts, cockaded woodpecker, reticulated salamander, partnership capacity to increase efficiencies. engineering and laser photonics career eastern indigo snake and gopher tortoise. $250,000 programs and allow students to discover the $300,000 environmental and economic benefits in water conservation and the rate of production. $50,000 United States and U.S. Territories $30,000 urbanized areas. intersection of wetland habitats and native floral and faunal diversity at the coastal community with amodelfor enhancing Demonstration garden. P for pollinators at the Cay Creek Wetland plants that provide host plants and nectar Improve thenumbers and diversity ofnative A Coastal Model (GA)-II Cay Creek Wetland Demonstration Landscape: Coastal WildScapes $33,000 providing quality habitat. local awareness ofbirds and theimportance of inform decision-making.P watershed and create baseline bird data to habitat on two sites in the P to restore and enhance 15acres ofbird Engage 125community volunteers and youth Creek Watershed (GA) Restoring Bird-Friendly Habitat inPeachtree Atlanta Audubon Society $106,302 associated habitats. and enhance fishand wildlife and their communities from severe storms and floods, priority areas for potential projects to protect broader SoutheastA of the Cape Fear River basin, but alsoofthe Assess and mapclimate resiliency attributes Coastal Resiliency NC, SC) Assessment FL, (GA, Cape Fear River BasinandSoutheast Atlantic University ofNorthCarolina at Asheville $122,079 from the oceanic stage. uncertainty surrounding recruitment dynamics developmental years, closing amajorgap in the driving seaturtle habitat use during theirearly on environmental and genetic mechanisms of Mexico. P sea turtles caught offshore inthe eastern Gulf Sample, satellite tag and track oceanic stage through Genetic Indicators MS) LA, FL, (AL, Important Sea Turtle Habitat Identification University ofCentral Florida $325,000 habitat quality assessments. species, and monitor itsprogress to inform eastern indigo snake, afederally threatened incentives. P invasive species management and cost-share on ground cover restoration, fire planning, P removal and native ground cover plantings. habitat through prescribed fire, invasive plant more than 21,000acres ofexisting longleaf Plant 1,825acres oflongleaf pine and improve GA)-IV FL, (AL, Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Initiative The Nature Conservancy -Florida Georgia roject willeducate private landowners roject results willinform research artners willalsoreintroduce the tlantic Coast, to inform roject willprovide the roject willpromote eachtree Creek $500,000 thousands of acres ofprivate land. the Wildlife Management Area, and connect P pine heath bluff and montane longleaf pine. community types: hog plum glades, longleaf and examples ofthree recognized rare containing 2milesofthe Flint River, land in Georgia’s Pine Mountain region, Acquire in fee title to 3,200acres ofmountain Sprewell Bluff-Alexander Tract Acquisition(GA) Georgia Department ofNatural Resources $75,501 beachgoers. priority shorebirds that are heavily used by at several key foraging and breeding areas for sea level rise,aswell asestablish beach stewards depredation threat, and inlet dynamics in light of which willaddressplanning, theemerging assist withpredator control and shoreline change oystercatcher and Wilson’s plover. P species including red knot, whimbrel, American efforts ontheGeorgia Coast focusing on priority Support anumber ofshorebird conservation Conservation Efforts American Oystercatcher andWhimbrel Georgia Shorebird Alliance Red Knot, Georgia Department ofNatural Resources $50,000 Chinese tallow and water hyacinth. species: sand pine, common reed, saltcedar, collectively manage thefive priority invasive landownersto in identified high-priority areas approach to engaging student interns and P high-priority invasive species in coastal Georgia. Utilize a regional management approach to Regional Management Initiative Coastal Georgia Invasive Species Georgia Department ofNatural Resources $100,000 longleaf pine. disincentives to planting and maintaining understand and address regulatory barriers or Fish and Wildlife to Service help landowners network, longleaf stakeholders and the U the Forest Landowner Association’s member P longleaf pine restoration and management. for family owners, to identify opportunities for companies that manage large forestland holdings Target working-forest landowners, aswell as Collaboration (Multiple States) Fostering Large-Scale Working Forest Landowner Forest Landowners Association $43,272 restoration and conservation. land stewardship astools for urban watershed P hydrology and reduce stormwater runoff flows. techniques to restore habitat, support natural garden willuse native vegetation and drainage community education and engagement. 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The Nature Conservancy Trees Atlanta American Bird Conservancy Accelerate Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Enota Park and Proctor Creek Restoration (GA) Establishing New Populations of Restoration on Private Lands on the Fall Line Remove invasives and plant native species Endangered Species at Kilauea Point (AL, GA) - II on 6 acres to promote erosion control and National Wildlife Refuge (HI) Accelerate and demonstrate longleaf pine habitat restoration at Enota Park and Proctor Translocate up to 10 Newell’s shearwaters and conservation on more than 15,000 acres in Creek. Project will incorporate public education up to 20 Hawaiian petrels to a newly fenced west Georgia and east Alabama, with particular through including the park site on Westside Trail site on Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge. emphasis on privately owned land. Project walking tours and as an education site for KIPP Project will restore habitat within the fenced will plant longleaf on 1,900 acres, implement STRIVE Academy students. site, identify additional donor Hawaiian petrel prescribed fire on 13,800 acres, and contact $46,800 and Newell’s shearwater chicks that can be more than 2,000 private landowners, with at translocated, rear the translocated chicks, and least five landowners committed to enrolling in University of Georgia Foundation deploy social attraction which will attempt to financial assistance programs that will enhance Creating Connectivity in Gainesville (GA) bring in prospecting adult seabirds. longleaf pine habitat. Create “green” crosswalk improvements that $230,917 $275,000 replace paved areas with planted medians and corner islands in downtown Gainesville that American Bird Conservancy The Nature Conservancy are designed to reduce the crossing distance for Saving Hawaii’s Imperiled Forest Birds - VIII Dugdown Montane Longleaf Private pedestrians and serve as bioswales to collect Implement on-the-ground projects to conserve Landowner Outreach and Capacity Building stormwater runoff. Project will build upon several priority Hawaiian birds including palila, (AL, GA) existing citizen engagement and educational Maui parrotbill, millerbird, ‘akikiki, ‘akeke’e and Establish 236 acres of longleaf pine and programs about how green infrastructure is puaiohi, raise public awareness, and attract improve 37,000 acres of existing longleaf a cost-effective approach to improving water new support for Hawaiian birds. habitat with prescribed fire in the Dugdown quality and benefit economic development, $300,000 corridor, which contains one of the largest public health and community revitalization. remnant montane longleaf pine ecosystems $50,000 Conservation International Foundation in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Implementing a Multi-Fishery Seafood Project will increase capacity within the University of North Carolina at Asheville Traceability Program (HI) Dugdown corridor, support development of a Cape Fear River Basin and Southeast Atlantic Partner with Suisan Co., one of Hawaii’s oldest conservation plan, increase partnerships with Coastal Resiliency Assessment (GA, FL, NC, SC) and largest fresh seafood wholesale and private landowners, and foster collaboration Assess and map climate resiliency attributes retail operations, to develop and implement between conservation organizations and of the Cape Fear River basin, but also of the strategies that expand market opportunities agencies across state lines. broader Southeast Atlantic Coast, to inform and improve seafood traceability within $100,000 priority areas for potential projects to protect the supply chain. Project will evaluate communities from severe storms and floods, the market and non-market benefits and The Nature Conservancy and enhance fish and wildlife and their opportunities associated with providing 27 Increase Longleaf Restoration and associated habitats. Project will include a report traceable, sustainable, locally harvested Management Capacity in the summarizing the tools, resources and datasets seafood products in Hawaii. Okefenokee/Osceola Landscape (FL, GA) that were analyzed to inform the project and $80,129 Establish 300 acres of longleaf pine and identify “Resiliency Hubs,” “Communities At- improve management of an additional 61,250 Risk,” and open space/working lands. Friends of Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife acres of existing longleaf habitat on public and $106,302 Refuge private lands, reducing hazardous fuel loads Educational and Outreach Development (HI) in a highly fire-prone area. Project continues a WildAid Develop outreach tools to bring awareness to successful collaboration with the Jacksonville U.S. Illegal Wildlife Demand Reduction the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge Job Corps Center to train young people Campaign (Multiple States) and to increase organizational capacity. Project classified as living below the poverty level to Develop and implement a communications will include brand development, designing serve on longleaf restoration teams. Partners campaign to raise awareness of wildlife of outreach materials for public distribution, will also conduct restoration workshops for at trafficking into the United States. Project will website development, and creating an least 200 private landowners. reduce the demand for illegal wildlife and the informational video to describe the natural $300,000 amount of illegal wildlife products smuggled and cultural importance of the refuge. into the U.S. contributing to lessening poaching $9,914 The Nature Conservancy - Florida pressure on endangered species, including Apalachicola Longleaf Restoration Initiative elephants, rhinos, tigers and pangolins. Gettysburg College (AL, FL, GA) - IV $270,000 Develop Low-Cost Electronic Catch and Plant 1,825 acres of longleaf pine and improve Bycatch Monitoring in Small-Scale Fisheries more than 21,000 acres of existing longleaf (HI, NC) Hawaii habitat through prescribed fire, invasive plant Develop a low-cost electronic monitoring removal and native ground cover plantings. American Bird Conservancy system to augment human observers in small- Project will educate private landowners Conserving the Endangered Seabirds of Hono scale fisheries in Hawaii and North Carolina. on ground cover restoration, fire planning, a Na Pali Natural Area Reserve on Kauai (HI) Project will develop electronic monitoring invasive species management and cost-share Support predator control work to protect technology and software to efficiently and incentives. Partners will also reintroduce the three threatened seabird species, including cost-effectively gather accurate fisheries data, eastern indigo snake, a federally threatened the Hawaiian petrel and Newell’s shearwater, including target catch rates and bycatch rates of species, and monitor its progress to inform at newly identified sites, Hanakapiai Mauka marine megafauna – such as sea lions, sharks habitat quality assessments. (Hanakapiai) and Hanakoa, and to develop and sea turtles – to assist in the management $325,000 a “rapid response team” to target control efforts of U.S. small-scale fisheries. throughout the Hono o Na Pali Natural Area $65,813 Reserve on Kauai during the seabird breeding season where hot spots of predator activity are identified. $165,940 United States and U.S. Territories $25,000 nearshore coral reefs. surface water volume and pollutant loads to stabilize unimproved parking areas to reduce and implement best management practices to Bay. P discharged into the ocean waters ofNapili R to Napili Bay’s Reef (HI) Reducing Land-BasedPollutants Napili Bay andBeach Foundation $1,625 native speciesalong the MakikiStream. participates to pull invasive plants and plant corps modeland provide anopportunity for to speak on their experiences within the conservation. P model and what itdoes for youth and Host an outdoor panel discussing the corps Congress (HI) Projectand Service at World Conservation Department ofInterior Panel Discussion K $300,000 of invasive predators. of 28,471acres ofseabird habitat that isfree Kaho’olawe Island. P to eradicate feral cats and rodents from activities for the implementation of a project business plan that includes several primary Follow up on priority action itemsa from Kaho’olawe IslandSeabird Restoration (HI) Island Conservation $80,900 management priorities and coral health. for improving the link between watershed Develop asimplified decision support tool Development (HI, PR) Watershed Threat Assessment Tool Horsley Witten Group $550,000 change effects. and improve dune structure to buffer climate and masked boobies, increase biodiversity, Laysan and black-footed albatrosses and brown seabirds, increase population abundance for P and document seabird response to activities. control invasive plants, increase native plants, eradicate Continue a10-year program on Kure A on Kure Atoll (HI)-III Restoring Seabird Breeding Habitat Hawaii DivisionofForestry andWildlife $470,000 other P Newell’s shearwater, Hawaiian petrel and black-footed albatross, Laysan albatross, foras asanctuary increased colonies of Lehua Island to restore the island’s full potential Committee. 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The Nature Conservancy University of Hawaii Idaho Department of Water Resources Evaluate Role of Herbivores in Mediating Big Island Early Detection and Idaho Water Transactions Program FY17 Coral Bleaching Impacts on Health and Rapid Response (HI) Work in a voluntary manner with water users Recruitment (HI) Provide hands-on training to empower in the Upper Salmon River basin and the Conduct a study that evaluates the role of communities to conduct invasive species Teton River Basin to improve tributary flows to herbivores such as sea urchins or parrotfish in removal efforts. Project will target four benefit imperiled fish. Project will identify and promoting coral health and recovery following high-risk plants in key forest areas and support implement new transactions. the 2015 mass coral bleaching event along work on four of nine early detection target $260,575 the west coast of Hawaii Island. Project will species prioritized based on Hawaii weed risk evaluate whether overgrowth by turf algae assessment scores, proximity and risk to native Jannus following a bleaching event degrades the health forest lands, and feasibility to control. Global Gardens Sustainable Urban Agriculture of adult coral colonies and inhibits the survival $159,004 for Refugee Growers (ID) of coral juveniles, and will examine the role that Implement sustainable stewardship of herbivores play in mediating these interactions. University of Hawaii - Manoa privately and publicly owned agricultural lands, $75,000 Island-Wide Eradication of empower refugee growers to understand and Long Thorn Kiawe on Kauai (HI) use sustainable agricultural practices, engage U.S. Department of the Interior, Complete an island-wide eradication effort volunteer, and create at least 12 family-owned U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of adult long-thorn kiawe. Project will remove small farm businesses. Project will help Eradication of Yellow Crazy Ants on Johnston the last large population of this species on state resettled refugees living in Boise, who wish to Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (HI) - II land, hand control seedling regeneration, cultivate fresh, organic produce for home use Eradicate yellow crazy ants from 260-hectare and complete a full shoreline survey on private and sale, including access to land and training Johnson Atoll National WildlifeR efuge to restore lands to locate and control remaining in sustainable agriculture and marketing. and conserve a vital insular ecosystem and isolated plants. $45,500 seabird colony. Project will result in a return of $59,522 seabirds in increasing numbers to successfully Nez Perce Tribe nest in the area. Restore Wetland into Nature Park for Idaho $380,000 Environmental Education (ID) - II Golden Eagle Audubon Society Build off Phase I, restoring additional wetland U.S. Department of the Interior, Native Youth for Habitat Restoration (ID, NV) areas and extending the interpretative trail U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Provide habitat restoration training and located at Lapwai Nature Park. Project will Study of Feral Pig Eradication Techniques (HI) education for native youth from the eradicate invasive weeds, restore stream Protect native birds by eradicating feral pigs at Duck Valley Reservation. Bureau of Land banks, plant trees and shrubs, educate Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge through Management and local resource professionals tribal community members, engage student intensive trapping, snaring, hunting by staff will train and educate the youth on restoration volunteers, and complete trail work. and contractors, fence construction, and repair techniques, ecology and conservation. $49,794 29 or replacement of existing fences. Project will $33,446 focus on nine Feral Ungulate Management Northwest Youth Corps Units encompassing over 11,500 acres of the Friends of Camas National Wildlife Refuge Boise Community Conservation Corps (ID) best native forest bird habitat in Hawaii. Monarch Butterfly/Milkweed Demonstration Partner with the Idaho Conservation Corps, $285,000 (ID) Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, Install a pollinator garden at the Camas the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bogus Basin University of California - San Diego National Wildlife Refuge headquarters building Recreational Association, and the Bureau Identifying Local Drivers that Influence Coral with areas of native grasses and forbs, several of Reclamation to employ youths in Bleaching, Survivorship and Recovery (HI) semi-arid areas, and a moist area with water high-priority conservation projects in natural Increase understanding of factors that feature and hummingbird stations. Project will areas near and in Boise. Youths will learn about contribute to resiliency and recovery of coral install an ADA accessible path that will circle natural resources, receive high school credit, reefs in Maui at the molecular and reefscape the area, plant native trees along a feeder and learn job skills to prepare them scales. Project will examine local biological canal, encourage a variety of pollinating birds for careers in conservation. and environmental drivers with an emphasis and insects through native planting, and $29,849 on the impact of herbivore and watershed construct six raised beds planted with species management on coral reef resilience and of milkweed native to this area. Northwest Youth Corps recovery to bleaching. $7,050 Lake Cascade Habitat Management $65,493 and Youth Development (ID) Friends of Deer Flat Wildlife Refuge Expand opportunities for five Idaho youths University of California - Santa Cruz Native Sagebrush Steppe Restoration at to carry out conservation project work in Endangered Seabird Meta-Population Viability Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge (ID) partnership with the Bureau of Reclamation Analysis (Multiple States) Restore native sagebrush steppe vegetation and the Idaho Department of Parks and Improve a meta-population viability analysis on a 3-acre plot near the Deer Flat National Recreation. Project will provide youths the model guide for seabird conservation planning Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. Project will treat opportunity to work alongside conservation by improving its accuracy in predicting the the area to inhibit cheat grass, purchase and resource professionals to implement critical demographic impacts of island threats, plant native grass and forb seed mixes, gather habitat restoration work at Lake Cascade. incorporating additional conservation threats, and process native (onsite) shrub seed and $25,000 adding additional potential conservation have Lucky Peak Nursery, a USDA Forest Service interventions (reestablishment or establishment facility, grow the containerized seedlings, and of new colonies, fisheries bycatch mitigation), plant, water and weed the seedlings with and moving the tool into a user-friendly volunteer help. web-based format where it will be promoted $2,061 to seabird conservation planners. $174,488 United States and U.S. Territories $25,000 local learning areas. partner schools and organizations to provide P resource career and education opportunities. weeds and trash, and discovering local natural planting native vegetation, removing noxious steps to restore 15acres ofhabitat through surrounding theircommunities, taking tangible learning about thesagebrush steppe habitat Idaho participants in immersive place-based Involve sixpartners and over 180southwest Steppe Habitat Enhancement Idaho Snake River Birds ofPrey Sagebrush Wilderness ScienceEducation $384,961 with translocations. wolverine population expansion address the socio-political needs for assisting and north Cascades, and develop policiesthat wolverine habitats ofthe northern U landscape connectivity among occupied, core characteristics ofthe metapopulation, maintain baseline on distribution, occupancy and genetic program to assessand establish acurrent will implement acollaborative monitoring conservation strategy for wolverines. P Define and implement amulti-state (Multiple States) Mountains andNorth Cascades Wolverine Monitoring inthe U.S. Rocky and Wildlife Agencies Western Association ofFish $6,000 recreating in the Boisemetro area. eroded trail that issignificant to outdoor to widen trail tread and repair segments of P P Employ five youths to maintain 7milesofthe Perjue Canyon Trail Restoration (ID) The Student Conservation Association $25,000 stewardship, benefiting the river ecosystem. and foster community conservation on-the-ground restoration and monitoring, a wild trout fishery. P conduct community outreach to conserve manage water resources, and educate and effort to improve river access, collaboratively River, through acoordinated, watershed-wide protection ofthe Henry’s Fork oftheSnake P Fork Watershed (ID) Creating aSustainable Future for the Henry’s The Henry’s Fork Foundation erjue Canyon trail Canyonlands. inOwyhee roject willcreate native plant gardens at roject willtrain youths to use hand tools rovide for thelong-term sustainability and roject will fund roject willfund

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$144,750 at the state level. monitoring willbe implemented and population goals, and strategies and P the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Conservation Strategy for states located along process to develop aCentral Flyway Monarch Lead aregional and national coordination Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Developing aCentral Flyway Monarch and Wildlife Agencies Midwest Association ofFish $30,000 agricultural community engagement. eastern monarch corridor and catalyze on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state accelerate voluntary monarch conservation conservation. P to explain therole ofagriculture in monarch producers, private landowners and the public Disseminate information to agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) Enhancing Monarch Habitat inAgricultural K $209,886 economic and environmental metrics. of conservation practices on agronomic, data willbe used to assesseffectiveness health and wildlife habitat. Anonymized farmer practices that improve water quality, soil Illinois to help farmers adopt conservation Pilot precision conservation management in to Conservation Implementation (IL) A Farm Enterprise Approach Precision Conservation Management: Illinois CornGrowers Association $270,000 the volunteer groups. management by fortifying and expanding invasive species control work and restoration Little Calumet River. P North Branch ofthe Chicago River and the at five sites, totaling 267acres along the established Centennial V Continue to build onthesuccess ofthe now the Chicago River (IL)-II Centennial Network Restoration along Friends oftheForest Preserves $105,004 fish and invertebrate species. system and provide key protection for growing that were once abundant throughout the river River. P the north end ofGooseIsland intheChicago aquatic life intheNorth Shore Channel and at habitat for native fishspecies and other willow and 2,000lizard’s tail plants to enhance Conduct apilotproject to install 2,500water Vegetation Restoration (IL) North Shore Channel andNorth Branch Friends oftheChicago River roject willestablish common habitat eystone Policy Center roject willrestore native plant species roject willbuild capacity to roject willcontinue olunteers program

National Audubon Society The Conservation Foundation Indiana Hemi-Marsh Restoration in the Calumet Fox Valley Monarch Corridor Restoration (IL) Groundwork Cincinnati/Mill Creek Region (IL) Create or improve 975 acres of monarch Mill Creek Healthy People and Restore habitat and improve public use of 110 habitat along the Fox River Valley in Illinois, River Program (IN, OH) acres of wetlands along the Calumet River. along with a coalition of 12 public and private Restore and regenerate a total of 17 acres Project will enhance habitat for wetland- land conservation organizations. Project will of wildlife habitat and wetlands for wildlife, dependent species and improve public use by establish and restore 10 multi-acre sites and including the black-crowned night heron and restoring native plant communities, returning hundreds of smaller stepping-stone sites on the Indiana bat, in Muscatatuck Wildlife Refuge hydrologic regimes to more natural conditions, private properties, creating a linked patchwork in Indiana and in multiple Mill Creek and developing interpretive signage on site. of habitats for the breeding and migration of riverine/riparian sites in Cincinnati, Ohio. $273,348 monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Project will engage at least 960 participants, $247,942 including 860 middle and high school students National Audubon Society and 100 adult volunteers from Mill Creek Sustaining Birds of the Great Lakes (IL, NY) The Kitchen Community neighborhoods and diverse organizations. Restore critical bird stopover and breeding Building Learning Gardens in $37,500 habitat across coastal wetlands in two urban Chicago Public Schools (IL) landscapes of the Great Lakes basin. Invasive Build Learning Gardens in Chicago public Keystone Policy Center species management and revegetation of schools, add outdoor classrooms and Enhancing Monarch Habitat native cover will be applied across a total of community gathering places that connect in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) 196 acres in Chicago and Buffalo that will kids to real food and empower them to make Disseminate information to agricultural result in enhanced wetland habitat, improved healthier food choices. Project will engage producers, private landowners and the public habitat quality for threatened resident and students through outdoor, experiential learning, to explain the role of agriculture in monarch migratory bird species, less sediment runoff, increase students’ preference for healthy conservation. Project will build capacity to and improved resiliency. fruits and vegetables, and strengthening accelerate voluntary monarch conservation $449,790 the relationship between schools and their on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state surrounding community. eastern monarch corridor and catalyze Operation Migration-USA $50,000 agricultural community engagement. Whooping Crane Reintroduction $30,000 to Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) The Nature Conservancy Support monitoring and outreach efforts in Restoring Wetland Bird Habitat in Midwest Association of Fish support of conserving the critically endangered Calumet Coastal Wetlands (IL, IN) and Wildlife Agencies whooping crane and building a self-sustaining Restore and enhance 178 acres of coastal Developing a Central Flyway Monarch population in the Southeast. Project will wetland habitat at six sites within the Calumet Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) support two staff positions during the region of southern Lake Michigan in order to Lead a regional and national coordination three-season migration period and provide restore and manage habitat for wetland birds 31 process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch outreach to increase general awareness. including yellow rail and northern harrier. Conservation Strategy for states located along $75,000 Project will treat invasive species on 138 acres, the eastern monarch migratory corridor. restore hydrology to 40 acres of wetland Project will establish common habitat Pollinator Partnership habitat, and monitor wetland bird species to and population goals, and strategies Ecoregional Seed Program for Monarchs across document restoration impacts and inform and monitoring will be implemented Eastern Broadleaf Forest (AR, IL, IN, MO, OH) adaptive management. at the state level. Establish an ecoregional seed collecting $806,653 $144,750 program for the eastern broadleaf forest and provide technical assistance to public and University of Illinois at Chicago Foundation private land managers in five states. Project Little Prairie on the Campus: Cooperative Weed Management Area will collect 300 pounds of milkweed seed Restoring Prairie on University of Illinois of Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and propagate 9,000 seedlings to support at Chicago’s West Campus and Southeast Indiana establishment of 4,700 acres of monarch Restore .25 acres of prairie with help of 60 Create a Cooperative Weed Management butterfly habitat. high school and college intern volunteers on Area in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky $150,000 “Little Prairie on the Campus,” located on the and Southeast Indiana to control and reduce west side of the University of Illinois at Chicago nonnative invasive plant species in the Ohio Sand County Foundation campus, in the Chicago River watershed. Project will establish a Building Capacity for Monarch Recovery watershed. Project will provide training for Cooperative Weed Management Area and use among Electric Utilities (IA, IL, MN, WI) campus project managers on incorporating and it as a template for creating others in the Ohio Build capacity within the energy industry to managing sustainable infrastructure and natural River watershed. establish high-quality monarch habitat on lands habitats and expand the campus stormwater $60,000 dedicated to energy infrastructure and rights- management plan. of-way. Project will incorporate cost-effective $36,658 Operation Migration-USA habitat restoration strategies into energy Whooping Crane Reintroduction to industry standards of operation and restoring WildAid Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) habitat at 400 sites. U.S. Illegal Wildlife Demand Support monitoring and outreach efforts in $98,769 Reduction Campaign (Multiple States) support of conserving the critically endangered Develop and implement a communications whooping crane and building a self-sustaining campaign to raise awareness of wildlife population in the Southeast. Project will trafficking into the United States. Project will support two staff positions during the three- reduce the demand for illegal wildlife and the season migration period and provide outreach amount of illegal wildlife products smuggled to increase general awareness. into the U.S. contributing to lessening poaching $75,000 pressure on endangered species, including elephants, rhinos, tigers and pangolins. $270,000 United States and U.S. Territories $111,609 benefit a variety of rare plant species. high-quality interdunal wetland ecosystem and previous restoration efforts toimprove a in northwest Indiana. P along the southern coast ofLake Michigan wetlands and marsh habitat across three sites and purple loosestrife on60acres ofinterdunal Treat invasive speciessuchasred canary grass in the Indiana Dunes Region -II Interdunal Wetland Restoration Shirley Heinze LandTrust $110,259 habitat. additional 120acres of high-quality wetland acres ofpreviously treated areas and treat an to monitor and control invasive species on 85 conservation complex. P acres of wetland habitat in the Hobart Marsh Expand work to enhance and restore 205 Hobart Marsh Restoration (IN) -II Shirley Heinze LandTrust $205,960 northwest Indiana. natural areas ofthe LittleCalumet River in use and habitat quality ofthe waterways and areas. P controlling vegetation, and replanting riparian kayak launches and two parking lots, pervious of the LittleCalumet River by installing three Improve thepublic use and riparian habitat of theLittle Calumet River (IN) Improving PublicUse Save theDunesConservation Fund $179,965 practices for laser use. directly withstakeholders and develop best and conduct outreach efforts to communicate the useoflasertechnology around fisheries, make decisions and recommendations about scientific evidence for regulatoryto agencies to bycatch mortality. P may pose adanger to marinebirds vulnerable from entering areas around fishing vessels, technology, developed to prevent marine birds Determine theextent to which new laser Prevention inCommercial Fisheries (HI, IN) Laser Technology for Seabird Bycatch Purdue University $150,000 butterfly habitat. establishment of4,700acres ofmonarch seed and propagate 9,000seedlings to support P and private land managers in five states. and provide technical assistance to public program for the eastern broadleaf forest Establish anecoregional seed collecting Eastern Broadleaf Forest IN, MO, (AR, IL, OH) Ecoregional Seed Program for Monarchs across Pollinator Partnership roject willcollect 300pounds ofmilkweed roject willimprove access,visitation,

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Project dredging and installation of a water control provide outreach to tobacco growers to help will restore instream habitat and the riparian structure to provide enhanced management them implement conservation practices area of Williams Creek, a cold-water trout ability. Project will result in habitat to protect local water quality and improve stream within city limits, and remove improvement, improved management of the wildlife habitat through the use of cover crops impermeable surfaces associated with wetland, and removal of invasive species from and other associated practices, and focus on high-use sidewalks and public and private surrounding buffer and upland. transitioning tobacco growers to conservation parking areas to replace them with permeable $30,034 tillage practices and conservation practice pavers, an infiltration trench, bioswale, native implementation. prairie plants and trees. Keystone Policy Center $380,000 $33,761 Enhancing Monarch Habitat in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) Midwest Association of Fish Sand County Foundation Disseminate information to agricultural and Wildlife Agencies Building Capacity for Monarch Recovery producers, private landowners and the public Developing a Central Flyway Monarch among Electric Utilities (IA, IL, MN, WI) to explain the role of agriculture in monarch Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Build capacity within the energy industry to conservation. Project will build capacity to Lead a regional and national coordination establish high-quality monarch habitat on lands accelerate voluntary monarch conservation process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch dedicated to energy infrastructure and rights- on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state Conservation Strategy for states located of-way. Project will incorporate cost-effective eastern monarch corridor and catalyze along the eastern monarch migratory corridor. habitat restoration strategies into energy agricultural community engagement. Project will establish common habitat industry standards of operation and restoring $30,000 and population goals, and strategies habitat at 400 sites. and monitoring will be implemented $98,769 Midwest Association of Fish at the state level. and Wildlife Agencies $144,750 U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish Developing a Central Flyway Monarch and Wildlife Service - Region 3 Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) National Federation Restoring Midwest Monarch Habitat (IA, MN) Lead a regional and national coordination Cumberland Plateau Shortleaf Establish monarch and other pollinator habitat process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch and Oak Restoration (KY, TN) on private, easement and fee-title lands Conservation Strategy for states located along Restore shortleaf pine and oak woodlands/ 33 in the prairie pothole region of Minnesota the eastern monarch migratory corridor. savannas on public lands in Tennessee and and Iowa. Project will restore and enhance Project will establish common habitat Kentucky. Project will result in 6,002 acres 440 acres with local eco-type northern tallgrass and population goals, and strategies impacted through shortleaf plantings, prairie seed that is rich in native milkweed and monitoring will be implemented prescribed fire and forest opening and nectar plant species. at the state level. enhancements, and will engage over 700 $104,342 $144,750 people through public outreach events. $186,000 Kansas Kentucky Ohio River Foundation Heartland Conservation Alliance Cumberland River Compact Cooperative Weed Management Area A Monarch’s View of Urban Landscapes: Aquatic Habitat Improvement of Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky Kansas City Proof of Concept (KS, MO) on the Cumberland Plateau (KY, TN) and Southeast Indiana Inform gaps in the Urban Monarch Engage public and private landowners in Create a Cooperative Weed Management Landscape Conservation Design project restoration and enhancement to improve water Area in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and test engagement strategies within each quality and aquatic habitat. Project will advance and Southeast Indiana to control and reduce metropolitan area through site monitoring, riparian forest restoration and unimpeded flow nonnative invasive plant species in the Ohio social surveys and outreach activities. Project in rivers and headwater streams in the project River watershed. Project will establish will sample monarch habitat across different area to benefit amphibians such as eastern a Cooperative Weed Management Area land use types and/or different scales to hellbender, four-toed and green salamander and use it as a template for creating others populate the model with real data and conduct and hairyfoot crayfish, fish such as barrens and in the Ohio River watershed. surveys, interviews or focus groups with a bluemask darter, barrens topminnow, flame $60,000 range of stakeholders to inform best practices. chub and rosyface shiner, and mussels such as $50,415 Cumberland pigtoe and rainbow mussel. Operation Migration-USA $95,671 Whooping Crane Reintroduction to Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) Support monitoring and outreach efforts in support of conserving the critically endangered whooping crane and building a self-sustaining population in the Southeast. Project will support two staff positions during the three-season migration period and provide outreach to increase general awareness. $75,000 United States and U.S. Territories $520,750 350 charter vessels in allfive Gulf states. resulting in electronic data collection from over wide implementation ofelectronic reporting, upon an existing project to facilitate Gulf- red snapper and grouper. P recreational fisheries dataas for species such logbooks to efficiently and accurately collect in Louisiana with satellite-based electronic Equip up to 100charter for-hire fishing vessels Gulf-Wide Implementation Vessels inLouisianato Support Expanding Electronic Reporting to For-Hire CLS America $51,695 observers on their vessels. devices (TEDs),and the importance ofcarrying the logistics and benefits of turtle excluder current and upcoming proposed regulations, industry workshops to educate fishermen on Louisiana and Mississippi. P the northern Gulf of Mexico inAlabama, based workshops for the skimmerfleet of fishermen and implementing community- ‘Tow the Time’ education campaign for shrimp Increase seaturtle protection by expanding the Shrimp Industry Engagement MS) LA, (AL, Reduced Impactsto Sea Turtles through Audubon Nature Institute $250,000 and perform basal bark treatment. herbicides to unwanted woody vegetation, trees, implement prescribed burns, apply remove eastern red cedarand Ashejuniper National Forest in prairies intheWinn Ranger District ofKisatchie of prairies in Texas grasslands and 157acres of Hire 90crew participants to restore 5,000acres TX) (LA, Collaboration for GulfHabitat Restoration American YouthWorks andU.S. Forest Service American YouthWorks $183,001 environmental stewardship. into careers related to conservation and opportunities for the purpose ofadvancing training, experiential learning and mentoring career development track composed of provide youth crew members asixmonth the eastern Gulf region ofTexas. 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Project will strongly rearing and spawning habitat and 827 acres of collection on commercially important species emphasize longleaf pine management and pond habitat for alewives. Project will improve such as snapper and grouper. Project will build prescribed fire and will impact greater than access for river herring, Atlantic salmon, on successful pilots and expand to Gulf-wide 105,000 acres. American eel and eastern brook trout by implementation of electronic monitoring to $499,631 removing dams. improve catch and discard monitoring. $97,000 $544,525 The Water Institute of the Gulf Sustainable Restoration and Monitoring BioDiversity Research Institute National Wild Turkey Federation of Bayou Duplanier through Community Increasing Aquatic and Terrestrial Pineywoods Longleaf Restoration (LA) - IV Engagement (LA) Connectivity for Key River Systems (ME) Establish 800 acres of longleaf pine and Restore 26 acres of urban cypress wetlands Advance the pace, scale and scope of improve an additional 2,000 acres of longleaf along Bayou Duplanier in Baton Rouge, connectivity work in rivers. Project will habitat through prescribed burning and other Louisiana with the help of 100 volunteers. restore aquatic connectivity at high-priority management practices. Project will focus on Project will involve clearing invasive plant stream crossing sites through targeted conservation investments to expand protected species from the 26 acres, planting 180 native technical assistance and will increase public wildlife corridors linking public and private wetland trees and 1,080 native wetland support for restoring aquatic connectivity and lands. In addition, project will support return grasses, as well as assessing water quality implement 21 high-priority stream simulation site visits to existing longleaf landowners and and overall ecosystem condition, and design projects that will open 32.5 miles of provide small group outreach communication establishing a sustainable water quality high-quality brook trout and Atlantic salmon to new private landowners that may be monitoring program for six new sites. habitat and 225 acres of river herring habitat. interested in restoring longleaf pine. $39,971 $75,000 $300,000 University of Central Florida Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance The Longleaf Alliance Important Sea Turtle Habitat Identification Strengthening Electronic Monitoring Coordinating Local Implementation Team through Genetic Indicators (AL, FL, LA, MS) in the New England Groundfish Fishery Capacity and Landowner Technical Assistance Sample, satellite tag and track oceanic stage (MA, ME, NH) and Outreach - II (Multiple States) sea turtles caught offshore in the eastern Gulf Expand participation and build upon a Support the Local Implementation Team of Mexico. Project results will inform research successful electronic monitoring program 35 (LIT) coordinator, a unique, cross-cutting on environmental and genetic mechanisms for the New England groundfish fishery – position that builds and improves partnership driving sea turtle habitat use during their early including Atlantic cod, flounder and other capacity across longleaf pine’s historic range to developmental years, closing a major gap in the species. Project will continue to implement restore and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. uncertainty surrounding recruitment dynamics and evaluate electronic monitoring strategies Project will increase communication and from the oceanic stage. that effectively improve accountability through collaboration among the 17 LITs and provide $122,079 enhanced video monitoring coverage, while technical assistance support for developing simultaneously partnering with independent strategic conservation plans, helping to University of New Orleans scientists to explore new opportunities to target limited resources toward the greatest Marsh Restoration for the Birds and Us (LA) leverage electronic data into improved long- conservation benefits. Rebuild, renew and improve 25 acres of term fisheries management. $100,000 freshwater – intermediate marsh in Bayou $553,424 Sauvage National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) and The Nature Conservancy Big Branch NWR in the Lake Pontchartrain Downeast Salmon Federation Calcasieu Lake and Sabine National Wildlife estuary through on-the-ground marsh Increasing River Herring Monitoring Refuge Oyster Reef Restoration (LA) vegetation planting of native salt-tolerant and Restoration in Eastern Maine Build 2,640 linear feet (.15 acres) of vertical species such as smooth cordgrass. Project will Coordinate a comprehensive river herring oyster reef structure along rapidly eroding target 400 underserved middle and high school monitoring and restoration program across shorelines of Calcasieu Lake within Sabine students from the urban center of New Orleans eastern Maine. Project will develop a citizen National Wildlife Refuge. Project will directly to cultivate plants used in the project and science program to mobilize local volunteers protect 20 acres of critical coastal marsh that monitor the restoration effort over time. in fisheries investigation and management by supports a high diversity of fish and wildlife $42,214 collecting long-term population and habitat populations, create fisheries habitat, enhance data to inform municipal harvests. estuary water quality, and slow shoreline $147,830 Maine retreat, thereby increasing the resiliency of nearby coastal communities. Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.) $250,000 Herring Restoration Plan Implementation (ME) Work with partners to continue river herring restoration in Maine’s Penobscot River watershed. 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Project will build habitat quality for American black ducks within mentoring program for students in grades a foundation for collaboration by developing the Chesapeake Bay. Project will focus 11 and 12 interested in pursuing science a shared understanding of the conservation on perpetual conservation of 300 acres of disciplines associated with natural resource and landscape within the Choptank watershed, priority American black duck habitat on environment management. creating a collective impact framework for Maryland and Virginia’s eastern shore to $60,000 uniting conservation efforts. establish protected habitat corridors. $104,868 $199,831 Anacostia Riverkeeper High-Volume Community Cisterns and Rain Chesapeake Stormwater Network Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Garden Projects in Prince George’s County (MD) Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Envision the Choptank: A Collaborative Combat stormwater pollution runoff through and Engagement (Multiple States) Restoration for Oyster Success (MD) the installation of one cistern and two rain Increase the capacity of four target training Develop a comprehensive program to garden projects that will prevent about 300,195 populations to accelerate the adoption of accelerate the rate at which agricultural gallons of stormwater runoff annually in several cost-effective stormwater practices to reduce and residential best management practices areas of Maryland. Project will demonstrate sediment and nutrients to the Chesapeake are implemented in the lower Choptank best management practices for stormwater Bay. Project will include training staff at more watershed area, including the Harris and Broad management that address urban infrastructure than 500 small municipal separate storm sewer Creek and the Tred Avon River watersheds. challenges caused by high percentages of system communities, stormwater managers The partnership will prioritize restoration impermeable surfaces. in larger communities who are responsible locations and engage landowners through a $50,000 for stormwater education and outreach, series of targeted workshops and one-on-one local stormwater inspectors, and industrial assistance. Project will reduce 155 pounds of Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound compliance managers at more than 2,500 phosphorus, 3,650 pounds of nitrogen and Creating Support for Migratory Birds through permitted sites. 40,800 pounds of sediment annually. Citizen Science in Baltimore (MD) $125,000 $152,074 Restore 3 acres of migratory bird habitat while involving 100 students in data collection Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Friends of Blackwater NWR in Gwynns Falls Leakin Park in Baltimore, Canterbury Farm Wetland Restoration (MD) Butterfly Garden Expansion (MD) 37 Maryland. Project partners will remove Restore 15 acres of non-tidal wetlands Expand the existing Butterfly and Beneficial invasives to enhance migratory bird habitat and at Canterbury Farm and educate 25 Insect Garden to tie into the new wing of the Gwynns Falls watershed. landowners in the region about their role the Visitor Center of the Blackwater National $49,993 in restoring wetlands. Project will restore Widlife Refuge by installing new paths, native 7 acres of shallow water emergent wetlands plants including milkweed and buttonbush, Blue Water Baltimore and 8 acres of wooded wetlands in the plant labels, rain barrels and interpretive Urban Forestry and Workforce Development Choptank River watershed, reduce nitrogen signage. The expansion will provide habitat for (MD) by 3,195 pounds, phosphorus by 150 pounds butterflies including monarchs, tiger and black Create four or more green jobs in Baltimore and sediment by 40,000 pounds annually, swallowtails, clouded sulphurs, eastern tailed City and scale-up restoration efforts through and help achieve local and state Watershed blues, bees and hummingbirds, as well as an the planting of urban street trees. Project will Implementation Plan goals. increased wildlife viewing area for visitors. support a new innovative partnership between $96,452 $9,250 environmental restoration and workforce development organizations, and leverage Council Fire George, Miles & Buhr the investment underway by providing job Nutrient Trading Feasibility Town of Betterton Stormwater Retrofit: placement sites for residents undergoing and Assessment (MD, PA, VA) Main Street Outfall (MD) career and life transitions. Assess the feasibility of nutrient trading Treat stormwater runoff on impervious $50,000 as a Bay restoration methodology. surfaces by installing a stormwater step pool Project will specifically create a Pilot Nutrient conveyance and a parking lot of permeable Carroll County Government - and Sediment Credit Acquisition Bank to help pavers that will cover an engineered subsurface Bureau of Resource Management spur market forces in the region, with infiltration beds. Project will Implementing Environmental Site Design and examine a role as active trading treat runoff from 13 acres by removing to Improve Water Quality at Carroll County partner in the ongoing marketplace. approximately 40 pounds of nitrogen, seven Farm Museum (MD) $20,540 pounds of phosphorus, and 2,416 pounds of Restore Carroll County Farm Museum’s natural total suspended solids from entering the local resources and engage museum visitors waterways every year. in enhancing local water quality. Project $50,000 will implement five demonstration stormwater management practices at the museum by providing runoff storage and filtration, increasing stream buffer width, and enhancing the natural habitat to alleviate folding on the premises. $150,000 United States and U.S. Territories $43,248 meetings, and conduct stakeholder interviews. and water quality assessment, holdpublic conduct ahistorical urban tree canopy Management Plan for theTown ofGreenboro, planting sites, create aFive Year Planting and conditions through an inventory oftrees and River. P community engagement in the Choptank management to improve water quality and Use urban forest restoration and tree canopy Management inGreensboro (MD) Urban Forest Restoration and Tree Canopy Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy $200,000 markets. Maryland’s water quality and environmental and productivity asanintegral part of and establish oyster restoration, conservation Maryland’s working waterfront communities, a new generation of watermen and revitalizing of the state’s commercial fishery by attracting for Maryland’s oystermen, ensure theviability development ofan oyster fishery cooperative will increase spat onshellproduction for the interests ofMaryland’s watermen. P Enhance thelong-term business and economic (MD) Oyster Management Public-Private Partnership DepartmentMaryland ofNatural Resources $609,455 county’s Alternative Compliance P space for installation islimited, and support the in highly urbanized/impervious settings where enhanced best management practices for use development, evaluate the effectivenessof to escalate theretrofit of uncontrolled urban innovative Clean Water P facilities. 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Project will develop access and promote local, underexploited in four additional watersheds, completing public-private partnerships with at least resources of New England haddock, redfish and baseline assessments in a total two agricultural retailers, perform pollock. Project will provide a verified supply of of 10 watersheds. jointly-funded demonstration projects local underutilized species, increasing domestic $95,271 with farmers to purchase equipment and product market access. management tools, develop local case $199,995 Spa Creek Conservancy studies, and reduce annual loads of nitrogen Southwoods Community Stormwater Retrofit by 105,250 pounds, phosphorus by 26,000 Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance (MD) pounds and sediment by 791 tons. Strengthening Electronic Monitoring Implement a Watershed Action Plan developed $195,953 in the New England Groundfish Fishery for the Southwoods community, which enlists (MA, ME, NH) private property owners to reduce nutrient U.S. Department of Agriculture, Expand participation and build upon a and sediment pollution and stormwater runoff, U.S. Forest Service successful electronic monitoring program restore wetlands, streams and riparian forested Patch-Based Brook Trout Genetic Monitoring for the New England groundfish fishery – buffers on working forests and farms, and in the Headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay including Atlantic cod, flounder and other store and treat stormwater runoff. Project will Watershed (Multiple States) species. Project will continue to implement prevent a total of 21.35 pounds of nitrogen, Test novel monitoring metrics for eastern brook and evaluate electronic monitoring strategies 3.46 pounds of phosphorus, and 1,080 pounds trout that include the number and size of brook that effectively improve accountability through of sediment from entering the local waterway. trout occupied habitat patches, the number of enhanced video monitoring coverage, while $192,518 patches with invasive trout, genetic diversity simultaneously partnering with independent and effective population size. Project scientists to explore new opportunities to Sustainable Chesapeake will compare the performance leverage electronic data into improved long- Achieving Phosphorus Balance in the of each of these patch-based metrics, term fisheries management. Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Multiple States) provide recommendations for those that $553,424 Engage stakeholders in Chesapeake Bay are most informative, and build a model watershed to achieve farm and regional to predict values of these metrics Watershed Association nutrient balance in high-density animal in unsampled habitat patches. Stormwater Management and Habitat production areas. Project will expand markets $110,224 39 Stewardship at Magazine Beach (MA) for manure and its co-products to facilitate Improve American shad and river herring cost-effective transport of excess nutrients, University of Delaware habitat by preventing 70,580 gallons of annual facilitate Manure Management Plan and Delmarva Choptank River Watershed stormwater runoff from entering the Charles Nutrient Balance Sheet development, identify Water-Column Habitat Restoration (DE, MD) River, restoring 1.5 acres of riparian habitat, 1.6 long-term solutions, engage 12,000 to 16,000 Quantify the effects of land use on water acres of beachfront and .3 acres of freshwater producers, and reduce 3,328,800 pounds of quality at restored oyster reefs. Project will wetlands within the Magazine Beach area in nitrogen, 124,564 pounds of phosphorus and establish a monitoring community to track the Cambridge, Massachusetts. Project will work 30,048 tons of sediment per year. fate of nutrients across the watershed, develop with volunteers to install and maintain rain $626,835 continuous data standards across freshwater, gardens, control invasive common reed, false groundwater, terrestrial and tidal monitoring indigo and purple loosestrife, and replant the The Nature Conservancy stations, and deploy sensors in tributaries wetland with native plants. 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Project will Maintain technical assistance contractor Watershed (MA) continue to engage practitioners, including positions in the 17-state early successional Creating a network of highly trained town road certified crop consultants and agricultural forest habitat region to benefit New England managers knowledgeable about practices industry professionals, to better coordinate cottontail, American woodcock, for culvert replacement projects meeting outreach and training for priority best golden-winged warbler, and over 60 other upgraded design criteria. Project will build the management practices, and facilitate increased species of concern. Project will continue capacity of 20 towns in the DeerfieldR iver delivery and adoption of conservation practices to develop new approaches and outreach Watershed to replace undersized, unsafe by producers. materials to better educate and encourage culverts with culverts that will improve stream $49,320 public and private landowners to become connectivity and critical habitat for eastern actively involved in this effort. brook trout and reduce flood hazards. $504,012 $179,620 United States and U.S. Territories $596,493 majority oftheircatch. to minimize discards at seaand retain the monitoring coverage whileallowing fishermen accountability through 100percent video retention model, which will provide improved will implement an innovative maximized New England groundfish fishery. P as A and compliance monitoring ofspecies such electronic monitoring for catch accounting Create incentives for fishermen to adopt ME, RI) (MA, Fishery Monitoring intheNew EnglandGroundfish Using Incentives to Advance Electronic Gulf ofMaineResearch Institute $50,000 conservation. of urban and community cultural heritage and youths from diverse communities in explorations Urban Archaeology Corps’s goal ofengaging Lawrence, Massachusetts. P archeology curriculum for eight youths in P Build onexisting partnership with the National Expansion (MA) Groundwork Lawrence Youth Programs Groundwork Lawrence $100,000 to permitting and leasing requirements. on proper ocean farming techniques in addition develop atraining program to educate farmers shellfish ocean farms in New England. P P Create theOcean Farm Start-Up Training England (CT, RI) MA, Bolstering Economic Development inNew Ocean Farm Start-Up Training Program: GreenWave $2,669 of avariety ofpollinator species. the foraging, reproduction and sheltering carefully chosen for the garden to support native New England wildflowers that were install and maintain the garden and plant 27 Massachusetts. P on the O opened BillAshe Visitor Facility located Establish apollinator garden at the recently National Wildlife Refuge (MA) Pollinator Garden at Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge Friends oftheOxbow $8,985 from the visitor center and web pages. a unique and very active tern colony directly a low-impact, unobtrusive way to observe provide the public with breeding season (May to August). 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Project will Bring together shorebird conservation partners species and bird species normally associated with provide educational materials that will enhance from Atlantic Canada to Florida to meet interior forests, which use young forest sites for the educational, interpretive and conservation conservation targets for breeding American brood rearing and in preparation for migration. mission of the refuge and create a new revenue oystercatchers, piping plovers, Wilson’s plovers Project will include non-commercial vegetation stream to sustain the organization and further and snowy plovers. Project will maximize management, construction of roosting fields and support the refuge’s needs. broad-scale effectiveness of predation singing grounds to benefit American woodcock, $15,000 management by producing detailed guidance and planting of shrubs and the development of for managers in the form of best management forage areas to benefit New England cottontail. Keystone Policy Center practices for how, when and where to initiate $170,000 Enhancing Monarch Habitat predator management. in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) $341,862 Wildlife Management Institute Disseminate information to agricultural Technical Assistance Coordinators producers, private landowners and the public U.S. Department of the Interior, for Young Forests (Multiple States) to explain the role of agriculture in monarch U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Maintain technical assistance contractor conservation. Project will build capacity to Shorebird Harvest along the Atlantic Flyway positions in the 17-state early successional accelerate voluntary monarch conservation on Build and expand on current accomplishments forest habitat region to benefit New England the agricultural landscape in the 14-state eastern by strengthening law enforcement where cottontail, American woodcock, golden-winged monarch corridor and catalyze agricultural shorebird harvest is illegal or restrictions are warbler, and over 60 other species of concern. community engagement. in place, develop harvest management tools Project will continue to develop new approaches $30,000 by collecting more and better information, and outreach materials to better educate and establish and maintain no-shooting reserves, encourage public and private landowners to Midwest Association of Fish develop incentives as an alternative to hunting, become actively involved in this effort. and Wildlife Agencies and improve education and communication in $504,012 Developing a Central Flyway Monarch all regions exposed to harvest pressure. Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) $249,674 Lead a regional and national coordination Michigan process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch University of Connecticut Conservation Resource Alliance Conservation Strategy for states located along Vegetation Management in Transmission Line Reconnecting Sandborn Creek (MI) the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Project Corridor and Implications for Native Pollinators Replace the final four aquatic passage barriers on will establish common habitat and population (MA, NH) Sanborn Creek, a tributary to the Pere Marquette goals, and strategies and monitoring will be 41 Extend previous study to native bees River. Project will reconnect 14.6 miles, resulting implemented at the state level. and butterflies, building on existing in complete passage by brook trout and other $144,750 infrastructure and findings about species cold-water aquatic organisms throughout the composition and vegetation structure along entire length of Sanborn Creek. Muskegon River Watershed Assembly a transmission line. Project will document the $850,000 Road-Stream Crossing and Riparian Restoration importance of early successional habitats to in the Muskegon River Watershed (MI) the species diversity and abundance of wildlife Huron Pines Resource Conservation Restore connectivity to over 5 miles of Bigelow in New Hampshire, adjacent states, and other & Development Council Creek and enhance riparian habitat throughout forested landscapes, and will assess Duncan Bay Coastal Wetland Protection the Muskegon River Watershed. Project will the effects of mowing and herbicide employed and Restoration (MI) replace two road-stream crossings on Bigelow by northeastern utility companies Protect and restore 317 acres of coastal wetland Creek and plant 40 acres of forested riparian on dependent pollinator communities. habitat and 3,500 feet of shoreline surrounding habitat along other cold-water streams within $111,077 Duncan Bay along Lake Huron to benefit species the watershed, to benefit brook and brown trout, including dwarf lake iris, black tern, osprey, brook chinook salmon, steelhead, mottled sculpin, University of Mississippi trout and steelhead. Project will restore wetland blacknose dace, central mudminnow, creek chub, Understanding the Legal Framework hydrology, increase habitat diversity through johnny darter, northern redbelly dace and white for Removing Marine Debris and Placing invasive species control, and improve aquatic sucker. Fishing Gear (Multiple States) organism passage by removing two road-stream $214,850 Support development of innovative, proactive crossings. management strategies to address derelict $371,910 Seney Natural History Association fishing gear and vessel interactions in New Building Rural Community Support (MI) England. Project will improve awareness of Huron Pines Resource Conservation Recruit new members during community state derelict fishing gear and vessel navigation & Development Council meetings and improve outreach to the rural laws and regulations and explore legal Restoring Aquatic Connectivity communities that surround the Seney National opportunities to prevent gear loss. on the Pine River (MI) Wildlife Refuge by creating a new responsive web $44,814 Reconnect 20 upstream miles of high-quality site, preparing a 15-minute video presentation, cold-water habitat for native brook trout, preparing and printing a newly designed northern hogsucker, channel darter, wild brown pamphlet, and engaging a publicity/presentation and rainbow trout, and steelhead, and 500 training resource. Project will provide the refuge feet of floodplain habitat on the Pine River in with increased manpower, volunteer program northeast Michigan. Project will restore the support, and physical property improvements natural hydrology, nutrient transport and passage once the active membership has grown. by fish and other aquatic organisms. $6,415 $157,073 United States and U.S. Territories $504,012 become actively involved inthis effort. encourage public and private landowners to outreach materials to better educate and will continue to develop new approaches and and over 60otherspecies ofconcern. P American woodcock, golden-winged warbler, region to benefit New England cottontail, in the17-state earlysuccessionalforest habitat Maintain technical assistance contractor positions for Young Forests (Multiple States) Technical Assistance Coordinators Wildlife Management Institute $289,019 by brook trout and otheraquatic organisms. reconnect 8stream milesto improve passage stream in northern Michigan. 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U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Conservation Legacy Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain Wildlife Service - Region 3 Next Generation of Gulf Coast Environmental Restore and Enhance Upland Restoring Midwest Monarch Habitat (IA, MN) Ambassadors and Leaders (FL, MS) and Connecting Critical Habitat for the Establish monarch and other pollinator habitat Provide paid internships and environmental Endangered Dusky Gopher Frog (MS) on private, easement and fee-title lands conservation training to at least 30 Restore and enhance 527 acres of longleaf pine in the prairie pothole region of Minnesota socio-economically disadvantaged students on the DeSoto National Forest and the Gopher and Iowa. Project will restore and enhance to gain workforce skills to encourage careers Frog Tract (GFT) to support the endangered 440 acres with local eco-type northern tallgrass in wildlife conservation. Project will help dusky gopher frog. Project will remove invasive prairie seed that is rich in native milkweed protect sea turtles along 160 miles of Gulf species, thin trees, implement a fire regime, and nectar plant species. Coast in Pensacola, Florida and Ocean and plant longleaf pine to promote better $104,342 Springs, Mississippi while also promoting survival of endangered and threatened species. public awareness by leading environmental In addition, partners will provide a conservation Wilderness Inquiry conservation summer camps area for translocated gopher tortoises Discovering Our Urban Wildlife Refuges (MN) and citizen science activities. on the GFT when conditions become Introduce 1,200 urban youths and families $100,000 satisfactory for their return. to the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife $100,000 Refuge, through place-based education and Forest Landowners Association recreation activities and restoration of 15-acres Fostering Large-Scale Working Forest Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain along the Minnesota River. Project will provide Landowner Collaboration (Multiple States) Training Southern Mississippi Youth environmental education to urban youths from Target working-forest landowners, as in Restoring Critical Habitat Minneapolis and Saint Paul schools and teach well as companies that manage large for Endangered Species technical job skills while exposing the youth to forestland holdings for family owners, to Recruit and train 20 underserved youth from the refuge, hiking, restoring native plants and identify opportunities for longleaf pine southern Mississippi on the restoration and engaging with refuge rangers. restoration and management. Project will research of endangered species critical habitat. $29,972 foster communication between the Forest Project will provide youth with mentorship Landowner Association’s member network, opportunities from university researchers Wildlife Management Institute longleaf stakeholders and the U.S. Fish and and U.S. Forest Service biologists while Technical Assistance Coordinators Wildlife Service to help landowners understand mapping and restoring critical upland habitat for Young Forests (Multiple States) and address regulatory barriers or disincentives adjacent to one of the last remaining breeding Maintain technical assistance contractor to planting and maintaining longleaf pine. ponds of the endangered dusky gopher frog positions in the 17-state early successional $100,000 in DeSoto National Forest. forest habitat region to benefit New England $49,576 cottontail, American woodcock, golden-winged Friends of Noxubee Refuge warbler, and over 60 other species of concern. Plugging in to Unplug (MS) Manomet Project will continue to develop new approaches Engage a larger, more diverse and younger Gulf of Mexico Coastal Waterbird 43 and outreach materials to better educate and population in the many activities and valuable Conservation Framework (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) encourage public and private landowners to resources of the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee Work with federal and state agency become actively involved in this effort. National Wildlife Refuge that promotes the and nongovernmental organization experts $504,012 conservation of animal species, including to develop a framework to achieve long-term the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, conservation and recovery goals for targeted and their habitats. Project will enhance the species of coastal waterbirds across the Gulf. Mississippi organization’s presence on the internet and Project will build on existing business plans to American Conservation Experience develop an app for iPhone and Android devices create a set of strategies and associated actions Employing America’s Youth to Restore Critical in an effort to enhance the lives of patrons and costs to guide coastal shorebird and Habitat in the (MS) through conservation. waterbird conservation projects throughout Create job and educational opportunities for 13 $14,200 the Gulf over the next decade. youths. Project will create 6 miles of multi-use $203,746 trails focusing on the Blue Lake, Little Sunflower Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain River, and Mud Lake trails, install proper drainage Best Practices for Effective Texas A&M AgriLife Research features, and repair trail surfaces and 3 miles of Land Conservation in the Gulf Applied Biodiversity Sciences fencing to create a sustainable trail system in the of Mexico Region (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Conservation Scholars Program Delta National Forest and aid U.S. Forest Service Promote best practices and efficiencies Integrate undergraduates and graduates personnel in the removal of invasive plant species among various practitioners to achieve using a two-tiered program that will focus like kudzu and oriental bittersweet. land conservation goals of emerging state on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico $100,000 and federal conservation plans for the Gulf. ecosystems and broader questions on energy Project will provide capacity building and development, energy policy and impacts Audubon Nature Institute technical assistance to partner organizations, on biodiversity and natural resources. Project Reduced Impacts to Sea Turtles through identify best practices and efficiencies for will appoint two graduate fellowships Shrimp Industry Engagement (AL, LA, MS) implementing landscape level conservation, to mentor a small cohort of undergraduate Increase sea turtle protection by expanding the and assist in implementation by enhancing interns as they develop their projects ‘Tow the Time’ education campaign for shrimp collaboration among public agencies and and internship proposals. Each intern will fishermen and implementing community-based nongovernmental organizations. conduct baseline research to support workshops for the skimmer fleet of the northern $247,500 a one-month summer internship opportunity. Gulf of Mexico in Alabama, Louisiana and $200,000 Mississippi. Project will host industry workshops to educate fishermen on current and upcoming proposed regulations, the logistics and benefits of turtle excluder devices (TEDs), and the importance of carrying observers on their vessels. $51,695 United States and U.S. Territories $80,714 connectivity and fish passage. and future mitigation aimed atimproving unidentified yazoo darter populations, drainages. P throughout the Yocona and Tallahatchie assemblage study ofyazoo and goldline darters Conduct apopulation genomics and fish Yocona andTallahatchie River Drainages (MS) Study ofYazoo andGoldline Darters ofthe University ofSouthernMississippi $44,814 opportunities to prevent gear loss. laws and regulations and explore legal state derelict fishing gear and vessel navigation England. P fishing gear and vessel interactions in New management strategies to address derelict Support development ofinnovative, proactive Fishing Gear(MultipleStates) for Removing Marine DebrisandPlacing Understanding theLegal Framework University ofMississippi $122,079 from the oceanic stage. uncertainty surrounding recruitment dynamics developmental years, closing amajorgap in the driving seaturtle habitat use during theirearly on environmental and genetic mechanisms of Mexico. P sea turtles caught offshore inthe eastern Gulf Sample, satellite tag and track oceanic stage through Genetic Indicators MS) LA, FL, (AL, Important Sea Turtle Habitat Identification University ofCentral Florida $499,631 impact greater than 105,000acres. management and prescribed fire and will will strongly emphasize longleaf pine in each ofthe five Gulf states. P and ecosystem restoration technicians working urban youths aswildland firefighters and provide 18to 19jobs to underserved Build upon asuccessful pilot project to train MS, TX) LA, FL, (AL, Gulf Coast Prescribed Fire Mentoring Program The Nature Conservancy $100,000 conservation benefits. target limited resources toward the greatest strategic conservation plans, helping to technical assistance support for developing collaboration among the 17LITs and provide P and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore that builds and improves partnership capacity coordinator, aunique, cross-cutting position Support the Local Implementation Team (LIT) Assistance andOutreach -II(Multiple States) Team CapacityandLandowner Technical Coordinating Local Implementation The Longleaf Alliance roject willincrease communication and roject willimprove awareness of roject willaimto identify previously roject results willinform research roject roject

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$150,000 butterfly habitat. establishment of4,700acres ofmonarch and propagate 9,000seedlings to support will collect 300pounds ofmilkweed seed private land managers in five states. P provide technical assistance to public and program for the eastern broadleaf forest and Establish anecoregional seed collecting Eastern Broadleaf Forest IN, MO, (AR, IL, OH) Ecoregional Seed Program for Monarchs across Pollinator Partnership $249,966 and P fulfill theobjectives of the Missouri Monarch 434 acres ofmonarch habitat and willhelp to landowners. P and disseminate training materials on-the-ground monarch habitat restoration Work with multiple partners to implement and Landowner Outreach Implementation Missourians for Monarchs Habitat Missouri Conservation Heritage Foundation $144,750 at the state level. and monitoring willbe implemented and population goals, and strategies P the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Conservation Strategy for states located along process to develop aCentral Flyway Monarch Lead aregional and national coordination Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Developing aCentral Flyway Monarch and Wildlife Agencies Midwest Association ofFish $38,500 native vegetation toimprove water quality. in removal ofinvasive plants and planting of engage adiverse group ofcommunity partners oxbow wetted edge. P corridor that includes 3,400feet ofremnant honeysuckle from 20acres offorested riparian in urban Kansas Citythat willremove invasive R and RiparianCorridorRestoration (MO) Blue Valley Park, BlueRiver Remnant Oxbow Little Blue River Watershed Coalition $30,000 agricultural community engagement. eastern monarch corridor and catalyze on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state accelerate voluntary monarch conservation conservation. P to explain therole ofagriculture in monarch producers, private landowners and the public Disseminate information to agricultural in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) Enhancing Monarch Habitat K roject willestablish common habitat estore aremnant oxbow ofthe Blue River eystone Policy Center ollinator Conservation Plan. roject willbuild capacity to roject willrestore more than roject willdirectly

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Sustainable Chesapeake Conservation Legacy Montana Conservation Corps Achieving Phosphorus Balance in the Wildlife Restoration Improvement Plan Pompey’s Pillar National Monument and Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Multiple States) (CA, MT, NM, SD) Billings Recreation Sites (MT) - II Engage stakeholders in Chesapeake Bay Employ five youths to sample salt ponds and Employ five youths to stain .25 miles of boardwalk watershed to achieve farm and regional survey birds on the Don Edwards National at Pompey’s Pillar National Monument and nutrient balance in high-density animal Wildlife Refuge in California. Project will include maintain 5 miles of mountain bike trail at Acton production areas. Project will expand markets monitoring of mule deer, elk and mountain Recreation Area north of Billings, Montana. Project for manure and its co-products to facilitate lion responses to large-scale forest restoration will install 10 miles of route signage cost-effective transport of excess nutrients, treatments, surveying aquatic invasive species in several areas of the Pryor Mountains facilitate Manure Management Plan and in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and on the Montana/Wyoming border to control Nutrient Balance Sheet development, identify assessing sylvatic plague in small mammals access and protect critical habitat. long-term solutions, engage 12,000 to 16,000 and their fleas in grassland prairie environments $18,000 producers, and reduce 3,328,800 pounds of of Badlands National Park to assist in nitrogen, 124,564 pounds of phosphorus and black-footed ferret recovery. Montana Conservation Corps 30,048 tons of sediment per year. $53,560 Restoring the Last Best Place (MT, SD, WY) $626,835 Engage 79 youth in hands-on conservation Ducks Unlimited projects with the Bureau of Land Management Inform, Strengthen and Monitor Farm and the Bureau of Reclamation at various Montana Bill Delivery in the Northern Great Plains locations in Montana, Wyoming and South Bitter Root Land Trust (MT, ND, SD, WY) Dakota. Project will include treating invasives, Bitterroot Valley Stem the conversion of native grasslands and building new trails to help concentrate recreational Cooperative Weed Management (MT) declines of associated bird species such as impact, and reconnecting habitat corridors. Conduct integrated weed management within Sprague’s pipit, Baird’s sparrow, long-billed $76,600 critical wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors curlew, chestnut-collared and McCown’s within the Bitterroot Valley that support elk, longspurs, through stewardship efforts on Montana Department of Natural Resources moose, white-tailed and mule deer, bobcats, private rangelands in portions of Montana, and Conservation mountain lions, black bears, , foxes, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. Support for Water Transfers Capacity FY17 (MT) bald eagles, bobolinks, Clark’s nutcrackers, Project will track rates of conversion to assess Assist Montana qualified local entities with review Lewis’s woodpeckers, westslope cutthroat conservation success and implement adaptive and coordination on water transactions. trout and bull trout. Project will improve management for future conservation action. $42,125 over 8,000 acres of important wildlife $112,223 and agricultural resources through invasive Montana Discovery Foundation species management. Flathead Community Foundation Youth Forest Monitoring Program (MT) $63,210 Crown of the Continent Aquatic Invasive Engage youth in a 7-week summer internship Species Prevention (MT, Canada) program where they will train alongside 45 Clark Fork Coalition Coordinate efforts to keep harmful aquatic forest scientists, working in teams to monitor Community Water Marketing Program invasive species out of the Crown of the forest health, and present their observations FY17 (MT) Continent region. Project will combine two and recommendations in a final report and Identify, implement and monitor water successful pilot programs to establish an presentation. Project will equip youth with the transactions in the Clark Fork basin innovative regional Aquatic Invasive Species skills and knowledge needed for seasonal and of Montana. prevention strategy. permanent employment with the Helena-Lewis $159,439 $168,655 and Clark National Forest. $25,000 Clemson University Montana Association of Land Trusts Northern Great Plains Swift Fox Agricultural Land Easement Program (MT) Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Connectivity (MT) Cost-share a vital new shared position to Mulherin Creek Fish Screen and Yellowstone Live-trap and track at least 20 adult and assist in securing a significant new array of Cutthroat Trout Entrainment Prevention (MT) 20 juvenile foxes on federal, private, state Agricultural Land Easement applications Install a fish screen at an irrigation diversion and tribal lands in Blaine, Phillips and Valley and helping facilitate the smooth flow of on Mulherin Creek, a major source of recruitment Counties, Montana. Project will use tracking, these applications through what can be a of fluvial Yellowstone cutthroat trout fry to the survivorship and recruitment data to build cumbersome Natural Resources Conservation Yellowstone River. Project will contribute to models of both population dynamics and Service administrative process. meeting high-priority conservation goals including dispersal/movement potential. This analysis $125,000 protecting migratory life history strategy will identify the biggest influences on the and protecting non-hybridized Yellowstone population dynamics in the region, and build Montana Conservation Corps cutthroat trout. upon state-wide monitoring to create Big Sky Watershed Corps Drought Resiliency $35,870 a meta-population model to assess dynamics (MT) at a landscape scale. Work closely with local stakeholders to promote Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks $158,207 drought resiliency in Montana watersheds. Reducing Human-Caused Grizzly Bear Project will expand restoration activities to Mortalities in the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem (MT) address the decline and degradation of native Support a Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem bear specialist ecosystems and provide drought specific to be on-call to resolve bear conflicts quickly, education to local stakeholders. using methods that attempt to prevent the death $10,000 of bears, and to provide free bear-resistant and electrified fencing loan programs, which provide the public with a quick solution for securing common bear attractants. Project will include public programs and workshops that increase community awareness of grizzly bear behavior and biological needs. $50,000 United States and U.S. Territories $399,738 monitoring efforts are sustainable. and provide asupport network to ensure monitoring that meets the needsofagencies with landowners to initiate rangeland P individual ranch management plans. monitoring and help producers develop and central Montana to promote rangeland Place two rangeland technicians in eastern Montana’s Rangelands and Monitoring to Protect andEnhance Provide Technical ExpertiseinPlanning of Montana Soil andWater Conservation Districts $200,000 longspur and other grassland species. sparrow, chestnut-collared and McCown’s enhance habitat for Sprague’s pipit, Baird’s southeastern Montana to conserve and landowners and other partners in central/ and grassland bird expertise to work with grassland birds by hiring abiologist with range conservation delivery in a key area for Increase capacity for on-the-ground (MT, CO) Capacity for Birds across theGreat Plains Integrating ScienceandHabitat Delivery Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory $55,006 to conservation careers. experiential learningand exposure Initiative and give crew members supplemental R the Bureau ofLand Management and Natural concentrated fence-flagging initiative with grouse collisions with wire fences through a the extensive mortality associated with sage sage grouse in Montana. P habitat and reduce mortality for the greater whose field work willmeasurably improve Employ tribal youth conservation teams (MT) Mortality through Livestock Fence-Flagging Engaging Youth to Reduce Sage Grouse National Wildlife Federation $100,000 for their survival and growth. wolverine and wolf populations in this key area manage threatened grizzly bear, mountain lion, help and tools biologists needto effectively P education of residents, visitors and businesses. research, monitoring, conflict resolution and Support grizzly bear and other key megafauna from CutBankto Yaak (MT) Grizzly andWildlife Management Montana Outdoor Legacy Foundation roject technicians willwork directly roject willfocus on seasonal, specialized esources Conservation Service’sSage Grouse roject willreduce

$234,581 movement patterns in the region. acquire smallprivate land parcels, and monitor wildlife conflicts, facilitate highway crossings, replant suitable vegetation, reduce human- ineffective barriers ondisusedor roads, protect protect and restore primehabitat, reinforce Canadian R population and reconnecting itwith the larger Yaak region, by growing the small,isolated grizzly bear habitat and survival in the Cabinet- Lead and coordinate over 60partners to improve and Survival inthe Cabinet-Yaak Region (ID, MT) Creating Habitat for GrizzlyBear Connectivity Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative $384,961 expansion with translocations. political needs for assisting wolverine population and develop policies that address thesocio- the northern U among occupied, core wolverine habitats of metapopulation, maintain landscape connectivity occupancy and genetic characteristics of the and establish acurrent baseline on distribution, a collaborative monitoring program to assess strategy for wolverines. P Define and implement amulti-state conservation Mountains andNorth Cascades (Multiple States) Wolverine Monitoring inthe U.S. Rocky Agencies Western Association ofFishandWildlife $50,000 diversions. to eliminate theneed for two downstream minor irrigators to thenew pipelines system also change the points ofdiversion for three supplementing instream flow rights. P and ensure instream flow targets are met while seepage lossup to 3.84cubic feet persecond trout. spawning and rearing Yellowstone cutthroat tributary to the Yellowstone River, to benefit Maintain instream flows in R Reese Creek Flow Enhancement (MT) Trout Unlimited $109,540 deliver ofwater in the protected reach. P transactions in the upper Columbia River Basin. Develop and complete instream flow water Montana Water Project FY17 Trout Unlimited $250,000 public lands inaheavily used recreational area. mule deer, while alsoensuring public accessto grizzly bears, greater sage-grouse, wolverine and corridors for arichvariety ofwildlife, including P Sage Creek landscape ofthe HighDivide. on aranch located in the heartofthe Blacktail- Establish a32,447-acre conservation easement in the HighDivide(MT) Protecting Wildlife Habitat andCorridors The Nature Conservancy -Montana roject willmonitor flows in order to assure the roject willprotect critical habitat and migratory P roject will install two pipelines to eliminate ockies’ populations. P .S R ascades, ockies and north Cascades, roject will implement roject willimplement reek, a eese Creek, a roject will roject will roject will roject will

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Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Walker Basin Conservancy Develop Cooperative Weed Management Invasive Noxious Weed Species Reduction (NV) Yerington Conservation Crew: Connecting Area to Protect Sage Grouse (NV) Provide employees of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Youth with Nature (NV) Develop the Southern Nevada Cooperative Tribe an opportunity to learn treatment and Partner with the Yerington Conservation Weed Management Area and the expansion control measures for the infestation of invasive Crew to engage youth in restoration projects of the green fountain grass removal, outreach weed species in the Lower Truckee River. Project within the Walker Basin. Youth will implement and education efforts. Project will increase will provide employees of the tribe to learn numerous restoration, revegetation and capacity of a new Cooperative Weed the importance of treatment techniques and trail maintenance projects while developing Management Area covering more than 15,000 conservation efforts. teamwork skills and a lasting connection to square miles in Nevada, protect riparian areas, $50,003 the outdoors. water resources, and sage grouse habitat $50,000 through removal of invasive weeds across Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden approximately 230 acres. Genomic Sequencing of the Endangered Walker River Paiute Tribe $55,500 Bakersfield Cactus (AZ, CA, NV, UT) Agai Dicutta Youth Working to Enhance the Partner with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Walker River for Agai Pah, Walker Lake (NV) Golden Eagle Audubon Society Palm Springs Office biologists to genetically Engage tribal youth in the removal of willows Native Youth for Habitat Restoration (ID, NV) characterize the federally endangered Bakersfield and trees from the bank along the Walker River, Provide habitat restoration training and cactus, endemic to the southern San Joaquin the planting and monitoring of native plants, education for native youth from the Valley. Project will clarify the relationship with the removal of small tamarisk plants, and the Duck Valley Reservation. Bureau of Land the more widespread beavertail cactus, identify collection of seeds for replanting. Project will Management and local resource professionals morphological traits correlated with different allow for better surface water flows, enhanced will train and educate the youth on restoration varieties, and provide needed insight for project- water quality, and efficient monitoring of techniques, ecology and conservation. level consultations under the Desert Renewable planted areas and birds. $33,446 Energy Conservation Plan and the California High $50,000 Speed Rail. Great Basin Institute $72,350 New Hampshire Vegetation and Sage-Grouse Habitat Monitoring in the Walker Basin and Watershed Summit Lake Paiute Tribe Audubon Vermont (CA, NV) Developing the Next Generation Managing New England Forests Provide paid youth internship positions of Conservationists at Summit Lake (NV) and Early Successional Habitats acquiring valuable skills in field research Engage youths in internship opportunities for Priority Bird Species (NH, VT) techniques related to monitoring offering training in data collection and field Engage landowners, land managers and conservation. Field technicians will learn survey techniques through participation in and foresters on their properties and at contemporary habitat sampling techniques a variety of natural resource conservation demonstration sites to promote management by collecting vegetation and habitat data using projects at the Summit Lake Reservation. Project practices that benefit priority bird species in 47 the Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring will include a variety of restoration projects New England. Project will improve habitat protocol. Project will collect data to guide including Lahontan cutthroat trout population through on-the-ground conservation action proper treatment design, provide baseline assessments, sage grouse monitoring, watershed and by authoring forest and early successional data against which treatment effects and rangeland assessments, noxious weed habitat management plans and case studies. may be measured, and enrich currently identification/management, water quality $70,000 existing data sets. monitoring, or riparian restoration. $19,998 $50,000 Belknap County Conservation District Gunstock Brook Restoration and Gunstock League to Save Lake Tahoe The Nature Conservancy Area Habitat Improvement and Outreach (NH) Protecting Lake Tahoe from Clarity Loss Soldier Meadows Water Rights Implement Gunstock Watershed Plan stream and Aquatic Invasive Species (NV) and Conservation for Desert Dace bank restoration at Route 11B Mass Prove successful in filling important and Other Endemic Species (NV) Failure/Wasting Site, identified as most critical management gaps for monitoring and control Hire and oversee a water rights surveyor to to restoring native trout and smelt habitat. of Lake Tahoe’s two biggest threats to water review formal documents associated with Project will provide outreach and education clarity: fine sediment loading and aquatic real estate, water rights and desert dace about habitat restoration and revise a forest invasive species. Project will provide vital within Soldier Meadows. Project will conduct plan to address habitat improvements for information for locating hot spots of sediment a hydrographic survey and oversee the target species such as American woodcock loading from stormwater outfalls and early construction of a perimeter fence while working and brook trout, future habitat work, detection and rapid response for new and/ with Bureau of Land Management. 120 feet of boardwalk repair, or spreading infestations of aquatic invasive $95,000 pollinator habitat, and outreach. species, while also educating the community $70,033 about these threats. Trout Unlimited $35,000 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Conservation Work (CA, NV, OR) Outside Las Vegas Foundation Provide continued support for a Lahontan Increasing Community Engagement and cutthroat trout coordinator to provide on-the- Volunteering in Southern Nevada (NV) ground expertise, partner coordination, project Plan, organize and execute volunteer events management, oversight of Lahontan cutthroat throughout Las Vegas Valley and Southern trout fieldwork, and landowner and public Nevada. Project will plant 400 trees, engage outreach. Project will also support a range-wide 360 volunteers and remove 7.4 acres of field crew for two years to implement Lahontan invasive plants such as palm sprouts, spotted cutthroat trout recovery activities and supports knapweed and cheatgrass. staff to continue important outreach and assess $40,000 current brook trout eradication efforts in two Walker headwater streams. $235,601 United States and U.S. Territories $86,000 response to instream habitat improvement. monitor water temperatures and brook trout restore 7milesofinstream habitat, and to reconnect 22milesofhabitat, watersheds. P Stream, Brandy Brook and Nulhegan River an emphasis ontheP the Upper ConnecticutR iver watershed with R Watershed (NH, VT) Reconnection inthe Upper ConnecticutRiver Brook Trout Habitat Restoration and Trout Unlimited $100,000 will restore fish passage to the upper river. with afish-friendly, open-bottom structure that culvert on the Shepards River in Brownfield the funds to replace adeteriorating, undersized in New Hampshire. P downstream, the majorityofwhich islocated River in Brownfield to 27.6milesof habitat trout habitat upstream ofthe Shepards R Shepards River Renewal (ME, NH) Town ofBrownfield, Maine $67,500 brook trout at thecatchment scale. recently completed status assessment ofwild conservation priorities using the results of the J Assist with refining the Eastern Brook Trout Coordination andOperations FY15 (NH) Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture Stephen GPerry $199,165 Hampshire and V potential for infrastructure failures in sixNew and willhelp reduce flood elevations and the trout spawning grounds and thermal refuge 140 milesofhigh-quality native eastern brook New Hampshire and V seven high-priority damremoval projects in Secure damowners’ approval to proceed with Habitats (NH, VT) and Vermont Opening Eastern Brook Trout Seven DamRemovals inNew Hampshire Connecticut River Watershed Council $553,424 long-term fisheries management. leverage electronic data into improved scientists to exploreto new opportunities simultaneously partnering withindependent enhanced videomonitoring coverage, while that effectively improve accountability through and evaluate electronic monitoring strategies species. 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$197,983 and exotic shrubs. composed ofdifferent proportions of native or selective herbicide treatment, and openings in habitats maintained by mechanical mowing of 445acres ofhabitat and compare bird use priority bird species.P these habitats influences use by conservation management and the landscape surrounding Hampshire to determine how vegetation cottontails in southern Maine and New way and clear-cuts that benefit New England Use Eversource transmission linerights-of- by Songbirds (ME,NH) and New EnglandCottontail Clear-cuts Use ofTransmission Line Rights-of-Way University ofNew Hampshire $44,814 opportunities to prevent gear loss. laws and regulations and explore legal state derelict fishing gear and vessel navigation England. P fishing gear and vessel interactions in New management strategies to address derelict Support development ofinnovative, proactive Fishing Gear(MultipleStates) for Removing Marine DebrisandPlacing Understanding theLegal Framework University ofMississippi $111,077 dependent pollinator communities. by northeastern utility companies on the effects ofmowing and herbicide employed and other forested landscapes, and willassess of wildlife inNew Hampshire, adjacent states, to the speciesdiversity and abundance importance ofearlysuccessional habitats a transmission line. P composition and vegetation structure along infrastructure and findings about species and butterflies, building on existing Extend previous study to native bees NH) (MA, Corridor andImplications for Native Pollinators Vegetation Management in Transmission Line University ofConnecticut $75,000 directly under this grant. Only one model project willbe completed populations in 20.5milesof streams. projects that willexpand salter brook trout and complete three model conservation up to 10prioritySalter Conservation Areas, is currently unknown, evaluate and identify will survey 80streams where brook trout status Conserve sea-run (salter) brook trout. P Northeastern United States (Multiple States) Brook Trout “Salter” Conserving inthe Trout Unlimited roject willimprove awareness of roject willdocument the roject willassessatotal

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$504,012 actively involved inthis effort. public and private landowners to become materials to better educate and encourage to develop new approaches and outreach species ofconcern. P golden-winged warbler, and over 60other cottontail, American woodcock, forest habitat region to benefit New England positions inthe17-state earlysuccessional Maintain technical assistance contractor for Young Forests (Multiple States) Technical Assistance Coordinators Wildlife Management Institute $145,000 high-quality young forest projects. assistance to forest landowners, and identify roosting fields orsinging grounds, technical management and construction of woodcock low value and non-commercial vegetation preparation for migration. P use young forest sites for brood rearing and in normally associated withinterior forests which forest-dependent species, and bird species projects to benefit American woodcock, young Implement avariety offorest management Young Forest Species(NH) Habitat Management to Benefit Wildlife Management Institute $60,000 in southern Maine. England cottontail within approved focal areas will support arestoration coordinator for New prairie warbler and many pollinators. P while benefiting breeding American woodcock, about 150New England cottontail rabbits, public lands, with an eventual increase of special focus onindustrial, commercial and R New EnglandCottontail Provide Flexible Approaches to Restoring Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve $67,150 overflow problems. frequent flooding and combined sewer entering the system and willaddress will help reduce the amount ofstormwater barrels throughout the cityofCamden. P management program that willinstall 600rain Design, prioritize and implement a stormwater Camden CityRainBarrel Program (NJ) Camden County MunicipalUtilitiesAuthority $90,000 adjacent to farm fields and a parking lot. 2.5 acres offarm edge, and develop bioswales agriculture land, revegetate native plants on implementing a vegetated bufferon area protect waterway from sedimentation by P and assess potential restoration opportunities. Evaluate existing conditions within Barrett’s Run at Barrett’s RuninCumberland County (NJ) Reducing Agricultural andStormwater Impact American Littoral Society N roject willreduce the impactofrunoff and estarting 300acres over two a years, with ew Jersey roject willcontinue roject will include roject willinclude

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Groundwork Elizabeth New Jersey Audubon Society Friends of Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge Greenway Renewal along Synergistic Conservation Strategies Southwest Friends Peer-to-Peer Workshop Elizabeth’s Urban Waters (NJ) in the Highlands (NJ) - II (NM) Engage youth from low-income, minority Build on a previous grant by improving, enhancing Host a Peer-to-Peer Workshop with the Friends communities in environmental projects that and restoring land that provides both habitat of the High Plains National WildlifeR efuge that improve local streams and riparian habitats and natural resource protection opportunities. will include interactive, interest-driven sessions in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Project will build Project will assist in the implementation of that engage, educate and invigorate the Friends stewardship around and improve access to restoration work such as riparian plantings, of the Southwest Region. amenities along the Elizabeth River and Travers invasive removals, and stewardship of restored $6,725 Branch. Youth will improve habitat with native areas to improve water quality. planting to benefit pollinators and songbirds. $215,887 National Audubon Society Three youth will be provided with jobs and Middle Pilot Water Transactions training to help restore 25 acres of habitat. The Nature Conservancy (NM) $24,500 Restoring Paulins Kill Floodplain Forests Assist Audubon New Mexico in pursuing three and Functions (NJ) – II water transaction opportunities to benefit the Groundwork Hudson Valley Collaborate with the Wallkill River Watershed endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow, the Fish and Wildlife Youth Conservation Management Group to maintain and enhance a threatened Southwest willow flycatcher, and Training Program (NJ, NY) 20-acre, 1-mile riparian restoration and vegetative other at-risk species. Project will include a one- Engage 100 volunteers, plant 20 native stream bank stabilization project. Project will time purchase of up to 600 acre feet (AF) of trees, and restore more than .25 miles of improve water quality and floodplain function stored water from six pueblos, a 3-year lease of urban river habitat in a section of Saw Mill by reducing nutrient loading and connecting senior natural flow rights within the boundaries River in Westchester County, New York, that a riparian corridor habitat across agricultural, of the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, is relatively undisturbed by development commercial and state-preserved properties. and a 3-year instream lease of agricultural and thus a critical habitat area for local fish $176,278 water rights on the Middle . populations within the watershed. Project $39,770 will help prepare students from elementary The Trust for Public Land to high school for careers in fish and wildlife Strategic Investment Plan for New Mexico Wilderness Alliance restoration. the Delaware River Watershed (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Conserving and Restoring Critical Land $36,292 Develop a business plan to guide and prioritize and Water Resources in the Santa Fe National conservation and restoration throughout the Forest (NM) Manomet entire watershed, integrating its programs, Engage the community in volunteer American Oystercatcher Recovery and developing overarching goals and strategies stewardship projects including monitoring and (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) - VI to address key threats to its fish and wildlife. restoring 1 acre of land by removing invasive Conserve and manage coastal habitat Project will develop strategic conservation areas weeds and plants to support natural habitat, designed to recover the population and statistics to support the report. species and ecosystems that are important 49 of American oystercatchers and associated $98,845 to community livelihoods. Project will recruit beach nesting bird species in Massachusetts, diverse community members to participate Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey Wildlife Management Institute in the Planning and South Carolina. Project will elevate Technical Assistance Coordinators process which encourages public input to oystercatcher productivity across the sites for Young Forests (Multiple States) inform management of forest resources where conservation efforts are occurring, Maintain technical assistance contractor for the next 20 years. contributing to a 30 percent target increase positions in the 17-state early successional $20,000 in Atlantic Flyway American oystercatcher. forest habitat region to benefit New England $149,865 cottontail, American woodcock, golden- Rio Puerco Alliance winged warbler, and over 60 other species of Continuing Restoration along Torreon Wash Natural Lands Trust concern. Project will continue to develop new (NM) Livestock Farm Roof Runoff approaches and outreach materials to better Provide 25 youth jobs, engage 40 volunteers, Management Outreach (NJ) educate and encourage public and private plant 1,000 cottonwoods and approximately Promote and assist in implementing landowners to become actively involved 1,000 willows along the Torreon Wash agriculture best management practices for in this effort. in the Ojo Encino and Torreon Chapters of roof runoff by conducting outreach to over 30 $504,012 the Eastern Navajo Nation, in Sandoval and livestock farmers about the Natural Resources McKinley Counties, New Mexico. Project will Conservation Service Roof RunoffS tructure use a summer youth crew to install a mile New Mexico practice. Implementation of roof runoff of fencing to protect the plantings from management techniques will reduce nutrients Conservation Legacy livestock and wildlife. from entering the water and overall improve Wildlife Restoration Improvement Plan $24,952 water quality by placing a storage tank for (CA, MT, NM, SD) stormwater that will be reused as drinking Employ five youths to sample salt ponds and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps water for livestock. survey birds on the Don Edwards National Middle Rio Grande Urban Conservation Corps $50,000 Wildlife Refuge in California. Project will include (NM) monitoring of mule deer, elk and mountain Provide conservation employment lion responses to large-scale forest restoration opportunities for youth in the Albuquerque treatments, surveying aquatic invasive species metropolitan area through the Middle Rio in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and Grande Urban Conservation Corps. Project will assessing sylvatic plague in small mammals and introduce youths to a breadth of conservation- their fleas in grassland prairie environments related service opportunities and learning of Badlands National Park to assist in black-footed experiences including trail building ferret recovery. and ecological restoration. $53,560 $150,000 United States and U.S. Territories $84,109 streams and reaches within streams. set of high-resolution climate scenarios for all stream networks data to develop aconsistent P comprehensive network for the Southwest. and nongovernmental sources to develop a temperature data from allavailable agencies populations and habitats, and collecting stream multi-agency monitoring plan for Apache trout Southwest trout by developing amore effective Improve management effectiveness for native (AZ, CO, NM) Assessment ofSouthwestern Trout Long-Range PlanningandVulnerability Trout Unlimited $46,738 species and techniques. workshops focused on regionally applicable and distribute them to land managers through restoration research and science information, protocols, biocontrol and current mapping, removal, native plant revegetation, monitoring techniques dealing with invasive species P restoration ofriparian lands across the West. of invasive vegetation and successful Develop innovative tools for the removal (CO, NM, OK, UT) Impacted by Invasive Woody Vegetation Restoration Tools for RiparianLandscapes Tamarisk Coalition $50,000 Station, and a youth summit. trips to theTalking Talons Biological FieldStudy projects, aconservation workshop, four field participate in habitat and species restoration employ a5-person youth conservation crew to with theCibola National Forest. P participation opportunities in connection to 25with conservation employment and urban, minority and tribalyouth ages 16 P and Education inConservation (NM) -II Giving Youth Voice through Participation Talking Talons Youth Leadership $60,000 such asgrouse, owls and waterfowl. property to protect low-flying birds, R fencing on the V P opportunities and learning experiences. in abreadth ofconservation-related service Engage thenext generation ofurban youth Bureau ofReclamation Partnership (NM) Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps artner with the U roject willuse spatial statistical for models roject willpackage thesenew tools and roject willinstall 3.5milesofwildlife-friendly efuge and adjacent Bureau ofR alle de Oro National Wildlife .S Forest to Service provide eclamation eclamation roject will roject will

$55,000 in Long Island Sound. source pollution to improve water quality to reduce stormwater runoff and nonpoint work practices and policies ofthe city fully integrate green infrastructure into the for the CityofNew R P in the CityofNew Rochelle (NY) Green Infrastructure PlanningInitiative City of New Rochelle $125,000 permitted sites. compliance managers at more than 2,500 local stormwater inspectors, and industrial for stormwater education and outreach, in larger communities who are responsible system communities, stormwater managers than 500small municipal separate storm sewer Bay. P sediment and nutrients to the Chesapeake cost-effective stormwater practices to reduce populations to accelerateof the adoption Increase the capacity offour target training and Engagement (MultipleStates) Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Chesapeake Stormwater Network $10,000 entering LongIsland Sound waters. floatables debris and other trash from Bronx. P one on-shore coastal cleanup event in the collection at atrash collection boom site, and and pickup canoe trips, oneon-shore litter Collect floatable debris through 10 paddle in the Bronx River andLongIslandSound(NY) Reducing Floatable Litter andDebris Pollution B $83,941 Island Sound drainage. and reduce nitrogen from farms in the Long among Suffolk County’s 140vegetable farms will catalyze the use ofsoilhealth practices farmer-to-farmer in SuffolkCounty. P information about the practices and results and environmental results, and share practices, document the crop, economic Conduct five on-farm pilots ofsoil health and CleanWater for LongIslandSound(NY) Cultivating Champions forHealthy Soil American Farmland Trust $86,916 propagate more than 500seedlingplants. minimum of12pounds ofmilkweed seed and and container plants. P to increase commercial availability ofseed four corners states and willwork with partners nectar-producing species in portions ofthe Increase seedcollection ofmilkweed and other Milkweed and Nectar Species (AZ, CO, NM, UT) Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program for Land Management -Rio Puerco FieldOffice U.S. Department oftheInterior, Bureau of N repare agreen infrastructure program plan ronx River Alliance Y ew roject willinclude training staff at more roject willprevent 4,420pounds of or k ochelle. The project will ochelle. The project will roject willproduce a roject roject

$28,287 City sewer system. leaving the wetland and entering theNew York wetland and decrease the amount ofwater P located in the Northwest Bronx watershed. Tibbetts Wetland within V 300 trees, restore, monitor and learn about the hiring 14high school students who willplant Continue second part ofatwo-year project, Wetland Stewardship inthe Bronx (NY) -II Friends ofVan CortlandtPark $50,000 toolkit and on-site educational signage. will educate the public through an online two workshops and through outreach. P volunteers in green infrastructure techniques at vulnerable areas and training gardeners and in sixhigh-use community gardens located in City by installing green infrastructure projects P Pollution andProviding Education (NY) Commitment to Water, Conserving Preventing Council ontheEnvironment d/b/a GrowNYC $63,061 imperiled brook trout populations. resilience to future climate changes in will be vital for planning and enhancing throughout their native range. P tolerance inbrook trout populations to evaluate genetic diversity and thermal Develop ahigh-throughput genotyping tool Predicting Responses to Climate (NY) Improving Brook Trout Conservation by Cornell University $58,937 bays and harbors ofLong IslandSound. regional management ofwater quality in local same way, improving the understanding and quality monitoring groups collect data inthe harbors. P working in Long Island Sound embayments and eutrophic conditions by citizen-science groups water quality monitoring ofecological and methods and produce guidance to inform Develop apilot ofcommon standards and for LongIslandSoundEmbayments (NY) Water QualityMonitoring Initiative Connecticut Fund for theEnvironment $150,000 salt marsh. P in Alley P and enhance coastal forest and upland habitat reestablishment ofup to 1acre ofsaltmarsh, Construct living shoreline to enhance Restoration (NY) Alley Creek Shoreline andCoastal Forest City of New York Parks andRecreation roject willincrease the overall health ofthe rovide environmental solutions in New York roject willarrest thecontinued lossofurban ond P roject willhelp citizen-based water ark, Douglaston, New York. an Cortlandt P roject roject

ark, ark, roject roject Groundwork Hudson Valley New York Botanical Garden RESOLVE Fish and Wildlife Youth The Green Zone (NY) Agricultural Conservation in the Chesapeake Conservation Training Program (NJ, NY) Mitigate damage from stormwater runoff, Bay Watershed (Multiple States) Engage 100 volunteers, plant 20 native trees, improve habitat for native flora, Assess the current capacity, needs and restore urban river habitat in a section fauna and animal species, and improve public and opportunities for agricultural conservation of Saw Mill River in Westchester County that awareness and education around urban clean partners to provide watershed project is relatively undisturbed by development water management in the Bronx and along management and technical assistance to and thus a critical habitat area for local fish the Bronx River. Project will reduce peak storm meet clean-water goals for the Virginia populations. Project will help prepare students flows to the Bronx River, thereby significantly Piedmont, while enhancing the economic and from elementary to high school for careers reducing soil and shoreline erosion along environmental sustainability of farms. Project in fish and wildlife restoration. the steep landscaped slopes will increase the knowledge and awareness of $36,292 of the Green Zone storm shed. program managers, policy makers and funders $50,000 about technical capacity issues and options for Groundwork USA agricultural conservation partners Historic Restoration at Gateway New York City Audubon Society in the Chesapeake Bay region. (NY) Restoration, Stewardship and Monitoring $62,700 Restore the ceiling of the western half of Bay to Benefit Shorebirds in the Jamaica Bay 9 at Jacob Riis Beach and improve the staircase Watershed (NY) Rocking the Boat to the bunker observation platform at Fort Protect migratory and nesting shorebirds in Student Scientist Monitoring of American Eel Tilden National Historic Site. Project will allow Jamaica Bay, New York City by engaging 390 and River Herring on the Bronx River (NY) - II for three Goundwork Trusts to work together volunteers, restoring 22 acres of habitat, Engage 265 middle and high school students on a joint project and involve 10 youths from a organizing two beach cleanups, a marsh in monitoring river herring and American national park youth outreach program in New planting event, and a dune-planting event. eel in the Bronx. Project will increase local York City in the restorations. Project will provide an educational component community awareness of the Bronx River $59,000 that will teach a three-part unit to Brooklyn as habitat for river herring and American middle schoolers, some from underserved eels and contribute to the development of a Manomet areas, and continue a citizen science program management plan for these Long Island Sound American Oystercatcher Recovery of monitoring shorebirds and horseshoe crabs. species. (MA, NJ, NY, RI, SC) - VI $35,115 $35,000 Conserve and manage coastal habitat designed to recover the population of American North Shore Land Alliance Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute oystercatchers and associated beach nesting Long Island Sound Water Education Comprehensive Spring and Fall Migratory Bird bird species in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, for Elementary School Students (NY) Assessment on the Gulf of Mexico New York, New Jersey and South Carolina. Deliver a three-session water quality education (AL, FL, MS, TX) Project will elevate oystercatcher productivity program to 1,850 elementary school students Map the distribution, abundance, 51 across the sites where conservation efforts in Nassau and Suffolk counties.P roject timing and habitat affiliations of birds during are occurring, contributing to a 30 percent will educate students about Long Island’s the spring and fall migrations around the target increase in Atlantic Flyway American groundwater quality, the connection to Long Gulf of Mexico coast using weather radar and oystercatcher. Island Sound, and how students can protect citizen-collected (eBird) data. Project will result $149,865 local water resources. in maps to be used as decision support tools $30,500 by conservation planners and policymakers to National Audubon Society develop Gulf-wide conservation priorities for Advancing the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Onondaga Environmental Institute North America’s migratory birds. Initiative (CT, NY, NC, FL) Restoring Native Brook Trout $321,155 Protect, restore, enhance and manage priority in Onondaga Creek (NY) - II shorebird habitats at roughly 75 sites across Continue to improve habitat for brook trout The Maritime Explorium at Port Jeff Harbor Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and and other aquatic species within Onondaga My Yard, Our Sound: Planting for Florida. Project will eliminate harmful human Creek by restoring and improving connectivity, Clean Water and Wildlife (NY) disturbances using new and innovative instream habitat and water quality along Engage 1,600 people in a program that delivers techniques, protect the places that shorebirds the west branch. Project will replace two an exhibit and workshops for families to need at critical times of their life cycles, assess road-stream crossings to reconnect 6 miles of transform their yards and gardens with native the impact of predators at selected sites, stream habitat and improve over 3 miles of plants in Port Jefferson. Project will provide advance the current knowledge of shorebird instream habitat through the targeted removal natural landscaping guidance to homeowners demography, and address key knowledge gaps. of significant debris jams. to encourage the use of alternatives to $150,000 $178,050 chemical and nutrient-intensive landscaping to benefit water quality and living resources National Audubon Society Peconic Green Growth of Long Island Sound. Share the Shore and Be a Good Egg (NY) Demonstrate Onsite Wastewater $25,366 Provide a multifaceted environmental Treatment Systems for Clean Water education program which includes public and at R.E. Reid Recreation Center (NY) school programming, direct on-the-beach Design and install a pilot, soil-based wastewater public outreach, delivering stewardship treatment system in Shoreham. Project will projects on the coast for birds, and securing reduce nitrogen by 85-90 percent and treat pledges from people committing to share the for other contaminants of emerging concern shore with shorebirds on the North Shore in Long Island Sound. of Long Island. Project will reduce threats to $86,430 coastal habitats and shorebirds including piping plover, least tern, common tern, American oystercatcher and black skimmer. $34,988 United States and U.S. Territories $110,224 metrics inunsampled habitat patches. and build amodel to predict values ofthese for those that are most informative, metrics, provide recommendations the performance ofeachthese patch-based effective population size. P patches with invasive trout, genetic diversity and trout occupied habitat patches, the number of trout that include the number and size ofbrook Test novel monitoring metrics for eastern brook Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Multiple States) Monitoring inthe Headwaters ofthe Patch-Based Brook Trout Genetic U.S. Forest Service U.S. Department ofAgriculture, $75,000 completed directly under this grant. miles ofstreams. Only one model project willbe will expand salter brook trout populations in 20.5 complete three modelconservation projects that to 10priority Salter Conservation Areas, and is currently unknown, evaluate and identify up will survey 80streams where brook trout status Conserve sea-run (salter) brook trout. P Northeastern United States (Multiple States) Brook Trout “Salter” Conserving inthe Trout Unlimited $98,845 areas and statistics to support the report. P to address key threats to its fishand wildlife. developing overarching goals and strategies entire watershed, integrating its programs, and conservation and restoration throughout the Develop abusiness planto guide and prioritize River Watershed (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Strategic Investment Planfor theDelaware The Trust for PublicLand $193,521 birds, suchasblack tern and least bittern. and green winged teal, and othermarsh nesting feeding areas ofwaterfowl, including blackducks spawning sites and enhance the nesting and the accessand habitat ofnorthern pike spring 10 road-stream crossings. P reconnecting floodplain habitat, and assessing habitat by constructing backwater potholes, R Coastal Wetlands (NY) Wetland Restoration inSouthernSodus The Nature Conservancy, New York $100,075 pollutants into Long Island Sound. cesspools whichcontributes nitrogen and other alternative to traditional wastein treatment and safely removes pathogens providing an in anatural manner, reduces nitrogen discharges, will demonstrate asystem that treats wastewater treatment system in Cold Spring Harbor. P first nitrogen-reducing vegetated wastewater Construct and publicize the results ofthe (NY) Sanctuary Systems for CleanWater at UplandsFarm Demonstrate Onsite Wastewater Treatment The Nature Conservancy -LongIsland roject willdevelop strategic conservation estore and enhance over 115acres ofwetland roject will compare roject willimprove

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Project will for manure and its co-products to facilitate communities from severe storms and floods, foster communication between the Forest cost-effective transport of excess nutrients, and enhance fish and wildlife and their Landowner Association’s member network, facilitate Manure Management Plan and associated habitats. Project will include a report longleaf stakeholders and the U.S. Fish and Nutrient Balance Sheet development, identify summarizing the tools, resources and datasets Wildlife Service to help landowners understand long-term solutions, engage 12,000 to 16,000 that were analyzed to inform the project and and address regulatory barriers or disincentives producers, and reduce 3,328,800 pounds of identify “Resiliency Hubs,” “Communities At- to planting and maintaining longleaf pine. nitrogen, 124,564 pounds of phosphorus and Risk,” and open space/working lands. $100,000 30,048 tons of sediment per year. $106,302 $626,835 Gettysburg College University of North Carolina Develop Low-Cost Electronic Catch The Longleaf Alliance Environmental Finance Center and Bycatch Monitoring in Small-Scale Coordinating Local Implementation Team Building Support for Local Watershed Fisheries (HI, NC) Capacity and Landowner Technical Assistance Protection and Clean Water Funding Develop a low-cost electronic monitoring and Outreach – II (Multiple States) Programs in Raleigh (NC) system to augment human observers in small- Support the Local Implementation Team (LIT) Strengthen and expand local capacity scale fisheries in Hawaii and North Carolina. coordinator, a unique, cross-cutting position for watershed protection efforts in Raleigh Project will develop electronic monitoring that builds and improves partnership capacity through a series of community-based technology and software to efficiently and across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore watershed education and outreach initiatives cost-effectively gather accurate fisheries data, and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. carried out in partnership with the City of including target catch rates and bycatch rates Project will increase communication Raleigh. Project will aim to strengthen the city’s of marine megafauna – such as sea lions, and collaboration among the 17 LITs and efforts to conserve critical water resources sharks and sea turtles – to assist in the provide technical assistance support and improve local water supply by facilitating management of U.S. small-scale fisheries. for developing strategic conservation plans, investments in green infrastructure and $65,813 helping to target limited resources toward encouraging broad-based citizen support for the greatest conservation benefits. watershed protection efforts. National Audubon Society $100,000 $25,000 Advancing the Atlantic Flyway Shorebird Initiative (CT, NY, NC, FL) The Nature Conservancy Yadkin Riverkeeper 53 Protect, restore, enhance and manage priority North Carolina Sandhills Longleaf Yadkin River Watershed Protection Task Force shorebird habitats at roughly 75 sites across Restoration Task Force - III (NC) Connecticut, New York, North Carolina and Establish 441 acres of longleaf pine and Review current land protection and water Florida. Project will eliminate harmful human improve nearly 12,000 acres of additional quality models and refine the model so that disturbances using new and innovative longleaf habitat with prescribed fire. Project it applies to the Yadkin River Watershed in techniques, protect the places that shorebirds will conduct longleaf restoration wand North Carolina. Project will apply the model need at critical times of their life cycles, assess management on properties including the to identify and conserve important vegetated the impact of predators at selected sites, North Carolina Sandhills Game Land that buffers and reduce nutrient and sediment advance the current knowledge of shorebird buffer the installation and provide habitat for runoff from non-point sources into the river. demography, and address key knowledge gaps. the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. $50,000 $150,000 Partners will also provide prescribed fire training and support to empower private North Dakota North Carolina Wildlife Federation landowners to burn longleaf on their own Charlotte Community Alliance properties. Ducks Unlimited for Wildlife Habitats Project (NC) $300,000 Inform, Strengthen and Monitor Farm Bill Create new community wildlife habitats Delivery in the Northern Great Plains in areas that are currently underserved by The Nature Conservancy (MT, ND, SD, WY) conservation initiatives in Charlotte, Onslow Bight Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Stem the conversion of native grasslands and North Carolina. Project will create new urban Restoration (NC) - III declines of associated bird species such as wildlife habitats, provide opportunities Restore and manage longleaf pine habitat Sprague’s pipit, Baird’s sparrow, long-billed for environmental education for community on State of North Carolina and Nature curlew, chestnut-collared and McCown’s residents through a Wildlife Stewards program, Conservancy-owned lands that adjoin or are longspurs, through stewardship efforts on and establish a new conservation coalition in close proximity to Camp Lejeune, providing private rangelands in portions of Montana, called the Charlotte Community Alliance encroachment protection and improving North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. for Wildlife. habitat for numerous species including the Project will track rates of conversion to assess $50,000 endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. conservation success and implement adaptive Project will plant 300 acres of longleaf pine and management for future conservation action. manage existing longleaf habitat on more than $112,223 5,800 acres of public and private lands. $300,000 United States and U.S. Territories $78,242 Wilson’s phalarope. green-winged teal, redhead, red knot,and wading birds, including ruddy duck, gadwall, and black willow, migratory shorebirds and specialized plant species such asleafy blue flag australis and other invasive species to benefit P forest habitat on aLake Erieriverine marsh. sedge meadow, riparian meadow and riparian R Huron River Wetlands Restoration (OH) Cleveland Museumof Natural History $30,000 100 volunteers. holding avolunteer planting event for up to through apermanent interpretative signand P will protect over 10acres offorested wetlands. utilizing natural stabilization methods, which the Cascade V R Bank Restoration (OH) Cascade Park Cuyahoga River Stream City of Akron $177,339 den-site model for the region. of resident foxes, and develop aswift fox plague on swift fox, analyze genetic diversity P priority reintroduction and conservation areas. Northern Great Plains to be used to identify occupancy and connectivity models in the Survey swift fox to develop predictive (ND, SD) Survey Swift Fox inthe Northern Great Plains South Dakota State University $144,750 at the state level. and monitoring willbe implemented population goals, and strategies P the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Conservation Strategy for states located along process to develop aCentral Flyway Monarch Lead aregional and national coordination Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Developing aCentral Flyway Monarch and Wildlife Agencies Midwest Association ofFish $30,000 agricultural community engagement. eastern monarch corridor and catalyze on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state accelerate voluntary monarch conservation conservation. 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Project will include the employment and education opportunities to develop new approaches and outreach production of 10,000 milkweed plugs, the within their local watershed while fostering materials to better educate and encourage restoration of 400 acres of monarch habitat, and a sense of environmental stewardship and public and private landowners to become the creation of seven native plant demonstration conservation. actively involved in this effort. sites by 140 youth program participants. $41,931 $504,012 $50,000 Deschutes River Conservancy Deschutes River Conservancy Water Oklahoma Oregon Transactions Program FY17 (OR) Association of Friends of the Wichitas City of Wilsonville Restore stream flow in the Oregon’s Deschutes Nature Store Project (OK) Bee Stewards in Wilsonville (OR) Basin through water transactions. Take over the operation of the Nature Store Restore two acres of city and school district lands $249,260 at the visitor center in the Wichita Mountains to vibrant and healthy pollinator habitat and Wildlife Refuge. Project will help support safeguard pollinator health within Wilsonville. Ecotrust improved visitor services and programs, and Project will expand community awareness and Expanding Fishing Business Market provide an opportunity to deliver higher stewardship of pollinators by involving diverse Opportunities for Fresh Frozen Seafood quality merchandise in the Nature Store that partners, volunteers and students in project (AK, CA, OR) will further public appreciation of the natural, planning, implementation and maintenance, Address market barriers to fresh frozen fish cultural and historic resources of the refuge. establishing interpretive signs next to public using an innovative tool that measures seafood $9,952 plantings, and providing residents with education freshness. Project will partner with fishing and tools to create habitats in their own yards. communities from Alaska to California to Keystone Policy Center $37,000 increase consumer understanding in supply Enhancing Monarch Habitat chain transparency, underutilized species, and in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) Confederated Tribes seafood freshness and quality. Disseminate information to agricultural of the Umatilla Indian Reservation $100,000 producers, private landowners and the public Water Rights Accord FY17 (OR, WA) to explain the role of agriculture in monarch Work with the Walla Walla Watershed Environment for the Americas 55 conservation. Project will build capacity to Management Partnership and The Freshwater Celebrate Shorebirds Latino Internship accelerate voluntary monarch conservation Trust to support and develop innovative Program (AK, CA, CO, OR, WA) on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state voluntary water transactions. Offer training, mentorship and career eastern monarch corridor and catalyze $167,251 development for Latino youths seeking agricultural community engagement. positions in natural resources, providing $30,000 Confluence Resource Consulting interns with valuable field experiences in Water Management Model Development shorebird research. The interns will serve as Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife and Evaluation (CA, OR) cultural bridges between host sites with federal Agencies Collaboratively develop and evaluate and nongovernmental agencies and Latino Developing a Central Flyway Monarch modifications and improvements to the communities, where they offer education Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Klamath Basin Planning Model and related programs about shorebirds and conservation. Lead a regional and national coordination analytical components. Model and related $91,839 process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch products will be used by managers to Conservation Strategy for states located along understand and assess likely consequences Freshwaters Illustrated the eastern monarch migratory corridor. Project of alternative water management strategies Building a Broader Base for Brook Trout: will establish common habitat and population to threatened Coho salmon, endangered Lost A Film to Communicate Conservation Needs goals, and strategies and monitoring will be River and shortnose suckers, national wildlife (Multiple States) implemented at the state level. refuges, other trust resources of the U.S. Fish Address a fundamental conservation challenge $144,750 and Wildlife Service, and Klamath Reclamation facing eastern brook trout – lack of awareness Project irrigators. and lack of broad support among both angling Tamarisk Coalition $100,000 and non-angling members of the public. Project Restoration Tools for Riparian Landscapes will create an accessible film that celebrates Impacted by Invasive Woody Vegetation Coos Watershed Association these beautiful native fish and their habitats, (CO, NM, OK, UT) Gorse Action Group: Development and will tell the stories of those who work Develop innovative tools for the removal of of a Strategic Cooperative Weed Management passionately to protect and restore them. invasive vegetation and successful restoration Area (OR) $48,223 of riparian lands across the western United Develop a Cooperative Weed Management States. Project will package these new tools Area to reduce areas impacted by gorse, and techniques dealing with invasive species a highly invasive and flammable plant on the removal, native plant revegetation, monitoring southern Oregon coast. Project will control protocols, biocontrol mapping, and current and manage gorse to improve habitat and restoration research and science information, ecological function for several rare, threatened and distribute them to land managers through and endangered species including western lily, workshops focused on regionally applicable coho salmon and spotted owl. species and techniques. $41,386 $46,738 United States and U.S. Territories $59,522 native aquatic species. with rainbow trout, cutthroat trout and other spring chinook salmon and bull trout, along P River sub-basin ofthe Willamette River Basin. augmentation on DeerCreek in theMcKenzie 42 acres offloodplain through large wood R Deer Creek FloodplainEnhancement (OR) McK $193,786 for restoration projects. and expand the milkweed supply habitat restoration efforts in the region Oregon. P areas and landings/roadsides in southwestern meadows, natural forest openings, riparian monarch habitat including woodland edges, R Restoration Initiative Southwest Oregon Monarch Habitat Lomakatsi Restoration Project $29,392 and chinook salmon. salmonids including coho salmon, steelhead and refuge habitat and improve health for will open fishmigration to2milesof rearing full anadromous passage barriers. P Fork ofJohnson Creek that are nearor R (OR) North Fork JohnsonCreek OpenMigration Johnson Creek Watershed Council $6,200 recreation maintenance activities on the river. resources whilecompleting restoration and hands-on learning and exploration of natural Oregon. P rafting trip on theDeschutes River in Central education and conservation activities ona river Engage eight-10 youth corps members through Deschutes River Stewardship (OR) Heart ofOregon Corps $40,000 species planting. farming, invasive species removal and native about sustainable practices related to urban community members, partners and volunteers in outer southeast P celandine plants onZenger Farm property in removing invasive blackberry, and ivy Engage more than 1,000volunteers Habitat Restoration at Zenger Farm (OR) Friends ofZ roject willbenefit two threatened fish species, estore 1.6milesofstream habitat and estore and enhance 300acres ofdegraded eplace orrepair seven culverts on the North enzie Watershed Alliance roject monarch willunify butterfly roject willengage youth through enger Farm ortland. P roject willtrain

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Trout Unlimited Pennsylvania American Rivers Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Conservation Work Reconnecting Historic Migratory Fish Habitat Allegheny College (CA, NV, OR) in Chiques Creek (PA) Locate Unidentified Wild Trout Provide continued support for a Lahontan Remove a fish barrier to restore access to 2.9 Populations in Headwater Streams cutthroat trout coordinator to provide on-the- miles of upstream headwaters for spawning in Northwestern Pennsylvania ground expertise, partner coordination, project brook trout in Chiques Creek. Project will Sample at least 40 previously unassessed management, oversight of Lahontan cutthroat benefit migratory and resident fish in the streams in the French Creek, Oil Creek trout fieldwork, and landowner and public Susquehanna River Basin and remove a and Brokenstraw Creek watersheds of outreach. Project will also support a range-wide deteriorating safety hazard from this high- northwestern Pennsylvania for the presence field crew for two years to implement Lahontan priority brook trout creek. of eastern brook trout. Project will engage cutthroat trout recovery activities and supports $199,916 volunteers and interns in the field and the data staff to continue important outreach and assess collected will be used by the state to designate current brook trout eradication efforts in two Berks Nature streams as supporting the natural reproduction Walker headwater streams. Implementing Agriculture Best Management of trout, which is one factor in the sustainable $235,601 Practices in the Middle Schuylkill (PA) planning process for the state. Develop conservation and nutrient plans and $11,000 Trout Unlimited install agriculture best management practices Umatilla Basin Water Transactions Support including manure storage, stormwater and Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay FY17 (WA) barnyard controls, riparian buffers, cover Prioritizing Conservation Plan Implementation Partner with the Umatilla Tribe to implement crops, and stream bank fencing. The installed to Protect the Octoraro Reservoir (PA) water transactions in the Umatilla Basin including BMPs will improve water quality by reducing Prioritize existing conservation plans for Birch Creek. Project will prioritize reaches for nutrients available to surface, ground, storm implementation on primarily Plain Sect farms in project implementation to ensure best benefits and drinking waters. a subwatershed contributing to drinking water for instream flow, analyzing data and pre- and $250,000 supplies in the Octoraro Creek watershed. post monitoring, and providing reports. Project will synthesize and analyze existing $59,516 Borough of Carlisle information, along with data contained in Carlisle Urban Stormwater Park (PA) the Chester Water Authority Source Water U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Reduce flooding by implementing stormwater Protection Plan, to target a subwatershed Service best management practices integrated with for agricultural best management practice South Fork Steelhead Creek Aquatic Organism park and recreation facilities located in the implementation that will reduce nitrates in the Passage and Habitat Reconnection (OR) disadvantaged northwest quadrant in Carlisle. drinking water of the Octoraro Reservoir. Remove a culvert from the South Fork of Project will provide the needed stormwater $49,914 Steelhead Creek, a large key watershed and detention capacity to serve runoff from regional stronghold for wild summer steelhead in the planned redevelopment of an adjacent Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay the North Umpqua River. Project will reconnect brownfield site, while preventing nutrients and 57 Restoring the Octoraro Reservoir: Plain Sect the upper 0.7 miles of high-quality steelhead, other pollution from entering the vulnerable Conservation Action (PA) cutthroat and resident rainbow trout habitat with LeTort Spring, which feeds into Conodoguinet Achieve pollutant reductions in subwatersheds a stream-simulation designed road crossing. Creek and the Chesapeake Bay. contributing to drinking water supplies $50,000 $599,452 in the Octoraro Creek Watershed through outreach and agricultural best management Upper Deschutes Watershed Council Borough of Spring Grove practice installation on Plain Sect farms. Whychus Canyon Restoration (OR) Campus Avenue Stream Restoration (PA) Project will build upon existing local efforts Restore reaches of Whychus Creek as part of the Restore approximately 1,250 linear feet of through the creation of a Source Water regional effort to restore habitat for reintroduced Codorus Creek to correct eroding stream Protection Collaborative and development salmon, steelhead, native redband and bull trout. banks and channels, thereby reducing of a sustainable regional financing plan Project will restore 1 mile of stream/floodplain, sediment discharge to the Lower Susquehanna for ongoing implementation. increase dominant and side channel length, watershed by 6,000 pounds annually. Spring $749,676 increase large wood pieces per mile, increase Grove Borough and Jackson Township floodplain connectivity and flood accessible are urban landscapes with several direct American Bird Conservancy wetland and riparian habitat, and plant over stormwater discharges to the stream. Project Create Habitat for Golden-Winged Warblers, 60,000 riparian plants. will identify measures to move back the direct American Woodcock and Others on Private $70,000 discharge points and create a natural buffer Lands (MD, PA) through man-made wetland areas to dissipate Work to reverse the decline of the Upper Klamath Landowners Corp. concentrated upstream runoff. golden-winged warbler and American Upper Klamath Basin Comprehensive $185,000 woodcock through technical assistance Agreement Implementation (OR) to private landowners. Project will result Assist the landowner entity with Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art in 100 private landowners in Pennsylvania implementation of the Upper Klamath Basin Multi-Municipal Stormwater Management and Maryland contacted about Farm Bill Comprehensive Agreement. Project will Program in Oxford Region of Pennsylvania programs, at least 40 landowners enrolled include further development of the riparian Develop a regional stormwater management in Natural Resources Conservation Service management and water use programs, program in the Oxford Region to help restore programs, and at least 1,300 acres enrolled enrollment of additional properties in the and protect the Chesapeake Bay. Five in programs to benefit the species. riparian and water programs, education and municipalities will collaborate to assess existing $229,795 training with the National Riparian Service Team stormwater management strategies and on properly functioning conditions for riparian prioritize implementation of best management corridors, and operation of any rotational practices to meet water quality goals. water-use programs necessary to meet required $50,000 instream flows. $193,320 United States and U.S. Territories Stewardship and R Design aplan, “Integrating Conservation, Sylvan Dell Park Green Infrastructure Plan(PA) B $99,998 municipalities and other partners. by using the pilottarget areas asmodels for implementation for reducing runoff volume efficiencies of best management practice water quality restoration and improve cost in pilot target areas. P designing and developing restoration programs and Total Maximum DailyLoads programs by Municipal Separate Storm Sewer S improvements mandated through the municipalities to achieve water quality P (PA) Restoration inthe Brandywine/Christina Basin A Collaboration to Model Water Quality B $496,718 measurable improvements. farm conservation plans that will result in of fencing, riparian buffers and completed management practices, including 1.5miles assistance, and implementing agricultural best incentivizing farmers, providing technical surface water quality by educating and Honey Brook Township. P Brandywine River Township in Salisbury and of the headwaters ofthe West Branch P in the Brandywine Headwaters (PA) Watershed Restoration B $4,995 planning process for the state. of trout, which isonefactor in the sustainable streams assupporting the natural reproduction collected willbe used by the state to designate volunteers and interns in the field and data trout and other wildtrout. 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Project will address water quality greater participation in conservation planning Potato Creek watersheds of northwestern and quantity issues, raise public awareness of and practice implementation, and demonstrate Pennsylvania for the presence of eastern brook stormwater, and develop the multi-municipal a correlation between conservation efforts, trout and other wild trout. Project will engage partnerships necessary for effective action. herd health and farm profitability. volunteers and interns in the field and the data $50,000 $632,320 collected will be used by the state to designate streams as supporting the natural reproduction LandStudies Pennsylvania Resources Council of trout, which is one factor in the sustainable Treating Stormwater through Green A Match for a Healthy Environment Utilizing planning process for the state. Infrastructure Practices for the City Green Roofs and Public Transit (PA) $13,500 of Wilkes-Barre (PA) Retrofit three bus shelters with green roofs Improve stormwater management in Wilkes- in the underserved and densely urbanized Juniata College Barre and reduce pollution transported by communities that compose the Eastern Detecting Eastern Brook Trout Populations stormwater runoff from discharging into the Delaware County Stormwater Collaborative. in the Trough, Standing Stone and Moshannon Susquehanna River. Project will educate residents Project will provide volume reduction to the Basins (PA) on watershed issues and environmentally sound impaired Darby and Cobbs Creek watersheds Sample at least 40 previously unassessed stormwater management practices, as well as and serve as education and outreach tools to streams in the Trough, Standing Stone develop a stormwater infrastructure master plan increase knowledge of the connection between and Moshannon watersheds of central to evaluate and target problem areas. stormwater and creek pollution for residents, Pennsylvania for the presence of eastern brook $39,663 school students, businesses, elected officials trout and other wild trout. Project will engage and visitors. volunteers and interns in the field and the data Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania $40,000 collected will be used by the state to designate Sample for Eastern Brook Trout in Unassessed streams as supporting the natural reproduction Streams of South Branch Tionesta Creek Pennsylvania Resources Council of trout, which is one factor in the sustainable Drainage (PA) Stream Smart Stormwater House Call (PA) planning process for the state. Sample at least 20 previously unassessed Engage residents in the Darby Cobbs watershed $11,798 streams in the South Tionesta Creek drainage through completion of property audits and between the towns of Tionesta and Sheffield assistance with installation of simple, low-cost Lancaster Farmland Trust for the presence of eastern brook trout and household stormwater best management Driving Best Management Practice other wild trout. Project will engage students in practices (BMPs) such as rain barrels and rain 59 Implementation in East Lampeter Township the field and data collected will be used by the gardens. Project will include development (PA) state to designate streams as supporting the of a website, educational materials and a Implement stream corridor and livestock natural reproduction of trout, which provides database of relevant watershed/stormwater management best management practices on additional protection in the permitting process information generated through the audit strategic farms in East Lampeter. Project will for proposed development activities. process that will help residents implement utilize data collected during farm assessments $4,995 BMPs to improve water quality. completed on all farms in the township and $91,015 MapShed modeling results, which identified Lycoming College riparian corridors and livestock as the two Sample for Eastern Brook Trout in Middle Potter County Conservation District leading contributors to nutrient and sediment West Branch Susquehanna and Tioga River Improving Aquatic Connectivity pollution in the township, to identify and Watersheds (PA) in the Genesee River Watershed (PA) implement cost-effective, site-specific best Sample at least 40 previously unassessed Replace a culvert to improve aquatic habitat management practices on six farms. streams in the middle West Branch of the connectivity and significantly reduce sediment $328,329 Susquehanna river for the presence of Eastern input to a headwater tributary of the Genesee brook trout and other wild trout. Project will River. Project will reopen 10 stream miles Lancaster Farmland Trust engage volunteers and interns in the field and and stabilize 2.5 miles of an adjacent road Transforming a Community the data collected will be used by the state to to improve passage and instream habitat for into Resource Stewards (PA) designate streams as supporting the natural brook trout and other aquatic organisms. Assist three conservative Mennonite farmers in reproduction of trout, which is one factor in $99,477 Eastern Lancaster County with implementing the sustainable planning process for the state. strategic field-based and structural practices $12,100 RESOLVE that address nitrate levels. Project will Agricultural Conservation in the Chesapeake engage the conservative Mennonite farming National Audubon Society Bay Watershed (Multiple States) community in the conservation of natural Philly Wild: Neighborhood Environmental Assess the current capacity, needs and resources on their farms and will expand on Stewardship and Action (PA) opportunities for agricultural conservation existing education and outreach efforts. Project Directly enhance 15 acres of habitat through partners to provide watershed project will reduce 1,783 pounds of phosphorus, 9,807 planting 3,700 trees and shrubs, removing invasive management and technical assistance to pounds of nitrogen and 56,000 pounds of plants on 23 acres, working on enhancing 2 miles meet clean-water goals for the Virginia sediment annually. of riparian corridor, and engaging 2,500 people in Piedmont, while enhancing the economic and $187,662 conservation projects in targeted watersheds in environmental sustainability of farms. Project Philadelphia. Project will educate citizens about will increase the knowledge and awareness of the importance of natural areas and healthy program managers, policy makers and funders waterways in urban environments while providing about technical capacity issues and options them with the tools and opportunities to take for agricultural conservation partners in the conservation action. Chesapeake Bay region. $49,974 $62,700 United States and U.S. Territories $86,308 from entering thewater body. approximately 977,544gallons ofstormwater stream bank stabilization. P feature and agrassed swale, and implement infrastructure techniques, abio-retention Implement two green stormwater Jordan Park (PA) Jenkintown Creek Restoration at Ethel Watershed Partnership Tookany/Tacony-Frankford $98,845 areas and statistics to support the report. P to address key threats to itsfish and wildlife. developing overarching goals and strategies entire watershed, integrating its programs, and conservation and restoration throughout the Develop abusiness plan to guide and prioritize River Watershed (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Strategic Investment Planfor theDelaware The Trust for PublicLand $26,821 process for proposed development activities. provides additional protection in the permitting reproduction oftrout and that designation to designate streams assupporting the natural and the data collected willbe used by the state trout. P presence ofEastern brook trout and other wild in priority watersheds ofP Sample at least 75 previously unassessed streams Selected Focal Watersheds ofPennsylvania Detecting Eastern Brook Trout Presence in The Pennsylvania State University $626,835 30,048 tons ofsediment peryear. nitrogen, 124,564 pounds ofphosphorus and producers, and reduce 3,328,800pounds of long-term solutions, engage 12,000 to 16,000 Nutrient Balance Sheet development, identify facilitate Manure ManagementPlan and cost-effective transport of excess nutrients, for manure and itsco-products to facilitate production areas. P nutrient balance in high-density animal watershed to achieve farm and regional Engage stakeholders in Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Multiple States) Achieving PhosphorusBalance inthe Sustainable Chesapeake $29,600 sustainable planning process for the state. reproduction oftrout, which isone factor in the to designate streams assupporting the natural and the data collected willbe used by the state will engage volunteers and interns inthefield eastern brook trout and otherwild trout. P watersheds ofP in the Loyalsock, P Sample at least 75 previously unassessed streams Creeks (PA) in Loyalsock, Penns andSinnemahoning Detecting Eastern Brook Trout Presence Susquehanna University roject willdevelop strategic conservation roject willengage students inthefield ennsylvania for the presence of innemahoning enns and Sinnemahoning roject willexpand markets ennsylvania for the roject will prevent

roject roject northcentral P in the Canoe Camp reek watershed in implementing stream corridor restoration nutrient pollution loading through strategically reduce nonpoint source sediment and for the Tioga County Conservation District, P and Cost-Share Program Development (PA) Canoe CampCreek Stream BankProtection Trout Unlimited $24,850 sustainable planning process for thestate. reproduction oftrout, which isone factor in the designate streams assupporting the natural and data collected willbe used by the state to engage volunteers and interns in the field brook trout and other wild trout. P Susquehanna River for the presence ofeastern watersheds ofthe West Branch ofthe streams in the Clearfield and Chest Creek Sample at least 75previously unassessed Clearfield andChest Creek Watersheds (PA) Assessing Eastern Brook Trout Presence inthe Trout Unlimited $163,232 respective watersheds ofthe Chesapeake Bay. projects to benefit eastern brook trout in their who can help to plan and implement similar educational outreach to targeted audiences Creek. P year to benefit theeastern brook trout in Kettle reducea sediment pollution by 6,780 pounds Open 1.6milesofcold-water habitat and in the Kettle Creek Watershed (PA) Sediment Reduction andFish Passage Trout Unlimited $11,000 for proposed development activities. additional protection inthe permitting process the natural reproduction oftrout and provide the state to designate streams assupporting the field and data collected will be used by P of eastern brook trout and other wild trout. River Basin in P Lehigh River watersheds ofthe Delaware streams in Black and Aquashicola Creeks and Sample at least 40previously unassessed Watersheds (PA) and Aquashicola Creeks andLehigh River Eastern Brook Trout Surveys inthe Black Trout Unlimited $25,400 landowners and townships. and Cost ShareP the recently launched Stream bank P to build and expand capacity to implement rovide assistance to build the capacity roject willengage volunteers and interns in roject willprovide related training and ennsylvania. P ennsylvania for thepresence rogram with private roject will help roject willhelp roject will roject will rotection

$158,847 requirements. sediment control plans to meet state regulatory management and agricultural erosion and ensure that they will have nutrient/manure runoff inthe Yellow Creek subwatershed and watershed to reduce nutrient and sediment Work with farmers in the J Implementation (PA) Assistance andBest Management Practice Juniata River Agricultural Technical Western Pennsylvania Conservancy $119,900 publications, and facilitated collaboration. the public through outreach presentations, priorities asneeded year to year and educate rate to ensure sampling goals are met, adjust P contracted partners and state agency staff. technology and data management for eastern brook trout by providing geospatial prioritization of streams never sampled for Coordinate data collection and guide Brook Trout Populations (PA) and Prioritize Sampling Targets for Eastern Coordinate Data Collection Western Pennsylvania Conservancy $178,708 of riparian restoration. one stabilized livestock crossing and 1acre plans, two heavy-use protection areas, of exclusion fencing, two manure management Specific BMP and nutrient pollution in the watershed. two agricultural producers to reduce sediment Chest Creek Watershed. P measures, and install riparian buffers in the practices (BMP Implement agricultural best management Chest Creek Watershed Restoration (PA) Western Pennsylvania Conservancy $110,224 habitat patches. values ofthese metrics inunsampled informative, and build amodel to predict recommendations for those that are most of each ofthese patch-based metrics, provide P and effective population size. patches with invasive trout, genetic diversity trout occupied habitat patches, thenumber of trout that include the number and size ofbrook Test novel monitoring metrics for eastern brook Watershed (MultipleStates) in the Headwaters ofthe Chesapeake Bay Patch-Based Brook Trout Genetic Monitoring U.S. Forest Service U.S. Department ofAgriculture, roject willmonitor sampling progress and roject willcompare theperformance s willinclude 3,850feet s) and sediment reduction roject willwork with uniata River

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy GreenWave Wildlife Management Institute Searching for Eastern Brook Trout Ocean Farm Start-Up Training Program: Technical Assistance Coordinators in Tionesta, Sinnemahoning, and Little Bolstering Economic Development in New for Young Forests (Multiple States) Mahoning Creeks (PA) England (CT, MA, RI) Maintain technical assistance contractor Sample at least 75 previously unassessed Create the Ocean Farm Start-Up Training positions in the 17-state early successional streams in five watersheds of northwestern Program to support up to five new kelp forest habitat region to benefit New England Pennsylvania for the presence of eastern brook and shellfish ocean farms in New England. cottontail, American woodcock, trout and other wild trout. Project will engage Project will develop a training program to golden-winged warbler, and over 60 other volunteers and interns in the field and data educate farmers on proper ocean farming species of concern. Project will continue collected will be used by the state to designate techniques in addition to permitting and to develop new approaches and outreach streams as supporting the natural reproduction leasing requirements. materials to better educate and encourage of trout, which is one factor in the sustainable $100,000 public and private landowners to become planning process for the state. actively involved in this effort. $26,053 Research Institute $504,012 Using Incentives to Advance Electronic Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Monitoring in the New England Groundfish South Carolina Using eDNA Technology to Detect Eastern Fishery (MA, ME, RI) Hellbender Populations in Prioritized Create incentives for fishermen to adopt Chesterfield County Soil Watersheds (PA) electronic monitoring for catch accounting and Water Conservation District Utilize environmental DNA (eDNA) technology and compliance monitoring of species such Sandhills Longleaf Pine Conservation in a pilot project to sample at least 25 previously as Atlantic cod, flounder and others in the Partnership (SC) - IV unassessed streams for the presence of the New England groundfish fishery. Project Establish 950 acres of longleaf pine, improve Eastern hellbender salamander, which indicates will implement an innovative maximized 500 acres of existing longleaf habitat with exceptional water quality and appropriate retention model, which will provide improved prescribed fire, and continue site-specific habitat structure. Project will engage volunteers accountability through 100 percent video understory seed collection and establishment and interns in the field and demonstrate the monitoring coverage while allowing fishermen of native grasses and forbs. Project will engage ability of eDNA sampling to significantly lessen to minimize discards at sea and retain the at least 185 private landowners through labor costs and improve search efficiency, majority of their catch. outreach and education. In addition, compared to traditional sampling with large $596,493 a project coordinator will administer cost-share teams to turn over large rocks. agreements with private landowners, promote $23,335 Partnership for Providence Parks a sustainable prescribed fire program, and Revitalizing Urban Green Spaces manage outreach and education activities. Wildlife Management Institute through Education, Stewardship $250,000 Technical Assistance Coordinators and Creating Habitats (RI) for Young Forests (Multiple States) Establish a schoolyard habitat in Providence, Congaree Land Trust 61 Maintain technical assistance contractor reaching over 1,200 students. Project will offer Longleaf Restoration on Private Lands positions in the 17-state early successional after-school programs and nature camps at in the South Carolina Coastal Plain - II forest habitat region to benefit New England neighborhood parks, and hire urban youth, Manage and restore longleaf pine habitat on cottontail, American woodcock, while connecting underserved families with 10 private properties in the coastal plain of golden-winged warbler, and over 60 other their natural surroundings. South Carolina. Project will conduct prescribed species of concern. Project will continue $49,989 burns on 3,200 acres and hardwood mid-story to develop new approaches and outreach control on 400 acres, and plant 250 acres materials to better educate and encourage Trout Unlimited of longleaf pine. Project will protect these public and private landowners to become Conserving “Salter” Brook Trout in the properties, which are part of a larger matrix of actively involved in this effort. Northeastern United States (Multiple States) state, federal and privately-owned conservation $504,012 Conserve sea-run (salter) brook trout. Project properties that contain longleaf pine and will survey 80 streams where brook trout status provide important habitat to rare species, York County Planning Commission is currently unknown, evaluate and identify including the endangered red-cockaded York County Stormwater Authority (PA) up to 10 priority Salter Conservation Areas, woodpecker. Create a County Stormwater Authority to and complete three model conservation $90,000 expand on the current success of regional projects that will expand salter brook trout stormwater efforts to more cost effectively populations in 20.5 miles of streams. Forest Landowners Association manage common elements of municipal MS-4 Only one model project will be completed Fostering Large-Scale Working Forest permits, to improve the impaired streams in directly under this grant. Landowner Collaboration (Multiple States) York County, and to consider actions to address $75,000 Target working-forest landowners, agricultural compliance within the county. as well as companies that manage large $203,420 University of Mississippi forestland holdings for family owners, Understanding the Legal Framework to identify opportunities for longleaf pine for Removing Marine Debris and Placing restoration and management. Project will Rhode Island Fishing Gear (Multiple States) foster communication between the Forest Commercial Fisheries Center of Rhode Island Support development of innovative, proactive Landowner Association’s member network, Next Generation Commercial Fishing Crew management strategies to address derelict longleaf stakeholders and the U.S. Fish and Apprenticeship Program (RI) fishing gear and vessel interactions in New Wildlife Service to help landowners understand Establish the Next GenerationC ommercial England. Project will improve awareness of and address regulatory barriers or disincentives Fishing Crew Apprenticeship Program to state derelict fishing gear and vessel navigation to planting and maintaining longleaf pine. support new entrants to the New England laws and regulations and explore legal $100,000 groundfish fishery. Project will provide hands-on opportunities to prevent gear loss. and classroom-based trainings by experienced $44,814 commercial fishermen, shoreside businesses and university fishery experts. $105,500 United States and U.S. Territories $109,645 restoration and long-term conservation. directly to longleaf pine management, to RCW recovery theproject contributes establishing new populations. In addition of existing smallRC W populations and RCW groups, resulting in the conservation landowners in hosting “safe harbor” P South Carolina aspart ofthe RCW Safe Harbor National Forest to selected private lands in woodpeckers (RCWs) from the Francis Marion Translocate 20to 30red-cockaded Lands Conservation Initiative (SC) Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Private The Longleaf Alliance $100,000 conservation benefits. target limited resources toward the greatest strategic conservation plans, helping to technical assistance support for developing collaboration among the 17LITs and provide P and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore that builds and improves partnership capacity coordinator, aunique, cross-cutting position Support the Local Implementation LIT) Team ( and Outreach -II(MultipleStates) Capacity andLandowner Technical Assistance Coordinating Local Implementation Team The Longleaf Alliance $497,188 introgression over time. genetic techniques to determine the level of populations ofshoaland redeye bass through bass, and otherspecies and willmonitor sites for restoration to benefit shoal, redeye P to identify target restoration priorities. ultimately provide amore strategic method basin and portions ofthe Savannah that will Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River the habitat condition in the Evaluate, through aGISthreat assessment, SC) GA, FL, (AL, through Native Black BassBusinessPlan Conservation ofShoaland Redeye Bass Southeastern Association ofFishandWildlife $149,865 in A contributingoccurring, to a30% target increase across thesites where conservation efforts are P New York, New J bird species inMassachusetts, Rhode Island, oystercatchers and associated beach nesting to recover the population ofAmerican Conserve and manage coastal habitat designed NJ,(MA, NY, RI, SC)-VI American Oystercatcher Recovery Manomet rogram. 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Wildlife R survey birds on the DonEdwards National Employ five youths to sample salt ponds and MT,(CA, NM, SD) Wildlife Restoration Improvement Plan Conservation Legacy $112,223 management for future conservation action. conservation success and implement adaptive P North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming. private rangelands in portions ofMontana, longspurs, through stewardship efforts on curlew, chestnut-collared and McCown’s Sprague’s pipit, Baird’s sparrow, long-billed declines of associated bird speciessuch as Stem the conversion ofnative grasslands and (MT, ND, SD, WY) Delivery inthe Northern Great Plains Inform, Strengthen andMonitor Farm Bill Ducks Unlimited $53,560 to assist in black-footed ferret recovery. environments ofBadlands National P and their fleasin grassland prairie assessing sylvatic plague in smallmammals in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and treatments, surveying aquatic invasive species lion responses to large-scale forest restoration monitoring ofmule deer, elkand mountain $106,302 A identify “R that were analyzed to inform the project and summarizing the tools, resources and datasets associated habitats. P and enhance fishand wildlife and their communities from severe storms and floods, priority areas for potential projects to protect broader Southeast A of the Cape Fear River basin, but alsoofthe Assess and mapclimate resiliency attributes Coastal Resiliency NC, SC) Assessment FL, (GA, Cape Fear River BasinandSoutheast Atlantic University ofNorthCarolina at Asheville $215,000 landowners for assistance. P through workshops and academies. fire to restore and manage longleaf habitat assistance programs and theuse ofprescribed will educate landowners onavailable financial private lands to improve wildlife habitat. P 9,600 acres oflongleaf pine on public and implement prescribed burns on an additional Establish 500acres oflongleaf pine and Ecosystem Restoration Partnership (SC)-III South Lowcountry-ACE BasinLongleaf The Longleaf Alliance South artners willspecifically target underserved roject willtrack rates ofconversion to assess t-Risk,” and open space/working lands. Da efuge inCalifornia. P esiliency Hubs,” “Communities k ota tlantic Coast, to inform roject willinclude areport roject will include roject willinclude

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Tennessee University of Tennessee Ducks Unlimited Bridgestone/Firestone Wildlife Management Rice Stewardship Partnership (TX) Cumberland River Compact Area Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area (TN) Sustain 7,500 acres of working ricelands while Aquatic Habitat Improvement Demonstrate the effects of prescribed fire improving water resources and wildlife habitat on the Cumberland Plateau (KY, TN) on the establishment and maintenance of in Texas. Project will help decrease water and Engage public and private landowners in naturally regenerated shortleaf pine and fertilizer use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions restoration and enhancement to improve water oak savanna/woodland, providing habitat and provide wildlife habitat for wintering quality and aquatic habitat. Project will advance for species such as northern bobwhite quail, waterfowl and other birds, and animals. riparian forest restoration and unimpeded flow prairie warbler, and red-headed woodpecker. $20,000 in rivers and headwater streams in the project Project will take place on 156 acres of the area to benefit amphibians such as eastern Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness Ducks Unlimited hellbender, four-toed and green salamander Wildlife Management Area. Texas Environmental Flows Initiative and hairyfoot crayfish, fish such as barrens and $70,000 Acquisition Viability Assessment bluemask darter, barrens topminnow, flame and Transaction Negotiation chub and rosyface shiner, and mussels such as Wolf River Conservancy Conduct a range of scientific and technical Cumberland pigtoe and rainbow mussel. Wolf River Greenway Restoration (TN) - IV analyses to set the stage for successful $95,671 Remove 65 acres of invasives and plant voluntary water transactions in Tres Palacios 1,500 trees at four target properties along and Carancahua, Trinity/Galveston, and San Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge the Wolf River in urbanized sections Antonio Bays along the Gulf Coast and to Visitor Center Hiking Trail of the City of Memphis, Tennessee. secure support for one or more environmental at Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Project will protect and restore the watershed water transactions from funds allocated to Provide a safe trail in close vicinity to the features and hydrological functions of sites Texas. Project will provide science, engineering Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Visitor currently impacted by invasive plant species, and governance expertise in developing Center for outdoor education opportunities to stormwater runoff, erosion, pollution and illegal scenarios for water transactions the general public. Project will enhance the trail dumping, especially along the urban sections to restore overland flow. with nine Animal Olympic stations targeting of the Wolf River. $45,416 school groups, but which will be appropriate $29,532 for all hikers to improve their experience and Ducks Unlimited boost their activity level. Texas Playa Restoration Initiative $4,000 Texas Restore 34 drained playas on private lands American Bird Conservancy within a two-county focus area in the Texas National Wild Turkey Federation Restoring Monarch Habitat in Panhandle. Project will restore increased Cumberland Plateau Shortleaf Restore approximately 500 acres of degraded recharge to the High Plains Aquifer and restore and Oak Restoration (KY, TN) native grassland to high-quality monarch habitat 510 acres of freshwater wetland habitat for Restore shortleaf pine and oak woodlands/ in the core of its migratory route through south migratory waterfowl and shorebirds such 63 savannas on public lands in Tennessee and Texas. Project will increase quality, quantity and as the northern pintail, whooping crane and Kentucky. Project will result in 6,002 acres connectivity of suitable habitat for the species as piping plover; grassland birds such as the impacted through shortleaf plantings, well as increase organizational coordination and mountain plover, short-eared owl and scaled prescribed fire and forest opening capacity for monarch conservation in the region. quail; and amphibians such as the Great Plains enhancements, and will engage over 700 $249,988 and spadefoot toads. people through public outreach events. $90,000 $186,000 American Conservation Experience Texas Invasive Species Strike Team Ecology Action of Texas Operation Migration-USA and Youth Development Program (LA, TX) Montopolis Wetland and Creek Rehab (TX) Whooping Crane Reintroduction Connect 18 local youths to the outdoors through Rehabilitate and revitalize 10 acres of riparian to Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) coastal restoration projects involving removing and wetland habitat in the Country Club Creek Support monitoring and outreach efforts in invasive species and restoring coastal landscapes East Watershed in southeast Austin, Texas, support of conserving the critically endangered on public lands located in the eastern Gulf while engaging, educating and empowering whooping crane and building a self-sustaining region of Texas. Project will provide youth crew the underserved community of Montopolis. population in the Southeast. Project will members a six-month career development track Project will bolster the Montopolis wetland’s support two staff positions during the three- composed of training, experiential learning and health by monitoring and testing stormwater season migration period and provide outreach mentoring opportunities for the purpose of runoff, designing a low-impact biofiltration to increase general awareness. advancing into careers related to conservation infrastructure, and restoring the integrity of $75,000 and environmental stewardship. the upstream Country Club Creek East through $183,001 invasive species removal and native plantings. The Nature Conservancy $46,339 Cumberland Plateau Working American YouthWorks Woodlands Program (TN) American YouthWorks and U.S. Forest Service Launch a Working Woodlands program on the Collaboration for Gulf Habitat Restoration Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee to engage (LA, TX) private landowners. Project will improve 50 Hire 90 crew participants to restore 5,000 acres of shortleaf pine-oak habitat, protect acres of prairies in Texas grasslands and 157 1,500 acres of forest habitat with conservation acres of prairies in the Winn Ranger District of easements, and reach 75 key landowners. Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. Project $100,000 will cut and remove eastern red cedar and Ashe juniper trees, implement prescribed burns, apply herbicides to unwanted woody vegetation, and perform basal bark treatment. $250,000 United States and U.S. Territories wetlands. P Wildlife R Bring recognition to theCaddo Lake National Walking Trail, Bird BlindandE-Bird Kiosk (TX) Lake National Wildlife Refuge National Wildlife Refuge Friends ofCaddoLake $10,000 about prairie-chicken recovery efforts. effectively engage and educate the public will enhance the organization’s ability to prairie-chicken. The high-quality digital content efforts for the federally endangered A photographic documentation ofthe recovery Update and create new video, audio and Development (TX) Attwater Prairie-Chicken Digital Media Friends ofAttwater Prairie-Chicken Refuge $100,000 to planting and maintaining longleaf pine. and address regulatory barriers ordisincentives Wildlife to Service help landowners understand longleaf stakeholders and the U Landowner Association’s member network, foster communication between the Forest restoration and management. P identify opportunities forlongleaf pine forestland holdingsfor family owners, to well ascompanies that manage large Target working-forest landowners, as Landowner Collaboration (Multiple States) Fostering Large-Scale Working Forest Forest Landowners Association $250,000 fauna throughout thewatershed. collecting basic data related to flora and P watershed and along the Texas Coast. restoration within the Galveston Bay thatservices promote conservation and P Galveston Bay Watershed Conservation (TX) Galveston Bay Foundation $4,950 sale in Weslaco, Texas. Friends ofthe Wildlife Corridor native plant outreach activities, specifically the new annual native habitat. P Wildlife R of the Lower Rio Grande V a sign outlining the ongoing accomplishments their importance to thelocal wildlife, aswell as native plants, their uses in landscaping, and signs describing the properties ofspecific P Educational Signs for Native Plants (TX) Friends oftheWildlife Corridor $11,480 visitation to the refuge for birding activities. ADA accessible bird blind, in order to increase Kiosk in thevisitor center and arevamped accessible nature trail and install anE-Bird roject will involve habitat monitoring and rovide two youths with jobs and skilled rovide reusable weather-proof educational efuge asabirding gem in the efuge re-establishing regional roject willcreate anew ADA roject willuse signs for public

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Mote Marine Laboratory Texas A&M Forest Service Texas Rice Industry Coalition Gulf-Wide Electronic Monitoring Facilitating Longleaf Conservation for the Environment for a Sustainable Commercial Reef Fish in the Longleaf Ridge Significant Geographic West Galveston Bay Watershed Wetlands (TX) Fishery (FL, LA, TX) Area (TX) - II Create 190 acres of freshwater wetlands on Advance implementation and integration of Restore 750 acres to longleaf pine and enhance the Halls Bayou Ranch, one of the principal electronic monitoring on up to 20 commercial more than 3,800 acres of existing longleaf watersheds for the north side of West fishing vessels in the reef fish fishery in the through prescribed burns to improve rare and Galveston Bay. Project will provide high-value Gulf of Mexico, to support improved data natural plant communities. Project will educate habitat to a diverse number of species of collection on commercially important species 100 private landowners on longleaf ecology and wading birds, shorebirds and waterfowl, such as snapper and grouper. Project will build related resources through county landowner including whimbrel, white ibis, yellow rail, on successful pilots and expand to Gulf-wide association meetings, training workshops black rail, along with redhead, implementation of electronic monitoring to and a redesigned website. Targeted technical and mottled ducks. improve catch and discard monitoring. assistance will engage five to 10 private $40,000 $544,525 landowners in stewardship programs that promote longleaf restoration Texas State Soil NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center and enhancement. and Water Conservation Board Assess Persistent Organic Pollutant Transfer $300,000 Enhancing and Restoring Monarch from Female Killer Whales to their Calves Butterfly Habitat (TX) (CA, TX, WA) Texas A&M Forest Service Work with 143 Soil and Water Conservation Conduct research on killer whales in human Fostering Longleaf Conservation Districts located within the Monarch care at SeaWorld San Diego and San Antonio to in the SGA (TX) - II Restoration Corridor to enhance or restore quantify the transfer of pollutants from female Establish 650 acres of longleaf pine and 1,646 acres of monarch butterfly habitat on killer whales to their calves during gestation enhance over 3,200 acres of existing longleaf rural lands, and to install 30 monarch butterfly and lactation. Project will provide data on through prescribed burning to improve rare gardens in Texas. the percent reduction in female pollutant and endemic plant communities. Project will $480,000 levels and percent increase in calf pollutant educate 100 private landowners through levels needed by managers to better predict county landowner association meetings, The Heard Natural Science Museum contaminant levels in Southern Resident killer training workshops, and a redesigned and & Wildlife Sanctuary whales and assess potential risks associated updated website. In addition, targeted technical Wetland Improvement on the Heard Sanctuary with contaminant exposure. assistance will engage five to 10 private (TX) $114,857 landowners in stewardship programs that Restore selected parts of Bullfrog Pond’s benefit longleaf pine ecosystem restoration swamp, planting 96 new trees, maintaining REAL School Gardens and enhancement. existing trees and preventing beaver damage. Creating Learning Gardens to Foster $150,000 Project will improve Texas’s Bullfrog Pond Environmental Stewards in water quality. 65 Install five learning gardens at high-poverty Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi $25,000 elementary schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth Connecting Youth area of northern Texas, which is comprised to Coastal Habitat Restoration (TX) The Longleaf Alliance of the Blackland Prairie and Cross Timbers Train and employ 10-12 urban and underserved Coordinating Local Implementation Team and Prairies ecoregions. Project will raise youth in oyster reef planning, restoration, data Capacity and Landowner Technical Assistance environmental awareness, restore native plant collection and analysis, and monitoring efforts and Outreach - II (Multiple States) and animal habitats, and conserve stormwater that will provide valuable skills and conservation Support the Local Implementation Team (LIT) by bringing conservation education to non- experience. Project will restore 2,400 linear feet coordinator, a unique, cross-cutting position traditional audiences, including high-poverty and 4.5 acres of oyster reef in St. Charles Bay. that builds and improves partnership capacity and minority communities, all while supporting $249,293 across longleaf pine’s historic range to restore regional water and land conservation efforts. and enhance the longleaf ecosystem. $70,000 Texas Agricultural Land Trust Project will increase communication and Conservation of Working Lands collaboration among the 17 LITs and provide Texas A&M AgriLife Research on the Texas Gulf Coast technical assistance support for developing Applied Biodiversity Sciences Conduct intensive outreach on the importance strategic conservation plans, helping to Conservation Scholars Program of conserving working lands along the target limited resources toward the greatest Integrate undergraduates and graduates Texas Gulf Coast to accelerate conservation conservation benefits. using a two-tiered program that will focus easement transactions in the region. Project $100,000 on local issues related to Gulf of Mexico will accomplish goals through landowner ecosystems and broader questions on energy meetings and workshops, targeted outreach, The Nature Conservancy development, energy policy and impacts on and partnerships with other conservation Conservation Easement Acquisition biodiversity and natural resources. Project will organizations including the Natural Resources in the Laguna Madre Watershed (TX) appoint two graduate fellowships to mentor Conservation Service and Texas Parks Acquire conservation easements on two a small cohort of undergraduate interns as and Wildlife Department. adjacent parcels in the Laguna Madre they develop their projects and internship $195,000 watershed in south Texas, totaling 562 acres. proposals. Each intern will conduct baseline Project will take place immediately adjacent to research to support a one-month summer Texas Discovery Gardens Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge in the internship opportunity. Monarchs for Dallas Parks (TX) Lower Rio Grande Valley Conservation Corridor, $200,000 Restore and establish monarch habitat on an ecologically important area for approximately 37 acres of Dallas city park lands. waterfowl such as northern shoveler Project will propagate and distribute regionally and blue-winged teal, raptors such as appropriate milkweed and other pollinator Mississippi kite, waterbirds such as sanderling, plants to partners in support of the habitat and endangered and threatened species restoration work. including ocelots and aplomado falcons. $125,000 $556,014 United States and U.S. Territories $67,200 of trail building tools. in the safe and efficient use and maintenance communication skills and technical training P near the town ofCedar City, Utah. opportunities, whilecreating 2.65milesof trail resource management and provide learning Employ and train 36youths in on-the-ground (UT) Youth Conservation Corps Trails Construction American Conservation Experience $57,650 for youth conservation corps. training and experiential learning opportunities Virgin River. P target exotic and invasive weed species in the survey, identify and treat populations of three and local volunteers in restoration work to Engage three youth conservation corps crews Virgin River RiparianImprovement (UT) American Conservation Experience $270,000 elephants, rhinos, tigers and pangolins. pressure onendangered species, including into the U amount ofillegal wildlife products smuggled reduce thedemand for illegal wildlife and the trafficking into the United States. P campaign to raise awareness ofwildlife Develop and implement acommunications Campaign (MultipleStates) U.S. Illegal Wildlife Demand Reduction WildAid $35,000 low-income, low-access areas. establishing five pollinator sanctuaries in conservation inSan Antonio’s inner cityby will link food consumption with wildlife from afarmer’s market platform. 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Project will improve habitat species of concern. Project will continue volunteers to participate in habitat restoration through on-the-ground conservation action to develop new approaches and outreach by reconnecting the river with the floodplain, and by authoring forest and early successional materials to better educate and encourage diversifying fish habitat, planting native riparian habitat management plans and case studies. public and private landowners to become trees, and removing invasive riparian species $70,000 actively involved in this effort. along the Spanish Fork River. $504,012 $25,000 Connecticut River Watershed Council Seven Dam Removals in New Hampshire and Virginia U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau Vermont Opening Eastern Brook Trout Habitats of Land Management - Rio Puerco Field Office (NH, VT) Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Colorado Plateau Native Plant Program for Secure dam owners’ approval to proceed with Chesapeake RiverWise Education (VA) Milkweed and Nectar Species (AZ, CO, NM, UT) seven high-priority dam removal projects in Reduce stormwater pollution in the City Increase seed collection of milkweed and other New Hampshire and Vermont. Project will open of Richmond by implementing green nectar-producing species in portions of the 140 miles of high-quality native eastern brook infrastructure best management practices four corners states and will work with partners trout spawning grounds and thermal refuge on school properties through the RiverWise to increase commercial availability of seed and will help reduce flood elevations and the Education program. Project will focus and container plants. Project will produce a potential for infrastructure failures in six New on reducing stormwater on the grounds of minimum of 12 pounds of milkweed seed and Hampshire and Vermont communities. Binford Middle School, expanding propagate more than 500 seedling plants. $199,165 the curriculum to different classes, and $86,916 establishing green teams to maintain these Trout Unlimited education projects all over the city. Utah State University/Utah Brook Trout Habitat Restoration and $199,973 Conservation Corps Reconnection in the Upper Connecticut River Jordanelle State Park 2016 (UT) Watershed (NH, VT) Center for Watershed Protection Employ a four-person Utah State/Utah Reconnect and restore brook trout habitat Building Capacity to Eliminate Discharges from Conservation Corps crew to spend two weeks in the Upper Connecticut River watershed Grey Infrastructure in Hampton Roads (VA) removing vegetation from 50 campsites on with an emphasis on the Paul Stream, Indian Provide practical, hands-on training and 67 an estimated 5 acres, in partnership with the Stream, Brandy Brook and Nulhegan River technical resources for Hampton Roads Bureau of Reclamation and Jordanelle State watersheds. Project will replace nine culverts Planning District Commission jurisdictions Park. Project will include removing fallen trees to reconnect 22 miles of habitat, restore seven to develop illicit discharge detection and with chainsaws, treating for noxious weeds, miles of instream habitat, and monitor water elimination programs. Project will design repairing 3,100 feet of boardwalk, and clearing temperatures and brook trout response to protocols that exceed minimum permit campsite concrete pads of debris. instream habitat improvement. requirements, so that discharges from grey $6,000 $86,000 infrastructure that would not otherwise be detected can be identified and eliminated, thus Trout Unlimited promoting pollutant reductions in local waters Vermont Restoring Wild Brook Trout Ponds (VT) and the Chesapeake Bay. American Forest Foundation Expand work with Vermont partners on $45,595 Enhancing and Promoting Bird conserved lands in the Nulhegan River, Paul and Wildlife Habitat on Family Woodlands Stream, and Dennis Pond watersheds, that Chesapeake Bay Foundation in Southern Vermont support self-sustaining populations of wild Hopewell Restoration (VA) Enhance and promote bird and wildlife habitat brook trout. Project will allow partners to Reduce polluted stormwater runoff in by creating a landscape mosaic of diverse, continue current restoration work, expand Hopewell, educate the community on the healthy habitat using Audubon’s “Bird Friendly work into wild brook trout pond tributaries, and benefits of conservation practices, and increase Management Recommendations,” targeted support long-term, ongoing efforts throughout green infrastructure in the aging urban area. marketing and sustained engagement. Project the upper Connecticut River watershed. Project will include constructing five rain will move 400 landowners (responsible $80,631 gardens, putting in 45 rain barrels, installing a for more than 20,000 acres total) toward bioretention basin and permeable pavers at a management for wildlife, 100 of which will Wildlife Management Institute city-owned parking lot, erecting 10 pet waste implement activities on portions of their Habitat Management to Benefit Young Forest stations, and planting 100 trees to increase the property within the project time frame, Species in New England (CT, MA, ME, VT) city’s tree canopy. restoring 2,200 acres. Implement a variety of forest management $199,673 $47,000 projects to benefit the young forest-dependent species and bird species normally associated with interior forests, which use young forest sites for brood rearing and in preparation for migration. Project will include non-commercial vegetation management, construction of roosting fields and singing grounds to benefit American woodcock, and planting of shrubs and the development of forage areas to benefit New England cottontail. $170,000 United States and U.S. Territories $50,000 and improve habitats. reduce nutrient and sediment loads whole-farm planning assessments that will conservation planning assistance through plan to identify, recruit and provide on-farm and Land P P land through capacity building assistance. management practices on under-treated Implement new agricultural and forest best Women Landowners for Conservation Building Capacityto Empower Virginia Dana York -Green Earth Connection $20,540 in the ongoing marketplace. and examine arole asactive trading partner spur market forces in the region, Sediment Credit Acquisition Bank to help will specifically create aPilotNutrient and as aBay restoration methodology. P Assess thefeasibility ofnutrient trading and Assessment (MD, PA, VA) Nutrient Trading Feasibility Council Fire $50,000 ordinances and site plan review. comprehensive plans, zoning/subdivision into local watershed implementation plans, integrating itsfindings and recommendations the regional Green Infrastructure Plan by Load goals. P Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Day and emerging regulatory requirements, such as water quality, natural resource management, Address the challenges ofChesapeake Bay for theChesapeake Bay (VA) for Implementing Stormwater Management Program Development Conservation Concepts $125,000 2,500 permitted sites. compliance managers at more than local stormwater inspectors, and industrial for stormwater education and outreach, in larger communities who are responsible system communities, stormwater managers than 500smallmunicipal separate storm sewer Bay. 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Project will integrate a cost-effective transport of excess nutrients, targeted stream reaches in heavy agricultural central stream channel with contiguous facilitate Manure Management Plan and areas in these watersheds where the benefits regenerative stormwater wetlands and will Nutrient Balance Sheet development, identify extend to better water quality and expanded prevent approximately 520 tons of sediment, long-term solutions, engage 12,000 to 16,000 brook trout patch habitat. Project will reduce 1.2 tons of soil-based nitrogen and 0.6 tons of producers, and reduce 3,328,800 pounds of annual sediment load by 40 tons, nitrogen by phosphorus from reaching the Chesapeake nitrogen, 124,564 pounds of phosphorus and 120 pounds and phosphorus by 32 pounds. Bay over a 20-year period. 30,048 tons of sediment per year. $190,335 $200,000 $626,835 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rappahannock Wildlife Refuge Friends Group The Elizabeth River Project U.S. Forest Service Rappahannock Water Trail App (VA) Restoring the “Lost Branch” Patch-Based Brook Trout Genetic Monitoring Develop a water trail app to increase of the Elizabeth River (VA) in the Headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay community awareness of the importance Accelerate nutrient and sediment reductions Watershed (Multiple States) of protecting the Rappahannock River for the Elizabeth River’s Eastern Branch. Project Test novel monitoring metrics for eastern brook resources including the Rappahannock River will carry out a subwatershed plan to improve trout that include the number and size of brook Valley National Wildlife Refuge boundary area. the Indian River and Broad Creek tributaries trout occupied habitat patches, the number of Project will add interactive capabilities to the of the Eastern Branch of the Elizabeth River patches with invasive trout, genetic diversity app, allowing visitors to learn about local tourist from scores of F to at least D for Enteroccocus and effective population size. opportunities and share their experiences on bacteria, and improve the overall water quality Project will compare the performance social media in real time. score for the Eastern Branch from D to C. of each of these patch-based metrics, $15,000 $742,887 provide recommendations for those that are most informative, and build a model to predict RESOLVE The Longleaf Alliance values of these metrics in unsampled Agricultural Conservation in the Chesapeake Coordinating Local Implementation Team habitat patches. 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Project Project will increase communication and Tool, a robust assessment tool that builds on will increase the knowledge and awareness of collaboration among the 17 LITs and provide existing tools to improve coastal resilience program managers, policy makers and funders technical assistance support for developing through better management of recurring about technical capacity issues and options strategic conservation plans, helping to flooding and associated pollution reduction. for agricultural conservation partners in the target limited resources toward the greatest Project will include a report card to catalyze Chesapeake Bay region. conservation benefits. local government action to improve resilience $62,700 $100,000 to flooding while remaining economically viable and socially relevant, prioritize actions Smithsonian Institution The Potomac Conservancy for increasing resilience, and locate sources for River Herring Spawning Run Monitoring Potomac Priority Lands (VA, WV) funding and technical assistance. in Chesapeake Bay (MD, VA) - II Complete at least four conservation $49,996 Continue the fourth year of consecutive run easements that will protect 600 acres of forest counts on the Choptank River and establish a and agricultural land and 3 miles of existing University of Virginia - new run count on the Patapsco River prior to forested riparian buffers. Where applicable, Institute for Environmental Negotiation the pending Bloede Dam removal. easements will require livestock stream Expanding Farmer Participation Project will also conduct spawning habitat exclusion fencing and riparian restoration in Developing Nutrient use assessments in four additional watersheds, to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, Management Plans (VA) completing baseline assessments in a total fecal coliform and sediment loading. Identify barriers to farmer involvement in and of 10 watersheds. $68,038 implementation of nutrient management $95,271 plans (NMPs) and best management practices. 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Project will include Washington portion of the Walla Walla Basin. divert an estimated total of 250,000 gallons of working closely with the Umatilla’s to prioritize $55,439 stormwater into rain gardens instead of flowing reaches for project implementation to ensure unfiltered into storm drains and best benefits for instream flow, analyzing Washington Department of Ecology salmon-bearing waterways. data and pre- and post monitoring, Washington State Water Rights $42,565 and providing reports. Acquisition Program $59,516 Assist in the selection, assessment, The Mule Deer Foundation coordination and management of water Guy Bradley 2016 Federal Award Winner University of Washington right acquisitions by Washington Water Trust, Receive funds awarded on behalf of 2016 Guy Understand Nutrition and Toxin Impacts on Trout Unlimited Washington Water Bradley Award federal-level winner, Senior Pregnancy Health in Southern Resident Killer Project and the Walla Walla Watershed Special Agent Steven Furrer for his superior law Whales (WA) Management Partnership. enforcement career accomplishments in the Analyze whale feces located by detection dogs $136,814 protection of wildlife and natural resources. to evaluate pregnancy and nutritional status $1,000 as well as toxin loads in Southern Resident Washington Water Trust killer whales. Project will assess the occurrence Okanogan Basin Water Acquisitions (WA) Trout Unlimited and causes of miscarriage in the population to Identify, develop and implement water Columbia Cascade Water guide management actions. transactions, focused on salmon recovery Transaction Strategy FY17 (WA) $146,106 in the Okanogan Basin. Project will work Identify, prioritize and develop water collaboratively with willing landowners, transactions in the Methow, Entiat, Yakima, University of Washington community groups, conservation districts, Wenatchee and Snake subbasins, with a focus University of Washington irrigation districts, local governments, tribes on completing several significant projects. Conservation Scholar Internships and businesses. $204,935 Provide internships for second year students $47,906 in the Conservation Scholars Program at Trout Unlimited the University of Washington. Students will Washington Water Trust Lake Sammamish Kokanee Restoration (WA) work in partnership with environmentally Walla Walla and Tucannon Basin Water Advance ongoing collaborative efforts to focused agencies and other organizations on Transactions Support (WA) employ a holistic and community-based conservation projects. Identify, develop and implement water approach to restore imperiled kokanee salmon $170,000 transactions in the Walla Walla and Tucannon 71 in the Lake Sammamish watershed. Project basins. Project will work collaboratively with will include development and coordination University of Washington, Washington Rare willing landowners, community groups, tribes of habitat restoration projects, community Plant Care and Conservation and businesses. outreach, youth education and citizen science Training the Next Generation of Plant $47,584 activities that support recovery of Lake Conservationists (WA) Sammamish kokanee salmon. Hire two undergraduates or recent graduates Washington Water Trust $50,000 with a background in natural resources to work Washington Water Trust General Acquisitions on rare plant conservation and management. Identify, develop and implement water Trout Unlimited Project will give interns valuable experience transactions, focused on salmon recovery Lake Sammamish Kokanee Restoration (WA) with rare plant monitoring including Whited’s in the Wenatchee, Methow, Walla Walla Increase imperiled Lake Sammamish kokanee milkvetch, Thompson’s clover and long- and Yakima Basins. Project team will work salmon populations 25-35 percent per year, sepal globemallow, weed identification and collaboratively with willing landowners, restore 1 mile of stream and 10 acres of management, seed collecting and testing community groups, irrigators, conservation riparian habitat, and engage 150 volunteers protocols, and propagation of rare plants for districts, municipalities, counties and and 5,500 community members, reintroductions. businesses. Project team will also coordinate including 500 youth. Project will include $60,235 with groups conducting other types of habitat habitat restoration projects, community restoration to leverage greater outcomes for outreach and partnerships, youth education, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre both flows and associated riparian areas. and citizen science activities that support Understand the Effects of Reduced Prey $181,243 recovery of kokanee salmon and raise and High Contaminant Levels on Killer Whales community awareness of the long-term (WA, BC) benefits of these actions. Compare standard skin/blubber biopsy $47,629 measures of health to photo-based measures of condition for Northern and Southern Trout Unlimited Resident killer whales in coastal British Okanogan Basin Water Transactions FY17 (WA) Columbia and Washington State. Project will Identify, prioritize and develop water inform recovery-based management actions by transactions in the Methow and Okanogan using cutting-edge techniques to deliver insight subbasins of Washington, working closely into two of the three major threats to killer in collaboration with the Colville Tribe whales: prey availability and contaminants. $75,740 $98,718 United States and U.S. Territories $5,000 interpretation and grant-writing. connecting people with nature, nature leadership, socialmedia, communications, training that includes organization-building, Friends groups. 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Driftless Area Land Conservancy Keystone Policy Center River Revitalization Foundation Coordinating Monarch Habitat Restoration Enhancing Monarch Habitat Milwaukee River Beerline Woodland in Agricultural and Grassland Landscapes (WI) in Agricultural Landscapes (Multiple States) Restoration (WI) Coordinate the work of more than a dozen Disseminate information to agricultural Remove 27 acres of invasive species, restore organizations to restore and enhance monarch producers, private landowners and the public 1 mile of river habitat, plant 550 trees and butterfly habitat on 1,650 acres of protected to explain the role of agriculture in monarch involve 500 community members, including and private lands in the DriftlessA rea conservation. Project will build capacity to 350 volunteers within the city of Milwaukee of Wisconsin. Project will engage 130 accelerate voluntary monarch conservation and the adjacent 800 acres of urban greenway landowners in the planting of milkweed on the agricultural landscape in the 14-state along the Milwaukee River. Project will educate and nectar-producing plants in core habitat eastern monarch corridor and catalyze urban youth and university students on the areas and along dispersal corridors to augment agricultural community engagement. principles of ecological restoration and will and link similar work recently supported $30,000 increase woodland habitat, which will provide by Farm Bill programs. better stabilization to the bluff, reducing $241,256 Midwest Association sediment in the Milwaukee River. of Fish and Wildlife Agencies $30,637 Ducks Unlimited Developing a Central Flyway Monarch Green Bay Coastal Wetland Restoration (WI) Conservation Strategy (Multiple States) Sand County Foundation Restore and enhance over 100 acres of coastal Lead a regional and national coordination Building Capacity for Monarch Recovery wetlands at sites throughout Green Bay to process to develop a Central Flyway Monarch among Electric Utilities (IA, IL, MN, WI) provide long-term beneficial impacts to fish Conservation Strategy for states located along Build capacity within the energy industry to and wildlife utilizing the bay. Project will create the eastern monarch migratory corridor. establish high-quality monarch habitat on lands 5 acres of pike spawning habitat, enhance 17 Project will establish common habitat dedicated to energy infrastructure and rights- acres of waterfowl habitat, seed 50 acres with and population goals, and strategies of-way. Project will incorporate cost-effective native plant species including wild rice, wild and monitoring will be implemented habitat restoration strategies into energy celery and hard stem bullrush, and control 100 at the state level. industry standards of operation and restoring acres of invasive species. $144,750 habitat at 400 sites. $396,779 $98,769 Operation Migration-USA Friends of Crex Whooping Crane Reintroduction The Nature Conservancy St. Croix Valley Monarch Habitat Partnership to Southeastern U.S. - IV (Multiple States) Controlling Invasive Species within the Door (MN, WI) Support monitoring and outreach efforts in Peninsula Coastal Wetlands Ramsar Site (WI) Coordinate numerous partners to plan and support of conserving the critically endangered Restore and enhance 500 acres of coastal implement monarch butterfly conservation whooping crane and building a self-sustaining wetlands within the Door Peninsula Coastal on public and private lands throughout the St. population in the Southeast. Project will Wetlands Ramsar Site. Project will treat known Croix River watershed. Project will engage local support two staff positions during the three- infestations, map and monitor invasive species 73 organizations and volunteers to restore and season migration period and provide outreach populations, utilize early detection and rapid enhance more than 939 acres and create eight to increase general awareness. response efforts, and restore a 10-acre wetland acres of seed plots. $75,000 site through fill removal and revegetation. $199,576 $186,249 Ozaukee County, Wisconsin Friends of the St. Croix Wetland Mole Creek Stream and Riparian U.S. Department of the Interior, Management District Enhancement (WI) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Membership and Local Awareness Enhance 4,200 feet of stream channel, Wisconsin Driftless Area Monarch Development and Growth (WI) reconnect 103 acres of wetland and floodplain Butterfly Initiative Increase local awareness of the mission and habitat, control invasive species, and plant Improve monarch butterfly habitat on private goals of the organization. The St Croix Wetland native trees and shrubs. Project will increase lands in the Driftless Area of southwestern Management District manages 44 waterfowl and improve the habitat structure and diversity Wisconsin. Project will restore 250 acres of production areas in northwestern Wisconsin for both aquatic and avian species including agricultural lands or low-diversity grasslands restoring and maintaining prairies, wetlands northern pike, walleye, smallmouth bass, brook to high-diversity pollinator plantings consisting and oak savannas in Wisconsin. Project will trout, greater redhorse, striped shiner of native milkweeds, wildflowers and prairie increase the impact on local communities and ellipse mussels. grasses. by increasing community awareness of the $66,000 $75,000 district’s goals and objectives and expanding membership of the organization. Volunteers Ozaukee Washington Land Trust Wildlife Management Institute will provide 300 hours during the 2-year period. Restoring the Milwaukee River Technical Assistance Coordinators $3,525 Watershed (WI) - II for Young Forests (Multiple States) Restore and enhance 1,200 acres of critical Maintain technical assistance contractor Hunger Task Force natural habitats, plant 2,000 trees, remove positions in the 17-state early successional Hunger Task Force Farm (WI) 300 acres of invasive species and monitor forest habitat region to benefit New England Promote economic development and six streams in corridors along the Milwaukee cottontail, American woodcock, community well-being through sustainable River and Lake Michigan shoreline. Project will golden-winged warbler, and over 60 other agriculture, natural areas conservation and monitor wildlife populations, incorporate Youth species of concern. Project will continue responsible environmental stewardship in Corps participants, deliver land management to develop new approaches and outreach Milwaukee County. Project will restore 50 acres recommendations, and create environmental materials to better educate and encourage of natural areas surrounding the Root River education opportunities for interns, volunteers public and private landowners to become by reducing invasive species, removing brush, and community members. actively involved in this effort. reducing chemical use and employing cover $48,742 $504,012 cropping with help of community volunteers. $50,000 United States and U.S. Territories $100,000 permanent conservation. 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P locations in Montana, Wyoming and South and the Bureau ofR projects with the Bureau ofLand Management Engage 79youth in hands-on conservation Restoring the Last Best Place (MT, SD, WY) Montana Conservation Corps $41,000 park and parkservice. introduce the youths to other aspects ofthe enrichment to activities during non-work time greening projects, while providing youth with brownfield remediation and community P Mormon R trails and historic preservation projects at Involve 20youth corps members incompleting the Past (WY) Building the Future by Rebuilding Groundwork USA $112,223 management for future conservation action. conservation success and implement adaptive P North Dakota,South Dakota and Wyoming. private rangelands in portions ofMontana, longspurs, through stewardship efforts on curlew, chestnut-collared and McCown’s Sprague’s pipit, Baird’s sparrow, long-billed declines ofassociated bird speciessuch as Stem the conversion ofnative grasslands and (MT, ND, SD, WY) Delivery inthe Northern Great Plains Inform, Strengthen andMonitor Farm Bill Ducks Unlimited $199,958 landowners enrolled intheprogram. result in 50grazing plans and 50farmers and acres through technical assistance. 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U.S. Virgin Islands Coral Bay Community Council Sediment Reduction in Coral Bay St. John (VI) - II 75 Continue efforts to reduce sedimentation from unpaved roads that affect downstream coral reef and associated marine habitats. Project will help local landowners establish six to 10 stormwater mitigation projects in at least two drainage basins that feed into Coral Bay. $67,910

St. Croix Science & Conservation This is My Beach: Reducing Local Contributions of Debris into the Marine Environment (VI) Reduce local contributions of debris to the marine environment by generating community action, business leadership and behavior change within the targeted watershed. Project will conduct a public awareness campaign aligned with derelict fish trap and marine debris removal, spatial distribution assessment of plastics and microplastics in the coastal zone, and recovery monitoring programs for impacted coastal and nearshore ecosystems. $77,718 United States and U.S. Territories U F i nite scal Y scal d S e ar ar 2016 C tates an o d I n s nternationa e rva ti o n in v e s l t m ent s Asia, India and the Pacific Indonesia Locally Managed Wildlife Conservation Society Marine Area Foundation Strengthening Capacity in the Solomon Islands Centre for Resource Management and Expanding Community-Based Coral Reef to Plan and Implement Fisheries Management Environmental Studies (CERMES), Conservation in Eastern Indonesia Work with local communities in the Western The University of the West Indies Mobilize teams of mentors to teach 100 Province to develop an ecosystem approach Coordination of a Global new communities how to use streamlined to reef fisheries management planning and Socio-Economic Monitoring Initiative planning approaches for achieving coral reef strengthen local governance. Project will for Coastal Management - II conservation actions. Project will result in at reduce harvesting pressure on fisheries Facilitate the coordination and development least 40 specific marine conservation actions resources required for local food and income, of socio-economic data collection through that address major threats to coral reefs and such as edible shellfish, giant clams and sea seven regional programs around the world. start to restore the health of these ecosystems. cucumbers, and improve status of locally Project will continue to support regional $41,001 important reef fish stocks. capacity in socio-economic monitoring and $70,064 produce updates to a suite of printed and Oregon State University electronic SocMon training materials. Viewing Albatrosses From Space: Using Satel- $40,500 Canada lite Imagery to Count Nesting Birds (HI, OR) Use WorldView-3 satellite, the first commercial Clemson University Commonwealth of super-spectral, high-resolution satellite with Northern Great Plains Swift Fox Connectivity the Northern Mariana Islands 0.31 m panchromatic resolution, 1.24 m (MT) Nocturnal Seabird Inventory on multispectral resolution, and eight-band, Live-trap and track at least 20 adult and Commonwealth of the short-wave infrared imagery (3.7 m resolution), 20 juvenile foxes on federal, private, state Northern Mariana Islands to do remote sensing imagery to determine and tribal lands in Blaine, Phillips and Valley Use acoustic sensors to inventory and monitor albatross nesting population sizes on breeding Counties, Montana. Project will use tracking, nocturnal seabirds on the remote northern colonies. Project will test accuracy and develop survivorship and recruitment data to build islands of the Commonwealth of the Northern correction factors using counts from satellite models of both population dynamics and Mariana Islands for the first time. Project will images and those by personnel on the ground. dispersal/movement potential. This analysis initially start with the islands of Sarigan or $119,605 will identify the biggest influences on the Guguan and Alamagan. population dynamics in the region, and build $35,323 The Reef-World Foundation upon state-wide monitoring to create a Managing a Sustainable Marine Tourism meta-population model to assess dynamics Conservation International Foundation Industry in the Philippines Using the Green at a landscape scale. Spread the Reach of Community-Based Coral Fins Approach $158,207 Reef Conservation (Papua New Guinea) Build capacity of managers in the Philippines to Expand the conservation of coral reefs in Milne reduce impacts to coral reefs associated with Ducks Unlimited Bay Province of Papua New Guinea by fostering marine tourism using the Green Fins approach. Green Bay Coastal Wetland Restoration (WI) 77 a guidance and training system that mentors Project will promote and measure compliance Restore and enhance over 100 acres of coastal government and community members in their of dive industry to best practices supporting wetlands at sites throughout Green Bay to pursuit and practice of coral reef conservation. coral conservation and resilience. provide long-term beneficial impacts to fish Project will focus on strengthening the role of $65,005 and wildlife utilizing the bay. Project will create community-based biological monitoring teams 5 acres of pike spawning habitat, enhance 17 in mentoring neighboring communities and University of California - Santa Cruz acres of waterfowl habitat, seed 50 acres with add an additional 100,000 hectares of coral Endangered Seabird Meta-Population Viability native plant species including wild rice, wild reefs to community-based management. Analysis (Multiple States) celery and hard stem bullrush, and control $59,902 Improve a meta-population viability analysis 100 acres of invasive species. model guide for seabird conservation planning $396,779 Conservation Society of Pohnpei by improving its accuracy in predicting the Increasing Adaptive Management Capacity demographic impacts of island threats, Flathead Community Foundation in Pohnpei (Federated States of Micronesia) incorporating additional conservation Crown of the Continent Aquatic Invasive Develop community action plans in the threats, adding additional potential Species Prevention (MT, Canada) municipalities of Nett and Sokehs in Pohnpei to conservation interventions (reestablishment Coordinate efforts to keep harmful aquatic assist local management of resources and or establishment of new colonies, fisheries invasive species out of the Crown of the establish an effective support system at the bycatch mitigation), and moving the tool into a Continent region. Project will combine two state level. Project will engage community user-friendly web-based format where it will be successful pilot programs to establish an members in identifying gaps to achieving their promoted to seabird conservation planners. innovative regional Aquatic InvasiveS pecies goals and conduct workshops on reef fish $174,488 prevention strategy. management tools needed, while incorporating $168,655 them more broadly into a statewide fishery Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve management plan. Provide Flexible Approaches Groupe de concertation des bassins ver- $40,000 to Restoring New England Cottontail (ME) sants de la zone Bécancour Restarting 300 acres over two years, with Restoring Yellow Perch Habitat in St. Lawrence a special focus on industrial, commercial and River Wetlands (QC) public lands, with an eventual increase of Restore and reconnect 882 acres of yellow about 150 New England cottontail rabbits, perch spawning habitat along the St. Lawrence while benefiting breeding American woodcock, River. Project will improve and reconnect prairie warbler and many pollinators. Project wetland hydrology in order to establish will support a restoration coordinator for New sufficient water levels for yellow perch during England cottontail within approved focal areas upstream and downstream migrations. in southern Maine. $60,000 $60,000 United States and International Concern. 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Project will create the region’s most important nesting site at training workshops to increase capacity for a network of Index Sites to monitor population Estero Padre Ramos. Project will increase integrated coral reef monitoring in Caribbean recovery for six species of sea turtles, and protection for 52 percent of the nesting countries, reach at least 20 coastal resource develop a structure for long-term population activity for this population. managers and practitioners, and enable monitoring and trend analysis. $70,000 follow-up activities post-training via $59,980 site-specific assessments. MPA Enforcement International $72,000 Mexico Building Enforcement Capacity for Sea Turtle Protection in the Caribbean (Mexico, Panama) The Ocean Foundation Abt Associates Assessment and training for enforcement Multi-Year Monitoring of Hawksbill Recovery Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduction Priorities programs in Panama and Mexico to increase in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Multiple States) and Conservation Targets the effectiveness of surveillance. Project will Coordinated monthly in-water monitoring (Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua) provide practical field training to enhance activities across index sites in five countries to Identify priorities for bycatch reduction protection of Caribbean hawksbill sea turtles quantify hawksbill sea turtle density by and nesting beach conservation efforts through efficient and effective enforcement geography and life-stage. Project will allow for the Eastern Pacific leatherback population. efforts and provide training on personal safety for population trend evaluations over time Project will assess beaches and coastal for non-law enforcement people like biologists, and enable prioritization of conservation communities and prioritize conservation students and volunteers working on actions and strategies. actions in México, Nicaragua and Costa Rica sea turtle conservation. $116,795 to guide future activities. $60,000 $349,800 U.S. Department of the Interior, New Jersey Audubon Society U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alternare, A.C. Aerial Surveys for Shorebirds along Shorebird Harvest along the Atlantic Flyway Establishing Strategic Links to Conserve the the Atlantic Flyway (Guyana, Suriname) Build and expand on current accomplishments Overwintering Sites of the Monarch Butterfly Conduct aerial surveys for shorebirds wintering by strengthening law enforcement where (Mexico) along South America’s Atlantic coast and shorebird harvest is illegal or restrictions are Develop technical and organizational action develop an aerial survey training program in place, develop harvest management tools plans for stakeholders involved in the 79 to ensure the collection of comparable data by collecting more and better information, management of the overwintering monarch in the future. Project will produce up-to-date establish and maintain no-shooting reserves, habitat within the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere population status assessments for several develop incentives as an alternative to hunting, Reserve. Project will link community action and conservation target species. and improve education and communication in train rural leaders to enhance protection of $50,000 all regions exposed to harvest pressure. monarch overwintering sites. $249,674 $50,000 New Jersey Audubon Society Optimizing Conservation Outcomes University of California - Santa Cruz American Bird Conservancy and Investments for Semipalmated Sandpiper Endangered Seabird Meta-Population Viability Protecting Townsend’s Shearwaters (Brazil, Suriname) Analysis (Multiple States) on Isla Socorro (Mexico) - V Develop a full life-cycle “migratory network” Improve a meta-population viability analysis Advance efforts to eradicate feral cats from model to determine what periods during the model guide for seabird conservation planning Isla Socorro, Mexico to protect the sole annual cycle and which regions are major by improving its accuracy in predicting the breeding habitat for the critically endangered drivers of population declines in Atlantic Flyway demographic impacts of island threats, Townsend’s shearwater and other threatened semipalmated sandpipers. Project will track incorporating additional conservation threats, endemic species. individuals tagged with digitally coded radio adding additional potential conservation $268,403 transmitters using automated tracking systems interventions (reestablishment or in northern South America to determine establishment of new colonies, fisheries MPA Enforcement International overwinter survival estimates. The model bycatch mitigation), and moving the tool into a Building Enforcement Capacity for Sea Turtle will inform conservation investment user-friendly web-based format where it will be Protection in the Caribbean (Mexico, Panama) decisions made to stabilize and increase promoted to seabird conservation planners. Assessment and training for enforcement sandpiper populations. $174,488 programs in Panama and Mexico to increase $99,972 the effectiveness of surveillance. Project will provide practical field training to enhance protection of Caribbean hawksbill sea turtles through efficient and effective enforcement efforts and provide training on personal safety for non-law enforcement people like biologists, students and volunteers working on sea turtle conservation. $60,000 United States and International $54,582 number ofcontributing males. full census ofthepopulation and monitor the the diversity ofparental lines to complete a help identify family groups and understand season. P leatherback turtlesthroughout the nesting hatchling and nesting female Eastern P Develop agenetic sampling program for (Marshall Islands, Mexico) Leatherback Turtle Population Vital Rates andCensusofEastern Pacific The OceanFoundation $116,795 and strategies. enable prioritization of conservation actions population trend evaluationsand over time geography and life-stage. P to quantify hawksbill seaturtle density by activities across index sites in five countries Coordinated monthly in-water monitoring in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (Multiple States) Multi-Year Monitoring ofHawksbill Recovery The OceanFoundation $200,000 internship opportunity. research to support aone-month summer proposals. Each intern willconduct baseline develop their projects and internship small cohort ofundergraduate interns asthey appoint two graduate fellowships to mentor a biodiversity and natural resources. P development, energy policy and impacts on and broader questions on energy issues related to GulfMexico of ecosystems a two-tiered program that will focus on local Integrate undergraduates and graduates using Conservation Scholars Program Applied Biodiversity Sciences Texas A&MAgriLife Research $50,000 10 pollinator gardens. habitat restoration and willestablish will use habitat characterization to inform local monarchs and characterizing habitat. 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Later project phases will Island based on science and technical expertise Implement major elements of the City of acquire, protect and restore coastal habitats in and evaluation that will provide the ability to Niceville’s existing plans for comprehensive three distinct areas: up to 300 acres of riparian, effectively evaluate the benefits and impacts of stormwater management and surface water wetland and upland habitats in the Dog River restoration activities and alternatives. Project and habitat restoration to improve existing Watershed (Perch Creek) near its connection includes modeling the island to evaluate and maintain future surface water quality and to Mobile Bay; up to 40 acres of bay shore beneficial use options and other sand wildlife habitat in Boggy Bayou, property in the Garrows Bend Watershed; and placement activities, and the most resilient and Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. up to 450 acres of tidal wetlands and buffer in sustainable island restoration activities Project will add stormwater management the lower Three Mile Creek Watershed. and configurations in support of critical controls to the northern portion of the Thomas $285,912 habitats and resources. Branch basin north of McEwen Street, and $75,000 relocate sediment, create habitat, create living Mobile Bay National Estuary Program/ shorelines, and restore emergent grasses at the Marine Environmental Alabama Department of Conservation headwaters of Boggy Bayou. Sciences Consortium and Natural Resources, $3,852,943 Fowl River Watershed Restoration – Marine Resources Division Phase I (Amendment) Alabama Artificial Reef Clearwater Marine Aquarium Address increased costs identified through and Habitat Enhancement Increased Capacity the engineering and design phase of the 2013 Enhance and expand the state’s artificial reef for Marine Mammal Response project. Project will implement measures to program to improve habitats for reef fish and Enhance the marine mammal stranding protect and restore 6 acres of marsh habitat at other species in coastal Alabama. Projects network along the Florida Gulf Coast by the north end of Mon Louis Island. range from revitalizing degraded reefs in the providing established stranding organizations $1,194,149 upper estuary to creating new reef habitat with supplemental staff, equipment and along the continental shelf of the Gulf of provisions to improve stranding response and Mobile County Mexico. Extensive research will be conducted data collection efforts. Project will provide for Mobile County Conservation Acquisition to monitor biological succession; temporal/ minimal capacity requirements to allow the Acquire a 233-acre parcel on the western shore spatial patterns of habitat utilization; and organization to contribute critical stranding of Mobile Bay that contains tidal marsh and evaluate the structural integrity, durability, and data to a centralized database on marine maritime forest. Project includes development stability of the enhancement projects following mammal health. of restoration plans to enhance the tidal marsh 83 the construction of the inshore, nearshore and $201,929 habitat and implementation of a long-term offshore reefs. stewardship program for the property. $12,525,388 Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge $4,257,376 Increased Capacity Alabama Department of Conservation for Marine Mammal Response The Nature Conservancy and Natural Resources, Enhance the marine mammal stranding Acquisition Marine Resources Division network along the Florida Gulf Coast by Acquire approximately 674 acres of priority Multifaceted Fisheries and Ecosystem providing established stranding organizations coastal habitat along Grand Bay adjacent to Monitoring in Alabama’s Marine Waters – with supplemental staff, equipment and existing protected lands (Alabama Forever Phase II provisions to improve stranding response and Wild and Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge). Monitor recreationally and commercially data collection efforts. Project will provide for Project will protect a broad diversity of habitats important reef and estuarine species of interest minimal capacity requirements to allow the including shell mounds, pine flatwood in waters of interest to Alabama through organization to contribute critical stranding savannas, oak cheniers, coastal marshes and fishery independent (trawls, bottom long lines, data to a centralized database on marine salt pannes that feed into the vast seagrasses vertical lines) and fishery-dependent surveys mammal health. and oyster reefs that dominate Grand Bay. (recreational red snapper harvest, commercial $564,657 Project will protect lands that support a blue crab harvest rates). Data will be used to diversity of fish and wildlife, including coastal improve ecosystem-based management Florida Department of Environmental and wading birds, waterfowl, neotropical capabilities, assess the recovery of reef fish Protection migratory birds, coastal finfish and shellfish stocks in association with other fisheries Water Quality Improvements to Enhance (such as speckled seatrout, redfish, Atlantic restoration efforts and improve and expand Fisheries Habitat in the Lower Choctawhatchee croaker, shrimp, blue crabs) and many single-species stock assessments for managed River Basin – Phase I threatened and endangered species, including fish species. Project will also incorporate Inventory, prioritize and develop solutions to the West Indian manatee, and Gulf sturgeon. habitat characterization through side-scanning major sources of sediment runoff, in particular $1,777,446 sonar, water quality monitoring and acoustic from unpaved roads, in the Choctawhatchee tracking of tagged fish species. Bay Watershed. Restoration plans will be $2,195,000 developed to identify site-specific solutions and estimate the cost of necessary improvements for the highest priority sites, as funding allows, to enhance spawning and rearing habitat for Gulf sturgeon. $931,564 Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund $1,326,790 from recreational and commercial fishermen. harvest data for red snapper and other reef fish along the Florida Gulf Coast.P fisheries management ofimportant species for enhancement ofstock assessments and Improve marinefisheries data collection Monitoring -Phase III Fisheries: Fisheries Dependent Enhanced Assessment ofGulfMexico and Wildlife Research Institute Conservation Commission,Fish Florida FishandWildlife $4,487,391 management capabilities. ecosystem-based assessment and managed species; and foster improved expand single-species stock assessments for Deepwater Horizon oilspill;improve and implemented inresponse to the in association with restoration efforts to assesstherecovery ofoffshore assemblages eastern Gulf of Mexico. These data willbe used fishery-independent data in the northern and expansion ofthecollection of Implements asignificant and meaningful Monitoring -Phase III Fisheries: Fisheries Independent Enhanced Assessment ofGulfMexico and Wildlife Research Institute Conservation Commission,Fish Florida FishandWildlife $201,786 will collect the data. training oflocal officialsand volunteers who address the issue. 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University of Florida TEXAS The Conservation Fund Increased Capacity Bahia Grande Conservation Ducks Unlimited for Marine Mammal Response Corridor-Boswell Jenkins Tract Acquisition Cow Trap Lake Bird Nesting Enhance the marine mammal stranding Acquire and restore 1,781 acres of coastal Island Improvements network along the Florida Gulf Coast by prairie and marsh, bayfront and tidal saltmarsh Place a layer of crushed shell or gravel on two providing established stranding organizations along Laguna Madre to be conveyed after recently constructed bird islands to create with supplemental staff equipment and acquisition to the Laguna Atascosa National improved conditions for ground-nesting provisions to improve stranding response and Wildlife Refuge. The project will link already colonial waterbird species. Project will data collection efforts. Project will provide for protected lands through a coastal habitat discourage vegetation establishment and minimal capacity requirements to allow the corridor that safeguards 1,200 plant species, provide optimal nesting conditions. organization to contribute critical stranding more than 530 species of birds, and 17 $440,000 data to a centralized database threatened or endangered species. on marine mammal health. $4,000,000 National Audubon Society $404,250 Matagorda Bay Rookery Island, The Nature Conservancy Feasibility Study and Alternative Analysis Falcon Point Ranch MISSISSIPPI Complete a feasibility study that assesses Conservation Easement Acquisition alternative rookery island locations Mississippi Department Acquire a conservation easement on in Matagorda Bay that would be sustainable of Environmental Quality approximately 600 acres of the Falcon Point and resilient. Project will also evaluate island Coastal Bird Stewardship Program Ranch. The project will protect an ecologically locations based on the three key characteristics in Mississippi (Amendment) important property for waterbirds, shorebirds, required for a successful colonial waterbird Amendment to the 2013 project to extend wading birds, and associated coastal habitats. nesting island. the monitoring work so that there is not a gap $2,910,900 $250,000 in data collection between the Phase I and II projects. Project will improve nesting success of The Nature Conservancy Texas General Land Office coastal birds through nest protection, Galveston Bay Sustainable Galveston Island State Park Marsh Restoration stewardship and monitoring at 22 key sites Oyster Reef Restoration and Protection in Carancahua Cove - Phase II along the Mississippi coast, while educating the The project will restore a minimum of 40 acres Construct approximately 4,415 linear-foot public on the importance of these habitats. of degraded oyster reefs in Galveston Bay segments of rock breakwater within the $262,090 using design criteria intended to increase the Carancahua Cove area of West Bay. Project sustainability and resilience of the restored reef will directly benefit avian and estuarine fishery Mississippi Department habitats. Project will create conditions optimal species and their habitat by protecting of Environmental Quality for oyster larval production, settlement, approximately 2 acres of existing estuarine Design Challenge for Improvement survival and enhanced adult oyster growth. emergent marsh, 12 acres of existing seagrass of Water Quality from Beach Outfalls - Phase I $2,500,000 85 beds, 73 acres of future restored estuarine Sponsor a design challenge to solicit ideas for marsh complex, calm and protect improving water quality of stormwater outfalls approximately 95 acres of shallow estuarine along the Mississippi coast to reduce non-point subtidal/open water habitat and create 8,830 source pollution impacts to marine resources. linear feet of hard substrate. Phase I of project will sponsor the challenge, $3,234,500 and Phase II is expected to implement the top three ideas, including engineering and design, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department permitting and construction. Candy Abshier Wildlife Management Area $544,511 Shoreline Protection and Marsh Restoration Protect coastal habitats within the Candy Mississippi Department Abshier Wildlife Management Area by of Environmental Quality constructing a breakwater structure to protect Oyster Restoration and Management - Phase I the shoreline from further erosion. Project will Replenish and protect oyster populations in create salt marsh that will provide additional Mississippi through increasing oyster reef protection from wave action, habitat for habitat acreage and productivity. Project aquatic organisms, and foraging habitat for components answer the critical questions coastal birds. to ensure sustainable and successful oyster $245,000 restoration in the future: 1) suitable substrate experimentation, 2) water quality mapping; Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation 3) benthic habitat characterization, Powderhorn Ranch Land Acquisition - Phase III 4) hydrodynamic modeling of freshwater Acquire, preserve and manage Powderhorn inflows, and 5) the development of an oyster Ranch. The property is ecologically important gardening program to increase spat and larval for birds, fish, shellfish and plants. oyster transport in Mississippi. $12,493,800 $11,779,900 IDEA licenses, and conservation and mitigation plans. from orders, court settlements of legalcases, regulatory permits, resources and the environment. 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Approximately 550 cubic yards of that support commercial and subsistence drift U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service oyster shell will be recovered from restaurants gillnet fisheries and sport fishing. The project Point Lay Walrus Haulout Monitoring, to restore local reefs and educate the public will improve the water quality of snowmelt and Public Education and Outreach Initiative on the value of oysters to the ecosystem and discharges that flow directly into the inter-tidal Assist the Native Village of Point Lay to the benefits of oyster shell recycling. Project zone of Orca Inlet, which serves as forage continue its role as steward of the nearby partners will also develop a comprehensive habitat for migrating shorebirds and salmon. Pacific walrus haulout. Project will fund haulout business plan to show the long-term $359,674, Federal Criminal Case management and monitoring efforts, carcass sustainability of the program once the pilot surveys,and public outreach and education. project is complete. Polar Bears International $141,406, Federal Criminal Case $243,079, Federal Criminal Case Contemporary Iñupiaq Knowledge of Polar Bears in the Southern Beaufort Sea U.S. Department of the Interior, Alabama Forest Resources Center Conduct ethnographic documentation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Red-cockaded Woodpecker and Longleaf recent Alaska Native observations of polar bear Steller’s and Spectacled Eider Recovery Pine Restoration in Southeast Alabama seasonal distribution, behavior, ecology, body Support the recovery of Steller’s and spectacled Maintain, enhance and expand ongoing condition, and human-bear interactions in the eiders through management, monitoring, and recovery efforts for red-cockaded woodpeckers southern Beaufort Sea. This project will be a outreach. Arctic fox non-lethal control methods and other species on private quail plantations collaborative effort between social scientists, will be used to increase reproductive success in southeast Alabama. polar bear biologists, and tribal communities for Steller’s eiders. $2,000, Other and will fill critical knowledge gaps about polar $100,000, Federal Criminal Case bears in the context of rapid climate change. ALASKA $84,236, Federal Criminal Case University of Alaska Foundation Matthew Iya Scholarship Fund Alaska Department of Fish and Game Prince William Sound Science Center Establish an endowment scholarship fund Anadromous Cataloging and Fish Inventory Comparative Performance in Migration and in honor of Matthew Iya, a walrus hunter and in Select Arctic Ocean Drainages Reproduction among Wild and Hatchery Pink Alaska Native leader from St. Lawrence Island, 87 Conduct a rapid, systematic inventory of Salmon in Prince William Sound to benefit university students involved anadromous and resident fish distribution in Assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with in scientific research studies related to the associated aquatic and riparian habitat in select studies of hatchery-wild interactions among Pacific walrus. Arctic Ocean drainages within the National pink salmon in Prince William Sound to address $870, Other Petroleum Reserve – Alaska. Target streams knowledge gaps in Alaskan sustainable marine will be selected to fill gaps in coverage of fisheries that will benefit salmon conservation University of Washington Alaska’s Catalog of Waters Important for the and the commercial salmon industry. Occurrence and Range of Right Whales Spawning, Rearing or Migration of $95,812, Federal Criminal Case in the Bering Sea Anadromous Fishes in freshwater habitats Analyze extensive existing acoustic data to expected to support anadromous fish U.S. Department of the Interior, assess the range of right whales in the Bering populations that are likely to be impacted U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Sea (including whether they are common in the by human activities. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge north near the Bering Strait), and the extent to $99,770, Federal Criminal Case Building Polar Bear Conservation which they use Aleutians passes. Project will Management Capacity at Barter Island also improve knowledge of the occurrence Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Develop a local strategy to reduce human-bear of bowhead whales in the region. Advisory Council conflicts as polar bear and human use of $114,285, Federal Criminal Case Alaska Federal and State Preparedness Plan coastal habitats increases. The project will for Response to Oil and Hazardous Substance expand capacity among local residents to Discharges and Releases, Cook Inlet Subarea CALIFORNIA develop and implement community-based Plan Improvements polar bear management and conservation Audubon California Work with the Cook Inlet Subarea Committee strategies; increase the role of local Alaska Lake Isabella Willow Flycatcher Restoration to update and provide improvements to the Native youth in natural resources Continue to restore 1,150 acres Cook Inlet Subarea Contingency Plan, which is management; and expand communication of Southwestern willow flycatcher habitat lost a supplement to the Alaska Federal and State of critical safety and polar bear conservation from the long-term operations of the Lake Preparedness Plan for Response to Oil and messages among various user groups. Isabella reservoir, in cooperation with the U.S. Hazardous Substance Discharges and Releases. $100,000, Federal Criminal Case Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish $100,000, Federal Criminal Case and Wildlife Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and $89,724, Mitigation Wildlife Service Estimating Vital Rates of Red Knots Accurately estimate the vital rates, such as adult and chick survival, of roselaari populations in order to understand limiting factors. $49,352, Federal Criminal Case IDEA R Desert Wildlife Management Area 2016 Raven StudiesinChemehuevi Bajada Ecology $20,478, Mitigation P Imperial Irrigation District to benefit Wister P Wister Pond Water Source California Department ofFishandWildlife $16,250, Mitigation Diego County. Operate and maintain Wister P Maintenance Wister Pond Long-Term Operation and California Department ofFishandWildlife $72,794, Federal CriminalCase on San J existing fish barriers onprivate agricultural land construction ofimproved fishpassage at three design documents for the bidding and preliminary designto develop 100-percent Build ontheprevious feasibility study and Improvements Project San JoseCreek FishPassage Cachuma Resource Conservation District $130,000, Mitigation Fort Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area. Cronese DesertWildlifeManagement Area and tortoises and common ravens in the Superior- R Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area Desert Wildlife Management Area andFort 2016 Raven StudiesinSuperior-Cronese BioResource Consultants $28,944, Other below Friant Dam. populations to the San J agreement to restore flow and salmon in the implementation ofa historic settlement Assist and advise the restoration administrator CommitteeAdvisory Services Settlement Implementation Technical San JoaquinRiver Restoration Bill LuceConsulting $50,819, Mitigation National P tortoises and common ravens in J R Joshua Tree National Park 2016 Raven Studiesin Bajada Ecology $92,670, Mitigation Management Area. the Chemehuevi DesertWildlife desert tortoises and common ravens in ond in San DiegoCounty. urchase up to 500acre-feet of water from esearch theinteraction between esearch theinteraction between desert esearch theinteraction between desert ose Creek in Santa Barbara County. ark.

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Hardshell Labs Mid Klamath Watershed Council Point Millerton Ranch A High-Tech Raven Lure for Predation Mid Klamath Coho Rearing Habitat Long-Term Land Management at Effectiveness Monitoring and Management Enhancement Project – II Point Millerton aka Tract 4870 through Predator Aversion Enhance cover complexity through placement Manage mitigation land at Point Millerton aka Monitor the effectiveness of repulsion of small woody debris and willow plantings Tract 4870 in Madera County. techniques by deploying a mobile simulated within pools of the lower reaches of Klamath $9,848, Mitigation tortoise as a lure to attract common ravens River tributaries. reliably and consistently, videotape raven $50,188, Mitigation Point Reyes Bird Observatory - predation behavior and interactions toward the Point Blue Conservation Science high-tech raven lure, and monitor effectiveness Mid Klamath Watershed Council Ensuring A Resilient Tidal Marsh Ecosystem of the repulsion technique by equipping Mid Klamath Tributary Fish Passage Through Healthy Upland Transition Zones: aversion features to the raven lure within Improvement Project Assessment and Recommendations controlled areas to analyze its effectiveness Create fish passage at the mouths and in the Gather critical information to guide and assess as a raven deterrent. lower reaches of 72 Mid Klamath Sub-basin efficacy of habitat restoration for the tidal $12,000, Mitigation tributaries in California for anadromous fish wetland-upland transition zone in the San passage into upstream channels and off- Francisco Bay Estuary. In collaboration with Hardshell Labs channel rearing habitat. restoration practitioners the project will survey Repelling Ravens from Desert $66,446, Mitigation transition zone habitat in 18 marsh sites in San Tortoise Habitat with a Laser Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay to identify key Repel ravens for an extended period from Mojave Desert Land Trust physical features and vegetation characteristics a specified area of high quality habitat Long-Term Land Management at Hidden Valley benefiting tidal marsh dependent birds. and quantify the effects through detailed Manage mitigation land at Hidden Valley in San $199,872, Federal Criminal Case observations of raven behavior and quantitative Bernardino and Imperial counties. assessment of raven predation intensity. $70,955, Mitigation Point Reyes Bird Observatory - $74,500, Mitigation Point Blue Conservation Science Mojave Environmental Holdings From Science to Practice: HPR II Initial Land Management at Assessing and Guiding Innovative Tidal Marsh Initial and Long-Term Land Management at Cuddeback-Kramer Preserve Enhancement Strategies California Valley Solar Ranch Management of mitigation land at Cuddeback- Improve tidal marsh habitat and special status Manage mitigation land at California Valley Kramer Preserve in San Bernardino County. bird populations by assessing the efficacy of Solar Ranch in San Luis Obispo County. $218,179, Mitigation and providing recommendations for improving $310,771, Mitigation ongoing habitat enhancement strategies. Natural Resources Defense Council Assess the federally endangered Ridgeway’s Marine Applied Research and Exploration San Joaquin River Restoration rail response to two distinct conservation Channel Islands Marine Settlement Implementation Technical strategies occurring in the South Bay, engineer 89 Protected Areas Workshop Advisory Committee Services marsh mounds and native tidal marsh plant Support the Channel Islands Marine Protected Assist and advise the restoration administrator revegetation, and make recommendations for Areas Workshop, which convened scientists, in the implementation of a historic settlement improving tidal marsh enhancement strategies. ocean resource managers, and other experts agreement to restore flow and salmon $119,065, Federal Criminal Case involved in underwater research of the Channel populations to the San Joaquin River below Islands Marine Protected Areas to collaborate, Friant Dam. Point Reyes Bird Observatory - review existing data, identify overarching $24,888, Other Point Blue Conservation Science trends and themes, and begin to assess efficacy San Pablo Bay Transition Zone Restoration of networked Marine Protected Areas design. Ojai Valley Land Conservancy Install native plants in the marsh-to-upland $14,000, Federal Criminal Case San Antonio Creek Arundo Removal Project transition zone in the San Pablo Bay National Accomplish a tier 1 habitat restoration priority Wildlife Refuge and Sears Point, converting McBain Associates in the Ventura River Watershed Technical levees to productive transition habitat. San Joaquin River Restoration Investigation for the San Antonio Creek Project will also help inform future restoration Settlement Implementation Technical subwatershed and provide the most beneficial efforts by contributing to baseline data Advisory Committee Services enhancement opportunity to address limiting for the development of a standardized, Assist and advise the restoration administrator factors for Southern California steelhead. The multi-disciplinary monitoring protocol and in the implementation of a historic settlement project will result in the removal of more than 5 framework applicable to the entire San agreement to restore flow and salmon acres of Arundo donax from San Antonio Creek. Francisco Bay Estuary. populations to the San Joaquin River below $12,000, Federal Criminal Case $102,720, Federal Criminal Case Friant Dam. $59,685, Other Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission Point Reyes National Seashore Association Ventura River PIT Tagging Dune Restoration Expansion Project: Mid Klamath Watershed Council Promote the recovery of Southern California Protecting Key Species from Extinction Stanshaw Creek Water steelhead by improving the monitoring Improve the quality and ecosystem function in Conservation Assessment – II activities for Life Cycle Monitoring stations the area through restoration of coastal dune Determine physical improvements to the in Southern California by estimating marine habitat immediately adjacent to California Marble Mountain Ranch water system and mortality between the smolting and spawning marine waters. Project will link two large-scale associated hydropower system and implement stage and by estimating numbers of dune restoration projects. a final physical solution to returning water to out-migrating smolts to learn about $99,963, Federal Criminal Case Stanshaw Creek above the Highway 96 culvert productivity relationships of resident and that will meet stakeholder requirements. anadromous forms. Project will address the limiting factors for $149,997, Federal Criminal Case coho salmon in the Stanshaw Creek area of the Klamath Basin. $32,818, Mitigation IDEA $500,000, State CivilCase Dunes property. dune habitat referred to asthe Mussel R Acquire fee title to approximately 800acres of Dunes Complex LandAcquisitionProject Mussel Rock Dunes, Guadalupe-Nipomo Obispo County The LandConservancy ofSanLuis $132,871, State CivilCase Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Complex. Nipomo Lupine monitoring within the grass and European beach grass and conduct R 2016 Invasive Species Removal Obispo County The LandConservancy ofSanLuis $20,005, Federal CriminalCase be applied to white abalone in the future. and outplantingspawning, methods that can California. The project willtest conditioning, the endangered white abalone in Southern Conduct research to restore populations of Abalone Restoration Research Southern California White The Bay Foundation $5,000, Federal CriminalCase the Salton Sea. Wildlife R local schools to visittheSalton SeaNational Coordinate and fund transportation for Salton SeaNational Wildlife Refuge Fund Sea andDesertInterpretive Association $80,000, Federal CriminalCase mouse, and threatened western snowy plover. endangered Ridgway’s rail, salt marsh harvest to benefit thewildlife suchasthe federally transition zone habitat inSan Francisco Bay R Francisco Bay Community-based Wetlands Restoration, San Save TheBay $60,000, State CivilCase Dunes P access road entering the RanchoGuadalupe trailer for regular sand removal on the only P Maintenance Access Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve Public Santa Barbara County $10,000, State CivilCase are hampering ongoing restoration work. the removal ofinvasive acacia trees which Brickyard Cove in Alameda County through facilitating additional habitat restoration at Mitigate environmental damage while Brickyard Cove Acacia Removal Regional Parks Foundation urchase anew compact tracked loader and emove invasive species, primarily veldt estore, enhance and monitor tidal marsh reserve. efuge to learn about wildlife and

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Implement a community-based habitat $16,750, Species Recovery $25,570, Other restoration initiative that will restore 1.10 acres of oyster reef and salt marsh habitat over eight SWCA Environmental Consulting Pulama Lanai sites around Choctawhatchee Bay, manage Technical Assistance to the Upper Colorado Hawaiian Seabird Conservation exotic invasive plant species on 200 acres River Fish Recovery Program Equipment Purchases of coastal and wetland habitat by removing Assist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Reimburse landowners for the purchase invasive plant species and revegetating where coordination with the Recovery Program, of song meters and associated equipment appropriate and educate and involve 8,210 with completing revision of four endangered to monitor the Hawaiian Petrel Colony on citizens through volunteer opportunities, youth fish species recovery plans. Revised recovery Lanaihale. technical training, educational handouts, and goals will be assimilated with past and $5,947, Mitigation public workshops. new information, and consistent with the $35,237, Federal Criminal Case Endangered Species Act, implementing ILLINOIS regulations, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife St. Andrew Bay Resource Service handbook for recovery Various Recipients Management Association plan development. Ginseng Conservation in the State of Illinois Community-Based Habitat Restoration $27,039, Species Recovery Support projects related to the conservation in St. Andrew Bay of ginseng within the Illinois, including, but not Implement community-based living shoreline SWCA Environmental Consulting limited to, data collection and analysis related habitat restoration programs in the St. Andrew Upper Colorado Fish Recovery to the annual ginseng harvest. Bay watershed. This project will restore and Goal Development $10,744, Federal Criminal Case enhance a total of 0.4 acres of coastal wetlands Assist program agencies in developing recovery and perform education and outreach activities, goals for the four endangered Colorado River resulting in habitat restoration that will INDIANA fishes. Once developed, these goals will increase community resiliency and enhance be implemented by involved agencies and NatureServe environmental stewardship. stakeholders to facilitate management plans American Ginseng Conservation in Indiana $88,000, Federal Criminal Case and strategies for delisting. and Illinois: A Current Field Investigation of the $55,340, Species Recovery Population Size, Health and Genetics Various Recipients Leverage restitution funds for illegal collection Boat Rehabilitation for NOAA Office SWCA Environmental Consulting of ginseng in Indiana and Illinois to investigate 91 of Law Enforcement Upper Colorado Fish Recovery the on-the-ground impacts of harvest pressure Restore, maintain, and upgrade a boat to bring Goal Development on the abundance, distribution, and population to serviceable condition for law enforcement Assist the authorized agencies in developing genetics of American ginseng. use in Florida. recovery goals for the four endangered $74,600, Federal Criminal Case $17,165, Federal Criminal Case Colorado River fishes. Once developed, these goals will be implemented by involved agencies Various Recipients LOUISIANA and stakeholders to facilitate management Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary plans and strategies for delisting. Ducks Unlimited Fund projects and activities at the Florida Keys $4,800, Species Recovery Marsh Creation, Waterfowl Habitat National Marine Sanctuary including research, Enhancement and Shoreline Stabilization education, restoration, and maintenance of the in Lafourche Parish CONNECTICUT marine resources of the Sanctuary. Restore up to 4 miles of embankment along $23,986, Federal Criminal Case Connecticut Fund for the Environment both sides of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Long Island Sound Ecosystem Lafourche Parish. Health Report Card HAWAII $250,000, Federal Criminal Case Coordinate, distribute, and the publicize the Conservation Metrics regional Long Island Sound Report Card over a Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation Automated Acoustic Surveys for Hawaiian three year budget cycle. Coastal Wetland Restoration in Southeastern Petrel and Newell’s Shearwater on Lanai $240,000, Federal Criminal Case Louisiana Fund the detection and quantification of Restore swamp forest to establish habitat for Hawaiian Petrel and Newell’s Shearwater Connecticut Fund for the Environment 18 species of concern and increase storm vocalizations at three survey sites on the island Restoring Fish Passage on the Noroton River surge protection for the largest urban areas in of Lanai. Modify bridge culverts to restore 4.9 miles southeastern Louisiana. This project will plant $1,700, Mitigation of fish passage on the Noroton River at I-95 7,000 new swamp trees on a total of 36 acres between the Town of Darien and City of and engage and educate 760 volunteers. Conservation Metrics Stamford. The project will provide access to a $30,000, Federal Criminal Case Automated Acoustic Surveys for Hawaiian riverine migratory corridor for migratory fish, Petrel, Newell’s Shearwater and Band-Rumped including river herring, to critical upstream Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Storm-Petrel on Lanai spawning and nursery habitat. Fisheries Fund the analysis of remote acoustic $10,000, Federal Criminal Case Shellstock Budgets for Oyster Management monitoring for Newell’s Shearwater, Hawaiian Locate, review and analyze existing oyster data Petrel, and Band-Rumped Storm Petre on the sets to provide updated information on oyster island of Lanai. growth and natural oyster mortality. $11,914, Mitigation $59,611, Federal Criminal Case IDEA $18,930, Mitigation R for Lost Trail National Wildlife R P Project Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge Restoration River D esign Group $4,000, Federal CriminalCase and basic research. forensics, methods development, subsequent work on coral identification, coral the Ocean Genome Legacy Center to support a scientific resource and asecure at archive provenance. This collection would serve as tissue samples from black corals ofknown Build areference collection ofDNAand for BlackCorals Towards DNA-Based Identification Methods of New EnglandBiolabs Ocean GenomeLegacy Center $30,000, Federal CriminalCase Tred A R Management Strategies Restoration Through Innovative Nutrient Accelerating Long-Term Oyster Oyster Recovery Partnership $129,000, Federal Criminal Case land preservation partners. tools to local soilconservation districts and assistance, outreach materials, and mapping reductions. The pilot willprovide training, riparian forest buffers and wetlands to load Pilot aninnovative method to incentivize for RiparianForest Buffers & Wetlands Term Nutrient Reduction/Ecological Services Chesapeake Bay PilotProgram to Target Long- Nutrient Incentive Payment –AMaryland DepartmentMaryland ofAgriculture $129,000, Federal CriminalCase in stormwater. design to accelerate nutrient removal Test an innovative performance enhancement Phosphorus Removal inStormwater Iron-Enhanced SandFilter to Accelerate Bureau ofResource Management Carroll County Government - $129,000, Federal CriminalCase livestock from streams. implement riparian forest buffers and exclude to farmers based on their willingness to practices. 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$99,950, Other local environment. and quantifiable impact on the improvement projects that willhave avisible to research, design, and implement capital Organize acohort ofindustrial businesses Improvement Program Greenpoint Industrial Environmental Brooklyn BusinessExchange Evergreen: Your North $5,000, Other provide on-site signsfor education. Install acomposter, plant anative garden, and Garden Renovation Dupont Street SeniorHDFC Dupont Street SeniorHDFC $477,084, Other backyard gardening. residents and increase incidences ofsafe in McCarren P Design and implement alarge garden/farm Infrastructure Corridor McCarren Park UrbanFarm andGreen Council ontheEnvironment -GrowNYC $90,884, Other backups in the area. people by reducing chronic flooding and sewer stormwater volume,and benefit 10,910 of stormwater annually, 36%ofthe annual The project willcapture 6,411,631gallons Franklin Street intheWest Street watershed. East River between Manhattan A feet on 11streets that slope toward the street bump-outs covering 4,845square Install 54right ofway bioswales and green West Street Watershed Stormwater Project Brooklyn Greenway Initiative $1,639,878, Other million gallons ofstormwater annually. combined sewer system by diverting over five sewage releases from theNew York City’s decrease in the volume and frequency ofraw Boulevard. The project willresult in amajor of Greenpoint that are west ofMcGuiness management throughout theresidential areas maximum stormwater treatment and Implement green infrastructure to achieve West Street Watershed Stormwater -II Brooklyn Greenway Initiative $133,384, Mitigation conduct R Implementation P Contribute to aSan J Recovery Actions Staff Biologist for SanJuanRiver and Wildlife Service U.S. Department oftheInterior, U.S. Fish NEW YOR NEW ecovery Actions. K ark to educate Greenpoint rogram staff biologist to uan RiverR

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Horticultural Society of New York New York City Audubon Society Open Space Alliance For North Brooklyn McGolrick Park Restoration The Newtown Creek Wildflower Roof and Improving Sustainable Practices at Java Street Increase the environmental and community Community Space Community Garden - II benefits provided by McGolrick Park. The Install and maintain a large-scale, bird-friendly Improve sustainable practices at Java Street project will remediate environmental concerns, green roof planted with native species with the Community Garden by expanding the rainwater increase the sustainability of the park’s goals of minimizing direct wet-weather flows garden, installing a stormwater collection natural areas, and increase opportunities for to Newtown Creek, creating natural habitat for system, and adding solar panels to serve as a community-focused education. birds and other species, and establishing renewable energy source for the garden. $562,056, Other a community space. $30,220, Other $971,782, Other National Audubon Society State University of New York - Brockport For the Birds! Greenpoint at P.S. 110 New York City Audubon Society Population and Habitat Characteristics The Monitor School – II The Urban Birds of McGolrick Park of the Pugnose Shiner Deliver hands-on environmental education Conduct six bird monitoring sessions to which Perform research to advance understanding programming to students at PS 110 The the public will be invited, and present a walk of habitat conditions of the pugnose shiner Monitor School. The project will create in McGolrick Park where Greenpoint residents population in the St. Lawrence River. opportunities for Greenpoint residents to learn can learn about the native plants and their $4,000, Mitigation about and engage with local ecosystems to importance to wildlife. promote civic participation and a culture of $5,669, Other The Eyebeam Atelier stewardship. Soil Cycle: A Mobile Compost Initiative - II $51,843, Other New York City Industrial and Technology Conduct a mobile composting initiative at three Assistance Corporation Greenpoint schools using specially designed National Audubon Society Greenpoint Business cargo bikes to collect organic wastes from For the Birds! Greenpoint at St. Stanislaus Environmental Stewardship local schools, compost the wastes as the rider Kostka Catholic Academy – II Work with local companies in Greenpoint pedals, and allow the composting process Deliver hands-on environmental education to identify and implement environmental to be monitored. programming to students at St. Stanislaus improvements within their operations $27,607, Other Kostka Catholic Academy. The project will and develop solutions that have a create opportunities for Greenpoint residents long-term positive and sustained impact on The Greenpoint Monitor Museum to learn about and engage with local the community. The Greenpoint Monitor Museum ecosystems to promote civic participation $100,000, Other USS Monitor Park Shoreline Design Project and a culture of stewardship. Develop a final design package for the $47,403, Other New York City Soil and Water Conservation green/living shoreline restoration and District stabilization at the Greenpoint Monitor 93 National Wildlife Federation Creating Green Buffers in the Greenpoint Museum site and incorporate the ecological Greenpoint Eco-Schools: Creating a Legacy Industrial Area: A Community design and engineering components into of Sustainability - II Planning Initiative the Museum’s existing educational outreach Conduct after-school club programming Engage residents and business owners program in Greenpoint. for Greenpoint students that combines of the industrial area of Greenpoint in a $599,200, Other environment-based education with traditional community-driven planning process to develop Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math a greening plan. Planning will ensure strategic The Nature Conservancy - Connecticut (STEM) learning and activities. siting of green features that maximize the Beaver Brook Fishway Construction $99,934, Other environmental and public health benefits for Construct a steep-pass fishway along Beaver residents who have been subjected to the Creek in the Village of Mill Neck in Oyster Bay, Neighbors Allied for Good Growth environmental damages as a result of the spill. Long Island. Greenpoint Lead in Garden Soil Outreach $97,675, Other $20,000, Federal Criminal Case Restore the soil in Greenpoint for the purpose of improving public health and Newtown Creek Alliance The Research Foundation of the environment through an outreach and Greenpoint Bioremediation State University of New York education campaign. Increase public knowledge and local practice of St. Lawrence River Fish $35,737, Other popular established bioremediation techniques Habitat Conservation Strategy by providing educational materials and Develop the St. Lawrence Fish Habitat Neighbors Allied for Good Growth workshops. Conservation Strategy, which involves: site Reduce Reuse Recycle Greenpoint: Restaurants $82,951, Other prioritization and development of a site list with Conduct a waste reduction campaign that recommendations for enhancement activities; will help divert waste from landfills by Open Space Alliance For North Brooklyn implementation team meetings and support targeting restaurants. The project will provide Greenpoint Parks Community Stewardship for advancing proposed implementation waste audits to restaurants and choose two Fund the hiring of a program manager to projects and the creation of preliminary designs restaurants to take part in a pilot program for oversee an outreach program designed for projects; and GIS database maintenance, reusable takeout containers. to create a culture of stewardship around and the collection, processing and reporting of $31,736, Other Greenpoint Parks, including McGolrick Park, biological and physical monitoring data needed WNYC Transmitter Park, and Newtown to assess impacts on the fisheries of existing Newtown Creek Alliance Barge Parks, as well as the Greenpoint and proposed implementation projects. Newtown Creek SAMPLES and American Playgrounds. $299,407, Mitigation Conduct a water quality program to effectively $99,000, Other evaluate environmental conditions surrounding Greenpoint for the purpose of engaging the community in waterway stewardship. $35,000, Other IDEA $75,000, Federal CriminalCase resource management. inland influences onrivers for improved water information about the health ofestuaries and provide both methodologies to assessand aquatic vegetation monitoringto network implementation ofan integrated submerged project willfacilitate the development and boat-based sonar and underwater video.The watersheds through the use ofhigh-frequency sentinel sites in the R Monitor submerged aquatic vegetationat and Neuse River Watersheds Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Roanoke Support for Sentinel Network Monitoring of Estuary Partnership Albemarle-Pamlico National $6,000, Mitigation St. Lawrence River basin. Fund the replacement ofafish ladder in the Butterfield Marsh Repair 2016 W.D. BachExcavating $84,110, Other our green spaces. thinking physical activity, and stewardship of leadership, exploration, critical skill building, The program willfocus learning, on service science, technology, engineering and math. children ages 11-14that introduces them to Conduct asixweek summer program for at the YMCA Green Tweens STEM SummerProgram Greenpoint Branch YMCA ofGreater New York - $3,345, Mitigation for the Delaney Bay Wetland. P Grassland Mgt. USFWS Repair Project -Phase II Delaney Bay Wetland Restoration and Various Recipients $397,921, Mitigation research projects in the St.Lawrence River. Support fish enhancement, mitigation,and and Research FundExpenses St. Lawrence FishEnhancement, Mitigation, U.S. Fish andWildlife Service U.S. Department oftheInterior, $58,450, Other community both onlineand off. issues, events and opportunities for the centralize, and present local environmental Offer anonline hub to effectively organize, Go Green ActivityHub Town Square NORTHL CARO ay for thesecond phase ofthe repair project INA oanoke and NeuseRiver

$239,555, Federal CriminalCase North Carolina. and safety ofdrinking water for the citizens of contaminant sources, and improve the quality source contamination, identify and eradicate be used to address potential drinking water basins. Data generated from this project will Neuse, Yadkin, R bromide insurface waters ofthe Cape Fear, for source identification of1,4-dioxaneand Support ambient and targeted monitoring 1,4-Dioxane andBromide Monitoring Environmental Quality North Carolina Department of $1,000,000, Federal CriminalCase the Waccamaw River inColumbus County. plant and animal species and islocated along P Waccamaw PhaseIVParcel LandAcquisition North Carolina Coastal LandTrust $146,203, Federal Criminal Case birds and other ecological values. agency professionals in managing forests for 500 landowners, and train 350foresters and directly improve 1,200acres offorest, engage and water quality. The project isexpected to watersheds for the benefit of biodiversity management offorests within targeted funding to encourage improved landowner P the Forest Landbird Legacy Program Engaging North Carolina Landowners through National AudubonSociety $53,530, Federal CriminalCase tool for thecommunity. watershed, aswell asserve asan educational pollutants from impacting the North Toe River reduce stormwater runoff and associated released into the ground. This project will treat, and store stormwater before slow A Install afunctioning stormwater wetland at Avery County HighSchoolStormwater Control Development Council Blue Ridge Resource Conservation and $839,535, Federal CriminalCase American shad and river herring. anadromous fish including striped bass, A spawning grounds utilized by shortnose and for greater free flowing access to historic Construct rock rapid fishways to provide and Dams2&3 Habitat inthe Cape Fear River Basin: Lock Restoring Accessto Historic Migratory Fish Bladen County urchase a3,000-acre property that hosts rare rovide landowner incentive cost-share tlantic sturgeon and other federally managed very County High School that willcapture, oanoke and Catawba river

$717, Federal CriminalCase finfish species. fisheries management for river herring and all Albemarle Sound and itstributaries to enhance Monitor trends in water quality throughout Water QualityMonitoring for River Herring Environmental Quality North Carolina Department of $225,000, Federal CriminalCase environments, and ecosystems. greatest threats to aquatic resources, riparian conservation in watersheds that exhibit the of investment by focusing funding for identification of trends and maximization of pollutants to waters, and support the sediment, transport factors, and pathways predominant sources ofnutrients and Carolina SPARRO R Fear, Catawba, Dan, French Broad,Lumber, framework for nine river basins: Broad, Cape Watershed attributes (SPARRO Develop aSpatially R North Carolina Watersheds SPARROW Modeling for Environmental Quality North Carolina Department of $74,000, Federal CriminalCase Criterion for Selenium –Freshwater 2016. U in accordance with the Clean Water Act and North Carolina’s new Water Quality Standards basins. The data willinform development of Catawba, Lumber,R water systems in the Broad, Cape Fear, concentration data in lentic and lotic surface Collect fish tissue and water column selenium Selenium FishandWater Monitoring Environmental Quality North Carolina Department of $60,000, Federal CriminalCase watersheds. management strategies in theNorthCarolina develop and evaluate nutrient reduction and North Carolina Division ofWater R that are currently limiting theability ofthe Basin. The project willfill existing data gaps nitrogen loading in the upper Neuse River River Basin and explore sources oforganic nutrient dynamic modelsfor the CapeFear Collect data to necessary complete two Quality Monitoring Cape Fear andNeuse Water Environmental Quality North Carolina Department of oanoke, Neuse, and Yadkin. The North .S EPA ’s Aquatic Life Ambient Water Quality W model willcharacterize oanoke and Neuseriver eferenced R

W) modeling W) modeling n egressions On esources to esources to Stokes County - Soil and Water Trout Unlimited Smith-Root Conservation District Wayne Fish Screen and Water Conservation Tusher Wash Fish Barrier Site Assessment Little Snow Creek Stream Restoration Install a new cone screen at the Wayne Ranch Perform support of an updated configuration Create bank stabilization and restore the on the in the Upper Klamath incorporating electrodes on the top and natural stream within a 2,300 linear foot Basin to eliminate entrainment risk and install sides of a weir wall in the Tusher Wash reach on Little Snow Creek in Stokes County. a new pump and variable frequency drive irrigation canal. A livestock management plan will also be to allow the water user to reduce water and $9,295, Species Recovery implemented in the Dan River watershed electricity use. section of Little Snow Creek to prevent $56,800, Mitigation State of Utah Department continued stream bank erosion, down-cutting of Agriculture and Food of the stream channel, loss of land, and loss of Green River/Tusher Diversion Rehabilitation PENNSYLVANIA valuable aquatic habitat in downstream waters. Install a fish detection system at the Green $100,000, Federal Criminal Case Pennsylvania Department of River/Tusher Diversion Rehabilitation Project. Environmental Resources $49,392, Species Recovery The Conservation Fund Pennsylvania Wetlands Replacement South Mountains Conservation Conduct wetland restorations on private lands, SWCA Environmental Consulting Corridor Project particularly in the Pocono Mountains region. Rare Cactus Monitoring in the Uinta Basin - III Protect six tracts in the Broad and Catawba $12,480, Mitigation Continue to conduct range-wide demographic river basins totaling 1,510 acres. The and habitat monitoring for rare cactus to acquisitions will be part of a larger network of statistically quantify habitat conditions and SOUTH DAKOTA protected properties that will serve to protect population processes. valuable wildlife habitat for threatened bog SD Lake Area Zoological Society $7,378, Mitigation turtles and to restore mountain bogs Eagle Flight Cage Upgrade in the area. Upgrade and renovate the eagle flight cage at SWCA Environmental Consulting $2,960,000, Federal Criminal Case Bramble Park Zoo. Rare Cactus Monitoring in the Uinta Basin - IV $12,419, Federal Criminal Case Describe key findings to date for Pariette The Conservation Fund cactus and Uinta Basin hookless cactus and the Rocky and Deep Rivers Corridors activities needed for Year 5 monitoring and TEXAS Land Protection demographic and population viability analyses Purchase three tracts of land for a total of Tom Smith to inform recovery plans currently 298.5 acres. Protection of the tracts will aid Tom Smith Land Acquisition Consulting in development. significantly in restoring ecological health of the Support habitat consultant’s work throughout $102,752, Mitigation land and restoring the water quality in the Cape the Southwestern United States on various Fear River Basin. projects in partnership with landowners Utah Division of Wildlife Resources $2,433,000, Federal Criminal Case and agencies. Red Fleet Reservoir Chemical Treatment 95 $87,841, Mitigation Implement chemical treatment of walleye in Unique Places the Red Fleet Reservoir. Rocky River Woody Dam Removal $67,054, Species Recovery UTAH Remove the Woody Dam on the Rocky River to restore fish passage for the Cape Fear shiner. Biomark VIRGINIA $1,499,955, Federal Criminal Case Submersible PIT Antennas and Accessories for the Upper Colorado Fish Recovery Program Carolina Marine Structure University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Purchase submersible passive integrated Erosion Control at Great Dismal Swamp ModMon: Long-Term Monitoring of Water transponder tag antennas with accessories Install weirs and address an erosion issue that Quality in the Neuse River Estuary for use at Tusher Wash and other high priority resulted from fire suppression operations Conduct regular monitoring of water quality areas in the Upper Colorado River watershed. at the Great Dismal Swamp National using field measurements and water sample $12,390, Species Recovery Wildilfe Refuge. collection along a network of fixed stations in $36,300, Other the Neuse River Estuary and Pamlico Sound in Board of Regents, Nevada System of Higher eastern North Carolina and share the collected Education - University of Nevada Las Vegas Crop Production Services data with the North Carolina Department Desert Tortoise Habitat Restoration 2015 Herbicide Application of Environmental Quality staff and other in Burned Areas Apply herbicide to 125 acres on the Great interested stakeholders and researchers. Revegetate 200 acres of burned desert tortoise Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. $449,999, Federal Criminal Case habitat, using all native species, in Beaver $8,750, Other Dam Wash and Red Cliffs National Conservation Areas. Crop Production Services OREGON $40,000, Mitigation 2016 Herbicide Application Trout Unlimited Apply herbicide to 80 acres on the Great Dismal Cold Creek Coho Passage and Screening Design Morris Ag Air and Sons Swamp National Wildilfe Refuge. Complete a design to remove a seasonal Herbicide Treatment for Utah Prairie Dogs $11,078, Other push-up dam on Cold Creek, which impedes Apply herbicide treatment to reduce the black the movement of juvenile and adult coho sagebrush cover on 274 acres of Utah Prairie Solitude Lake Management salmon. Cold Creek will be reprofiled to allow Dog habitat. 2016 Alligator Weed Control for fish passage and irrigation deliveries. $16,884, Mitigation Herbicide Application $21,720, Mitigation Spray herbicide for alligator weed control at the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. $6,184, Other IDEA $102,592, Federal CriminalCase at reducing eagle-vehicle collisions. ungulate populations, for mitigations aimed Wyoming, astate with significant eagleand Identify priority vehicle in collision locations Vehicle Mortalities in Wyoming Priority Areas for Reducing GoldenEagle Conservation Cooperative Northern Rockies $45,000, Federal CriminalCase Goldsborough Creek Estuary and Oakland Bay. Species Actlisted fish and wildlife in the Goldsborough Creek Delta for Endangered Enhance saltmarsh habitat and restore the and Conservation West OaklandBay Restoration Enhancement Group South Puget SoundSalmon $17,765, Federal CriminalCase Strategy partnership. Snohomish Sustainable Land incorporating the shared interests ofthe long-term conservation strategy and priorities conserved. P remaining prime agricultural parcels to be County that willidentify and prioritize the Lead a strategic mapping exercise in Conservation Strategy Snohomish County Unified PCC Farmland Trust $7,228, Other R Mid-ColumbiaRiver National Wildlife in shrub-steppe habitats throughout the team to address the spread ofinvasive species Implement adedicated invasive species control in Shrub-Steppe Habitats Invasive Species Control Refuge Complex Mid-Columbia River National Wildlife $570,197, Federal CriminalCase are linked to industrial discharges orspills. water quality and/or ecological communities constituents to determine ifchanges in the in terms oforganic, inorganic, and biological sediment, and rock scrapings willbe analyzed the Smith andDan rivers. Samplesofwater, Investigate recent taste and odorissuesin in the DanRiver Investigation of Recent Water QualityIssues and State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute WYOMING WASHINGTON efuge Complex. roject willhelp to develop

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$4,000, Federal CriminalCase economic zone. spill monitoring program in the U recommendations for creating a public oil Determine the feasibility and offer Satellite Imagery for OilPollution Monitoring Skytruth $159,008, Federal Criminal Case testing to occur in the field. regulatory enforcement action and species database and instrument that willallow Fund the development ofaDNAidentification For Conservation Developing ADNA Barcode Scanner Conservation XLabs $30,000, Other Habitat P P Support the National FishHabitat and Development National FishHabitat Partnership Coordination Association ofFishandWildlife Agencies $68,939, Federal CriminalCase golden eagles. transferhandling, and care for injured the State ofWyoming including protocols for Create arescue and rehabilitation network for Rehabilitation Network Wyoming GoldenEagle Rescuer and Teton Raptor Center $2,017, Federal CriminalCase in Wyoming. golden eaglerehabilitation at two centers Support materials and supplies for bald and Eagle Rehabilitation andConservation Teton Raptor Center $175,850, Federal CriminalCase of Baggs. within south-central Wyoming, nearthe town private property islocated inCarbon County, and other wildlife and native fish species. The golden eagles,greater sage-grouse, muledeer greasewood flat and limber pine habitat for shrubland, mixed grass prairie, riparian, stream, 3,802 acres ofsagebrush steppe and P Weber RanchConservation Easement The Nature Conservancy -Wyoming NATIONA artnership’s workshop for all19ofthe Fish rotect, through aconservation easement, artnerships. L .S exclusive

$324,800, Federal CivilCase coast ofP water quality to benefit seagrass on the south education and outreach, and improve the Plant seagrass, remove marinedebris, provide of Puerto Rico Seagrass Restoration ontheSouthCoast Ridge to Reefs $7,000, Federal CriminalCase an active quarry. completed to address run-off from impact ofmitigation activities recently project willprovide an assessment ofthe monitoring in the Faga’alu watershed. The Build capacity for sediment load reduction Faga’alu Watershed Assessment ofSediment LoadReduction in Capacity Buildingfor On-IslandImpact Foundation San Diego State University Research $250,000, Federal Criminal Case leopards in Russia. improve local attitudes toward and tigers associated with lowered mortality rates and potential increase in tiger and leopard numbers result in improved anti-poaching systemsa and complementary activities. The project will in the Russian Far East through asuite of Address tiger and leopard conservation and Leopards inRussia Conservation ofWildAmurTigers Wildlife Conservation Society PUERTO RICO AMERICAN SAMOA INTERNATIONA RUSSIA uerto Rico. L

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