NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS 2012 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation works to protect and restore the health of ecosystems so our native species can thrive. Since our founding by Congress in 1984, we’ve become one of the largest conservation funders in the world. We bring public and private partners together to support science-based projects and community-driven solutions.

In FY 2012, we awarded 505 grants with a total value of more than $192 million in conservation funding.

1 UNITED STATES Gulf of Maine Research Institute and market-based incentives that deliver Fishery Science & Management Education large-scale habitat solutions. Project will ALABAMA for Gulf Fishermen enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Alabama Forest Resources Center Build regional capacity to develop and Conservation Initiative and the Center for Enon & Sehoy Plantations Red-Cockaded deliver a fishery science and management Native Grasslands Management to ensure Woodpecker Recovery (AL) education program for Gulf of Mexico national coordination and leadership for a Work towards the long-term goal of fisheries stakeholders. resident game bird and a strong producer- establishing a contiguous, viable population $125,000 focused native grass initiative. of 30 Red-cockaded Woodpecker groups by $372,558 2015 on Enon and Sehoy plantations by Manomet, Inc. providing cavity inserts, and conducting American Oystercatcher Recovery — III ALASKA translocations, monitoring and other Continue and expand coordinated Alaska Department of Fish and Game management techniques. Project will plant management and monitoring of American Annual Movements of Dusky Canada 125,000 longleaf seedlings on 250 acres, Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along Geese Nesting in Alaska survey approximately 3,000 acres for the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Use satellite telemetry to track movements American chaffseed and hold at least three $133,510 of dusky Canada geese in the Copper River landowner outreach group meetings. Delta of Alaska. Project results will aid in $135,000 National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Habitat broad scale management activities related Dog River Clearwater Revival Restoration (AL) — II to habitat use, harvest management and population inventory. Dog River Watershed Habitat Restoration Restore 1,200 acres of habitat within the and Education (AL) Talladega National Forest by conducting $62,700 Plant 12,000 native plants ultimately mid-story hardwood removal in order Alaska Marine Conservation Council restoring two acres of emergent fresh and to facilitate Red-cockaded Woodpecker Securing Community Opportunity in saltwater wetlands. This project also will population expansion. Kodiak’s Jig Fishery (AK) remove approximately 5,000 pounds of debris $75,000 Work with the network of community-based and transplant aquatic vegetation, improving fishery initiatives to strategically address water quality and revitalizing healthy habitats Operation Migration– USA barriers and create incentives needed for the for the Alabama Red Bellied Turtle and West Whooping Crane Reintroduction to jig fishery to fulfill its promise as a successful Indian Manatee. Southeastern U.S. — II local, entry-level fishery. $23,389 Reintroduce whooping cranes to the Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes $90,000 Federation of Southern Cooperatives/ toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining Environment for the Americas, Inc. Land Assistance Fund, Inc. population. Project will use ultralight aircraft Celebra las Playeras: Engaging Latinos Engaging Limited Resource Landowners to teach migration route. in Natural Resource Careers and in Longleaf Restoration (AL) $172,599 Conservation Action Build capacity to engage socially Collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service disadvantaged landowners in longleaf The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. and the Bureau of Land Management on pine restoration. Project will engage over Strengthening Bird Conservation within Celebra las Playeras (Celebrate Shorebirds), 200 landowners and impact approximately the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem a comprehensive approach to engage Latinos 5,000 acres in Alabama. Manage and restore critical bird habitat in natural resource careers and conservation $75,843 within the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem. action through internships in Colorado, Project will use prescribed burning, California, Washington D.C. and Alaska Freshwater Land Trust mechanical treatment, invasive species Stream Bank Restoration at control and ecological monitoring on over $80,000 Turkey Creek Preserve (AL) 45,000 acres of public and private lands Institute for Seabird Research and Remove a small poured concrete dam located benefitting rare bird species. Conservation within a 226 acre preserve on Turkey Creek, $158,460 Conservation and Enhancement of providing an additional half-mile of habitat Middleton Island Seabird Habitat (AK) to the vermilion darter and other aquatic life. The Nature Conservancy Acquire acreage and infrastructure on In addition, project will revegetate .25 acres Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration Middleton Island, Alaska, and secure the with 500 native trees, shrubs and grass plugs and Outreach (AL, FL) future of a unique facility for research to stabilize the streambanks and provide Provide technical and on-the-ground and conservation. important riparian and forested habitat. restoration assistance to family forest $25,000 $24,991 landowners interested in managing or restoring longleaf pine on their lands using Institute for Seabird Research Friends of the Cahaba River prescribed fire. Project will plant longleaf and Conservation National Wildlife Refuge on 100 acres and implement hydrologic and Middleton Island Seabird Research Community Outreach for the Cahaba ground integrity restoration at Splinter Hill and Monitoring (AK) River National Wildlife Refuge (AL) Bog Preserve, including a portion of the Continue Alaskan seabird monitoring and Implement a community outreach program Carrigan Addition, showcasing restoration research nutritional ecology, life-history to promote the Friends group and the Cahaba efforts during two field days. regulation, and prey (forage fish) dynamics River National Wildlife Refuge. Project will $150,000 of black-legged kittiwake, pelagic cormorant, produce a brochure and electronic newsletters rhinoceros auklet, tufted puffin and and will include speaking engagements and University of Tennessee glaucous-winged gull. Project results will a select mailing campaign. Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III be incorporated into marine resource $4,000 Restore grassland bird populations planning and management processes. through national conservation leadership $38,000

2 3 Island Conservation Metlakatla Indian Community Prince William Sound Science and Assessing Invasive Rat Impacts on Island Invasive Species Control and Education on Technology Institute Ecosystems in the Aleutians (AK) Annette Island (AK) Black Turnstone: A Population Decline or Conduct ecosystem monitoring on Rat Island, Conduct control work on target species, Prince William Sound Stopover Shift? Alaska, five years post rat eradication. Project create a Cooperative Weed Management Identify the migration pathways and will inform future land management decisions Area, publish data from control work on stopover areas of black turnstone (Arenaria on islands in Alaska containing rats. public database, create a campaign to assist elanocephala) in Prince William Sound. $99,450 the public in identifying and reporting Project results will aid resource managers invasive species, and encourage use of a with updated population data. Island Institute vehicle wash system to prevent the spread $75,000 Community Fisheries Network Capacity of invasive species. Project will establish a Building and Expansion comprehensive long-term invasive species Regents of the University of California Expand and strengthen the community control program. Standardized Low-Cost Monitoring of fishery network in order to continue building $75,000 Conservation Success Pilot Project capacity and disseminating innovations that Pilot a standardized, third-party, monitoring improve the long-term sustainability of North Dakota State University program for National Fish and Wildlife community fisheries. Thermal Control of Insect Emergence in Foundation on two seabird conservation $87,847 Arctic Tundra Ponds (AK) projects. The pilot program will test the use Obtain data needed to build predictive of a novel low cost technique. Kenai Watershed Forum models of insect emergence from tundra $298,050 Stream Watch: Education and Habitat ponds at Barrow, Alaska. Project will Restoration Volunteers (AK) supplement other data to aid in forecasting San Francisco State University Train volunteers to provide peer-to-peer the future quality of avian nesting habitat. Invasive Tunicate Impacts on salmon habitat stewardship education to $92,212 Pacific Herring in Southeast Alaska river users and complete habitat restoration Evaluate and model the impact of the invasive and /or protection projects on the Kenai North Pacific Fisheries Association, Inc. tunicate Didemnum vexillum on Pacific Peninsula of Alaska. Electronic Monitoring for Small Boats in Alaska herring in southeast Alaska. Project results $37,038 Build on existing electronic monitoring will aid resource managers in prioritizing practices to develop a system that can provide areas for evaluation and protection. LGL Alaska Research Associates, Inc. accurate, reliable data for fishery managers $31,594 Photo-identification of Beluga Whales in while being responsive to the needs and Upper Cook Inlet — VI (AK) constraints of small boats. Project’s primary Seward Association for the Continue use of photo-identification to objective is to field-test a new electronic Advancement of Marine Science assess and monitor individual and population monitoring system that utilizes advanced Pacific Walrus Terrestrial Haulout Use characteristics of Cook Inlet beluga whales cameras, standardized fish handling and Disturbance (AK) in order to better understand and manage procedures and software designed to Monitor historic and newly established these whales and their habitat. facilitate efficient data review. Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) $46,249 $65,568 terrestrial haulout sites in western Alaska for attendance, duration and level of disturbance. Manomet, Inc. North Slope Borough Department of Data collected will aid in the determination Arctic Shorebird Demographics Wildlife Management of species status under the Endangered Network — III (AK) Coastal Surveys and Response to Species Act. Continue to unite the efforts of 15 Stranded Marine Mammals (AK) $100,065 organizations working cooperatively across Support a continued response effort for the entire Arctic to determine what limits marine mammal strandings in Northern The Nature Conservancy the populations of high-priority shorebird Alaska in an area that is currently Restoring Alaska’s Tongass National species. Project will target conservation experiencing a marked increase in reported Forest for Salmon efforts at the places and times when dead and live stranded marine mammals. Restore high-value salmon watersheds in populations are actually being limited. $84,942 southeast Alaska. Long-term goal is to $69,934 increase restoration / forest stewardship as Northern Forum, Inc. drivers of public land management. Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation Seabird Data Portal: Sharing Alaska’s $400,000 Development of Video Monitoring for Seabird Data Full Retention Fisheries Expand the data management and sharing The Research Foundation Develop a video-based catch monitoring capabilities of the Seabird Data Portal. on behalf of SUNY at Buffalo system and computer-aided video review Project will help facilitate collaborative and Genome-scale Analysis of Admixture software to reduce the number of human progressive research on seabirds in Alaska in Polar and Brown Bears (AK) observers and reviewers involved in the and the North Pacific. Conduct a genome-scale analysis of monitoring of full-retention fisheries. $39,999 hybridization in polar and brown bears in $100,000 northern Alaska. Project will help connect Northern Forum, Inc. research on global climate adaptation with Marine Conservation Biology Institute Seabird Restoration in genomic techniques that can be applied to Predictive Habitat Modeling for Prince William Sound (AK) increase the understanding of the presence Alaska’s Deep Sea Corals Restore populations of seabirds at Naked and extent of hybridization. Create predictive habitat suitability models Island Group, Prince William Sound, through $100,000 for deep sea coral and sponge areas for eradication of introduced mink. Project Alaskan waters. will result in recovery of pigeon guillemots $36,000 population and other seabirds. $1,050,300 UNITED STATES

Trout Unlimited, Inc. University of Wyoming Wildlife Conservation Society Habitat Capacity Models for Salmon Recovery Thinning and Competition Between Martens An Experiment to Assess Development Develop models to estimate productive and Ermines on Prince of Wales Island (AK) Impact on Nesting Birds (AK) capacity and support management Estimate population density, factors affecting Assess the impact of indirect oil development decisions for escapement. Project will focus density and diet of ermines (Mustela on nest survival of breeding birds using on improvements to existing modeling erminea celenda) on Prince of Wales Island an artificial nest experiment on the Arctic approaches that enable better estimates of in Alaska. Project will model the effects of Coastal Plain of Alaska. The results of this the expected number of smolts that can be forest succession and provide management project will enable a better understanding of produced from extant habitat, and a guiding recommendations to conserve the population. the relationship between oil infrastructure decision tool for managers to decide which $20,000 and nest survivorship, refining previous modeling approach to use given available data. research on this issue. $100,000 USDA Forest Service $89,319 Ecology of the Copper River Delta (AK) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Assess the effects of increased temperatures Wildlife Conservation Society Steller’s and Spectacled Eider on ecosystem structure and function of coastal Migratory Breeding Bird Use of Conservation — V (AK) aquatic ecosystems on the Copper River Re-vegetated Oil Platforms (AK) Continue efforts to conserve Steller’s eider Delta of Alaska. Project will provide data to Assess wildlife responses, specifically bird (Polysticta stelleri) and spectacled eider better inform the management of the Delta nesting, feeding and brood rearing, to (Somateria fischeri) in Alaska through and other coastal wetlands under a climate rehabilitated exploratory drilling pad sites in research, monitoring and outreach. Data change scenario. Arctic Alaska. The findings from this study collected will support population recovery $200,000 will help to develop specific recommendations by developing and evaluating management that will provide land managers and industry strategies. USDA Forest Service with new information to assist in site $75,000 Impacts of Climate Adaptation on rehabilitation that provides the highest Chinook Habitat Suitability (AK) quality reclaimed habitat for nesting birds. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Use down-scaled climate models of future $49,403 Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge hydrologic, precipitation and glacial changes Nesting Ecology of Kittlitz’s Murrelet to predict changes to productive salmon Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Kodiak Refuge (AK) — II habitat throughout the Copper River Bowhead Whale Stable Isotopes Continue the study of nesting ecology watershed in Alaska. Results will allow as Ecosystem Indicators (AK) — II and reproductive performance of Kittlitz’s for more strategic targeting of resources in Analyze stable isotope ratios from bowhead murrelet (Brachyramphus brevirostris) monitoring and restoration efforts. whale baleens to monitor bowhead whale on Kodiak Island, Alaska, to provide data $45,160 ecology and nutrient flow through Arctic required for future conservation efforts. marine food webs of the Arctic and Bering $94,750 USDA Forest Service Sea. Project will aid the scientific community Vulnerability of Watersheds in with future management plans relating to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Region 7 Prince William Sound (AK) climate adaptation in the Arctic region. Pacific Walrus Abundance and Develop a framework to assess the $89,264 Demographic Estimations (AK) vulnerability of watersheds in Prince William Conduct a long-term genetics-based, Sound, Alaska, to the potential impacts of World Wildlife Fund, Inc. capture-mark-recapture program for Pacific climate adaptation based on flow regimes, Reducing Bycatch of Seabirds in walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens). potential changes in temperatures and the Russian Far East Fisheries $78,948 live history diversity of fish. Monitor seabird and fishing gear $100,000 interactions in the Russian Far East University of Alaska Anchorage (primarily Kamchatka Peninsula) to prevent Alaska Native Science and USDA Forest Service accidental entanglement of threatened, Engineering Program Linking Structure to Function in endangered, or vulnerable species. Partner with the U.S. Forest Service in south-­ Alaskan Coastal Wetlands $59,161 east Alaska, the Bureau of Land Management, Develop a comprehensive framework for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others Copper River Delta coastal wetlands that ARIZONA to provide conservation career exploration integrates structural and functional wetland Altar Valley Conservation Alliance through academic enrichment activities and metrics for use in assessing and predicting Integrated Methods for Grassland Habitat internships. Project will help students the effects of habitat and weather change. Enhancement (AZ) complete the science and math coursework in Project will provide data to better inform the high school that is necessary for success at the management of the Delta and other coastal Coordinate and implement prescribed fire university and upon high school graduation, wetlands under a climate adaptation scenario. and erosion control techniques on five multi-jurisdiction parcels over 25,000 total and will team them with practicing profes- $100,000 sionals working in hands-on internships. acres. Methods will quantify and demonstrate best practices for efficient grassland $440,000 Wildlife Conservation Society Mitigating Subsistence Bycatch of enhancement to private landowners and University of Alaska Anchorage Yellow-billed Loons (AK) partnering federal, state and county land Arctic Ice Seal Disease Investigation (AK) Identify mitigation options for minimizing managing agencies through work conducted Provide the resources to necropsy and the entanglement of yellow-billed loons in across jurisdictional boundaries. perform additional diagnotistic testing Alaska through review of bycatch mitigation $382,000 to determine the cause of morbidity and efforts and consultation with Alaska Natives. mortality of ice seals along the northern Results from this project will inform and western coasts of Alaska. international efforts to reduce bycatch. $92,355 $73,336

4 5 Arizona Antelope Foundation ARKANSAS Center for Ecosystem Management Southeastern Arizona Grasslands Friends of Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge and Restoration Pronghorn Initiative Friends of Holla Bend National Russian River and Dutch Bill Creek Increase Sky Island Pronghorn population Wildlife Refuge Capacity Building (AR) Restoration (CA) numbers, distribution and connectiveness Produce a brochure and purchase promotional Restore a viable, self-sustaining population of by on-the-ground prioritized habitat, travel apparel and materials to host outdoor coho salmon to the Russian River watershed corridor and population enhancements. recreational activities. Project will help the by implementing the Russian River Coho $230,000 group connect with the local community Salmon Keystone Initiative Business Plan. and increase group membership. Project will continue working to increase the Arizona Game and Fish Department $5,000 number of coho salmon in four watersheds Apache Trout Keystone Initiative (AZ) by working with landowners to change Ensure the recovery and sustainability of The Nature Conservancy water management practices and improve the Apache trout in its historic range within Devil’s Eyebrow Protection (AR) streamflow through spring and summer. the headwaters of the Little Colorado River, Acquire 1,954 acres of contiguous forestland $500,000 Black and White Rivers (tributaries of the along Beaver Lake harboring 27 rare species, Salt River). Project will include fish barrier protecting water quality and providing public Center for Land-Based Learning improvements, post-fire monitoring and access opportunities. Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship (SLEWS) — Restoring the creation of metapopulations that will $790,000 result in the expansion, connectivity and Riparian Habitat on the Mokelumne River (CA) improvement of Apache trout habitat. University of Tennessee Partner with the Natural Resources $257,000 Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Conservation Service to enable high school Restore grassland bird populations youth to plan and implement a riparian Bureau of Land Management — through national conservation leadership restoration project on the Mokelumne River. Safford Field Office and market-based incentives that deliver $23,750 Peloncillos Grassland Corridor and Waters (AZ) large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Improve wildlife exclosures by focusing on enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community grassland seeding, planting of native trees, Conservation Initiative and the Center for of Trinidad Rancheria inventory and monitoring of grassland birds Native Grasslands Management to ensure Tribal Outreach and Policy Support of concern and vegetation post-treatment national coordination and leadership for a (WA, OR, CA) effectiveness. resident game bird and a strong producer- Engage West Coast Tribes on how they $30,000 focused native grass initiative. will participate in the Coastal and Marine $372,558 Spatial Planning body and on how they will Cuenca Los Ojos Foundation engage in coast-wide and National Ocean Restoring Sonoran Sky Island Council-related issues. CALIFORNIA Grasslands & Embedded Cienega $58,000 Reduce shrub and increase grass cover on Bureau of Land Management 2,000 acres. Project will construct 20 large Employment and Mentorship of City of Los Angeles gabions, plant 1,400 riparian trees, raise Urban Youth (CA) Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing Program (CA) — II cienega water table and develop a long-term Recruit and select young adults from Revive the Cabrillo Beach Pier Fishing monitoring strategy. underserved communities for employment Program for the summer of 2012, by offering $125,000 in the Student Temporary Employment a four-week fishing program which will program. Project will support ten student operate two days per week. Each day will Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory interns in the program for 14 weeks. offer a three-hour fishing experience. The Evaluating Avian Use of Restored $100,000 program is projecting to serve 250 youth Desert Grasslands from the greater Los Angeles area, ages Conduct a comparative study of non-breeding Caitlin Faber 8 to 16 years old. grassland bird use of restored grassland sites Environmental Field Studies Course Work $10,000 that have undergone varying restoration at the Sierra Institute (CA) techniques across the Sky Islands region. Scholarship to support environmental field City of Morro Bay $157,412 studies course work at the Sierra Institute. Fishing Community Sustainability $500 Planning and Development (CA) The Grand Canyon Trust, Inc. Develop a strategic plan aimed at economic, Native Plant Stewardship at Vermilion Cliffs California Institute of Environmental Studies social and environmental sustainability in the National Monument (AZ, UT) Status of Ashy Storm-Petrels at the Morro Bay and Monterey fisheries. Project Engage “Budding Botanists” in compiling Northern Breeding Limit (CA) will build community fishing association plant records for Vermilion Cliffs National Acquire data needed to assist agencies with capacity. Monument into an online database. Project the potential listing and protection of the $135,000 will provide foundational information for northern breeding limit of Ashy Storm-Petrels. research and management to maximize $30,842 protection of the flora. $34,500 California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Surveys in High Priority Arid Lands in California Coordinate and train volunteers and students to collect population and pollination data on rare plants found in desert and desert transitional lands of California. Project will disseminate results through database submissions and reports with partners. $45,000 UNITED STATES

Coevolution Institute Environment for the Americas, Inc. Island Institute Securing Native Plants with Pollinators (CA) Celebra las Playeras: Engaging Latinos in Natural Community Fisheries Network Capacity Develop a database of plant-pollinator Resource Careers and Conservation Action Building and Expansion relationships for rare and threatened plant Collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service Expand and strengthen the community species, technical guides for monarch butterfly and the Bureau of Land Management on fishery network to continue building habitat support and monitoring, a national Celebra las Playeras (Celebrate Shorebirds), capacity and disseminating innovations that bumble bee monitoring program, outreach a comprehensive approach to engage Latinos improve the long-term sustainability of posters and online postings for public in natural resource careers and conservation community fisheries. education, and a pollinator education and action through internships at five sites. $87,847 gardening kit for school children to enhance $80,000 environmental understanding and stewardship. Jessica Clark Project will support stable and resilient plant- Fishermen’s Marketing Association, Inc. Impacts of Sudden Oak Death and pollinator systems. Development and Evaluation of Image Reduced Acorn Supply on Wildlife (CA) $87,000 Recognition Software Rich Guadagno Memorial Scholarship to Develop and evaluate image recognition study the impacts of sudden oak death Community Development Partnership software that can be used to screen video and reduced acorn supply on wildlife. Best Practices in Fisheries Trust Management images collected onboard commercial $1,500 Develop a scalable model and utilize the fishing boats to determine if discarding is on-line “Fish Hub” technology to transfer best occurring and to identify the species. Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation practices and lessons learned in fishery trust $96,178 Endangered Vernal Pool Plant Assessment management to a national audience. and Restoration (CA) $124,978 Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed Work with citizen science volunteers to assess Marsh Creek Floodplain and Riparian the status of three plants endemic to Sonoma Conservation Metrics, Inc. Restoration (CA) county by evaluating pollinators, vernal pools Passive Acoustic Sensor Surveys for Restore critical habitat for Chinook salmon and climate change. Project will contribute Detecting Ashy Storm-Petrels on and other species while facilitating long-term to the recovery and delisting of three federally Anacapa Island (CA) — II stewardship of Marsh Creek Watershed and state listed endangered annual plant species: Conduct a second season of visual surveys through community involvement. Sonoma sunshine, Sebastopol meadow- for Ashy Storm-Petrel breeding activity on $25,000 foam and Burke’s goldfields. Anacapa Island. $20,000 $22,677 Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District Northern California Coho Salmon Los Angeles Conservation Corps Delta Waterfowl Foundation Habitat Restoration (CA) Promoting Careers in Conservation in Priority Waterfowl Research — II Implement a rural road improvement project Southern California Support three priority waterfowl research along 4.58 miles of ranch roads by replacing Partner with the U.S. Forest Service and efforts including the movements and survival five culverts and installing erosion control Bureau of Land Management to engage of mottled ducks along the Gulf Coast, measures to increase habitat for migrating fish. youth from impoverished communities in Los evaluating landscape features’ influence on nest $34,353 Angeles in meaningful conservation projects. survival in the Prairie Pothole Region of North $200,000 Dakota, and modeling the consequences of Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy water scarcity on carrying capacity of water­fowl Presidio Coastal Bluffs Restoration and Marina Del Rey Anglers habitat in the Central Valley of California. Community Engagement (CA) Marina Del Rey Anglers Youth Fishing (CA) $49,000 Restore 1.75 acres of land at the Presidio Teach pre-teen and teenage youths how to fish, Bluffs site at Golden Gate National Park, how to identify fish that are safe and unsafe to Ecotrust removing 90 percent of invasive grasses and consume and how to properly fillet and prepare West Coast Regional Data Framework Cape Ivy and planting 5,500 trees. Educational the fish for consumption. Project will run (WA, OR, CA) opportunities will include volunteer workdays 24 trips and educate at least 400 kids 10 to Develop a next-generation coastal and marine and naturalist-led walks. 16 years old and 100 counselors from various data network and system to support west coast $51,700 non-profit youth groups. regional and national ocean priorities and $10,000 planning for ocean uses. Heal the Bay $117,000 Heal the Bay’s Stream Team Program Mattole Restoration Council Restore healthy ecological functioning and Nick’s Interns: Exposing Humboldt County Ellen K. Ven Rooy improve water quality and natural wildlife Youth to Conservation Careers (CA) Researching Tick-borne Pathogens in Fishers habitats by conducting riparian restoration; Expose Humboldt County youth to and Ringtails in Northwestern California habitat and water quality monitoring; conservation careers by offering experience, Rich Guadagno Memorial Scholarship to and stream barrier removals in the Santa confidence and skills to get involved in conduct research on tick-borne pathogens Monica Mountains. community efforts to restore local watersheds in fishers (Martes pennanti) and ringtails $39,997 as well as opportunities to explore resource (Bassariscus astutus) in northwestern management careers with government California. Island Conservation agencies. Nick’s Interns will participate in $2,000 Ashy Storm-Petrel Restoration on the hands-on restoration, stewardship, monitoring Farallon Islands and other conservation-related projects that Conduct ecological monitoring and outreach benefit Bureau of Land Management land to support the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and adjacent areas. in restoring the South Farallon Islands by $50,050 removing invasive mice. Long-term outcomes will include the protection of Ashy Storm-Petrels. $150,000

6 7 Mattole Salmon Group Pit Resource Conservation District Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation Lower Mattole River Habitat Pit River Region Meadow Coordination (CA) Palos Verdes Kelp Forest Restoration Enhancement (CA) Support work that will advance several Restore kelp forest on the Palos Verdes Increase the quantity and quality of rearing meadow restoration projects in the Pit Shelf to restore or compensate for the loss of habitat for Chinook and coho salmon and River region. Project activities will include resources impacted by DDTs and PCBs that steelhead through the placement of large assessment, design, permitting, construction were released into the marine environment wood in the lower Mattole River and estuary and monitoring. from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. in California. Project will have an immediate $20,000 $524,403 benefit to salmonids by increasing cover and pool habitat. Placer County Resource Conservation District Sequoia Parks Foundation $75,000 Hope Valley Meadow Restoration (CA) Establish Native Plants in Wet Meadows Restore a highly visible 1,600-acre meadow of Kings Canyon National Park (CA) Mountains Restoration Trust that is a top priority meadow system for Restore 4.7 acres of native wet meadow Malibu Creek Aquatic and Riparian restoration in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. habitat in Kings Canyon National Park. Habitat Restoration (CA) $63,000 Crews will plant 40,000 native seedlings in Bring together numerous partners to areas that were previously dominated by further efforts to remove invasive plants River Partners non-native reed canarygrass. from 17 acres of state parkland resulting in Otay Delta Habitat Restoration (CA) $50,000 a net gain of three acres of restored habitat. Restore 65 acres on the San Diego Bay The Trust will promote and execute, at a National Wildlife Refuge, to benefit Sequoia Riverlands Trust minimum, 15 community restoration events migratory and resident wildlife, including Yellow Starthistle Leading Edge Initiative (CA) for up to 150 people where participants listed species and improve parks space Implement the Yellow Starthistle Leading will learn what effects invasive species have in the heart of an underserved urban area. Edge Initiative locally. Project activities will upon the biological integrity of riparian $100,000 include yellow starthistle treatment and systems and how problems in one area control, actions to increase public awareness, quickly spread downstream. Sage Gang-Halvorsen the development of a strategic framework for $37,995 At Risk Youth Working to Restore a Creek (CA) reducing the spread of yellow starthistle, and Rich Guadagno Memorial Scholarship to maintaining and growing partnerships for National Forest Foundation support Sage Gang-Halvorsen’s project, invasive plant control. Restoring Los Angeles’ Backyard: “At Risk Youth Working to Restore a Creek.” $75,000 Riparian Weed Eradication $1,000 Conduct weed removal and monitoring Shorebased Whiting Cooperative on 75 river miles of riparian habitat in San Francisco State University Shorebased Whiting Overfished Species Big Tujunga Canyon to facilitate recovery Invasive Tunicate Impacts on Risk Pool Cooperative (WA, OR, CA) of native plant communities. Pacific Herring in Southeast Alaska Create a Pacific whiting cooperative with the $40,000 Evaluate and model the impact of the invasive technical support infrastructure to manage tunicate Didemnum vexillum on Pacific bycatch using real time and historic observer Native Alliance of the Sierra Nevada Foothills herring in southeast Alaska. Project results and electronic fish-ticket data to assist with (dba Sierra Native Alliance) will aid resource managers in prioritizing hotspot avoidance. Sierra Native Youth Conservation Corps (CA) areas for evaluation and protection. $75,000 Help at-risk youth by creating an $31,594 environmental job training program that Siskiyou Institute assists with stipends and transportation and Sanctuary Forest, Inc. Scott River Watershed Council Coordination (CA) creates a strong social and cultural network Mattole Coho Emergency Habitat (CA) Create a coordination and communication to support ongoing restoration and advocacy Restore natural processes and provide action plan for the Scott River watershed. work. Project will involve diverse partners and immediate coho salmon summer and winter Project will involve multiple stakeholders in provide an innovative conservation job and habitat needed to prevent extinction in Baker conservation and restoration activities. educational opportunity largely focused on Creek, a tributary to the Mattole River, in $30,000 meadow restoration for native youth in the California. Project goals will be achieved by Sierra Nevada region. installing large wood in the stream channel. The Nature Conservancy $75,000 $29,999 Southern Sierra Partnership and Tehachapi Linkage (CA) Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Santa Catalina Island Conservancy Acquire Rudnick Ranch and an easement Abalone Cove Coastal Sage Scrub Restoring the Population of Xantus’s on the Caliente Ranch to complete the Restoration (CA) Murrelet on Catalina (CA) Tehachapi Connection, a wildlife linkage Restore, through invasive plant eradication Conduct population surveys and nest site of great importance in the preservation of and plantings, three acres of coastal sage habitat assessment to set baselines for habitat for rare, threatened and endangered scrub habitat. Through outdoor volunteer restoration and threat reduction activities. species in the Tehachapi mountains. days, 120 community volunteers will gain Volunteers will work with staff to restore $500,000 an understanding of the ecological value habitat through revegetation. of coastal sage scrub and its importance as $67,949 The Watershed Project habitat for rare and endangered species. Wild! Oysters — Community-based Native $25,200 Oyster Restoration Program (CA) Engage scientists, volunteers and students in the restoration of .4 acres of subtidal habitat. Project will benefit many species, including anadromous salmonids. $40,000 UNITED STATES

TreePeople, Inc. University of California — Davis Earth Force, Inc. Forest Aid: Angeles National Forest 2012 Genetic Monitoring Panel for Youth Voices for Westerly Creek ( CO) Work with the U.S. Forest Service to recruit Native Fishes in the Kern Basin (CA) Train urban youth to duplicate a baseline and train volunteers to plant trees in fire- Develop a panel of genetic markers that water quality study from 1997. Their ravaged areas of the Angeles National Forest. can assess hybridization within three native findings and recommendations will inform $25,000 subspecies of rainbow trout in the Kern River implementation of the Westerly Creek Basin of California. Project, which supports Greenway Master Plan. Trout Unlimited, Inc. the goals of the Western Native Trout $14,535 Habitat Capacity Models for Salmon Recovery Initiative as part of the National Fish Habitat Develop models to estimate productive Action Plan, will provide resource managers Environment for the Americas, Inc. capacity and support management decisions with a monitoring and management tool for Celebra las Playeras: Engaging Latinos for escapement. Project will focus on conserving these fish. in Natural Resource Careers and improvements­ to existing modeling approaches $44,500 Conservation Action that enable better estimates of the expected Collaborate with the U.S. Forest Service number of smolts that can be produced from Yurok Tribe and the Bureau of Land Management on extant habitat, and a guiding decision tool Monitoring Coho Salmon Response to Celebra las Playeras (Celebrate Shorebirds), for managers to decide which modeling Habitat Restoration (CA) a comprehensive approach to engage Latinos approach to use given available data. Conduct mark-recapture studies of juvenile in natural resource careers and conservation $100,000 coho salmon and monitor physical changes action through internships at five sites. in constructed off-channel habitats to track $80,000 U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish abundance and water quality trends Leafy Spurge Control along the following restoration. Rocky Mountain Field Institute, Inc. Klamath and Scott Rivers (CA) — II $27,392 Garden of the Gods Restoration Project (CO) Implement follow-up treatments to control Mitigate erosion and soil loss and restore the 72 acres of leafy spurge occurrences on private COLORADO most degraded sectors of Garden of the Gods and tribal lands along the Klamath and Scott Park through hands-on projects with high Canto Al Pueblo — The Latino Arts and Rivers and in the Quartz Valley watershed. community involvement. Cultural Series $25,000 $25,000 Sangre de Cristo Youth for Conservation (CO) USDA Forest Service Expose underserved minority youth to the Rocky Mountain Field Institute, Inc. Indian Valley Restoration (CA) local natural environment while promoting Garden of the Gods Restoration Restore hydrologic function and habitat in conservation and implementing restoration, Project (CO) — II a 500-acre degraded meadow in the Central stewardship and monitoring projects. Restore 550 linear feet of social trails; Sierra Nevada. Project will rapidly and Youth workers will map native osha, sample construct steps, risers and retaining walls to permanently raise the water table back to macroinvertebrates, plant willow plugs, stabilize 600 feet of eroding trails to provide natural levels and repair 6,000 feet of measure and assess range forage and record structure and protect the surrounding areas; eroded channel. bark beetle ecological disturbance in the and stabilize nearly eight acres of gullies $366,400 San Luis Valley of Colorado. and drainages with a native seed mix. $23,769 Nine hundred community volunteers will University of California participate in restoration over 45 workdays. Colorado Department of Natural Resources Long-Term Assessment of Restoration $25,000 in Big Springs Creek (CA) Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge Protection (CO) Assess the restoration of Big Springs Creek Southwest Conservation Corps and the Shasta River within the restoration site Protect 1,344 acres of land within and Dolores River Restoration (CO) as well as downstream habitats. Restoration adjacent to the Rocky Flats National Conduct riparian restoration activities progress will be measured based on how Wildlife Refuge. involving invasive species treatment along physical habitat conditions improve with $250,000 the Dolores River in southwest Colorado. regard to water temperatures and geomorphic $80,000 Colorado Trout Unlimited characteristics such as stream depth. Roan Plateau Cutthroat Trout Restoration (CO) $26,000 The Nature Conservancy Restore Upper Colorado River native Dolores River Invasives Eradication (CO) University of California — Davis cutthroat trout on the Roan Plateau, Eradicate invasive weeds in the Dolores River Sierra Nevada Meadow Community specifically in the East Fork and East Middle riparian area while simultaneously restoring Clearinghouse (CA) Fork Parachute Creek Tier 1 watersheds in native cover to benefit wildlife and aquatic Establish and maintain a data clearinghouse western Colorado, by addressing the threats health. Project will target 7.5 river miles. to support the Sierra Nevada Meadows of non-natives, reduced water quality and $75,000 Restoration Initiative. This project will compromised habitat. Project will accomplish identify Sierra Nevada meadow-related restoration goals through the removal of USDA-Forest Service — data, construct a meadow specific database, non-native fish, water quality improvements Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest provide a mechanism for widespread data and habitat restoration. Yampa River Basin Youth Conservation dissemination, and engage Sierra Nevada $125,000 Career Development meadows community in data gathering, Engage youth in diverse activities providing population and dissemination. an integrated natural and cultural resource $125,000 work experience in the Yampa River Basin, an America’s Great Outdoors Initiative priority site in Colorado. $50,000

8 9 USDA–Forest Service — Clean Up Stonington Harbors, Inc. historic spawning habitat for American shad, San Juan National Forest Water Quality Monitoring to Manage American eel and river herring. Hermosa Colorado River Cutthroat Pollution Problems (CT) $65,800 Trout Re-establishment (CO) Conduct volunteer water quality monitoring Re-establish Colorado River cutthroat trout to identify sources of pollution and provide Friends of Outer Island, Inc. populations in 23 miles of Hermosa and data to two towns, a state agency and a Friends of Outer Island Capacity Building (CT) East Fork Hermosa Creeks in Colorado. non-governmental organization to help Expand website and web presence to improve Project, which supports the goals of the them remediate problems. communication and increase membership. Western Native Trout Initiative as part of the $24,660 Project will result in a newly-established National Fish Habitat Action Plan, will create youth division and 20 new student members, a metapopulation by constructing two fish Connecticut Farm Bureau Association as well as an online scheduling protocol and a migration barriers, removing non-native fish Manure Digestion on Dairy Farm to video that highlights the group’s mission. species and stocking genetically pure trout. Reduce Nitrogen and Phosphorus (CT) $5,000 $56,000 Upgrade a manure digester to incorporate new technologies that reduce equivalent of Manomet, Inc. Western Association of 5,928 pounds of nitrogen and 2,282 pounds American Oystercatcher Coastwide Fish and Wildlife Agencies of phosphorus solids from a dairy farm in Aerial Survey Lesser Prairie Chicken Aerial Monitoring the Blackberry River sub-basin. Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser $91,000 of the entire winter range of the American Prairie Chicken to establish a baseline and Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. allow for the assessment of future Lesser Connecticut River Museum $83,750 Prairie Chicken population response to Connecticut River Museum conservation measures. Environmental Education (CT) Manomet, Inc. $55,092 Offer 200 educational workshops and American Oystercatcher Recovery — III summer adventure camp to 2,650 children Continue and expand coordinated CONNECTICUT at the Connecticut River Museum allowing management and monitoring of American them to interact directly with the Connecticut Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along Avalonia Land Conservancy, Inc. River and become citizen scientists. Activities the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Restore Coastal Forest New England are also conducted in the museum galleries $133,510 Cottontail Habitat (CT) and through lab projects in the boathouse Restore 28 acres of early successional coastal education center. Mid-Atlantic Center for Herpetology forest habitat to contribute to the recovery $7,226 and Conservation of New England cottontail and other early Private Lands Bog Turtle Habitat successional wildlife species. Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. Restoration (NY, CT, MA) $25,670 Roger’s Lake Fish Passage: Restore and protect critical bog turtle habitat Last Barrier to Alewive Run (CT) on private lands in the Northeast using Calf Island Conservancy, Inc. Install a fish ladder at Roger’s Lake opening Natural Resource Conservation Service Calf Island Forest Restoration and up 260 acres of spawning and rearing habitat conservation programs. Invasive Control (CT) for alewife migrating up the Mill Brook from $248,000 Restore .05 acres of beach and 5 acres Long Island Sound. of coastal forest by removing non-native $85,778 National Audubon Society, Connecticut invasive plants and plant 100 native trees Urban Schoolyard Habitat Partnership (CT) and shrubs to improve habitat for American Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. Develop model initiative for five urban oystercatcher, killdeer, migrating songbirds Connecticut River Coastal Estuary schools with 950 students and 42 teachers and roosting egrets. Cleanup & Education (CT) to restore 4.5 acres of habitat for birds in $22,000 Conduct ‘Annual Source to Sea Cleanup’ schoolyards and local parks that can be used mobilizing 100 volunteers in the Connecticut as a basis for classroom lessons. City of Norwich Harbor River’s coastal estuary to remove 3,000 lbs. $34,757 Management Commission of garbage from shorelines and educate the Norwich Harbor Canoe and Kayak Trail (CT) public about clean water. National Wildlife Refuge Association Establish a network of mapped water trails $4,485 Connecticut River Watershed Invasives for canoeing and kayaking; distribute 2,500 Control (VT, NH, MA, CT) interpretive trail maps and install a sign Cornell Cooperative Extension Coordinate six local Cooperative Invasive about area natural resources. Association of Suffolk County Species Management Areas to facilitate $8,130 The “Marine Meadows” Eelgrass priority actions and networking between Restoration Program (NY, CT) groups and improve early detection City Parks Foundation Restore one acre of eelgrass and engage throughout the 7.2 million acre watershed. Development of a Mid-Atlantic 400 volunteers in preparing materials $85,000 Regional Seed Bank and Network for eelgrass transplant at four sites in Initiate collaborations and activities to Connecticut and New York. Northeast Organic Farming Association establish a regional seed bank and seed $95,341 of Connecticut network to meet both national Seeds Establishing an Organic Lawn Care of Success seed bank goals and regional Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc. Certificate Program CT( ) conservation and management needs for Fish Passage on the Farmington River (CT) Educate 100 lawn care practitioners, expand ecoregional seed. Remove breached dam and its fragments alternative, non-chemical lawn care services $35,000 to eliminate a barrier to fish passage and for consumers and become a replicable restore access to approximately 50 miles of program regionally. $32,001 UNITED STATES

Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. The Friends of Mianus River Park, Inc. Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Simplifying New England Groundfish Sector Mianus River Streambank Restoration (CT) 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Reporting Remove invasive plants and restore 216 linear forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Test and refine the FishTrax on-board feet of riverbank using live stakes and native Framework. The Completing the Cycle module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax wetland plants to stem silt flow into Mianus Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic is a multifaceted tool designed specifically River which flows into Long Island Sound. waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the to simplify and satisfy the reporting $3,000 breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. requirements of New England Groundfish $54,335 Sectors. University of Connecticut $110,000 Nutrient Bioextraction in Long Island Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. Sound (CT, NY) Manure to Energy Technology Demonstrations Norwalk Seaport Association, Inc. Demonstrate the use of kelp, a native Implement technology demonstration Sheffield Island Park Interpretive SignageCT ( ) seaweed, to bioextract 53 lbs. of nitrogen and component of manure to energy initiative. Design, fabricate and install four 30 inch by 343 lbs. of carbon pollution at a small scale, Project will deploy multiple thermo- 36 inch wayside signs providing information and then model the potential large-scale chemical technologies. about the natural environment of the Long nutrient removal capacity. $691,144 Island Sound and Norwalk Islands. $157,448 $9,525 Manomet, Inc. Wildlife Management Institute American Oystercatcher Coastwide Sacred Heart University, Inc. Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Aerial Survey Horseshoe Crab Outreach and Education (CT) Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Conduct an outreach, education and birds through a program of technical of the entire winter range of the American data collection program about American assistance and land management activities on Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. horseshoe crabs to 12 communities involving public and private land. In this phase, existing $83,750 600 volunteers and 20 K-12 schools. positions will be supported and replacement $24,730 habitat biologists will be sought for New Manomet, Inc. Jersey and West Virginia. American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Sea Research Foundation, Inc. $200,899 Continue and expand coordinated Estuary Health Program (CT) management and monitoring of American Host 5,000 people at the National Estuary Wildlife Management Institute Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along and Long Island Sound Day. Activities will Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. include beach clean-ups, horseshoe crab Provide technical assistance to private $133,510 monitoring and a forum for 300 educators. landowners in the Northeast Forest Region In addition, students from 50 schools will to more effectively utilize Farm Bill Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy use self-guided materials to learn about conservation programs. Choptank Agricultural Landowner Long Island Sound resources. $300,000 Technical Assistance $7,111 Identify, prioritize, design and begin DELAWARE remedial projects on key agricultural sites Sea Research Foundation, Inc. in the Choptank watershed. Project may Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. Long Island Sound Curricula Outreach (CT) serve as a template for addressing keystone dba Oyster Recovery Partnership Engage 700 students from three at-risk non point source pollution. Maryland Oyster Restoration Planning urban school districts aiming to increase $130,000 students’ knowledge and protection of Conduct a planning effort to prioritize Long Island Sound. Maryland tributaries suitable for oyster Town of Bridgeville, Delaware restoration. Project will also continue the $30,603 Bridgeville Land Use Master Plan (DE) region’s oyster shell recycling program, Partner with the University of Delaware, State of Connecticut which collects used shells from restaurants Delaware Office of State Planning Coor­dina­ Barn Island Wildlife Management Area for use in reef construction. tion, and Delaware Department of Natural Management Plan (CT) $5,000 Resources and Environmental Control to Prepare a comprehensive management develop a comprehensive master planning City Parks Foundation plan for the Barn Island Wildlife and outreach initiative focused on sustainable Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Management Area that addresses important growth. Project will engage various stake­ Seed Bank and Network natural resource and outdoor recreation holders to create a strategy for meeting the management issues. Initiate collaborations and activities to establish goals set forth in Delaware’s Chesapeake Bay a regional seed bank and seed network to $23,999 Watershed Implementation Plan. meet both national Seeds of Success seed $75,000 The Connecticut Fund for the Environment, Inc. bank goals and regional conservation and Pond Lily Fish Passage Design and management needs for ecoregional seed. Town of Greenwood, Delaware Planning Project (CT) $35,000 Town of Greenwood Green Complete the design and permitting to Infrastructure Initiative (DE) Ducks Unlimited, Inc. remove a failing dam and open 2.6 miles of Remove nearly 1,000 feet of channelized North American Boreal Conservation fish passage for alewife and blueback herring tax ditches and install new wetlands, forest Campaign and Completing the Cycle and American eel. buffers and other features to address storm In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of $60,000 water run-off within the Town. Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation $35,000 initiatives: the North American Boreal Conservation Campaign and Completing the Cycle. The North American Boreal

10 11 University of Maryland Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. National Environmental Education Foundation Coordinating Local Government dba Oyster Recovery Partnership Public Lands Youth Engagement Grants Technical Assistance Maryland Oyster Restoration Planning Provide funding for organizations who Coordinate the provision of technical Conduct a planning effort to prioritize partner with Forest Service and Bureau assistance to ten localities participating in Maryland tributaries suitable for oyster of Land Management to support youth the Chesapeake Bay Local Government restoration. Project will also continue the engagement projects supporting the Capacity Building Initiative. The project region’s oyster shell recycling program, missions of the partner agencies. will also produce case studies about each which collects used shells from restaurants $300,000 locality’s experience with the Initiative. for use in reef construction. $39,449 $50,000 The H. John Heinz III Center Chesapeake Commons Data Analysis and University of Tennessee City Parks Foundation Maintenance Services Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Development of a Mid-Atlantic Maintain the Chesapeake Commons database Restore grassland bird populations Regional Seed Bank and Network and perform analyses on a fee-for-service through national conservation leadership Initiate collaborations and activities to basis. Project will provide technical support and market-based incentives that deliver establish a regional seed bank and seed to Chesapeake Commons users, including large-scale habitat solutions. Project will network to meet both national Seeds of Stewardship Fund grantees. enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Success seed bank goals and regional $50,000 Conservation Initiative and the Center for conservation and management needs for Native Grasslands Management to ensure ecoregional seed. The Potomac Conservancy, Inc. national coordination and leadership for a $35,000 Potomac Watershed Stormwater resident game bird and a strong producer- Code Assessment (MD) focused native grass initiative. Community Resources Chesapeake, Inc. Assess 12 counties and cities in Maryland $372,558 Green Schools, Clean Rivers (DC) that all drain into the Chesapeake Bay. Build green stormwater infrastructure at The results will be used to identify six Wildlife Management Institute three Washington D.C. public schools in localities where high growth is projected. Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI the Capitol Hill neighborhood and provide $212,986 Restore populations of shrubland-dependent community education benefiting the birds through a program of technical Anacostia River and Chesapeake Bay. William Penn House assistance and land management activities on $200,000 William Penn House Greenroof (DC) public and private land. In this phase, existing Install a greenroof on the historic carriage positions will be supported and replacement District of Columbia house to capture storm water within the habitat biologists will be sought for New Department of the Environment property and keep it out of the District’s Jersey and West Virginia. Nash Run Stream Restoration (DC) Combined Sewer Overflow. This green $200,899 Restore a degraded stream in Northeast roof will serve as a model for other historic D.C. to improve water quality, enhance renovations in Washington D.C. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA habitat conditions, reduce trash and $20,000 mitigate flood hazards. Anacostia Watershed Society $400,000 Anacostia Wetlands Awareness and FLORIDA Restoration Effort AWARE( ) (DC) Earth Conservation Corps Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission Conservation Planning Assistance to Restore tidal wetland habitat in the Anacostia Diamond Teague Park Wetland Expansion (DC) Florida Landowners watershed by removing invasive plant cover, Expand the wetland area around Diamond revegetating five acres of land with native Teague Park on the Anacostia River water- Work with the Suwannee River Partnership plants and establishing a riparian buffer. front in the District of Columbia. The project and Natural Resource Conservation Service $200,000 will partner with the Landscape Architecture to provide technical assistance to private Bureau, Symbiosis and the Field School to landowners to protect water quality and to Casey Trees Endowment Fund ensure appropriate expertise and professional conserve water and wildlife habitat. Large Parcel Tree Planting Pilot Program (DC) guidance, as well as significant community $216,430 Identify tree planting opportunities on large engagement. land parcels in the District of Columbia, with Florida Forest Service $159,906 emphasis on the Oxon Run and Rock Creek Farm Bill Forestry Landowner Assistance (FL) watersheds. Project will locate and map key Metropolitan Washington Council Provide technical assistance to landowners target areas in need of tree cover, plant at least of Governments and assist Natural Resource Conservation 500 trees over four planting seasons within Stormwater Bioretention in the Service with the delivery of forestry the two-year grant timeline, and test different Anacostia River Watershed (DC) components of Farm Bill programs, approaches and models to increase tree Design and construct bioretention specifically the Environmental Quality canopy on large urban parcels. facilities at Langston Golf Course and the Incentives Program. $95,000 Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens in $75,000 Washington, D.C. Project will capture and Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. filter stormwater runoff from two large dba Oyster Recovery Partnership parking lots, thereby reducing pollution Harris Creek Oyster Bed Restoration (MD) loads to the Anacostia River. Conduct large-scale oyster restoration in $175,000 Harris Creek and develop a modeling tool to estimate the value of oyster reefs as an effective water quality best management practice. $200,000 UNITED STATES

Florida Forest Service Manomet, Inc. Southwest Florida Water Management District Longleaf Ecosystem Restoration Landowner American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Restoration of MacDill Mangrove / Incentive Program (FL) Continue and expand coordinated Tidal Creek and MacDill Lewis Lake (FL) Increase the acreage of healthy longleaf management and monitoring of American Restore approximately 34 acres of degraded pine ecosystems in Florida by offering Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along black mangroves to functioning fisheries non-industrial private forest landowners the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. habitat on two selected estuarine restoration technical assistance and incentive payments $133,510 projects, MacDill Mangrove / Tidal Creek for conducting approved longleaf restoration Project and MacDill Lewis Lake Project, as practices. More than 4,000 acres will be Martin County Board of County part of a greater restoration effort on MacDill treated with longleaf enhancement techniques Commissioners Air Force Base. and over 1 million longleaf trees will be Turtle-Friendly Design for Beach Restoration $250,000 planted on 1,850 acres. (FL) $363,500 Test whether changes to the construction The Everglades Foundation, Inc. template for beach restoration projects reduces Restoration Benefits to Wading Bird Florida Forest Service impacts to sea turtles typically documented Habitat in Florida Bay Osceola National Forest Landowner Incentive for traditionally built beaches. Improve habitat in eastern Florida Bay for Programs for Longleaf Restoration $634,780 Roseate Spoonbills and Reddish Egrets. Offer technical assistance and incentive Project will track effects and develop payments to non-industrial private Museum of Science, Inc. statistical tools for management. forest landowners for establishment and dba Miami Science Museum $200,000 maintenance of longleaf on their lands. Oleta River State Park Hardwood Project will treat approximately 1,800 acres Hammock Restoration (FL) The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. of private land with a variety of longleaf Restore coastal habitats at Oleta River State Strengthening Bird Conservation within ecosystem enhancements including planting Park, Virginia Key and R. Hardy Matheson the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem over 500,000 longleaf trees, prescribed fire, Preserve in Miami-Dade County. Manage and restore critical bird habitat mechanical underbrush reduction, timber $152,116 within the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem. stand improvement, native understory Project will use prescribed burning, vegetation establishment and noxious National Audubon Society, Inc. mechanical treatment, invasive species invasive weed eradication. Alafia Bank Shoreline Restoration and control and ecological monitoring on over $150,000 Management (FL) — II 45,000 acres of public and private lands Install 620 feet of breakwater oyster reef benefitting rare bird species. Friends of Florida State Forests in linear wave attenuation device arrays to $158,460 Longleaf Restoration on Florida State Forests protect the Alafia Bank north shoreline and Re-establish longleaf pines to specific areas bird nesting habitat from storm wave and The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. on Blackwater River State Forest. ship wake erosion. Evaluation of Longleaf Pine Groundcover $300,000 $250,000 Ecotype Seed Sources Evaluate differences in germination, Gulf of Maine Research Institute Nova Southeastern University establishment, phenological characteristics Fishery Science & Management Education Evaluating Alternative Fishing Gears in the and growth rates among proposed seed for Gulf Fishermen Gulf of Mexico transfer zones for six common understory Build regional capacity to develop and deliver Evaluate two new fishing gears in the plant species that provide functionality in a fishery science and management education Gulf of Mexico as more environmentally- the longleaf ecosystem. program for Gulf of Mexico fisheries friendly alternatives to the pelagic longline $85,000 stakeholders. gear now used to commercially harvest $125,000 tuna and swordfish. The Nature Conservancy $379,978 Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration Keep Pensacola Beautiful, Inc. and Outreach (AL, FL) Bayou Texar Oyster Reef and Operation Migration–USA Provide technical and on-the-ground Marsh Grass Restoration (FL) Whooping Crane Reintroduction to restoration assistance to family forest Collect approximately 84 tons of oyster shell Southeastern U.S. — II landowners interested in managing or from local partner restaurants to be used as Reintroduce whooping cranes to the restoring longleaf pine on their lands using substrate to establish 79 oyster reefs (0.073 Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes prescribed fire. Project will plant longleaf acres) along 1,200 linear feet of shoreline on toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining on 100 acres and implement hydrologic and the Bayou Texar in the Florida Pensacola population. Project will use ultralight aircraft ground integrity restoration at Splinter Hill Bay System. In addition, 4,520 square feet to teach migration route. Bog Preserve, including a portion of the of native emergent marsh grasses will be $172,599 Carrigan Addition, showcasing restoration planted to restore intertidal habitat. efforts during two field days. $20,398 Snook Foundation, Inc. $150,000 Angler Action Program (FL) Manomet, Inc. Build a recreational angler communication The Nature Conservancy — Florida American Oystercatcher Coastwide system that involves real-time data for Panther Crossing Protection (FL) Aerial Survey research and fishery management in Gulf Protection of 1,278-acre Panther Crossing Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey and Atlantic waters. in Glades County, Florida, to conserve of the entire winter range of the American $35,000 habitat crucial to the survival of the federally Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. endangered Florida panther. $83,750 $200,000

12 13 University of Tennessee techniques and develop a predator density Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III trigger that will allow resource managers to Developing Metrics for Longleaf Pine Restoration Restore grassland bird populations determine, before the nesting season begins, Conduct reviews of scientific literature through national conservation leadership whether a trapping effort will be required. pertaining to habitat preferences and optimal and market-based incentives that deliver $98,153 habitat structure in longleaf forests for large-scale habitat solutions. Project will identified priority wildlife species. Project enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Georgia Department of Natural Resources will survey species that include, but are not Conservation Initiative and the Center for Ft. Stewart / Altamaha Longleaf Pine limited to, Bachman’s sparrow, brown-headed Native Grasslands Management to ensure Restoration (GA) nuthatch, red-cockaded woodpecker, northern national coordination and leadership for a Restore longleaf pine and establish a bobwhite quail, fox squirrel, gopher tortoise, resident game bird and a strong producer- framework for future work in Ft. Stewart– pine snake and southern hognose snake. focused native grass initiative. Altamaha. Project will develop an $46,700 $372,558 implementation team, purchase and plant longleaf on 1,350 acres and conduct Manomet, Inc. GEORGIA prescribed burns on 5,000 acres. American Oystercatcher Coastwide $364,375 Aerial Survey Atlanta BeltLine, Inc. Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Water Conservation and Native Habitat Georgia Department of Natural Resources of the entire winter range of the American Restoration in Atlanta Altamaha / Ocmulgee Corridor Longleaf Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. Create a drainage / rainwater retention Pine Restoration (GA) $83,750 system, recycle water, restore native habitat Plant 310 acres of longleaf, restore and provide community involvement and groundcover on 215 acres and prescribe burn Manomet, Inc. education in a former contaminated site 3,100 acres in the upper Altamaha / Ocmulgee American Oystercatcher Recovery — III plagued by erosion and depleted soil. River corridor in Georgia. Project will address Continue and expand coordinated $30,000 major threats to longleaf in this region management and monitoring of American including the absence of prescribed fire; Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along Dunwoody Nature Center, Inc. past conversion of open longleaf savannas the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Dunwoody Nature Center Meadow to densely stocked loblolly, slash or sand $133,510 Restoration (GA) pine plantations; isolation of quality longleaf Re-grade the meadow area and develop a habitat; and low-density residential sprawl. National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. linked system of rain gardens for storm water $143,875 Savannah River Corridor Longleaf collection in Dunwoody Park. The results of Restoration Partnership this project will be the restoration of a 1.5 acre Georgia Forestry Commission Provide incentive funding for 24 non- riparian buffer to the creek; development of Landowner Technical Assistance for industrial private forest landowners in South an experiential teaching facility for students Longleaf (GA) Carolina and Georgia to restore longleaf pine to learn about the effects and prevention of Provide follow-up assistance and guidance to on their lands through herbicide treatments, erosion; and creation of a demonstration area Georgia landowners with Wildlife Habitat prescribed burns, longleaf planting on to educate an adult community on how to Incentive Program Long-Leaf Pine Initiative approximately 960 acres and mechanical or create a similar project on their property. contracts. Project will help landowners imple­ chemical treatments on hardwoods. $19,702 ment practices outlined in their conservation $150,000 plan, which will result in the planting of over Elachee Nature Science Center, Inc. 10,000 acres of longleaf pine. National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. Walnut Creek Invasive Plant Control and $476,250 Red-cockaded Woodpecker Habitat Native Reintroduction (GA) Enhancement (GA) — III Control 27 acres of Microstegium in the Georgia Wildlife Federation, Inc. Conduct activities to improve Red-cockaded floodplains of the upper Walnut Creek Alcovy River Greenway Restoration and Woodpecker foraging and nesting habitats Watershed and plant 480 native seedlings Education (GA) including commercial thinning followed by over 516 square feet of test plots to determine Construct two rain gardens and remove mid-story control on 500 acres, non-native the success of native seedlings in controlling invasive species from approximately 25 acres invasive species eradication on 300 acres, re-invasion when planted at high and low and plant 200 native plants in the riparian residual coppice treatment on 500 acres, densities. 100 volunteers will assist with zone of Cornish Creek. Project will update creation and maintenance of 80 nest cavity mapping, invasive control and plantings; over the Alcovy River Greenway Registry land-­ inserts, wildlife habitat rehabilitation, native 200 students will participate in hands-on owner database which will be used to contact grass restoration and gate replacement. activities to learn about riparian habitats and educate landowners who are uniquely $173,306 and exotic invasive plants; and over 120 positioned to make positive, private landowners will participate in invasive plant conservation impacts. Operation Migration–USA ID and control workshops. $19,573 Whooping Crane Reintroduction to $10,000 Southeastern U.S.— II Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. Reintroduce whooping cranes to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Bridging the Forestry Diversity Gap Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes Assessing Predator Control Techniques for Provide 16 low-income, minority youth from toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining Nesting American Oystercatcher (GA) Yonkers, New York, with a paid, in-depth, population. Project will use ultralight aircraft Research the most effective site-specific conservation job training program. On-site to teach migration route. means of controlling predators on four main training and projects will be completed in the $172,599 study areas on the Georgia coast. Project Chatahoochee, Cherokee and Nantahala- will assess predator densities, implement a Pisgah National Forests and will expose youth predator control plan, document American to Forest Service work and job opportunities. Oystercatcher productivity response to control $50,091 UNITED STATES

Southeastern Association of University of Georgia Research Haereticus Environmental Laboratory Fish and Wildlife Agencies Foundation, Inc. Toxicity Testing on Coral and Distribution and Habitat Requirements Restoring Quality Bird Habitat at the Sea Urchins in Hawaii of Shoal Bass (GA) State Botanical Garden (GA) Conduct toxicity tests to sample areas Survey streams in the middle Chattahoochee Restore 15 acres of floodplain forest and suspected of contamination from shallow-well River in Georgia for the presence of shoal bass 10 acres of Piedmont prairie at the State sewage injections in West Maui. Project will and other species of concern. Project supports Botanical Garden in Georgia, two highly establish biological effect concentrations. the goals of the Southeast Aquatic Resources visible examples of important bird habitat. $15,300 Partnership as part of the Project activities will include prescribed fire, National Fish Habitat Action Plan. removal of Chinese privet, propagation of Island Conservation $45,000 native plants and public outreach to increase Lehua Island Restoration and Seabird awareness of bird conservation techniques. Recovery (HI) The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. $59,787 Restore the ecosystem with significant benefits Evaluation of Longleaf Pine Groundcover to native Lehua Island seabirds. Project will Ecotype Seed Sources University of Tennessee conduct a rat eradication feasibility assessment, Evaluate differences in germination, Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III plan for Lehua Island restoration to recover establishment, phenological characteristics Restore grassland bird populations through seabird populations and enable Newell’s and growth rates among proposed seed national conservation leadership and market- Shearwater translocation. transfer zones for six common understory based incentives that deliver large-scale habitat $325,000 plant species that provide functionality solutions. Project will enhance capacity for the in the longleaf ecosystem. National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Oikonos — Ecosystem Knowledge $85,000 and the Center for Native Grasslands Assessing High-Seas Threats for Kure Atoll Management to ensure national coordination Black-Footed Albatross The Nature Conservancy and leadership for a resident game bird and a Enhance international Black-footed Longleaf Pine Restoration on the Fall Line (GA) strong producer-focused native grass initiative. Albatross conservation by mapping the at-sea Enhance 15,000 acres on the Chattahoochee $372,558 distribution and assessing the overlap with Fall Line in Georgia by planting 1,500 acres fisheries threats and management jurisdictions of longleaf pine, prescribed fire, understory HAWAII of birds from Kure Atoll, the westernmost U.S. restoration, invasive species control and breeding site. Project will track Black-footed American Bird Conservancy forestry operation contract oversight. Albatross movements during chick-rearing Saving Hawaii’s Imperiled Forest Birds $200,000 and assess overlap with longlining and driftnet Continue long-term efforts to save Hawaii’s fisheries in northwest Pacific. threatened native birds. This project will The Nature Conservancy $54,333 Protection and Restoration of implement on-the-ground conservation Longleaf Pine on the Fall Line (GA) by controlling invasive species, restoring State of Hawaii, Department of Protect a key 7,800-acre parcel as part of habitat and translocating species to create Land and Natural Resources Fort Benning’s buffer program. Project new populations. It will increase national Restoring Seabird Breeding Habitat on will allow for the restoration of functional awareness of and support for Hawaii’s critical Kure Atoll longleaf habitat in the Fall Line sandhills. conservation needs through an aggressive Restore the native biodiversity and seabird $250,000 public outreach and media campaign. populations on Kure Atoll by conducting non- $278,666 native plant removal. This project will engage The Orianne Society state biologists and volunteers in eradicating American Bird Conservancy Longleaf Pine Restoration in the Verbesina and other non-native plants from Constructing a Predator-Proof Fence at Altamaha River Corridor (GA) 120 acres of seabird nesting habitat on Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge (HI) Plant 520 acres of longleaf pine on the Green Island using established protocol and Orianne Indigo Snake Preserve in Tefair Coordinate a multi-year, multi-partner effort improving the native County, Georgia. Project will help create to construct a predator-proof fence at Kilauea plant community. Point National Wildlife Refuge on Kaua‘i. longleaf pine habitat and decrease longleaf $500,000 habitat fragmentation in the Altamaha Project will also eradicate nonnative mammals River Corridor. from the enclosure and translocate Newell’s The Coral Reef Alliance $149,927 Shearwaters into the protected area. Engage West Maui Hotels in Watershed $131,779 Management Planning The South Fork Conservancy, Inc. Perform targeted outreach to assess the Amy Baco-Taylor Peachtree Creek Confluence Restoration GA( ) demand for reclaimed water by West Maui Predictive Modeling of the Distribution Fence off highway trash for approximately Hotels and to engage this industry in of Hawaii Deep-Sea Coral 800 feet, control three acres of non-native watershed management planning. Use existing data records for deep-sea corals invasives, restore three bioswales to catch $55,524 highway stormwater and re-establish a in the Main Hawaiian Islands, along with bio-diverse buffer along .22 miles of creek. environmental and current data for the The Kohala Center Biologists and educators will lead 30 adult and same region, to build a predictive model for Stabilizing Streambanks And Reducing Erosion 60 student volunteers and neighbors in stream determining the potential locations of deep In South Kohala To Benefit Coral Reefs HI( ) restoration and low-impact trail creation. coral communities. Reduce sediment inputs into Pelekane Bay $20,720 $9,500 coral reef system by reducing land-based run- off. Project will engage volunteers to capture overland flow of sediment with erosion- control structures, and will restore stream banks in key drainages. $60,000

14 15 The Nature Conservancy conservation and restoration of Yellowstone Chicago Horticultural Society Palila Protection (HI) cutthroat trout populations in the Henry’s Seeds of Success National Coordination (IL) — II Acquire 4,469 acres on the northwestern Fork, Teton and Sinks drainages in Idaho Assist, manage and train 65 Seeds of slopes of Mauna Kea to protect and and Wyoming. Success collecting teams to increase the improve critical palila habitat for sustained $28,975 quantity and quality of native plant recovery efforts. materials available for restoration. $500,000 The Nature Conservancy $62,834 McArthur Lake Wildlife Safety (ID) Tri-Isle Resource Conservation & Identify, prioritize and implement Forest Preserve District of Cook County Development Council, Inc. transportation mitigation projects such as Thornton-Lansing Road Habitat Restoration (IL) Lana‘i Hawaiian Petrel & Newell’s fencing and animal detection systems to Control invasive species to restore more Shearwater Restoration improve wildlife safety at McArthur Lake than 130 acres of lakeplain habitat in the Continue and expand predator control in in the Northern Rockies. Thornton-Lansing Road Nature Preserve in Lana‘i Hawaiian petrel colony and develop $99,268 the Millennium Reserve: Calumet Core area. justification and approval for use of additional $100,000 types of predator control. Project will also Trout Unlimited, Inc. design a predator-proof fence around Habitat Capacity Models for Salmon Recovery Lake County Forest Preserve District approximately 5 acres of the colony where Develop models to estimate productive Coastal Wetlands Restoration for Hawaiian petrel are known to breed and capacity and support management decisions Species of Concern (IL, WI) Newell’s shearwater are suspected. for escapement. Project will focus on Work with partners in Illinois and Wisconsin $240,000 improvements­ to existing modeling approaches to restore 1,158 acres of coastal lake plain that enable better estimates of the expected habitat along the Chiwaukee Illinois Beach West Maui Coral Coordinator number of smolts that can be produced from Lake Plain. West Maui Watershed and extant habitat, and a guiding decision tool for $874,081 Coastal Assessment managers to decide which modeling approach Assist in steering committee coordination, to use given available data. Lake County Stormwater Management project management and assistance with $100,000 Commission the development and implementation of Bull Creek — Lake Michigan Restoration (IL) watershed plans in Kahekili-Ka’anapali. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Control invasive species and stabilize stream $71,624 Bear River Native Trout Restoration banks to restore 1,800 linear feet of Bull (UT, ID, WY) — IV Creek, a major stream channel in the Dead IDAHO Restore riparian and aquatic habitats, River watershed. improve water quality and reconnect 175 $57,000 Friends of Camas National Wildlife Refuge miles of historic Bonneville cutthroat trout Friends of Camas National Wildlife spawning and rearing tributaries throughout Lewis and Clark Community College Refuge Start-Up (ID) the Bear River watershed in Utah, Idaho and District 536 Develop a website, host membership Wyoming. Project supports the goals of the Illinois Conservation Reserve Enhancement drives, and produce brochures, letterhead Western Native Trout Initiative as part of Program Initiative and apparel. Project will result in increased the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. Optimize Farm Bill conservation practices for numbers of Friends group members $98,000 water quality and habitat restoration goals in and volunteers. Illinois’ Conservation Reserve Enhancement $3,800 ILLINOIS Program region. Project will increase capacity and measure long term results. Friends of the Teton River, Inc. Alliance for the Great Lakes $250,000 Restoring a Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Youth Restoration of the South Shore Beach & Sanctuary (IL) Stronghold on Canyon Creek (ID) Operation Migration–USA Restore connectivity and eliminate Work with partner schools and groups to Whooping Crane Reintroduction to entrainment of Yellowstone cutthroat trout remove non-native plant species on 0.25 acres Southeastern U.S.— II at South Shore Beach / Sanctuary and replant in Canyon Creek, Idaho. Project will monitor Reintroduce whooping cranes to the 1.4 acres of native vegetation on the dunes restoration response for more informed Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes and other areas on the edges of the site. The management decisions. toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining Alliance will conduct six Adopt-a-Beach™ $24,450 population. Project will use ultralight aircraft visits at South Shore Beach where volunteers to teach migration route. Idaho Department of Water Resources will remove litter and will engage 109 youth $172,599 Tributary Water Conservation in Idaho — XI to participate in stewardship activities. Work with water users in the Upper Salmon $20,203 Pheasants Forever, Inc. and Teton River Basins to improve tributary Upper Mississippi Basin Technical Chicago Horticultural Society flows for the benefit of fish species. Project Assistance — Illinois Development of Optimal Rare Plant will identify and assess new transaction Support two Farm Bill Biologists in Illinois. Monitoring Protocols (IL) opportunities. The positions will focus on the Conservation Develop standardized protocols for $209,127 Reserve Program, Conservation Reserve monitoring rare plant species on Forest Enhancement Program, State Acres for The Henry’s Fork Foundation, Inc. Service lands. Wildlife Enhancement and Conservation Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Restoration, $36,000 Stewardship Program, and will cover a total Status and Trend (ID, WY) of 10 counties with more than a quarter of the Restore the headwater of Schneider Creek state’s expiring Conservation Reserve Program. and complete a culvert replacement on Tygee $278,300 Creek in Idaho. Project will support the UNITED STATES

Trout Unlimited, Inc. University of Tennessee The Nature Conservancy Engaging Driftless Area Landowners in Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Managing for Biodiversity in the Farm Bill Programs Restore grassland bird populations through Iowa and Cedar River Valley (IA) Increase the capacity of organizations to national conservation leadership and market- Improve private landowner assistance in implement Farm Bill programs that protect, based incentives that deliver large-scale habitat managing for biodiversity by providing restore and enhance streams for fish and other solutions. Project will enhance capacity for the expertise and farm bill program options, aquatic life throughout the Driftless Area. National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative and by coordinating with resource $133,333 and the Center for Native Grasslands Manage­ managers and like-minded citizens. ment to ensure national coordination and $101,331 University of Tennessee leadership for a resident game bird and a strong Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III producer-focused native grass initiative. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Restore grassland bird populations $372,558 Engaging Driftless Area Landowners in through national conservation leadership Farm Bill Programs and market-based incentives that deliver IOWA Increase the capacity of organizations to large-scale habitat solutions. Project will implement Farm Bill programs that protect, City of Elliott enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite restore and enhance streams for fish and other City of Elliott Wetland Restoration and Conservation Initiative and the Center for aquatic life throughout the Driftless Area. Outdoor Classroom (IA) Native Grasslands Management to ensure $133,333 national coordination and leadership for a Restore a 1.5 acre wetland and replant more than 21 acres of native grass area with the resident game bird and a strong producer- KANSAS focused native grass initiative. help of 135 students and 19 adult volunteers. Project partners will include extensive Ecology and Environment, Inc. $372,558 educational components such as an ADA- Smoky Hills Kansas Prairie Chicken Survey (KS) compliant walkway with an interpretive Conduct post-construction Greater Prairie INDIANA panel about wetlands and a platform for Chicken lek surveys at the Smoky Hills Wind Indiana Association of Soil and Water outdoor classes. Project site. Project will collect data for year Conservation Districts $24,472 eight of a ten-year study. Conservation Cropping Systems Initiative (IN) $30,383 Expand adoption and improve technology Iowa Department of Natural Resources of conservation cropping systems in Indiana Promoting Farm Bill Conservation to Western Association of Fish and for healthy soils and clean water while Private Landowners (IA) Wildlife Agencies maintaining profitability and productivity Hire two staff to promote the enrollment Lesser Prairie Chicken Aerial Monitoring for Indiana agriculture. of private lands into state and federal Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser $177,646 conservation programs in order to restore Prairie Chicken to establish a baseline and wetland and grasslands complexes in the allow for the assessment of future Lesser Indiana Department of Natural Resources Iowa Prairie Pothole Region. Prairie Chicken population response to Lake George Wetlands Restoration & $250,000 conservation measures. Invasive Species Control (IN) $55,092 Control invasive species to restore 33 acres Iowa Soybean Association of wetlands in northern Lake County, Nutrient, Soil and Habitat Management Western Association of Fish and Indiana, within the Grand Calumet River in Upper Cedar Watersheds (IA) Wildlife Agencies Area of Concern. Work with crop advisors and watershed Lesser Prairie Chicken Population $121,000 management specialists, experienced in Estimation and Monitoring (KS) whole farm planning, monitoring and farmer Utilize and build upon the knowledge, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. outreach, to help 75 farmers in the lower information and expertise of five state wildlife Fall Creek Watershed Community-Based Upper Cedar watersheds assess on-farm agencies to develop and test a consistent Habitat Restoration (IN) nutrient, soil and wildlife habitat needs. range-wide sampling framework and Remove invasive species over 10 acres $128,333 methodology for Lesser Prairie Chicken, and plant more than 365 trees in the Fall providing managers within the species range a Creek watershed. Approximately 200-500 Pheasants Forever, Inc. more consistent approach to population trend community members will be educated Upper Mississippi Basin Technical analyses. Project will establish a population through meetings; residents and volunteers Assistance — Iowa Buffer and baseline and allow for the assessment of future will learn about tree planting and care and Declining Habitat Lesser Prairie Chicken population response stewardship of the watershed. Support three Farm Bill Biologists to provide to conservation measures. $24,999 technical assistance to landowners in central $63,487 Iowa. The biologists will focus on Natural Ohio River Foundation Resource Conservation Service financial KENTUCKY Conservation Career Training in the assistance programs and reenrollment of Ohio River Foundation Ohio River Watershed (KY, IN) Conservation Reserve Program. Conservation Career Training in the Work with Youth Conservation Teams to $250,000 Ohio River Watershed (KY, IN) install habitat protection and restoration projects, and conduct conservation education Work with Youth Conservation Teams to in Hoosier National Forest. install habitat protection and restoration projects and conduct conservation $28,300 education in Hoosier National Forest. $28,300

16 17 Operation Migration–USA Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Nova Southeastern University Whooping Crane Reintroduction to Ouachita Wildlife Management Area Evaluating Alternative Fishing Gears Southeastern U.S.— II Hydrology Restoration (LA) in the Gulf of Mexico Reintroduce whooping cranes to the Restore hydrology on 725 acres of Evaluate two new fishing gears in the Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes emergent wetland and 466 acres of forested Gulf of Mexico as more environmentally- toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining wetland habitat on the Ouachita Wildlife friendly alternatives to the pelagic longline population. Project will use ultralight aircraft Management Area. Project will benefit a gear now used to commercially harvest to teach migration route. diversity of waterfowl and shorebird species. tuna and swordfish. $172,599 $100,000 $379,978

University of Tennessee Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Southern Mutual Help Association, Inc. Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Migratory Bird Habitat Initiative (LA) Creating a Bycatch / Species Sharing Model Restore grassland bird populations Assist with uptake of conservation practices in for Louisiana Fishers (LA) through national conservation leadership rice agriculture lands of southwest Louisiana. Conduct research, create peer learning / and market-based incentives that deliver Project will positively impact wintering and technical assistance opportunities and large-scale habitat solutions. Project will migrating waterfowl and other waterbirds. design model bycatch /species sharing policy enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite $250,000 and processes among Louisiana’s traditional Conservation Initiative and the Center for family fishers. Native Grasslands Management to ensure Gulf of Maine Research Institute $75,000 national coordination and leadership for a Fishery Science & Management resident game bird and a strong producer- Education for Gulf Fishermen The Conservation Fund focused native grass initiative. Build regional capacity to develop and West Pontchartrain Maurepas Important $372,558 deliver a fishery science and management Bird Area (LA) education program for Gulf of Mexico Acquire 353 acres and transfer to the state to LOUISIANA fisheries stakeholders. be managed as part of the Maurepas Swamp $125,000 Wildlife Management Area in Louisiana. Audubon Nature Institute, Inc. This is part of a larger project acquiring Enhancing Necropsy Capacity for Island Institute approximately 33,000 acres, helping to Unusual Mortality Events (LA) Community Fisheries Network Capacity connect 133,000 acres of protected coastal Enhance capabilities to respond to marine Building and Expansion wetlands that provide critical habitat to mammal Unusual Mortality Events through Expand and strengthen the community numerous shorebirds and waterbirds. increased staff time for necropsies and fishery network in order to continue building $192,850 related efforts. capacity and disseminate innovations that $67,500 improve the long-term sustainability of The Nature Conservancy — Louisiana community fisheries. Pineywoods Longleaf Restoration (LA) Caddo Lake Institute, Inc. $87,847 Restore longleaf pine and build place-based Strategies for Control of Giant Salvinia project capacity in the Fort Polk / Kisatchie and Other Invasives Louisiana Department of Wildlife area. Deliverables include 1,200 acres Control acquatic invasives in Texas and and Fisheries planted, 3,300 acres burned and two Louisiana through a private / public Sea Turtle Stranding and Nesting Surveys (LA) landowner field days. partnership to protect lakes and wetlands Conduct beach surveys and respond to $355,256 using innovative websites, trained all sea turtle reports received from the public volunteers and public education. in an effort to locate possible sea turtle University of Tennessee $100,000 strandings. The project will also compile Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III historical stranding information previously Restore grassland bird populations Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana collected by various entities to create a through national conservation leadership Oyster Shell Recycling Pilot Program (LA) central repository of sea turtle stranding and market-based incentives that deliver Create an oyster shell recycling program in information for Louisiana. large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Louisiana by collecting shell from restaurants $173,499 enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite and festivals to be used to restore coastal Conservation Initiative and the Center for habitats and build self-sustaining reefs. Manomet, Inc. Native Grasslands Management to ensure $45,925 American Oystercatcher Coastwide national coordination and leadership for a Aerial Survey resident game bird and a strong producer- Delta Waterfowl Foundation Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey focused native grass initiative. Priority Waterfowl Research — II of the entire winter range of the American $372,558 Support three priority waterfowl research Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. efforts including the movements and survival $83,750 of mottled ducks along the Gulf Coast, MAINE evaluating landscape features’ influence Manomet, Inc. Atlantic Salmon Federation (U.S.), Inc. on nest survival in the Prairie Pothole American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Pushaw Lake Fishway (ME) Region of North Dakota, and modeling the Continue and expand coordinated Construct a fishway at the outlet dam of consequences of water scarcity on carrying management and monitoring of American Pushaw Lake to restore sea-run alewives to capacity of waterfowl habitat in the Central Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along a 5,000-acre, high priority lake in Maine’s Valley of California. the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Penobscot River watershed. $49,000 $133,510 $45,000 UNITED STATES

CLF Ventures, Inc. Island Institute Sustainable Harvest Sector New England Fishing Quota Investment Gulf of Maine Risk Pool (ME) Electronic Logbooks in a New England Fund (ME, RI, MA) Develop one or several smaller Gulf of Maine Groundfish Sector Investigate the feasibility of structuring a Risk Pools to modify the Sector Management Design and implement a new electronic Triple-Bottom-Line investment fund to System to allow fishermen better flexibility logbook reporting application in the meet the needs of investors and facilitate and data to address the impending reduced New England groundfishery. accelerated ownership of permits /quota by quota in New England. $20,000 New England community fishermen. $110,000 $80,000 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge Community Development Partnership Frenchman Bay Eelgrass Restoration (ME) Restoring New England Cottontail Best Practices in Fisheries Trust Management Engage citizens as scientists in expanding Populations in Maine — II Develop a scalable model and utilize the eelgrass restoration to 140 acres. Project Restore and increase New England cottontail on-line “Fish Hub” technology to transfer will address threats to eelgrass through populations in Maine. Project will continue best practices and lessons learned in fishery stakeholder engagement. landowner outreach / management programs trust management to a national audience. $25,266 and targeted outreach efforts in high priority $124,978 focal areas. National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. $75,000 Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Northeast Farm Bill Biologist and Technical North American Boreal Conservation Assistance Program (NY, NH, ME) Wildlife Management Institute Campaign and Completing the Cycle Utilize two biologists stationed in the Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Northeast to promote Farm Bill programs Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation and provide technical assistance plans to birds through a program of technical initiatives: the North American Boreal private landowners to increase young forest assistance and land management activities on Conservation Campaign and Completing acreage in New York, New Hampshire public and private land. In this phase, existing the Cycle. The North American Boreal and Maine. positions will be supported and replacement Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve $73,494 habitat biologists will be sought for New 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Jersey and West Virginia. forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Nobleboro Historical Society $200,899 Framework. The Completing the Cycle Damariscotta Mills “Lower Middle” Fish Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Ladder Restoration Wildlife Management Institute waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Continue the restoration of a stone fish ladder Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. that provides passage for endangered river Provide technical assistance to private $54,335 herring between the Gulf of Maine, the salt- landowners in the Northeast Forest Region water Damariscotta River and fresh-water to more effectively utilize Farm Bill Friends of Maine’s Seabird Islands Damariscotta Lake. conservation programs. Friends of Maine Seabird Islands $92,505 $300,000 Nature Store Enhancement (ME) Purchase hardware, software and display Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. MARYLAND materials for newly-opened nature store. Simplifying New England Groundfish Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Project will allow the Friends group to Sector Reporting Chesapeake RiverWise Communities efficiently operate the store and increase Test and refine the FishTrax on-board (MD, PA, VA) revenue to directly benefit the refuge. module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax Develop and implement a comprehensive $4,800 is a multifaceted tool designed specifically to simplify and satisfy the reporting stormwater auditing and financial incentive Gulf of Maine Research Institute requirements of New England Groundfish program in Maryland, Virginia and Realizing Eco-Efficiency in the Sectors. Pennsylvania. Project will develop and utilize tracking, reporting, inspection and Seafood Industry $110,000 Improve the eco-efficiency associated maintenance tools. with bringing groundfish to market Penobscot East Resource Center, Inc. $500,000 in the Northeast region. Project will Designing Fisheries Licensing for Biohabitats, Inc. build the capacity of fishing enterprises Community Resilience (ME) Howard County Environmental Site and communities, and improve their Partner with Maine Sea Grant to inform a Design (MD) sustainability ecologically and economically. viable licensing model for inter-generational Develop guidance documents for $50,000 and entry level access to diversified community fishing through fishermen Environmental Site Design in support of the Island Institute outreach and a workshop. County’s 2013 capital improvement effort. The project will inform implementation of Community Fisheries Network Capacity $31,997 Building and Expansion stormwater management practices on private Expand and strengthen the community Penobscot River Restoration Trust property and public rights-of-way. fishery network in order to continue building River Herring Restoration in $39,980 capacity and disseminating innovations that Penobscot River (ME) improve the long-term sustainability of Restore river herring and other sea-run community fisheries. fish to the Penobscot River by opening access $87,847 at four barriers while maintaining energy. This project will remove the Veazie Dam and provide support project management and oversight. $300,000

18 19 Blue Water Baltimore, Inc. Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Baltimore Water Audit Program (MD) Urbana Community Park Bio-swale Design (MD) Virginia and Upper Potomac Agricultural Expand an existing Water Audit Program, Produce design and engineering plans for a Stewardship Program which provides stormwater education, free stormwater bio-swale at Urbana Community Increase community and landowner property-scale stormwater impact assessments Park in Frederick, Maryland. The bioswale involvement in the adoption of innovative and monetary incentives for the installation will be sited down-gradient of a pipe outfall agricultural best practices, in addition to of stormwater BMPs. in a turf field owned and managed by the protecting and restoring wildlife habitat. $400,000 Frederick County Department of Parks and $398,740 Recreation. Center for Urban Environmental $19,463 Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage, Inc. Research and Education Eastern Shore Nontidal Wetland Green Infrastructure for Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Restoration (MD) Urban Landscapes (MD) Somerset County Stormwater Management Work with landowners in the Chester River Assemble a showcase portfolio of green Planning (MD) and Choptank River watersheds to restore infrastructure projects that advance Assist the County to identify and prioritize 120 acres of non-tidal wetlands. Project applications of pervious concrete and stormwater management opportunities on will guide the restorations from conception subsoiling in urban landscapes. The project public lands. The Center will produce through enrollment in appropriate USDA will target key institutional obstacles to 30 percent concept designs for at least three conservation cost-share programs, on-the- adopting these technologies, including high-priority projects. ground implementation and early post- specifications, training, performance $25,000 project management. monitoring and long-term maintenance. $50,000 $323,554 Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Chesapeake Business Plan Targeted City of Salisbury, Maryland Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Watershed Analysis Wicomico River Phase I Watershed Plan (MD) Wye River Watershed Assessment (MD) As part of the Chesapeake Business Plan Develop a baseline assessment for the Conduct an assessment of the Wye River development, the Center for Watershed Wicomico River watershed and implemen­ watershed to lay the foundation for a targeted Protection will identify and analyze existing tation plans for subwatersheds in the basin. pollution reduction strategy. Project will restoration plans and local implementation Project will determine specific strategies to identify retrofit opportunities and priority capacity in six selected watersheds within meet target pollution reductions established conservation measures, and train staff and the Bay basin. in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Imple­ local stakeholders in the Center’s Rural $35,415 mentation Plan for Wicomico County. Retrofit Assessment protocol. $75,000 $24,998 Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. dba Oyster Recovery Partnership City Parks Foundation Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Harris Creek Oyster Bed Restoration (MD) Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Talbot County Watershed Implementation Conduct large-scale oyster restoration in Seed Bank and Network Strategies (MD) Harris Creek and develop a modeling tool Initiate collaborations and activities to establish Develop town-specific Watershed to estimate the value of oyster reefs as an a regional seed bank and seed network to meet Implementation Strategies for Easton, effective water quality best management both national Seeds of Success seed bank goals Oxford, Saint Michaels and Trappe. practice. and regional conservation and management Project will conduct stakeholder meetings, $200,000 needs for ecoregional seed. perform field assessments and evaluate $35,000 alternative pollution reduction scenarios. Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. $24,889 dba Oyster Recovery Partnership Columbia Beach Citizen’s Improvement Maryland Oyster Restoration Planning Association, Inc. Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Conduct a planning effort to prioritize Columbia Beach Community-Wide Wicomico County Pollution Reduction Maryland tributaries suitable for oyster Stormwater Retrofit MD( ) Scenarios (MD) restoration. Project will also continue the Implement a community-wide stormwater Provide technical assistance to Wicomico region’s oyster shell recycling program, management approach using the most County for the purpose of preparing urban- which collects used shells from restaurants effective best management practices available. runoff loading decks using the Maryland for use in reef construction. The project will yield approximately 1,275 Assessment and Scenario Tool and cost $50,000 square feet of bioretention cells (rain gardens estimates for achieving the nutrient load and bioswales), 397 linear feet of infiltration reductions required by 2017 and 2025. Chesapeake Bay Commission trenches and 8,100 square feet of upland $3,028 Accounting for the Water Quality marsh restoration. Benefits of Land Conservation $200,000 Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Convene a group of experts for a three- Howard County Watershed Stewards session dialogue focused on the development Defenders of Wildlife Academy (MD) of model policy options which provide a way Eastern Shore Salt Marsh Train people to improve the landscape to account for the water quality benefits of Adaptation Strategy (MD) through the creation and completion of land conservation. The Commission will Ensure the continued adaptability of projects that decrease pollution entering also produce a white paper to be shared with ecologically significant coastal wetlands on local water bodies. public and private leaders throughout the Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Project will map $10,000 watershed. high priority land tracts, identify funding $30,000 sources for land protection and develop landowner incentives. $50,000 UNITED STATES

Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Main Street Economics National Aquarium in Baltimore, Inc. North American Boreal Conservation Calvert County TA: Main Street Economics Reclaiming Native Forests at Eastern Neck Campaign and Completing the Cycle In close coordination with the University of National Wildlife Refuge (MD) In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Maryland Center for Environmental Finance, Remove invasive species and plant fast- Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Main Street Economics will provide technical growing native hardwood species on a initiatives: the North American Boreal assistance to Calvert County in support of three-acre site at the Eastern Neck National Conservation Campaign and Completing cost effective WIP strategies. A model specific Wildlife Refuge. Project will reduce pressure the Cycle. The North American Boreal to Calvert County will be developed to on local wildlife that frequents the Refuge, Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve predict supply costs of WIP-level nutrient and improve water quality and increase animal 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal sediment pollution reduction by source sector. diversity and species abundance. forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation This will allow a comparison of predicted $26,022 Framework. The Completing the Cycle current and performance-based payment Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic standards. National Park Trust waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the $12,000 Get To Know — DC breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Provide support for the Washington, D.C. $54,335 Manomet, Inc. “Get To Know Your Wild Neighbors” American Oystercatcher Coastwide International Art Contest. Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. Aerial Survey $5,000 Manure to Energy Technology Demonstrations Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Implement technology demonstration of the entire winter range of the American Octoraro Watershed Association, Inc. component of manure to energy initiative. Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. Strategic Load Reductions in the Project will deploy multiple thermochemical $83,750 Octoraro Creek Watershed (PA) technologies. Identify conservation projects that address $691,144 Manomet, Inc. the most pressing water quality improvement American Oystercatcher Recovery — III needs in the Octoraro Creek watershed. Friends of the Migratory Bird / Continue and expand coordinated Project will utilize a highly replicable approach Duck Stamp, Inc. management and monitoring of American for progressing rapidly within a strategic Friends of the Migratory Bird / Duck Stamp Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along framework and promote collaboration among Start-Up and Capacity Building (MD) the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. county conservation districts, watershed Purchase software, develop a website and $133,510 stakeholders, environmental advocacy groups acquire promotional materials. Project will and state agencies. establish a strong foundation for the Friends Maryland Department of Natural Resources $100,000 group and help generate group membership. Potomac River Conservation Job Training $4,950 Program (MD) Pinchot Institute for Conservation Partner with the Bureau of Land Accelerating Private Lands Conservation Low Impact Development Center, Inc. Management to employ members of the through the Bay Bank (MD) Port Towns Commemorative Rain Maryland Conservation Corps and the Partner with the Maryland Association of Garden Network (MD) Conservation Jobs Corps to work on Home Builders to expand the possibilities Construct a series of commemorative rain conservation projects on public lands along for forest mitigation under Maryland’s Forest gardens in the Port Towns of Bladensburg, the Potomac River. Project will educate and Conservation Act. Project will identify Colmar Manor, Cottage City and employ 35 young adults in the implemen­ strategies for connecting developers with Edmonston, Maryland. Project will site rain tation of environmental restoration projects, private landowners, including the Bay Bank gardens along major transportation corridors and support the enhancement of the Marketplace and development of a private and hubs in the community and will reflect Captain John Smith National Historic Trail. landowner credit fund. the principles and practices of Green Streets $100,000 $29,968 and Green Highways. $120,000 Maryland Department of Natural Resources Scenic Rivers Land Trust, Inc. Upper Potomac Riparian Buffer and Floodplain South River Greenway and West / Low Impact Development Center, Inc. Forest Plantings (MD) Rhode Watershed Preservation (MD) Mt. Rainier Green Infrastructure Target, implement and assess forest best Continue a comprehensive watershed Master Plan (MD) management practices to reduce pollutants protection and community outreach initiative Produce a Green Infrastructure Master and enhance cold-water fisheries habitat in in the South River and West / Rhode River Plan to facilitate the implementation of priority tributaries of the Upper Potomac watersheds. Project will protect 400 acres of water quality improvement and community River. The project will develop and field-verify undeveloped land and partner with the U.S. development goals. Through a series of targeting tools to locate effective nutrient and Fish and Wildlife Service to reduce sediment workshops and charrettes, the project team sediment reduction opportunities. loads by repairing five stream headcuts. will work with the community to determine $398,128 $75,000 the most practicable and acceptable solutions that can be publicly funded or implemented Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy Smithsonian Institution, Environmental on private property through partnerships, Choptank Agricultural Landowner Research Center grants or other incentives. Technical Assistance Cheston Point Living Shoreline (MD) $39,160 Identify, prioritize, design and begin remedial Restore 1,330 feet of eroding shoreline on projects on key agricultural sites in the Cheston Point in Edgewater, Maryland. Choptank watershed. Project may serve as a Project will create a stable marsh habitat template for addressing keystone non point containing appropriate native plant species to source pollution. benefit aquatic life and migratory waterfowl $130,000 along Cheston Creek. $80,000

20 21 St. Mary’s River Watershed Association Inc. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Water Words That Work, LLC St. Mary’s River Restoration (MD) Little Tuscarora Creek Stream and Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Engage area residents, developers and Habitat Restoration Design (MD) Communications Strategy businesses to establish strong partnerships Collaborate with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Help the Lower Susquehanna Heritage that emphasize low impact development Service to produce a restoration design for a Greenway to rebrand itself and develop practices which improve water quality in 1,500-foot reach of Little Tuscarora Creek in strong communication tools. Project will the St. Mary’s River. Project will retrofit Frederick, Maryland. Project will assess stream strengthen existing partnerships and create five business properties using low impact conditions and watershed characteristics, and new opportunities that enable the Greenway development techniques, create a working final design plans will include realignment of to fulfill its mission and achieve future goals. group to develop incentives for minimal the stream channel, placement of in-stream $7,240 impact development, create an endorsement habitat structures and riparian buffer plantings. program for new developments meeting $26,536 Western Maryland Resource Conservation a set of green criteria and implement a and Development Council neighborhood-scale rewards program for University of Maryland Metz-Brawner Stream Bank Stabilization (MD) conservation practices. Coordinating Local Government Restore water quality and aquatic habitat in $80,000 Technical Assistance a 1,000-foot reach of the Savage River, an Coordinate the provision of technical important fishery and a critical Eastern brook The Potomac Conservancy, Inc. assistance to ten localities participating in trout resource in Maryland. Potomac Watershed Stormwater Code the Chesapeake Bay Local Government $199,346 Assessment (MD) Capacity Building Initiative. The project will Assess 12 counties and cities in Maryland also produce case studies about each locality’s Wildlife Management Institute that all drain into the Chesapeake Bay. experience with the Initiative. Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI The results will be used to identify six $39,449 Restore populations of shrubland-dependent localities where high growth is projected. birds through a program of technical $212,986 University of Maryland assistance and land management activities on Financing the Calvert County Watershed public and private land. In this phase, existing Town of Centreville Implementation Plan positions will be supported and replacement Gravel Run Fish Passage and Habitat Develop a strategy to improve the capacity of habitat biologists will be sought for New Restoration (MD) Calvert County to implement water quality Jersey and West Virginia. Integrate floodplain management and habitat restoration and protection projects and $200,899 restoration in order to restore access to practices through the use of accountable and 13 miles of high-quality habitat for herring, transparent accounting systems. MASSACHUSETTS perch and American eel. $18,000 Charles River Watershed Association $161,731 University of Maryland Center for Charles River Invasive Weed Removal Program Town of Forest Heights Environmental Science Restore river habitat through invasive weed Building Blue: Stormwater Management University of Maryland Manure to removal. Project will mobilize hundreds of for Rolph Drive (MD) Energy Support volunteers and conduct on-going research on Implement “blue infrastructure” to alleviate Provide a leadership role in the oversight, the efficacy of the program. damage caused by runoff from a highly coordination and implementation of the $25,000 residential street within the Chesapeake Manure to Energy Initiative. CLF Ventures, Inc. Bay Critical Area. This project will reduce $161,219 New England Fishing Quota Investment sediment pollution in Oxon Run and the Fund (ME, RI, MA) Potomac River by installing stormwater University of Tennessee Investigate the feasibility of structuring a Best Management Practices such as tree Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Triple-Bottom-Line investment fund to boxes, permeable pavement and large-scale Restore grassland bird populations meet the needs of investors and facilitate rain gardens. through national conservation leadership accelerated ownership of permits / quota by $200,000 and market-based incentives that deliver large-scale habitat solutions. Project will New England community fishermen. Trout Unlimited, Inc. enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite $80,000 Deer Creek Stream Bank Stabilization Conservation Initiative and the Center for Community Development Partnership and Wetland Restoration (MD) Native Grasslands Management to ensure Best Practices in Fisheries Trust Management Implement eight stream and wetland national coordination and leadership for a Develop a scalable model and utilize the restoration practices in the Deer Creek resident game bird and a strong producer- on-line “Fish Hub” technology to transfer watershed. The project will leverage Farm focused native grass initiative. best practices and lessons learned in fishery Bill funding and benefit sensitive species, $372,558 trust management to a national audience. including Eastern brook trout. $124,978 $200,000 Water Words That Work, LLC Chesapeake Covenant Community Gulf of Maine Research Institute Communications Strategy Realizing Eco-Efficiency in the Help the Chesapeake Covenant Community Seafood Industry to develop strong communication tools. Improve the eco-efficiency associated Project will strengthen existing partnerships with bringing groundfish to market in and create new opportunities that enable the the Northeast region. Project will build Community to fulfill its mission and achieve the capacity of fishing enterprises and future goals. communities, and improve their sustain­­ability $8,572 ecologically and economically. $50,000 UNITED STATES

Island Institute Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. American Bird Conservancy Community Fisheries Network Capacity Simplifying New England Groundfish Developing Quality Early Successional Building and Expansion Sector Reporting Habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and Expand and strengthen the community Test and refine the FishTrax on-board American Woodcock fishery network in order to continue building module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax is Engage in a public / private partnership to capacity and disseminating innovations that a multifaceted tool designed specifically to create, restore and /or maintain at least improve the long-term sustainability of simplify and satisfy the reporting require­ 30,000 acres of high quality Early Successional community fisheries. ments of New England Groundfish Sectors. Habitat that meet American Woodcock $87,847 $110,000 and new Golden-winged Warbler Best Management Practices. Manomet, Inc. Roger Williams University $349,694 American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Analysis of Marine Ornamental Fish and Continue and expand coordinated Invertebrates Imports (RI, MA) City of Rochester, Michigan management and monitoring of American Collect two years of import data of fish and Paint Creek Restoration (MI) Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along invertebrates entering the United States Restore natural morphology and riparian the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. for the marine aquarium trade. Project will vegetation along 3,500 feet of Paint Creek $133,510 produce reports, papers and GIS maps in Dinosaur Hill Nature Preserve and of the trade. Municipal Park within the Clinton River Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. $98,999 Area of Concern. Meadow Restoration in the Sudbury Assabet $750,000 Concord Watershed (MA) Sustainable Harvest Sector Work with partners to reduce the presence Electronic Logbooks in a New England Common Coast Research & Conservation of invasives at five sites in the watershed, Groundfish Sector Escanaba Migratory Bird Enhancement restoring meadow, shrubland and pine Design and implement a new electronic Initiative (MI) barrens habitat that is being compromised by logbook reporting application in the Work with partners to control invasive invasives. Project will halve the percent cover New England groundfishery. species and plant native vegetation to restore of invasives in the priority areas. $20,000 more than 30 acres of coastal stopover habitat $70,100 for migratory birds along Portage Bay in Wildlife Management Institute Escanaba. Mid-Atlantic Center for Herpetology Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI $50,940 and Conservation Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Private Lands Bog Turtle Habitat Restoration birds through a program of technical assistance Conservation Resource Alliance (NY, CT, MA) and land management activities on public and Beaver Island Archipelago Invasive Restore and protect critical bog turtle habitat private land. In this phase, existing positions Species Initiative (MI) on private lands in the Northeast using will be supported and replacement habitat Work with partners to control phragmites and Natural Resource Conservation Service biologists will be sought for New Jersey and other invasive species to improve habitat on conservation programs. West Virginia. 1,400 acres and 7,000 feet of shoreline on six $248,000 $200,899 islands in the Beaver Island Archipelago. $368,646 Mystic River Watershed Association, Inc. Wildlife Management Institute Mystic River Water Chestnut Removal (MA) Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Remove 10 acres of the invasive water chestnut Provide technical assistance to private North American Boreal Conservation from the Mystic River in Massachusetts landowners in the Northeast Forest Region Campaign and Completing the Cycle using canoe-based hand-pulling techniques. to more effectively utilize Farm Bill In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Nearly 400 volunteers, including Watershed conservation programs. Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Association members, clubs, teams and $300,000 initiatives: the North American Boreal businesses will contribute nearly 3,000 hours Conservation Campaign and Completing of volunteer time toward this effort. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution the Cycle. The North American Boreal $40,000 Bowhead Whale Stable Isotopes as Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Ecosystem Indicators (AK) — II 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal National Wildlife Refuge Association Analyze stable isotope ratios from bowhead forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Connecticut River Watershed Invasives whale baleens to monitor bowhead whale Framework. The Completing the Cycle Control (VT, NH, MA, CT) ecology and nutrient flow through Arctic Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Coordinate six local Cooperative Invasive marine food webs of the Arctic and Bering waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Species Management Areas to facilitate Sea. Project will aid the scientific community breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. priority actions and networking between with future management plans relating to $54,335 groups and improve early detection climate adaptation in the Arctic region. throughout 7.2 million acre watershed. $89,264 Huron Pines Resource Conservation & $85,000 Development Council, Inc. MICHIGAN Northern Saginaw Bay Restoration Initiative (MI) Alger Conservation District Work with private landowners and other Alger-Marquette Cross-Border partners to restore 12 miles of aquatic Restoration (MI) connectivity, improve 150 acres of wetlands Replace four culverts to restore fish passage and improve water quality in the northern to 15 stream miles and conduct control of Saginaw Bay watershed. purple loosestrife on 14 acres in Alger and $693,000 Marquette Counties. $150,000

22 23 Huron Pines Resource Conservation & The Regents of the University of Michigan Itasca Water Legacy Partnership Development Council, Inc. Eastern Massasauga Habitat Restoration Itasca County Partnership to Helping Northern Michigan’s Landowners and Education (MI) — II Control Purple Loosestrife (MN) Care for their Land Control invasive species and conduct Control purple loosestrife in Minnesota lake Provide technical assistance to approximately prescribed burns on 250 acres of floodplain, country using biological controls, herbicides, 300 private landowners to help optimize fen and adjacent upland habitat along hand pulling and education. Project will wildlife conservation on roughly 4,000 acres Fleming Creek. reduce loosestrife at 50 sites and distribute of private lands across the northern Lower $112,348 12 seminars and 1,000 booklets annually. Peninsula. $30,000 $522,000 Upper Peninsula Resource Conservation and Development Council Land Stewardship Project Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Invasive Phragmites Control in Accelerating and Implementing Conservation Development Council, Inc. Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in the Root River Watershed (MN) Kirtland’s Warbler Initiative (MI) Work with partners to control invasive Accelerate conservation in the Root River Improve ecosystem management in northern phragmites to restore and enhance 400 acres Watershed through significant landowner Michigan, benefitting the Kirtland’s warbler of coastal shoreline and wetlands in the contact and by implementing conservation and other species. Upper Peninsula of Michigan. plans for grazing, nutrients, habitat and $199,975 $458,160 water quality. $198,320 Macomb County Public Works Office Wildlife Management Institute North Branch Clinton River Habitat Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Land Stewardship Project Restoration (MI) Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Ramping Up Grassland Conservation Remove an in-stream barrier and stabilize birds through a program of technical in the Chippewa Watershed (MN) stream banks to restore 10 miles of assistance and land management activities on Provide technical assistance to increase connectivity and improve habitat along public and private land. In this phase, existing conservation program adoption by farmers the North Branch Clinton River. positions will be supported and replacement and landowners for grazing, prairie, $32,500 habitat biologists will be sought for New cropland and water quality in the Chippewa Jersey and West Virginia. River Watershed. Michigan State University $200,899 $185,561 Stakeholder-centered Management of Lake Erie Yellow Perch MINNESOTA Minnesota Trout Unlimited Convene a stakeholder-centered working Stewart River Habitat Enhancement and American Bird Conservancy group to evaluate and develop harvest Watershed Improvement (MN) Developing Quality Early Successional policies for Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries. Restore habitat for coaster brook trout and Habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and Stakeholders will work with managers and other salmonids along more than 7,000 feet American Woodcock scientists in using models to determine the of the Stewart River by adding in-stream policies that work best for both the fishing Engage in a public / private partnership structures and planting riparian trees to community and the resource. to create, restore, and /or maintain at increase canopy cover. least 30,000 acres of high quality Early $73,432 $120,000 Successional Habitat that meet American Quality Deer Management Association Woodcock and new Golden-winged Sugarloaf: The North Shore Developing Wildlife Management Warbler Best Management Practices. Stewardship Association Cooperatives $349,694 Lake Superior North Shore Forest Using the Greater Noxubee Wildlife Restoration and Protection (MN) Conservation Minnesota Management Cooperative as a model, create Assist private landowners with invasive Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention three Wildlife Management Cooperatives species control and native tree planting to Training (MN) surrounding National Wildlife Refuges in the restore approximately 200 acres of coastal Northeast, Midwest and West. Create and implement an aquatic invasive forest along Lake Superior. species monitoring program that includes $49,299 $25,000 prevention, early detection and rapid Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy response protocols to volunteers. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Saginaw Bay Imperiled Lake Plain Prairie $50,000 Engaging Driftless Area Landowners in Habitat Restoration (MI) Farm Bill Programs Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Control invasive phragmites to restore Increase the capacity of organizations to North American Boreal Conservation 101 acres, 11,700 linear feet of stream bank implement Farm Bill programs that protect, Campaign and Completing the Cycle and 10,100 linear feet of coastal habitat restore and enhance streams for fish and other along Saginaw Bay. In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of aquatic life throughout the Driftless Area. Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation $150,000 $133,333 initiatives: the North American Boreal Conservation Campaign and Completing The Regents of the University of Michigan MISSISSIPPI Restoring Fish Spawning Habitat in the the Cycle. The North American Boreal Institute for Marine Mammal Studies Detroit River (MI) Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Live and Dead Marine Mammal Stranding Construct a reef in the Detroit River to create 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Response (MS) nearly a hectare of spawning habitat for lake forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation sturgeon, walleye and other fish within the Framework. The Completing the Cycle Respond to live and dead stranded marine Detroit River Area of Concern. Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic mammals in Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico in accordance with established protocols for $799,226 waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Unusual Mortality Events. $54,335 $66,000 UNITED STATES

Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain Mississippi State University national coordination and leadership for a Restoration of Henderson Point Bayou Auguste Restoration (MS) resident game bird and a strong producer- Greenway / Blueway (MS) Enhance .4 acres of urbanized tidal stream focused native grass initiative. Restore wetland and upland forest to a in Biloxi through debris removal, streambank $372,558 pristine natural environment on 6.8 acres reshaping, installation of erosion control in Henderson Point. materials and native species planting. The MISSOURI $15,000 project will engage students, residents, City University of Tennessee workers and volunteers in restoration and Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Manomet, Inc. educational activities to increase stewardship Restore grassland bird populations American Oystercatcher Coastwide over Bayou Auguste. Aerial Survey through national conservation leadership $31,390 and market-based incentives that deliver Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey large-scale habitat solutions. Project will of the entire winter range of the American Southeastern Wildlife Conservation Group enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. Invasives Eradication on Wet Pine Conservation Initiative and the Center for $83,750 Savanna Habitat Native Grasslands Management to ensure Remove invasive and unwanted species such national coordination and leadership for a Manomet, Inc. as the popcorn tree and cogongrass from 80 resident game bird and a strong producer- American Oystercatcher Recovery — III acres of savanna habitat and create a one-mile focused native grass initiative. Continue and expand coordinated long trail to educate visitors through signage. management and monitoring of American Project activities include mechanically or $372,558 Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along chemically treating degraded and overgrown Conservation Federation of Missouri the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Pine Savanna habitat; lopping or chopping Share the Harvest (MO) $133,510 down unwanted slash pine trees; removing In honor of Don R. Johnson, a Budweiser remnants of previous inhabitants; and Conservationist of the Year 2012 finalist, Mississippi Department of Wildlife, strategically placing cavity nesting boxes Conservation Federation of Missouri will Fisheries and Parks within the area as needed. help support the Share the Harvest program Restoration of Longleaf Pine in $25,000 South-Central Mississippi in Missouri, a program through which deer hunters are able to donate venison to Provide seedlings and cost-share assistance The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. the needy. to plant nearly 642,000 longleaf pine trees Evaluation of Longleaf Pine Groundcover on 1,180 acres of private lands in south- Ecotype Seed Sources $5,000 central Mississippi. Project will conduct one Evaluate differences in germination, Pheasants Forever, Inc. landowner field day and four “town hall” establishment, phenological characteristics Missouri Farm Bill Technical meetings to inform landowners about the and growth rates among proposed seed Assistance Initiative benefits of the longleaf pine ecosystem, and transfer zones for six common understory Support three Farm Bill Biologists in the will help solicit enrollment in the project. plant species that provide functionality in Mississippi River Basin Initiative critical $150,000 the longleaf ecosystem. watersheds of Missouri. The positions will $85,000 Mississippi Farm Bureau Foundation & focus on expiring Conservation Reserve Relief Fund, Inc. The Nature Conservancy Program and Natural Resource Conservation Service financial assistance programs. Public Invasive Weed Education Biloxi Bay Oyster Habitat Restoration (MS) and Control (MS) Construct 15–20 acres of sub-tidal oyster $300,000 Increase public awareness through invasive reef in Biloxi Bay, Mississippi. Project will Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. weed education and control. Project will expand ongoing restoration activities that Partnership for Seed Banking on Federal facilitate prevention and control activity will restore the biological functionality of Agency Lands (MO) through distance learning, public events oyster reefs in this estuary. Collect and secure material of a minimum of and personal communications, and control $134,365 13 G1 plant species collections that occur on products. This will be databased in the federal lands and deposit them at National Invasive Plant Atlas of the MidSouth The Nature Conservancy Center for Genetic Resources Preservation. and provided to a wider audience for DeSoto-Camp Shelby Longleaf $34,667 making informed decisions within their Implementation Team (MS) management areas. Formalize a local coalition that will define $10,000 priority areas to restore longleaf, discuss MONTANA current conditions and determine longleaf Beaverhead County Weed District Mississippi Forestry Commission restoration goals. Beaverhead River Noxious Weed Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Restoration (MS) $90,884 Management (MT) Restore approximately 179 acres of longleaf Control noxious weeds along the Beaverhead pine working with partners such as the University of Tennessee River through the use of a commercial Mississippi State University Extension, Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III applicator, education of landowners and the National Wild Turkey Federation and Restore grassland bird populations providing a cost-share program. the U.S. Forest Service. Project will inform through national conservation leadership $30,000 landowners in the longleaf range about the and market-based incentives that deliver value of managing longleaf pine and the large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Clark Fork Coalition complementing understory from both an enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Community Water Marketing economic and a wildlife habitat diversity Conservation Initiative and the Center for Program — XI (MT) standpoint. Native Grasslands Management to ensure Identify, implement and monitor water trans- $89,999 actions in the Clark Fork basin of Montana. $159,417

24 25 Ducks Unlimited, Inc. The Blackfoot Challenge, Inc. NEVADA North American Boreal Conservation Blackfoot Valley Carnivore Conservation Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition Campaign and Completing the Cycle Conserve carnivores and other wildlife by Eastern Nevada / Western Utah Invasive In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of protecting habitat, improving connectivity Weed Control Program Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation and reducing human-caused mortality of Treat / monitor invasive weeds across 8.4 initiatives: the North American Boreal grizzly bears and wolves across 750,000 acres. million acres in eastern Nevada and western Conservation Campaign and Completing $109,500 Utah, targeting knapweed, pepperweed, the Cycle. The North American Boreal hoary cress and thistle. Project will educate The Trust for Public Land Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve 200 citizens on invasive weed control. Cabinet-Purcell Forestlands 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal $100,000 forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Conservation Partnership Framework. The Completing the Cycle Conserve critical habitat and improve wildlife Great Basin Institute Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic connectivity within the Cabinet-Purcell- Restoration of the Upper Carson Slough (NV) waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Selkirk eco-region of the Northern Rockies. Remove several target invasive plant species breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Project will permanently protect and partially and plant native plant species to support the $54,335 restore more than 28,000 acres of critical restoration of the Upper Carson Slough and grizzly bear and other wildlife habitat in the the greater Amargosa River Basin. Ducks Unlimited, Inc. heart of the Cabinet-Purcell-Selkirk eco- $50,000 Native Grassland Protection in the region near Troy, Montana. Prairie Potholes of Montana $230,000 Great Basin Institute Secure perpetual easements on 227 acres of Virgin River Watershed Habitat critical native prairie grassland and 158 acres Trout Unlimited, Inc. Restoration (NV) of wetlands in the Prairie Pothole Region Montana Water Project — XI Provide young people with insight into the of Montana. Develop and complete instream flow world of conservation through hands-on $50,000 water transactions in the upper Columbia restoration work. Project will restore 30 acres River Basin. Project will monitor flows in of Bureau of Land Management land along Montana Conservation Corps order to assure the delivery of water in the the Virgin River watershed. Crown of the Continent and Prairie Next protected reach. $80,000 Generation Stewards (MT) $52,549 Deploy youth from urban, rural and tribal Paradise Valley Weed District communities to complete on-the-ground USDA-Forest Service, Paradise Medusahead Control (NV) restoration and monitoring projects to Flathead National Forest Establish a weed control program for enhance the Crown of the Continent and Swan Lake Bull Trout Conservation (MT) medusahead. Project will control the 6,000 Northern Plains ecosystems. Suppress non-native lake trout in order to acre medusahead footprint by chemical $80,000 conserve bull trout in Swan Lake in northwest treatment and progress to a phase of Montana. Project supports the goals of the restoration to include wildlife habitat. Montana Department of Fish, Western Native Trout Initiative as part of the $30,000 Wildlife and Parks National Fish Habitat Action Plan. Bear Conflict Management in the $45,000 Yerington Paiute Tribal Council Cabinet-Yaak Region (MT) Wetland Restoration for Improved Walker Reduce human-caused bear mortalities Wildlife Conservation Society Lake Inflows NV( ) through human-bear conflict prevention and Shields River Yellowstone Cutthroat Conduct a demonstration project integrating increased public awareness and tolerance of Trout Conservation (MT) wetland restoration and water management bears throughout the Cabinet-Yaak region. Conserve Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the to provide wetland habitat on the Yerington $49,998 Shields River basin by prioritizing critical Paiute Reservation, improve water quality and habitats, analyzing impacts of future climate increase Walker Lake inflows. Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation change, and evaluating current and potential $317,301 Tenderfoot Lands Protection (MT) fish barrier sites. Permanently protect 8,200 acres of high $32,875 NEW HAMPSHIRE quality terrestrial, riparian and fisheries habitat in the Smith River Watershed for Yellowstone National Park Community Development Partnership the benefit of wildlife and the public. Saving the Soda Butte Creek Cutthroat Best Practices in Fisheries Trust Management $50,000 Trout (MT, WY) — II Develop a scalable model and utilize the on- Construct a barrier to permanently halt line “Fish Hub” technology to transfer best Sonoran Institute non-native fish invasion in Soda Butte practices and lessons learned in fishery trust Road Planning and Design to Protect Creek in the northeast corner of Yellowstone management to a national audience. Wildlife Corridors (MT) National Park. Project will secure a stronghold $124,978 Develop design recommendations to mitigate population of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. wildlife-vehicle conflict in key wildlife linkage $38,700 Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. areas between the Crown of the Continent Connecticut River Brook Trout Outreach ecosystem and the Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem. and Education (VT, NH) Project will use travel demand scenarios and Conduct outreach to, and education of, private road ecology science to develop road design landowners about Natural Resource Conser­ standards that reduce vehicle-wildlife conflicts vation Service programs and the benefits of and secure their adoption by the Montana riparian buffers and fish passage structures for Department of Transportation. brook trout in the Connecticut River $120,000 watershed in Vermont and New Hampshire. $52,786 UNITED STATES

Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Wildlife Management Institute waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the North American Boreal Conservation Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Campaign and Completing the Cycle Restore populations of shrubland-dependent $54,335 In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of birds through a program of technical Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation assistance and land management activities on Manomet, Inc. initiatives: the North American Boreal public and private land. In this phase, existing American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Conservation Campaign and Completing positions will be supported and replacement Continue and expand coordinated the Cycle. The North American Boreal habitat biologists will be sought for New management and monitoring of American Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Jersey and West Virginia. Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal $200,899 the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation $133,510 Framework. The Completing the Cycle Wildlife Management Institute Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance New Jersey Invasive Species Strike Team waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Provide technical assistance to private New Jersey Invasive Species Strike breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. landowners in the Northeast Forest Region Team Expansion $54,335 to more effectively utilize Farm Bill Continue to develop a diverse group of conservation programs. public and private partners within Gulf of Maine Research Institute $300,000 Cooperative Invasive Species Management Realizing Eco-Efficiency in the Areas. Inform partners about invasive species Seafood Industry NEW JERSEY and the team’s cooperative approach. Improve the eco-efficiency associated $73,878 City Parks Foundation with bringing groundfish to market in Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional the Northeast region. Project will build Schiff Natural Lands Trust, Inc. Seed Bank and Network the capacity of fishing enterprises and Shale Valley Acquisition and Wetland Initiate collaborations and activities to communities, and improve their sustain­ Restoration (NJ) establish a regional seed bank and seed ability ecologically and economically. Restore the Shale Valley wetland, located in network to meet both national Seeds $50,000 the preservation area of the Highlands in of Success seed bank goals and regional New Jersey, a property critical for wildlife National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. conservation and management needs for habitat and water quality protection. Activities Northeast Farm Bill Biologist and Technical ecoregional seed. include eradicating invasive species, Assistance Program (NY, NH, ME) $35,000 reclaiming a heavily disturbed former mining Utilize two biologists stationed in the North­ site, and establishing native grasses in Conserve Wildlife Foundation of east to promote Farm Bill programs and wetland and early-successional areas, all New Jersey, Inc. provide technical assistance plans to private while engaging the local community. Preserving and Restoring Land to landowners to increase young forest acreage $12,295 Recover Bog Turtles (NJ) in New York, New Hampshire and Maine. Promote Natural Resource Conservation $73,494 U.S. Fish and Wildlife — Service programs to historic bog turtle site New Jersey Field Office National Wildlife Refuge Association landowners by hiring a full-time biologist, New Jersey Bog Turtle Recovery Connecticut River Watershed Invasives building on landowner contacts developed Recover bog turtle populations in the Control (VT, NH, MA, CT) in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreement Hudson Housatonic Recovery Unit in New Coordinate six local Cooperative Invasive and leveraging funds requested through Jersey. Project will assess 115 of these sites, Species Management Areas to facilitate Wetlands Reserve Enhancement Program. prioritize for restoration / management needs priority actions and networking between $95,357 and conduct restoration at 12 of the highest groups and improve early detection priority sites, restore 30 acres and permanently Cornell Cooperative Extension throughout 7.2 million acre watershed. protect at least two bog turtle sites. Association of Suffolk County $85,000 $60,000 Bycatch Avoidance Network for Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. River Herring / Butterfish NY( ) Wildlife Management Institute Simplifying New England Groundfish Initiate a fleet communication system Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Sector Reporting that will report real-time observations of Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Test and refine the FishTrax on-board butterfish and river herring / shad bycatch birds through a program of technical module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax hotspots from vessels in the squid fishery assistance and land management activities on is a multifaceted tool designed specifically to reduce fleet-wide bycatch. public and private land. In this phase, existing to simplify and satisfy the reporting $100,000 positions will be supported and replacement requirements of New England habitat biologists will be sought for New Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Groundfish Sectors. Jersey and West Virginia. North American Boreal Conservation $110,000 $200,899 Campaign and Completing the Cycle In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Sustainable Harvest Sector NEW MEXICO Electronic Logbooks in a Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Forest Guild, Inc. New England Groundfish Sector initiatives: the North American Boreal Conservation Campaign and Completing Collaborative Forest Restoration and Design and implement a new electronic Education in New Mexico logbook reporting application in the the Cycle. The North American Boreal Partner with the Cibola National Forestto New England groundfishery. Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal establish a young adult conservation $20,000 forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation crew to collect valuable habitat data and Framework. The Completing the Cycle protect scarce water resources. Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic $75,422

26 27 National Audubon Society, Inc. American Littoral Society Cornell Cooperative Extension Rio Grande Water Transactions Long Island Sound Component, 2012 NY Association of Suffolk County Program — Canalization Reach (NM, TX) Beach Cleanup (NY) Engaging Vineyards to Implement Water Develop and implement a voluntary, Coordinate the 2012 International Coastal Quality Improvement (NY) market-based water transaction program Cleanup at 87 miles of beaches on Long Develop a state-of-the-art pest and nutrient to acquire or lease water rights to benefit Island Sound involving 2,900 volunteers with management program to be piloted at six the river ecosystem in the United States data compiled at 64 sites to develop strategies wineries aimed at reducing pesticide use and Section of the International Boundary to combat marine pollution. improving ground and surface water quality. and Water Commission Rio Grande $6,000 $128,000 Canalization Project. $189,927 City of Binghamton Cornell Cooperative Extension Expanding Green Infrastructure in the Association of Suffolk County New Mexico Association of City of Binghamton The “Marine Meadows” Eelgrass Conservation Districts Create an incentive program for landowners Restoration Program (NY, CT) Lesser Prairie Chicken Technical to implement Green Infrastructure practices Restore one acre of eelgrass and engage Assistance (NM) to fulfill and exceed requirements set forth 400 volunteers in preparing materials for Provide field biologists and rangeland in a newly-adopted Erosion Control and eelgrass transplant at four sites in management specialists working with Natural Stormwater Ordinance. Connecticut and New York. Resources Conservation Service field offices $200,000 $95,341 to provide technical assistance to farmers and ranchers for wildlife conservation. City of New York Parks and Recreation Ducks Unlimited, Inc. $529,500 Rodman’s Neck Coastal Forest Restoration, North American Boreal Conservation Phase II (NY) Campaign and Completing the Cycle Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Restore or enhance approximately 31 acres, In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Evaluating Avian Use of Restored replacing invasive plants with native coastal Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Desert Grasslands forest and creating a corps of 15 volunteers initiatives: the North American Boreal Conduct a comparative study of non-breeding to steward the newly restored site. Conservation Campaign and Completing grassland bird use of restored grassland sites $100,000 the Cycle. The North American Boreal that have undergone varying restoration Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve techniques across the Sky Islands region. City of New York Parks and Recreation 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal $157,412 Alley Pond Park Restoration and forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Stewardship (NY) Framework. The Completing the Cycle The Trust for Public Land Restore or enhance approximately Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Establishing the Middle Rio Grande 26 acres, replacing invasive plants with waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the National Wildlife Refuge (NM) native coastal forest. breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Conduct Phase 1 of a multiphased project $100,000 $54,335 to preserve and restore 570 acres of vital riparian habitat along the Rio Grande in New City Parks Foundation Friends of Flax Pond, Inc. Mexico in a unique cost-sharing partnership Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Student Watershed Initiative — with local and federal partners. Project will Seed Bank and Network Smithtown Bay thru Mt Sinai (NY) create a hub of unfragmented habitat in Initiate collaborations and activities to Conduct an education and social marketing connection with the adjacent Rio Grande establish a regional seed bank and seed program for 120 high school students, six Valley State Park. network to meet both national Seeds teachers and 18 adult volunteers from six $500,000 of Success seed bank goals and regional communities to build knowledge and increase conservation and management needs for stewardship of the Long Island Sound. Western Association of ecoregional seed. $35,000 Fish and Wildlife Agencies $35,000 Lesser Prairie Chicken Aerial Monitoring Friends of the Bay, Inc. Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser Committee to Save the Bird Homestead, Inc. Friends of the Bay Water Quality Prairie Chicken to establish a baseline and Water Access, Invasive Control & Monitoring 2012 (NY) allow for the assessment of future Lesser Environmental Signs (NY) Conduct water quality monitoring for 18 Prairie Chicken population response to Remove invasive plants, construct public municipalities, county health department and conservation measures. kayak access and install educational signage state government to pinpoint hotspots and $55,092 about the Long Island Sound, attracting help manage shellfish harvesting, swimming 1,000 visitors. The project will initiate a and other water-based activities. NEW YORK Blue Trail in Westchester County. $25,996 $10,000 Alley Pond Environmental Center, Inc. Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. Festival of Little Neck Bay and Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Bridging the Forestry Diversity Gap Long Island Sound (NY) of Suffolk County Provide 16 low-income, minority youth from Conduct National Estuaries Day and Little Bycatch Avoidance Network for Yonkers, New York, with a paid, in-depth, Neck Bay / Long Island Sound Festival for River Herring / Butterfish NY( ) conservation job training program. On site 1,500 participants. Events will feature boat Initiate a fleet communication system that training and projects will be completed in the tours, exhibits and activities designed to will report real-time observations of butterfish Chatahoochee, Cherokee and Nantahala- educate about the value of estuaries. and river herring / shad bycatch hotspots from Pisgah National Forests and will expose youth $8,000 vessels in the squid fishery to reduce fleet- to Forest Service work and job opportunities. wide bycatch. $50,091 $100,000 UNITED STATES

Incorporated Village of Sea Cliff, New York Oswego County Soil and Water University of Connecticut Hempstead Harbor 2012 Water Quality Conservation District Great Gull Island Management and Monitoring Program (NY) Aquatic Invasive Species Control in Invasives Control (NY) Conduct water quality monitoring at 18 Onondaga and Oswego Counties (NY) Develop a management plan and engage locations and track 13 different sources of Control invasive water chestnut on 200 acres volunteers to remove invasive, nuisance plants pollution for nine local governments and over 40 linear river miles to improve fish from seven acres of the island to improve other public agencies to allow them to track habitat, angling and boating opportunities and increase Common and Roseate tern improving and declining water quality. and other recreational uses. nesting habitat. $40,000 $55,000 $39,866

Manomet, Inc. Peconic Green Growth, Inc University of Connecticut American Oystercatcher Coastwide Plan for Decentralized Wastewater Nutrient Bioextraction in Long Island Aerial Survey Treatment, North Fork (NY) Sound (CT, NY) Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Prepare three designs and management Demonstrate the use of kelp, a native of the entire winter range of the American information for communities in 16 workshops seaweed, to bioextract 53 lbs. of nitrogen and Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. about decentralized wastewater treatment 343 lbs. of carbon pollution at a small scale, $83,750 in clustered formations as alternatives to and then model the potential large-scale traditional on-site wastewater treatment. nutrient removal capacity. Manomet, Inc. $60,000 $157,448 American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Continue and expand coordinated Randall’s Island Park Alliance Village of Old Field management and monitoring of American Randall’s Island Wetlands Stewardship Conscience Bay Stormwater Treatment / Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along Program (NY) Wetland Enhancement (NY) the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Engage 2,400 students from 35 schools Install 35 subsurface infiltration units $133,510 and 600 volunteers in enhancement and connected to four curbside catch basins monitoring of, and education about, a nine and four bioswales to treat 194 million Michigan State University acre salt marsh and freshwater wetland. gallons of stormwater runoff. Stakeholder-centered Management of 600 volunteers will plant 500 trees on $200,000 Lake Erie Yellow Perch two acres. Convene a stakeholder-centered working $35,000 Wildlife Management Institute group to evaluate and develop harvest Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI policies for Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries. Stroud Water Research Center Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Stakeholders will work with managers and Low-Cost Methods for Forested Buffer birds through a program of technical scientists in using models to determine the Plantings (NY, PA) assistance and land management activities on policies that work best for both the fishing Develop and evaluate low cost methods public and private land. In this phase, existing community and the resource. for forest buffer establishment, including positions will be supported and replacement $73,432 natural regeneration, direct seeding, live habitat biologists will be sought for New staking and alternative protection and Jersey and West Virginia. Mid-Atlantic Center for Herpetology herbicide treatments. $200,899 and Conservation $200,000 Private Lands Bog Turtle Habitat Wildlife Management Institute Restoration (NY, CT, MA) Tioga County Soil and Water Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance Restore and protect critical bog turtle habitat Conservation District Provide technical assistance to private on private lands in the Northeast using Reconnecting Floodplains through landowners in the Northeast Forest Region Natural Resource Conservation Service Streamside Berm Removal (NY) to more effectively utilize Farm Bill conservation programs. Develop a floodplain berm removal program conservation programs. $248,000 in areas that are likely to be sources of high $300,000 sediment loads. Project will partner with National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. local highway departments to remove berms, NORTH CAROLINA Northeast Farm Bill Biologist and Technical install stream stabilization structures and Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, Inc. Assistance Program (NY, NH, ME) train highway personnel on the long-term Hickory Nut Gorge Weed Management (NC) Utilize two biologists stationed in the consequences of activities that disrupt stream Reduce populations of invasive plant species Northeast to promote Farm Bill programs and floodplain functionality. threatening native habitat in Hickory Nut and provide technical assistance plans to $150,000 private landowners to increase young forest Gorge, control invasive plant species on 250 acreage in New York, New Hampshire Town of Oyster Bay acres through integrated pest management, and Maine. Onsite Septic Training and protect and enhance native habitat, and train 40 volunteers and host 40 workshops $73,494 Certification Program NY( ) Deliver a conference to local government concerning the identification, threats Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. about on-site wastewater treatment system and treatment of invasive species. Project Simplifying New England Groundfish management tools and provide two 16-hour will result in the development of a Weed Sector Reporting classroom and field training sessions and a Management Plan and will adapt to new Test and refine the FishTrax on-board certification examination to 50 public / information as volunteers and partners module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax private on-site wastewater treatment inventory invasive species populations in is a multifaceted tool designed specifically system inspectors. the project area. to simplify and satisfy the reporting $30,000 $30,000 requirements of New England Groundfish Sectors. $110,000

28 29 Conservation Trust for North Carolina The Nature Conservancy Cleveland Metroparks Conserving Southern Blue Ridge Trout Onslow Bight Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Fowles Marsh Habitat Restoration (OH) Habitat (TN, NC) Restoration (NC) Control invasive species and plant native Protect 12,055 acres and 37 stream miles Expand longleaf pine and native groundcover vegetation to restore wetland functions and in Tennessee and North Carolina to ensure through active restoration and management habitat on 60 acres of Fowles Marsh. survival of native trout and Golden-wing on both public and private lands within the $140,000 Warbler populations. Onslow Bight landscape. $500,000 $165,000 Fair Food Network Urban Agriculture in Cleveland (OH) Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. The Nature Conservancy Establish a successful urban farming project Bridging the Forestry Diversity Gap North Carolina Sandhills Longleaf in Cleveland based on hoop house production Provide 16 low-income, minority youth from Restoration Task Force on individual city lots. Yonkers, New York, with a paid, in-depth, Create a North Carolina Sandhills Longleaf $200,000 conservation job training program. On site Task Force whose primary objective is to training and projects will be completed in the reintroduce growing-season fire to the North Lake Metroparks Chatahoochee, Cherokee and Nantahala- Carolina Sandhills. Project will burn 3,000 Lake Erie Bluffs Preservation OH( ) Pisgah National Forests and will expose youth acres, establish fire breaks, reduce 100 acres of Acquire a portion of 89 acres of coastal to Forest Service work and job opportunities. mid-story hardwoods, remove off-site pine, property as part of a larger effort to protect $50,091 eradicate 50 acres of invasive plants, establish 600 acres and 9,000 feet of contiguous 100 acres of native groundcover, and plant Lake Erie shoreline in Painesville and Island Institute 200 acres of longleaf pine. Perry Townships. Community Fisheries Network Capacity $349,920 $300,000 Building and Expansion Expand and strengthen the community University of Tennessee Michigan State University fishery network in order to continue building Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Stakeholder-centered Management of capacity and disseminating innovations that Restore grassland bird populations Lake Erie Yellow Perch improve the long-term sustainability of through national conservation leadership Convene a stakeholder-centered working community fisheries. and market-based incentives that deliver group to evaluate and develop harvest $87,847 large-scale habitat solutions. Project will policies for Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries. enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Stakeholders will work with managers and Manomet, Inc. Conservation Initiative and the Center for scientists in using models to determine the American Oystercatcher Coastwide Native Grasslands Management to ensure policies that work best for both the fishing Aerial Survey national coordination and leadership for a community and the resource. Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey resident game bird and a strong producer- $73,432 of the entire winter range of the American focused native grass initiative. Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. $372,558 The Nature Conservancy $83,750 Coastal Wetland Restoration in the NORTH DAKOTA Maumee Area of Concern (OH) Manomet, Inc. Partner with Ottawa National Wildlife Delta Waterfowl Foundation American Oystercatcher Recovery — III Refuge and Ducks Unlimited to restore Priority Waterfowl Research — II Continue and expand coordinated approximately 505 acres of wetlands and management and monitoring of American Support three priority waterfowl research uplands near Lake Erie within the Maumee Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along efforts including the movements and survival Area of Concern. the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. of mottled ducks along the Gulf Coast, $600,000 $133,510 evaluating landscape features influence on nest survival in the Prairie Pothole Winous Point Marsh Conservancy Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Region of North Dakota, and modeling the Invasive Species Management in Development Council consequences of water scarcity on carrying Western Lake Erie (OH) Southern Appalachian Cooperative Weed capacity of waterfowl habitat in the Central Work with partners to augment an existing Management (NC, TN) — II Valley of California. invasive weed management program to Implement six strategic objectives towards $49,000 control phragmites and flowering rush on managing invasive exotic plants in priority 550 acres of coastal marsh along Lake Erie. conservation areas: prevention, education, OHIO $56,050 detection, control, restoration and City Parks Foundation cooperation. Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional OKLAHOMA $40,000 Seed Bank and Network Quality Deer Management Association Initiate collaborations and activities to Sandhills Ecological Institute, Inc. Developing Wildlife Management establish a regional seed bank and seed Cooperatives Invasive Plant Management on Sandhills Safe network to meet both national Seeds Harbor Lands (NC) Using the Greater Noxubee Wildlife of Success seed bank goals and regional Management Cooperative as a model, create Conduct invasive plant management on conservation and management needs for private lands enrolled in the U.S. Fish and three Wildlife Management Cooperatives ecoregional seed. surrounding National Wildlife Refuges in Wildlife Service Safe Harbor Program in the $35,000 North Carolina Sandhills. Project will focus the Northeast, Midwest and West. on species affecting the preservation and $49,299 restoration of the longleaf pine ecosystem. $45,000 UNITED STATES

The Nature Conservancy Deschutes River Conservancy Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust Nickel Preserve Stewardship for Migratory Deschutes Water Transactions 2013 (OR) Upper Sevenmile Creek and Upper Klamath Birds (OK) Restore stream flows throughout the Lake Flow Restoration (OR) Complete the necessary on-the-ground work Deschutes River Basin, Oregon, through Permanently transfer instream water rights to to conserve stopover and nesting habitat incentive-based water rights transactions. rewater Sevenmile Creek and increase flows crucial to the survival of the many bird species $249,277 to Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon. Project, with migratory routes in the Ozarks of north- which supports the goals of the Western eastern Oklahoma. Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Native Trout Initiative as part of the National $100,000 North American Boreal Conservation Fish Habitat Action Plan, will benefit Campaign and Completing the Cycle redband trout, bull trout and endangered University of Tennessee In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of suckers on both private and National Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Forest property. Restore grassland bird populations initiatives: the North American Boreal $200,000 through national conservation leadership Conservation Campaign and Completing and market-based incentives that deliver the Cycle. The North American Boreal Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Meldrum Bar Restoration and enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Enhancement (OR) Conservation Initiative and the Center for forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Restore three acres of riparian habitat with Native Grasslands Management to ensure Framework. The Completing the Cycle the help of 300 4th and 5th grade students, national coordination and leadership for a Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic 12 teachers and 24 school volunteers who will resident game bird and a strong producer- waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the receive classroom lessons in environmental focused native grass initiative. breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. topics and apply them by removing invasives $372,558 $54,335 and replanting native plants during service learning field trips. Western Association of Fish and Ecotrust $24,914 Wildlife Agencies West Coast Regional Data Framework Lesser Prairie Chicken Aerial Monitoring (WA, OR, CA) Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser Prairie Develop a next-generation coastal and marine Development of Video Monitoring for Chicken to establish a baseline and allow data network and system to support west Full Retention Fisheries (WA, OR) for the assessment of future Lesser Prairie coast regional and national ocean priorities Develop a video-based catch monitoring Chicken population response to conservation and planning for ocean uses. system and computer-aided video review measures. $117,000 software to reduce the number of human $55,092 observers and reviewers involved in the Fishermen’s Marketing Association, Inc. monitoring of full-retention fisheries. OREGON Development and Evaluation of Image $100,000 Recognition Software Alaska Department of Fish and Game Develop and evaluate image recognition Mt. Hood Community College / Project YESS Annual Movements of Dusky Canada software that can be used to screen video Restoring the Future: Pathways to Geese Nesting in Alaska images collected onboard commercial Careers in Conservation (OR) Use satellite telemetry to track movements fishing boats to determine if discarding is Provide inner-city and minority youth with of dusky Canada geese in the Copper River occurring and to identify the species. needed jobs and opportunities to learn about Delta of Alaska. Project results will aid in $96,178 conservation careers. Program involves hands- broad scale management activities related on conservation projects and career and to habitat use, harvest management and Island Institute college exploration. population inventory. Community Fisheries Network Capacity $70,243 $62,700 Building and Expansion Expand and strengthen the community North Coast Land Conservancy, Inc. Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of fishery network in order to continue building Sand Lake Estuary Acquisition (OR) Trinidad Rancheria capacity and disseminating innovations that Acquire 167 acres of coastal estuary and Tribal Outreach and Policy Support improve the long-term sustainability of associated freshwater wetlands in the Sand (WA, OR, CA) community fisheries. Lake Estuary of Oregon. Project will protect Engage West Coast Tribes on how they $87,847 habitat for important salmonid and bird will participate in the Coastal and Marine species, including coho salmon, bald eagles Spatial Planning body and on how they will Klamath Basin Rangeland Trust and willow flycatchers. engage in coast-wide and National Ocean Lower Williamson River Redband Trout $40,000 Council-related issues. Habitat Enhancement (OR) $58,000 Add large woody debris and gravels to Northwest Youth Corps enhance spawning and rearing habitat in Klamath Basin Stewardship Project (OR) Confederated Tribes of the the Williamson River of Oregon to benefit Provide 100 teens with paid or volunteer Umatilla Indian Reservation redband trout. Project supports the goals of habitat restoration and other conservation Water Rights Accord IV the Western Native Trout Initiative as part related projects, field education training Work with the Washington Water Trust, of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. opportunities and access to natural resource the Walla Walla Watershed Management $26,700 professionals. Partnership and The Freshwater Trust $99,995 to support innovative voluntary water transactions. $38,725

30 31 Oregon Water Resources Department winter steelhead. Project will also advance the Plan, will allow redband trout and newly Water Transaction Coordination and development of StreamBank software. re-introduced Chinook and steelhead to Monitoring (OR) — VIII $124,800 access 20 miles of high-quality habitat. Assist Oregon qualified local entities on $30,000 water transactions. Project will also provide The Wetlands Conservancy, Inc. for continued monitoring for an on-going Nyberg Creek Wetland Preserve USDA-Forest Service — transaction on the Lostine River. Restoration (OR) Fremont National Forest $51,347 Enhance the biodiversity and habitat quality Chewaucan River Aquatic Habitat of Nyberg Creek Wetland Preserve. Restoration (OR) Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council $100,000 Stabilize 8,500 feet of streambanks, restore Early Detection Rapid Response Pilot 75 riparian acres, and reestablish floodplain Program (WA, OR) Tillamook School District No. 9 connectivity on the Upper Chewaucan Develop an Early Detection Rapid Response Tillamook Coho Stream Restoration (OR) River in Oregon. Project, which supports the program within the Washington State Weed Offer summer youth employment goals of the Western Native Trout Initiative Cooperative Management Areas. Project will opportunities in conservation efforts and as part of the National Fish Habitat Action engage the local community in the operations educational experiences for Tillamook School Plan, will improve over six miles of aquatic of the Weed Management Areas and educate District teachers and students, and provide habitat for redband trout. them on the subject of ecosystem ecology and important restoration data to Bureau of Land $77,000 invasive species, with the overarching goal of Management field staff. Project will conduct no new established invasions. aquatic invertebrate sampling, riparian fence USDA Forest Service — $20,000 monitoring, fish habitat evaluation, water Wallowa-Whitman National Forest quality sampling and analysis and photopoint North Fork Catherine Creek Aquatic Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation monitoring at several coho streams. Passage Improvement (OR) Headwaters of the John Day Land $42,570 Remove a concrete ford currently acting as Acquisition Project (OR) a fish passage barrier on North Catherine In honor of Fred Bryant, a Budweiser Trout Unlimited, Inc. Creek in Oregon, and replace it with a bridge. Conservationist of the Year 2012 finalist, Habitat Capacity Models for Salmon Recovery Project, which supports the goals of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will help Develop models to estimate productive Western Native Trout Initiative as part of facilitate its Headwaters of the John Day capacity and support management decisions the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, River Acquisition project in Oregon, an effort for escapement. Project will focus on will improve fish passage and natural flow to secure 12,500 key acres of private lands for improvements to existing modeling patterns for the benefit of spring / summer wildlife and the public. approaches that enable better estimates of Chinook, summer steelhead, bull trout $5,000 the expected number of smolts that can be and redband trout. produced from extant habitat, and a guiding $50,000 Shorebased Whiting Cooperative decision tool for managers to decide which Shorebased Whiting Overfished Species modeling approach to use given available data. Wild Salmon Center Risk Pool Cooperative (WA, OR, CA) $100,000 Reforming Salmon Conservation: Create a Pacific whiting cooperative with the An Integrated Approach (OR) technical support infrastructure to manage Trout Unlimited, Inc. Conduct first year of a two-year project to set bycatch using real time and historic observer Metolius River Habitat Restoration (OR) precedent to conserve native Pacific salmon and electronic fish-ticket data to assist with Restore 15 miles of degraded stream bank through science-based, integrated harvest, hotspot avoidance. and riparian habitat along the main stem of hatchery and habitat management action $75,000 the Metolius River and improve fish passage for six species and Evolutionarily Significant at Suttle Lake in Oregon. Project will benefit Units on Oregon’s coast. The Freshwater Trust sockeye salmon, redband trout, bull trout $200,051 Innovative Transactions to and spring-run Chinook salmon. Restore Flows — X (OR) $97,497 Wild Salmon Center Implement voluntary, cooperative, market- Tillamook Bay Tidal Wetlands Protection (OR) based instream flow transactions throughout Trout Unlimited, Inc. Protect 120 acres of estuarine habitat in the Columbia River Basin. Oregon Native Coastal Cutthroat Trout Oregon’s Tillamook Bay; helping re-establish $190,059 Restoration tidal wetland function and improving juvenile Address habitat damage caused mainly by salmonid habitat for the Bay’s federally-listed The Freshwater Trust logging in three coastal watersheds along the anadromous species. Flow Restoration in the Umatilla Basin — IV northern Oregon Coast to benefit coastal $47,116 Implement voluntary, cooperative and cutthroat trout. Project will improve fish market-based instream flow transactions passage and habitat along 11 stream miles. PENNSYLVANIA in the Umatilla and Upper Grande Ronde $85,000 Allegheny College watersheds in Oregon. Sampling Unassessed Waters in French $136,519 Upper Deschutes Watershed Council Whychus Creek Barrier Removal and Creek and Adjacent Watersheds (PA) The Freshwater Trust Restoration (OR) Sample 30 previously unassessed streams in Upper Sandy River Basin Habitat Remove an irrigation diversion barrier on the French Creek, Oil Creek and Middle Restoration (OR) Whychus Creek, a tributary to the Deschutes and Upper Allegheny watersheds. Project will collect data on the presence or absence of Restore side channel, mainstem and riparian River in Oregon. Project, which supports the wild trout and identify high-quality coldwater habitat on federal agency lands on the Salmon goals of the Western Native Trout Initiative streams so that they can be properly classified River and Steel Creek in Oregon to address as part of the National Fish Habitat Action and appropriately protected. limiting factors for Chinook, coho and $5,000 UNITED STATES

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc wild trout and identify high quality coldwater City Parks Foundation Lemoyne Borough, Pennsylvania streams so that they can be properly classified Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Technical Assistance and appropriately protected. Seed Bank and Network Increase public awareness of the rain garden’s $5,000 Initiate collaborations and activities to function and benefits through a conservation establish a regional seed bank and seed landscaping education program to include Capital Resource Conservation and network to meet both national Seeds interpretive / educational signs, companion Development Area Council, Inc. of Success seed bank goals and regional brochures, workshops and educational Model for Cost-Shared Riparian Buffer conservation and management needs for maintenance workday workshops that Maintenance (PA) ecoregional seed. will include the installation of additional Develop and test a replicatable system for $35,000 plants to increase functionality and reduce organizing annual contractor maintenance the maintenance costs for the existing rain of riparian buffers in Conservation Reserve Clarion University of Pennsylvania gardens. The project will also help local Enhancement Program and compare to a Sampling Unassessed Waters in the Upper municipalities meet their MS4 obligations. control group. Allegheny Watershed (PA) $29,000 $79,583 Sample 42 previously unassessed streams in the Upper Allegheny watershed. Project will Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Centre County Conservation District collect data on the presence or absence of Chesapeake RiverWise Communities Centre County Agricultural Conservation wild trout and identify high quality coldwater (MD, PA, VA) Program (PA) — III streams so that they can be properly classified Develop and implement a comprehensive Implement agricultural best management and appropriately protected. stormwater auditing and financial incentive practices on four farms listed as high $10,000 program in Maryland, Virginia and priorities in the Centre County Chesapeake Pennsylvania. Project will develop and Bay Implementation Plan. Project will Ducks Unlimited, Inc. utilize tracking, reporting, inspection exclude livestock from 4,910 linear feet of North American Boreal Conservation and maintenance tools. stream, implement rotational grazing on 20 Campaign and Completing the Cycle $500,000 acres, restore 5,150 linear feet of forested In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of riparian buffers and develop four nutrient Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. management plans. initiatives: the North American Boreal Conococheague Creek Riparian Buffer $75,000 Conservation Campaign and Completing Campaign (PA) the Cycle. The North American Boreal Lead a campaign to increase riparian tree Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve planting in rural and urban areas and to Technical Assistance for New and 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal encourage the conversion of turf to trees Re-Enrolling Cost-Share Buffers PA( ) forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation on residential and commercial properties Provide outreach and technical assistance Framework. The Completing the Cycle in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. to accelerate first-time enrollment of new Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic $200,000 riparian buffers through the Conservation waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Reserve Enhancement Program. Project breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. American Bird Conservancy will achieve 368 acres of forested buffers $54,335 Developing Quality Early Successional and restore 57 acres of wetlands. Habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and $200,000 Duquesne University American Woodcock Sampling Unassessed Waters in the Bennett Engage in a public / private partnership to Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek (PA) create, restore and /or maintain at least Virginia and Upper Potomac Agricultural Sample 40 previously unassessed 30,000 acres of high quality Early Stewardship Program streams in the Upper Allegheny, Upper Successional Habitat that meet American Increase community and landowner Susquehanna and Upper Clarion River Woodcock and new Golden-winged involvement in the adoption of innovative watersheds, including Bennett Branch of the Warbler Best Management Practices. agricultural best practices, in addition to Sinnemahoning Creek and the West Branch $349,694 protecting and restoring wildlife habitat. of the Clarion River. Project will collect data $398,740 on the presence or absence of wild trout Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. and identify high quality coldwater streams Watershed Planning for Chester County Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance so that they can be properly classified and Municipalities (PA) Chiques Creek Restoration (PA) appropriately protected. Develop innovative pollutant reduction models Restore a 1,100-foot reach of Chiques $10,000 for MS4 and Watershed Implementation Plan Creek adjacent to soccer fields in Manheim, compliance in 20 Chester County munici­ Pennsylvania. Project will educate the Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. palities. Project will apply an integrated public about the importance of stormwater Manure to Energy Technology Demonstrations approach that focuses on public and private management and reduce flooding. Implement technology demonstration landowner action to achieve load reductions. $30,000 component of manure to energy initiative. $93,285 Project will deploy multiple thermochemical City of Lancaster technologies. California University of Pennsylvania Private Financing to Accelerate $691,144 Inventory of Fishes in Unassessed Tributaries Urban Stormwater Retrofits PA( ) in the Monongahela River Basin (PA) Develop and pilot an innovative privately- Sample 20 previously unassessed streams in financed urban retrofit business model to the Youghiogheny, York Run, Redstone Creek accelerate the rate of implementation and and Big Sandy Creek tributaries. Project will cost-effectiveness of urban stormwater collect data on the presence or absence of retrofits on privately owned land. $350,000

32 33 Friends of the Riverfront Lancaster County Conservation District stabilize eroded stream banks, install fish Riparian Restoration in Natrona Site Selection for Lancaster County Manure habitat structures and establish 1.5 acres of and Coraopolis (PA) to Energy Demonstration riparian buffers. Remove a total of 400 square feet of invasive Select and vet a Lancaster County farm to $71,900 species such as Japanese Knotwood at two conduct a technology demonstration for the sites and plant plants and trees with strong, Manure to Energy Initiative. Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania deep roots, stabilizing 40 linear feet of $10,000 Sampling Unassessed Waters in the riverfront. A few events will be hosted at Larry’s Creek Watershed (PA) each site, with 25 volunteers expected for Lancaster County Conservation District Sample 20 previously unassessed streams each event, who will learn the importance Plain Sect Outreach and Manure in the Larry’s Creek watershed near Lock of riparian restoration as well as proper Management Workshops (PA) Haven, Pennsylvania. Project will collect data techniques for removing invasives and Educate Plain Sect farmers on the importance on the presence or absence of wild trout and planting native species. of agricultural best management practices, identify high quality habitat deserving of $25,000 as well as the means to comply with protection from development. Pennsylvania agriculture regulations. Project $5,000 Friends of the Wissahickon will teach Plain Sect members how to write Wissahickon Stormwater Mitigation & Manure Management Plans, yielding a higher Loyalsock Creek Watershed Association Sediment Reduction (PA) rate of compliance with Chapter 91.36 of the Sampling Unassessed Waters in the Stabilize 350 linear feet of stream by planting Pennsylvania Code, more accurate manure Loyalsock Creek Watersheds (PA) native plant species in Wissahickon Valley and fertilizer applications, and reduced Sample 20 previously unassessed streams in Park. Project partners will also engage the nutrient runoff into surface and groundwater. the Loyalsock Creek watersheds. Project will community through outreach and education $37,500 collect data on the presence or absence of on the importance of managing stormwater. wild trout and identify high quality coldwater $40,000 LandStudies streams so that they can be properly classified Lancaster County Stream Restoration and appropriately protected. Girard Township Strategy (PA) $5,000 Girard Township Fish Passage and Stream Identify potential stream and floodplain Restorations (PA) restoration projects on farms held by the Lycoming College Improve two road–stream crossings to restore Lancaster Farmland Trust. Project will Sampling Unassessed Waters in Pine Creek seven miles of fish passage and improve prioritize farms where high-value legacy and Lycoming Creek Watersheds (PA) habitat and water quality along 1,500 stream sediment projects could be implemented to Sample 91 previously unassessed streams feet in two Lake Erie tributaries. provide both environmental and regulatory in the Pine Creek and Lycoming Creek $125,000 compliance benefits. watersheds. Project will collect data on the $25,000 presence or absence of wild trout and identify GreenTreks Network, Inc. high quality coldwater streams so that they Cumberland County MS4 Education and LandStudies can be properly classified and appropriately Outreach — A (PA) Logan Park-Rife Run Floodplain protected. Create a standardized public engagement Restoration Design (PA) $10,000 program for 13 Cumberland County localities Produce final design plans for the Rife Run with Municipal Separate Storm Sewer floodplain restoration project in Logan Park. Mansfield University of Pennsylvania Systems. Project will help these cities and $24,000 Sampling Unassessed Waters in the Upper towns to lay a strong foundation for achieving Susquehanna Drainage Basin (PA) water quality improvements required by LandStudies Sample 20 previously unassessed streams in federal stormwater pollution permits. Lititz Run Impaired Waters Plan the Upper Susquehanna Drainage Basin. $14,360 Assist Warwick Township to quantify progress Project will collect data on the presence or toward pollution limits set for Lititz Run in absence of wild trout and identify high quality Juniata College 2004. LandStudies will assess the water quality coldwater streams so that they can be properly Sampling Unassessed Waters in Central and benefits of existing best management practices. classified and appropriately protected. West Central Pennsylvania (PA) $30,000 $4,945 Sample 25 previously unassessed streams in central and west central Pennsylvania near LandStudies Michigan State University Huntingdon, including sampling mercury Devil’s Hole Green Masterplanning and Stakeholder-centered Management of levels. Project will collect data on the presence Site Assessment (PA) Lake Erie Yellow Perch or absence of wild trout and identify high- Develop a plan to re-connect Good Spring Convene a stakeholder-centered working quality habitat deserving of protection Creek to its floodplain, provide flood storage group to evaluate and develop harvest from development. and peak rate attenuation, increase available policies for Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries. $5,000 habitat for aquatic species, and reduce Stakeholders will work with managers and sediment loading. scientists in using models to determine the Keystone College $25,000 policies that work best for both the fishing Sampling Unassessed Waters in the Upper community and the resource. Middle Susquehanna River (PA) Little Juniata River Association $73,432 Sample 23 previously unassessed streams in Little Juniata Stream Bank Repair, Buffer the Upper Middle Susquehanna watersheds. Establishment (PA) National Wildlife Federation Project will collect data on the presence or Restore water quality and habitat by reducing 2012 Choose Clean Water Conference absence of wild trout and identify high quality stream bank erosion and planting buffers in Assemble a diverse group of leaders from coldwater streams so that they can be properly the Little Juniata River watershed. Project will across the region to discuss the policy classified and appropriately protected. collaborate with the Pennsylvania Fish and strategies necessary to restore the Chesapeake $5,000 Boat Commission to remove invasive plants, Bay and its tributaries. $30,000 UNITED STATES

Natural Areas Association Susquehanna University the Natural Resource Conservation Service Pennsylvania Master Naturalist Program Sample Unassessed Waters in Loyalsock Wetland Reserve Program. Project will Educate and train Pennsylvania citizens Creek and Muncy Creek (PA) deliver the technical assistance program to serve as volunteers in the protection, Sample 40 previously unassessed streams within the Juniata River watershed, resulting restoration and monitoring of natural in the Loyalsock Creek and Muncy Creek in approximately 238 acres of restored resources in their local watersheds. Project will watersheds. Project will collect data on wetlands and associated buffers that will facilitate intensive natural science training in the presence or absence of wild trout and be protected in perpetuity. the Susquehanna River watershed, including identify high quality coldwater streams so $100,000 classes that feature an ecoregion-based that they can be properly classified and curriculum delivered by local experts and appropriately protected. Trout Unlimited, Inc. academic professionals. $10,000 Improving Eastern Brook Trout Habitat $30,000 in Kettle Creek (PA) The ClearWater Conservancy of Improve Eastern brook trout populations and Octoraro Watershed Association, Inc. Central Pennsylvania, Inc. habitat through strategically implementing Strategic Load Reductions in the Riparian Conservation Program (PA) — IV stream corridor restoration in the Kettle Octoraro Creek Watershed (PA) Continue the Riparian Conservation Creek watershed in north central Pennsylvania. Identify conservation projects that Program to restore impaired and degraded $191,730 address the most pressing water quality stream reaches and riparian habitats within improvement needs in the Octoraro the Spring, Spruce, Little Fishing and Trout Unlimited, Inc. Creek watershed. Project will utilize a Upper Penns Creek watersheds. Project Sampling Unassessed Waters in highly replicable approach for progressing will undertake new program activities, Anderson Creek and Tangascootack Creek rapidly within a strategic framework and incorporating nutrient trading as an incentive Watersheds (PA) promote collaboration among county tool, developing Forest Stewardship Plans, Sample 42 previously unassessed streams in conservation districts, watershed stakeholders, expanding the invasive species management the Anderson Creek, Tanagascootack Creek, environmental groups and state agencies. program and increasing long-term buffer Cook’s Run and Clearfield Creek watersheds. $100,000 maintenance capacity. Project will collect data on the presence or $100,000 absence of wild trout and identify high quality Spring Creek Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Inc. coldwater streams so that they can be properly Spring Creek Bank Stabilization and The Nature Conservancy classified and appropriately protected. Riparian Restoration (PA) Restoring Riparian Forests for $10,000 Reduce stream bank erosion, develop Water Quality and Brook Trout (PA) riparian buffer zones and reduce sediment Implement conservation practices to improve University of Maryland run-off from stream-side parking areas. water quality and brook trout habitat in the Coordinating Local Government Highly visible sites will demonstrate best Juniata, Lower Susquehanna and Potomac Technical Assistance management practices. River watersheds. Project will plant six miles Coordinate the provision of technical $69,800 of forested riparian buffers, establish eight assistance to ten localities participating in the acres of early successional forest habitat and Chesapeake Bay Local Government Capacity Stroud Water Research Center restore 15 acres of wetlands. Building Initiative. The project will also Comprehensive Agricultural Stewardship $161,158 produce case studies about each locality’s in Lancaster County (PA) experience with the Initiative. Accelerate implementation of agricultural The Pennsylvania State University $39,449 best management practices in Lancaster Greening the Lower Susquehanna (PA) County by providing technical assistance Accelerate riparian buffer restoration Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to farmers and advancing nutrient credit by addressing maintenance needs and Pennsylvania Unassessed Waters Initiative trading opportunities. A partnership of increase acceptance and adoption of green Identify previously unknown Eastern Brook public agencies and private groups will bring infrastructure in suburban communities. Trout and other wild trout populations in an estimated 27 farms to full regulatory $378,105 cold water streams in central Pennsylvania. compliance. Project will engage state and university $500,000 The Pennsylvania State University partners to assess potential wild trout streams Sampling for Brook Trout in Unassessed and designate them as state-protected cold Stroud Water Research Center Waters (PA) water fisheries. Low-Cost Methods for Forested Buffer Sample 55 previously unassessed streams $100,000 Plantings (NY, PA) in the Lake Erie, Monongahela, Ohio, Develop and evaluate low cost methods Lake Erie, North Branch Susquehanna, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy for forest buffer establishment including Susquehanna, Delaware and Allegheny Native Brook Trout Assessment and natural regeneration, direct seeding, live watersheds. Project will collect data on the Enhancement (PA) staking, and alternative protection and presence or absence of wild trout and Survey unassessed wild trout streams found herbicide treatments. identify high quality coldwater streams so entirely within the Allegheny National Forest $200,000 that they can be properly classified and of Pennsylvania and begin habitat restoration appropriately protected. efforts once native brook trout populations $10,000 are located. Project, which supports the goals of the Eastern Brook Trout Fish The Trust for Tomorrow Habitat Partnership as part of the National Pennsylvania Landowners Technical Fish Habitat Action Plan, will improve Assistance Program connectivity and fish passage coupled with Provide technical assistance, education fish habitat enhancement. and outreach to Pennsylvania landowners $48,000 interested in restoring wetlands through

34 35 Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Instituto de Agricultura Tropical y Community Development Partnership Wild Brook Trout Habitat Assessment in Ambiente, Inc. Best Practices in Fisheries Trust Management Kettle Creek (PA) Rio Loco Waterway Sediment and Develop a scalable model and utilize the on- Document current biological and habitat Nutrient Reduction (PR) line “Fish Hub” technology to transfer best conditions for wild brook trout populations Establish 1,000 meters of Vetiver System practices and lessons learned in fishery trust in focal areas of the Kettle Creek watershed stream bank stabilization, field demonstration management to a national audience. in Pennsylvania. Project, which supports and monitoring to improve water quality on $124,978 the goals of the Eastern Brook Trout Fish Guanica / Rio Loco watershed and reduce Habitat Partnership as part of the National sedimentation on coral reef habitat. Cornell Cooperative Extension Association Fish Habitat Action Plan, will identify parcels $60,000 of Suffolk County that will offer the best opportunities for Bycatch Avoidance Network for conservation efforts. Joaquin Chong River Herring / Butterfish NY( ) $19,980 Techniques to Reduce Farm Soil and Initiate a fleet communication system that Nutrient Run-off PR( ) will report real-time observations of butterfish Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Provide on-site, farmer-tailored consultation and river herring / shad bycatch hotspots from West Branch Susquehanna and Great Trough for soil erosion control with cover crops and vessels in the squid fishery to reduce fleet- Creek Watersheds Sampling (PA) nutrient export reduction with compost, soil wide bycatch. Sample 43 previously unassessed streams in tests and appropriate use of fertilizers. $100,000 the West Branch Susquehanna and Great $20,000 Trough Creek watersheds. Project will collect Manomet, Inc. data on the presence or absence of wild trout Paul Sturm American Oystercatcher Coastwide and identify high quality coldwater streams Guanica Treatment Wetlands and Aerial Survey so that they can be properly classified and Stormwater Wetland Design Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey appropriately protected. Design and build six to ten acres of treatment of the entire winter range of the American $10,000 wetlands to address the largest single nitrogen Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. source to Guanica Bay. Project will also design $83,750 Wildlife Management Institute an additional two acres of wetlands to address Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI town runoff entering the site. Manomet, Inc. Restore populations of shrubland-dependent $341,128 American Oystercatcher Recovery — III birds through a program of technical Continue and expand coordinated assistance and land management activities on Palmas del Mar Homeowners Association management and monitoring of American public and private land. In this phase, existing Restoration of the Pterocarpus Forest Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along positions will be supported and replacement at Palmas del Mar (PR) the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. habitat biologists will be sought for New Remove over eight acres of invasives and $133,510 Jersey and West Virginia. enhance the 50.18-acre Pterocarpus Forest $200,899 with 520 native plants and trees. This project Northeast Sector Service Network, Inc. is a community initiative involving a social Simplifying New England Groundfish PUERTO RICO commitment that extends well beyond the Sector Reporting immediate community’s boundaries, including Test and refine the FishTrax on-board Cafi Cultura Puertorriquena, Inc. (Cafiesencia) university schools and children’s museums, module for vessel trip reporting. FishTrax is Organizational Capacity Building for and will engage over 50 adult volunteers. a multifaceted tool designed specifically to Guanica Watershed (PR) $19,936 simplify and satisfy the reporting require­ Build long-term capacity within the Guanica ments of New England Groundfish Sectors. Bay / Rio Loco watershed through the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of $110,000 implementation of key projects to transition Marine and Atmospheric Science to sustainable practices and the creation of a Sustaining Coral Reef Fisheries in Roger Williams University non-profit organization. Puerto Rico — II Analysis of Marine Ornamental Fish and $78,000 Host technical training workshops for Invertebrates Imports (RI, MA) Puerto Rico fisheries scientists and managers Collect two years of import data of fish Cafi Cultura Puertorriquena, Inc. (Cafiesencia) in new coral reef fishery stock assessment and invertebrates entering the United States Empowering Women in Sustainable technologies. Project will build institutional for the marine aquarium trade. Project Agribusiness in Puerto Rico capacity for analyzing the sustainability status will produce reports, paper and GIS maps Conduct an awareness and education of exploited species and provide the basis to of the trade. campaign for women of the Rio Loco formulate rational management policies in $98,999 Watershed coffee region. Topics will include regards to coral reef fisheries. sustainable agribusiness development, $55,398 Save The Bay, Inc. community leadership and conservation. Save The Bay Volunteer Restoration $50,000 RHODE ISLAND Opportunities (RI) Work with community partners to implement Efrain O. Figueroa CLF Ventures, Inc. habitat restoration activities and provide Río Loco / Guánica Bay Watershed New England Fishing Quota Investment meaningful volunteer opportunities to Educational Video (PR) Fund (ME, RI, MA) corporations and community groups on Produce an educational video of conservation Investigate the feasibility of structuring a priority projects in the Narragansett Bay practices in the watershed farmlands and the Triple-Bottom-Line investment fund to watershed of Rhode Island. impacts in the coral reefs of Guánica Bay and meet the needs of investors and facilitate $25,000 Puerto Rico’s southwest coast. accelerated ownership of permits /quota by $30,000 New England community fishermen. $80,000 UNITED STATES

Sustainable Harvest Sector lands through herbicide treatments, prescribed national coordination and leadership for a Electronic Logbooks in a New England burns, longleaf planting on approximately resident game bird and a strong producer- Groundfish Sector 960 acres and mechanical or chemical focused native grass initiative. Design and implement a new electronic treatments on hardwoods. $372,558 logbook reporting application in the $150,000 New England groundfishery. TENNESSEE SEWEE Association, Inc. $20,000 American Bird Conservancy SEWEE Association Strategic Planning (SC) Developing Quality Early Successional Wildlife Management Institute Retain professional consultants to assist in Habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI developing a strategic plan for three refuges. American Woodcock Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Project will result in comprehensive education Engage in a public / private partnership to birds through a program of technical and visitor services project plans. create, restore, and /or maintain at least assistance and land management activities on $5,000 30,000 acres of high quality Early public and private land. In this phase, existing Successional Habitat that meet American positions will be supported and replacement South Carolina Forestry Commission Woodcock and new Golden-winged habitat biologists will be sought for New Strategic Watershed Assessment Team Warbler Best Management Practices. Jersey and West Virginia. Longleaf Pine Initiative (SC) $349,694 $200,899 Provide follow-up assistance and guidance to South Carolina landowners with Wildlife Conservation Trust for North Carolina Wildlife Management Institute Habitat Incentive Program Long-Leaf Pine Conserving Southern Blue Ridge Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance Initiative contracts for the purpose of helping Trout Habitat (TN, NC) Provide technical assistance to private them implement practices outlined in their Protect 12,055 acres and 37 stream miles landowners in the Northeast Forest Region conservation plan. in Tennessee and North Carolina to ensure to more effectively utilize Farm Bill $154,400 survival of native trout and Golden-wing conservation programs. Warbler population. $300,000 The Longleaf Alliance, Inc. Evaluation of Longleaf Pine Groundcover $500,000 Ecotype Seed Sources SOUTH CAROLINA Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Evaluate differences in germination, Refuge, Inc. Chesterfield County Soil and Water establishment, phenological characteristics Bookstore Start-Up for the Tennessee Conservation District and growth rates among proposed seed National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center (TN) Sandhills Longleaf Pine Conservation transfer zones for six common understory Partnership (SC) plant species that provide functionality in Expand capacity by starting a bookstore in Establish 800 acres of longleaf pine in the the longleaf ecosystem. the visitor center. Project will purchase shelving, a Point of Sale system, inventory Sandhills Longleaf Pine Conservation $85,000 Partnership focus area in South Carolina, a management system and start-up inventory. 466,000 acre landscape anchored by 101,000 The Nature Conservancy, South Carolina $5,000 acres of publicly–owned longleaf pine Implementation Team for Longleaf Groundwork Hudson Valley, Inc. habitat. Project will provide 50 percent cost- Restoration (SC) Bridging the Forestry Diversity Gap share assistance for longleaf establishment, Create the Sewee to Santee Implementation support two annual “Longleaf and Lunch” Team to expand new private land longleaf Provide 16 low-income, minority youth from demonstration days, fund property signage installations by 1,000 acres, continue Yonkers, New York, with a paid, in-depth, for each contract, and provide tuition for restoration work on 3,000 acres of recent conservation job training program. On site two selected landowners to participate in an private installations, increase the fire footprint training and projects will be completed in the extensive longleaf training program. in the Francis Marion National Forest by Chatahoochee, Cherokee, and Nantahala- $150,000 10,000 acres annually, and treat 550 acres for Pisgah National Forests and will expose youth Japanese climbing fern. to Forest Service work and job opportunities. Manomet, Inc. $214,999 $50,091 American Oystercatcher Coastwide Aerial Survey U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mountain Valleys Resource Conservation & Development Council Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey Savannah National Wildlife Refuge Southern Appalachian Cooperative Weed of the entire winter range of the American Freshwater Wetland Restoration (SC) Management (NC, TN) — II Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. Restore 338 acres of managed wetland on $83,750 the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge. Implement six strategic objectives towards Project will improve water control, remove managing invasive exotic plants in priority Manomet, Inc. exotic plants, create access points and conservation areas: prevention, education, American Oystercatcher Recovery — III improve dike functionality. detection, control, restoration and cooperation. Continue and expand coordinated $68,218 $40,000 management and monitoring of American Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along University of Tennessee Operation Migration-USA Whooping Crane Reintroduction to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Southeastern U.S. — II $133,510 Restore grassland bird populations through national conservation leadership Reintroduce whooping cranes to the National Wild Turkey Federation, Inc. and market-based incentives that deliver Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes Savannah River Corridor Longleaf large-scale habitat solutions. Project will toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining Restoration Partnership enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite population. Project will use ultralight aircraft Provide incentive funding for 24 non-industrial Conservation Initiative and the Center for to teach migration route. private forest landowners in South Carolina Native Grasslands Management to ensure $172,599 and Georgia to restore longleaf pine on their

36 37 Pheasants Forever, Inc. TEXAS Manomet, Inc. Upper Mississippi Basin Technical Caddo Lake Institute, Inc. American Oystercatcher Coastwide Assistance — Tennessee Farm Bill Biologists Strategies for Control of Aerial Survey Support two Farm Bill Biologists in the Giant Salvinia and Other Invasives Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative Control aquatic invasives in Texas and of the entire winter range of the American Focus Area of western Tennessee. The Louisiana through a private-public Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. positions will focus on the Conservation partnership to protect lakes and wetlands $83,750 Reserve Program and the Environmental using innovative websites, trained Manomet, Inc. Quality Incentives Program, with an emphasis volunteers and public education. American Oystercatcher Recovery — III on reenrolling Conservation Reserve Program $100,000 in high expiration counties. Continue and expand coordinated $240,000 Conservian, Inc. management and monitoring of American Shorebird Habitat Restoration in the Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along Tennessee Aquarium Laguna Madre of Texas the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Southern Appalachian Brook Trout Protect, monitor and increase shorebird $133,510 Recovery Program (TN) populations and restore habitat through REAL School Gardens Develop and evaluate a complete recirculating implementation of protective measures Fostering Native Plants and system for culturing, rearing and holding to limit human-caused disturbance and Young Environmental Stewards juvenile and adult southern Appalachian habitat degradation. brook trout that will help reestablish $105,000 Utilize native plant and wildlife habitats populations in their native range. Project on school campuses as sites for hands-on supports the goals of the Eastern Brook Trout Friends of the Wildlife Corridor conservation and education. Joint Venture Fish Habitat Partnership as part Rio Grande Valley Riparian $26,555 of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. Reestablishment (TX) Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory $31,140 Halt tamarix invasion and reestablish 6,500 Evaluating Avian Use of Restored acres vital to migrating birds and mammals Desert Grasslands The Conservation Fund on the Texas / Mexican border. Project Rocky Fork Acquisition (TN) will reduce the invasion from 25 percent Conduct a comparative study of non-breeding In honor of David Ramsey, a 2012 Budweiser to 1 percent, increase native trees from 50 to grassland bird use of restored grassland sites Conservationist of the Year Finalist, The 70 percent and wildlife from 50 to 60 percent, that have undergone varying restoration Conservation Fund will acquire and transfer and educate and coordinate conservation techniques across the Sky Islands region. the final remaining acres of the Rocky efforts among preserves, teachers and students $157,412 Fork tract of land to the USDA Forest and other stakeholders in the community. San Antonio River Authority Service. The Rocky Fork project creates a $35,000 vast unfragmented haven for wildlife and San Antonio River Basin Guadalupe Bass provides a range of world-class recreational Guadalupe-Blanco River Trust Assessment and Re-introduction (TX) opportunities including approximately Coastal Texas Wetland Reserve Program Assess the abundance of Guadalupe Bass in 1.5 miles of the Appalachian Trail. and Grassland Reserve Program Assistance the San Antonio River basin and re-introduce $5,000 Assist the Natural Resource Conservation the species on the Upper San Antonio River Service in the delivery of Grassland Reserve in Texas. Project, which supports the goals of University of Tennessee Program and Wetlands Reserve Program the Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III conservation easements. Project will assist as part of the National Fish Habitat Action Restore grassland bird populations local and state offices with real estate-specific Plan, will restore aquatic and riparian habitats, through national conservation leadership due diligence tasks. expand of the range and distribution of and market-based incentives that deliver $52,440 Guadalupe Bass and improve the biotic large-scale habitat solutions. Project will integrity of the San Antonio River. enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Gulf Coast Bird Observatory $44,201 Conservation Initiative and the Center for Texas American Oystercatcher Conservation Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation Native Grasslands Management to ensure Continue to reduce the gaps in knowledge Sabine Lake Oyster Reef Restoration national coordination and leadership for a of American Oystercatcher population and Enhancement (TX) resident game bird and a strong producer- status and breeding parameters, and begin focused native grass initiative. implementation of conservation strategies Restore approximately 25.8 acres of oyster $372,558 on the Texas Gulf Coast. reefs in Sabine Lake. Project will construct a $139,785 network of small patch reefs to mimic Wolf River Conservancy, Inc. the nearby natural reefs. Wolf River Greenway Restoration (TN) — II Gulf of Maine Research Institute $525,000 Conduct restoration activities on three Fishery Science & Management Education key properties within the urban section of for Gulf Fishermen Texas Parks and Wildlife Department South Llano River Conservation the Wolf River watershed in Memphis, Build regional capacity to develop and Demonstration Area Tennessee. Outcomes include participation deliver a fishery science and management of 100 adults and 300 students in litter and education program for Gulf of Mexico Develop a Conservation Demonstration invasive plant removal, planting of 500 native fisheries stakeholders. Area at the South Llano River to enhance trees and plants, 16 field trips and two major $125,000 efforts to restore habitats for Guadalupe bass. springtime community service events with $27,500 FedEx and other Five Star partners. $25,020 UNITED STATES

Texas Rice Industry Coalition to sagebrush, create 50 acres of wet meadow VERMONT for the Environment habitat for brooding-rearing, and work to Connecticut River Watershed Council, Inc. Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge augment Gunnison sage-grouse populations Connecticut River Brook Trout Outreach Wetlands Initiative (TX) in Utah by translocating 20–30 birds and Education (VT, NH) Create 350 acres of wetland / moist soil units from Colorado. Conduct outreach to, and education of, and refurbish a 100-acre abandoned reservoir $270,050 private landowners about Natural Resource on the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge Conservation Service programs and the Trout Unlimited, Inc. to create high quality wetland habitat for benefits of riparian buffers and fish passage Weber River Native Fish Restoration (UT) wetland-dependent wildlife. structures for brook trout in the Connecticut Complete a watershed-scale restoration $48,250 River watershed in Vermont and New project to reconnect a total of 113 miles of Hampshire. University of Tennessee stream habitat in the Weber River and its $52,786 Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III tributaries in Utah. Project, which supports Restore grassland bird populations the goals of the Western Native Trout Ducks Unlimited, Inc. through national conservation leadership Initiative as part of the National Fish Habitat North American Boreal Conservation and market-based incentives that deliver Action Plan, will improve riparian habitat Campaign and Completing the Cycle large-scale habitat solutions. Project will and base flows to benefit Bonneville cutthroat In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite trout and Bluehead sucker. Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Conservation Initiative and the Center for $95,000 initiatives: the North American Boreal Native Grasslands Management to ensure Conservation Campaign and Completing Trout Unlimited, Inc. national coordination and leadership for a the Cycle. The North American Boreal Bear River Native Trout Restoration resident game bird and a strong producer- Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve (UT, ID, WY) — IV focused native grass initiative. 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Restore riparian and aquatic habitats, $372,558 forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation improve water quality and reconnect 175 Framework. The Completing the Cycle Western Association of Fish and miles of historic Bonneville cutthroat trout Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Wildlife Agencies spawning and rearing tributaries throughout waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Lesser Prairie Chicken Aerial Monitoring the Bear River watershed in Utah, Idaho and breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Wyoming. Project supports the goals of the Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser $54,335 Prairie Chicken to establish a baseline and Western Native Trout Initiative as part of allow for the assessment of future Lesser the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. National Wildlife Refuge Association Prairie Chicken population response to $98,000 Connecticut River Watershed Invasives conservation measures. Control (VT, NH, MA, CT) Utah Division of Wildlife Resources $55,092 Coordinate six local Cooperative Invasive Three Species Population Monitoring Species Management Areas to facilitate in the White River (UT) UTAH priority actions and networking between Investigate population dynamics, life-history groups and improve early detection Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition traits and habitat preferences of an intact throughout 7.2 million acre watershed. Eastern Nevada / Western Utah Invasive three species population, providing valuable $85,000 Weed Control Program insights on community function in a Treat /monitor invasive weeds across 8.4 healthy ecosystem. Wildlife Management Institute million acres, in eastern Nevada and western $25,000 Utah, targeting knapweed, pepperweed, Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Restore populations of shrubland-dependent hoary cress and thistle. Project will educate Utah Division of Wildlife Resources birds through a program of technical 200 citizens on invasive weed control. Pinyon-Juniper Removal within Sagebrush assistance and land management activities on $100,000 Communities in Southeast Utah public and private land. In this phase, existing Remove encroaching pinyon pine and juniper positions will be supported and replacement The Grand Canyon Trust, Inc. on 2,232 acres of sagebrush habitat to benefit habitat biologists will be sought for New Native Plant Stewardship at Vermilion many species of wildlife, including golden Jersey and West Virginia. Cliffs National Monument AZ( , UT) eagles and other sagebrush-grassland birds. $200,899 Engage “Budding Botanists” in compiling $44,460 plant records for Vermilion Cliffs National Wildlife Management Institute Monument into an online database. Project Utah State University / Northeast Young Forest Technical Assistance will provide foundational information for Utah Conservation Corps Provide technical assistance to private research and management to maximize Utah Conservation Corps Bilingual landowners in the Northeast Forest Region protection of the flora. Youth Corps (UCC BYC) to more effectively utilize Farm Bill $34,500 Expand the Bilingual Youth Corps program conservation programs. to continue to provide Latino youth with $300,000 The Nature Conservancy work experience on public lands and exposure Gunnison Sage-grouse Conservation (UT) to career opportunities. The Bilingual Youth Benefit Utah’s only population of Gunnison Corps will employ 36 bilingual youth to take sage-grouse by permanently protecting part in the program. Gunnison sage-grouse habitat. This project $95,000 will purchase 1,080 acres located within the core area habitat, enhance habitat on the property by restoring 130 acres of farmland

38 39 VIRGINIA Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. City of Waynesboro, Virginia Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Inc. Rivanna Snapshot and Watershed Healthy South River Initiative (VA) Chesapeake RiverWise Communities Management Plan (VA) Reduce and treat stormwater runoff in (MD, PA, VA) Complete the Rivanna Snapshot and launch a subwatershed of the South River in Develop and implement a comprehensive a full-scale watershed management planning Waynesboro, Virginia. Project will enhance stormwater auditing and financial incentive process. Project will coordinate local conser-­ existing regional stormwater infrastructure, program in Maryland, Virginia and vation and state / federal regulatory activity. develop a stormwater education and cost Pennsylvania. Project will develop and $30,000 share program, identify sustainable financing utilize tracking, reporting, inspection and strategies, and engage homeowners to install Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. maintenance tools. rain barrels and rain gardens. dba Oyster Recovery Partnership $500,000 $100,000 Maryland Oyster Restoration Planning Appalachian Trail Conservancy Conduct a planning effort to prioritize Clarke County Pulling Together Along the Appalachian Maryland tributaries suitable for oyster C-Spout Run: Restoring a Shenandoah Trail (VA) restoration. Project will also continue the Valley Spring Creek (VA) Update management plans, maintain and region’s oyster shell recycling program, Restore 7.5 acres of riparian and aquatic educate the public about early sucessional which collects used shells from restaurants habitat for brook trout and improve water habitat of the George Washington National for use in reef construction. quality through BMP implementation on Forest. Project will train a volunteer corps of $50,000 agricultural and residential land in the 45-60 individuals in monitoring protocols Spout Run watershed. Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. and control of invasive exotic species. $141,603 Virginia and Upper Potomac Agricultural $20,000 Stewardship Program County of James City, Virginia Arlington County, Virginia Increase community and landowner Turf Love / Garden Love Program (VA) Arlington County Residential Stormwater involvement in the adoption of innovative Expand the existing James City County Treatment (VA) agricultural best practices, in addition to Turf Love program, helping citizens produce Expand an existing incentive program for protecting and restoring wildlife habitat. healthy turf areas while reducing pollution private property owners to install innovative $398,740 loads in the County’s waterways. Project will stormwater practices on their property. provide financial incentives to install up to Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. $80,000 60 rain gardens and increase the number of Upham Brook Holistic Watershed certified nutrient management plans in the Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. Restoration (VA) County by 300 over two years. Town of Kilmarnock Watershed Conduct whole-community watershed $75,000 Restoration Assessment (VA) restoration, education, and conservation Complete watershed restoration assessments activities that will improve water quality Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District for the Norris Prong, Indian Creek and in Upham Brook, an urban tributary of Urban Residential Stewardship Dymer Creek subwatersheds that drain the Chickahominy River in Henrico Incentive Program (VA) the Town of Kilmarnock, Virginia. County, Virginia. Project will engage local Adapt the North Carolina Community $38,727 communities to install innovative stormwater Conservation Assistance Program for best management practices and native use in Virginia. Project will engage 15 Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. riparian buffer plantings. central Virginia localities and the Virginia City of Lynchburg and Stafford County Illicit $150,000 Master Gardeners as partners in program Discharge Program Enhancements (VA) establishment, produce a pilot manual and Assist the City of Lynchburg and Stafford City of Lexington, Virginia develop long-term financial strategies utilizing County to improve their illicit discharge City of Lexington Green Infrastructure a professional environmental finance center. detection and elimination programs. Showcase (VA) $28,405 $49,708 Integrate green infrastructure into a new, highly-visible, mixed-income neighborhood Draper Aden Associates Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. of affordable EarthCraft certified homes. The Middle Peninsula Planning District Targeted Reforestation in project will demonstrate to local governments Commission Technical Assistance Clarke County, Virginia and citizens how development can occur Develop a stormwater program that positions Reforest 30 acres of suburban and rural without degrading the Bay and its tributaries, the six counties and three towns in Virginia’s land in Clarke County, Virginia. Project including numerous scalable practices suitable Middle Peninsula Planning District will demonstrate best practices for forest for retrofit in established neighborhoods. Commission to address regulations relating restoration and incorporate reforestation $200,000 to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL and Virginia’s goals, objectives and planting specifications new Stormwater Management Regulations. into Clarke County codes and other City of Richmond, Virginia The Regional Stormwater Program and its Pathways to Clean Water and Healthy documents relevant to Phase II Watershed deliverables will provide the participating Implementation Plans. Communities (VA) localities the necessary tools and cost $80,000 Demonstrate how city and community information to choose whether to manage partners can implement new approaches to stormwater through a Regional, Local or a Center for Watershed Protection, Inc. restoring urban habitats that benefit water hybrid-approach program to comply with Northern Shenandoah Valley Code quality, fish and wildlife, and community the Commonwealth’s regulations. Review (VA) health and well-being. $150,000 Perform code reviews and stormwater $176,765 retrofit assessments for six member jurisdictions of the Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission. $136,487 UNITED STATES

Ducks Unlimited, Inc. John Marshall Soil and Water promote stakeholder collaboration and develop North American Boreal Conservation Conservation District strategies to implement the Virginia Water- Campaign and Completing the Cycle Fauquier County Riparian Buffer Plantings VA( ) shed Implementation Plan at a local level. In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of Install stream stabilization and buffer $50,000 Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation plantings on 20 acres of agricultural lands in initiatives: the North American Boreal Fauquier County, VA. Buffers will provide Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation Campaign and Completing habitat and local plant material and serve as Conservation District the Cycle. The North American Boreal demonstration sites. Cost-Share Incentives for Residential Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve $49,575 Stormwater Management (VA) 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal Develop a programmatic template and forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Lands and Waters conduct pilot projects for a Community Framework. The Completing the Cycle Vernal Pool Schoolyard Restoration Residential Cost Share Program. The pilot Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Program (VA) projects will be conducted within in the waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Work with students from Daniels Run Piedmont, Culpeper, Hanover-Caroline, breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Elementary and Lanier Middle School on and Thomas Jefferson Soil and Water $54,335 schoolyard conservation projects, promoting Conservation Districts. awareness and stewardship in the Accotink $23,765 Ecology and Environment, Inc. Creek watershed. Project will create a Quality Assurance Planning Support for freshwater bog, two vernal pool habitats, a University of Maryland Chesapeake Grantees bioretention cell filtering stormwater runoff Coordinating Local Government Assist Chesapeake Bay Stewardship and a stream-bank restoration. Technical Assistance Fund grantees to complete Quality $43,994 Coordinate the provision of technical Assurance Project Plans as required by the assistance to ten localities participating in Environmental Protection Agency. Manomet, Inc. the Chesapeake Bay Local Government $29,943 American Oystercatcher Coastwide Capacity Building Initiative. The project Aerial Survey will also produce case studies about each Farm Pilot Project Coordination, Inc. Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey locality’s experience with the Initiative. Manure to Energy Technology Demonstrations of the entire winter range of the American $39,449 Implement technology demonstration Oystercatcher from New York to Texas. component of manure to energy initiative. $83,750 University of Tennessee Project will deploy multiple thermochemical Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III technologies. Manomet, Inc. Restore grassland bird populations $691,144 American Oystercatcher Recovery — III through national conservation leadership Continue and expand coordinated and market-based incentives that deliver Hampton Roads Planning District Commission management and monitoring of American large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Hampton Roads Watershed Implementation Oystercatchers in Massachusetts and along enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Plan Development (VA) the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Conservation Initiative and the Center for Create a regional steering committee and $133,510 Native Grasslands Management to ensure local work groups to establish meaningful national coordination and leadership for a stakeholder involvement in the Phase II The Nature Conservancy resident game bird and a strong producer- Watershed Implementation Plan process in Advancing American Oystercatcher focused native grass initiative. the Hampton Roads Planning District of Conservation in Virginia $372,558 southeast Virginia. Project staff will facilitate Advance oystercatcher conservation in Steering Committee meetings, provide Virginia by building upon effective conser­ University of Virginia briefings to the Planning District Commission, vation strategies and implementing innovative Biodiversity Conservation, Research and develop outreach materials for local projects to meet statewide stewardship,­ Internship Program governments, and provide briefings to local protection and information needs. Partner with the National Fish and Wildlife government officials at City Council and $153,428 Foundation on an applied conservation County Board meetings. science program to develop distinctive $50,000 The Potomac Conservancy, Inc. collaborations on critical research questions Engaging Absentee Landowners that will advance the knowledge and James River Association in Conservation solutions-based approach of restoring, Community-Based Approach to Urban Engage absentee landowners in conservation conserving and managing the nation’s Stormwater Reduction (VA) programs through an on-the-ground biodiversity. Educate, encourage and enable homeowners ‘landowner advisor’ who will help landowners $236,000 in the City of Lynchburg to disconnect identify opportunities and connect them to their downspouts and install stormwater technical and financial resources. University of Virginia — Institute for management practices such as rain barrels $200,000 Environmental Negotiation and rain gardens. Project will create a Facilitating Local Government Technical stewardship incentive program through Thomas Jefferson Planning District Assistance (VA, WV) which participating homeowners can achieve Commission Coordinate the provision of technical certification and public recognition as Piedmont Regional Watershed assistance to four localities participating in River Heroes. Implementation Planning (VA) the Chesapeake Bay Local Government $75,000 Partner with local governments and the Rivanna Capacity Building Initiative. River Basin Commission to evaluate and revise $41,574 current pollution reduction plans. Project will

40 41 University of Virginia — Institute for Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc. Fishermen’s Marketing Association, Inc. Environmental Negotiation Mechumps Creek Phase Two Development and Evaluation of South River Solutions (VA) Restoration Design (VA) Image Recognition Software Facilitate the convening of a multi- Complete final engineering designs for Develop and evaluate image recognition stakeholder watershed steering committee a regenerative wetlands project along a software that can be used to screen video to develop a sustainable watershed plan for 1,200-foot reach of Mechumps Creek in images collected onboard commercial fishing the South River. Ashland, Virginia. boats to determine if discarding is occurring $11,500 $20,000 and to identify the species. $96,178 Virginia Department of Health WASHINGTON On-Site Sewage Waiver Cost-Share Friends of the Cedar River Watershed Alaska Department of Fish and Game Program (VA) Madrona Woods Restoration & Salmon Annual Movements of Dusky Canada Provide financial incentives to encourage Journey Education (WA) Geese Nesting in Alaska property owners to install alternative on-site Remove and compost 1.5 acres of invasives sewage systems that will reduce nutrient and Use satellite telemetry to track movements and plant 700 trees to restore the ecological biological pollution to the Chesapeake Bay. of dusky Canada geese in the Copper River structure and function of forested wetlands Delta of Alaska. Project results will aid in $749,987 and shorelines, increase biodiversity and broad scale management activities related support salmon recovery efforts in the greater Virginia Polytechnic Institute to habitat use, harvest management and Lake Washington Watershed. 300 people and State University population inventory. will participate in volunteer restoration Muddy Creek Agricultural Stewardship and $62,700 events and Salmon Journey, which provides Water Quality Monitoring (VA) high-level training to volunteer naturalists Cher-Ae Heights Indian Community of Reduce sediment and nutrient runoff from on salmon recovery policy, habitat needs and Trinidad Rancheria farms in priority watersheds in the upper salmon biology. Tribal Outreach and Policy Support Shenandoah River basin, with a primary focus $23,414 (WA, OR, CA) on the Muddy Creek watershed. Engage West Coast Tribes on how they $219,084 Friends of the San Juans will participate in the Coastal and Marine San Juan County Neighborhood Salmon Virginia Polytechnic Institute Spatial Planning body and on how they will Conservation (WA) and State University engage in coast-wide and National Ocean Create a neighborhood landowner Chesapeake Metrics Integration Council-related issues. conservation easement tool for use in San Integrate metrics and protocols developed $58,000 Juan County and regionally in Washington. by Virginia Tech as part of the larger metric Project aims to achieve long-term protection Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla team project coordinated by the Chesapeake of shoreline habitats and processes important Indian Reservation Research Consortium from 2008-2011. for the recovery of salmon and the overall Water Rights Accord IV The new metrics will be added to the health of the Salish Sea marine ecosystem. Work with the Washington Water Trust, application and project assessment process for $15,150 Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund grants. the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership and The Freshwater Trust $32,718 Kramer Consulting to support innovative voluntary water Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound’s Virginia Polytechnic Institute and transactions. Marine Shorelines (WA) State University $38,725 Build on new science, strengthen existing Outreach and Support for the partnerships and develop a focused Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Manure to Energy Initiative implementation plan for recovery of summer North American Boreal Conservation Support the Manure to Energy project team chum in Hood Canal, Washington. Project Campaign and Completing the Cycle and provide relevant outreach to agricultural will identify and initiate top priority projects In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of clientele interested in bioenergy technologies for shoreline areas that are consistent with Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation and their potential applications. summer chum recovery plans. initiatives: the North American Boreal $10,000 $200,000 Conservation Campaign and Completing Wildlife Management Institute the Cycle. The North American Boreal Lincoln County Conservation District Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Scablands Weed Mapping, Education, Restore populations of shrubland-dependent 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal and Outreach Program (WA) birds through a program of technical forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Develop and implement a citizen science assistance and land management activities on Framework. The Completing the Cycle weed mapping program, conduct outreach public and private land. In this phase, existing Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic and education for 20 volunteers, and provide positions will be supported and replacement waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the cost sharing and technical assistance on habitat biologists will be sought for New breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. weed control and range restoration. Jersey and West Virginia. $54,335 $50,000 $200,899 Ecotrust Williamsburg Environmental Group, Inc. West Coast Regional Data Framework Greening James City County Facilities (VA) (WA, OR, CA) Develop an integrated water quality Develop a next-generation coastal and marine improvement program to implement green data network and system to support west infrastructure in existing County facilities. coast regional and national ocean priorities $39,620 and planning for ocean uses. $117,000 UNITED STATES

Long Live the Kings Puget Sound Restoration Fund Walla Walla Watershed Hood Canal Steelhead Recovery Planning (WA) Expanded Olympia Oyster Recovery in Management Partnership Facilitate an open standards process that will Puget Sound (WA) Walla Walla Watershed Management generate guidance and data products critical Enhance 10 acres of native oyster habitat in Partnership FY13 CBWTP to the future development of a recovery plan Puget Sound to provide filtration and habitat Advance basin flow restoration efforts in for ESA listed Steelhead in Hood Canal, for fishes (including salmonids), invertebrates the Walla Walla basin of Washington state Washington. Project will rank the greatest and other marine organisms. Project, which through development and implementation threats and pressures to key attributes and supports the goals of the Pacific Marine of innovative water transactions under the indicators relevant for guiding steelhead Estuary Fish Habitat Partnership as part Columbia Basin Water Transactions Program. recovery actions. of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, $79,655 $18,525 will increase densities of species, including harpactecoid copepods, important in Washington Department of Ecology Marine Conservation Alliance Foundation juvenile salmon diets. Transaction Processing and Monitoring Development of Video Monitoring for $50,000 Program — IX Full Retention Fisheries (WA, OR) Assist in the selection, assessment, Develop a video-based catch monitoring Shorebased Whiting Cooperative coordination and management of water system and computer-aided video review Shorebased Whiting Overfished Species right acquisitions by Washington Water software to reduce the number of human Risk Pool Cooperative (WA, OR, CA) Trust, Trout Unlimited and the Walla Walla observers and reviewers involved in the Create a Pacific whiting cooperative with the Watershed Management Partnership. monitoring of full-retention fisheries. technical support infrastructure to manage $136,813 $100,000 bycatch using real time and historic observer and electronic fish-ticket data to assist with Washington Water Trust Northwest Straits Marine hotspot avoidance. Wenatchee and Yakima Water Conservation Foundation $75,000 Transactions (WA) Derelict Fishing Net Removal in Identify, develop and implement water Whatcom County (WA) Stewardship Partners transactions, focused in the Wenatchee Remove all of the 129 known remaining Discovery Park Rain Gardens Installation (WA) and Yakima basins. Project will work derelict fishing nets from the marine waters Install four 600-square-foot rain gardens at collaboratively with willing landowners, of Whatcom County near ConocoPhillips’ Discovery Park which, supported by outreach community groups, tribes and businesses. Ferndale refinery. and education, will establish watershed- $177,012 $105,783 friendly practices to improve downstream water quality and habitat. Project will involve Washington Water Trust Northwest Straits Marine a demonstration installation workshop / Walla Walla and Tucannon Basins Conservation Foundation volunteer event and outreach activities to Water Transactions (WA) Port Townsend Voluntary No-Anchor educate Park patrons and neighborhood Identify, develop and implement water Eelgrass Protection Zone (WA) residents on rain gardens and other transactions in the Walla Walla and Tucannon Protect ten acres of eelgrass from anchor watershed-friendly practices. basins. Project will work collaboratively with damage through a voluntary no-anchor $40,000 willing landowners, community groups, tribes zone in Port Townsend Bay, Washington. and businesses. Project will protect critical habitat for juvenile Trout Unlimited, Inc. $88,751 salmon, herring, Brant geese and crab, as Habitat Capacity Models for Salmon Recovery well as help reduce shoreline erosion by Develop models to estimate productive Washington Water Trust absorbing wave energy. capacity and support management decisions Columbia Basin Water Transactions $5,734 for escapement. Project will focus on Program — Colville Accord improvements­ to existing modeling Identify, develop and implement water Pacific Northwest Invasive Plant Council approaches that enable better estimates of transactions, focused in the Okanogan Early Detection Rapid Response Pilot the expected number of smolts that can be Basin. Project will work collaboratively with Program (WA, OR) produced from extant habitat, and a guiding willing landowners, community groups, Develop an Early Detection Rapid Response decision tool for managers to decide which tribes and businesses. program within the Washington State Weed modeling approach to use given available data. $46,908 Cooperative Management Areas. Project will $100,000 engage the local community in the operations Whatcom Land Trust of the Weed Management Areas and educate Trout Unlimited, Inc. Drayton Harbor Estuary: Coastal them on the subject of ecosystem ecology and Columbia Cascade Water Transaction Wetlands (WA) invasive species, with the overarching goal of Strategy (WA) — VII Acquire fee title interest to eight acres of land, no new established invasions. Continue to identify, prioritize and develop including 1,700 feet of freshwater and salt $20,000 strategies for water transactions in the water frontage, in order to restore and protect Methow, Entiat, Yakima and Wenatchee critical fish and wildlife habitat. Prince William Sound Science and sub-basins of Washington, with a focus on $75,000 Technology Institute developing larger projects. Black Turnstone: A Population Decline or $204,988 Prince William Sound Stopover Shift? Identify the migration pathways and Trout Unlimited, Inc. stopover areas of black turnstone (Arenaria Okanogan Basin Water Transactions — II (WA) elanocephala) in Prince William Sound. Continue to develop and negotiate Project results will aid resource managers water transactions in the Okanogan Basin with updated population data. of Washington. $75,000 $53,630

42 43 WEST VIRGINIA Friends of the 500th Wildlife Management Institute Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust, Inc. Website for the Canaan Valley National Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI Healing the Waters Initiative (WV) Wildlife Refuge (WV) Restore populations of shrubland-dependent Permanently protect ecologically critical Develop a website to publicize education birds through a program of technical private lands in the Cacapon and Lost Rivers opportunities and volunteer programs at assistance and land management activities on watershed. Project will expand existing Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. public and private land. In this phase, existing green infrastructure hubs and corridors by Project will improve communication with the positions will be supported and replacement 2,000 acres and promote land protection local and regional communities that surround habitat biologists will be sought for New incentives through parcel aggregation, carbon Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Jersey and West Virginia. sequestration and other emerging ecosystem $4,000 $200,899 credit opportunities. The Potomac Conservancy, Inc. $100,000 WISCONSIN Engaging Absentee Landowners in Alliance for the Great Lakes Conservation Cacapon Institute, Inc. Milwaukee Volunteer Restoration (WI) Engage absentee landowners in conservation Potomac Headwaters Watershed Leaders (WV) Restore coastal habitat at three parks by Recruit schools from the eight counties in programs through an on-the-ground ‘landowner advisor’ who will help landowners controlling invasive species and planting West Virginia’s Potomac River Basin and native vegetation, while also building support engage thousands of students in hands-on identify opportunities and connect them to technical and financial resources. for additional larger restoration projects and conservation for watershed protection. volunteer engagement. $200,000 Project will plant more than 400 trees and $100,000 install bio-retention retrofits to mitigate Trout Unlimited, Inc. stormwater pollution. American Bird Conservancy Potomac Highlands Brook Trout $50,000 Developing Quality Early Successional Conservation (WV) Habitat for Golden-winged Warbler and Use brook trout to motivate restoration and Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. American Woodcock Virginia and Upper Potomac Agricultural protection on private lands in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Project will Engage in a public / private partnership to Stewardship Program create, restore and /or maintain at least Increase community and landowner accelerate implementation of complex stream and fish barrier works in priority eastern 30,000 acres of high quality Early involvement in the adoption of innovative Successional Habitat that meet American agricultural best practices, in addition to brook trout habitats, especially those most sensitive to climate change impacts. Woodcock and new Golden-winged protecting and restoring wildlife habitat. Warbler Best Management Practices. $100,000 $398,740 $349,694 Trout Unlimited, Inc. City Parks Foundation Bayfield County Land and Seneca Rocks Visitor Center Conservation Development of a Mid-Atlantic Regional Water Conservation Department Demonstration (WV) Seed Bank and Network In-channel Large Woody Debris and Riparian Utilize the Seneca Rocks Visitor Center Initiate collaborations and activities to Forest Restoration (WI) establish a regional seed bank and seed to demonstrate restoration of 1,200 feet of impaired brook trout stream and 50 acres Restore 1.25 miles of Whittlesey Creek for network to meet both national Seeds coaster brook trout and other salmonids by of Success seed bank goals and regional of invasive species, and for significant education / awareness programs. increasing channel complexity and planting conservation and management needs for riparian forest. $73,950 ecoregional seed. $114,200 $35,000 University of Tennessee Ducks Unlimited, Inc. Southeastern Grassland Birds Initiative — III Ducks Unlimited, Inc. North American Boreal Conservation Restore grassland bird populations North American Boreal Conservation Campaign and Completing the Cycle through national conservation leadership Campaign and Completing the Cycle In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of In honor of Bill D’Alonzo, invest in two of and market-based incentives that deliver large-scale habitat solutions. Project will Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation Ducks Unlimited’s highest priority conservation initiatives: the North American Boreal initiatives: the North American Boreal enhance capacity for the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative and the Center for Conservation Campaign and Completing Conservation Campaign and Completing the Cycle. The North American Boreal the Cycle. The North American Boreal Native Grasslands Management to ensure national coordination and leadership for a Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve Conservation Campaign seeks to conserve 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal 1 billion acres of North America’s boreal resident game bird and a strong producer- focused native grass initiative. forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation forest using the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework. The Completing the Cycle $372,558 Framework. The Completing the Cycle Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic Initiative addresses the needs of Atlantic University of Virginia — Institute for waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the waterfowl throughout their life cycle from the Environmental Negotiation breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. breeding grounds to the wintering grounds. Facilitating Local Government Technical $54,335 $54,335 Assistance (VA, WV) Kenosha County Division of Parks Coordinate the provision of technical Pike River Fish Passage and Restoration (WI) assistance to four localities participating in the Chesapeake Bay Local Government Restore fish passage to 22 stream miles Capacity Building Initiative. by removing an earthen dam topped by a roadway and replacing it with a new bridge. $41,574 $150,000 UNITED STATES

Kiap-TU-Wish Chapter of Trout Unlimited Trout Unlimited, Inc. Trout Unlimited, Inc. Trimbelle River Brook Trout Engaging Driftless Area Landowners in Bear River Native Trout Restoration Re-introduction (WI) Farm Bill Programs (UT, ID, WY) — IV Re-introduce native Driftless Area Eastern Increase the capacity of organizations to Restore riparian and aquatic habitats, brook trout to the Trimbelle River in implement Farm Bill programs that protect, improve water quality and reconnect 175 Wisconsin, while reducing sedimentation restore and enhance streams for fish and other miles of historic Bonneville cutthroat trout and nonpoint source pollution flow to the aquatic life throughout the Driftless Area. spawning and rearing tributaries throughout Mississippi River. Project, which supports $133,333 the Bear River watershed in Utah, Idaho and the goals of the Driftless Area Fish Habitat Wyoming. Project supports the goals of the Partnership as part of the National Fish University of Wisconsin — Green Bay Western Native Trout Initiative as part of Habitat Action Plan, will stabilize severely Coastal Wetland Restoration at the the National Fish Habitat Action Plan. eroding banks, provide in-stream cover and Pt. Sable Nature Preserve (WI) $98,000 increase spawning habitat. Control invasive species on 114 acres of $39,750 coastal wetlands on Pt. Sable to restore Trout Unlimited, Inc. important habitat for migratory and breeding Kelly Diversion Fish Passage Improvement (WY) Lake County Forest Preserve District birds within the Lower Fox River and Green Remove an abandoned diversion from the Coastal Wetlands Restoration for Bay Area of Concern. Gros Ventre River in Wyoming that blocks Species of Concern (IL, WI) $150,000 upstream passage of native fish. Project will Work with partners in Illinois and Wisconsin open 42 miles of habitat for Snake River fine- to restore 1,158 acres of coastal lake plain Wildlife Management Institute spotted cutthroat trout and other native fish. habitat along the Chiwaukee Illinois Beach Restoration of Eastern Shrubland Birds — VI $75,000 Lake Plain. Restore populations of shrubland-dependent $874,081 birds through a program of technical Trout Unlimited, Inc. assistance and land management activities on Little Snake and Muddy Creek Native Fish Operation Fresh Start public and private land. In this phase, existing Restoration (WY) — II Inventory and Stewardship of positions will be supported and replacement Reconnect and restore habitat conditions for Wisconsin River Islands (WI) habitat biologists will be sought for New all native fish in the Little Snake drainage Expose disadvantaged young people, largely Jersey and West Virginia. and its tributaries, including Muddy Creek. from urban backgrounds, to the nature of $200,899 Project will continue the on-the-ground work and career opportunities available in restoration activities identified for Muddy conservation and land management. Project Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Creek habitat and native fish restoration. will engage 60 young people, ages 16 to 24, Invasive Species Control in a 23,000-acre $250,000 in inventorying, mapping and restoring the Wetland Complex (WI) natural resources located on islands owned by Control invasive species to restore 925 acres Wildlife Conservation Society the Bureau of Land Management within the within a 23,000 complex of rare wetlands on 15 Roads and Safe Passages for Pronghorn lower Wisconsin River. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Build on expertise in ungulate migrations and $55,072 properties that support 45 rare species. road ecology to ensure that Highway 191 in $168,000 Wyoming and I-15 in Idaho do not sever Operation Migration-USA pronghorn migration corridors. Project will Whooping Crane Reintroduction to Wisconsin Waterfowl Association assess and enhance the effectiveness of road Southeastern U.S. — II Mill Creek Streambank and Balmoral crossing structures in reducing wildlife-vehicle Reintroduce whooping cranes to the Wetland Restoration (WI) collisions and enhancing habitat connectivity. Southeast U.S., potentially adding 45 cranes Restore 15 acres of wetland to increase species $150,000 toward the goal of achieving a self-sustaining diversity and protect sedge meadow, the most population. Project will use ultralight aircraft threatened habitat type in Wisconsin. The Yellowstone National Park to teach migration route. project site will be utilized as an educational Saving the Soda Butte Creek Cutthroat $172,599 and community project and students will Trout (MT, WY) — II develop restoration plans through surveying, Construct a barrier to permanently halt Ozaukee County research applicable practices, and work non-native fish invasion in Soda Butte Restoring Aquatic Connectivity in with multiple landowners and partners to Creek in the northeast corner of Yellowstone Riveredge Creek (WI) coordinate restoration. National Park. Project will secure a stronghold Restore aquatic connectivity to more than $20,000 population of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. three stream miles and 170 wetland acres $38,700 by re-designing and improving three trail- WYOMING stream crossings on Riveredge Creek. The Henry’s Fork Foundation, Inc. $28,500 ASIA, INDIA, AND Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Restoration, THE PACIFIC Stockbridge-Munsee Community Status, and Trend (ID, WY) Alex Messina Mohican Nation Wetland Restoration and Restore the headwater of Schneider Creek Develop Sediment Budget for Rail Bed Removal (WI) and complete a culvert replacement on Tygee Coral Health in American Samoa Remove four segments of an abandoned rail Creek in Idaho. Project will support the Continue monitoring of sediment flux bed to restore connectivity between 258 acres conservation and restoration of Yellowstone to a priority coral reef during and after a of wetlands and two miles of stream habitat cutthroat trout populations in the Henry’s watershed and coral reef restoration project. on the Stockbridge-Munsee Forest. Fork, Teton and Sinks drainages in Idaho and Wyoming. $4,000 $525,000 $28,975

44 45 American Samoa Community College Micronesian Environmental Services World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Monitoring Sediment Impacts to Coral Creel Pilot Program in Rota, Micronesia Reducing Bycatch of Seabirds in in Faga’alu Bay, American Samoa Conduct preliminary assessment of needs Russian Far East Fisheries Study flow dynamics and sedimentation in Rota and participate in training to collect Monitor seabird and fishing gear interactions effects on coral colonies in Faga’alu Bay, fisheries-dependent data on reef fishing in the Russian Far East (primarily Kamchatka American Samoa. Project will collect activities on Rota. Peninsula) to prevent accidental entanglement photo-quadrats to monitor long term $36,000 of threatened, endangered or vulnerable species. impacts of sediment. $59,161 $3,000 Reef Explorer Fiji Ltd. Building Enforcement Capacity and Biodiversity Conservation Agency Sustainable Financing CANADA Development of Decree on Endangered Conduct a public awareness campaign, build Canadian Sea Turtle Network, Inc. Species Criteria in Vietnam enforcement capacity and pilot sustainable Conserving Loggerhead Turtles in Prepare a decree on Endangered Species financing mechanisms to encourage Atlantic Canadian Waters Criteria under the Biodiversity Law 2008 compliance to fisheries laws and support Study loggerhead sea turtles in Atlantic of Vietnam. The decree will provide community marine management efforts. Canadian waters to effectively inform national a framework for the protection and $50,000 management plans. Project will involve a management of endangered species in collaboration with the Canadian pelagic Vietnam, including tigers, their prey and Research Center for Environmental longline fleet to identify size and genetic other associated species. Management and Development stock of loggerheads in Canada and evaluate Exploring the Darien Gap to Assess $13,100 efficacy and use of dehooking equipment. Hawksbills in the Pacific $60,000 Conservation International Foundation Conduct research and conservation activities Build Local Capacity for Community Reef to stabilize / increase eastern Pacific hawksbills. Michigan State University Fisheries Monitoring in Indonesia Project will conduct community surveys with Stakeholder-centered Management Enable community fishers to implement coastal communities to identify habitats of Lake Erie Yellow Perch lessons learned from previous training on important to turtles in the Darien Gap region. Convene a stakeholder-centered working community monitoring programs in the $9,550 group to evaluate and develop harvest Bird’s Head Seascape. Project will deliver the policies for Lake Erie yellow perch fisheries. tools and capacity to protect and sustainably San Diego State University Stakeholders will work with managers and manage their marine resources. Research Foundation scientists in using models to determine the Socioeconomic Assessment for American $30,000 policies that work best for both the fishing Samoan Marine Protected Area Villages community and the resource. Indonesia Locally Managed Marine Partner with local agencies to develop a $73,432 Area Foundation template of survey questions for socioeconomic­ Building A Network of Resilient Coral assessment and monitoring for Marine Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority Reefs In Eastern Indonesia Through Protected Area and Watershed Management Nottawasaga River Watersheds: Community Management Area sites in American Samoa. Project will also Restoration from Brook to Bay (ON) Advance coral reef conservation in Indonesia support pilot village assessments. Restore 35 acres of stream and riparian and the Asia Pacific region by supporting $71,100 habitat, restore fish passage to four stream communities to lead the design of a resilient miles and control phragmites in a high- network of Locally Managed Marine Areas. San Diego State University quality wetland in the Nottawasaga Project will focus on the Padaido Islands in Research Foundation Valley watershed. Papua where communities have requested that Coastal Use Mapping for Management $100,000 the current Locally Managed Marine Areas Decision-Making in American Samoa be extended from one to four islands. Support participatory digital mapping of Trout Unlimited Canada $40,000 coastal uses in American Samoa. Protecting and Restoring Bronte $59,400 Creek (Ontario) Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Stabilize stream banks and add in-stream Training Responders for Coral Disease University of Guam structures along 3,200 feet of Bronte Creek Outbreak Procedures in Fiji Talakhaya Watershed Soil Loss to improve habitat for Atlantic salmon and Conduct classes for managers and scientists Assessment (CNMI) brook trout. on proper procedures to identify and Design and carry out a study to assess $75,000 investigate coral disease outbreaks in the and quantify the change in soil loss from IndoPacific. Talakhaya watershed badlands as a result Walpole Island First Nation $24,900 of the revegetation efforts being conducted Swan Lake Marsh Restoration (Ontario) by Rota DLNR-Forestry staff. Conduct an initial wetland assessment and Micronesia Conservation Trust $97,200 develop a management plan to guide the Enforcement Training to Benefit restoration of Swan Lake Marsh within the Coral in Micronesia University of Western Australia St. Clair River Area of Concern. Strengthen law enforcement institutions Benthic Habitat Mapping for Reef Fish $25,000 supporting coral reef conservation in three Monitoring in the Commonwealth of Micronesian nations: Palau, the Federal States Northern Mariana Islands of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands. Classifiy stereo video imagery from Baited $66,000 Remote Underwater Video Stations deployments in 2010 to characterize reef fish populations around Rota and Saipan. $9,000 UNITED STATES & INTERNATIONAL

West Coast Aquatic Management Association Pronatura Peninsula de Yucatan A.C. EcoViva Ecosystem Based Management of Assessing Potential Bycatch Hotspots for Reducing Bycatch by Combating Blast Southern Boundary Salmon Caribbean Hawksbill Fishing in El Salvador Improve information for resource Identify and delimit bycatch hotspots and Reduce the occurrence of blast fishing shown management of ecosystem interactions during define the highest risk zones for marine to increase bycatch mortality among adult early marine life history that affect salmon turtles in the waters adjacent to the Yucatan hawksbill turtles in El Salvador through production. Project will collect and analyze peninsula. Project will also indirectly assess enforcement, fisheries management and data on marine prey variability for juvenile sea turtles bycatch and mortality rates. livelihood incentives. salmon in Barkley Sound to continue a $149,938 $60,000 21-year time series of this data. $50,000 Regents of the University of California Fauna & Flora International, Inc. Standardized Low-Cost Monitoring of Hawksbill Conservation in Estero Padre Conservation Success Pilot Project Ramos, Nicaragua MEXICO Pilot a standardized, third-party, monitoring Ensure long-term recovery success of American Bird Conservancy program for National Fish and Wildlife hawksbill turtles in the Eastern Pacific. Eliminating Threats to Priority Seabirds — IV Foundation on two seabird conservation Project will conduct nest conservation, projects. The pilot program will test the hatching success research, habitat protection, Address key threats to the highest priority use of a novel low-cost technique. reserve management and provide financial seabird species that occur in North American mechanisms at the most important hawksbill waters. This project will protect priority $298,050 nesting sites in the Eastern Pacific. seabirds on their breeding islands and at sea, The Ocean Foundation reducing the impacts of habitat loss, fisheries $74,984 Mitigating Loggerhead Bycatch in bycatch and a range of other threats. Shark Fisheries in Northwest Mexico Grenada Fund for Conservation $209,203 Assess and mitigate loggerhead bycatch by Strengthening Grenada’s Marine Protected the medium-scale longline fleet and augment Area Enforcement Capacity Chelonian Research Foundation official recognition of bycatch at the Baja Increase enforcement capacity and Plan of Action to Save Eastern Pacific California Sur hotspot. Project will implement­ effectiveness at Grenada’s three coral reef Leatherbacks circle hook exchanges, an onboard observer protected areas. Enforcement training and Design a strategic plan for implementing program and government partnerships. creation of enforcement program will be effective measures to save leatherbacks in the $29,000 coordinated with management goals. eastern Pacific. Project will convene key $38,165 regional experts in various aspects of leather­back biology and conservation to develop a “Plan of LATIN AMERICA AND Island Conservation Action to Save East Pacific Leatherbacks.” THE CARIBBEAN Restoring Pink-footed Shearwater $16,274 Populations in Chile — II American Bird Conservancy Protect endangered Pink-footed Shearwaters Eliminating Threats to Priority Seabirds — IV Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación by conducting invasive removals on Robinson Address key threats to the highest priority de la Naturaleza Crusoe and Mocha Islands. Project will seabird species that occur in North American Seabird Restoration in Baja California complete the next phase in a multi-year, waters. This project will protect priority Pacific Islands, Mexico multi-species invasive species eradication seabirds on their breeding islands and at sea, Conduct restoration activities on San Martín, campaign to protect Pink-footed Shearwaters reducing the impacts of habitat loss, fisheries San Jeronimo, Natividad, Asunción and San in Chile; this includes planning, environ­ bycatch and a range of other threats. Roque Islands. Priority seabird species for mental compliance, evaluation of enabling the restoration efforts include the Cassin’s $209,203 conditions and community outreach critical Auklet, Brandt’s Cormorant, Double-crested Coastal Quest to a successful implementation. Cormorant, California Brown Pelican, Ashy Creating Sustainable Financing and Capacity $372,487 Storm-Petrel and Xantus’s Murrelet. for St. Lucia Coral Reef Protected Areas $1,139,617 Sea Turtle Conservancy Develop a sustainable financing business Hawksbill and Leatherback Research Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, AC plan for the Soufriere Marine Management and Recovery in Panama Association. Project will increase the Implementing Loggerhead Turtle Bycatch Recover priority hawksbill and leatherback operating budget and improve management Reduction Solutions — II nesting populations on the Caribbean coast capacity to meet mission of protecting coral Continue to incentivize turtle-friendly of Panama. Monitoring and conservation and marine habitats. hook fishing through ongoing fleet will be conducted in partnership with consolidation, monitoring and government $60,000 indigenous communities. facilitation to enhance enforcement and Coral Bay Community Council, Inc. $25,000 fisheries management. Coral Bay Revised and Expanded Watershed $28,500 The Ocean Foundation Management Plan (VI) Sustaining Hawksbill Conservation in Northern Jaguar Project Update the local watershed management El Salvador plan using EPA’s nine elements, ultimately Viviendo con Felinos: Northern Jaguar Continue conservation activities at the reducing bay pollution and benefitting Monitoring / Restoration largest eastern Pacific hawksbill nesting site. coastal and marine habitats and species. Restore the ecosystem /grassland on the Project will implement one hatchery and Northern Jaguar Reserve. Project will $45,755 measure and tag nesting hawksbills. collaborate with surrounding landowners on $28,141 conservation practices and monitor jaguars in dispersal linkages of the Sky Island region. $98,995

46 47 NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE Wildlife Conservation Society Ducks Unlimited, Inc. FOUNDATION IMPACT-DIRECTED Migratory Breeding Bird Use of Lower Cosumnes River Floodplain Restoration ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS Re-vegetated Oil Platforms (AK) Involves levee breaching, interior floodplain (IDEA) PROJECT COMMITMENTS Assess wildlife responses, specifically bird de-leveling and installing fish exclusion nesting, feeding and brood rearing, to screens on existing water intake structures NFWF’s IDEA department serves as a manager rehabilitated exploratory drilling pad sites on the Lower Cosumnes River. and trustee for funds arising from legal and in Arctic Alaska. The findings from this study $333,000, Mitigation regulatory actions involving natural resources will help to develop specific recommendations and the environment. These funds originate that will provide land managers and industry Fishery Foundation of California primarily from court orders, settlements of with new information to assist in site Bear Creek Fish Passage Improvement legal cases, regulatory permits, licenses, and rehabilitation that provides the highest The Fishery Foundation of CA will conservation and mitigation plans. quality reclaimed habitat for nesting birds. provide permitting, biological and physical $26,704, Federal Criminal Case monitoring, and demolition oversight for the modification of a small dam on Bear UNITED STATES Wildlife Conservation Society Creek to improve fish passage. An Experiment to Assess Development ALASKA $30,113, Federal Criminal Case Impact on Nesting Birds (AK) Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Assess the impact of indirect oil development Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District Advisory Council on nest survival of breeding birds using Green Valley Creek Roads Cook Inlet Risk Assessment an artificial nest experiment on the Arctic Implementation Project Provide communications and administrative Coastal Plain of Alaska. The results of this This project involves road repair to support for the Cook Inlet Risk Assessment project will enable a better undertanding limit erosion into streams in Sonoma (“CIRA”) Management Team and Advisory of the relationship between oil infrastructure County, California. Panel during the first phase of the Cook and nest survivorship, refining previous $6,242, Mitigation Inlet Maritime Risk Assessment. research on this issue. $179,980, Federal Criminal Case $48,280, Federal Criminal Case Island Conservation Farallon NWR Bird and Mammal Marine Exchange of Alaska Various Recipients Mitigation Research Trial Expanding Vessel Tracking Capabilities Aleutians Emergency Towing System Research techniques to address possible non- and an Emergency Response Database Purchase and pre-position an Emergency target impacts from a proposed eradication for the Aleutian Islands Towing System (“ETS”) and a storage of house mice from the Farallon Islands to Install two long range, mountaintop container for Cold Bay, Alaska. protect the endangered Ashy Storm-petrel. Automatic Identification System (“AIS”) $38,246, Federal Criminal Case $49,661, Federal Criminal Case receiving sites, one on Unmak Island and the other on Adak Island; and build and CALIFORNIA Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo implement an emergency response database to Tognazzini Property Land Acquisition Agricultural-Natural Resources of complement MXAK’s vessel tracking system. Purchase the 171-acre Tognazzini property Contra Costa County $220,000, Federal Criminal Case in Santa Barbara. Fallon Village $128,000, Mitigation Northern Forum, Inc. Provide long-term land management Seabird Restoration in Prince William for the Fallon Ranch. Mid-Klamath Watershed Council Sound (AK) $27,775, Mitigation Mid Klamath Coho Rearing Habitat Restore population of seabirds at Naked Enhancement Project — II (CA) California State Parks Island Group, Prince William Sound, through Enhance cover complexity through placement McGrath Lake Trust (CA) eradication of introduced mink. Project of small woody debris and willow plantings will result in recovery of pigeon guillemot Develop and implement a restoration plan within pools of the lower reaches of Klamath population and other seabirds. for McGrath Lake in Ventura County, CA. River tributaries. This project will provide $150,000, Federal Criminal Case $70,000, Mitigation summer refugia that will increase coho survival rates from predation, resulting in California Waterfowl Association Nuka Research and Planning, LLC increased coho populations. Los Banos Wildlife Area, Volta Unit Wetland Aleutian Islands Risk Assessment — Phase B $50,188, Mitigation Complete the final phase of the Aleutian Habitat Restoration Islands Risk Assessment. Re-establish and restore wetland Mid-Klamath Watershed Council $1,046,353, Federal Criminal Case infrastructure by constructing a modern Seiad / West Grider Coho Winter Rearing water conveyance system, refurbishing Habitat Project (CA) USDA Forest Service degraded and partially functioning levee Create two off-channel ponds on Seiad Ecology of the Copper River Delta (AK) systems, and installing a barbwire fence and West Grider Creeks in California and Assess the effects of increased temperatures in the Los Banos Wildlife Area. restore floodplain on Seiad Creek. This on ecosystem structure and function of coastal $204,240, Mitigation project will improve juvenile coho salmon aquatic ecosystems on the Copper River winter rearing habitat. Conservation Biology Institute Delta of Alaska. Project will provide data to $64,891, Mitigation better inform the management of the Delta Science Team Facilitator for the DRECP and other coastal wetlands under a climate Independent Science Advisory Panel Process change scenario. Facilitate an independent science advisor’s $50,000, Federal Criminal Case review for the California Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan $21, 772, Voluntary Contribution IDEA

Mid-Klamath Watershed Council Shelton Douthit Consulting LLC Westervelt Ecological Services Mid Klamath Tributary Fish Passage Imperial Solar Energy Center South Swainsons Grassland Preserve — Improvement Project (CA) Provide funds to coordinate land acquisition Riparian Restoration Create fish passage at the mouths and in the tasks necessary to acquire 18 acres of Develop a riparian restoration project at lower reaches of 72 Mid-Klamath Subbasin flat-tailed horned lizard habitat, 26 acres Swainsons Grassland Preserve. tributaries in California for anadromous fish of burrowing owl habitat, and .6 acres of $355,500, Mitigation passage into upstream channels and off- jurisdictional waters to fulfill the mitigation channel rearing habitat. requirements of the C-Solar South Project. Yurok Tribe $66,446, Mitigation $28,460, Mitigation Lower Klamath Coho Habitat Enhancement and Monitoring (CA) Moss Restoration Topic Productions, Inc. Project will fund construction of an Pletz Residence I&C Raven Documentary Film off-channel habitat feature, wood loading Initial and capital funding for the Pletz Produce public education materials, and floodplain restoration on two acres Residence Endowment Project. including a thirty-minute film discussing of McGarvey Creek to increase juvenile $29,128, Mitigation the story of the relationship between the coho salmon rearing capacity. desert, the tortoise and the raven, and $90,025, Mitigation Pit Resource Conservation District to provide marketing assistance. Lower Ash Creek Meadow Restoration $30,000, Mitigation COLORADO Address degraded wet meadow, riparian Cal Poly Corporation and aquatic conditions along the lower USGS Western Ecological Research Center Orchard Mesa Irrigation District Project portion of Ask Creek by constructing Lead Scientist for the DRECP Independent ponds and filling gullies. Science Advisory Panel Process Professional services for Orchard Mesa Irrigation District. $200,000, Mitigation Complete independent science advisor’s review for the California Desert Renewable $200,000, Species Recovery Funds Plumas Corporation Energy Conservation Plan. Various Recipients Humbug Valley — Yellow Creek $65,315, Voluntary Contribution Meadow Restoration Upper Colorado River Fish Recovery Fund Restore the meadow hydrology and Urban Wildlands Group, Inc. Support recovery goals for native fish improve water quality in Humbug Valley Laguna Mountain Skipper Captive Rearing in the Upper Colorado River Basin. and Yellow Creek by eliminating incised Determine whether captive propagation $67,112, Species Recovery Funds gullied channels and restoring base flow is a viable technique to produce “surplus” to the surface of the meadow. individuals for release into suitable habitat. DELAWARE $297,400, Mitigation $30,000, Species Recovery Funds National Wildlife Federation Delaware River Basin Coalition Coordinator Plumas Corporation U.S. Forest Service, Inyo National Forest Support a position and associated expenses Spanish Creek in Meadow Valley Rehabilitation Kern River Watershed Meadow and to be housed within an existing organization Rehabilitate Spanish Creek in Meadow Valley Stream Rehabilitation to organize, coordinate and advance a by reducing stream channel bedload sediment, Enhance meadows, wetlands and stream Delaware River Basin Coalition. channel instability and bank erosion. aquatic habitat within the Kern Plateau area $65,000, Federal Criminal Case $464,750, Mitigation of the Kern River watershed by constructing new grade control and stabilization structures FLORIDA Plumas Corporation and repairing existing structures. Friends of Rookery Bay, Inc. Upper Dotta Canyon Restoration $62,950, Mitigation A 253-acre channel-floodplain restoration Rookery Bay Team OCEAN Program project on Red Clover Creek to re-establish Various Recipients Support a boat-based volunteer program the connection of the Red Clover Creek C-Solar South Misc. Expenses forging community partnerships (visitors, channel to its naturally-evolved floodplain. Appraisal of Loh property. residents) providing education and $441,184, Mitigation $7,500, Mitigation interpretation of information regarding the stewardship and protection of RTNavratil Consulting Various Recipients natural resources. Behren’s Silverspot Butterfly Guadalupe — OSPR Trust $23,000, Federal Criminal Case Survey / Assessment Conduct restoration on impacted resources Assess the conservation status of the in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Manatee County Board of County Behren’s silverspot butterfly at sites near counties related to diluent releases in the Commissioners Point Arena, California. Guadalupe Oil Field. Gamble Creek Saltwater Marsh and $18,562, Species Recovery Funds $114,950, Mitigation Riparian Restoration (FL) Restore and enhance 145 acres of hammock, San Mateo County Resource Various Recipients salt marsh and riparian habitat along Conservation District Sacramento District Wetlands Gamble Creek, a tributary of the Manatee Bonde Weir Fish Passage Conservation Fund River. Project will remove invasive vegetation, Project to remove the Bonde weir fish passage To provide for the rehabilitation, return native vegetation to the site, and result barrier on San Francisquito Creek to improve re-establishment, establishment, enhance­ in improved wildlife habitat and a reduction migratory conditions for steelhead. ment, or in exceptional circumstances in eroded sediment flowing into Tampa Bay. $14,400, Federal Criminal Case preservation of wetlands and other aquatic $70,200, Federal Criminal Case resources, and their associated habitats. $1,363,300, Mitigation

48 49 National Audubon Society, Inc. KANSAS Low Impact Development Center, Inc. Colonial Waterbird Management in Alexander Pump & Services, Inc. Port Towns Commemorative Rain Tampa Bay and Pinellas County Flint Hills NWR Mitigation Garden Network (MD) Manage, for a period of two years, 16 islands Fund mitigation of the loss of 243 wetland Construct a series of commemorative rain in Tampa Bay and Pinellas County, Florida, acres, 166 riparian forest acres, wetland gardens in the Port Towns of Bladensburg, comprising the Contractor’s Florida Coastal infrastructure, and one boat ramp in the Flint Colmar Manor, Cottage City and Islands Sanctuaries. Management of the Hills Refuge caused by a two-foot rise of Edmonston, Maryland. Project will site rain 16 islands will include such tasks as surveying, the conservation pool of the John Redmond gardens along major transportation corridors posting, patrolling, removing fishing lines, Reservoir in Coffey County, Kansas. and hubs in the community and will reflect and controlling predators. $44,000, Mitigation the principles and practices of Green Streets $37,500, Federal Criminal Case and Green Highways. $80,000, Federal Criminal Case Tampa Bay Estuary Program LOUISIANA Be Floridian Urban Fertilizer Education American Bird Conservancy Midshore Riverkeeper Conservancy Campaign — II (FL) Restoring Pelican Island in Barataria Bay Choptank Agricultural Landowner Continue the “Be Floridian” urban fertilizer Restore the key pelican nesting island Technical Assistance (MD) education campaign in Pinellas County, most heavily impacted by the Deepwater Identify, prioritize, design and begin Florida, and expand the campaign to Manatee Horizon spill to increase bird populations. remedial projects on key agricultural sites in County and the City of Tampa. Project will $254,000, Federal Criminal Case the Choptank watershed. Could become a result in a reduction of inorganic nitrogen template for addressing keystone non-point entering Tampa Bay and improved water Louisiana State University Agricultural Center source pollution. quality in Tampa Bay. BTEX and H2S Emission Effects on $10,000, Federal Criminal Case $75,000, Federal Criminal Case Water and Soil Environment This project will document levels of St. Mary’s River Watershed Association Inc. Tampa Bay Conservancy, Inc. benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes and St. Mary’s River Restoration (MD) Bullfrog Creek Preserve Riparian Buffer hydrogen sulfide in soils and waterways in Engage area residents, developers and Implementation (FL) Southwest Louisiana. businesses to establish strong partnerships Restore 4 acres of riparian buffer habitat, $400,000, Federal Criminal Case that emphasize low-impact development install other stream protection Best practices which improve water quality in Management Practices, and initiate a Louisiana Department of the St. Mary’s River. Project will retrofit partnership to help implement erosion Wildlife and Fisheries five business properties using low-impact control Best Management Practices at Recreational Offshore Landing Tag — development techniques, create a working three existing low-flow stream crossings Pilot Study group to develop incentives for minimal throughout the Tampa Bay watershed. The project will assist in establishing a impact development, create an endorsement $22,180, Federal Criminal Case Louisiana Recreational Offshore Landing program for new developments meeting Permit to develop a universe of recreational a set of green criteria, and implement a Tampa Bay Estuary Program fishermen that fish beyond Louisiana state neighborhood-scale rewards program for Determining Biotic Effects of territorial waters annually. conservation practices. Sediment Contaminants $150,000, Federal Criminal Case $67,000, Federal Criminal Case Determine relative impacts of sediment contaminants on Tampa Bay biota, focusing Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges, Inc. Trout Unlimited, Inc. on McKay Bay. Project will develop Delta Marsh Restoration (LA) Deer Creek Stream Bank Stabilization and watershed restoration actions to improve Resore marshes through the construction Wetland Restoration (MD) in-bay sediments and tidal flats. of marsh terraces, vegetative plantings and Implement eight stream and wetland $155,000, Federal Criminal Case monitoring of wildlife response. restoration practices in the Deer Creek $100,000, Federal Criminal Case watershed. The project will leverage Farm Tampa Bay Estuary Program Bill funding and benefit sensitive species, Tampa Bay Estuary Education and MARYLAND including Eastern brook trout. Restoration Mini-Grants Chesapeake Appreciation, Inc. $110,000, Federal Criminal Case Involve local citizens in hands-on Tampa dba Oyster Recovery Partnership Western Maryland Resource Conservation Bay restoration and education activities. Harris Creek Oyster Bed Restoration (MD) Project will result in measurable and Development Council Conduct large-scale oyster restoration in improvements in water quality, habitat Metz-Brawner Stream Bank Stabilization (MD) Harris Creek and develop a modeling tool restoration and public education. Restore water quality and aquatic habitat to estimate the value of oyster reefs as an in a 1,000-foot reach of the Savage River, $25,000, Federal Criminal Case effective water quality best management an important fishery and a critical Eastern practice. Tampa Bay Watch, Inc. brook trout resource in Maryland. $150,000, Federal Criminal Case Tampa Bay Community-Based Seagrass $55,895, Federal Criminal Case Transplanting (FL) Gunpowder Valley Conservancy, Inc. Implement a community-based seagrass Middle River and Tidal Gunpowder transplanting project off the southern tip of Preservation Project MacDill Air Force Base in an area known Conduct a behavior change campaign to to historically support seagrass. Project will motivate residents to take restoration actions establish 2 acres of seagrass meadows across identified in the Middle River and Tidal an estuarine shelf and provide hands-on Gunpowder Small Watershed Action Plan. educational experiences for community and $89,105, Federal Criminal Case student volunteers. $40,000, Federal Criminal Case IDEA

MONTANA Bronx River Alliance, Inc. Rocking the Boat, Inc. WestWater Consultants Muskrat Cove Pipe Remediation and Nutrient Bioextraction from Bronx River Benton Lake NWR Restoration (NY) — II Estuary (NY) Fund mitigation for the adverse impacts Remediate the ecological damage caused by A pilot project using seaweed to bioextract on nearby fish, wildlife and habitat of the excessive flows from a stormwater outflow pollution and then measure reductions in Kerr project in the Benton NWR. pipe and restore eroded streambanks and pollution in New York at the mouth of the $19,919, Mitigation associated parklands in Muskrat Cove Park, Bronx River. Bronx, New York. $55,228, State Civil Case $117,840, State Civil Case NEVADA Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Various Recipients Carleton University Evaluation of Threatened, Endangered, and Nevada National Wildlife Refuge Land Seasonal Assessment of Fish Community Declining Species of the St. Lawrence River and Water Acquisition Fund Structure in the St. Lawrence River Basin: and its Tributaries — II (Mohawk) Acquire replacement lands, waters or An Evaluation of Restoration Projects — Continue characterizing the locations and interests in lands or waters for National Carleton University distributions of threatened and endangered Wildlife Refuges in the State of Nevada. Utilize community-level approaches to fish species within the aquatic habitat in $57,343, Mitigation evaluate fish-habitat relationships across and adjacent to the St. Lawrence River. key tributaries, coastal wetlands and littoral $278,315, Mitigation NEW JERSEY habitats of the St. Lawrence River near The Seamen’s Church Institute American Littoral Society Cornwall, Ontario. Nationwide Seafarers’ Marine Education for Coastal Stewardship $100,626, Mitigation Environmental Education and Protection New York Botanical Garden Educate seafarers calling at U.S. ports by Build a New Jersey network of volunteers and Horticulture Operations Center: training port chaplains and distributing resources that will enhance responses to oil Stormwater Retrofit NY( ) educational pamphlets to seafarers. spills and chronic pollution through targeted Reconstruct the Horticuture Operations $99,530, outreach, citizen science and electronic media. Federal Criminal Case Center, reducing impermeable paved $100,000, Federal Criminal Case surfaces to increase on-site infiltration and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Conserve Wildlife Foundation eliminating existing stormwater outflows St. Lawrence River Fish Habitat of New Jersey, Inc. to the Bronx River. Conservation Strategy: Evaluation of Marine Mammal Stranding Response Campaign $295,320, State Civil Case Habitat Enhancements and Development CWF will hold workshops and create a New York Department of of Novel Restoration Approaches manual aimed at educating first responders Environmental Conservation Continue development of the St. Lawrence on the proper guidelines and procedures for Yellow Bar Salt Marsh Restoration Fish Habitat Conservation Strategy, which responding to marine mammal or sea turtle Restoration of saltwater marsh in involves: (a) site prioritization and develop– stranding events in NJ. the interior Jamaica Bay, NY. ment of a site list with recommendations for $100,000, Federal Criminal Case $4,981,668, Federal Criminal Case enhancement activities; (b) implementation of team meetings and support for advancing NEW MEXICO New York City Department of proposed implementation projects and the Zohnnie Construction Industries, Inc. Environmental Protection creation of preliminary designs for projects; San Juan River Fish Recovery Program Yellow Bar Hassock Salt Marsh and (c) GIS database maintenance, and the Support strategies for fish recovery in the Restoration Project collection, processing and reporting of San Juan River including research, habitat Restore up to 45 acres of salt marsh island biological­ and physical monitoring data needed restoration and management, in-stream habitat in Jamaica Bay. Replenish island to assess impacts on the fisheries of existing flow acquisitions, and raising fish in footprint with dredged sand, plant low and and proposed implementation projects. hatcheries for stocking. high marsh grasses and monitor performance $610,073, Mitigation $68,120, Species Recovery Funds for minimum of 5 years. $890,000, Federal Criminal Case Town of Greenburgh NEW YORK Greenburgh Nature Center Stormwater New York City Soil & Water Retrofit NY( ) Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois Conservation District Capture, detain and treat polluted stormwater Seasonal Assessment of Fish Community Stormwater Retention and Detention runoff from two visitor parking lots and Structure in the St. Lawrence River Basin: in a Paved Courtyard (NY) associated access roads at the Greenburgh An Evaluation of Restoration Projects — Use vegetation and rain barrels to divert Nature Center while educating visitors. University of Illinois stormwater volume and reduce flow $317,641, State Civil Case Use community-level approaches to in a paved courtyard of a low-income evaluate fish-habitat relationships across residential building in the South Bronx. USGS Great Lakes Science Center key tributaries, coastal wetlands and littoral $86,420, State Civil Case Evaluation of Threatened, Endangered, and habitats of the St. Lawrence River near Declining Species of the Major Tributaries Cornwall, Ontario. to St. Lawrence River (USGS) — II $99,651, Mitigation Continue characterizing the locations and distributions of threatened and endangered fish species within the aquatic habitat in and adjacent to the St. Lawrence River. $318,400, Mitigation

50 51 Various Recipients Deschutes River Conservancy Siuslaw Watershed Council, Inc. St. Lawrence Fish Enhancement, Uncle John Ditch Piping Project for Waite Ranch Tidal Wetland Restoration (OR) Mitigation and Research Fund Whychus Flow Restoration (OR) Restore tidal exchange and 200 acres of tidal Address impacts to fish resources in the Permanently restore 2.49 cfs (12 percent) of wetlands in the Siuslaw estuary near Florence, Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River basin. instream flow to Whychus Creek, a tributary Oregon. Project will create critical rearing $51,018, Mitigation of the Deschutes River in Oregon, during habitat for juvenile salmonids, including low flow periods by piping 3.8 miles of open listed Chinook and coho. NORTH CAROLINA canal. This project will benefit steelhead, $50,000, Federal Criminal Case resident redband trout, chinook salmon and North Carolina Aquarium Society bull trout. West Multnomah Soil & Water Bogue Banks Dune Restoration Project $50,000, Federal Criminal Case Conservation District Increase awareness of proper dune Sauvie Island Pesticide Collection Event management and demonstrate dune building Freshwaters Illustrated Provide a free event for agricultural techniques. The two components are: Willamette Futures: A Film on Willamette producers to dispose of old, outdated or 1) a public workshop and 2) dune grass Basin Conservation (OR) banned pesticides. plantings at three field sites. Complete a film to raise literacy and $10,000, Federal Criminal Case $7,100, Federal Criminal Case interest around Oregon’s Willamette River conservation issues and current restoration North Carolina Coastal Land Trust PENNSYLVANIA efforts. Film will be shared with diverse Brown’s Island Preservation Project Pennsylvania Department of audiences throughout the basin to catalyze Partner with the North Carolina Wildlife Environmental Resources increased stewardship. Resources Commission to purchase in fee title Pennsylvania Wetlands Replacement $35,000, Federal Criminal Case approximately 56 acres of land on Brown’s Conduct wetland restorations on private Island, in Carteret County, North Carolina. Lower Nehalem Watershed Council lands, particularly in the Pocono Mountains $300,105, Federal Criminal Case Roy Creek Fish Passage Improvement (OR) region, using mitigation funds from the state. Remove two fish passage barriers on Roy $15,800, Mitigation North Carolina Department of Creek, a tributary to the Nehalem River on Environment and Natural Resources the north coast of Oregon, and replace with PUERTO RICO North Carolina Shrimp Trawl and a 36 foot bridge. Project will open 2.8 miles Inter American University of Puerto Rico Gill Net Fisheries Characterizations of instream habitat for spawning and rearing Puerto Rico Manatee Conservation Center — Characterize North Carolina’s shrimp trawl for coho, Chinook, steelhead, cutthroat Rehabilitation Tank Construction (150 observed fishing days / year) and gill net and lamprey. fisheries (85 trips). Project will provide effort, Construct a rehabilitation tank area $30,000, Federal Criminal Case catch, discard and bycatch data of finfish, consisting of three tanks within the Puerto turtle interaction and turtle exclusion device Rico Manatee Conservation Center. McKenzie River Trust $192,000, Federal Criminal Case compliance information. Upper Willamette Riparian Stewardship (OR) $230,000, Federal Criminal Case Remove and treat invasive weeds along Paul Sturm the Willamette River in Oregon, while Guanica Treatment Wetlands and OREGON engaging landowners in long-term restoration Stormwater Wetland Design Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation projects and conservation agreements. Design and build six to ten acres of treatment and Development Area, Inc. Project will enroll six landowners in weed wetlands to address the largest single nitrogen Luckiamute Watershed Fish Passage removal activities. source to Guanica Bay. Project will also Restoration (OR) — II $24,989, Federal Criminal Case design an additional two acres of wetlands Remove three sets of abandoned railroad to address town runoff entering the site. bridge pilings. Project will enhance channel Salmon-Safe, Inc. $90,000, Federal Criminal Case form and function and improve passage of Salmon-Safe Walla Walla / Umatilla (OR) winter steelhead and trout habitat along the Transition 60 percent of Oregon’s Blue SOUTH CAROLINA upper Luckiamute River. Mountain apple orchard acreage, totaling South Carolina Forestry Commission $20,000, Federal Criminal Case 3,600 acres, to Salmon-Safe practices. Project will improve water quality and Strategic Watershed Assessment Team Crooked River Watershed Council wildlife habitat, while expanding Salmon- Longleaf Pine Initiative (SC) McKay Creek Habitat Restoration (OR) Safe’s presence across the region. Provide follow-up assistance and guidance Restore riparian and instream habitat along $38,600, Federal Criminal Case to South Carolina landowners with Wildlife 0.6 miles of Oregon’s lower McKay Creek. Habitat Incentive Program Long-Leaf Pine Project involves berm removal, instream Sandy River Basin Watershed Council Initiative contracts for the purpose of helping rock / wood placement, riparian planting and Lower Sandy Restoration II — Camp Collins them implement practices outlined in their weed control to enhance steelhead habitat. Reconnection (OR) conservation plan. $46,400, $45,000, Federal Criminal Case Enhance habitat complexity in a side channel Federal Criminal Case of the Lower Sandy River of Oregon. Project will support the recovery of ESA listed Chinook, coho and steelhead salmon. $45,000, Federal Criminal Case IDEA

TEXAS WASHINGTON Texas Parks & Wildlife Foundation King Conservation District Sabine Lake Oyster Reef Restoration and Stream Crossing and Riparian Enhancement Enhancement (TX) on Issaquah Creek (WA) Restore approximately 25.8 acres of oyster Design, permit, acquire and install crossing reefs in Sabine Lake. Project will construct structures and riparian enhancement on Carey a network of small patch reefs to mimic the and Holder Creeks, tributaries to Issaquah nearby natural reefs. Creek in Washington, as replacement of $325,000, Federal Criminal Case existing stream fords. This project will aid in salmon recovery through reduced sediment U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Texas and improved riparian areas. Mid-Coast Refuge Complex $35,000, Federal Criminal Case Columbia Bottoms NAWCA FWS Fund — Austin Woods Acquisition Kramer Consulting Accomplish a land acquisition on Eagle Nest Protecting and Restoring Puget Sound’s Lake, part of the Austin Woods IV project. Marine Shorelines (WA) $76,000, Mitigation Build on new science, strengthen existing partnerships, and develop a focused Various Recipients implementation plan for recovery of summer Columbia Bottoms (Austin Woods) Fund chum in Hood Canal, Washington. Project Land acquisition services including review will identify and initiate top priority projects of acquisition plans, appraisal reviews, site for shoreline areas that are consistent with visits, land negotiations, grant writing and summer chum recovery plans. other related services associated with land $117,500, Federal Criminal Case acquisition preservation efforts for the Columbia Bottomlands along the Texas Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust Mid-Gulf Coast. Knotweed and Policemen’s Helmet Control $77,753, Mitigation on Issaquah Creek (WA) Control invasive knotweed and policemen’s UTAH helmet along Issaquah Creek in Washington to improve habitat for endangered Chinook Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. salmon. Project work will include riparian Ouray Fish Hatchery Manganese Project surveys, manual and chemical invasive weed Determine and document the most control, and landowner outreach. appropriate way to reduce the manganese $20,000, Federal Criminal Case levels in the Ouray National Fish Hatchery pipeline. WISCONSIN $26,989, Species Recovery Funds International Crane Foundation VIRGINIA Eastern Migratory Whooping Crane Fund Research habitat use during winter by the Various Recipients Eastern Mirgratory Population (EMP). Great Dismal Swamp Fund $1,585, Species Recovery Funds Assist in repair and rehabilitation of the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, which was damaged by the ASIA, INDIA AND THE PACIFIC South One Fire. $44,415, Federal Civil Case World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Illegal and Unsustainable Trade in Black Coral An investigative study of the major processing, distribution and consumer markets. It will focus on hotspots where trade and harvesting in black corals is most extensive and most threatening. $137,999, Federal Criminal Case

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