national fish and wildlife foundation 2010 Conservation Investments The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) protects and restores our nation’s wildlife and habitats. Created by Congress in 1984, NFWF directs public conservation dollars to pressing environmental needs and matches those investments with private contributions. The Foundation works with individuals, foundations, government agencies, non-profits, and corporations to identify and address conservation challenges.

In FY 2010, NFWF supported 417 projects in the United States and abroad for fish, wildlife and plant conservation. The Foundation leveraged $60 million in federal and non-federal funds for a total on-the-ground investment of $179 million. Through its Impact-Directed Environmental Accounts (IDEA), NFWF contractually obligated $16.7 million to 147 additional conservation projects. 3

United States National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Alaska Department of Fish and Game Turtle Exclusion Devices Reducing Conflicts Between Grizzly Alabama for the Skimmer Trawl Fishery Bears and Oil Development – II Alabama Conservation and Produce and distribute, free of Identify grizzly bear denning habitat, Natural Resources Foundation, Inc. charge, Turtle Exculsion Devices to develop den detection methods, and Alabama Wetland Enhancement Skimmer Trawl Fishermen in the study food conditioning mechanisms Manipulate habitat in five wetland Gulf of Mexico. This incentive for in order to reduce or eliminate areas of Alabama. Project will include voluntary conversion to turtle safe conflicts between bears and North establishment and retention of gear will reduce mortality of sea Slope oil development. wetland areas for wetland/aquatic turtle populations. $113,400 $350,000 migratory birds. Alaska Department of $206,000 National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. Natural Resources Longleaf Restoration Partnership – II Canada Thistle Control Alabama Wildlife Federation Migratory Bird Habitat Development Restore 8,305 acres of longleaf pine Partner with the Anchorage in Coastal Alabama Counties in its natural range on private and Cooperative Weed Management Area Develop a projected minimum of public lands in Georgia, Alabama, to control Canada thistle infestations. 1,500 acres of migratory shorebird Mississippi and Florida. Project is Project will focus on eradicating the and waterfowl habitat on private part of a continued effort to help weed from a 35 acre area that supports lands in Baldwin and Mobile facilitate the restoration of longleaf moose, bear, dall sheep, salmon, and Counties in Alabama. pine across its native range in the other valuable resources. $368,500 Southeast. $85,000 $1,000,000 Botanic Gardens Conservation Bureau of Land Management International (U.S.), Inc. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Arctic Beaded Stream Ex Situ Conservation of Reforestation of Longleaf Pine at Ecosystem Studies Four Imperiled Oak Species Eufaula National Wildlife Refuge Study the form and function of Safeguard genetically diverse living Restore longleaf pine forest habitat stream ecosystems that are critical collections of imperiled oak species on approximately 834 acres through habitat for fish. Project will develop from climate change and disease site preparation, prescribed burning, an effective long-term monitoring threats. Project will work with the and reforestation with containerized strategy. U.S. Forest Service and botanic longleaf pine seedlings. Project will $75,000 gardens in the United States benefit migratory and resident avian species including northern bobwhite, Bureau of Land Management and Australia to collect material Avian Habitat and Nesting Use from populations of four species brown-headed nuthatch, eastern wild turkey, and bachman’s sparrow. in the Northeast National of imperiled oak and develop Petroleum Reserve propagation protocols. $78,000 Determine the habitat use and $15,000 University of Tennessee nesting patterns of tundra birds at Freshwater Land Trust Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative two sites in the National Petroleum Tapawingo Springs Establish capacity to bring additional Reserve-Alaska and compare with Wetlands Restoration resources, partners, strategic guidance, similar data obtained from oilfields. Conduct riparian wetland habitat and greater focus to the conservation Project will guide the Bureau of restoration of abandoned residential of Northern Bobwhite and other Land Management’s management property. Project will focus on declining grassland bird species. of these habitats. eradicating invasive species and $442,500 $25,068 re-establishing wetland hydrology Alaska Island Conservation and native species . Monitoring Eradication Success $14,980 Alaska Bird Observatory and Recovery on Rat Island Songbird Ecology in Shrub-Tundra Monitor ecosystem recovery on Freshwater Land Trust Habitats of Central Alaska Village Creek Trail and Restoration Rat Island and confirm success of the Gather baseline breeding information 2008 rat eradication. Project will Construct and maintain a trail of the avian community using shrub- provide important data to understand system along the Village Creek head tundra habitat. Project will measure the impacts of predator eradication. waters. Project will include invasive data in relation to climate-induced $40,000 plant removal, wetland enhancement, habitat change. and bioswale construction. $74,933 $20,620 united states 4

Kawerak, Inc. Seward Association for the facilitate the development of new, Ice Seal and Walrus Advancement of Marine Science and evaluation of existing, Community Mapping Pacific Walrus Haulout Attendance management strategies. Document and map traditional and Disturbance $84,250 knowledge of ice seals and walrus, Monitor historic and newly established including habitat and ecological walrus terrestrial haulout sites to USDA Forest Service information and subsistence use record walrus attendance, duration, Coastal Cutthroat Trout Assessment areas, in nine Bering Strait region and level of disturbance and provide Develop science-based tools to assist communities. baseline site specific animal counts. state, federal, and tribal agencies $100,000 $69,263 assess the status of coastal cutthroat trout. Project will help agencies LGL Alaska Research Associates, Inc. The Great Land Trust, Inc. prioritize on the ground actions. Photo-Identification of Beluga Campbell Creek Estuary Conservation $50,250 Whales in Upper Cook Inlet – IV Preserve Campbell Creek Estuary in Use photo-identification to assess and Anchorage, Alaska to protect critical Arizona monitor individual and population estuarine habitat for all five species Altar Valley Conservation Alliance characteristics of Cook Inlet beluga of North Pacific Salmon and the Altar Valley Fire Management for whales, which have been listed under federally endangered population of Grassland Restoration the Endangered Species Act. the Beluga Whale. Hire two certified Burn Plan $300,000 $100,000 consultants and a Fire Management Coordinator to research and North Slope Borough The Nature Conservancy Satellite Tracking of Bristol Bay Anadromous Waters implement­ five Burn Plans in three Eastern Chukchi Sea Beluga Whales Protection – II years and to coordinate long-term collaborative fire planning in Satellite track eastern Chukchi Sea Secure legal protections for salmon Altar Valley. beluga whales to better understand and collect baseline water quality and $150,000 distribution, habitat use, population flow data in Bristol Bay watersheds size, and impacts from anthropogenic threatened by planned mineral Arizona Game and Fish Department sounds. development. Apache Trout Initiative – II $42,500 $100,000 Expand, connect, and improve Nushagak-Mulchatna / Trout Unlimited, Inc. Apache trout habitat. Project will Wood-Tikchik Land Trust Improving Escapement Management increase trout abundance, maintain Nushagak River Native Lands and for Salmon Recovery genetic diversity within populations, and promote resiliency of Salmon Habitat Protection Develop a model approach for populations to climate change. Purchase Alaska Native allotment establishing science-based Pacific $515,260 parcels on the Nushagak River salmon and steelhead escapement identified as high priority acquisitions goals, which are essential to sound Arizona Game and Fish Department to protect salmon habitat. fishery management and the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Restoration $56,000 success of restoration efforts. and Monitoring $59,960 Origin Institute Reestablish and restore black-tailed Outdoor Education and Guide U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service prairie dogs in Sky Island grasslands Training for Rural Alaskans Traditional Knowledge and Satellite of southeastern Arizona. Project will monitor, maintain, and enhance Train and mentor youth from rural Tracking of Polar Bears in the grasslands habitats by reestablishing communities in developing the Chukchi Sea this species. skills needed to become professional Collect telemetry data and Native wilderness guides and outdoor knowledge on the distribution, $71,511 educators. Project will provide habitat use, and ecology of polar Bureau of Land Management training in the skills required by bears in the Chukchi Sea to inform Aravaipa Ecosystem Grassland guide services and other mitigation plans, and critical habitat Restoration organizations for wilderness leaders, and harvest management. Enhance and restore 7,357 acres including technical skills, safety $74,972 of historic grasslands with prescribed awareness, and first aid. fire and erosion control measures. $10,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Steller’s Eider Conservation – III $115,085 Conserve Steller’s eiders through research, monitoring, and community outreach. The data collected will 5

Cienega Watershed Partnership Arkansas Amy Scarpignato Restoring Leopard Frogs and Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Study of Breeding Common Ravens in Habitat in Sky Island Grasslands Table Rock Lake and Tributary Redwood National and State Parks Restore populations and habitat Habitat Improvement – III Conduct field studies and research to of imperiled frogs and fish in creeks Continue to improve and restore fish increase understanding of common and ponds on public and private habitat in southern reaches of Table raven space and habitat use to assist lands in the Cienega Watershed, Rock Lake. Project will add fish implementation of management and eliminate exotic species that habitat structures designed to increase changes for enhanced nesting success threaten aquatics. spawning and nursery habitats, parti- of Marbled Murrelets. $390,500 cularly focused on bass populations. $2,000 $150,000 Ecosystem Economics, LLC Amy Teeters Sustainable Water Management Botanic Gardens Conservation Widow White Creek Watershed in Arizona International (U.S.), Inc. Work with agencies and landowners Develop the rationale and integrated Ex Situ Conservation of to implement riparian habitat framework to design and implement Four Imperiled Oak Species restoration for improved native fish market-oriented strategies and Safeguard genetically diverse living habitat and watershed conditions of capacities for achieving freshwater collections of imperiled oak species an urban watershed in Humboldt conservation and sustainable water from climate change and disease County. management outcomes in Arizona threats. Project will work with the $1,000 and the Lower Colorado River. U.S. Forest Service and botanic Anthony Zuniga $66,924 gardens in the United States and Studies in Natural Resources Forestry Australia to collect material from Freedom to Roam populations of four species of Support for an Associate Degree in Wildlife Corridor Communications imperiled oak and develop Forestry in fall 2010. and Marketing propagation protocols. $500 Build broad constituencies for $15,000 wildlife corridors through far- Bolsa Chica Conservancy reaching marketing strategies and University of Tennessee Salt Marsh Education and Restoration increased communications capacity. Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Implement wetland science education $40,000 Establish capacity to bring additional and habitat restoration at the Bolsa resources, partners, strategic guidance, Chica Wetlands. Project will engage Friends of KOFA National and greater focus to the conservation youth and the general public in Wildlife Refuge of Northern Bobwhite and other removing invasive plants and planting On-Site Learning for Children at of native vegetation. Kofa National Wildlife Refuge declining grassland bird species. $442,500 $25,000 Engage area children with a junior birding program, an insect rally, a Bureau of Land Management – California special needs rally, and an orienteering Bishop Field Office rally. Project will promote the benefits American Land Conservancy Fish Slough Area of Critical of the local refuges to the community Cow Creek Chinook Habitat Environmental Concern Weed through these public events. Planning and Protection Control and Spring Restoration $5,000 Draft a plan to improve irrigation Work to restore Fish Slough, a rare efficiency to benefit habitat for desert wetland system that contains Paula and Cabot Sedgwick spring-run Chinook and steelhead isolated stands of perennial Family Foundation trout, and protect 5,975 acres and pepperweed. Project will identify and Santa Fe Ranch Bird Sanctuary 6.33 miles of stream channel in Cow treat weed infestations, implement and Nature Trail Creek Watershed. wetland restoration tasks such as Teach students about birds and their $60,000 design and construction of a spring habitat by bringing students to the enclosure, and propagation and Buenos Aires National Wildlife American Rivers, Inc. outplanting of native riparian and Refuge. Students will help build a Evaluating and Prioritizing Meadow alkali meadow species. Restoration in the Sierra sanctuary using best practices learned $25,000 from the Refuge. Promote Sierra meadow restoration $9,974 via health assessments, prioritization of restoration efforts, analysis of restoration methods, and through standard data collection and reporting. $157,000 united states 6

California Department of Claire Stone nest watching outings and micro- Parks and Recreation Studies in the Biological Sciences trash cleanup trips. California Marine Protected Area Support for undergraduate course $3,210 Interpretive Panel Design and work with a focus on the biological Installation sciences and the use of plants in Friends of Deer Creek Design and install interpretive panels natural medicine. Legacy Sediments and the Next Generation and regulatory signage for newly $500 established Marine Protected Areas Restore a floodplain and link school offshore from California State Coevolution Institute children to river restoration and Park units. Pollinator Field Guide, Posters, Book, cultural history. Project will explore $20,325 and Monitoring Protocol the nexus between mining, culture, Develop and distribute to government and the environment. California Invasive Plant Council employees and the public information $22,180 Invasive Plant Risk Mapping about bumblebees on public lands. in the Sierra Nevada Project will also develop a monitoring Friends of the Dunes Implement an Early Detection protocol and identification­ scheme Coastal Habitats Education and Stewardship Rapid Response program in the for bumblebees. Sierra Nevada. Project will produce $65,000 Develop new program options for regional maps for thirty high-priority schools at the northern dunes units invasive plant species, overlays EarthTeam of the Humboldt Bay National showing climatic suitability for each Sausal Creek Eco-Stewards Wildlife Refuge. Potential projects species, watch lists for each county Provide teens with classroom and include using salt marsh, beach and prioritizing the species for detection field experiences in restoration dune environments as outdoor efforts, and an overall strategic plan activities at local watersheds. Project classrooms, hands-on experiential for the region. will help students discover how their learning oppor­tunities and habitat $57,829 collective actions can improve the restoration activities. health of these sites $9,923 California Native Plant Society $40,000 Rare Plant Surveys on Bureau of Land Friends of the Los Angeles River Management Lands Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. River School Days Outdoor Update rare plant and vegetation data Sierra-Wide Solutions for Education Festival and Cleanup on Bureau of Land Management Private Meadow Restoration Host a half-day event for 4th – 12th lands using trained volunteers. Project Work with private ranchers to grade students. The festival will will provide data to land managers to alleviate barriers to Sierra meadow include a river cleanup with hands-on help inform decisions. restoration, and design restoration watershed education activities. $65,000 and monitoring templates for $25,000 Sierra-wide use. Golden Gate Audubon Society, Inc. Center for Ecosystem $218,575 Management and Restoration Golden Gate Audubon Russian River Coho Salmon Partnership Feather River Land Trust Eco-Education Programs Pair scientific and legal strategies Learning Landscapes Restoration, Provide a year-round, hands-on, with outreach and on-the-ground Upper Feather River bi-lingual, environmental education projects to reduce water diversions in Train 15 K–12 teachers in meadow program for inner-city youth and spring and summer, improving coho and riparian restoration. Each teacher families in East Oakland and North habitat and viability in the Russian will plan and implement a restoration Richmond. Project will benefit the River basin. project, engaging 840 students on California clapper rail. $696,358 seven outdoor classroom sites in the $25,000 Upper Feather River Golden Gate Audubon Society, Inc. City of East Palo Alto $25,000 Cooley Landing Restoration Alameda Environmental and Education Friends of California Condors Education Program Restore nine acres of upland habitat Wild and Free Enhance wildlife habitat and for endangered clapper rail and salt Outreach and Education Program protection efforts of the proposed marsh harvest mouse. Project will on Hopper Mountain National Alameda National Wildlife Refuge. create a new passive recreation park Wildlife Refuge Project will strengthen elementary and environmental and history Educate the community about the school-based programs on the refuge education center. California condor recovery work and produce teaching tools focused $40,000 taking place on Hopper Mountain on the endangered California least National Wildlife Refuge. Project tern population. will include educational volunteer $5,000 7

Golden Gate National Parks Midpeninsula Regional Open River Partners Conservancy Space District Lower Calaveras Demonstration Presidio Nursery Seed Lab Pond Restoration and Education Native Grass Planting Replace a condemned warehouse Repair a failing earthen berm and Engage the community in the built with a new, subdivided modular prevent erosion and downstream installation of three acres of native classroom-type building. The new sedimentation to a fish bearing creek. grasses along the Calaveras River. building will contain the Seed Lab Project will improve California Project will involve Central Valley for propagation, native seed red-legged frog habitat and remove residents in river restoration in processing, storage, and treatment. invasive plant species. downtown Stockton. $25,000 $40,000 $40,000

Golden Gate National Parks National Audubon Society, Inc. River Partners Conservancy Audubon Bobcat Ranch Oak Panorama Vista Riparian Presidio Coastal Bluffs Restoration Woodland Corridor – III Restoration and Education and Community Engagement Create an ecological connection Create a community education and Conduct restoration activities along between the Dry Creek tributaries riparian habitat restoration project on the Presidio’s coastal bluffs within and the main channel of Putah Creek the Kern River. Project will be held at Oceanside watershed, at the mouth in Yolo County. Project will create a the Panorama Vista Preserve, the of the San Francisco’s Golden Gate. wild-way managed by landowners. only outdoor education venue in the Project will help educate and involve $40,000 under-served city of Bakersfield. the community and improve habitat. $40,000 $40,000 National Park Service Desert Tortoise Information Sotoyome Resource Karuk Tribe of California and Outreach – III Conservation District Seiad Creek Channel Restoration Continue efforts to improve the Cresta Riparian Habitat Remove push-up levees along Seiad survivability of the threatened desert Enhancement and Education Creek and restore natural channel tortoise across its range in California. Enhance 0.4 acre of riparian habitat function while improving habitat for Project will conduct outreach and for threatened and endangered ESA listed coho salmon. education through wayside and salmon in the Russian River $30,000 traveling exhibits, teacher workshops, watershed of Northern California. activities that engage young people, Project will involve local residents Kristin Brzeski and podcasts, public service and high school students. Understanding River Otter announcements, and printed $20,000 Demographics and Ecology materials. Examine sociality, movement, and $125,014 The Bay Institute of San Francisco, Inc. abundance of North American river Sonoma Baylands Environmental otters in Humboldt Bay, California Pit Resource Conservation District Science and Restoration and establish baseline data and Lower Ash Creek Meadow Restoration Educate 250 students on restoration protocol for future comparisons. Reconnect the lower portion of science and conduct professionally- $2,000 Ash Creek within the Ash Creek designed wetland restoration with Wildlife Area to its historic flood­ students and their teachers. Marine Conservation Biology Institute plain. The meadow component of $39,999 Marine Protected Area Management this project encompasses Plan for Pacific Remote Islands approximately 3,500 acres. The Institute for Bird Populations Marine National Monument $100,000 Standardizing Bird Surveys Develop a strong ecosystem-based at Meadow Restoration Sites management plan and assess law Plumas Corporation Develop and disseminate a enforcement needs for the Pacific Last Chance Creek Watershed standardized bird survey protocol Remote Islands Marine National Restoration – II for Sierra meadows, and conduct Monument by facilitating meetings Restore eight miles of mainstem pre-restoration surveys at approxi­ and workshops with scientists and channel using the pond and plug mately 20 high-priority project sites government officials. technique to reconnect the channel and 20 paired control sites. $50,000 with its naturally-evolved 800 acre $92,822 floodplain as well as provide outreach and technical assistance. $800,000 united states 8

The Nature Conservancy Trout Unlimited, Inc. Colorado Shasta Big Springs Ranch Acquisition Securing Key Lahontan Cutthroat Colorado Trout Unlimited Acquire the 4,136-acre Shasta Big Trout Watersheds Parachute Creek Cutthroat Restoration Springs Ranch. The Shasta Big Develop a strategy for restoring Construct a barrier to allow restoration Springs Ranch includes nearly six interconnected stream and lake of three stream miles for Colorado miles of anadromous fish streams. systems while managing threats from River cutthroat trout. Project will $750,000 non-native species to ensure resilience involve planting, fencing, volunteer of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout education, and habitat improvement The Pacific Forest Trust populations­ during rapid climate to protect and enhance existing Jamison Ranch Conservation Easement change. occupied habitat. Acquire a conservation easement over $47,303 $20,000 one of the highest-priority ranches for conservation in California’s Sierra Tuolumne River Preservation Trust Friends of the Front Range Valley. The Jamison Ranch, Supporting the Tuolumne River Wildlife Refuges consisting of ten legal parcels totaling Preservation Trust Educational Summer Camp 2,416 acres, is 95% mapped wetlands Support the work of the Tuolumne at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and is surrounded by conserved land. River Preservation Trust. National Wildlife Refuge $1,000,000 $5,000 Provide scholarships for 100 under-served public school students U.S. Forest Service Sierra Nevada The Regents of the from greater Denver communities to University of California Research Center attend a Refuge-based, environmental Assessment of Restoration Vulnerability Assessment of education summer day camp. The Actions in Big Springs Creek California Golden Trout outdoor camp will provide inner-city Evaluate the vulnerability of Determine efficacy of passive and youth with an integrated opportunity California Golden Trout habitat to active restoration on hydrologic/water to learn about and appreciate the increased water temperatures quality parameters and food web ecology of prairie and wetlands, associated with climate change. ecology (including anadromous fish) engage in environmental stewardship $49,990 in Big Springs Creek and down­ projects and recreate in nature. stream Shasta River reaches. $10,000 $130,000 U.S. Geological Survey Conserving and Enhancing San Painted Sky Resource Conservation Francisco Bay Scoter Habitats The Sierra Fund and Development (RC&D) Council, Inc. Bear Valley Meadow Restoration Identify and promote conservation of Improving Habitat and Safety at the Restore both the cultural and critical foraging areas for sea ducks in Hartland Diversion Dam ecological integrity of this critical the highly urbanized San Francisco Design and construct a fish passage Sierra system in the context of Bay. Project will document the modification to an existing irrigation climate change. importance of restoring eelgrass beds. dam. Project will eliminate the last $75,000 $189,270 major remaining impediment to migration of three native Colorado Trout Unlimited, Inc. University of California – Davis species of concern in the lower Meadow Restoration to Sustain Hydrological Vulnerability of Gunnison River. Stream Flows and Native Trout Sierra Nevada Montane Meadows $110,001 Identify priority meadow restoration Analyze the hydrologic vulnerability sites and restoration techniques that of montane meadows of the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory are most effective for trout. Project will west-slope Sierra Nevada using a Enhancing Lesser Prairie-Chicken also identify cost-effective monitoring rainfall runoff model with climate Habitat in Colorado protocols to evaluate the success of warming scenarios. Raise awareness and implement meadow restoration for trout. $78,038 habitat enhancement projects on $125,000 USDA Forest Service private lands in Colorado to benefit the Lesser Prairie-chicken. Project Trout Unlimited, Inc. Coastal Cutthroat Trout Assessment will reach a minimum of 50 private Improving Escapement Develop science-based tools to assist landowners and enhance over Management for Salmon Recovery state, federal, and tribal agencies 10,000 acres. assess the status of coastal cutthroat Develop a model approach for $150,000 establishing science-based Pacific trout. Project will help agencies salmon and steelhead escapement prioritize on the ground actions. goals, which are essential to $50,250 sound fishery management and the success of restoration efforts. $59,960 9

State of Colorado Connecticut Delaware State University Gunnison Sage-Grouse Duke University Improving Golf Course Habitats to Conservation Implementation Determining the Origins of Facilitate Bat Conservation Work towards the protection and River Herring Bycatch Determine what specific habitat enhancement of habitat for the Determine the natal origins of river features attract bats on a sample Gunnison Sage-grouse. Project will herring bycatch using a combination of golf courses in the Delmarva involve high-priority research and of molecular genetic and otolith Peninsula portion of Maryland trap and transplant operations. geochemical markers. and Delaware, using results to guide $400,140 $310,902 management by superintendents. Project will examine the effects of The Nature Conservancy Norwalk Seaport Association, Inc. tree-lined corridors and ponds, Colorado Plant Conservation Norwalk Islands, Long Island Sound among other landscape features, in Strategy Implementation-II Nature of Learning providing foraging opportunities The Nature Conservancy and Initiate the Nature of Learning for bats, which consume large partners will implement priority framework at the Stewart B. numbers of pest insects. actions from the 2009 Rare Plant McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, $59,934 Conservation Strategy emphasizing Norwalk Islands unit with 25 fourth climate change impacts, adaptation, grade students. Project will include Duke University Determining the Origins of and protection of imperiled plants. two field trips to the refuge and a River Herring Bycatch $90,000 bird watching cruise around the Norwalk Islands. Determine the natal origins of river Trout Unlimited, Inc. $8,260 herring bycatch using a combination South Fork Little Snake River of molecular genetic and otolith Riparian Fencing Wildlife Management Institute geochemical markers. Restore stream habitat along 1.5 Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- $310,902 miles of Colorado River cutthroat Dependent Birds – II trout and mountain sucker habitat. Restore populations of shrubland The Nature Conservancy Delaware River Basin Riverine and Project will install fencing along both dependent birds through a program Wetland Areas Prioritization sides to eliminate impacts from cattle. of technical assistance and land $56,000 management activities on public Prepare a conservation plan and private lands. prioritizing places for riverine and U.S. Forest Service $265,706 wetland protection and restoration Trout Creek Fish Barrier for across the four-state Delaware River Cutthroat Trout Delaware Basin watersheds. This project will Construct a fish barrier to protect improve understanding about those Delaware Department of Colorado River cutthroat trout from places and strategic opportunities that Natural Resources an imminent threat from whirling address multiple threats and are most Red Knot Roost Habitat Management disease. in need of conservation action or Plan and Implementation $60,000 promise the greatest conservation Develop and implement an adaptive return in the Basin Watersheds. Uncompahgre / Com, Inc. resource management plan for coastal $75,544 Uncompahgre Plateau North Rim impoundments in Delaware to Weed Management and Treatment improve roosting opportunities for University of Tennessee Develop and implement a North Red Knots. Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Rim Landscape Collaborative Weed $36,460 Establish capacity to bring additional Management Plan and Treatment resources, partners, strategic guidance, Delaware Department of Program, including both public and and greater focus to the conservation private land, encompassing Natural Resources Monitoring and Managing American of Northern Bobwhite and other approximately 220,679 acres. Project Oystercatchers declining grassland bird species. will improve wildlife habitat for the $442,500 Gunnison sage grouse, facilitate a Conduct oystercatcher surveys and better understanding of weed invasion monitor nests to determine and resource impacts, and develop productivity. Key nest sites will be and implement best management protected, with landowner’s practices for early detection and permission, by signage or fencing. prevention of non-native species. $25,000 $28,175 united states 10

Water Stewardship, Inc. Center for Urban Environmental enforcement needs for the Pacific Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) Research and Education Remote Islands Marine National Develop and test the Nutrient Load Restoring Hydrologic Function in the Monument by facilitating meetings Estimator (NLE) that uses available Urban Landscape and workshops with scientists and land use load information from the Advance the use of subsoiling, soil government officials. Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed amendment practices, and pervious $50,000 Model (WSM) and other accepted concrete to reduce urban runoff and protocols to calculate the impact of restore infiltration in highly disturbed National Wildlife Federation best management practices at a tract soils. Project will demonstrate design Chesapeake Bay Choose Clean Water Conference or community scale. The use of and implementation, perform NLE will provide estimates very consistent monitoring, and conduct Support for the first annual Choose similar to what would be obtained targeted outreach, education, and Clean Water Chesapeake Bay if the WSM could be run for all technology transfer to regulatory, restoration conference. The conference projects and will allow comparison management, and practitioner will bring together the larger with the use of a standard tool. communities throughout the Bay Chesapeake Bay community including $93,629 watershed. leaders of non-governmental $450,000 organizations,­ the philanthropic Wildlife Management Institute community, green industry, as well as Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Forest Trends Association elected officials, and federal and state Dependent Birds – II Payment for Ecosystem Services to partners in three days of discussion to Restore populations of shrubland Finance Marine Protected Areas explore the best strategies to restore dependent birds through a program Develop a demonstration project the hundreds of streams and rivers of technical assistance and land testing the applicability of marine that flow into the Chesapeake Bay. management activities on public payment for ecosystem services in $20,000 and private lands. San Andres Archipelago as a $265,706 sustainable financing mechanism for The Ocean Foundation Marine Protected Area management. Marine Ecosystem Service Values Partnership District of Columbia $50,000 Develop a publicly available database Alice Ferguson Foundation Friends of the John Smith of coral reef economic valuation Trash-Free Potomac Chesapeake Trail studies from around the world and a Watershed Initiative Chesapeake Treasured Landscape facilitated community of practice for Continue efforts to achieve a Initiative (CTLI) data producers and users. trash-free Potomac River watershed. Build and strengthen a lasting $14,850 Project will include an annual partnership of federal, state, local and Potomac Watershed Cleanup and private organizations to expand and The Outdoor Foundation Trash Summit, anti-litter public fully leverage funding appropriate to Birding Optics/ Backpack Loan Program education campaign, litter enforce­ the region’s circumstances and Loan backpacks to visitors to the ment week, Trash Free Facilities conservation needs. Project will target National Wildlife Refuge System for Program, engagement of elected grant funds to lands that are part of a use on trails, boardwalks and other officials through the Potomac Trash regional conservation strategy and viewing areas. The project will help Treaty, and progress monitoring defined as ecologically and culturally birders appreciate the importance through Visible Trash Surveys. significant; leverage funding with of refuges in the lives of their favorite $75,000 private and other public funds so wildlife species and strengthen that public resources are maximized; quality wildlife-dependent recreation Center City Public Charter Schools, Inc. on refuges. Center City Public Charter partner with federal, state and local $10,460 Schoolyard Greening agencies, non-profit groups and businesses to ensure cooperative Partner with the District Department conservation of these landscapes; and, Theodore Roosevelt of the Environment, to create a promote public engagement and Conservation Partnership conservation site at Center City’s enjoyment of natural and cultural Public Education on Energy Trinidad campus. Project will serve Development in the West assets of the Chesapeake. as a model conservation site. $20,000 Restore a multiple-use management $50,000 commitment to energy policy that Marine Conservation Biology Institute allows a responsible and balanced Marine Protected Area Management approach to development and Plan for Pacific Remote Islands minimizes harm to fish and wildlife. Marine National Monument $50,000 Develop a strong ecosystem-based management plan and assess law 11

Water Stewardship, Inc. Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Friends of Rookery Bay, Inc. Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) Maximizing Turtle Nesting Success Developing a Regional Plan for Marine Develop and test the Nutrient Load and Increasing Rehabilitation Protected Areas in the Southeast Estimator (NLE) that uses available Reduce predation and disorientation Develop a regional Marine Protected land use load information from the on Florida nesting beaches, and Area plan and a functional network Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed expand capacity at rehabilitation within coastal states of the Gulf of Model (WSM) and other accepted facilities. Project will enact predator Mexico and Southeast region. Plan protocols to calculate the impact of controls, private lighting replace­ will highlight priority actions and best management practices at a tract ments, and rehabilitation expansion common interests. or community scale. The use of NLE around Florida. $35,000 will provide estimates very similar to $1,574,154 what would be obtained if the WSM Manomet, Inc. could be run for all projects and will Escambia County American Oystercatcher Recovery allow comparison with the use of a Sea Turtle Habitat Light Unite the major organizations standard tool. Pollution Reduction working on oystercatcher $93,629 Reduce the impacts of artificial conservation coastwide and in lighting on loggerhead sea turtle Massachusetts to improve nesting World Resources Institute nesting habitat on Santa Rosa Island success through control of predation Reefs at Risk Revisited – II in the Florida Panhandle. Core and disturbance. Work with partners to conduct a problem areas will be targeted around $241,274 global, map-based analysis of threats Pensacola Beach, covering a total of to the world’s coral reefs called 3.25 miles of linear beach. Manomet, Inc. Reefs at Risk Revisited. Project will $50,000 Recovering Rufa Red Knots examine human pressures on coral Employ science-driven, site-based reefs, implications for reef condition, Florida Department of conservation and rigorous success and projections of associated Environmental Protection measures to recover the populations Oyster Restoration in the socioeconomic impacts in coastal of the Rufa subspecies of Red Knots. Pensacola Bay System communities. $314,713 $27,000 Restore 12 acres of oyster reef habitat along two miles of shoreline in the Merritt Island Wildlife Association Student Research at Florida Pensacola Bay System in Florida. Project also will benefit an additional Merritt Island Refuge – II Apalachee Audubon Society 10 acres of oyster habitat adjacent Teach the basics of scientific field St. Marks Pollinator Gardens to the site and will help reduce research to 950 high school students Create two butterfly gardens with shoreline erosion. by monitoring changes in vegetation, interpretive displays describing $70,000 hydrology and wildlife on Merritt the environmental importance of Island National Wildlife Refuge. pollinators. Youth volunteers from Florida Park Service Students will develop interactive high schools will plant native host and Shorebird Management in workshops about their field data and nectar plants to enhance over 2,675 Florida Panhandle State Parks present them to approximately 600 square feet of habitat on the refuge. Implement priority management students at James Madison Middle $4,941 actions for the conservation of School during science days. shorebirds and seabirds including the $4,914 Botanic Gardens Conservation expansion of existing monitoring, International (U.S.), Inc. predator control, and educational Multiple Local Fishermen Ex Situ Conservation of programs at five Florida Panhandle Turtle Exclusion Devices for the Four Imperiled Oak Species coastal state parks. Project will Flynet Fishery Safeguard genetically diverse living provide long-term protection of Turtle Exclusion Devices will be collections of imperiled oak species shorebirds and seabirds and their produced and made available free of from climate change and disease habitat. charge to Flynet Fishermen along threats. Project will work with the $72,704 the Southeast US. This incentive U.S. Forest Service and botanic for voluntary conversion to turtle gardens in the United States and Florida Wildlife Federation, Inc. safe gear will reduce mortality of Australia to collect material from Migratory Bird Habitat Development migrating sea turtle populations. populations of four species of in Coastal Florida Counties $110,000 imperiled oak and develop Develop at least 1,000 acres of migratory propagation protocols. shorebird and waterfowl habitat on $15,000 private lands in northwest Florida. $88,500 united states 12

Multiple Local Fishermen The Conservancy of Southwest Florida Wildlife Foundation of Florida Turtle Exclusion Devices Structure and Diversity of Fish, Reduce Hatchling Disorientation for the Flynet Fishery Frog, and Invertebrate Assemblages on Priority Beaches Turtle Exclusion Devices will be in Golf Course Ponds Coordinate lighting fixture produced and made available free of Assess the structure and diversity of replacement on public lands that charge to Flynet Fishermen along the fish, frog, and invertebrate assemblages boarder priority sea turtle nesting Southeast US. This incentive for in ten golf course ponds in southwest beaches. Safer lighting fixtures voluntary conversion to turtle safe Florida. Data from two ponds of will reduce hatchling mortality. gear will reduce mortality of different age and configuration from $500,000 migrating sea turtle populations. each of five golf courses will be $110,000 compared to determine viability of Georgia golf course ponds as refuges for these Botanic Gardens Conservation Multiple Organizations populations. International (U.S.), Inc. Cold Stunned Turtle Rehabilitation $44,802 Ex Situ Conservation of in the Southeast U.S. Four Imperiled Oak Species Defray costs for rescue facilities that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Safeguard genetically diverse living cared for turtles affected by a massive Atlantic Coast Sea Turtle Recovery collections of imperiled oak species cold-stunning event in the south­ Increase sea turtle nesting and from climate change and disease eastern US in January 2010. hatching success along Florida’s threats. Project will work with the $56,000 Atlantic Coast. Project will include U.S. Forest Service and botanic predator control, habitat improve­ gardens in the United States and National Audubon Society, Inc. ment, and education and outreach. Australia to collect material from Deepwater Horizon Response: $220,000 Florida Beach Bird Stewardship populations of four species of imperiled Use volunteer bird stewards to University of Florida, oak and develop propagation protocols. protect Florida shorebirds and Archie Carr Center $15,000 Distribution and Resource Use seabirds from disturbance, and Ducks Unlimited, Inc. by Loggerheads in Florida to assist with monitoring and Arrowhead Environmental Education management of coastal habitat. Assess distribution and resource use Center Wetland Enhancement $117,852 by loggerheads in Florida through Enhance a 7-acre wetland that will be stable isotope signatures to identify managed for waterfowl while providing National Park Service hot spots where Marine Protected long-term outdoor education. Sea Turtle Nest Protection and Areas or time /area closures can be Partners will plant trees in a riparian Habitat Restoration established. area, restoring function to streams. Improve nesting sea turtle success $10,000 through habitat restoration and $39,998 University of Tennessee predator control activities. Duke University Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative $80,000 Determining the Origins of Establish capacity to bring additional River Herring Bycatch National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. resources, partners, strategic guidance, Determine the natal origins of river Longleaf Restoration Partnership – II and greater focus to the conservation herring bycatch using a combination Restore 8,305 acres of longleaf pine of Northern Bobwhite and other of molecular genetic and otolith in its natural range on private and declining grassland bird species. geochemical markers. public lands in Georgia, Alabama, $442,500 $310,902 Mississippi and Florida. Project is Wildlife Foundation of Florida part of a continued effort to help Friends of Rookery Bay, Inc. Tallahassee Area Lakes Waterfowl facilitate the restoration of longleaf Developing a Regional Plan for Marine Habitat Creation pine across its native range in the Protected Areas in the Southeast Southeast. Create useable habitat for migrating Develop a regional Marine Protected $1,000,000 and wintering waterfowl on Area plan and a functional network Tallahassee-area lakes. Habitat will within coastal states of the Gulf of Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary, Inc. be created using herbicides and Mexico and Southeast region. Plan Response & Critical Care mechanical vegetation shredding. will highlight priority actions and Capacity/ Injured Sea Birds $299,825 common interests. Provide for the rescue,recovery and/ $35,000 or release of injured, malnourished or oiled birds on the west coast of Florida. $250,000 13

Manomet, Inc. St. Catherines Island Foundation, Inc. Purchase fence materials for Maui American Oystercatcher Recovery Alleviating Predator and Tidal Stress Parrotbill trial restoration area. Unite the major organizations on American Oystercatcher $111,849 working on oystercatcher conservation Determine if artificially incubating coastwide and in Massachusetts to American Oystercatcher eggs is a Conservation Council for Hawaii improve nesting success through practical and effective management Control of Incipient Invasive Species on Oahu control of predation and disturbance. tool for increasing hatching and $241,274 fledging success. Project will evaluate Work to prevent, contain, and the hatching and fledging success of eradicate the most serious incipient Multiple Organizations manipulated versus natural nests, invasive plant species threatening the Cold Stunned Turtle Rehabilitation learn the return on investment of island of Oahu, on both public and in the Southeast U.S. such a management technique and its private lands. Defray costs for rescue facilities that applicability in other locations, and $89,351 cared for turtles affected by a massive increase annual fecundity of local Garden Island Resource cold-stunning event in the south­ populations of American Oyster­ Conservation and Development, Inc. eastern U.S. in January 2010. catcher over the short-term while Invasive Species Control on $56,000 long-term habitat solutions are Northwest Kauai being resolved. Remove invasive species from National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. $77,625 Red-cockaded Woodpecker Habitat 80 acres of native watershed on Enhancement – II Trees Atlanta, Inc. northwest Kauai. Project will help Accelerate recovery of Red-cockaded Trees Atlanta and BeltLine preserve one of the largest contiguous Woodpecker (RCW) populations Clear Creek Restoration tracts of intact native montane wet through wildlife corridors and Restore and stabilize 400 feet of forest and bog communities. enhance approximately 10,000 acres Clear Creek by removing invasive $43,000 through prescribed burning and plants and planting of native species. Marine Conservation Biology Institute mid-story removal. Partnership efforts will demonstrate Marine Protected Area Management $69,125 standards for restoration in the Plan for Pacific Remote Islands BeltLine Arboretum. Marine National Monument National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. $35,000 Longleaf Restoration Partnership – II Develop a strong ecosystem-based Restore 8,305 acres of longleaf pine University of Tennessee management plan and assess law in its natural range on private and Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative enforcement needs for the Pacific public lands in Georgia, Alabama, Establish capacity to bring additional Remote Islands Marine National Mississippi and Florida. Project is resources, partners, strategic guidance, Monument by facilitating meetings part of a continued effort to help and greater focus to the conservation and workshops with scientists and facilitate the restoration of longleaf of Northern Bobwhite and other government officials. pine across its native range in the declining grassland bird species. $50,000 Southeast. $442,500 Maui Nui Marine Resources Council $1,000,000 Coral Reef Recovery Team for Hawaii Piedmont Park Conservancy, Inc. Maui, Hawaii Wetland Restoration in Piedmont Park American Bird Conservancy Establish a Coral Reef Recovery Saving Hawaii’s Imperiled Team for Maui, Hawaii to provide Restore a 3.4 acre wetland, including Forest Birds – II unearthing six streams that comprise local, science-based solutions for coral Coordinate with partners to headwaters of Clear Creek. Project reef protection and recovery. implement projects and attract new will create a rare wetland habitat in $50,000 public and private support for the center of the City of Atlanta. Hawaiian bird conservation as part Napili Bay and Beach Foundation, Inc. $40,000 of a long-term initiative to save Storm Runoff Remediation in Napili Bay Quality Deer Management Association Hawaii’s threatened native birds. REACH Program $194,471 Decrease or eliminate storm runoff Support Quality Deer Management events from Napili basin 4-5 in Maui. American Bird Conservancy Project will install a functional outlet Association’s REACH Program. Science Support for the Hawaiian $5,000 drain, rain garden, and educational Forest Birds Keystone signage about stream and reef care. Provide program-wide coordination $18,000 and implementation for the Hawaiian Forest Bird Keystone Initiative. united states 14

The Nature Conservancy Freedom to Roam The Nature Conservancy Strengthening Marine Protections Wildlife Corridor Communications Silver Creek Program in Puako, Hawaii Island and Marketing Support work at Silver Creek in Coordinate collaboration among Build broad constituencies for south central Idaho. federal, state, and non-government wildlife corridors through far- $5,000 agencies and community members to reaching marketing strategies and identify and prioritize management increased communications capacity. The Vital Ground Foundation, Inc. actions to conserve marine resources $40,000 Selkirk-Cabinet-Purcell Linkage in Puako, Hawaii. Zone Initiative $44,280 Friends of Kootenai National Maintain a land conservation Wildlife Refuge specialist in the Selkirk-Cabinet- The Regents of the University Website for Friends of Kootenai Purcell region of Idaho and Montana of California National Wildlife Refuge to identify and pursue conservation Generation of Acoustical Tags for Create a professional website for opportunities in linkage areas crucial Use in Observing False Killer Whales their organization and affiliated for grizzly bears and other wildlife. in the Hawaii Longline Fishery birding group. Project will connect $50,000 Fabricate autonomous acoustic the Friends group with the local recorders to observe commercial community and visitors, promote Trout Unlimited, Inc. longline gear for interactions with refuge activities, and create easier Bear River Native Trout Restoration false killer whales and identify access to refuge information. Restore and reconnect 210 miles sounds of gear setting, soaking, and $1,500 of migration corridors and stream hauling potentially correlated with habitat to benefit Bonneville cetacean interaction. Friends of the Teton River, Inc. cutthroat­ trout and other native $90,100 Teton River Tributary Yellowstone fish in the Bear River. Cutthroat Trout Population Study $90,000 Idaho Survey Teton River tributaries to American Wildlands identify trends in trout population. Illinois Project will facilitate study of Conserving Critical Wildlife Corridors Alliance for the Great Lakes in Northwest Montana and Idaho native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Adopt a Beach Program $9,800 Conserve vital wildlife corridors Expand the Adopt-A-Beach (AAB) by facilitating development and Idaho Department of Water Resources program in Illinois. Through this implementation­ of conservation Tributary Water Conservation program, communities learn to strategies in the Cabinet-Yaak and in Idaho – IX become stewards for the Great Crown of the Continent ecosystems. Work with water right holders in the Lakes while cleaning up 10,000 $100,000 Upper Salmon River to improve pounds of garbage off 45 beaches. $10,000 Clearwater Resource Conservation tributary flows for the benefit of fish species. Project will identify and and Development Council, Inc. American Land Conservancy assess new transaction opportunities. Frank Church Wilderness Weed Protecting Native Forests in the $209,128 Management Strategy Cache River Wetlands Implement integrated weed The Henry’s Fork Foundation, Inc. Protect 40 acres of forested wetlands management, with emphasis on early Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout in the Cache River wetlands complex, detection and rapid response, in the Restoration and Enhancement including a section of the Cache Frank Church-River of No Return Conduct Yellowstone cutthroat River, through acquisition and Wilderness, Cooperative Weed trout restoration, enhancement, conveyance to the Cache River State Management Area. Project will and evaluation on 53 kilometers Natural Area, creating a larger, incorporate prevention, detection, of 10 streams. contiguous protected area and treatment, and monitoring of invasive $10,500 ensuring the parcel is not fragmented, weeds; raise public awareness about cleared, or converted to agricultural the threats of invasive weed expansion, The Nature Conservancy use in the future. weed identification, and ways to McArthur Lake Wildlife Corridor $21,500 eradicate and reduce invasive weeds. Acquire a conservation easement on $45,000 3,727 acres to connect a million acres of public lands and secure the most viable linkage between the Selkirk and Cabinet-Yaak Mountain ecosystems in Idaho. $500,000 15

Botanic Gardens Conservation Shawnee Resource Conservation & Indiana International (U.S.), Inc. Development Area, Inc. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. Assessment Towards Evolution Controlling Invasive Plants in Pogue’s Run Conservation Corridor of the Plant Conservation Alliance’s Right-of-Ways National Framework Create a community-based riparian Restore grasslands in right-of-ways habitat restoration by engaging Provide a mechanism for Plant to support rare and declining species, multiple partners through outreach, Conservation Alliance members to increase resistance to future invasive education, and planting projects in report their current and anticipated plant invasions, and remove pathways the Pogue’s Run watershed. future contributions to the National of spread for invasive plants. $25,000 Framework. Project will help $100,000 coordinate plant conservation efforts Save the Dunes Conservation Fund, Inc. in light of growing environmental Stewardship Network LaPorte County Stockwell Woods challenges such as renewable energy Field Workshop Kit for the Forested Foredune Restoration (IN) Great Lakes Region expansion and climate change. Restore approximately 14 acres of $30,000 Develop and distribute Field remnant foredune and savanna Workshop Kits which will enable habitat in the Lake Michigan basin. Botanic Gardens Conservation sponsors and practitioners of Project will incorporate community- International (U.S.), Inc. in-the-field workshops and workdays based stewardship and green collar Ex Situ Conservation of to quickly and effectively plan and Four Imperiled Oak Species training to remove invasive species. host science-based events. $39,100 Safeguard genetically diverse living $15,000 collections of imperiled oak species Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Inc. from climate change and disease Stewardship Network Interdunal Wetland Restoration threats. Project will work with the Garlic Mustard Challenge in the in the Indiana Dunes Region Great Lakes Basin U.S. Forest Service and botanic Help correct the effects of fire gardens in the United States and Protect 500,000 acres while restoring suppression and invasive plant Australia to collect material from impacted sites by pulling 150,000 infestations on privately-owned populations of four species of pounds of garlic mustard. Project will interdunal wetlands in the Indiana imperiled oak and develop raise awareness and enthusiasm for Dunes region in Lake and Porter propagation protocols. ecosystem restoration across the Counties, Indiana. $15,000 Great Lakes Basin. $31,378 $15,000 Chicago Horticultural Society Southern Indiana Cooperative Seeds of Success National Trout Unlimited, Inc. Weed Management Area, Inc. Coordination Driftless Brook Trout and Nongame Southern Indiana Early Detection and Provide assistance, management, and Species Stream Restoration Rapid Response for Invasive Species training to over 65 Seeds of Success Restore and enhance stream and Develop an Early Detection Rapid collecting teams to increase the riparian habitat for native brook trout Response process for new, high quantity and quality of native plant and nongame species. Project will priority invasive species infestations. materials available for restoration. train conservation staff and Project will result in an effective $75,000 strengthen community partnerships process for detecting and responding in the Driftless Area Fish Habitat to new invasive species infestations Lake County Forest Preserve District Partnership of the Midwest. across nine million acres of Southern Chiwaukee Illinois Beach Lake $95,000 Plain Restoration Indiana. $59,850 Work with partners to control University of Tennessee invasive plants across 509 acres and Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Stewardship Network restore hydrology on 1,889 feet of Establish capacity to bring additional Field Workshop Kit for the swales and waterways. Benefits resources, partners, strategic guidance, Great Lakes Region include restored coastal habitat, and greater focus to the conservation Develop and distribute Field reconnection of wetlands, and of Northern Bobwhite and other Workshop Kits which will enable improved hydrology. declining grassland bird species. sponsors and practitioners of $998,557 $442,500 in-the-field workshops and workdays to quickly and effectively plan and host science-based events. $15,000 united states 16

Stewardship Network Trout Unlimited, Inc. Louisiana Garlic Mustard Challenge in the Driftless Brook Trout and Nongame Bayou Land Resource Conservation Great Lakes Basin Species Stream Restoration and Development Council Protect 500,000 acres while restoring Restore and enhance stream and New Orleans Watershed and impacted sites by pulling 150,000 riparian habitat for native brook trout Service on the Bayou Restoration pounds of garlic mustard. Project and nongame species. Project will Improve the quality of the storm will raise awareness and enthusiasm train conservation staff and water that drains into New Orleans for ecosystem restoration across the strengthen community partnerships area bayous, canals, and catchment Great Lakes Basin. in the Driftless Area Fish Habitat basins. $15,000 Partnership of the Midwest. $20,070 $95,000 The Nature Conservancy Botanic Gardens Conservation Holden Property Restoration in University of Tennessee International (U.S.), Inc. Northeast Indiana Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Ex Situ Conservation of Reforest approximately 500 acres Establish capacity to bring additional Four Imperiled Oak Species of agricultural land. Project will resources, partners, strategic guidance, Safeguard genetically diverse living connect over 1,500 acres of restored and greater focus to the conservation collections of imperiled oak species wetland and forests. of Northern Bobwhite and other from climate change and disease $382,210 declining grassland bird species. threats. Project will work with the $442,500 U.S. Forest Service and botanic University of Tennessee gardens in the United States and Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Kansas Australia to collect material from Establish capacity to bring additional University of Tennessee populations of four species of resources, partners, strategic guidance, Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative imperiled oak and develop and greater focus to the conservation Establish capacity to bring additional propagation protocols. of Northern Bobwhite and other resources, partners, strategic guidance, $15,000 declining grassland bird species. and greater focus to the conservation $442,500 Ducks Unlimited, Inc. of Northern Bobwhite and other White Lake Conservation Area declining grassland bird species. Iowa Enhancement $442,500 National Audubon Society Work with White Lake Conservation Area to provide seasonal water and Floodplain Forest Bird Habitat Kentucky Conservation on Private Lands alternative habitat for shorebirds, Cornell University Identify potential private lands that waterbirds, waterfowl, and other Golden-Winged Warbler species including the whooping crane. alone, or combined with adjacent Conservation Initiative – IV public lands, can be managed to $620,000 Complete a comprehensive create one or more 1,700-acre low­land Golden-winged Warbler conservation Ducks Unlimited, Inc. floodplain forest interiors in Important plan, enabling land managers to Coastal Wetland Restoration on Bird Areas. Project will launch a pilot target habitat prescriptions that will Private Lands project to promote healthy floodplain benefit the Golden-winged Warbler forest management to private land- Restore 17,500 acres of coastal and early successional species on owners in and adjacent to highest- wetlands by installing / repairing six breeding and wintering grounds. priority Important Bird Areas along to ten water-control structures and $168,310 the Upper Mississippi River. repairing 25,000 – 35,000 feet of levee $62,607 on private lands in Cameron Parish, University of Tennessee Louisiana. Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. $991,268 Oak Woodland and Savanna Establish capacity to bring additional Restoration resources, partners, strategic guidance, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Gulf Coast Migratory Waterfowl To conduct oak woodland and and greater focus to the conservation Habitat Enhancement savanna restoration on public and of Northern Bobwhite and other private land within the Stephens declining grassland bird species. Provide at least 20,000 acres of State Forest Bird Conservation $442,500 suitable alternative shorebird, wading Area (SSFBCA). bird, waterfowl, and secretive marsh $49,450 bird habitat for fall migrant shorebirds, with maximum flooded acreage achieved during peak fall migration and winter periods in 17

agricultural habitats in the Chenier National Audubon Society, Inc. Project will help protect nesting sites Plain of Louisiana and Texas. Refurbishment of Critical Coastal as well as establish working $2,500,000 Marsh Impoundments relationships with boat captains, Protect existing brackish marsh nature guides, and outfitters. Friends Of Bayou Teche habitat through the repair of a system $5,000 National Wildlife Refuge of levees in a critical complex of Palmetto Trail – Bayou Teche private lands in coastal Louisiana. Maine Council of the National Wildlife Refuge $729,393 Atlantic Salmon Federation Improve a wildlife-viewing trail Sea-Run Fish Restoration in located in a bottomland hardwood Multiple Local Fishermen Two Maine Streams area subject to rising water. Project Turtle Exclusion Devices for the Remove the Little River Dam, a will elevate the walkway and construct Skimmer Trawl Fishery major obstruction to upstream fish two bridges, improving accessibility Produce and distribute, free of charge, passage, to open up 43 miles of and birding opportunities. Turtle Exculsion Devices to Skimmer riverine habitat for three species of $5,000 Trawl Fishermen in the Gulf of diadromous fish (Atlantic salmon, Mexico. This incentive for voluntary American eel, and sea lamprey) and Friends of Louisiana Wildlife conversion to turtle safe gear will native brook trout on a tributary Refuges, Inc. reduce mortality of sea turtle of the Androscoggin River. Exercise Stations at the Southeast populations. $30,000 Louisiana Refuge Complex $350,000 Develop eight exercise stations Maine Department of throughout the Southeast Lousiania University of Tennessee Marine Resources Refuge Complex to promote exercise Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Assessing Sustainability of and learning with visitors of the Establish capacity to bring additional Maine River Herring Runs refuge. The stations will be designed, resources, partners, strategic guidance, Collect herring population data on developed, and constructed by and greater focus to the conservation numerous rivers that will be used to volunteers with help from the of Northern Bobwhite and other create management and harvest models refuge staff. declining grassland bird species. to help ensure the sustainability of the $5,000 $442,500 fishery. Project will also hire an education specialist to work with Friends of Red River National Maine inland communities to help gain Wildlife Refuge, Inc acceptance for reintroduction of DeLorme, Inc. Backpacks-for-Birding Loaner Program river herring. GPS Loan Program at National Provide training and up to 35 $400,483 Wildlife Refuges backpacks equipped with binoculars and laminated, Refuge-specific field Loan GPS units to refuge visitors for Stellwagen Alive guides and checklists at the Red use on trails, boardwalks, and other Marine Debris Removal in the River National Wildlife Refuge. viewing areas. Some of the GPS units Stellwagen Bank National Marine Project will offer new opportunities will be included in backpack loaner Sanctuary for birding and environmental kits which also include binoculars, Continue an at-sea marine debris education. refuge maps, and bird checklists. retrieval and shore-side removal $4,999 $51,000 program in the Gulf of Maine. $73,785 Louisiana Wildlife and Duke University Fisheries Foundation Determining the Origins of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Louisiana Delta Plantation River Herring Bycatch Promoting Native Shrublands for Wetland Habitat Expansion Determine the natal origins of river New England Cottontail Create and/or enhance approximately herring bycatch using a combination Create and encourage native 930 acres of waterbird habitat. Project of molecular genetic and otolith shrublands where competition with activities will include dirt work, water geochemical markers. invasive plants occurs. Project will control structure installation, and $310,902 eradicate garlic mustard and improve water delivery. habitat for New England cottontail Friends of Maine Seabird Islands $157,000 across southern Maine. Outreach to Introduce Seabirds $37,998 to Visitors Provide visitors on ferries, wind­ jammers, kayaks, and tour boats with outreach materials to introduce them to seabirds, the Refuge, the Friends group, and conservation messages. united states 18

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Gulf of Maryland consistent monitoring, and conduct Maine Coastal Ecosystems Program Alice Ferguson Foundation targeted outreach, education, and Gulf of Maine Diadromous Fish Trash-Free Potomac Watershed technology transfer to regulatory, Habitat Fund – II Initiative management, and practitioner Develop information and datasets on Continue efforts to achieve a communities throughout the Bay diadromous fish habitat and trash-free Potomac River watershed. watershed. undertake GIS mapping and analysis Project will include an annual $450,000 to prioritize barrier removals in the Potomac Watershed Cleanup and Chester River Association, Inc. Gulf of Maine watershed. Project will Trash Summit, anti-litter public provide information to local and state Upper Chester River education campaign, litter enforce­ Conservation Initiative agencies so that they can strategically ment week, Trash Free Facilities Lead a comprehensive strategy to remove fish passage barriers. Program, engagement of elected reduce nutrient and sediment $72,680 officials through the Potomac Trash loadings in the Upper Chester River Treaty, and progress monitoring U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Gulf of watershed. Project will work with a through Visible Trash Surveys. Maine Coastal Ecosystems Program multi-stakeholder partnership to $75,000 FWS-Strategic Habitat Conservation implement priority conservation Undertake biological planning in American Bird Conservancy practices, provide outreach and FWS Region 5. Project will organize Forestland Best Management technical assistance, and monitor the Region’s priority species lists, Practices for Golden-Winged environmental outcomes. analyze and group regional habitat Warblers $200,000 classifications for grouping of species, Develop best management practices Cornell University develop a database to associate for enhancing early successional species with habitat types, and Golden-Winged Warbler forestland for Golden-winged Conservation Initiative – IV compile base layers for use in Warblers, distribute recommendations Complete a comprehensive species-habitat models. to a broad suite of state and private Golden-winged Warbler conservation $92,000 land managers, and hold techniques plan, enabling land managers to workshops for more than 30 land Wildlife Management Institute target habitat prescriptions that will managers. Project will create at least Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- benefit the Golden-winged Warbler 1,000 new acres of habitat based Dependent Birds – II and early successional species on upon those best management Restore populations of shrubland breeding and wintering grounds. practices and assess warbler response dependent birds through a program $168,310 to to management actions. of technical assistance and land $133,686 management activities on public Delaware State University Improving Golf Course Habitats to and private lands. Biohabitats, Inc. Facilitate Bat Conservation $265,706 Izaak Walton League Site Assessment and Plan Determine what specific habitat Wildlife Management Institute features attract bats on a sample Perform a one day site reconnaissance Gulf of Maine New England of golf courses in the Delmarva to make observations on existing Cottontail Initiative Peninsula portion of Maryland and conditions including land use, Work to recover the New England Delaware, using results to guide hydrology / drainage patterns (slope Cottontail prior to endangered management by superintendents. or drainage conveyance erosion and species listing by the U.S. Fish and Project will examine the effects sedimentation), surface soil conditions Wildlife Service. Landowner agree- of tree-lined corridors and ponds, and vegetation, including non-native ­ments and habitat management will among other landscape features, invasive plant species, to guide future abate habitat loss and achieve habitat in providing foraging opportunities management of the property. restoration and population growth. for bats, which consume large $5,895 $300,000 numbers of pest insects. Center for Urban Environmental $59,934 Research and Education Restoring Hydrologic Function Duke University in the Urban Landscape Determining the Origins of River Herring Bycatch Advance the use of subsoiling, soil Determine the natal origins of river amendment practices, and pervious herring bycatch using a combination concrete to reduce urban runoff and of molecular genetic and otolith restore infiltration in highly disturbed geochemical markers. soils. Project will demonstrate design and implementation, perform $310,902 19

Friends of Blackwater National Maryland Department of Agriculture Virginia Polytechnic Institute Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Adaptive Cover Crop and State University Outdoor Science Program at Management Tools Reducing Poultry House Emissions Blackwater NWR Apply adaptive management tools and Broiler Litter Runoff Provide hands-on experiences for all to accurately assess the performance Work with farmers in Virginia to Dorchester County Public School of cover crop implementation within decrease nitrogen and phosphorus 4th and 6th grade students. Activities three targeted watersheds in Maryland, pollution from poultry house planned by school staff involve Virginia and Pennsylvania. Project emissions and litter application. invasive species locating, planting will provide tools to measure large- Project will install ammonia scrubbers native species, and investigating scale winter cover crop productivity on poultry house exhaust fans, add wetland species. and nutrient uptake and create a alum to litter before land application, $3,430 web-based framework for sharing and demonstrate the effects of these geospatial data sets that can used to treatments on crop yields. Friends of the John Smith effectively manage winter cover crop $700,000 Chesapeake Trail programs for water quality protection. Chesapeake Treasured $600,000 Water Stewardship, Inc. Landscape Initiative (CTLI) Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) Build and strengthen a lasting Prince George’s County, Maryland Develop and test the Nutrient Load partnership of federal, state, local and Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Estimator (NLE) that uses available private organizations to expand and at University of Maryland land use load information from the fully leverage funding appropriate to Reduce stormwater runoff volumes Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed the region’s circumstances and and nutrient loads from the Model (WSM) and other accepted conservation needs. Project will target University of Maryland campus in protocols to calculate the impact of grant funds to lands that are part of a College Park, Maryland. Project will best management practices at a tract regional conservation strategy and retrofit an existing bioretention cell, or community scale. The use of NLE defined as ecologically and culturally incorporate anoxic storage beneath a will provide estimates very similar to significant; leverage funding with porous parking area, and install a what would be obtained if the WSM private and other public funds so that cistern to collect treated effluent. could be run for all projects and will public resources are maximized; $325,000 allow comparison with the use of a partner with federal, state and local standard tool. agencies, non-profit groups and South River Federation $93,629 businesses to ensure cooperative Regenerative Stormwater Conveyance conservation of these landscapes; and, Demonstration Wildlife Management Institute promote public engagement and Demonstrate the use of regenerative Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- enjoyment of natural and cultural stormwater conveyances on two Dependent Birds – II assets of the Chesapeake. tributaries in the Severn and Restore populations of shrubland $20,000 South River watersheds. Project dependent birds through a program will establish 5.58 acres of forested of technical assistance and land Herring Run Watershed Association wetlands, restore 3,253 linear feet of management activities on public and Creating Blue Neighborhoods and stream, and reduce annual pollution private lands. Alleys in Baltimore City loads by 4,292 pounds of nitrogen, $265,706 Install stormwater retrofits in the streets 1,299 pounds of phosphorus, and and alleyways of a highly urbanized 200 tons of sediment. Massachusetts neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. $900,000 Duke University Project will capture and treat runoff Determining the Origins of University of Tennessee using bioretention, permeable River Herring Bycatch pavement, rain barrels, downspout Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Determine the natal origins of river disconnection, and other green Establish capacity to bring additional herring bycatch using a combination infrastructure. resources, partners, strategic guidance, of molecular genetic and otolith $600,000 and greater focus to the conservation geochemical markers. of Northern Bobwhite and other $310,902 Manomet, Inc. declining grassland bird species. American Oystercatcher Recovery $442,500 Unite the major organizations working on oystercatcher conservation coastwide and in Massachusetts to improve nesting success through control of predation and disturbance. $241,274 united states 20

Manomet, Inc. breakwater in Provincetown Harbor. Michigan American Oystercatcher Recovery Project will involve a partnership Anglers of the Au Sable Unite the major organizations with commercial fishing fleet to Au Sable North Branch Restoration bring in the marine debris. working on oystercatcher conservation Place large woody debris in the Au coastwide and in Massachusetts to $35,600 Sable North Branch stream channel improve nesting success through to restore stream characteristics that control of predation and disturbance. Stellwagen Alive Marine Debris Removal in will help to increase stream volume, $241,274 the Stellwagen Bank National prevent erosion, and provide shelter and increased food sources for Manomet, Inc. Marine Sanctuary juvenile brook trout. Recovering Rufa Red Knots Continue an at-sea marine debris $10,000 Employ science-driven, site-based retrieval and shore-side removal conservation and rigorous success program in the Gulf of Maine. City of Frankemuth measures to recover the populations $73,785 Fish Passage at the Frankenmuth Dam of the Rufa subspecies of Red Knots. The Student Conservation Develop a rock ramp style fish $314,713 Association, Inc. passage sequence at the site of the Frankenmuth Dam in Michigan’s Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. Boston Education and Restoration Saginaw Bay Watershed. Wetland Invasive Plant Restore plant and wildlife habitat at $200,000 Education – Great Marsh Allandale Woods in the Charles River Watershed. Teenagers will be Create a curriculum for students and Conservation Resource Alliance teachers on wetlands, invasives, and educated on area wildlife and the Upper Manistee Riparian the importance of environmental importance of preserving natural Corridor Restoration habitat. stewardship. Students will help Remove twelve dams, improve a $26,000 remove invasive plants in coastal road crossing, and implement northeastern Massachusetts. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation practices. Project will $10,000 Birding/Nature Field Guides restore fish passage and improve degraded riparian corridor habitat. Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. for Lending Libraries at National $625,791 Sudbury-Assabet-Concord Wildlife Refuges Provide field guides for inclusion in Cooperative Invasive Species Cornell University National Wildlife Refuge lending Management Area – II Golden-Winged Warbler Manage invasive species in eastern libraries. Field guides will be loaned Conservation Initiative – IV to refuge visitors for use on trails, Massachusetts. Project will allow for Complete a comprehensive boardwalks, and other viewing areas. the hiring of a coordinator to Golden-winged Warbler conservation $43,132 implement the Strategic Plan and plan, enabling land managers to Annual Priority Actions with a focus University of Massachusetts target habitat prescriptions that will on developing an Early Detection River Herring Bycatch Avoidance in benefit the Golden-winged Warbler Rapid Response program to prevent Small Mesh Fisheries and early successional species on the establishment of new invasive Collaborate with the Sustainable breeding and wintering grounds. species within the watershed. $168,310 $50,000 Fisheries Coalition and the Massachusetts Department of Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Marine Fisheries to develop bycatch Multiple Organizations Arcadia Marsh/Bowens Creek Fishing for Energy Port Capacity Grants avoidance incentive systems to Restoration and Fish Passage minimize bycatch of river herring. Build port capacity to allow for Restore 10 miles of fish passage, $305,640 increased collection of retired and one mile of channelized stream, and derelict fishing gear for fishing Wildlife Management Institute 75 acres of coastal marsh. communities across the country. Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- $783,823 $5,213 Dependent Birds – II Huron Pines Resource Conservation Restore populations of shrubland Provincetown Harbormaster & Development Area Council, Inc. Clean-Up of Provincetown dependent birds through a program Silver Creek Protection Harbor Seabed of technical assistance and land Implement a suite of protection, management activities on public Increase capacity to efficiently restoration, and enhancement tech- and private lands. capture and transfer marine debris, ­niques in Silver Creek, a brook trout $265,706 specifically targeting the federal nursery stream. Project will address channel between Long Point and the the most significant pollutant sources through locally led collaboration. $133,510 21

Lake Superior State University Trout Unlimited, Inc. Minnesota Conservation of Great Lakes Trout Habitat Improvement in Cornell University Piping Plover Coldwater River Golden-Winged Warbler Implement a suite of activities aimed Reduce bank erosion and improve Conservation Initiative – IV at increasing the reproductive success, over 2,500 feet of instream trout Complete a comprehensive quality of nesting habitat, and habitat in the Coldwater River. Golden-winged Warbler conservation outreach efforts for the endangered Project will include educational plan, enabling land managers to Great Lakes piping plover. opportunities and monitoring target habitat prescriptions that will $150,000 relating to post-construction benefit the Golden-winged Warbler ecological assessment. and early successional species on Michigan State University $40,750 breeding and wintering grounds. Early Detection and Treatment of $168,310 Great Lakes Phragmites University of Notre Dame Assess, prioritize, and build Enhancing Upper Great Lakes Friends of the Detroit Lakes long-term regional capacity to detect Native Brook Trout Populations Wetland District and treat non-native phragmites Assess outcomes of Michigan Nature and Technology Outdoor before widespread establishment. and Wisconsin stream habitat Classroom at Hamden Slough $115,199 enhancement efforts aimed at National Wildlife Refuge restoring brook trout populations. Build an outdoor classroom shelter River Alliance of Wisconsin, Inc. $20,000 at Hamden Slough National Wildlife Clearing a Path: Revitalizing Lake Refuge to host conservation education Michigan’s Sturgeon University of Tennessee activities. Project will be built in Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Construct a fish bypass around two partnership with a local youth build dams on the Menominee River. Establish capacity to bring additional program and incorporate sustainable Project will remove two barriers to resources, partners, strategic guidance, design and technology for learning. downstream sturgeon migration and and greater focus to the conservation $5,000 improve lake sturgeon population of Northern Bobwhite and other growth in Lake Michigan. declining grassland bird species. Friends of the Mississippi River $1,500,000 $442,500 Forest Enhancement at Hastings Scientific and Natural Area Stewardship Network Upper Peninsula Resource Enhance the Maple-Basswood and Field Workshop Kit for the Conservation and Development Council floodplain forest by controlling the Great Lakes Region Rapid Response Invasive Plant Team exotic invasive plants, mainly for Upper Peninsula Develop and distribute Field buckthorn and honeysuckle, within Workshop Kits which will enable Work with partners to establish an the Scientific and Natural Area unit. sponsors and practitioners of area-wide network for the purpose Project will update an outdated weed in-the-field workshops and workdays of identification, monitoring, and management plan, identify and to quickly and effectively plan and managing invasive plants. conserve native plant populations, host science-based events. $150,000 and result in a completed bird survey $15,000 to use as baseline data. USDA-Forest Service — $21,443 Stewardship Network Hiawatha National Forest Brook Trout Spawning Garlic Mustard Challenge in the Friends of the Refuge Headwaters Habitat Enhancement Great Lakes Basin Friends of the Refuge Headwaters Protect 500,000 acres while restoring Rehabilitate or expand spawning Outreach and Conservation impacted sites by pulling 150,000 habitat for brook trout in ground­ Develop community involvement in pounds of garlic mustard. Project water influence zones of four the Upper Mississippi River National will raise awareness and enthusiasm Michigan streams with a history Wildlife and Fish Refuge and for ecosystem restoration across of brook trout reproduction. increase outdoor activity of area the Great Lakes Basin. $10,000 children. Project will protect fish and $15,000 Wildlife Management Institute wildlife and develop and awareness of the refuge. The Nature Conservancy Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- $3,464 Controlling Invasive Plants throughout Dependent Birds – II Eastern Lake Michigan Restore populations of shrubland Coordinate surveys, eradication, and dependent birds through a program monitoring for seven major invasive of technical assistance and land plants threatening dunes along the management activities on public full eastern Lake Michigan coast. and private lands. $748,188 $265,706 united states 22

Great River Greening The Conservation Fund Mississippi Anoka Sandplain Forest/ Upper Mississippi Forestland Easement Friends of Dahomey National Savanna Conservation Protect 186,443 acres of forestland Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Restore high quality forests within from development by securing a Teacher Training at Dahomey the Rum River Watershed of the perpetual conservation easement. National Wildlife Refuge Anoka Sandplain Ecoregion, Project will protect vast working Organize teacher training workshops focusing on private lands and forests, key wildlife habitat, and at two high schools and science landowners. Project will elevate forest outdoor recreation areas. education activities at Dahomey management across 100 acres of $750,000 National Wildlife Refuge. Project private and public lands within the will take 150 high school students Trout Unlimited, Inc. Rum River watershed, reach 250 on five trips to the refuge to learn Driftless Brook Trout and Nongame individuals via hands-on volunteer about protecting wetlands and Species Stream Restoration events, landowner outreach, and migratory species. education programs, and document Restore and enhance stream and $10,000 restoration projects and program riparian habitat for native brook trout methods for expansion to other and nongame species. Project will Mississippi Department of geographies. train conservation staff and strengthen Marine Resources $75,000 community partnerships in the Reducing Interactions Between Driftless Area Fish Habitat Fishermen and Gulf Sea Turtles Marshall County Soil and Water Partnership of the Midwest. Distribute turtle exclusion devices to Conservation District $95,000 Mississippi skimmer trawlers in order Marshall-Beltrami Weed Management to protect sea turtles. Project will Organize the Weed Management University of Tennessee also educate fishermen in case of sea Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Board to identify and prioritize turtle encounters and provide noxious invasive species sites including Establish capacity to bring additional observers to collect information. Leafy Spurge, Spotted Knapweed, resources, partners, strategic guidance, $107,084 and Purple Loosestrife. Project will and greater focus to the conservation control noxious weeds across 599,040 of Northern Bobwhite and other Mississippi Land Trust acres of private and public lands, declining grassland bird species. Bird Habitat Creation in the Lower improving wildlife habitat. $442,500 Mississippi River Valley $60,000 Develop a program that provides Wildlife Forever, Inc. quality habitat for migratory birds in National Audubon Society Wildlife Forever Invasive Species – the heart of the Mississippi Flyway, ESA Outreach Floodplain Forest Bird Habitat primarily utilizing the conservation Conservation on Private Lands Develop and publish an invasive provisions of the 2008 Farm Bill. Identify potential private lands that species outreach and education $500,000 alone, or combined with adjacent campaign in the Western United public lands, can be managed to create States with a particular focus on Mississippi State University one or more 1,700-acre lowland the impacts of invasives on The Bayou by You floodplain­ forest interiors in Important endangered species. Enhance 7.5 acres of urbanized Bird Areas. Project will launch a pilot $66,500 wetlands in Biloxi. Public school project to promote healthy floodplain students will volunteer with others forest management to private land-­ Wildlife Management Institute for cleanup, native marsh grass Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- owners in and adjacent to highest- planting, and monitoring as part Dependent Birds – II priority Important Bird Areas along of their science education. the Upper Mississippi River. Restore populations of shrubland $23,879 $62,607 dependent birds through a program of technical assistance and land Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries Sugarloaf: The North Shore management activities on public and Parks Foundation Stewardship Association and private lands. Cumbest Bluff Restoration Restoring Lake Superior’s Lost $265,706 Implement a comprehensive habitat Coastal Forest restoration and reforestation initiative Provide hands-on coastal forest to preserve and protect the Cumbest restoration assistance and stewardship Bluff wetlands, a 200-acre tract of training for coastal landowners. hardwoods, bogs, and cypress swamp Project will restore 500 acres of in Jackson County Mississippi. ecologically significant coastal forest. $20,000 $64,982 23

Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries Missouri Bureau of Land Management and Parks Foundation Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. Southwest Montana Non-Native Shorebird Habitat Management on Ex Situ Plant Conservation on Trout Removal Mississippi WMAs. Forest Service Lands Work in conjunction with Montana Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Determine existing U.S. Forest Fish, Wildlife, and Parks and the U.S. Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) will Service priority species ex situ Forest Service to conduct between provide high-quality migration and coverage through extensive queries three and five removal efforts on four wintering habitat for migratory of Center for Plant Conservation west-slope cutthroat trout streams in shorebirds, wading birds, and early institutions and partners engaged in southwest Montana. migrant waterfowl on public lands seed-banking work. Project will result $11,900 owned and managed by MDWFP. in a report that will summarize and Clark Fork Coalition $169,850 recommend future priorities. Upper Clark Fork River Restoration – III $15,000 Multiple Local Fishermen Plan and implement native fish Turtle Exclusion Devices for the Missouri Department of habitat improvement projects on Skimmer Trawl Fishery Conservation tributaries to the Clark Fork and Produce and distribute, free of charge, Fish Habitat Improvement in build landowner participation. Turtle Exculsion Devices to Skimmer Table Rock Lake – IV $80,040 Trawl Fishermen in the Gulf of Restore and improve habitat for bass Clark Fork Coalition Mexico. This incentive for voluntary in Table Rock Lake and trout in Community Water Marketing conversion to turtle safe gear will Lake Tanneycomo, as well as stabilize Program – CBWTP reduce mortality of sea turtle banks and control erosion with populations. riparian plantings of the tributary Identify, implement and monitor $350,000 creeks and rivers. water transactions in the Bitterroot, $450,000 Blackfoot, and Clark Fork subbasins National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. of Montana. Longleaf Restoration Partnership – II University of Tennessee $159,418 Restore 8,305 acres of longleaf pine Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Freedom to Roam in its natural range on private and Establish capacity to bring additional Wildlife Corridor Communications public lands in Georgia, Alabama, resources, partners, strategic guidance, and Marketing Mississippi and Florida. Project is and greater focus to the conservation part of a continued effort to help of Northern Bobwhite and other Build broad constituencies for facilitate the restoration of longleaf declining grassland bird species. wildlife corridors through far- pine across its native range in the $442,500 reaching marketing strategies and Southeast. increased communications capacity. $1,000,000 Montana $40,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service American Wildlands Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group Shorebird Habitat Enhancement at Conserving Critical Wildlife Corridors Vermilion River Native Fish Theodore Roosevelt Complex in Northwest Montana and Idaho Habitat Restoration Enhance 250 acres of shorebird Conserve vital wildlife corridors Restore three miles of native bull habitat. Project will provide increased by facilitating development and trout and westslope cutthroat trout area and migration / wintering implementation­ of conservation habitat in the Vermilion River. resources for over 25,000 migrating strategies in the Cabinet-Yaak and Project will stabilize the single largest shorebirds north of the Gulf of Crown of the Continent ecosystems. sediment source (700 tonsÂ/ year) in Mexico oil spill area. $100,000 the drainage. $45,000 $28,000 Big Blackfoot Chapter of University of Tennessee Trout Unlimited, Inc. Montana Department of Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Chamberlain / Bear Creek Fish, Wildlife and Parks Riparian Forest Recovery Establish capacity to bring additional Bear Conflict Management in the resources, partners, strategic guidance, Restore the riparian health and aquatic Cabinet-Yaak Region and greater focus to the conservation habitats in high priority westslope Reduce human-caused grizzly bear of Northern Bobwhite and other cutthroat streams by de-constructing mortalities through human-bear declining grassland bird species. roads, removing barriers, and conflict prevention and increasing $442,500 revegetating disturbed areas. public awareness and tolerance of $32,800 grizzly bears throughout the Cabinet-Yaak region. $105,000 united states 24

Montana Department of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Nebraska Fish, Wildlife and Parks Protecting the Tenderfoot Lands University of Tennessee Crucial Areas and Connectivity Acquire 8,200 acres of high-quality Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Assessment and Training terrestrial, riparian, and fisheries Establish capacity to bring additional Identify crucial wildlife habitats and habitat in the Tenderfoot Creek resources, partners, strategic guidance, corridors, and provide opportunities Drainage of the Smith River and greater focus to the conservation for stakeholder feedback, public Watershed in Montana. Project will of Northern Bobwhite and other education, and local government assure these lands continue to provide declining grassland bird species. training to support conservation high-quality habitat for wildlife, such $442,500 and planning efforts. as elk, moose, mule deer and lynx, as $100,200 well as fish, including a genetically Nevada pure strain of cutthroat trout. Death Valley Natural History Montana Department of $58,511 Fish, Wildlife and Parks Association Lower Deer Creek Yellowstone The Vital Ground Foundation, Inc. Ash Meadows Ed-Ventures Program Cutthroat Trout Conservation Selkirk-Cabinet-Purcell Linkage Implement the Ash Meadows Construct a barrier to protect a Zone Initiative Ed-Ventures Program to introduce pure population of Yellowstone Maintain a land conservation local students to the ecosystem and cutthroat trout from an imminent, specialist in the Selkirk-Cabinet- endemic species on the refuge. dire threat of hybridization. Purcell region of Idaho and Montana Students receive classroom visits and $40,940 to identify and pursue conservation a day trip to the refuge. opportunities in linkage areas crucial $5,000 Park County for grizzly bears and other wildlife. Park County Fleshman Creek Friends of Desert National $50,000 Urban Restoration Wildlife Refuge Complex Restore a two mile reach of Fleshman Trout Unlimited, Inc. Increasing Membership of Friends Creek, tributary to the Yellowstone Clark Fork River Restoration of Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex River and an important habitat area Expand successful Middle Clark Fork for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, a River project to include Upper Clark Create and produce a newsletter, Montana Fish of Special Concern. Fork River. Project will improve fish brochure, rack card, website, and logo $53,075 passage and native fish habitat to use on marketing materials. Project through mine reclamation and will increase membership for the Powell County Weed District integrated watershed restoration newly established Friends of Desert Powell County Cooperative Weed projects. National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Management – V $175,000 $5,000 Continue the cooperative integrated vegetation management program to Trout Unlimited, Inc. Nevada Department of Wildlife enhance, restore, protect, and Montana Water Project – IX Mason Valley Wildlife Area Water Conservation and Release conserve natural resources inherent Develop and complete instream flow to the Clark Fork and Blackfoot water rights rights transfers in the Provide funding for plans of watershed ecosystems. Project will Columbia Basin. Project will monitor numerous water conservation and monitor and eradicate 20 state listed flows in order to assure delivery of release activities from the Mason noxious weeds. water in the protected reach. Valley WMA into the Walker River $30,550 $44,561 for use downstream into Walker Lake. $50,000 Ravalli County Weed District US Forest Service, Northern Region Central Valley Weed Partnership in Northern Montana Water Rights Nevada Division of the Bitterroot Valley Acquisition Conservation Districts Strengthen the Central Valley Weed Alternative/Specialty Crop Marketing Collect instream flow data needed to and Enhancement Program Partnership, created in 2008, through analyze and assemble water rights Try new methods of cultivating education and weed treatment. applications for instream flow specialty crops. New methods may Project will eradicate 28 state listed reservations under the joint Forest be less water intensive, may extend noxious weeds over 7,500 acres, Service and Montana Water Rights the growing season, and could educate 20 landowners about weed Compact. produce higher earnings potential identification and eradication, and $15,000 restore habitat for fish and wildlife. on smaller acreages. $50,000 $67,000 25

Nevada Division of Water Resources Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition New Jersey Walker River Basin Water Rights Eastern Nevada/Western Utah Cornell University Administration Invasive Weed Control Golden-Winged Warbler Conduct water rights administration, Continue the treatment and Conservation Initiative – IV water use analyses, and hydrologic monitoring of invasive weeds across Complete a comprehensive monitoring. 4,410,750 acres within four Golden-winged Warbler conservation $616,043 Cooperative Weed Management plan, enabling land managers to Areas in eastern Nevada and Western target habitat prescriptions that will Trout Unlimited, Inc. Utah. Project will target knapweed, benefit the Golden-winged Warbler Securing Key Lahontan pepperweed, tamarisk, Russian Cutthroat Trout Watersheds and early successional species on olive, thistle, hoary cress, and breeding and wintering grounds. Develop a strategy for restoring non-native thistles. $168,310 interconnected stream and lake $83,075 systems while managing threats Duke University from non-native species to ensure New Hampshire Determining the Origins of resilience of Lahontan Cutthroat Duke University River Herring Bycatch Trout populations during rapid Determining the Origins of Determine the natal origins of river climate change. River Herring Bycatch herring bycatch using a combination $47,303 Determine the natal origins of river of molecular genetic and otolith geochemical markers. University of Nevada herring bycatch using a combination $310,902 Las Vegas Foundation of molecular genetic and otolith geochemical markers. Refuges Inspiring Wonder Friends of Cape May $310,902 Conduct an immersive refuge National Wildlife Refuge experience on the Desert National Stellwagen Alive Friends of Cape May National Wildlife Refuge Complex with 55 Marine Debris Removal in the Wildlife Refuge Launch students using multiple trips to the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Build awareness and foster public refuge. Some of the potential projects Sanctuary support of the Cape May National students will work on are species Continue an at-sea marine debris Wildlife Refuge by creating an monitoring, habitat restoration and retrieval and shore-side removal appealing, identifiable Friends community education. program in the Gulf of Maine. organization that engages in $10,000 $73,785 meaningful projects and programs. Project will provide support for University of Nevada Reno Wildlife Management Institute Friends activities, including the Walker Basin Research Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- design of a trail/habitat map for Evaluate the effectiveness of potential Dependent Birds – II guided refuge hikes, and an inter-­ water right acquisitions in the Walker Restore populations of shrubland pretive sign and botanical ID markers River Basin. Research projects will dependent birds through a program for the Friends Butterfly Garden. focus on the health of the Walker of technical assistance and land $5,000 River aquatic life, incremental management activities on public changes in river management, and and private lands. Friends of Cape May further investigation of the use of $265,706 National Wildlife Refuge alternative agriculture and irrigation Connecting People and Birds at scheduling technology for water Wildlife Management Institute Cape May National Wildlife Refuge conservation in the Walker Basin, Gulf of Maine New England Develop birding programs and along with socioeconomic research Cottontail Initiative resources to increase birding that links water conservation in Work to recover the New England opportunities­ for visitors to Cape agricultural practices and other Cottontail prior to endangered species May National Wildlife Refuge. opportunities associated with water listing by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Project will encourage public and conservation in the Walker Basin. Service. Landowner agreements and partner support and awareness of $4,000,000 habitat management will abate the refuge through optics and field habitat loss and achieve habitat guides loans, bird walks, and restoration and population growth. interpretive signs. $300,000 $4,985 united states 26

Friends of Forsythe Rutgers University Upper Raritan Watershed Association National Wildlife Refuge, Inc. Use of Light Detection and Central Jersey Invasive Species Birding Photography Contest for Ranging Imagery in Management Strike Team Kids at Edwin B. Forsythe National of Marine Protected Areas Strengthen New Jersey’s first Wildlife Refuge Pilot a new approach to create Cooperative Weed Management Teach birding and photography to temporal and spatial information to Area by broadening partnerships and 30 children and families at the Edwin support management of salt marsh providing technical support and public B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge and barrier island habitat using high outreach. Project will prevent the in Oceanville, New Jersey. Project will horizontal and vertical resolution spread of emerging invasive plants over create a sustainable program for Light Detection and Ranging 7,500 acres through early detection teaching birding and photography, imagery. Project will apply spatial and rapid response, and will result in increasing Friends membership. tools to direct strategies for climate 25 outreach and training sessions. $1,710 change adaptation at a regional scale $95,826 and for potential broader application Manomet, Inc. through the national system of Wildlife Management Institute American Oystercatcher Recovery marine protected areas, especially Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Unite the major organizations with respect to rising sea level and Dependent Birds – II working on oystercatcher conser­va­ the local drivers that influence the Restore populations of shrubland tion coastwide and in Massachusetts rate of rise. dependent birds through a program to improve nesting success through $38,373 of technical assistance and land control of predation and disturbance. management activities on public $241,274 The Nature Conservancy and private lands. Delaware River Basin Riverine and $265,706 Manomet, Inc. Wetland Areas Prioritization Recovering Rufa Red Knots Prepare a conservation plan New Mexico Employ science-driven, site-based prioritizing places for riverine and Freedom to Roam conservation and rigorous success wetland protection and restoration Wildlife Corridor Communications measures to recover the populations across the four-state Delaware River and Marketing of the Rufa subspecies of Red Knots. Basin watersheds. This project will Build broad constituencies for $314,713 improve understanding about those wildlife corridors through far- places and strategic opportunities that reaching marketing strategies and New Jersey Audubon Society address multiple threats and are most increased communications capacity. A Monarch’s Journey: in need of conservation action or Connecting One Habitat at a Time $40,000 promise the greatest conservation Engage students in a citizen return in the Basin Watersheds. Friends of Las Vegas participation program to identify and $75,544 National Wildlife Refuge map milkweed patches on the school Environmental Education at the grounds, in the community, and at Trout Unlimited, Inc. Las Vegas National Wildlife Refuge Cape May National Wildlife Refuge Restoring Musconetcong River Introduce fourth and fifth graders to – Two Mile Beach Unit. Project will Brook Trout Habitat the diversity of wildlife and habitats increase the community’s awareness Reconnect and restore fragmented on the Las Vegas National Wildlife of monarch migration by having brook trout populations by Refuge. Project will take students students develop educational implementing riparian plantings, through native grasslands, croplands, materials for their families and others habitat enhancement, and barrier marshes, ponds, timbered canyons in the school community, and work removal projects in Musconetcong and streams looking for animal signs with the Friends group on their River tributaries as part of the and observing birds. butterfly garden, invasive plant Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture. $4,790 removal and native plant plantings. $95,000 $8,865 Playa Lakes Joint Venture University of Tennessee Reducing Threats to Lesser New Jersey Audubon Society Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Prairie-Chicken in New Mexico Coordinated Weed Management Establish capacity to bring additional on Cape Island Restore Lesser Prairie-Chicken resources, partners, strategic guidance, habitat and connectivity between Coordinate organizations to identify and greater focus to the conservation existing protected areas. Project will and control invasive plant species on of Northern Bobwhite and other identify prairie-chicken movement private and public lands on Cape declining grassland bird species. corridors and create several Island. Project will benefit wildlife, $442,500 demonstration projects that highlight including imperiled migrating birds, reduction of human-influenced native vegetation, and agriculture. habitat threats. $39,999 $199,920 27

Playa Lakes Joint Venture Cornell University Friends of the Upper Delaware Furthering New Mexico Lesser National Wildlife Refuge System River, Inc. Prairie-Chicken Conservation Birding Education, Training, and Upper Delaware River Tributary Continue the restoration of Lesser Support Program Restoration Prairie-Chicken habitat, connecting Identify and evaluate the types of Prepare a fully-engineered stream and already protected areas and training and support individual floodplain restoration plan and unfragmenting grassland habitat in refuges need in order to develop or construct a 50-acre project to provide southeastern New Mexico. improve bird checklists, educational flood conveyance, attenuation and $249,466 materials, and community outreach. reduction for downstream Project will assist the National communities such as Cadosia and Sky Island Alliance Wildlife Refuge System in its efforts Hancock, and improve and expand Peloncillo Mountains Ciénega to create birder-friendly refuges prime spawning habitat for wild Restoration – II through a program of training, rainbow, brown, and brook trout. Complete the final phase of support, and materials development $50,000 restoration of a ciénega that occupies for individual refuges. the upper Cloverdale Valley. The $140,250 The Nature Conservancy lower creek corridor and ciénega are Delaware River Basin Riverine and the next steps in restoring this unique Cornell University Wetland Areas Prioritization riparian system. Monitoring and Mapping of Prepare a conservation plan $111,416 Noise in Stellwagen Bank National prioritizing places for riverine and Marine Sanctuary wetland protection and restoration New York Conduct a high-level, integrative across the four-state Delaware River Buffalo Audubon Society study to develop tools to characterize Basin watersheds. This project will Iroquois Observations Educational the marine acoustic environment and improve understanding about those Services – II health of an urbanized, highly places and strategic opportunities that productive ecosystem, the Stellwagen address multiple threats and are most Provide programming to elementary Bank National Marine Sanctuary. in need of conservation action or school children focused on the $90,000 promise the greatest conservation Iroquois National Wildlife Refuge. return in the Basin Watersheds. Project will focus on waterfowl and Cornell University $75,544 wetland ecosystem functions and Golden-Winged Warbler nurture the next generation of Conservation Initiative – IV The Research Foundation of State environmental advocates. Complete a comprehensive University of New York $9,998 Golden-winged Warbler conservation Restoring Lake Ontario Sedge/ Grass Wetland Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, Inc. plan, enabling land managers to Riverwatch Academy for Niagara target habitat prescriptions that will Restore sedge/grass wetland on nine Watershed Restoration benefit the Golden-winged Warbler acres of agricultural land along and early successional species on Salmon Creek at Braddock Bay of Restore/enhance three degraded breeding and wintering grounds. Lake Ontario. Project will increase Niagara River tributaries. Volunteers $168,310 the area of the habitat type most will develop skills while replanting severely impacted by lake-level and monitoring 35.5 riparian acres Duke University regulation. and 3.5 miles of shoreline. Determining the Origins of $33,546 $149,956 River Herring Bycatch Wildlife Management Institute Cornell Cooperative Extension Determine the natal origins of river Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- of Suffolk County herring bycatch using a combination Dependent Birds – II Derelict Lobster Gear Assessment, of molecular genetic and otolith Removal, and Prevention geochemical markers. Restore populations of shrubland $310,902 dependent birds through a program Characterize the extent and of technical assistance and land distribution of derelict lobster gear in Friends of the Bay, Inc. management activities on public and the waters of Western Long Island Interactive Display for Oyster Bay private lands. Sound. Project will work with Develop an interactive display that $265,706 commercial lobstermen to remove provides information about Oyster gear from the study site. Bay National Wildlife Refuge. The $52,785 display will serve as an educational tool to help inform the public about the aquatic wildlife, maritime history, and aquaculture of the refuge. $4,947 united states 28

North Carolina Roanoke River, collect eggs, watch studies from around the world and a Cornell University them mature and release the fish facilitated community of practice for Golden-Winged Warbler back into the river. data producers and users. Conservation Initiative – IV $10,000 $14,850 Complete a comprehensive Manomet, Inc. University of Tennessee Golden-winged Warbler conservation American Oystercatcher Recovery Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative plan, enabling land managers to Unite the major organizations Establish capacity to bring additional target habitat prescriptions that will working on oystercatcher conservation resources, partners, strategic guidance, benefit the Golden-winged Warbler coastwide and in Massachusetts to and greater focus to the conservation and early successional species on improve nesting success through of Northern Bobwhite and other breeding and wintering grounds. control of predation and disturbance. declining grassland bird species. $168,310 $241,274 $442,500 Davidson College Mountain Valleys Resource Increasing Breeding Success for North Dakota Conservation & Development Council Brown-Headed Nuthatches Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Support for the Southern Perpetual Native Grassland Examine whether the use of paired Appalachian Cooperative Weed Protection in the Missouri Coteau nest boxes by the Brown-Headed Management Partnership Nuthatch will allow it to better Continue to support the Southern Expand efforts to protect native compete against the Eastern Bluebird Appalachian Cooperative Weed grassland and wetland habitat critical and increase its breeding success. Management Partnership to address for the conservation of native bird Project will compare three options invasive exotic plants. Project will populations. Project will involve the with different hole sizes and spacing employ invasive weed prevention, purchase of conservation easements to guide management recom­ education, detection and control, on approximately 300 acres of native mendations for superintendents. evaluation, restoration, and grasslands and wetlands in the $8,000 cooperation in order to address Missouri Coteau. $58,588 Davidson College invasive weed issues in the Southern Golf Course Ponds as Suitable Appalachian region. Girl Scouts — Dakota Horizons, Inc. Turtle Habitat in Urbanized Areas $33,997 Girl Scouts Go Back to Nature Collect data on the populations and Multiple Local Fishermen Educate over 80 Girl Scouts to movement of several semi-aquatic Turtle Exclusion Devices develop and implement stewardship turtle species on golf courses in for the Flynet Fishery projects on Long Lake and Audubon North Carolina. Project will provide Turtle Exclusion Devices will be National Wildlife Refuges. The practical management guidelines produced and made available free of project will continue the work of a for enhancement of turtle habitat in charge to Flynet Fishermen along start-up grant and educate the Girl and around golf course ponds. the Southeast US. This incentive for Scouts on the importance of main- $59,950 voluntary conversion to turtle safe taining and managing wildlife refuges. $5,000 Duke University gear will reduce mortality of Determining the Origins of migrating sea turtle populations. Ohio River Herring Bycatch $110,000 Bird Watcher’s Digest Magazine Determine the natal origins of river North Carolina Coastal Federation Bird Watcher’s Digest Magazine herring bycatch using a combination North Carolina Coastal School Rain at National Wildlife Refuges of molecular genetic and otolith Gardens for Water Quality Protection geochemical markers. Supply refuge visitor centers, visitor Work with students and teachers $310,902 contact stations, or staffed at three schools on the coast: administrative offices with birding Friends of the North Carolina State Tiller Elementary, Bradley Creek magazines for three years. Providing Museum of Natural Sciences Elementary, and First Flight Middle, three-year Bird Watcher’s Digest Silvering the Roanoke to plan and construct three rain Magazine subscriptions to refuges gardens for water quality protection. Restock the Roanoke River with will help refuge staff and volunteers American Shad, develop strong $20,000 stay up-to-date on issues of interest to birders in the United States, and connections between students, The Ocean Foundation the back issues will be kept as teachers and the refuge, and provide Marine Ecosystem Service Values reference materials for staff to access students with experiences leading to Partnership future science careers. Students will in the future. Develop a publicly available database monitor water quality from the $6,737 of coral reef economic valuation 29

Stewardship Network Oklahoma coor­dinate invasives surveying, Field Workshop Kit for the Association of Friends of the Wichitas documentation, and treatment, as Great Lakes Region Nature Quest Enivornmental well as workshops for the identifica­ ­ Develop and distribute Field Education Camp tions and reporting of new infestations Workshop Kits which will enable Facilitate a week-long environmental of 13 specific species. sponsors and practitioners of education camp focused on middle $11,400 in-the-field workshops and workdays school students and purchase birding Coquille Watershed Association to quickly and effectively plan and equipment to loan out. Project will host science-based events. North Fork Coquille build Friends’ capacity and provide Watershed Restoration – II $15,000 environmental education to local Improve approximately 13 miles of middle school students. Stewardship Network instream habitat on Oregon’s North $3,460 Garlic Mustard Challenge in the Fork Coquille River through the Great Lakes Basin University of Tennessee placement of large wood. Project will Protect 500,000 acres while restoring Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative benefit Coho and Chinook salmon, cutthroat trout, steelhead trout and impacted sites by pulling 150,000 Establish capacity to bring additional lamprey. pounds of garlic mustard. Project will resources, partners, strategic guidance, raise awareness and enthusiasm for and greater focus to the conservation $46,210 ecosystem restoration across the of Northern Bobwhite and other Great Lakes Basin. Deschutes River Conservancy declining grassland bird species. Deschutes Water Exchange – BPA – IX $15,000 $442,500 Restore stream flows throughout the The Nature Conservancy USDA Forest Service Deschutes River Basin, Oregon, Mending Meadows: Restoring Glover River Passage for through incentive based water rights Wet Prairies in the Oak Openings Leopard Darters transactions. Restore and preserve approximately Remove a failed low-water crossing $249,214 35 acres of wetlands and upland to connect fish passage for 26 miles buffer within the Oak Openings Friends of the Tualatin River on the Glover River. Project will National Wildlife Refuge Region of Ohio. benefit leopard darters (federally $72,664 Friends of the Tualatin River Refuge threatened), which occur immediately Education Programs downstream of the crossing. University of Tennessee Provide environmental education $65,000 Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative programs to 4,000 K-12 students and Establish capacity to bring additional 90,000 visitors. Opportunities will Oregon resources, partners, strategic guidance, include tours, signage, study guides, and greater focus to the conservation Cascade Pacific Resource teacher trainings, and speakers. of Northern Bobwhite and other Conservation and Development $5,000 declining grassland bird species. Area, Inc. Stout to Valentine Creeks Weed $442,500 Institute for Applied Ecology Inventory and Control RARE Partnership: Growing Plants Western Reserve Land Conservancy Inventory and control upland and and Stewards of Prairies Protecting Critical Habitat at riparian weeds using an Early Engage 400 students in stewardship Kelleys Island Preserve Detection Rapid Response approach activities at Finley National Wildlife Preserve 112 acres of globally in Stout, Alder, and Valentine Creek Refuge that connect them with their imperiled and rare habitat on Kelleys watersheds through a coordinated local environment, cultivating a sense Island in Ohio through fee simple program of public and private owner-­ of place and responsibility for local acquisition of 59 acres and conser­ ships. Project will restore native habitats. The project will create and vation easement donations on an grasses, shrubs, and trees, and improve restore habitat for the Fender’s Blue additional 53 acres. habitat for many species, including butterfly and other prairie species $1,000,000 Chinook and steelhead fish. while utilizing field experiences and $27,005 student-led stewardship projects to Wildlife Management Institute connect classroom lessons to real Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Clatsop Soil and world issues. Dependent Birds – II Water Conservation District $10,000 Restore populations of shrubland Clatsop Invasive Plant Early Detection dependent birds through a program and Rapid Response Initiative of technical assistance and land Provide needed capacity to respond management activities on public to new invasive plant species coming and private lands. to Clatsop County. Project will $265,706 united states 30

Klamath Bird Observatory Oregon State University The Freshwater Trust Protecting Wetlands, Water, Populations of Hector’s Dolphins Flow Restoration in the Umatilla Basin and Waterbirds in Time and Space Work to restore flow in the Umatilla Teach 90 students in grades 3-5 at Compare available boat and Basin and in Union County in the Chiloquin Elementary about science, aerial sighting surveys to photo- Grande Ronde Basin through birds, and habitats at Upper Klamath identification and genotype innovative water transactions National Wildlife Refuge. Students capture-recapture estimates and $177,825 will monitor water quality and genetic effective size in a local aquatic birds alongside biologists and population of Hector’s dolphins. Trout Unlimited, Inc. also take time to explore and $70,870 Improving Escapement Management experience the natural area during for Salmon Recovery two all day field trips to the refuge. Oregon State University – Develop a model approach for $5,001 Hatfield Marine Science Center establishing science-based Pacific Passive Acoustic Monitoring salmon and steelhead escapement Lake County Resources Initiative of the Arctic goals, which are essential to sound Drews Valley Ranch Fish Passage Monitor changes in the Arctic fishery management and the success and Screening ambient sound field associated with of restoration efforts. Restore fish passage and build screens the melting of Arctic ice and evaluate $59,960 at four irrigation diversions. Project the impact the anticipated increased will keep state sensitive fish out of sound levels will have on marine Trout Unlimited, Inc. irrigation systems and restore fish mammals. Securing Key Lahontan access to spawning grounds. $25,021 Cutthroat Trout Watersheds $81,687 Develop a strategy for restoring Oregon Water Resources Department interconnected stream and lake Malheur Wildlife Associates Water Transaction Coordination systems while managing threats Carp Control Outreach and Education and Monitoring – VI from non-native species to ensure at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Assist Oregon qualified local entities resilience of Lahontan Cutthroat Design and construct a portable with review and coordination on Trout populations during rapid outreach and education display about water transactions. Project will also climate change. invasive carp control at Malheur provide monitoring for a three-year $47,303 National Wildlife Refuge in order to transaction on the Lostine River. educate the public about the negative $49,771 Tualatin Soil and Water impacts of carp to the refuge wetland Conservation District habitats and bird populations. The Freshwater Trust Noxious Weed Control in Rural $5,000 Rudio Creek Basin Restoration Project Watersheds of Washington County Restore habitat to 2.4 miles of Work to control two invasive weeds, Middle Fork Willamette Rudio Creek, establish a basin-wide garlic mustard and knotweed, within Watershed Council monitoring program, and conduct two rural Washington County Middle Fork Willamette Watershed outreach for future restoration. watersheds. Project will improve Invasive Weed Program Project will benefit listed summer watershed health for fish and wildlife, Expand the existing Invasive Weed steelhead and spring Chinook. initiate and establish an Early Program by initiating an Early $60,000 Detection Rapid Response program, Detection Rapid Response program, and increase the public’s awareness of creating a strategic weed management The Freshwater Trust noxious weeds. plan across ownership boundaries, Innovative Transactions to Restore $49,927 and controlling invasives on private Flows – VIII land in the watershed. Project will Work to restore instream flow in the USDA Forest Service protect and restore native riparian John Day, Wallowa County of Coastal Cutthroat Trout Assessment and upland habitats through the Grande Ronde, Hood, and Develop science-based tools to assist reduction of high priority noxious Willamette Basins by implementing state, federal, and tribal agencies weeds. water rights transactions. assess the status of coastal cutthroat $54,147 $230,640 trout. Project will help agencies prioritize on the ground actions. Multiple Organizations $50,250 Fishing for Energy Port Capacity Grants Build port capacity to allow for increased collection of retired and derelict fishing gear for fishing communities across the country. $5,213 31

Pennsylvania management, and practitioner Earth Force, Inc. Alice Ferguson Foundation communities throughout the Bay Widener Watershed Trash-Free Potomac watershed. Awareness Program Watershed Initiative $450,000 Work with Widener University, the Continue efforts to achieve a John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge City of Lancaster trash-free Potomac River watershed. and a Chester elementary school to Lancaster City Stormwater provide a service-learning program, Project will include an annual Demonstrations Potomac Watershed Cleanup and focused at solving watershed issues. Implement five highly visible green Trash Summit, anti-litter public Approximately 20 pre-service infrastructure demonstrations in education campaign, litter enforce­ educators from Widener University Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Project will ment week, Trash Free Facilities will be trained and work with local reduce pollution loads to the Program, engagement of elected elementary students to implement Conestoga River by 1,546 pounds of officials through the Potomac Trash youth-driven watershed projects. nitrogen, 229 pounds of phosphorus, Treaty, and progress monitoring $10,000 and 119,500 pounds of sediment through Visible Trash Surveys. while serving as a basin-wide model Maryland Department of Agriculture $75,000 for stormwater management. Adaptive Cover Crop American Bird Conservancy $400,000 Management Tools Forestland Best Management Practices Apply adaptive management tools Cornell University for Golden-Winged Warblers to accurately assess the performance Golden-Winged Warbler of cover crop implemen­ tation­ within Develop best management practices Conservation Initiative – IV for enhancing early successional three targeted watersheds in Maryland, Complete a comprehensive forestland for Golden-winged Virginia and Pennsylvania. Project Golden-winged Warbler conservation Warblers, distribute recommen­ will provide tools to measure large- plan, enabling land managers to dations to a broad suite of state and scale winter cover crop productivity target habitat prescriptions that will private land managers, and hold and nutrient uptake and create a benefit the Golden-winged Warbler techniques workshops for more than web-based framework for sharing and early successional species on 30 land managers. Project will create geospatial data sets that can used to breeding and wintering grounds. at least 1,000 new acres of habitat effectively manage winter cover crop $168,310 based upon those best management programs for water quality protection. $600,000 practices and assess warbler response Delaware River City Corporation to management actions. Shoreline Restoration at Pennsylvania Department $133,686 Lardner’s Point Park of Agriculture Remove legacy millstone rubble and Audubon Society of Racoon Mountain Cooperative Western Pennsylvania restore tidal, inter-tidal and riparian Weed Management Area Rain Garden Alliance-Pine Creek habitat along the Delaware River Work to restore early successional Implementation creating the 64th park in the shrub habitat in Pennsylvania State Fairmount Park system by opening Reduce storm water runoff and Gamelands 252 and the surrounding new shoreline for people and for combined sewage overflow through area through the formation of a native fish including American shad the installation of Rain Gardens and Cooperative Weed Management and striped bass. determine the best approach for Area. Project will address non-native $133,844 wider implementation. plants such as tree of heaven, exotic $25,000 bush honeysuckle, and autumn olive, Duke University thus restoring woodcock and Determining the Origins of Center for Urban Environmental golden-winged warbler habitat. River Herring Bycatch Research and Education $15,000 Restoring Hydrologic Function Determine the natal origins of river in the Urban Landscape herring bycatch using a combination Pennsylvania Fish and of molecular genetic and otolith Advance the use of subsoiling, soil Boat Commission geochemical markers. Bog Turtle Recovery and amendment practices, and pervious Habitat Restoration concrete to reduce urban runoff and $310,902 restore infiltration in highly disturbed Advance bog turtle habitat manage­ soils. Project will demonstrate design ment and assessment, monitor and implementation, perform metapopulations, and enhance consistent monitoring, and conduct coordination and collaboration targeted outreach, education, and among partners, for recovery of the technology transfer to regulatory, species in Pennsylvania. $297,000 united states 32

Temple University will provide estimates very similar to Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Forest Restoration in what would be obtained if the WSM Restoration of Guánica Lagoon and Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park could be run for all projects and will Wetlands in Puerto Rico Restore three acres of degraded urban allow comparison with the use of a Work to restore the historic Guánica forest in Philadelphia and educate standard tool. lagoon and wetlands to further youths about carbon offsets. College $93,629 remove nitrogen at the Guánica and urban students will nurture Sewage Treatment plant in Puerto 600 seedlings and join community Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Rico. Project activities will include volunteers to plant them. TreeVitalize Pittsburgh advancing the conceptual design of $25,000 Plant 3,200 trees in communities the treatment wetlands, conducting throughout Pittsburgh in 2010. outreach with the local farming The ClearWater Conservancy of $25,000 community to advance lagoon Central Pennsylvania, Inc. restoration, and the continuation of Brook Trout Habitat Conservation Wildlands Conservancy, Inc. efforts to reduce erosion in high Native Habitat Restoration and and Restoration mountain coffee areas. Education in an Urban Park Purchase a 152-acre parcel with $35,000 2,400 feet of a forested wild brook Restore 1.5 miles of brook trout trout stream and restore two state- habitat and 10 acres of upland habitat Conservation Trust of Puerto Rico owned wild brook trout streams by within a city park. Project will Education and Clean-Up at Punta removing two dams and reforesting implement restoration techniques Ballenas, Puerto Rico the affected riparian areas. in partnership with volunteers and Implement a two-tiered 18-month $100,000 state and local organizations. program that seeks to provide $23,020 on-going educational training on the The Nature Conservancy importance of the Guanica / Rio Delaware River Basin Riverine and Wildlife Management Institute Loco watershed and lead continuous Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Wetland Areas Prioritization clean-up activities at the project site. Dependent Birds – II Prepare a conservation plan $24,999 prioritizing places for riverine and Restore populations of shrubland wetland protection and restoration dependent birds through a program Gulf and Caribbean across the four-state Delaware River of technical assistance and land Fisheries Institute, Inc. Basin watersheds. This project will management activities on public Development of Sustainable improve understanding about those and private lands. Aquaculture Practices for the U.S. places and strategic opportunities that $265,706 Hold a workshop at the Gulf and address multiple threats and are most Caribbean Fisheries Institute in in need of conservation action or Puerto Rico November 2010 to examine promise the greatest conservation Caribbean Maritime aquaculture conflicts in coral-reef return in the Basin Watersheds. Educational Center, Inc. environments. A panel of experts $75,544 Guanica Estuary and Coral will be convened. Reef Education $15,300 University of Tennessee Educate local communities on the Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Island Conservation stressors to coral reefs by experiential Restoring Seabird Populations by Establish capacity to bring additional learning and cleanups. Project will Removing Invasive Species resources, partners, strategic guidance, work with partners to educate and and greater focus to the conservation train contractors on proper erosion Initiate planning and feasibility of Northern Bobwhite and other practices. studies for non-native mammal declining grassland bird species. $25,000 eradication on Navassa Island in the $442,500 Caribbean and the Juan Fernandez Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Islands and Isla Mocha in Chile. Water Stewardship, Inc. Addressing Stormwater Runoff $352,628 Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) Impacts to Coral Reefs in La Parguera, Develop and test the Nutrient Load Puerto Rico Joaquin Chong Coffee Pulp Composting Estimator (NLE) that uses available Implement a stormwater plan and Demonstration and Utilization land use load information from the demonstration project in a coastal Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed town where coral reefs are impacted Conduct composting lectures to Model (WSM) and other accepted by runoff. Capacity will be built by coffee processors at Maricao, protocols to calculate the impact of incorporating university students and following compost demonstrations best management practices at a tract the public into the design. and on farm compost use. or community scale. The use of NLE $75,000 $25,000 33

Ticatove, Inc activities will be coordinated with Multiple Local Fishermen Plastic Bag Education in Puerto Rico local community groups and state Turtle Exclusion Devices Educate the community near and federal agencies. for the Flynet Fishery Vieques National Wildlife Refuge $25,000 Turtle Exclusion Devices will be on the impact of plastic bag produced and made available free of contamination on marine ecosystems. Rhode Island charge to Flynet Fishermen along the Project will conduct a recycling Duke University Southeast US. This incentive for education campaign for schools Determining the Origins of River voluntary conversion to turtle safe and refuge visitors. Herring Bycatch gear will reduce mortality of $5,000 Determine the natal origins of river migrating sea turtle populations. herring bycatch using a combination $110,000 University of Miami, of molecular genetic and otolith Rosenstiel School of Marine and University of Tennessee geochemical markers. Atmospheric Science Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative $310,902 Sustaining Coral Reef Fisheries Establish capacity to bring additional in Puerto Rico Wildlife Management Institute resources, partners, strategic guidance, Establish fishery management goals, Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- and greater focus to the conservation including appropriate fishing level Dependent Birds – II of Northern Bobwhite and other and minimum population sizes, for Restore populations of shrubland declining grassland bird species. fish that are important to ensuring dependent birds through a program $442,500 healthy coral reefs. These goals will of technical assistance and land guide conservation efforts of state and management activities on public South Dakota federal managers to build sustainable­ and private lands. Friends of Maga Ta-Hohpi reef fisheries in Puerto Rico. $265,706 Environmental Center $100,000 Interpretive Panel and Trail Signage South Carolina Improvement University of Puerto Rico Rio Loco Watershed Conservation Clemson University Replace old interpretation panels at Buffers, Puerto Rico Enhancing Productivity of the existing trailhead kiosk and place new signage at the new trailhead. Implement a capacity-building Oystercatchers in Cape Romain Project will be completed prior to the program on conservation buffers for Increase nesting success rates of dedication ceremony of the nature trail farmers in the Rio Loco Watershed. American Oystercatchers by experi- in memory of refuge biotechs Kelson Two permanent demonstrations of mentally evaluating the effects of two Vaillancourt and James Schneck. conservation buffers in farms will shorebird management techniques: $4,899 be implemented. predator control and artificial incubation or headstarting. Project $24,918 University of Tennessee will evaluate and compare the efficacy Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez and cost-effectiveness of each Hydrodynamics of Guánica Bay, technique to help guide future Establish capacity to bring additional Puerto Rico management. resources, partners, strategic guidance, and greater focus to the conservation Conduct the first Lagrangian velocity $96,408 measurements and numerical of Northern Bobwhite and other simulations of the hydrodynamics of Duke University declining grassland bird species. Guánica Bay to support efforts aimed Determining the Origins of $442,500 at improving water quality. Project River Herring Bycatch will take place in Guánica Bay and Determine the natal origins of river Tennessee the adjacent waters directly impacted herring bycatch using a combination Cornell University by pollution from the Guánica of molecular genetic and otolith Golden-Winged Warbler watershed. geochemical markers. Conservation Initiative – IV $16,432 $310,902 Complete a comprehensive Golden- winged Warbler conservation plan, University of Puerto Rico — Mayaguez Manomet, Inc. enabling land managers to target Nutrient Management and Sediment American Oystercatcher Recovery habitat prescriptions that will benefit Source Identification in Puerto Rico Unite the major organizations the Golden-winged Warbler and Further on-farm nutrient working on oystercatcher conservation early successional species on breeding management improvement and coastwide and in Massachusetts to and wintering grounds. sediment control that will reduce improve nesting success through $168,310 potential nutrient and sediment loads control of predation and disturbance. to coral reefs in Guánica Bay. Project $241,274 united states 34

Cumberland River Compact Texas unfragmenting grassland habitat in Rotary Park Wall Branch Botanic Gardens Conservation southeastern New Mexico. Creek Restoration International (U.S.), Inc. $249,466 Restore the Rotary Park Wall Ex Situ Conservation of Branch Creek through tree plantings, Four Imperiled Oak Species Society Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus, Ltd a wildflower meadow, a pervious Safeguard genetically diverse living concrete trail, stabilizing the stream Brood Survival of Attwater’s collections of imperiled oak species Prairie Chickens bank, and removing noxious plants. from climate change and disease Evaluate the effects of red imported $20,823 threats. Project will work with the fire ants on abundance of insect prey U.S. Forest Service and botanic Living Lands & Waters for Attwater’s Prairie-Chickens. gardens in the United States and Memphis Reforestation and $364,350 Australia to collect material from Mississippi River Restoration populations of four species of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Conduct a series of three community- imperiled oak and develop based reforestation, restoration, and North Shore Eagle Point Oyster propagation protocols. Restoration education projects in the Memphis $15,000 metropolitan area. Restore oyster reefs along the north shore of Eagle Point in Galveston $25,000 Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Gulf Coast Migratory Waterfowl Bay, Texas, as part of a multi-phase Mountain Valleys Resource Habitat Enhancement oyster restoration project. Project will Conservation & Development Council restore a total of 5 acres of oyster Provide at least 20,000 acres of Support for the Southern habitat by placing reef patches in suitable alternative shorebird, wading Appalachian Cooperative Weed close proximity to privately owned bird, waterfowl, and secretive marsh Management Partnership piers and by involving citizen bird habitat for fall migrant Continue to support the Southern volunteers in stewardship of the reefs. shorebirds, with maximum flooded Appalachian Cooperative Weed $47,999 acreage achieved during peak fall Management Partnership to address migration and winter periods in invasive exotic plants. Project will Texas Rice Industry Coalition agricultural habitats in the Chenier employ invasive weed prevention, for the Environment Plain of Louisiana and Texas. education, detection and control, Private Lands Moist Soil $2,500,000 evaluation, restoration, and Initiative – Texas Chenier Plain Create 1,395 acres of moist soil/ cooperation in order to address Friends of Rookery Bay, Inc. wetland units in rice farmland and invasive weed issues in the Southern Developing a Regional Plan for Marine Appalachian region. Protected Areas in the Southeast abandoned rice farmland on private lands in the area east of Galveston $33,997 Develop a regional Marine Protected Bay in Chambers and Jefferson Area plan and a functional network University of Tennessee County, Texas. within coastal states of the Gulf of Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative $527,050 Mexico and Southeast region. Plan Establish capacity to bring additional will highlight priority actions and resources, partners, strategic guidance, Texas Rice Industry Coalition common interests. and greater focus to the conservation for the Environment $35,000 Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge of Northern Bobwhite and other Wetlands and Prairie Restoration declining grassland bird species. Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Restore, enhance, and create $442,500 American Oystercatcher approximately 1,200 acres of Stewardship in Texas Wolf River Conservancy wetland / moist soil unit habitat and Reduce gaps in knowledge of the Wolf River Greenway Five Star restore approximately 15,000 acres American Oystercatcher population Partnership of native prairie on the Brazoria status and breeding parameters on Engage five city schools and other National Wildlife Refuge. Project the Texas Gulf Coast. Project will partners in restoring two key will implement numerous joint enable the implementation of properties within the urban portion ventures and conservation programs, conservation strategies. of the Memphis Wolf River including the Texas Mottled Duck $100,000 Greenway. Conservation Plan, the International $25,000 Playa Lakes Joint Venture Shorebird Initative, the Gulf Coast Furthering New Mexico Lesser Joint Venture, the North American Prairie-Chicken Conservation Waterfowl Plan, and many other initatives for wading birds and Continue the restoration of Lesser grassland and upland bird species. Prairie-Chicken habitat, connecting $125,000 already protected areas and 35

The Nature Conservancy Utah Wildlife Management Institute Wetland Enhancement and Early Chicago Horticultural Society Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Flood Up, Coastal Texas Testing Restoration Effectiveness Dependent Birds – II Provide flood water and wetland Under a Changing Climate Restore populations of shrubland enhancements to offer productive Evaluate genetic, functional, plant dependent birds through a program habitat for migratory waterfowl and community, and pollinator outcomes of technical assistance and land shorebirds to dissuade them from of degraded and restored habitats management activities on public and going to oil spill affected areas. under expected climate change. private lands. $136,762 $45,000 $265,706

Trinity Commons Foundation Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Virginia Trinity River Wetland Restoration Eastern Nevada / Western Utah Alice Ferguson Foundation Establish wetland vegetation along Invasive Weed Control Trash-Free Potomac Trinity River banks to provide Continue the treatment and Watershed Initiative stabilization and a natural habitat. monitoring of invasive weeds across Continue efforts to achieve a Project staff will work closely with 4,410,750 acres within four trash-free Potomac River watershed. the Trinity Audubon Center to Cooperative Weed Management Project will include an annual engage the community. Areas in eastern Nevada and Western Potomac Watershed Cleanup and $25,000 Utah. Project will target knapweed, Trash Summit, anti-litter public pepperweed, tamarisk, Russian U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service education campaign, litter enforce­ olive, thistle, hoary cress, and Reddish Egret Conservation in ment week, Trash Free Facilities non-native thistles. Coastal Texas Program, engagement of elected $83,075 Use satellite telemetry to answer official through the Potomac Trash Treaty, and progress monitoring critical questions about the reddish State of Colorado through Visible Trash Surveys. egret’s ecology including those that Gunnison Sage-Grouse $75,000 will determine its resilience in the Conservation Implementation face of large scale habitat loss. Work towards the protection and Center for Urban Environmental Long-term outcomes of this research enhancement of habitat for the Research and Education will inform conservation needs for Gunnison Sage-grouse. Project will Restoring Hydrologic Function in the not only reddish egret, but other involve high-priority research and Urban Landscape priority species using similar habitat trap and transplant operations. Advance the use of subsoiling, soil on the Texas Gulf coast. $400,140 amendment practices, and pervious $81,992 concrete to reduce urban runoff and Trout Unlimited, Inc. restore infiltration in highly disturbed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Bear River Native Trout Restoration Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge soils. Project will demonstrate design Restore and reconnect 210 miles Moist Soil Management and implementation, perform of migration corridors and stream consistent monitoring, and conduct Increase on an annual basis the habitat to benefit Bonneville targeted outreach, education, and acreage of habitat available on cutthroat trout and other native technology transfer to regulatory, Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge fish in the Bear River. management, and practitioner and provide increased acres of habitat $90,000 communities throughout the Bay this year for migrating / wintering watershed. shorebirds and waterfowl. Vermont $450,000 $362,000 The Nature Conservancy Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. University of Tennessee Controlling Invasive Plants Rainwater Harvesting Systems in the Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Through Forestry Management James River Watershed Establish capacity to bring additional Provide technical resources and Test and promote the benefits of resources, partners, strategic guidance, training to at least 1,500 private and rainwater harvesting in Virginia by and greater focus to the conservation public land managers to increase demonstrating agricultural and urban of Northern Bobwhite and other invasive week management. Project applications at two sites in the James declining grassland bird species. will result in increased external River watershed. Project will conduct $442,500 capacity building. $43,871 educational and outreach activities about the conservation practice, monitor both systems, measure water use savings, and quantify the reduc­tion in runoff affecting local streams. $90,000 united states 36

Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. fully leverage funding appropriate to Mountain Valleys Resource Onancock Creek Watershed the region’s circumstances and Conservation & Development Council Restoration conservation needs. Project will target Support for the Southern Engage farmers and watershed grant funds to lands that are part of a Appalachian Cooperative Weed residents in a comprehensive effort to regional conservation strategy and Management Partnership reduce nutrient and sediment loading defined as ecologically and culturally Continue to support the Southern to Onancock Creek. Project will significant; leverage funding with Appalachian Cooperative Weed implement urban stormwater manage­- private and other public funds so that Management Partnership to address ment practices, restore riparian public resources are maximized; invasive exotic plants. Project will buffers, improve agricultural nitrogen partner with federal, state and local employ invasive weed prevention, use efficiency, and generate nutrient agencies, non-profit groups and education, detection and control, trading credits. businesses to ensure cooperative evaluation, restoration, and $500,000 conservation of these landscapes; and, cooperation in order to address promote public engagement and invasive weed issues in the Southern Cornell University enjoyment of natural and cultural Appalachian region. Golden-Winged Warbler assets of the Chesapeake. $33,997 Conservation Initiative – IV $20,000 Complete a comprehensive Potomac Conservancy Golden-winged Warbler conservation James Madison University Promoting Low Impact Development plan, enabling land managers to Smith Creek Brook Trout Restoration in Vulnerable Watersheds target habitat prescriptions that will Monitor the long-term recovery of Conduct a comprehensive analysis of benefit the Golden-winged Warbler ecological processes and outcomes in how local policies can be improved to and early successional species on the Smith Creek basin’s riparian promote low impact development in breeding and wintering grounds. forests resulting from fencing and the non-tidal portion of Virginia’s $168,310 tree planting efforts. Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project $78,732 will assess 37 counties and cities, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. recommend code revisions in targeted Wetland and Upland Habitat Manomet, Inc. localities, conduct outreach to local Restoration American Oystercatcher Recovery decision makers and the public, Improve wildlife habitat and water Unite the major organizations implement 30 demonstration projects, quality through an integrated working on oystercatcher conservation and sponsor a design competition. approach that includes direct habitat coastwide and in Massachusetts to $500,000 restoration, technical assistance on improve nesting success through private lands, and conservation control of predation and disturbance. Shenandoah Resource Conservation easements. Project will restore and $241,274 and Development Council enhance 1,009 acres of wetlands in Creating a Culture of Chincoteague National Wildlife Maryland Department of Agriculture Conservation from Farm to Table Refuge and protect 500 acres of Adaptive Cover Crop Work with farmers in the wetlands and uplands in other areas Management Tools Shenandoah Valley to reduce within the Chesapeake Bay Apply adaptive management tools sediment pollution and optimize watershed of Virginia. statewide to accurately assess the nitrogen and phosphorus manage­ $100,000 performance of cover crop imple­ ment in food and fiber production. men­tation within three targeted Project will develop whole-farm Duke University watersheds in Maryland, Virginia Continuous Improvement Plans, Determining the Origins of and Pennsylvania. Project will provide assess and verify conservation River Herring Bycatch tools to measure large-scale winter performance, and promote local food Determine the natal origins of river cover crop productivity and nutrient consumption as a way for the public herring bycatch using a combination uptake and create a web-based to help farmers improve water quality. of molecular genetic and otolith framework for sharing geospatial $700,000 geochemical markers. data sets that can used to effectively $310,902 manage winter cover crop programs The Nature Conservancy for water quality protection. Dragon Run Stewardship and Friends of the John Smith $600,000 Land Acquisition Chesapeake Trail Partner with the Virginia Chesapeake Treasured Landscape Department of Forestry to protect Initiative (CTLI) approximately 56 miles of streams in Build and strengthen a lasting the Dragon Run watershed. Project partnership of federal, state, local and will add 5,400 acres to the state forest private organizations to expand and system, sell 13,350 acres to a 37

conservation buyer, and monitor all Water Stewardship, Inc. Evergreen Funding Consultants properties to ensure continued water Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) Community Participation quality protection. Develop and test the Nutrient Load Development Program – II $197,700 Estimator (NLE) that uses available Continue to develop a public land use load information from the outreach and assistance program in The Nature Conservancy Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed partnership with communities across Development of Cooperative Weed Model (WSM) and other accepted Washington State to fund salmon and Pest Management Area protocols to calculate the impact of habitat restoration projects that Develop a Cooperative Weed and best management practices at a tract benefit fish and water quality. Pest Management Area across or community scale. The use of NLE $171,825 jurisdictional boundaries in eastern will provide estimates very similar to West Virginia and Virginia. Project what would be obtained if the WSM Friends of Willapa National will help land management could be run for all projects and will Wildlife Refuge organizations,­ conservation allow comparison with the use of a Interpretive Pocket Guides for Willapa Refuge Visitors organizations, agricultural interests, standard tool. and others address the growing threat $93,629 Create pocket guides to educate from non-native invasive species refuge visitors on the local plants and across the landscape. Wildlife Management Institute animals found on the refuge. The $44,000 Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- guides will also be used by school Dependent Birds – II groups and as part of the guided tours The Piedmont Environmental Restore populations of shrubland conducted on the refuge. Council, Inc. dependent birds through a program $4,995 Early Detection Rapid Response for of technical assistance and land Wavyleaf Basketgrass management activities on public and Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe Establish a statewide steering private lands. McDonald Creek Large Wood Recovery committee to increase public $265,706 awareness of wavyleaf basketgrass, Collaborate with local landowners to coordinate mapping of new Washington address degraded conditions along infestations, and promote rapid lower McDonald Creek in the Adopt-A-Stream Foundation control actions. Project will determine Dungeness Valley. Project will Little Swamp Creek the extent of wavyleaf basketgrass in include installation of large woody Riparian Reforestation Virginia, and work towards debris at seven locations, removal of eradicating the weed statewide. Work with two streamside invasive plants from the floodplain, $49,700 landowners on Little Swamp Creek and replanting of the riparian area who have agreed to replace lawn and with over 500 cedar trees. University of Tennessee non-native riparian plants with native $50,000 Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative trees and shrubs. Establish capacity to bring additional $11,311 King County resources, partners, strategic guidance, Miller and Walker Creeks Cascadia Conservation District and greater focus to the conservation Noxious Weed Control Entiat River Community Cleanup of Northern Bobwhite and other Continue the noxious weed control declining grassland bird species. Engage diverse community groups efforts that have been carried out by $442,500 and natural resource agencies in a the King County Noxious Weed collaborative cleanup and riparian Control Program on properties along Virginia Polytechnic Institute restoration along the Entiat River. Miller and Walker Creeks since 2005. and State University Project will include trash cleanup, $30,501 Reducing Poultry House Emissions weed removal, and native plantings. and Broiler Litter Runoff $18,600 Kramer Consulting Work with farmers in Virginia to Protect Puget Sound Shoreline decrease nitrogen and phosphorus Chelan County Natural Ecosystems Resources Department pollution from poultry house Design quantifiable no net loss Ponderosa Community emissions and litter application. framework to enhance mandatory Riparian Enhancement Project will install ammonia regulatory updates and imple­ scrubbers on poultry house exhaust Promote education, watershed mentation programs. Project will fans, add alum to litter before land stewardship, riparian habitat build regional political leadership to application, and demonstrate the enhancement, and conservation to address shoreline protection issues. effects of these treatments on the Ponderosa Community residents $179,994 crop yields. who live adjacent to the Upper $700,000 Wenatchee River. $26,708 united states 38

Laurelhurst Apartments LLC Mid Sound Fisheries Pend Oreille River Tourism Alliance Poulsbo Village Dogfish Creek Enhancement Group Pend Oreille River Water Trail Restoration Upper Kelsey Creek Salmon Salmonid Recovery – II Restore and improve 200 linear feet Habitat Restoration Engage stakeholders in salmonid of salmon habitat along Dogfish Add Chinook salmon habitat and recovery through tourism-based Creek. Project will support a reduce erosion to private property, economic development. Project will partnership with a local fish biologist within the upper Kelsey Creek ravine, establish a riparian restoration and North Kitsap Trout Unlimited through the addition of large wood demonstration site, identify oppor­ for stewardship and education. and gravel. tunities for habitat protection and $15,000 $75,000 enhancement projects, and conduct outreach to shoreline landowners and Marine Conservation Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust businesses. Biology Institute Issaquah Creek Restoration at Lk $47,893 Marine Protected Area Management Sammmamish State Park 2010 Plan for Pacific Remote Islands Restore 8.5 acres of riparian habitat Port Townsend Marine Science Society Marine National Monument along 1,000 feet of Issaquah Creek. INSPIRE: Involving School Partners Develop a strong ecosystem-based Project will emphasize controlling in Refuge Education management plan and assess law invasive weeds and re-establishing Work with Protection Island enforcement needs for the Pacific native plant communities. National Wildlife Refuge, Dungeness Remote Islands Marine National $50,000 National Wildlife Refuge, Sequim Monument by facilitating meetings High School students, and volunteers and workshops with scientists and Nisqually River Foundation to present lessons on marine food government officials. Nisqually Estuary Restoration webs and to conduct a Refuge $50,000 and Field Studies stewardship project. Educate 500 local students about the $10,000 Methow Conservancy largest estuary restoration project in Methow Beaver Restoration the Pacific Northwest through trips Puget Sound Restoration Fund Restore beavers to habitat they once to Nisqually National Wildlife Olympia Oyster Recovery in occupied and create improved habitat Refuge. Students will participate in Puget Sound conditions in the Methow River the revegetation of upland forest Augment remnant Olympia oyster watershed. Project will involve habitats along the newly restored populations and accelerate the landowner outreach, community estuary and participate in field studies recruitment­ process for new education, beaver transfer, effective­ on the refuge. populations,­ with the goal of creating ness monitoring, water temperature $9,997 healthy oyster populations that and flow benefit measurement, and provide ecosystem services and the evaluation of future potential Northwest Straits Marine benefits. release sites. Conservation Foundation $198,300 $32,694 Deepwater Derelict Fishing Net and Rockfish Impact Survey Seattle Public Utilities Methow Salmon Recovery Foundation Test sidescan sonar surveys to Cedar River Salmonid Habitat Methow Valley Riparian identify deep water rockfish habitat Enhancement Partnership Vegetation Enhancement and towed camera or small remotely Coordinate invasive species control Conduct noxious weed control on operated underwater vehicle surveys work on the Cedar River to improve approximately 18 acres of riparian to locate possible derelict fishing gear spawning and rearing habitat for properties along the Twisp and in deepwater habitat. native fish, including Chinook Methow Rivers. Project will implement­ $47,000 salmon, steelhead and cutthroat trout. treatment plans to be monitored and $48,996 used in outreach to landowners for Northwest Watershed Institute future riparian project development. Tarboo Creek and Bay Knotweed South Puget Sound Salmon $29,971 and Ivy Eradication Enhancement Group Remove a major infestation of McLane Creek Community Outreach Japanese knotweed and English ivy and Project Development on a Washington Department of Involve the local community Fish and Wildlife Critical Habitat members in development of salmon Preserve at the mouth of Tarboo habitat restoration projects in their Creek, and at smaller dispersed sites watershed. along Tarboo Bay. $30,000 $41,480 39

South Puget Sound Salmon Upper Columbia Regional Fish Washington Water Trust Enhancement Group Enhancement Group Columbia Basin Strategic Plan – IX Kennedy Creek Salmon Trail Driscoll Island Riparian Restoration Identify, develop, and implement Community Viewing Platform Plant and maintain native riparian water transactions, focused in the Continue a community-supported vegetation on Driscoll Island, an Okanogan, Wenatchee and Yakima and volunteer-based education important habitat area at the basins. Project will work program hosted by the South Puget confluence of the Similkameen and collaboratively with willing Sound Salmon Enhancement Group, Okanogan Rivers. landowners, community groups, Taylor Shellfish, and the Mason $11,000 tribes, and businesses. Conservation District. Project will $182,631 rebuild a damaged viewing platform USDA Forest Service at the popular Kennedy Creek Coastal Cutthroat Trout Assessment Washington Water Trust Salmon Trail. Develop science-based tools to assist Washington Water Trust — $15,000 state, federal, and tribal agencies Walla Walla Basin assess the status of coastal cutthroat Identify, develop, and implement Stillwaters Environmental Center trout. Project will help agencies water transactions, focused in the Carpenter Creek Community Mapping prioritize on the ground actions. Walla Walla river basin. Connect the local community to $50,250 $112,006 watershed restoration through creation of an interactive web-based USDA-Forest Service, West Virginia Gifford Pinchot National Forest watershed map. Project will act as an Cornell University Native Wind River Steelhead Habitat extension and complement to Golden-Winged Warbler and Passage Improvement previously funded estuary restoration Conservation Initiative – IV and culvert replacement work. Remove Martha Creek Dam and Complete a comprehensive $9,000 four fish passage barrier culverts on Golden-winged Warbler conservation Forest Roads 3056 and 30-136 in the plan, enabling land managers to Thurston Conservation District Upper Wind River Watershed. target habitat prescriptions that will Beachcrest Low Impact Project will fully decommission the benefit the Golden-winged Warbler Development Pilot roads and passage will be restored for and early successional species on Improve Puget Sound water quality Endangered Species Act-listed breeding and wintering grounds. and salmon habitat through steelhead. $168,310 implementation of low impact $30,000 development practices to treat and Quality Deer Management Washington Department of Ecology reduce stormwater runoff in the Association Transaction Processing and Beachcrest Development. Effects of Deer Population Monitoring Program – VII $17,691 Structure and Dispersal on Disease Assist in the selection, assessment, Mitigation Efforts Trout Unlimited, Inc. coordination, and management of Coordinate a genetic study of deer North Central Washington water right acquisitions by Washington to guide chronic wasting disease Salmon Safe Water Trust, Washington Rivers management efforts. Study will assess Collaborate with the Salmon-Safe Conservancy, and Ecology within the population parameters and the role certification program to recognize Columbia Basin in Washington State. of habitat features in dispersal. farms, vineyards, and other operations $136,813 $37,776 that have or are adopting conser­ Washington State Department vation practices that help restore The Nature Conservancy of Agriculture native salmon habitat and improve Development of Cooperative Pulling Together to Eradicate water quality in North Central Weed and Pest Management Area Common Crupina – IV Washington rivers and streams. Develop a Cooperative Weed and Pull and backpack spray common $30,000 Pest Management Area across crupina in the Lake Chelan Sawtooth jurisdictional boundaries in eastern Trout Unlimited, Inc. Wilderness and adjacent private West Virginia and Virginia. Project Improving Escapement lands. Project will protect sensitive will help land management Management for Salmon Recovery native plants, improve grizzly bear organizations, conservation Develop a model approach for and gray wolf habitat, and prevent organizations, agricultural interests, establishing science-based Pacific the spread of common crupina by and others address the growing threat salmon and steelhead escapement treating 300 acres and monitoring from non-native invasive species goals, which are essential to sound 1,000 acres. across the landscape. fishery management and the success $50,000 $44,000 of restoration efforts. $59,960 united states 40

University of Tennessee Friends of Necedah National Lakeshore Natural Resource Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Wildlife Refuge Partnership, Inc. Establish capacity to bring additional New Book Store at Necedah Centerville Creek Restoration resources, partners, strategic guidance, National Wildlife Refuge Restore the Centerville Creek, a and greater focus to the conservation Relocate and increase capacity of tributary of Lake Michigan in of Northern Bobwhite and other book store. Project will consist of Cleveland, Wisconsin. Project will declining grassland bird species. updating equipment, increasing restore a natural stream channel, $442,500 inventory, hiring one paid position, remove invasive plants, and improve and recruiting additional volunteers. a degraded Lake Michigan beach. Water Stewardship, Inc. Project will result in additional $149,791 Nutrient Load Estimator (NLE) financial support for the Refuge. Develop and test the Nutrient Load $5,000 National Audubon Society Estimator (NLE) that uses available Floodplain Forest Bird Habitat land use load information from the Friends of the Refuge Headwaters Conservation on Private Lands Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Friends of the Refuge Headwaters Identify potential private lands that Model (WSM) and other accepted Outreach and Conservation alone, or combined with adjacent protocols to calculate the impact of Develop community involvement public lands, can be managed to create best management practices at a tract in the Upper Mississippi River one or more 1,700-acre lowland or community scale. The use of National Wildlife and Fish Refuge floodplain forest interiors in Important NLE will provide estimates very and increase outdoor activity of area Bird Areas. Project will launch a pilot similar to what would be obtained children. Project will protect fish project to promote healthy floodplain if the WSM could be run for all and wildlife and develop and forest management to private land-­ projects and will allow comparison awareness of the refuge. owners in and adjacent to highest- with the use of a standard tool. $3,464 priority Important Bird Areas along $93,629 the Upper Mississippi River. Kalmbach Publishing Co. $62,607 Wildlife Management Institute Birder’s World Magazine at Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- National Wildlife Refuges River Alliance of Wisconsin, Inc. Dependent Birds – II Supply refuges with visitor centers, Clearing a Path: Revitalizing Restore populations of shrubland visitor contact stations, or staffed Lake Michigan’s Sturgeon dependent birds through a program administrative offices with birding Construct a fish bypass around of technical assistance and land magazines for three years. Providing two dams on the Menominee River. management activities on public three-year Birder’s World Magazine Project will remove two barriers to and private lands. subscriptions to refuges is an excellent downstream sturgeon migration and $265,706 way to keep refuge staff and improve lake sturgeon population volunteers up to date on many issues growth in Lake Michigan. Wisconsin of interest to birders in the United $1,500,000 States and the back issues will be kept Cornell University Stewardship Network Golden-Winged Warbler as reference materials for staff to Field Workshop Kit for the Conservation Initiative – IV access in the future. $5,925 Great Lakes Region Complete a comprehensive Develop and distribute Field Golden-winged Warbler conservation Lake County Forest Preserve District Workshop Kits which will enable plan, enabling land managers to Chiwaukee Illinois Beach Lake sponsors and practitioners of target habitat prescriptions that will Plain Restoration in-the-field workshops and workdays benefit the Golden-winged Warbler Work with partners to control to quickly and effectively plan and and early successional species on invasive plants across 509 acres and host science-based events. breeding and wintering grounds. restore hydrology on 1,889 feet of $15,000 $168,310 swales and waterways. Benefits include restored coastal habitat, Stewardship Network Eagle Optics reconnection of wetlands, and Garlic Mustard Challenge in the Binoculars and Optics Loan Program Great Lakes Basin on National Wildlife Refuges improved hydrology. $998,557 Protect 500,000 acres while restoring Provide binoculars to National impacted sites by pulling 150,000 Wildlife Refuges. Binoculars will be pounds of garlic mustard. Project will loaned to refuge visitors for use on raise awareness and enthusiasm for trails, boardwalks, and other v ecosystem restoration across the iewing areas. Great Lakes Basin. $41,669 $15,000 41

Trout Unlimited, Inc. Wyoming Trout Unlimited, Inc. Driftless Brook Trout and Nongame Freedom to Roam Fish Passage Restoration in Species Stream Restoration Wildlife Corridor Communications Spread Creek – II Restore and enhance stream and and Marketing Remove a dam that currently blocks riparian habitat for native brook trout Build broad constituencies for access to 40 miles of habitat. Project and nongame species. Project will wildlife corridors through far- will involve installation of new fish train conservation staff and strengthen reaching marketing strategies and friendly rock structure and restoration community partnerships in the increased communications capacity. of Spread Creek channel. Driftless Area Fish Habitat $40,000 $78,556 Partnership of the Midwest. $95,000 Friends of the Teton River, Inc. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Teton River Tributary Yellowstone Bear River Native Trout Restoration University of Notre Dame Cutthroat Trout Population Study Restore and reconnect 210 miles of Enhancing Upper Great Lakes Survey Teton River tributaries to migration corridors and stream Native Brook Trout Populations identify trends in trout population. habitat to benefit Bonneville cut­throat Assess outcomes of Michigan and Project will facilitate study of native trout and other native fish in the Wisconsin stream habitat enhance­ Yellowstone cutthroat trout. Bear River. ment efforts aimed at restoring $9,800 $90,000 brook trout populations. $20,000 Teton Conservation District Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Karns Meadow Stormwater Wetland Protecting Winter Habitat for the University of Tennessee Path of the Pronghorn Work with the Town of Jackson, Eastern Grassland Bird Initiative Teton County, and Jackson Hole Identify and work to implement best Establish capacity to bring additional Land Trust to construct a wetland- management practices to promote resources, partners, strategic guidance, based stormwater treatment system. coexistence of wintering migratory and greater focus to the conservation $5,000 pronghorn and natural gas develop­ of Northern Bobwhite and other ment in the Upper Green River declining grassland bird species. Teton Conservation District Basin, Wyoming. $442,500 Fish Creek Ecosystem Evaluation $294,479 and Protection Vortex Optics Improve the understanding of Wyoming Game and Fish Department Optics and Field Guide Loan Program Sommers-Grindstone water quality and ecosystem health Conservation Easement Expand the birding optics loan in Fish Creek as it relates to its program at numerous refuges in each Class 1 stream designation. Acquire a conservation easement of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s $30,000 on 19,000 acres of private lands with eight regions. Project will promote high wildlife values in western an important component of a Birder The Conservation Fund Wyoming. Friendly Refuge by helping to Carney Conservation Easement $1,075,000 welcome and orient birders, and Acquire a conservation easement improve wildlife interpretation on 2,409 acres with high value and education on the refuge. for the continued migration of the $65,000 Grand Teton / Path of the Pronghorn antelope herd. Wildlife Management Institute $709,950 Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Dependent Birds – II Trout Unlimited, Inc. Restore populations of shrubland Stream Restoration and Fish dependent birds through a program Conservation in Muddy Creek of technical assistance and land Implement habitat restoration and management activities on public develop an education and outreach and private lands. plan that benefits both cold-water $265,706 and warm-water native fishes in Muddy Creek, Wyoming. $299,130 42

International Coalition of Reef Lovers Pacific Marine Resources Institute, Inc. Nutrient Pollution Reduction in Improving Data Use for Coral Reef Africa American Samoa Management in Micronesia Centre for Dolphin Studies, Reduce nutrient run-off to coral Enhance the local understanding and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan reefs by testing 100 detergents for use of coral reef monitoring data University reactive and total phosphate content. throughout Micronesia by conducting Conservation of Dugongs Project will create a banned product a regional hands-on data manage­ of the Bazaruto Archipelago in identification­ manual for the customs ment and processing workshop. Central Mozambique authority to use to enforce the $35,861 Monitor and define the dugong high-phosphate detergents ban in SeaWeb population in the West Indian American Samoa. Coral Social Marketing Campaign in Ocean. Project will develop alternate $48,646 Laolao Bay, Northern Marianas Islands livelihoods for fishermen in the The Coral Reef Alliance Bazaruto Archipelago to minimize Work with local partners to develop Coral Reef Sustainable Destination pressure on dugong populations. a social marketing campaign for the Model: Advancing Resilience in $85,000 Commonwealth of the Northern Kubulau, Fiji Mariana Islands to promote the Grzimek’s Help for Wildlife, Inc. Improve the management and conservation of coral in Laolao Bay. Black Rhino Translocation from financial capacity of the Kubulau $85,500 South Africa to Tanzania Management Resource Committee Wildlife Conservation Society Translocate 32 black rhinos from in Fiji so that they will be fully Campaign Against Illegal South Africa to the Serengeti autonomous in monitoring Wildlife Trade in Laos National Park in Tanzania. The the reserve. translocated rhinos will eventually $55,000 Promote wildlife conservation connect the three rhino population over wildlife trade. Project will use Coastal Conservation and areas in Tanzania resulting in the a variety of media to send strong Education Foundation, Inc. largest free-range population of messages about the illegality of Reef Ecosystems Improvement wildlife trade and the benefits of Eastern black rhinos in the wild. through Effective Fisheries $565,000 conservation to both domestic and Governance regional audiences, utilizing the Wildlife Trust, Inc. Address issues of overfishing and opportunity presented by the 25th Status and Conservation of the rapid degradation of coastal Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane. West African Manatee ecosystems which threaten fish stocks $14,970 Identify collaborators from every in Central Philippines with collapse. Wildlife Conservation Society country in which the West African Project will improve coral cover and Capacity-building for manatee occurs, build and train a reef fisheries thru Marine Protected Area networking and ecosystem- HarimauKita, the Indonesian network for manatee research, and Tiger Conservation Forum analyze genetic samples throughout based fisheries management tools. Strengthen the institutional capacity the species range. $75,000 of the HarimauKita Forum to enable $50,000 Department of Wildlife and it to become the leading independent Biodiversity, Cambodia national focal-point for promoting Asia, India and Cambodia National Tiger Action Plan the conservation of tigers in the Pacific Restore and conserve at least one Indonesia. Botanic Gardens Conservation source site large enough to hold $75,000 International (U.S.), Inc. 25 breeding females. The project will Ex Situ Conservation of develop a strategy and plan endorsed Canada Four Imperiled Oak Species by the national government and Credit River Anglers Association Safeguard genetically diverse living international donors. Norval Dam Fish Ladder in Ontario collections of imperiled oak species $30,000 from climate change and disease Work with the Ontario Ministry of threats. Project will work with the Kevin Layne Rhodes Natural Resources to construct a U.S. Forest Service and botanic Improving Stakeholder Awareness for fish ladder to pass Atlantic salmon, gardens in the United States and Fisheries Management in Micronesia American eel, salmon, and trout. Australia to collect material from Conduct stakeholder awareness Project will work towards achieving populations of four species of seminars and workshops to enable fisheries management plan objectives. imperiled oak and develop participatory development and $60,000 propagation protocols. implementation of a comprehensive $15,000 fisheries management plan in Pohnpei. $39,850 43

Elgin Stewardship Council Wildlife Management Institute Equilibrio Azul Habitat Restoration Along Brock Recovery of Eastern Shrubland- Hawksbill Conservation in Creek in Ontario Dependent Birds - II Coastal Ecuador Work with a private landowner, to Restore populations of shrubland Apply research techniques to increase restore and conserve natural habitat dependent birds through a program knowledge about the distribution, on property along Brock Creek, a of technical assistance and land habitat preference, threats, and cold water tributary to Lake Erie. management activities on public migratory paths of hawksbill turtles Project will involve the community and private lands. along the coast of Ecuador. in the restoration of 105 acres of $265,706 $35,000 marginal farm land. $35,000 Latin America Fauna & Flora International, Inc. and the Carribean Hawksbill Conservation along Hamilton Port Authority Pacific Nicaragua American Bird Conservancy Lake Herring and Lake Whitefish Establish a sea turtle conservation Priority Seabird Conservation Spawning Shoal Restoration in project at Estero Padre Ramos in Lake Ontario Protect priority seabirds on their Nicaragua. Project will identify Establish a spawning shoal for breeding islands and at sea, reducing additional priority conservation areas herring and whitefish in western the impacts of invasive species, and raise awareness of eastern Pacific Lake Ontario. Project will grade an habitat loss, fisheries bycatch, and hawksbill turtles in Nicaragua. artificial rock island and extend the a range of other threats. $45,115 shoal with additional rock and $173,000 cobble. Fauna & Flora International, Inc. Caribbean Conservation $150,000 Leatherback Conservation on the Corporation, Inc. Pacific Coast of Nicaragua Hawksbill and Leatherback Mingan Island Cetacean Study, Inc. Research and Recovery in Panama Conserve critically endangered Risks and Impacts of Crab Fishing leatherback turtles on the three of Recover key hawksbill and Gear on Minke Whales the most important nesting beaches leatherback nesting populations on Investigate risks to minke whales on Nicaragua’s Pacific Coast during the Caribbean coast of Panama, foraging near crab fishing gear in two nesting seasons. Project will through monitoring and conservation shallow water. Project will test for create a conservation program at the conducted in partnership with behavioral and acoustic responses new Salamina beach. indigenous communities from whales that approach and $50,310 feed near ropes. $20,000 $65,000 Forest Trends Association Cornell University Payment for Ecosystem Services Golden-Winged Warbler Stewardship Network to Finance Marine Protected Areas Conservation Initiative – IV Field Workshop Kit for the Develop a demonstration project Complete a comprehensive Great Lakes Region testing the applicability of marine Golden-winged Warbler conservation Develop and distribute Field payment for ecosystem services in plan, enabling land managers to Workshop Kits which will enable San Andres Archipelago as a target habitat prescriptions that will sponsors and practitioners of sustainable financing mechanism for benefit the Golden-winged Warbler in-the-field workshops and workdays Marine Protected Area management. and early successional species on to quickly and effectively plan and $50,000 host science-based events. breeding and wintering grounds. $15,000 $168,310 Fundación Zoológica de El Salvador Hawksbill Conservation in Trout Unlimited, Inc. Cornell University Los Cobanos Marine Protected Area Improving Escapement Management Golden-Winged Warbler of El Salvador Conservation Initiative – IV for Salmon Recovery Work towards the recovery of Develop a model approach for Complete a comprehensive hawksbill turtles in the eastern establishing science-based Pacific Golden-winged Warbler conservation Pacific. Project activities will include salmon and steelhead escapement plan, enabling land managers to the establishment of hawksbill goals, which are essential to sound target habitat prescriptions that will hatcheries, implementation of an fishery management and the success benefit the Golden-winged Warbler education campaign, local workshops of restoration efforts. and early successional species on and training sessions, and charac­ $59,960 breeding and wintering grounds. terization of nesting hawksbills. $168,310 $35,182 International 44

Gladys Porter Zoo Sustainable Grenadines Inc. National Fish and Monitoring Post-nesting Movements Strengthening Reef Management Wildlife Foundation IDEA of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles in the Grenada Bank Project Commitments Attach fifteen satellite transmitters Build reef management capacity in NFWF’s IDEA program receives, to post-nesting Kemp’s Ridley sea the Grenada Bank by strengthening manages, and disburses funds turtles in order to assess turtle networking, monitoring and that originate from court orders, movement in relation to the current evaluation, and decision-making settlements of legal cases, regulatory oil spill. for sustained marine and coastal permits, licenses, and restoration $60,181 conservation. and mitigation plans. Through the $70,000 IDEA program, the Foundation acts Grupo Tortuguero de las as a neutral third-party fiduciary Californias, AC United Nations Environment to governmental entities and others Implementing Loggerhead Turtle Program — Caribbean Environment to manage funds for specific Bycatch Reduction Solutions Program conservation purposes. Reduce or eliminate bycatch of Improving Capacity in the Wider Caribbean Region loggerheads in offshore fleet by Alaska substituting zero bycatch hook for Create a responsible and sustainable Alaska Maritime Nationa l gillnet fishing and facilitating market marine mammal watching industry Wildlife Refuge linkages for sustainably caught fish. which serves as a contributor to Kittlitz’s Murrelet Nest Site $108,050 the collection of scientific data and Selection and Nest Survival development of a scientific web- Island Conservation based database. Gather information to aid in the Restoring Seabird Populations by $78,515 recovery of the Kittlitz’s Murrelet. Removing Invasive Species $15,600, Federal Criminal Case Initiate planning and feasibility WIDECAST: Wider Caribbean Sea Bureau of Land Management studies for non-native mammal Turtle Conservation Network, Inc. Pacific Hawksbill Assessment on Avian Habitat and Nesting Use in the eradication on Navassa Island in the Northeast National Petroleum Reserve Caribbean and the Juan Fernandez the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica Determine the habitat use and Islands and Isla Mocha in Chile. Address threats to hawksbill turtles nesting patterns of tundra birds at $352,628 on the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. Project will protect nests against two sites in the National Petroleum Manomet, Inc. erosion, predation, and poaching, Reserve in Alaska and compare with Recovering Rufa Red Knots and evaluate the magnitude of other similar data obtained from oilfields. Employ science-driven, site-based impacts like bycatch, pollution and Project will guide the Bureau of conservation and rigorous success development of coast. Land Management’s management measures to recover the populations $20,000 of these habitats. of the Rufa subspecies of Red Knots. $43,882, Federal Criminal Case $314,713 Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST) Copper River Watershed Project Pro Delphinus Nest Protection of Southeast Eccles Creek Enhancement: Gillnet Impact Assessment and Caribbean Sea Turtles Building Coalitions for Salmonids Mitigation from Ecuador to Chile Protect gravid leatherbacks and their Replace the Eccles Creek & Whiskey Assess the types of gillnets operating eggs at four critical nesting grounds Creek culverts to improve salmonid at index ports in Ecuador and Chile in the Caribbean bi-national area access to spawning / rearing habitat. and their threat to turtles. Project will between Costa Rica and Panama. $100,000, Federal Criminal Case test mitigation measures to reduce Project will work with communities, Marine Exchange of Alaska NGOs, and government agencies turtle bycatch in gillnets in Peru. Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment— $42,005 from both countries in carrying out AIS Data activities to reduce the threats facing Provide AIS Data for the risk Southern Environmental Association nesting and foraging sea turtles in assessment. Improving Management of this area. $28,500, Federal Criminal Case Marine Protected Areas in Belize $25,000 Improve management of three Nuka Research and Planning marine protected areas in southern Mexico Group Inc. Belize by increasing coordination The Nature Conservancy Vessel Source Pollution Prevention between the enforcement and Grassland and Riparian Restoration Fund: Aleutian Island Risk Assessment science programs to support adaptive in Mexico’s San Pedro Basin Support the Aleutian Islands Risk management. Improve habitat for grassland sparrows Assessment advisory panel in $85,450 and prairie dogs through grassland and riparian habitat restoration. $200,000 IDEA 45

convening to collect local knowledge California Department of Ducks Unlimited, Inc. and expertise on issues pertinent to Fish and Game Eden Landing Salt Ponds Tidal the risk assessment. Sierra Resources Mitigation Account Wetland Restoration Project $28,500, Federal Criminal Case Replace, enhance or restore natural Restore 630 acres of tidal marsh resources impacted at Summit along San Francisco Bay by Prince William Sound Science and Creek by the Santa Fe Pacific re-establishing tidal flow to former Technology Institute Pipeline oil spill. salt ponds within the the Eden Montague Island: Critical Surfbird $3,287, State Civil Case Landing Ecological Reserve. and Black Turnstone Stopover $580,000, Federal Criminal Case Document population, distribution, California Waterfowl Association foraging and roosting sites, and YBWA Glide Ranch Tidal Ducks Unlimited, Inc. conservation needs of migrant Restoration Project Dwarf Eelgrass Eradication Project shorebirds. Project will inform oil Restore 750 acres of leveled irrigated Eradicate multiple dwarf eelgrass spill contingency planning and pasture to a diversified palustrine infestations on the northern guide resource managers. emergent marsh with an associated California coast, which threaten $40,897, Federal Criminal Case upland buffer at the Yolo Bypass feeding grounds for migratory Wildlife Area. shorebirds. Transportation Research Board $33,300, State Civil Case $40,294, Federal Criminal Case of the National Academies Peer Review Panel Facilitator California State University Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Facilitate the activities of the Long Beach Foundation Lake Earl Western Grebe Project Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment Collaboration with EPA Install fencing to reduce disturbance Peer Review Panel Remedial Investigations — to nesting grebes, install kiosks $48,700, Federal Criminal Case Barred Sandbass Tracking to inform the public about the Conduct research to better under­ sensitivity­ of nesting western U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - stand where on the Palos Verdes grebes, and monitor nest success Alaska Maritime NWR Shelf the Barred Sandbass is being and disturbances to nesting. M/V Citrus Oil Spill Damage contaminated with DDT/PCBs. $81,767, Federal Civil Case Restoration Plan $15,687, Federal Civil Case Support completion of the oil spill Earth Island Institute, Inc. damage restoration plan for the Carter Biological Consulting Lion Creek Project, M/V Citrus oil spill. Channel Islands Seabird Surveys – III Ventura River Watershed $19,328, Federal Criminal Case Conduct various seabird surveys in Restore approximately 9.5 miles of support of the Montrose seabird steelhead habitat along Lion Creek California restoration projects on the in the Ventura River watershed. American Rivers, Inc. Channel Islands. Project removes an existing concrete San Gregorio Creek Watershed: $114,223, Federal Civil Case culvert and installs a bridge and Filling Critical Flow Needs native vegetation. Conservation Biology Institute Support collaborative project to $104,883, Federal Criminal Case California Desert Renewable implement an innovative approach to Energy Conservation Plan securing instream flows for aquatic Ebbin Moser and Skaggs, LLP habitat through water transfers. Provide services as facilitator and California Desert Renewable lead advisor for the California Energy Conservation Plan $38,000, Federal Criminal Case Desert Renewable Energy Provide services as policy strategic Bolsa Chica Land Trust Conservation Plan. advisors for the California Desert CPR (Community Promoted $96,700, Mitigation Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. Restoration) for Bolsa Chica $75,000, Mitigation Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee Implement an on-the-ground Desert Tortoise Habitat collaborative habitat restoration plan Golden Gate National Parks Restoration Project for Bolsa Chica. Project uses Conservancy Redwood Creek Restoration at sustainable innovative strategies for Support habitat improvements on Muir Beach natural resource management and to a 30-acre tract of land in San Joaquin encourage public participation. County for the benefit of desert Restore in-stream habitat for Coho tortoise. $77,233, Federal Criminal Case salmon and steelhead trout, and $7,100, State Civil Case breeding habitat for the California red-legged frog. Engage local community through volunteer steward- ship, education, and youth programs. $48,000, Federal Criminal Case IDEA 46

Growing Solutions Restoration Leslie Warren PavementMSRP Educational Education Institute Warren Property Riparian Kiosk Displays Channel Islands Seabird RestorationPrevent further dewatering Create educational kiosks related to Habitat Restoration Work in the large wetland on the Warren providing public information to restore Provide periodic consultation on Property by placing four dams and lost fishing services in California. nursery planning and infrastructure, two berms within the wetlands. $215,010, Federal Civil Case and work with Channel Islands $35,910, Mitigation National Park to provide a volunteer Pomona College group in fall 2010 for outplanting Literacy For Environmental Justice Seabird Prey and Oceanographic efforts on Santa Barbara Island. Heron’s Head Park Restoration Conditions – II $9,706, Federal Civil Case Continue habitat enhancement, Assess seabird prey and oceano­ ­ maintenance and monitoring of an graphic conditions surrounding Hidden Valley Community Association 8-acre wetland restoration project Santa Barbara Island. Miner’s Ravine Restoration at Heron’s Head Park. $43,175, Federal Civil Case Support the re-establishment of $69,112, Federal Civil Case the natural stream corridor of Miner Recon, Environmental Inc. Ravine through the Hidden Valley Mid Klamath Watershed Council San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Fund Estates subdivision in Granite Bay. Seiad Creek Off-Channel Pond $28,000, State Civil Case Habitat Construction Restore the habitat at the Otay This project involves a series of Tarplant Preserve by planting native Humboldt State University activities designed to create or plant species appropriate to the soil, Sponsored Programs Foundation improve existing off-channel Coho climate, topography and geography Myxozoan Fish Disease salmon habitat along Seiad Creek. of the preserve. Research and Monitoring — $37,850, Settlement $53,626, Mitigation Humboldt State University Provide quantification of water The Nature Conservancy Regents of the University of hydraulics and sediment compositions­ Habitat Enhancement/Restoration California — Davis that are likely to produce mortality Benefitting Listed Species Sea Otter Health and Recovery: Public Outreach II of polychaetes to inform sediment Treat 428 populations of 17 species augmentation and flow manipulations of habitat-modifying weeds on Expand and improve public outreach experimental control actions. the portion of Santa Cruz Island to encourage political, social and $101,803, Mitigation owned and managed by The Nature infrastructure changes needed to Conservancy to improve habitat address pollution and issues that Karuk Tribe for 12 island endemic species. are impeding sea otter recovery. Myxozoan Fish Disease Research $104,883, Federal Criminal Case $81,008, Federal Civil Case and Monitoring — Karuk Tribe Measure the fish species-specific Oikonos — Ecosystem Knowledge Sacramento Valley Conservancy genotypes of myxozoan diseases Ano Nuevo Island Seabird Cumming Stahos Riparian Restoration in adult salmonids and in the water Habitat Restoration Acquire 43 acres of land adjacent column at appropriate temporal Increase the number of breeding to the Deer Creek Hills Oak and spatial scales including both Rhinoceros Auklets on Ano Nuevo Woodland Preserve. actinospores and myxospores. Island by restoring and creating $335,357, Mitigation $42,338, Settlement quality breeding habitat. San Bernardino County Tax Collector $402,706, Federal Civil Case Karuk Tribe Delhi Sands Flower Loving Seiad Creek Channel Restoration Oregon State University Fly Conservation Fund and Habitat Enhancement – Phase 1 Myxozoan Fish Disease Research and Provide ongoing maintenance to Work with key landowners along Monitoring — Oregon State University land in San Bernardino County Seiad Creek, a tributary of the Measure the distribution and relative containing Delhi Sands Flower- Klamath River identified for high density of polychaetes at established loving Fly habitat. densities of spawning and rearing index sites with greater spatial coverage $7,859, Mitigation Coho, to conduct necessary planning (cross sectional and longitudinal) to Santa Monica Bay and permitting for Phase One of include different polychaete habitat Restoration Foundation a large-scale channel restoration types; and measure the fish species- Kelp Forest Restoration Baseline and habitat enhancement project specific genotypes of myxozoan Monitoring and Project Development located on the Durazo Property. diseases in adult salmonids and in the $100,000, Settlement water column at appropriate temporal Monitor rocky reef habitats off of and spatial scales including both Malibu and Palos Verdes to reference actinospores and myxospores. site deification and baseline $88,269, Settlement 47

monitoring, and to develop an USDA Forest Service Delaware outreach program so that Montrose Leland Watershed Improvement Project Delaware Riverkeeper Network Settlement Restoration Program Assist in restoring hydrologic Restoration Assistance for the trustees can fully evaluate the function at Fiddlers Green Meadow. Delaware Estuary current, ongoing project. $30,000, Mitigation Host an intensive workshop and $99,733, Federal Civil Case provide technical assistance to Westervelt Ecological Services project-ready municipalities in the Simon Fraser University Consumnes Bank Payment Delaware Estuary. Project aims to Channel Islands Ashy Storm- Purchase 9 floodplain mosaic Petrel Studies maximize ecological benefits and re-establishment wetland credits encourage long-term monitoring Investigate the behavioral effects from the Cosumnes Mitigation and management. associated with the use of social Bank in Sacramento County. $49,872, Federal Criminal Case attraction techniques on the Ashy $1,117,000, Mitigation Storm-Petrel colony at Orizaba Rock The Nature Conservancy near Santa Cruz Island to evaluate Westervelt Ecological Services Delaware River Basin Riverine and the degree of restoration success, and Van Vleck Ranch Bank Payment Wetland Areas Prioritization to develop recommendations for Purchase 2 vernal pool credits from Work with partners to identify other locations. the Van Vleck Ranch Mitigation priority places to protect or restore $29,122, Federal Civil Case Bank in Sacramento County. riverine habitats across the entire $585,750, Mitigation Siskiyou Resource Delaware River Basin. $396,016, Federal Criminal Case Conservation District Yurok Tribe Denny Ditch Fish Screen Myxozoan Fish Disease New Castle Conservation District Design and Build Research and Monitoring — Restoration of Naamans Creek at Design and install a fish screen Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program Harvey Mill Park Stream on the Denny Ditch. Measure the distribution and relative Stabilize approximately 450 feet of an $145,389, Mitigation density of polychaetes at established actively eroding and highly degraded index sites with greater spatial coverage stream located in New Castle Siskiyou Resource (cross sectional and longitudinal)­ to Conservation District County, Delaware. Project includes include different polychaete habitat stream realignment, step morphology, Fish Passage in the Scott River – types; measure how polychaete Shackleford Creek and Etna Creek placement of rock J hook, cross vane relative density, population structure, Re-profile the Shackleford Creek construction, and overall enhance­ and infection prevalence change on ment of aquatic, wetland, riparian, and Etna Creek diversion ditches to an annual cycle; and measure the fish eliminate diversion structures which and upland habitats. species-specific genotypes of myxozoan $50,000, Federal Criminal Case are current fish passage barriers diseases in adult salmonids and in the during seasonal low-flow periods. water column at appropriate temporal District of Columbia $160,000, Settlement and spatial scales including both actinospores and myxospores. Alice Ferguson Foundation University of California — Santa Cruz Trash-Free Potomac $88,573, Settlement Sea Otter Health and Recovery: Watershed Initiative Public Outreach I Colorado Continue efforts to achieve a Develop an informational exhibit trash-free Potomac River watershed. Cal Poly Corporation kiosk inside the University of Project will include an annual State of Colorado Agreement — California, Santa Cruz’s Seymour Potomac Watershed Cleanup and San Juan Fish Recovery Program Fund Marine Discovery Center public Trash Summit, anti-litter public visitor hall and a series of public Provide modeling and develop education campaign, litter enforce­ informational meetings focused on automation control on the Hogback ment week, Trash Free Facilities the challenges facing sea otters. Fish Barrier as part of a larger effort Program, engagement of elected $38,000, Federal Civil Case to aid in the recovery of endangered official through the Potomac Trash fish on the San Juan River. Treaty, and progress monitoring Urban Wildlands Group, Inc. $42,323, Mitigation through Visible Trash Surveys. Lange’s Metalmark Butterfly $37,500, State Criminal Case Captive Breeding Rearing Project The Phillips Studio Continue captive rearing of the Upper Colorado Fish Recovery Lange’s metalmark butterfly for Program Fund the 2010 and 2011 season. Provide funding for Upper $55,000, Species Recovery Funds Colorado Fish Recovery Program outreach materials. $3,928, Mitigation IDEA 48

National Association of Gulf of Maine Research Institute Maine Council of the Gateway Communities Alewife Stock Structure in the Atlantic Salmon Federation Anne Beers Elementary School Gulf of Maine Sea-Run Fish Restoration in Tree Planting Quantify and define alewife stock Blackman Stream Plant 15 mature willow oak and structure in coastal Maine watersheds. Construct a 200-foot long rock/pool sycamore trees at Anne Beers Evaluate potential impact of high- fishway at a dam on Blackman Elementary School in Washington, mortality events (bycatch, oil spills) Stream in the Penobscot watershed. DC. Project will reduce stormwater on these stocks in the Gulf of Maine. $18,500, Federal Criminal Case runoff to the Anacostia River and $275,712, Federal Criminal Case provide educational opportunities for Maine Department of the school’s outdoor science classroom. Gulf of Maine Research Institute Marine Resources $15,000, State Criminal Case Applying an Environmental Bycatch Survey of the Atlantic Management System to Reduce Herring Bottom Trawl Fishery Florida Bycatch and Improve Fishery Outcomes Use At Sea Observers to document Apply an Environmental Manage­ bycatch in the small mesh bottom Sanctuaries, Refuges, and trawl fishery targeting Atlantic herring. Parks of the FL Keys ment System to build a new trawl, $226,996, Hammer Restitution Fund reduce bycatch, demonstrate positive Federal Criminal Case environmental stewardship, achieve Provide equipment to aid in the economic security, and rebuild Penobscot River Restoration Trust location, identification, and coastal communities. Veazie Dam Removal Final abatement of resource violations. Engineering Design Work $194,127, Federal Criminal Case $7,827, Federal Criminal Case Finalize engineering design work for Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation Veazie Dam removal in order to restore Maine Derelict Lobster Gear Retrieval, access to historic habitat for native Environmental Defense Fund, Inc. Salvage & Disposal migratory sea-run fish through the Incentive-Based Tools to Restore With the assistance of volunteer Penobscot River Restoration Project. River Herring in Maine lobstermen, retrieve thousands of $225,000, Federal Criminal Case Conduct research, technical analyses, derelict lobster traps in a 2-year and outreach to develop a catch share phased effort for 2 days at 7 sites off State of Maine, system to manage bycatch mortality the Maine coast. Gear will be sorted Department of Marine Resources Kennebec River of the Atlantic herring fishery, which and recycled or burned for energy. is severely impacting river herring. $200,000, Federal Criminal Case Restore anadromous and catadromous $69,614, Federal Criminal Case fisheries to the Kennebec River. Maine Audubon Society This project also aids in the removal Friends of Casco Bay Restoring Piping Plover and of Edwards Dam. Friends of Casco Bay’s Least Tern Populations in Maine $171,509 , State Criminal Case Marine Education Campaign Develop and implement an integrated Support Friends of Casco Bay’s Marine predator management plan for piping Tufts University Education Campaign, a multi-faceted plovers on key nesting beaches in Beached Bird Surveys: A Baseline for Oil Spills in Maine outreach effort to educate coastal Maine. Project also involves outreach residents, boaters, and students about efforts to reduce community Use beached bird surveys to quantify marine stewardship with the goal of disturbance to nesting areas. baseline rates of seabird mortality, protecting the bay. $72,465, Federal Criminal Case do necropsies to identify causes of $34,000, Federal Criminal Case baseline mortality, and forge key Maine Coast Heritage Trust partnerships to sustain consistent Friends of Scarborough Marsh Bunganuc Point — Maquoit Bay monitoring in Maine. Gervais Farm Conservation Project: Conserve 2,200 feet of shoreline and $75,870, Federal Criminal Case Scarborough, Maine 72 acres of wetland and upland buffer Acquire a 45-acre parcel of upland/ habitat, including prime waterfowl Maryland wetland habitat to be incorporated and wading bird habitat. Alice Ferguson Foundation into the 3100-acre Scarborough $100,000, Federal Criminal Case Trash-Free Potomac Marsh Wildlife Management Area. Watershed Initiative Maine Coast Heritage Trust $65,000, Federal Criminal Case Continue efforts to achieve a Adding Compass Island to National Wildlife Refuge trash-free Potomac River watershed. Project will include an annual Acquire a coastal, nationally Potomac Watershed Cleanup and significant, seabird nesting island, Trash Summit, anti-litter public for the Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge. $225,000, Federal Criminal Case 49

education campaign, litter enforce­ Spa Creek Conservancy, Inc. sandbar /island habitat. Project also ment week, Trash Free Facilities St. Martin’s Stormwater Retrofit restores riverine roosting habitat for Program, engagement of elected Implement best practices for whooping and sandhill cranes, and official through the Potomac Trash stormwater management at nesting and foraging habitat for least Treaty, and progress monitoring St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in terns and piping plovers. through Visible Trash Surveys. Annapolis, Maryland. Project will $22,812, Mitigation $37,500, State Criminal Case design and install rain gardens and bioretention cells to treat approximately Nevada Alliance for Community Education ninety percent of runoff from Various Recipients Manhattan Beach Stormwater 2 acres of impervious surfaces. Nevada National Wildlife Refuge Restoration $109,240, Federal Criminal Case Land and Water Acquisition Fund Work with residents of Manhattan Acquire replacement lands, waters Beach, Maryland to replace three Massachusetts or interests in lands or waters for acres of impervious road surface with Maine Department of National Wildlife Refuges in the a regenerative stormwater system. Marine Resources State of Nevada. Project will conduct community Bycatch Survey of the Atlantic $2,039,895, Mitigation outreach and education, engage Herring Bottom Trawl Fishery volunteers, plant a magnolia bog, New Hampshire monitor water quality, and reduce the Use At Sea Observers to document amount of runoff pollution entering bycatch in the small mesh bottom Maine Department of the Magothy River. trawl fishery targeting Atlantic herring. Marine Resources $226,996, Federal Criminal Case $17,944, Federal Criminal Case Bycatch Survey of the Atlantic Herring Bottom Trawl Fishery University of Massachusetts Sassafras River Association, Inc. Use At Sea Observers to document River Herring Bycatch Avoidance Sassafras River Watershed bycatch in the small mesh bottom In Small Mesh Fisheries Action Plan trawl fishery targeting Atlantic herring. Reduce river herring bycatch in Develop a comprehensive restoration $226,996, Federal Criminal Case plan for the Sassafras River and the herring and mackerel fisheries off the New Jersey coast. educate local communities about best New Jersey $117,500, Federal Criminal Case practices for nutrient management. BoatU.S. Foundation for Collaborate with landowners to Missouri Boating Safety and Clean Water achieve the equivalent of 100 septic Clean Boating Online Course Various Recipients system upgrades, control nutrient Develop an online education course Ready Fish Prosecution Fund runoff from 100 acres of residential teaching boaters about ways to lawns, plant 5,000 acres of cover Provide equipment and resources to minimize the impacts of their boating crops, and reduce annual pollutant aid in commercial fisheries enforce­ activities on the environment. loads to the river by approximately ment on the Mississippi River. $75,000, Federal Criminal Case 23,981 pounds of total nitrogen and $23,942, Federal Criminal Case 2,739 pounds of total phosphorus. BoatU.S. Foundation for $100,000, Federal Criminal Case Montana Boating Safety and Clean Water Montana State University Marina Spill Prevention and Savage River Watershed Demography of Montana HAZMAT First Responders Training Association, Inc. Golden Eagles with Emphasis Equip New Jersey marina personnel Savage River Fish Barrier Removal on Age Specific Survival with the tools and training necessary Restore natural stream conditions to Provide vital rate estimates for to quickly and appropriately respond a 1,000-foot reach of the Savage inclusion in the Hunt model and to fuel and oil spills in or near their River, a native brook trout fishery in information on ecological events that marinas. Garrett County, Maryland. Project drive those rates, which will be used $178,000, Federal Criminal Case will open 2.5 stream miles to fish to support the decisions for managing migration, construct in-stream habitat Golden Eagles in the western U.S. Conserve Wildlife Foundation structures, decrease water temperature, of New Jersey, Inc. $168,932, Federal Criminal Case and stabilize the riparian zone by Protecting Shorebirds with Stewards planting buffers and converting an on the Delaware Bayshore Nebraska existing reservoir into a wetland. Deploy Shorebird Stewards to nine $22,816.0, Federal Criminal Case Cook Construction area beaches on the Delaware Bay to Platte River Recovery Fund protect beach closings and educate Restore riverine habitat along the the public about the importance of central Platte River in Nebraska by minimizing disturbance to shorebirds. removing undesirable vegetation $50,000, Federal Criminal Case from 6 miles of river channel and IDEA 50

Conserve Wildlife Foundation Musconetcong Watershed New Jersey Audubon Society of New Jersey Association Migrant Shorebird Surveys in NJ: Southern New Jersey American Removal of Riegelsville Dam A Citizen Science Approach Oystercatcher Conservation Remove the Riegelsville Dam. Through the New Jersey Audubon Hire a monitor to increase protection The structure consists of a remnant Citizen Science program, recruit and during the breeding season and timber crib foundation that extends train volunteers, and continue and gather fall use data. Information above normal water levels and expand existing shorebird surveys will be used to develop management spans the width of the channel. along the coast of New Jersey and plans, predator strategies, and $50,000, Federal Criminal Case the Hackensack Meadowlands. regulatory measures. $47,125, Federal Criminal Case $30,000, Federal Criminal Case National Park Service Removal of Marine Debris from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service D&R Greenway Land Trust, Inc. North Beach, Sandy Hook Debris Removal on the Edwin B. Ecological Restoration at Collect and dispose of 90-120 cubic Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge Cadwalader Park yards of non-hazardous stranded Remove debris along upper edge of Restore a degraded urban tributary marine debris from a beach-dune tidal marsh north of Mott’s Creek of the Delaware River and its riparian habitat. The beach is critical to beach- Road on the Edwin B. Forsythe buffers to improve water quality, nesting birds and other waterbirds. National Wildlife Refuge. increase floodwater storage and $46,000, Federal Criminal Case $29,500, Federal Criminal Case biodiversity, and provide environ­ mental education. The Nature Conservancy New Mexico Delaware River Basin Riverine and $33,750, Federal Criminal Case Keller-Bliesner Engineering Wetland Areas Prioritization Block 3 Fish Rearing Pond Delaware Riverkeeper Work with partners to identify Improvements NetworkRestoration priority places to protect or restore Focus on the design and construction Assistance for the Delaware Estuary riverine habitats across the entire supervision of the installation of Host an intensive workshop Delaware River Basin. gravel access ramps to the harvest and provide technical assistance to $396,016, Federal Criminal Case kettles of Hidden Pond and West project-ready municipalities in the Avocet Pond located on the Navajo Delaware Estuary. Project aims to New Jersey Marine Sciences Indian Irrigation Project, south of maximize ecological benefits and Consortium Farmington. encourage long-term monitoring Vessel Wash Wastewater Systems $10,897, and management. Provide funding to marinas to Mitigation $49,872, Federal Criminal Case purchase and install vessel wash wastewater systems. The systems New York Duke University will prevent wastewater from entering American Littoral Society Determining the Origins of the water and harming aquatic life. Jamaica Bay Debris Removal & River Herring Bycatch $130,000, Federal Criminal Case Marsh Restoration Determine the natal origins Remove large debris from Jamaica of river herring bycatch using a New Jersey Audubon Society Bay through CleanSweep program to combination of molecular genetic Clean Cape May’s Marine and allow marsh grass to regenerate, and otolith geochemical markers. Coastal Habitats benefit water quality, and provide $117,489, Federal Criminal Case Remove marine debris and improve enhanced habitat for birds, coastal habitats in Cape May Harbor diamondback terrapins, and fish. Georgian Court University and adjacent wetlands. Enhance $40,990, State Civil Case Asiatic Sand Sedge Eradication and community involvement through Native Dune Restoration a five-tiered education approach. Bronx River Alliance, Inc. Remove invasive Asiatic sand sedge $39,999, Federal Criminal Case Muskrat Cove Pipe Remediation and and restore critical habitat for Streambank Restoration threatened and endangered species in New Jersey Audubon Society Remediate the ecological damage coastal dune systems in Monmouth Importance of Soft-Sediment caused by excessive flows from a and Ocean County, New Jersey. Habitat to Migrating Shorebirds stormwater discharge pipe and restore $40,000, Federal Criminal Case Assess importance of soft-sediment the damaged streambanks. habitat for migratory shorebirds in $148,569, State Criminal Case Deleware Bay by evaluating food resources and their contribution to energy accumulation. Project identifies impoundment management as a target outcome. $40,000, Federal Criminal Case 51

Cooper Environmental Research The Point Community Thousand Islands Land Trust Effect of Dam Removal on Aquatic Development Corporation Crooked Creek — Butterfield Communities in the Salmon River The South Bronx Community Marsh Land Acquisition Study the effects of the Fort Green Roof Project Through the acquisition of the Covington Dam removal on aquatic Install a community green roof 354 acre Butterfield Marsh property, communities in the Salmon River. on a facility in the South Bronx to permanently preserve 9,500 linear $99,440, Mitigation help reduce stormwater outfalls feet of emergent wetlands. This will and improve water quality and river be added to the Thousand Islands GrowNYC ecology along the Bronx River. Land Trust — Crooked Creek Rainwater Harvesting Systems in $149,793, State Criminal Case Preserve which protects over 4 miles Community Gardens of emergent wetlands currently Install rainwater harvesting systems Raritan Baykeeper, Inc. protected by the 1,200 acre preserve. in five community gardens within Jamaica Bay Pumpout Boat $262,000, Mitigation the watershed. The impact of the Program – II systems will be monitored by area Continue to provide free pump out Town of Eastchester, New York high school students. services and provide educational Water Quality Improvements $61,694, State Criminal Case information to recreational boaters in Eastchester, NY, Highway Garage the Jamaica Bay area of New York. Installation of Structural Best Nassau County, New York $79,217, State Civil Case Management Practices to capture Water Pollution Control Plan pollutants generated from the Consolidation The Research Foundation of Eastchester, NY Highway Garage Prepare a design to allow State University of New York site, located on Burnham Road, consolidation of infrastructure and Impacts of Oyster Restoration Eastchester, New York, and eliminate on Jamaica Bay Water Quality take the Cedarhurst Water Pollution their migrating to the Bronx River Control Plant offline. Measure oyster feeding / physiological $169,550, State Criminal Case $200,154, Federal Criminal Case rates in Jamaica Bay waters to parameterize a model of the impacts Town of Fort Covington The Nature Conservancy of restored oyster populations on Salmon River Restoration: Delaware River Basin Riverine and the bay’s water quality. Post-Dam Removal Activities Wetland Areas Prioritization $142,416, State Civil Case Assist the Town of Fort Covington in Work with partners to identify meeting the unanticipated financial priority places to protect or restore The Research Foundation of expenses associated with the removal riverine habitats across the entire State University of New York of the Fort Covington Dam. The Effects of Nutrients on Delaware River Basin. $55,000, Mitigation $396,016, Federal Criminal Case Algae in Jamaica Bay Establish the spatial and temporal Various Recipients New York Botanical Garden dynamics of algal communities in St. Lawrence Fish Mitigation The Stone Mill Landscape: Jamaica Bay, the effects of nutrients and Research Fund Stormwater Retrofit Project on the biomass, species composition Provide funding for research and Treat storm water from existing and oxygen demand of these fish passage projects designed to outflows along the east shoreline of communities. support the protection, mitigation, the Bronx River in the vicinity of $171,064, State Civil Case and enhancement of fish in the The Lillian and Amy Goldman St. Lawrence River. Rockaway Waterfront Alliance, Inc. Stone Mill and Stone Mill Bridge $320,289, Mitigation $349,599, State Criminal Case Rockaway Marine Conservation Corps Program Village of Ardsley Norton Basin Edgemere Remove marine debris, restore oysters, Stormwater Best Management Stewardship Group and conduct restorative plantings at Ashford Park Restoration Norton Basin Migratory along the Rockaway shoreline. Implement stormwater management Bird Sanctuary $60,000, State Civil Case projects at Ashford Park, NY Safeguard wetland and adjacent (located on the Sprain Brook upland at Norton Basin of Jamaica tributary), such as installation of a Bay. Remove invasive species and porous pavement traffic circle and floatable debris, and maintain a walkway, a rain barrel with receiving natural buffer between Jamaica Bay rain garden, and native plant and the Edgemere community. landscaping to improve the site. $46,449, State Civil Case $51,086, State Criminal Case IDEA 52

Westchester County Grant Soil and Water McKenzie Watershed Alliance Department of Planning Conservation District Middle McKenzie Side Channel Bronx River Streambank Stabilization Murray and Kennedy Ditch Enhancement Project and Wetland Restoration Gravel Push-up Dam Elimination Enhance habitat for spring-run Stabilize and restore eroded stream-­ Replace two gravel push-up dams Chinook salmon and bull trout while bank, riparian buffer, and freshwater with two pump stations and convert creating a unique learning experience wetland to strengthen the embankment 173 acres to sprinkler irrigation. for local students. Outreach focuses of the Bronx River adjacent to the Improve water quality and flow, on initiating similar projects on Bronx River Parkway in the Bronx riparian health, and fish passage. private lands. River Parkway Reservation in $48,150, Federal Criminal Case $28,860, Federal Criminal Case White Plains, New York. $350,000, State Criminal Case Humboldt State University The Nature Conservancy Sponsored Programs Foundation Nehalem Watershed Oregon Myxozoan Fish Disease Conservation Planning Research and Monitoring — Conduct multi-stakeholder planning Benton Soil and Water Humboldt State University Conservation District process to guide conservation in the Provide quantification of water Oak Creek Landowner Recruitment Nehalem watershed, identifying for Riparian Restoration hydraulics and sediment composi­ ecologically important areas, threats, tions that are likely to produce measurable objectives and strategies Provide capacity to conduct mortality of polychaetes to inform for conservation watershed-wide outreach to sediment augmentation and flow $63,028, approximately 57 landowners Federal Criminal Case manipulations experimental in the Oak Creek watershed control actions. North Coast Land Conservancy, Inc. for riparian restoration. $101,803, Mitigation Thompson Creek Floodplain $41,388, Federal Criminal Case Restoration Karuk Tribe Cascade Pacific Resource Restore estuarine function by Myxozoan Fish Disease Conservation and Development reconnecting Thompson Creek to Research and Monitoring — Area, Inc. 30 acres of historic floodplain habitat. Karuk Tribe Fifteen Willamette Valley CREP $15,000, Federal Criminal Case Plans from Signup to CPO Measure the fish species-specific genotypes of myxozoan diseases Oregon State University Fill technical assistance gap in adult salmonids and in the water Myxozoan Fish Disease aimed at safeguarding current and column at appropriate temporal Research and Monitoring — future landowner interest in the and spatial scales including both Oregon State University Conservation Reserve Enhancement actinospores and myxospores. Measure the distribution and Program Plans. $42,338, Mitigation relative density of polychaetes at $45,000, Federal Criminal Case established index sites with greater Long Tom Watershed Council Columbia Land Trust spatial coverage (cross sectional and Bear & Ferguson Creek Fish Passage Youngs River Island Habitat Restoration longitudinal) to include different Project Development polychaete habitat types; and measure Restore 80 acres of intertidal wetland Utilize the Long Tom Watershed the fish species-specific genotypes habitat through a dike-breach, control Council’s 2009 fish passage inventory of myxozoan diseases in adult of invasive plants, and planting of to conduct targeted outreach and to salmonids and in the water column 4,750 native trees and shrubs. complete fish passage enhancement at appropriate temporal and spatial $37,000, Federal Criminal Case designs for priority sites in Bear and scales including both actinospores Eugene Water and Electric Board Ferguson Creeks. and myxospores. McKenzie Watershed Healthy $49,865, Federal Criminal Case $88,269, Mitigation Farms Clean Water Program Mary’s River Watershed Council Oregon State Police Conduct workshops with McKenzie Model Watershed Landowner Oregon State Police Fish and Watershed growers to access Outreach and Project Design Wildlife Division opportunities in energy, certification, Conduct rapid biological assessment Improve the Oregon State Police conservation, local food, and as outreach tool for landowner Fish and Wildlife Division’s ability chemical disposal to protect water recruitment on Tum Tum River, to investigate environmental quality and increase revenue. Greasy Creek, and Beaver Creek. and wildlife protection crimes by $45,500, Federal Criminal Case Identify restoration sites and develop providing the necessary water floodplain connection project designs. testing equip­ment to its officers. $33,000, Federal Criminal Case $38,235, Federal Criminal Case 53

Pacific States Marine Yurok Tribe T.P. Contracting and Fisheries Commission Myxozoan Fish Disease Natural Lands Trust, Inc. National Fish Habitat Database Research and Monitoring — Pennsylvania Wetlands Develop a National Fish Habitat Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program Replacement Fund Action Plan project tracking system Measure the distribution and relative Restore wetlands on private lands. to be used for online submission of density of polychaetes at established $84,120, Mitigation project information; management, index sites with greater spatial coverage search, and retrieval of information; (cross sectional and longitudinal)­ to Puerto Rico geographic information systems include different polychaete habitat University of Miami, (GIS) outputs; and project progress types; measure how polychaete Rosenstiel School of Marine and reporting. relative density, population structure, Atmospheric Science $100,000, Voluntary Contributions and infection prevalence change on Sustaining Coral Reef Fisheries an annual cycle; and measure the fish in Puerto Rico Tillamook Estuaries Partnership species-specific genotypes of myxozoan Establish fishery management goals, Miami Wetlands Enhancement diseases in adult salmonids and in the including appropriate fishing level Enhance 22 acres of rare tidal spruce water column at appropriate temporal and minimum population sizes, for swamp and 30 acres of uplands in and spatial scales including both fish that are important to ensuring the Tillamook Bay estuary. Project actinospores and myxospores. healthy coral reefs. These goals will improves wildlife habitats and habitat $88,573, Mitigation guide conservation efforts of state and for five salmon species. federal managers to build sustainable $198,938, Federal Criminal Case Pennsylvania reef fisheries in Puerto Rico. Alice Ferguson Foundation $38,000, Federal Criminal Case Upper Nehalem Watershed Council Trash-Free Potomac Elk Creek Phase II — Watershed Initiative Fish Passage Restoration Rhode Island Continue efforts to achieve a Restore coho salmon, cutthroat trout Maine Department of trash-free Potomac River watershed. and lamprey passage to 3.6 miles of Marine Resources Project will include an annual refugia habitat on Elk Creek in Bycatch Survey of the Atlantic Potomac Watershed Cleanup and northwest Oregon. Herring Bottom Trawl Fishery Trash Summit, anti-litter public $50,000, Federal Criminal Case Use At Sea Observers to document education campaign, litter enforce­ bycatch in the small mesh bottom Western Rivers Conservancy ment week, Trash Free Facilities trawl fishery targeting Atlantic herring. Lower John Day River — Program, engagement of elected $226,996, Federal Criminal Case Hay Creek Project official through the Potomac Trash Restore about 200 acres along Hay Treaty, and progress monitoring Texas through Visible Trash Surveys. Creek and main stem lower John Day Kokel-Oberrender-Wood $37,500, State Criminal Case River. Enhance Murtha Ranch lands Appraisal, Ltd. for native fish and wildlife, positioning Delaware Riverkeeper Network Columbia Bottoms them for permanent stewardship with Restoration Assistance (Austin Woods) Fund Oregon State Parks. for the Delaware Estuary Provide independent appraisal $50,000, Federal Criminal Case Host an intensive workshop and services associated with land acquisition preservation efforts Willamette Riverkeeper provide technical assistance to for the Columbia Bottomlands Willamette Mission Programmatic project-ready municipalities in the Reconnection Project Delaware Estuary. Project aims to along the Texas Mid-Gulf Coast. $8,800, Mitigation Reconnect side channels and maximize ecological benefits and encourage long-term monitoring floodplains by removing fish passage Suzette Chapman and management. barriers that isolate a mile of back Columbia Bottoms $49,872, channel and a natural oxbow lake Federal Criminal Case (Austin Woods) Fund during low flow periods. Restore The Nature Conservancy Provide grant writing services native plant communities. Delaware River Basin Riverine associated with land acquisition $49,970, Federal Criminal Case and Wetland Areas Prioritization preservation efforts for the Columbia Work with partners to identify Bottomlands along the Texas priority places to protect or restore Mid-Gulf Coast in Brazoria, Fort riverine habitats across the entire Bend, Matagorda and Wharton Delaware River Basin. Counties, Texas. $396,016, Federal Criminal Case $7,704, Mitigation IDEA 54

Thomas Smith Washington Washington Department Columbia Bottoms Columbia Land Trust of Fish and Wildlife (Austin Woods) Fund Germany Creek Conservation Puget Sound Nearshore Provide land acquisition services and Restoration – II Ecosystem Restoration Project including review of acquisition Restore seven acres of tidally Identify significant ecosystem plans, appraisal reviews, site visits, influenced in-stream, floodplain, problems, evaluate potential land negotiations, and other related and riparian habitat, restore 18 acres solutions, and restore and preserve services associated with land of tributary habitat, and protect critical nearshore habitat. acquisition preservation efforts for 30 acres of threatened land along $200,000, Federal Criminal Case the Columbia Bottomlands along Germany Creek. the Texas Mid-Gulf Coast. $114,438, Federal Criminal Case Wisconsin $61,792, Mitigation International Crane Columbia Land Trust FoundationEastern Migratory Utah Lower Grays River Tidal Whooping Crane Fund Robert Meddock Wetland Restoration Support public education and State of Utah Agreement — Upper Reconnect approximately 50 acres outreach activities of the Whooping Colorado Fish Recovery Program Fund of intertidal wetlands, including tidal Crane Eastern Partnership’s Assist in the recovery of endangered channel habitat, and implement Communication and Outreach Team. fish on the Colorado River by actions to improve habitat function $4,000, Species Recovery Funds assisting the Bureau of Reclamation over 30 acres in the Grays River. with automating several fish screens $96,000, Federal Criminal Case Wyoming on the Upper Colorado River. Columbia Land Trust Robert Meddock $15,896, Species Recovery Funds Nelson Creek Restoration State of Wyoming Agreement — Upper Colorado Fish Recovery Restore Sitka spruce swamp, willow Virginia Program Fund scrub, emergent and shallow water/ Alice Ferguson Foundation emergent wetlands. Project analyzes Assist in the recovery of endangered Trash-Free Potomac the feasibility of tidal reconnection fish on the Colorado River by Watershed Initiative of the site. assisting the Bureau of Reclamation with automating several fish screens Continue efforts to achieve a $72,000, Federal Criminal Case trash-free Potomac River watershed. on the Upper Colorado River. Project will include an annual Friends of Ridgefield $9,300, Species Recovery Funds Potomac Watershed Cleanup and National Wildlife Refuge Trash Summit, anti-litter public Ridgefield Restoration and State of Utah, Department education campaign, litter enforce­ Watershed Coordination of Natural Resources Price San Rafael Wildlife ment week, Trash Free Facilities Conduct an invasive plant survey Mitigation Fund Program, engagement of elected and control on 1,025 acres and native officials through the Potomac Trash restoration plantings on four acres Remove 290 acres of pinyon Treaty, and progress moni­toring of Columbia River floodplain and a pine and juniper trees encroaching through Visible Trash Surveys. tributary watershed. Project into Wyoming sagebrush parks. $37,500, State Criminal Case coordinates community watershed This treatment enhances wintering group partnerships. habitat for mule deer and elk. $51,700, Christopher Newport University $55,360, Federal Criminal Case Mitigation Sponsored Programs Restoration and Management of U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Atlantic White Cedar Assessing Restoration Effectiveness Habitat Prioritization for Selected Raptor Species in Wyoming Assist the Great Dismal Swamp at Nisqually NWR National Wildlife Refuge in Monitor the effectiveness of the Develop a quantitative predictive reestablishing Atlantic White Cedars estuarine restoration and evaluate model of the relationship between in the areas of the refuge that were the result of restoration actions on available raptor habitat and burned in the South One Fire. habitats, focusing on processes that raptor habitat use for four species $103,079, Federal Civil Case can be fine-tuned with adaptive in Wyoming: Golden Eagle, management. Ferruginous Hawk, Northern Various Recipients Harrier, and Prairie Falcon. $99,993, Federal Criminal Case Great Dismal Swamp Fund $200,000, Federal Criminal Case Assist in repair and rehabilitation of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, which was damaged by the South One Fire. $34,880, Federal Civil Case

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