NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

2020 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS

1 A snowy egret leaps into flight in Florida. 2 The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is dedicated to sustaining, restoring and enhancing the nation’s fish, wildlife, plants and habitats for current and future generations. NFWF will advance its mission through innovative public and private partnerships, and by investing financial resources and intellectual capital into science-based programs designed to address conservation priorities and achieve measurable outcomes. In fiscal year 2020, NFWF invested $398.5 million to support more than 950 projects across the nation, generating an on-the-ground conservation impact of more than $701.6 million. An eastern indigo snake leaves its burrow in Georgia. 2 CONTENTS

United States and U.S. Territories Fiscal Year 2020 Conservation Investments

Alabama 3 Montana 39 Alaska 4 Nebraska 40 Arizona 5 Nevada 40 Arkansas 5 New Hampshire 41 California 6 New Jersey 42 Colorado 11 New Mexico 45 Connecticut 13 New York 45 Delaware 14 North Carolina 49 District of Columbia 16 North Dakota 51 Florida 17 Ohio 51 Georgia 19 Oklahoma 52 Hawaii 21 Oregon 52 Idaho 23 Pennsylvania 53 Illinois 24 Rhode Island 59 Indiana 25 South Carolina 60 Iowa 26 South Dakota 61 Kansas 26 Tennessee 62 Kentucky 26 Texas 63 Louisiana 27 Utah 65 Maine 29 Vermont 66 Maryland 30 Virginia 66 Massachusetts 32 Washington 69 Michigan 35 West Virginia 71 Minnesota 37 Wisconsin 72 Mississippi 37 Wyoming 73 Missouri 38 U.S. Territories 74

United States and International Fiscal Year 2020 Conservation Investments 76

Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund Fiscal Year 2020 Project Commitments 78

Impact-Directed Environmental Accounts Fiscal Year 2020 Project Commitments 82

1 UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES FISCAL YEAR 2020 CONSERVATION INVESTMENTS

2 ALABAMA Florida Agricultural Saltwater and Mechanical University Expanding and Improving the Use of Electronic Alabama Forestry Foundation GIS Capacity and Training to Support Gulf- Monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Trawl Improving Habitat for At-Risk Species in South Wide Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration Fishery (multiple states) Alabama’s Longleaf Forests — II (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Expand and improve the use of electronic Engage family forest owners in south Provide geographic information system monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp Alabama to restore and enhance longleaf (GIS) expertise and training in support of trawl fishery by installing electronic pine forests to improve habitat for at-risk Gulf-wide ecosystem conservation and monitoring systems and collecting data species such as gopher tortoise, eastern restoration programs and projects. Project on protected species interactions and red indigo snake and eastern hognose snake. will develop GIS layers and maps where snapper bycatch volume and locations. Project will reach and educate landowners Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Project will maximize the utility of the through direct mail and social media and Natural Resources Damage Assessment collected data for both fishery management marketing, workshops and field days, projects have been approved for planning and dealer verification of catch origin and restore 11,500 acres of longleaf through and implementation by the U.S. Department sustainable fishing practices. plantings, prescribed burning, and invasive of Agriculture. $173,145 species control, and collect gopher tortoise $300,000 population data on private lands. The Longleaf Alliance $300,000 Mississippi State University Collaborating to Restore Longleaf in the Gulf Novel Techniques for Restoring Shortleaf Pine- Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership Landscape Alabama Forestry Foundation Hardwood Ecosystems on Reclaimed Mine (AL, FL) Restoring Connectivity and Improving Sites (AL) Restore and maintain 44,000 acres of In-Stream Habitat in the Upper Sipsey Fork Restore 182 acres of shortleaf pine and longleaf pine habitat in south Alabama and Watershed (AL) shortleaf pine-oak habitat on a reclaimed the western panhandle region of Florida Replace improperly installed and maintained mine site in north-central Alabama, to benefit rare and declining species such culvert crossings to restore connectivity improving soil and water quality and as the Bachman’s sparrow, red-cockaded in 13 high-priority streams in Winston benefiting species such as northern woodpecker, gopher tortoise and northern County, Alabama, benefiting numerous bobwhite and freshwater mussels. bobwhite. Project will provide technical freshwater species, including the black Project will use the restored property as assistance to private landowners and deploy warrior waterdog and flattened musk turtle. a demonstration site to engage private an ecosystem support team to implement Project will improve habitat connectivity landowners and land managers through prescribed burning, plant longleaf pine, within 101 miles of streams, improve 20 field day events and short courses, seeking remove invasive species, and support rare acres of riparian forest, and engage at least to increase adoption of habitat restoration species recovery on public and private lands. 40 private landowners through education practices on additional reclaimed mine sites. $300,000 or technical assistance to promote $174,999 conservation practices on private lands. The Nature Conservancy $225,000 Mobile County Commission Accelerating Longleaf Pine Ecosystem Dauphin Island Causeway Shoreline and Restoration in the Chattahoochee Fall Line Alabama Wildlife Federation Habitat Restoration Project (AL) Area - V (AL, GA) Alabama Longleaf Pine Restoration on Private Complete design and implementation for Accelerate longleaf pine conservation on Lands - VI breakwater and a coastal marsh in Mobile more than 20,400 acres of public and private Restore and enhance nearly 5,000 acres of Bay on the east side of the Dauphin Island land in west Georgia and east Alabama, longleaf pine on private lands within priority Causeway. Project will create and protect benefiting red-cockaded woodpecker, counties for longleaf pine and northern critical coastal marsh habitat and reduce gopher tortoise and other at-risk species. bobwhite restoration in Alabama. Project the vulnerability of the only emergency/ Project will improve forests through will engage at least 100 private landowners hurricane evacuation route between the silvicultural treatments and implement through targeted outreach and technical mainland of south Mobile County and prescribed fire on existing and restored assistance and assist landowners with Dauphin Island. longleaf habitat, with activities focused on identifying eligible incentive programs for $4,900,000 properties buffering Fort Benning, as well establishing and managing longleaf pine and as high priority state and privately owned associated wildlife habitat. Reef Fish Conservation lands. $116,538 and Education Foundation $283,000 Engaging the Next Generation of Commercial Birmingham-Southern College Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, The Nature Conservancy Creating an Alabama Forest Classroom (AL) MS, TX) Calvert Prong and Turkey Creek Stream Install a rainwater harvesting system, plant Develop a workforce training program to Restoration in the Locust Fork Watershed (AL) 30 native trees and shrubs and create a 0.3 recruit and educate young fishermen for Restore and enhance riparian forests and mile “Return of the Natives” Trail on the the commercial seafood harvesting sector. support federally-listed species on two 466-acre Turkey Creek Nature Preserve. Project will engage fishery leaders from sites within the Locust Fork watershed in Project will complement the addition of a various fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico Alabama. Project will restore approximately 120-seat Turkey Creek Classroom, with new in face-to-face meetings to design and plan 10 acres of riparian buffer and .5 miles of systems to channel rainwater from the roof a young fishermen training program for streambank, preventing an estimated 400 to a 1,400 gallon cistern and drip irrigation the Gulf of Mexico and develop a review of cubic yards of sediment from entering the system, filtering rainwater to protect the similar programs around the United States. watershed annually, and improve critical critically endangered vermilion darter. $25,835 habitat for the black warrior waterdog, $35,450 flattened musk turtle, vermilion darter and other listed species. $145,948

3 The Nature Conservancy Aleutians East Borough Kenai Watershed Forum Expanding Longleaf Pine Restoration in the Implementing Electronic Monitoring Baseline Assessment of Hydrology and Water Talladega Mountains (AL, GA) for the Pollock Trawl Fishery in the Quality within the Vogel Lake Complex (AK) Plant 420 acres of longleaf pine and improve Western Gulf of Alaska Establish baselines for hydrology and water an additional 17,500 acres of existing Increase electronic monitoring for discard quality parameters throughout the Vogel Lake longleaf habitat with prescribed fire within compliance in the small vessel Pollock complex on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska the Talladega Mountains Longleaf Pine mid-water trawl fleet in the Western Gulf of to develop a treatment plan for invasive Conservation Partnership area of north- Alaska. Project will install electronic monitoring northern pike for the benefit of native coho central Alabama and northwest Georgia. systems onboard vessels, develop compliance salmon, sockeye salmon, and rainbow trout. Project will increase prescribed fire capacity plans for these vessels, conduct shore based Project will conduct a hydrologic connectivity with seasonal burn crews and establish counts of salmon bycatch, and develop cost- assessment, establish a stream discharge longleaf on a recently acquired property effective data management tools. station to capture outflow, and perform water adjoining the Talladega National Forest, $531,217 quality monitoring on three sites. benefiting red-cockaded woodpecker and $102,745 other longleaf-dependent species. Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association $274,000 Assessing Mortality of Chinook Salmon During Native Village of Shaktoolik Freshwater Migration in Western Alaska (AK) Shaktoolik Alaska Storm Surge Berm and University of Georgia Research Foundation Estimate the prevalence of heat stress and pre- Restoration Development of a Planted Longleaf Pine spawn mortality in migrating western Alaska Build a storm surge berm between Shaktoolik Growth and Yield Model for the Southeast (AL, adult Chinook salmon using natural biomarkers and the Bering Sea using 100-percent, FL, GA, NC, SC) in the tissues of living individuals. Project will nature-based local materials, restoring Create a new growth and yield model identify specific locations and populations coastal dune habitat. Project will prevent system for longleaf pine that will allow where heat stress mortality is more likely in the destruction of the community, thereby more accurate growth projections for order to prioritize conservation efforts. avoiding contaminating marine habitat and landowners considering longleaf pine $67,936 coastal wetlands and rivers with fuel and reforestation who may have timber other hazardous and biological waste. management objectives. Project will Chordata $1,000,000 establish, document and measure Electronic Monitoring Data Quality, Integration, permanent plots in planted unthinned and Cost in Alaska’s Fixed Gear Fleet Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition longleaf pine stands on cut-over sites in Analyze the cost associated with, and data Engaging the Community to Restore Habitat for the southeast United States, and the data quality provided by, current electronic Sockeye Salmon in the Klawock Watershed (AK) will be used to calibrate a growth and yield monitoring review in Alaska for the benefit Restore sockeye salmon habitat and engage model for multiple factors for longleaf pine. of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the with local community groups to build $243,999 North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, capacity for the management of Sockeye and industry. Project will examine how salmon. Project will improve fish habitat electronic monitoring and observer data quality and quantity; conduct stream habitat ALASKA streams can be integrated to reduce costs, assessments; and develop and implement improve consistency, quality and usability of a best management practice plan for Alaska Geographic Association information collected. watershed landowners. Connecting Anchorage Residents to their $119,100 $59,318 Watershed through Monitoring, Restoration and Education (AK) City of Point Hope Takshanuk Watershed Council Remove 20 acres of invasive European bird Identifying Priority Restoration Sites for Water Quality Monitoring in Chilkat Valley to

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED cherry from the Anchorage Bowl Waterways, Resilience in Point Hope, Alaska Assess Chinook Salmon Population (AK) providing opportunities for urban youths Assess potential shoreline sites that are Produce comprehensive, scientifically valid, and families to connect and become better vulnerable to coastal erosion, flooding, and and legally defensible current baseline water stewards of local natural resources through storm surge for adaptation and resiliency quality data for the Chilkat and Chilkoot recreation and restoration. Project will projects in and around Point Hope, Alaska. watersheds in Alaska. Project will conduct help break down barriers for Anchorage’s Project will apply native knowledge and baseline water data collection into its third diverse urban neighborhoods to access the expertise in the scoping of projects, and year; engage state and federal regulators waters by engaging 700 volunteers and 350 will involve site assessments, modeling, and on permitting and water quality issues; and students through environmental education preliminary design development. build capacity and engage with the Chilkat and training activities while addressing $214,761 Indian Village, Chilkoot Indian Association, priority habitat restoration. and the Village of Klukwan. $48,946 College of William and Mary, Virginia $42,570 Institute of Marine Science Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association Test and Implement Commercial Grade Trout Unlimited Expanding Best Fishing Practices to Strengthen Biodegradable Hinges on Dungeness Crab Monitoring and Habitat Assessment of Pacific Innovation Uptake (AK) Traps (AK, VA, WA) Salmon in the Eklutna River (AK) Enhance uptake of best fishing practices to Employ commercial-grade biodegradable Conduct monitoring on four sites on the improve the viability of small-scale fishing hinges on dungeness crab traps to minimize Eklutna River in Alaska, post-barrier removal, using a multi-tiered training program. adverse impacts when the traps become for the benefit of Pacific salmon. Project Project will expand efforts to strengthen derelict. Project will test the durability of will determine the adequate amount of uptake of innovative tools and strategies the hinges in both the active fishery utilizing water to be returned to the Eklutna River through direct outreach to fishermen and by watermen and in a simulated derelict trap to restore fish passage, and document the developing local expert trainers to continue mode to ensure the function as needed historical use of salmon by the Eklutna tribe the outreach. to be functional for fishermen and protect to quantify the true cultural cost of salmon $69,994 marine ecosystems. loss in the Eklutna River. $130,579 $101,086

4 U.S. Department of Agriculture, University of Alaska Anchorage National Audubon Society U.S. Forest Service Community Engagement with Federal Fish and Creating Habitat for Burrowing Owls in Powers Assessing Impact and Effects of Elodea on Wildlife Projects on the Copper River (AK) Butte (AZ) Sockeye Salmon in Eyak Lake (AK) Facilitate an Alaska Native Science and Mobilize volunteers to build homes for Assess the impact and effects of Elodea, a Engineering Program (ANSEP) student burrowing owls on an Arizona Game and nonnative aquatic plan, on sockeye salmon internship with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fish Department Wildlife Area located west within Eyak Lake in Alaska to fill information and U.S. Forest Service relating to pacific of Phoenix called Powers Butte. Project gaps and provide insight on Elodea impacts salmon conservation projects on the Copper will install artificial burrows in an area on other Pacific salmon and native fish. River, Alaska. Project will give an ANSEP encompassing about 5 acres adjacent to Project will conduct three studies to student field work experience to support the Gila River, build 100 new burrows and inform relevant management agencies and their pursuit of conservation careers, and re-home 50-60 burrowing owls, as wells stakeholders on cost-effective techniques to the student will serve as liaisons between as focus outreach efforts on high schools address Elodea control and eradication. federal managers and local communities. located in Phoenix’s West Valley, adjacent to $127,078 $9,266 the new owl site. $30,000 U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ARIZONA U.S. Department of the Interior, Engaging Native Communities in Emperor U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Geese Conservation for Subsistence Hunting Arizona Game and Fish Department Arizona Fisheries Resources Office Opportunities (AK) Restoring Wintering Grassland Habitat Replacing a Barrier on Big Bonito Creek to Conduct outreach in rural coastal Alaskan on the CO Bar Ranch by Removing Invasive Support Apache Trout Recovery (AZ) communities on Kodiak Island and in the Juniper (AZ) Replace an existing gabion structure, which Yukon-Kuskokwim Region to educate Use a rubber-tired masticator to remove no longer functions as a barrier to upstream and engage Native Alaskan residents in invasive juniper from historic grassland movement of nonnative trout, with a barrier emperor geese conservation to ensure habitat on the CO Bar Ranch in northern designed for a 50-year performance life. future recreational and subsistence Arizona. Project will restore more than 700 Project will separate Apache trout recovery UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES hunting opportunities. Project will initiate acres of wintering habitat for elk, pronghorn populations from managed sportfish a broad-scale public education and and mule deer. downstream and increase the availability outreach initiative to deliver a timely, clear, $109,000 of high-quality protected Apache trout and consistent message about emperor recovery habitat by nearly 20 miles. goose ecology, harvest management, and Arizona Game and Fish Department $83,128 conservation need. Restoring Wintering Grassland Habitat on the $50,000 Kaibab Plateau by Removing Invasive Juniper (AZ) ARKANSAS U.S. Department of the Interior, Use mechanical and hand-thinning U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - treatments to remove juniper trees that Ducks Unlimited Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge have invaded historical grassland on Bureau Enhancing Hydrology and Restoring Forests in Population Assessment and Development of a of Land Management lands within Coconino the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (AR, MS) Statewide Monitoring Framework for Aleutian County in northern Arizona. Project will Restore and enhance bottomland hardwood Tern (AK) restore 1,480 acres of critical winter mule forests and wetlands on public and private Continue a collaborative study at a suite deer habitat. lands within the delta of Arkansas and of Alaska study sites during the 2020 field $200,000 Mississippi. Project will restore hydrology, season to address conservation-critical enhance existing forests, and reforest areas information needs of the Aleutian tern. Arizona State University to impact a total of 2,590 acres, benefiting Project will produce a statewide monitoring Developing and Testing Solar-Powered Net migratory waterfowl, Louisiana black bear framework, gain information on breeding Illumination to Reduce Leatherback Sea Turtle and other forested wetland-dependent season movements in a new sub-region of Bycatch (AZ, FL) species. Alaska, continue colony level monitoring, Further develop and test a promising $375,000 and initiate a study on population genetic gill-net gear technology for the reduction structure. of sea turtle bycatch. Project will improve Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries $150,000 existing design to enhance both usability Foundation and impact for leatherback turtles and Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest United Catcher Boats conduct both controlled and active fishing Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) Implementing Electronic Monitoring for tests of the gear. Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Compliance in the Mid-water Trawl Pollock $102,083 Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for Fisheries (AK) Wildlife report, which provides technical Implement operational testing to evaluate Friends of the Verde River guidance to land managers on how to the feasibility and cost efficiency of using Verde Watershed Restoration Coalition: manage bottomland hardwood forests for electronic monitoring systems in the Bering Water Quality Monitoring and Restoration the conservation of wildlife. Project will Sea and Gulf of Alaska Pollock mid-water Volunteerism (AZ) revise the report to integrate new science trawl catcher vessels. Project will expand Engage volunteers, build stewardship in the on the habitat needs of priority wildlife previous efforts to improve data quality, community, and train community scientists species, include updates from the Forest timeliness, and cost-efficiency for salmon to monitor water quality and identify sites Resource Conservation Working Group, and bycatch monitoring compliance with in need of restoration along Oak Creek and add a section dedicated to the management retention regulations. Spring Creek. Project will engage seven of restored or young bottomland hardwood $435,168 partner organizations and 225 volunteers to stands. install erosion control structures on 2 acres $79,254 and monitor 10 sites for water quality. $47,645

5 Mississippi River Trust The Nature Conservancy American Rivers Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower Restoring Forested Wetlands through a Aquatic Organism Passage Barrier Removal Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple states) Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership and Meadow Restoration in the Pine Creek Reforest and protect frequently flooded, (AR, LA, MS) Watershed (CA) marginal cropland on private lands through Restore and protect forested wetlands Remove barriers to the passage of aquatic the adoption of Wetland Reserve Easements within high-priority areas in the Mississippi organisms, and restore meadows in the in the active floodplain of the Lower Alluvial Valley region of Arkansas, Mississippi Pine Creek watershed in Lassen National Mississippi River. Project will establish 7,500 and Louisiana. Project will reforest 2,650 Forest. Project will remove eight passage acres of bottomland hardwood forest to acres of marginal cropland, restore 600 barriers, permit seven additional passage expand and enhance habitat and improve acres of hydrologic wetland function and improvements, and restore 240 acres of water quality, benefiting the Louisiana black protect 3,300 acres with conservation meadow to improve instream flows and bear, swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl easements, benefiting Louisiana black bear, enhance native fish habitat and connectivity. and freshwater fish. swamp rabbits, waterfowl and neotropical $338,094 $653,696 migratory songbirds. $696,304 American Rivers Mississippi State University Meadow Restoration in Faith Valley and Black Bear Monitoring in the Lower Mississippi Grouse Meadow in the Desert Terminal Lakes Alluvial Valley (AR, LA, MS) CALIFORNIA Watersheds (CA) Monitor and collect baseline data on black Restore hydrological processes in Faith bear movement, gene flow, and genetic Ai.Fish Valley, a priority meadow within the Carson isolation among five recovering populations Artificial-Intelligence Assisted Data Basin Watershed, and initiate planning for within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley in Management and Review Platform for Hawaii wet meadow restoration in Grouse Meadow, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Longline Fisheries (CA, HI) a high-priority site within the Walker Basin Project will help assess black bear response Develop a web-based application using Watershed. Project will improve habitat to bottomland hardwood restoration machine learning and computer vision for the willow flycatcher by restoring efforts and establish a regional black algorithms to pre-process electronic hydrology across 120 acres of meadows and bear monitoring protocol by leveraging monitoring data from the Hawaii pelagic conduct planning and design for 40 acres of monitoring efforts in the three states, longline fisheries. Project will reduce costs meadows within suitable habitat for bi-state coordinating standardized protocols for and improve timeliness of the review sage-grouse. sampling, and collaborating on analyses. process, lowering the barrier to entry for $242,486 $138,483 implementation of electronic monitoring and review technologies in the Hawaii- Amigos de los Rios Pollinator Partnership permitted longline fisheries. Interpretive Signage for Areas Impacted by the Improving Pollinator Habitat Connectivity in $300,617 Copper and Powerhouse Fires (CA) the Midwest and Great Lakes Flyway (AR, IL, Research, develop, and produce educational, MI, MN, WI) American Bird Conservancy interpretive and wayfinding signage to boost Develop and expand a regional seed Supporting On-the-Ground Riparian awareness of Copper and Powerhouse collection and native plant materials Restoration on Private Lands (CA) fire impacts on Angeles National Forest in network program in the Midwest and Great Increase participation of private California. Project will produce signage that Lakes region to support monarch butterflies, landowners in California to restore riparian includes information related to the ecology rusty patched bumble bees and other habitat for southwestern willow flycatcher and history of the region in addition to declining pollinator species. Project will by providing technical assistance for on- wayfinding information for trail users, which improve more than 5,000 acres of pollinator the-ground riparian restoration projects will enhance trail sites, increase awareness

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED habitat, collect 50 pounds of milkweed seed, using Natural Resources Conservation of fire ecology, and promote responsible collect 50 pounds of nectar plant seed, and Service conservation practices. Project will forest stewardship. propagate 2,000 milkweed and 1,000 nectar engage 200 landowners and will improve $65,000 species seedlings. management on 500 acres of riparian $74,971 habitat to support the species recovery Cachuma Resource Conservation District plan of the southwestern willow flycatcher. Removal of Invasive Spanish Broom in Los Stephen F. Austin State University $113,361 Padres National Forest (CA) Monitoring Avian Response to Forest Eradicate two isolated, invasive Spanish Management in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial American Conservation Experience broom populations in the Los Padres Valley (AR, LA, MS, TX) Fuels Reduction Training to Restore Forest National Forest to prevent further Develop a baseline inventory of bird species Health and Promote Resilience in Crystal Lake infestation. Project will apply herbicide in bottomland hardwood restoration sites in (CA) treatments to invasives followed by planting the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley through Restore forest health across 203 acres to of native chaparral plant species, and will the deployment of autonomous sound improve wildlife habitat and reduce the also install interpretive signage to educate recorders. Project will compare baseline risk of severe wildfires in the Golden Cup the public on invasive plant management data to avian community metrics captured plantation area of Crystal Lake within San and native plant restoration following in bottomland hardwood forests at different Gabriel Mountains National Monument. wildfires. successional stages to identify effective Project will provide training to a fuels $478,740 management activities used in forestry reduction crew that will implement wildlife treatments and stages of stand necessary fuels treatments to promote development that need further treatments forest health and resilience. for maintaining desired forest conditions. $321,246 $73,377

6 California Association California Institute Channel Islands Restoration of Resource Conservation Districts of Environmental Studies Tamarisk Removal and Monitoring in the Using Technical Assistance to Increase Evaluation of Artificial Nest Modules for Ashy Sisquoc River Watershed in Los Padres Resource Conservation District Efforts Storm-Petrel on Santa Cruz Island (CA) National Forest (CA) for Monarchs (CA) Evaluate suitability of artificial predator- Treat and monitor tamarisk trees and Utilize the California network of Resource proof nest modules for ashy storm-petrels seedlings in the Sisquoc River and nine Conservation Districts to advance breeding at Santa Cruz Island, California. tributaries within the Los Padres National technical assistance for monarch butterfly Project will measure the effectiveness and Forest in an effort to eradicate the species and pollinator habitat restoration and functionality of modules by evaluating: from the upper watershed. Project will enhancement on private working. Project visitation/occupancy, the number of complete surveys and a combination of will develop 50 pollinator conservation breeding sites, breeding success rates and treatments, including chemical treatments plans, restore 50 acres of habitat, coordinate by comparing abiotic data between artificial and hand pulling across 40 miles, in addition 63 meetings and workshops, and reach 150 and natural sites as well as recording to monitoring previously completed landowners. interactions of ravens with modules and tamarisk treatments. $300,000 assessing depredation rates. $238,572 $49,997 California Conservation Corps Channel Islands Restoration Treatment and Removal of Golden Spotted California Invasive Plant Council Tamarisk Removal in the Upper Santa Oak Borer Infestations in Green Valley (CA) Development of Environmental Compliance Ynez River Watershed in Los Padres Treat and remove trees infested with the in Preparation for Invasive Vegetation National Forest (CA) golden spotted oak borer within the Green Removal (CA) Survey, locate, and treat tamarisk trees Valley area and within the vicinity of the Develop environmental compliance that and seedlings in the upper Santa Ynez Sawmill Liebre Road in the Angeles National will target a variety of invasive vegetation River and monitor previously treated trees. Forest in California. Project will treat 100 found within priority watersheds within Project will survey 170 miles of the upper acres and will include the development of the Lassen National Forest and incorporate Santa Ynez River and 14 tributary streams all appropriate safety measures, including a an adaptive management strategy. Project and canyons upstream of Gibraltar Dam, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES fire plan. will reduce Canada thistle infestation record the locations of all tamarisk trees $172,733 by 30 percent, or 1 acre, following and seedlings, monitor the results of last the completion of an Environmental year’s treatment of 120 tamarisk trees, and California Deer Association Assessment. treat additional tamarisk trees in the upper Improving Meadows and Wildlife $77,574 watershed. Migratory Corridors in the Shasta-Trinity $149,468 National Forest (CA) California Trout Create pollinator and wildlife migratory Analysis of Irrigation Efficiency Priorities for Conservation Biology Institute corridors and re-establish historic meadows Instream Flows in California Santa Monica Mountains Woolsey Fire in the McCloud Ranger District of Shasta- Identify and prioritize project opportunities Recovery and Adaptation Program (CA) Trinity National Forest with tribe, public and where: 1) agricultural producers can Create a comprehensive fire prevention private sector support. Project will improve improve the efficiency of irrigation water program for the region, focusing on watershed and meadow resilience, establish use through the adoption of modern homeowner outreach and education while new forage sites and migratory corridors for technologies and management techniques conserving and restoring plant and wildlife pollinators and wildlife, re-establish historic that are consistent with practices funded habitat functions by improving homeowner aspen and meadows, and remove invasive under the Natural Resources Conservation practices and reestablishing native oaks in conifers that are encroaching in critical Service’s Environmental Quality Incentives critical locations. Project will leverage prior habitat areas. Program; and 2) water conserved by and ongoing planning efforts to achieve $260,500 irrigation efficiency improvements will more sustainable and resilient approaches be dedicated to provide quantifiable, to wildfire management in the Santa Monica California Fire Safe Council protect-able and ecologically meaningful Mountains region. Regional Wildfire Mitigation Program for the improvements to instream flows to benefit $2,500,000 Santa Barbara South Coast (CA) fish and wildlife. Establish long-term wildfire resilience of $66,955 Conservation Science Global shrubland-dominated watersheds and Raven Movements in the Desert and human communities on increasingly fire- California Trout Implications for Tortoise Recovery (CA) prone landscapes in Southern California. Shasta Watershed Flow Enhancement (CA) Track raven movements using GPS devices Project will develop a comprehensive Secure instream flows for the improvement to determine frequencies and distances assessment of wildfire risk and vulnerability, of salmonid habitat throughout the Shasta that these birds move into wildlands and as well implement a nature-based strategy River and its tributaries. Project will result the amounts and types of wildlands that and solutions for the built environment, in a permanent dedication of 1.5 cubic feet urban ravens include in their home ranges. natural landscape, and citizens along the per second in the Little Shasta River for the Project will use data on how ravens from coastal wildland-urban-interface region of improvement of coho spawning and rearing urban areas, where their populations Santa Barbara County. habitat, as well as the addition of at least are large, interact with natural settings $5,472,641 500 acre-feet of water into the Shasta River where desert tortoise are located in order to support the in-migration of fall Chinook. to manage predation of the threatened $129,995 Mojave desert tortoise by common ravens. $250,000

7 7 Contra Costa County Flood Control and Farallon Institute Lassen County Fire Safe Council Water Conservation District Integrating Science into Fisheries Prescribed Fire in Lassen National Forest (CA) Lower Walnut Creek Restoration (CA) Management (CA) Conduct prescribed burns to reduce wildfire Restore wetland habitats in the lower, tidal Develop additional inputs for assessment risk, contribute to the landscape-level part of Walnut Creek to provide sustainable of the northern anchovy central stock in goals of community and habitat protection, flood management. Project will set back California. Project will analyze seabird spatial and improve overall forest health of the levees from the channel to increase flood forage needs and fishery competition, Diamond Mountain project area within the capacity and reconnect/create new floodplains synthesize all information to date in a novel Lassen National Forest. Project will facilitate reconnecting tides to brackish wetlands, thus Ecosystem Socio-Economic Profile and burning piles across 1,075 acres of hand- restoring habitats for fish and wildlife. develop a tiered harvest rule based on long- thinned, overly dense conifers. $1,400,000 term anchovy population and predator data. $73,626 $99,992 Earth Island Institute Mid Klamath Watershed Council Finalization of Removal Plans for Wheeler Friends of the Los Angeles River Klamath River Tributary and Mainstem Habitat Gorge Campground Aquatic Organism Re-Wilding the Los Angeles River Through Design and Planning (CA) Passage Barrier (CA) Education and Engagement (CA) Improve habitat for Coho salmon on the Restore access for the federally endangered Mobilize volunteers to remove invasive mainstem Klamath River and four priority steelhead trout to 13 miles of creek habitat plants, plant natives, conduct bird point tributaries in California. Project will engage in the Ventura River watershed within the counts and remove 120 tons of trash from landowners who are willing to have a Wheeler Gorge campground of the Los an 11-mile stretch of river from Griffith Park floodplain fisheries restoration project occur Padres National Forest. Project will finalize through downtown. Project will engage 7,000 on their property, and complete planning and/ engineering plans for the removal of four volunteers, remove invasive species on 3 or design to further project development. stream crossings. acres of the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve, $328,829 $49,581 educate 1,000 students from Title I schools in Los Angeles, and train 25 more teachers to Mid Klamath Watershed Council Earth Island Institute use LA River curriculum. Strategic Thinning for Prescribed Fire Comprehensive Community-Based Debris $49,997 in Six Rivers National Forest (CA) Flow Mitigation and Habitat Restoration (CA) Conduct manual thinning to increase fire Mitigate future flood impacts from debris GS Black safety around the Orleans and Somes Bar flows and improve steelhead trout migration Upper Parks Creek Water Assessment (CA) communities within the Six Rivers National and habitat by removing passage barriers Increase irrigation delivery and efficiency Forest and implement fuels reduction and restoring riparian areas. Project will on Parks Creek to reduce the number of treatment along strategic fuel breaks to excavate debris from ring nets, increase diversion points allowing for instream benefit manage future fires and prepare for large debris basin capacity, remove fish barriers, to Coho salmon in California. Project will scale prescribed fires. Project will prioritize improve native riparian canopy and work develop designs to combine diversions, select thinnings to create buffers along private with the community to increase awareness a point of diversion for the combined water properties and critical routes and oversee of the interconnectedness of watershed rights, including infrastructure to provide fish strategic fuel breaks across 430 acres. functions and flooding. passage, allow sediment transport, install a $500,000 $2,477,273 compliant fish screen as well as stream flow and diversion volume measuring devices. Monarch Joint Venture Earth Island Institute $149,540 Improve the Scale and Coordination of Manzana Creek Watershed Sediment Monarch Conservation Efforts (CA) Reduction, Aquatic Protection and Road HANA Resources Increase strategic habitat implementation

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Restoration (CA) Expanding Least Bell’s Vireo Surveys and stakeholder engagement in response to Implement erosion control and sediment on BLM Lands (CA) the declining western monarch population. prevention measures at active road sediment Complete Phase II of a least Bell’s vireo (LBVI) Project will provide technical assistance to source sites within the Manzana Creek study. Project will report on occupied habitat local farmers, ranchers, and other private Watershed in Los Padres National Forest in patches, quality of the habitat, estimated landowners to implement monarch and California. Project will complete necessary numbers of LBVI and potential threats to pollinator habitat practices on private environmental compliance to target and treat LBVI (e.g. brown-headed cowbirds) and will working lands, bringing 450 acres under 13 stream crossing sites and 20 road surface expand on a Phase I study conducted in 2019. improved management, restoring 50 acres discharge sites, hydrologically disconnect $90,832 and engaging 550 landowners. 4 miles of road surfaces and cutbanks $182,699 contributing to sedimentation, and restore Humboldt County Public Works altered hydrologic runoff processes along Intertidal Coastal Marsh Restoration and Monterey County Resource Management 5 miles of road. Transportation Corridor Protection in Agency $423,908 Humboldt Bay (CA) Carmel River Floodplain Restoration and Initiate implementation of intertidal coastal Environmental Enhancement (CA) Family Water Alliance marsh restoration to increase community Design the removal of sections of levees Collaboration to Identify Projects along the resilience to flooding, and demonstrate on the south bank of the Carmel River Klamath River Basin (CA, OR) the use of natural ecological systems to construct a causeway that will allow Identify and build support for projects within for sea level rise adaptation. Project will redirected floodwaters to flow under the the Klamath Basin Watershed to improve perform site characterization and prepare State Route 1 embankment, reducing flood delivery of water to fish and farms. Project preliminary design (50 percent) for a project risk within the 100-year floodplain. Project will include ecosystem restoration and utilizing tidal benches or similar natural will design a mosaic of wetland, riparian, water supply enhancement, and will involve infrastructure techniques to help protect and upland habitats across the site providing collaboration from multiple stakeholder a critical transportation corridor along foraging, nesting, and breeding habitat for groups across the Klamath River Basin. Humboldt Bay from flood hazards. many species of birds and other wildlife. $10,000 $124,999 $300,243

8 National Audubon Society Pfleger Institute Resighini Rancheria Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush of Environmental Research Fisheries Restoration Planning and Design (CA) Conservation (multiple states) Testing Electronic Monitoring to Address Produce 100-percent design for fish passage Strategically coordinate internal and external Observer Constraints in the Swordfish Deep- on one main channel culvert and 30-percent communication between a wide range Set Fishery (CA) design on two tributary culverts to upgrade of stakeholders committed to improving Compare and document the efficacy existing degraded culvert crossings on Junior communications about the sagebrush and feasibility of electronic monitoring Creek in California. Project will improve ecosystem to elevate not only individual to document catch and bycatch in the juvenile fish passage through the lower culvert efforts but also the larger dialog about the California deep-set buoy fishery. Project and two tributary culverts in Junior Creek and value and need for sagebrush conservation. will directly compare traditional human improve connectivity with the Lower Klamath Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush observers and camera-based electronic River to benefit Southern Oregon/Northern habitat under improved management, monitoring to assess costs, improve the California Coastal Coho salmon. develop media resources for community potential for monitoring small vessels $93,500 stake holders and host field tour events that and meet regulatory requirements while elevate on-the-ground conservation. maintaining full accountability in the Resource Conservation District $29,636 developing fishery. of Tehama County $172,863 Culvert Removal and Improvement National Audubon Society in the Griffin Creek Tributary (CA) Transforming Marin City’s Urban Wetland (CA) Point Reyes Bird Observatory, Remove and replace an existing culvert to Develop a publicly informed and community- Point Blue Conservation Science improve stream flow in the Griffin Creek supported design to restore and strengthen Restoration Implementation, Monitoring, and tributary within Mendocino National Forest. Marin City’s urban wetland. Project will Bat Surveys in Colby Creek (CA) Project will replace a culvert that will reduce improve the functionality and resilience of Restore priority meadows within the Storrie sedimentation and improve water quality. wetland habitat that will serve as shoreline Fire nexus watersheds, collect pre- and $34,191 protection from storms and floods while post-restoration monitoring data to evaluate supporting birds and other wildlife, and effectiveness, and conduct surveys on

Salmon River Restoration Council UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES providing much-needed opportunities for sensitive bat species. Project will restore Invasive Plant Removal to Enhance Riparian local residents to engage with nature. hydrology over 175 acres, improve over 2.5 Habitat in Salmon River Watershed (CA) $145,947 miles of stream, and establish a baseline Contain, control and eradicate invasive condition and sampling strategy to evaluate vegetation and plant native species to National Forest Foundation ecological effectiveness monitoring of enhance riparian habitat in the Salmon Improving Forest Health of Sawmill Liebre meadows restoration activities. River watershed in the Klamath National Plantations Affected by the Powerhouse Fire $705,563 Forest. Project will remove invasive plant (CA) species, such as the spotted knapweed, Enhance and support post-fire restoration Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and will plant locally sourced native species in the Powerhouse fire scar on the Angeles Improving Plant Diversity in Fire Affected in riparian corridors to reduce ecological National Forest in California. Project will Watersheds in Angeles National Forest (CA) pressures on native organisms. treat native conifer plantations and oak Improve capacity for resource management $32,000 stands through brush canopy reduction, and promote resilience for future wildfires pruning, thinning, and dead tree removal through seed collection, restoration of Sonoma Resource Conservation District along 120 acres to improve ecological threatened and endangered plant species, Restoring Streamflow for Steelhead Trout in function and resilience to future fires. monitoring and assessment of past and the Petaluma River Watershed (CA) $120,236 ongoing chaparral restoration sites, and Improve instream flow in the Petaluma River development of a best management watershed for steelhead trout by providing Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission practices and propagation manual for on-farm technical assistance to facilitate the Integrated Fisheries Restoration and chaparral and coastal sage scrub species. implementation of conservation practices. Monitoring Plan for the Klamath River (CA, OR) Project will work to enhance and restore Project will develop farm water conservation Complete a final draft of the Integrated wildlands following wildfire and protect plans and engineered designs at four Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring the sensitive biodiversity on the Angeles properties, consisting of at least 10 best Plan for the Klamath River. Project will: National Forest. management practices instream reaches 1) convene a series of work sessions $201,552 where insufficient flow is a limiting factor with identified groups of fish and habitat limiting steelhead survival. professionals in the various Klamath sub- Regents of the University of California $51,890 basins and gather input on prioritization of Headstarting Tortoises and Raven Predation identified restoration actions; 2) produce Pressure on Tortoise Recruitment (CA, NV) Sierra Institute for Community and a revised version of the Klamath Plan that Utilize radio-telemetry to track head-started Environment includes new phasing input; 3) re-form Mojave desert tortoises that have been Fuels Reduction Preparation, Monitoring, participants into a basin-wide technical released in the wild to estimate size- and NEPA for Green Island Lake Research group and perform ranking and phasing dependent survival and use lifelike tortoise Natural Area (CA) exercise at sub-regional spatial scales; 4) models and camera traps to evaluate the Complete an environmental compliance produce a first draft of Section 3 of Plan role of raven predation in size-dependent document to analyze the ecological effects to include initial ranking and phasing of tortoise mortality. Project will use collected of prescribed fire as well as develop restoration activities at the sub-basin, information to gauge the effectiveness of a prescribed burn monitoring plan in sub-regional, and basin-wide level; and 5) desert tortoise head-starting as a recovery the Green Island Lake Research Natural produce a final draft of the completed Plan tool and to understand the role that ravens Area. Project will complete restoration document. play in limiting survival and recruitment planning and design across 1,185 acres $200,000 of young tortoises into declining desert and will complete two studies to inform tortoise populations. management decisions. $299,659 $399,753

9 Sonoma Land Trust The Student Conservation Association Trinity County Resource Conservation District Sonoma Valley Wildlands: Fire Resiliency for Development of Environmental Compliance Improving Water Quality in the Headwaters of Communities and Natural Habitats (CA) for Fuels Reduction Preparation in Lower the South Fork Trinity River (CA) Perform vegetation management and fuel Yellow Creek (CA) Protect and improve water quality for reduction activities throughout 18,000 Prepare an Environmental Assessment for anadromous fish habitat in the headwaters of acres of protected lands and implement a project area in the high-priority Lower the South Fork Trinity Watershed in the Shasta a countywide public education campaign Yellow Creek Watershed in the Lassen Trinity National Forest. Project will reduce to increase wildfire resilience in Sonoma National Forest, followed by fuels reduction road-related sediment delivery at 62 stream County, California. Project will treat 720 preparation. Project will provide an crossings, which will strengthen watershed acres of wildlands to reduce risk to life, environmental assessment for the project resilience to storm damage, improve road land and property and increase health and area and will subsequently perform fuels infrastructure, and enhance water quality. wildfire resilience of forest habitat. management using hand treatments on $230,999 $319,364 61 acres and forest thinning using hand treatments on 114 acres. Trout Unlimited Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District $287,772 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Core Grant 2020 Storm-proofing and Watershed Infrastructure (CA, OR, NV) in the Horse Creek Watershed (CA) The Student Conservation Association Continue to address the needs identified in Improve watershed health and reduce Noncommercial Thinning and Fuel Treatment the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (LCT) Business sediment sources within the Horse Creek on Frazier Mountain in the Los Padres National Plan. Project will provide partner coordination, tributary in the Klamath National Forest. Forest (CA) science guidance, and field crew activities, Project will complete the engineering Reduce wildfire risk by treating vegetation including LCT expansion, hybridization design to improve roads and replace or around existing facilities and widely used management/assessment, barrier retrofitting install culverts to reduce sedimentation areas, restore forest diversity and health, and design, and eDNA monitoring. and improve watershed condition, road and maintain the health of mature conifer $582,702 infrastructure and instream habitat. stands and conifer plantations on Frazier $284,869 Mountain in the Los Padres National Forest. Truckee River Watershed Council Project will support a restoration team Boca Meadows Restoration in the Truckee Sierra Institute for Community and that will perform non-commercial thinning River Watershed (CA) Environment on 1,000 acres and fuels reduction on Restore disrupted hydrology, improve water Watershed Infrastructure Assessment in approximately 500 acres. quality, link existing and planned meadow Lassen National Forest (CA) $212,273 restoration sites, and promote riparian Conduct an infrastructure assessment to habitat connectivity for willow flycatcher identify and prioritize specific Watershed The Student Conservation Association and other bird species in the Truckee River Improvement Plan projects in Lassen Trail Restoration within the Jesusita Fire Scar watershed. Project will restore 129 meadow National Forest. Project will complete site- in Los Padres National Forest (CA) acres, 1 stream mile, 5 acres of aspen specific surveys of road features that will be Repair fire-damaged trails within the habitat, and eliminate or reduce erosion used alongside ranking criteria to assist with Jesusita Fire burn area on the Los Padres from 26 road miles to improve watershed project prioritization, a road-stream crossing National Forest. Project will support a conditions. inventory and condition assessment, and to trail team that will complete trail corridor $239,899 help guide future planning efforts. brushing, repair trail tread, rebuild $152,277 drainage structures, and rebuild rock walls U.S. Department of the Interior, that support and prevent trail degradation Bureau of Land Management, Terra Fuego Resource Foundation on steep slopes. Bishop Field Office

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Prescribed Fire Implementation on the Lake $73,334 Preventing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions Tahoe Basin Management Unit (CA) on Highway 395 (CA) Conduct prescribed burns operations The Trust for Public Land Benefit habitat for mule deer, enhancing using existing piles of conifer that have Markham Elementary Green Schoolyard their migratory corridors, winter ranges been thinned on the Lake Tahoe Basin Demonstration Project (CA) and summer ranges, and install signage to Management Unit in California. Project Transform the asphalt schoolyard at improve highway safety for motorist traveling will implement prescribed fires across 15 Markham Elementary School into a green through the Mono County, California. Project prescribed fire units totaling to 68 acres to space with stormwater best management will improve 10 miles of fencing and install remove conifers that are encroaching on practices, an outdoor laboratory, and other highway signage to significantly decrease ecologically valuable Aspen stands, which amenities for boosting ecological health wildlife-vehicle collisions. provide habitat for a variety of species. and environmental literacy. Project will $70,000 $56,000 replace 21,000 square feet of pavement with 67 trees, 1,000 square feet of native United Water Conservation District The Ocean Foundation landscaping and an 8,500 square foot Bird Surveys, Mapping, and Nonnative Cowbird Otay River Watershed Bird and Habitat drought-tolerant grass field and engage Removal in Los Padres National Forest (CA) Restoration Project (CA) 200 volunteers and 350 elementary school Conduct habitat mapping, complete surveys, Restore 3 acres within the Otay River students in hands on conservation and and manage nonnative cowbirds in riparian watershed, including mapping native and education. areas within Los Padres National Forest nonnative plants, invasive plant species $50,000 to provide data on sensitive riparian bird removal, litter abatement and native populations. Project will map breeding plant revegetation. Project will reach areas and trap cowbirds along Middle Piru 700 students, 25 teachers, 50 parents Creek to assess the size and distribution of and 10 volunteers in habitat restoration sensitive bird species such as least Bell’s and environmental education, including vireo in order to inform future management classroom activities and outdoor excursions. decisions and protect existing populations. $33,134 $154,440

10 University of California - Davis Xerces Society for Invertebrate Colorado Department of Transportation Assessing the Restoration of Ecosystem Conservation Reducing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions Services in Post-Fire Chaparral Landscapes (CA) Providing Technical Assistance on Private along State Highway 13 by Installing Assess and pilot restoration within the Working Lands to Increase Monarch Underpass Fencing (CO) Piru fire scar in Los Padres National Forest. Conservation (CA) Install fencing to guide wildlife to an arch Project will collect data on ecosystem Develop monarch conservation plans, underpass being constructed under State services to assess their impact on restored provide technical assistance for habitat Highway 13 North of Craig, Colorado. chaparral sites in comparison to unrestored restoration projects on private working Project will reduce wildlife-vehicle collisions sites to help inform restoration efforts lands, and coordinate trainings and outreach and maintain connectivity within a priority related to ecosystem services. on monarch conservation for landowners migratory corridor for mule deer and elk $425,413 in California. Project will bring 500 acres herds. under improved management, restore 100 $480,400 Ventura Audubon Society acres of habitat, develop 36 conservation Least Bell’s Vireo Range Expansion Surveys (CA) plans, conduct eight workshops and provide Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Conduct least bell’s vireo surveys in native technical assistance to over 200 landowners. Foundation riparian habitat in northern coastal drainages $171,783 Rio Grande National Forest Beaver each spring from 2020–2022. Project will help Characterization, Restoration, and determine the current population of the state Reintroduction (CO) and federally endangered vireo in Ventura COLORADO Improve the condition of the Rio Grande County and in a portion of Los Angeles headwaters in Colorado by characterizing County and will also determine if the vireo Aridlands North American beaver populations and has expanded back into coastal portions of Refining Aerial Surveys of Population and habitat in priority watersheds within the Rio the historic range as well as evaluate cowbird Habitat Data for Two Endangered Plant Grande National Forest, restoring 5 miles threats and habitat condition. Species (CO) of stream channel and 200 acres of riparian $157,500 Use drones and very high resolution wetland habitat through the construction sensors to trial and refine methods of beaver dam analogs, and reintroduce UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Watershed Research and Training Center for aerial surveys of populations and 50 beavers to key locations on the forest. South Fork Trinity River Flow Restoration (CA) habitats of two federally listed rare Project will increase North American beaver Work with water diverters to engage in two plant species (Parachute penstemon and populations to benefit watershed health, temporary water lease transactions to return Debeque phacelia) located on fragile riparian habitat, and native aquatic species 3.9 cubic feet per second of stream flow and inaccessible substrates in western like the Rio Grande chub, Rio Grande sucker, to Big, Tule and Hayfork creeks. Project will Colorado. Project will provide management and Rio Grande cutthroat trout. monitor stream flow, stream temperature agencies with quantitative and actionable $39,840 and aquatic biology before, during and after information on surveying technology for these water leases occur to determine impact endangered plants whose populations are Colorado Rio Grande of water returned. dispersed over large areas on fragile or Restoration Foundation $67,708 difficult to access terrain. Removing Fish Barriers and Restoring the $179,784 Conejos River Floodplain (CO) Yurok Tribe Improve aquatic and riparian habitat on Restoration Feasibility and Planning in Blue Chaffee County the South Branch of the Conejos River Creek, Lower Klamath River (CA) Restoring Forest Habitat in Chaffee County to in Colorado by replacing three irrigation Conduct priority planning to support Reduce Risk of Catastrophic Wildfire (CO) diversions currently acting as fish barriers. development of comprehensive, feasible, and Strategically assess the forests at the Project will re-open more than 9 miles effective stream and floodplain restoration headwaters of the Arkansas River in Chaffee of stream and restore nearly 24 acres of designs within 5.7 miles of Blue Creek. Project County, Colorado to identify the 5-10 floodplain and streambanks. will enhance existing cold water habitats percent of the landscape where treatment $350,000 within a key salmonid spawning and rearing will decrease the risk severe wildfire poses area, and increase floodplain connectivity to community assets by 50-70 percent. Dolores Public Lands Office and complexity to benefit species such as Project will employ forest thinning and Improving Big Game Winter Habitat the ESA listed Southern Oregon/Northern seeding to restore more than 400 acres of on the San Juan National Forest (CO) California Coast Coho salmon. habitat once forests are assessed. Improve and enhance habitat conditions $80,864 $366,310 for big game transitional and winter ranges on the San Juan National Forest, Dolores Xerces Society for Invertebrate Colorado Department of Transportation Ranger District in Colorado. Project will Conservation Improving Wildlife Connectivity and Motorist improve 400 acres of ponderosa pine habitat Evaluating and Enhancing Monarch Safety Across U.S. Highway 24 (CO) by using thinning, prescribed fire. Overwintering Habitat (CA) Restore a safe migration corridor for the $150,000 Enhance the quality of critical overwintering Mosquito Range, Buffalo Peaks and South habitat to help western monarch Park mule deer and elk herds across Ducks Unlimited survival. Project will evaluate the quality U.S. Highway 24 in Colorado. Project will Restore Platte River Wetlands Habitat to of 27 overwintering sites and provide improve motorist safety and decrease Benefit Ducks, Geese and Waterbirds (CO) recommendations for enhancement to land wildlife-vehicle collisions by 90 percent Enhance habitat for ducks, geese and other managers, develop site management plans by installing 4 miles of fencing to direct waterbirds that depend upon high-quality for seven of the top 50 most important elk, deer and other wildlife to an existing wetland habitats being available during overwintering sites, enhance 32 acres at wildlife bridge. critical periods of their life cycles in Colorado. sites receiving management plans, and $267,853 Project will restore 830 acres of floodplain hold two workshops for 40 managers of wetlands and 1,878 acres of mesic habitat, overwintering sites. and improve management on 2,791 acres. $75,000 $272,954

11 Mountain Island Ranch Rocky Mountain Field Institute State of Colorado Department Restoring Wet Meadow Habitat on Mountain Engaging Community Volunteers in the of Natural Resources Island Ranch along the Little Dolores River Stewardship of Public Lands in Southern Improving Big Game Winter Range and (CO, UT) Colorado (CO) Restoring Sagebrush Habitat (CO) Improve wet meadow habitat and forage Engage community volunteers in habitat Expand capacity related to planned along the Little Dolores River in Western protection, riparian restoration, post- and ongoing landscape scale habitat Colorado to benefit Gunnison sage-grouse, wildfire restoration, trail construction and management activities in the Bears Ears elk, mule deer, wild turkeys and waterfowl; maintenance, the removal of invasive and White River priority big game herd restore stream flows and improve water species, erosion control and environmental management units in Colorado. Project will quality; improve soil health; and increase education. Project will engage 2,300 remove 40 miles of fencing and restore 680 drought resilience. Project will install volunteers and 800 students to restore 100 acres of sagebrush habitat by removing 170 beaver dam analogues and Zeedyk acres through various habitat restoration invasive trees. structures, remove invasive vegetation and activities, remove a mile of invasive species $250,000 alter grazing patterns to restore 240 acres of and complete a mile of riparian restoration. wet meadow habitat. $30,000 State of Colorado Department $175,500 of Natural Resources Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Fish Barrier Construction in North Elk Creek National Audubon Society Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in (CO) Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to Construct a fish barrier to facilitate a Conservation (multiple states) Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) Colorado Parks and Wildlife chemical Strategically coordinate internal and external Implement a collaborative network of reclamation to remove nonnative fishes and communication between a wide range automated radio telemetry stations to eradicate whirling disease from the upper of stakeholders committed to improving throughout the Great Plains and watershed of North Elk Creek, a tributary communications about the sagebrush Chihuahuan Desert to monitor the annual to the White River, near Meeker, Colorado. ecosystem to elevate not only individual cycle of grassland birds, including Baird’s Project will increase the likelihood that the efforts but also the larger dialog about the sparrow, Sprague’s pipit and chestnut- North Elk Creek Colorado River Cutthroat value and need for sagebrush conservation. collared longspur. Project will initiate this Trout population can persist indefinitely. Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush effort by holding webinars to recruit and $50,000 habitat under improved management, train partners and develop a plan to track develop media resources for community grassland birds across the region, install Tamarisk Coalition stake holders and host field tour events that telemetry stations to track focal species, Removing Invasive Tamarisk and Russian Olive elevate on-the-ground conservation. and deploy tags on focal species. to Restore Habitat for Endangered Fish and $29,636 $250,000 Birds (CO) Systematically remove invasive tamarisk and Pheasants Forever Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Russian olive and revegetate floodplains Coordinating Range Wildlife Conservation Increase Landowner Enrollment in Farm in the Grand Valley in Mesa County, in the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range Bill and Sage-grouse Initiative Conservation Colorado to open up backwater habitat (CO, KS, NM, OK, TX) Programs (CO) for endangered fish. Project will enhance Work with private landowners and other Launch a widespread, collaborative habitat for native and migratory birds and partners to implement on-the-ground network of partners to deliver sagebrush the endangered razorback sucker along a riparian habitat restoration across the lesser conservation outreach resulting in increased 25-mile stretch of the Colorado River. prairie chicken range. Project will enroll enrollment in Farm Bill and Sage-grouse $128,018 landowners into voluntary contracts that will Initiative conservation programs. Project

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED restore or improve management on 30,000 will bring 10,100 acres under improved The Trust for Public Land acres of southwestern grassland habitat. management, enrolling 10 landowners Fishers Peak Conservation (CO) $101,436 in Farm Bill programs using existing Collaborate with local, state and national best management practices to advance partners to permanently conserve the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory conservation and management plans for 19,200-acre Fishers Peak property, located Combating Habitat Fragmentation and Loss in each ranch. just south of Trinidad, Colorado. Project Grassland Ecosystems (CO) $200,554 will achieve landscape-level conservation Help reverse the decline of grassland by protecting an entire mountain that obligate bird species by combating Southern Plains Land Trust serves as a critical link of intact habitat habitat fragmentation and loss through Modifying Fences on Private Ranches to between the Eastern Plains of Colorado collaborative efforts in Colorado. Project will Improve Wildlife Connectivity through and the Western Slopes of Colorado and work with landowners and other resource Grassland Habitat (CO) the Rocky Mountains, while also providing professionals to conserve 40,000 grassland Improve habitat connectivity for pronghorn, a significantly improved level of public acres on private working lands. elk, mule deer and other grassland obligates recreational access. $378,465 in shortgrass prairie in southeastern $650,000 Colorado. Project will remove, replace, Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation or modify 50 miles of fencing to increase Trout Unlimited Conserving Ungulate Wintering Habitat on wildlife access across the landscape and to Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Habitat Buffalo Horn Ranch (CO) improve livestock management. Restoration (CO) Permanently protect more than 12,000 $216,002 Recover and conserve the Rio Grande acres of ungulate winter range habitat on cutthroat trout in Colorado. Project will the Buffalo Horn Ranch in northwestern bolster and maintain an existing riparian Colorado. Project will secure habitat fence, construct a key half-mile section of connectivity across public and private lands additional fencing, and restore another one for wildlife movement and migration. mile of habitat on State Land Board lands. $100,000 $152,416

12 Trout Unlimited Walking Mountains Science Center Connecticut Fund for the Environment San Juan Cutthroat Trout Watershed Eagle River Preserve Riparian Restoration and Planning for a Nature-Like Fishway for Long Restoration Assessment (CO) Environmental Stewardship Program (CO) Pond Dam (CT) Conduct a landscape-scale watershed Restore and protect the riparian habitat of the Develop a plan to install fish passage on assessment to examine the potential for half-mile stretch of the Eagle River running Long Pond Dam, Whitford Brook, Ledyard, flow improvement and landscape-based through the Eagle River Preserve and train Connecticut. Project will set the stage to water storage projects in the upper San Juan high school interns living in affordable housing restore access to 1.8 miles of migratory River basin in southwest Colorado in the communities to work with volunteers. Project riverine corridor for blueback herring, Wolf Creek and Navajo River watersheds, will hire eight interns who will engage 30 American shad, American eel, sea lamprey for the benefit of San Juan cutthroat volunteers to restore half-mile of riparian and resident brook trout to Long Island trout. Project will outline an appropriate habitat through planting and seeding native Sound. monitoring protocol to verify the expected vegetation, establishing formal fishing access $172,000 impact of treatments in terms of water points and implementing erosion control quantity, timing of delivery, and water methods to protect new vegetation. Connecticut River Watershed Council quality parameters. $27,147 Hepburn Living Shoreline Project — II (CT) $77,498 Construct a living shoreline along a barrier Wildlands Restoration Volunteers spit on Long Island Sound in Fenwick, University of Oklahoma Restoring Mesic Meadow and Sagebrush Connecticut. Project will provide protection Developing Tools to Advance Grassland Bird Habitat for Greater Sage-Grouse and Big Game for the nearby community and a 10-acre Wintering Habitat Management Practices Species (CO) tidal marsh from storms and rising waters. (CO, NM, OK, TX) Restore sagebrush shrublands, mesic wet $226,025 Expand on an existing framework studying meadows and big game winter range habitat the wintering ecology of longspurs and to benefit greater sage-grouse in Northwest Earthplace, The Nature Discovery Center other grassland birds in the Great Plains Colorado. Project will restore hydrology on Water Quality Monitoring to Improve using species distribution modeling, 40 acres of private lands by installing 400 Fairfield County Waterways and Long Island automated radio telemetry biologging, and mesic meadow restoration structures and Sound — VI (CT) UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES weather radar analysis. Project will develop remove 20 miles of fencing to restore state- Conduct water quality monitoring to tools to improve field grassland bird surveys identified priority big game migration routes. help improve nine waterways affected by to more accurately estimate abundance $238,658 pollution in Fairfield County, Connecticut. and habitat usage, and to improve grazing Project will utilize water quality data to management regimes to best advance bird inform local government actions to reduce conservation. CONNECTICUT sewage pollution into Long Island Sound. $138,145 $73,890 Aspetuck Land Trust Upper Gunnison River Water Fish Passage on the Bulkley Pond Dam (CT) Highstead Conservancy District Remove a barrier to fish passage at Bulkley A Partnership Approach to Watershed Enhancing Sagebrush Resiliency by Restoring Pond Dam, Sasco Brook in Fairfield and Restoration and Community Engagement Mesic Habitat Hydrology (CO) Westport, Connecticut. Project will open 3.75 (CT, NY) Restore healthy and productive sagebrush miles of river corridor benefiting river herring, Restore 10 acres of urban watershed habitat ecosystems at a landscape scale through sea lamprey and American eel that migrate and prevent 1,200 pounds of trash from enhanced coordination and collaborative between rivers and Long Island Sound. entering waterways in efforts to improve implementation throughout western $143,300 watershed, wildlife and community health. Colorado. Project will install more than 200 Project will engage 2,100 community Zeedyk and beaver dam analog structures City of New London members, volunteers and students in to restore hydrology on 14 acres of mesic City of New London Watershed stewardship opportunities and reach habitat. Management Plan — II (CT) 10,000 people through outreach events, $139,447 Complete development of a watershed workshops, and online communications management plan in for New London, with information, opportunities for action U.S. Department of the Interior, Connecticut. Project will ensure that the and exchange of best practices in watershed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service causes and sources of pollution are identified, restoration. Colorado Partners for Fish and Wildlife key stakeholders are involved in the planning, $49,525 Removing Invasive Conifer to Restore and restoration and protection strategies are Sagebrush Habitat (CO) identified that address local and Long Island Housatonic Valley Association Enhance sagebrush habitats in priority Sound water quality problems. Developing a Municipal Culvert Cooperative to Colorado Partners for Fish and Wildlife $50,000 Improve Fish Passage in the Housatonic River focal areas to benefit primarily Gunnison (CT, MA) sage-grouse. Project will remove invasive Connecticut Audubon Society Create a municipal culvert cooperative that conifer trees to improve 500 acres and Restoration of Coastal Forest and Dune at the builds on years of road-stream crossing implement wet meadow restoration Smith Hubbell Wildlife Sanctuary (CT) assessments and replacement planning projects on 50 acres of privately owned Restore coastal beach/dune and forest work in the Housatonic River of western working lands. habitat at the Smith Hubbell Wildlife Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut. $100,000 Sanctuary, Milford Point, Connecticut. Project will complete 10 shovel-ready culvert Project will enhance biodiversity, establish designs and utilize two demonstration sites a long-term framework to fight back against to show other municipalities best practices invasive plants and provide education and for stream restoration that benefit native stewardship experiences about Long Island brook trout and reduce flood hazard risks. Sound to the public. $151,510 $44,468

13 National Audubon Society Sea Research Foundation Wildlife Management Institute Restoring Great Meadows Marsh on Long A Plastic Free Long Island Sound Program (CT) Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England Island Sound (CT) Conduct a Long Island sound-based Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and Restore 40 acres of salt marsh and other educational program about the impact of American Woodcock (multiple states) coastal habitats at Great Meadows Marsh in plastic pollution at the Mystic Aquarium, Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Connecticut. Project will increase awareness by supporting habitat biologists and Refuge, Stratford, Connecticut. Project will about actions people can take to reduce outreach specialists to interface with private restore marsh hydrology, increase wildlife plastic pollution on shorelines, local landowners to provide young forest habitat habitat and enhance public access to Long waterways, and the sound. for more than 50 species of conservation Island Sound. $48,043 need in New England. Project will develop $499,975 forest management plans, develop Town of Brookfield healthy diverse forest age classes, and National Audubon Society Still River Watershed Plan Implementation: protect riparian habitat values, improving Share the Shore with Shorebirds: A Coastal Brookfield Public Works Stormwater management on 200 acres. Stewardship Program (CT) Retrofit (CT) $156,290 Provide education and deliver targeted Develop design plans and secure permits for stewardship of American oystercatcher a green infrastructure retrofit at the public and other migratory shorebirds and habitat works facility in Brookfield, Connecticut. DELAWARE along the Long Island Sound coastline Project will ultimately remove 3.3 acres of of Connecticut and New York. Project impervious paved area to reduce nitrogen Academy of Natural Sciences will increase awareness about the value into the Still River and downstream to Long of Drexel University of sharing the shore with birds among Island Sound. Delaware River Restoration Fund Project recreational users and local government and $24,299 Impact Assessments — II (DE) reduce disturbance to the birds’ breeding Conduct a preliminary selection and and roosting sites. Town of Newtown design of monitoring plans for a subset $75,286 Watershed Planning to Reduce Water Pollution of restoration projects funded under the in the Pootatuck River Basin of Long Island Delaware River Restoration Fund. Project Neighborhood Housing Services of New Sound (CT) assessments will include monitoring water Haven Develop a watershed plan for the Pootatuck chemistry, habitat, macroinvertebrates, fish Community Conservation Stewardship in New watershed in Newtown, Connecticut. Project and algae at these sites as they inform its Haven (CT) will ensure that the causes and sources of success in improving stream ecosystems, Conduct environmental education and nonpoint source pollution are identified, key and project will summarize and submit data community stewardship projects in stakeholders are involved in the planning, to NFWF and store data in a database for Newhallville, New Haven, Connecticut. and restoration and protection strategies are access by partners. Project will stimulate public engagement in identified that address local and Long Island $280,960 the stewardship of the West River watershed Sound water quality problems. and Long Island Sound. $29,216 American Rivers $17,813 Lower Christina-Brandywine River University of Connecticut Remediation Restoration and Resilience Plan New Haven Ecology Project Ensuring a Resilient Coastal Forest to Address (DE) Green Jobs Corps: Growing the Urban Refuge Changing Climate in Connecticut (CT) Establish comprehensive tools to guide Partnership (CT) Deliver a comprehensive strategy of remediation, restoration and resilience Engage a diverse group of high school coastal forest management at the Hoffman efforts from sediment to shore. Project

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED students to restore and bring best Evergreen Preserve in Stonington, will create a blueprint for completing the management practices to schoolyard Connecticut. Project will deploy an transformation of the lower Christina habitats, urban green spaces coastal innovative program designed to respond to and Brandywine rivers in Wilmington into preserves and National Wildlife Refuge the projected impacts of climate change to healthy river ecosystems by developing land across the City of New Haven and make forests in southeastern Connecticut a set of recommended strategies and surrounding communities. Project will more resilient using guidance such as from actions for managing and restoring riverine engage 8,610 students through outdoor the U.S. Forest Service Forest Ecosystem areas to maximize water quality, habitat days and teacher-led lessons and hire 53 Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis for and recreational values to guide future student interns to plant 40 street trees and the Mid-Atlantic and New England. development, restoration and management restore 3 acres through invasive removal, $57,144 of riverfront areas. native plantings and improved management $249,300 practices. University of Connecticut $29,943 Rapid Action Plans to Deliver Green Caesar Rodney School District Infrastructure in Coastal Connecticut Habitat Restoration and Outdoor Education in Sacred Heart University Communities — II (CT) the Caesar Rodney School District (DE) Planning for a Living Shoreline at the Mouth of Develop and implement five green Restore underutilized space on 10 public the Housatonic River (CT) infrastructure projects and provide school campuses within the Caesar Create a permit-ready design for a living guidance to local government about Rodney School District through student- shoreline at the mouth of the Housatonic overcoming barriers to deployment of led EcoTeams, classes, district staff, and a River in Stratford, Connecticut. Project will green infrastructure in communities of network of community partners. Project ultimately provide for restoration of 900 the South Central Basin of Connecticut. will provide benefits to wildlife and water linear feet of shoreline, 2 acres of salt marsh Project will reduce 500,000 gallons of quality, as well as meaningful outdoor and oyster reef providing habitat for fish and stormwater pollution into Long Island Sound learning opportunities for teachers and their wildlife and buffering nearby communities and increase green infrastructure projects preschool through 12th grade and special from storms. around it. needs students. $65,080 $272,375 $147,302

14 Chesapeake Bay Commission Delaware Department Delaware Wild Lands Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences of Natural Resources Upland Habitat Restoration and Protection (DE) of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership Restoring Wetland Habitat and Water Control Restore agricultural land to early (multiple states) in the Thousand Acre Marsh (DE) successional and forested habitats in Taylor’s Draft and publish peer-reviewed Restore water control within the Thousand Bridge Land Complex and facilitate land literature summarizing the core set of Acre Marsh Impoundment to prevent protection adjacent to Augustine Creek lessons learned through the work of the further decline in habitat quality and Complex. Project will restore 42 acres of Chesapeake Bay restoration partnership increase resiliency of coastal wetland habitat agricultural lands, maintain 45 acres of which are applicable to other restoration by restoring a failing water control structure. recently restored wetland buffers, and efforts. Project will share the key lessons Project will enhance fish and wildlife protect 100 acres via land acquisition. learned during the multi-decade, habitat by improving water management $129,247 partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay capabilities within the wetland complex, restoration efforts, and will result in a improve water quality and sediment Delmarva Poultry Industry multi-media series of “lessons learned” filtration capacity of the system, increase Establishing Poultry Litter Matching Service for products. resiliency to climate change, and enhance a Cleaner Bay and Healthy Farms (DE, MD, VA) $25,316 wetland and wildlife-associated recreation. Develop an online poultry litter matching tool $500,000 to connect producers with excess litter to Chesapeake Stormwater Network improve crop growth and soil health. Project Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Delaware River Basin Commission will support the implementation of Maryland’s and Engagement in Urban Watersheds Improving Water Resources Management Phosphorus Management Tool and Phase (multiple states) in the Delaware River Basin via Data Access 3 Watershed Implementation Plans across Focus stormwater training and engagement (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Delmarva, thereby helping to meet regional efforts on four critical and vulnerable Support the Delaware River Basin water quality and healthy watershed goals. target populations in the Bay watershed Commission’s comprehensive Water $49,890 to accelerate the pace of local nutrient Resources Program to improve water reduction and promote more widespread quality management, monitoring and

Friends of the Heinz Refuge at Tinicum UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES implementation of effective stormwater ultimately improve aquatic habitat. Project Developing a Marketing Plan for Delaware and restoration practices across the will manage, protect, and improve water Valley Friends Organizations (DE, NJ, PA) watershed. resources by developing a basin-focused Develop a marketing plan to build membership $325,000 Water Quality Data Portal to facilitate data for John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at access for the public. Tinicum, Bombay Hook National Wildlife DNREC Coastal Programs $200,000 Refuge, and Edwin B. Forsythe National Assessing Beneficial Use of Dredged Wildlife Refuge. Project will raise awareness Sediments for Habitat Restoration Delaware State University of the participating Friends organizations and of Bay shore Communities (DE) Developing Risk Assessment Framework enhance their efforts to acquire and maintain Assess the feasibility of using dredge for Atlantic Sturgeon (DE, NJ, PA) active members and volunteers. material and other nearshore sediments Work with regional and federal partners to $13,200 for beach restoration in the Delaware Bay provide robust estimates of adult spawning shore communities of Bowers Beach and run size which will serve as a key parameter Manomet South Bowers, to enhance community for a broader effort to develop a species- Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery resilience and restore habitat. Project will specific risk assessment model for Atlantic on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) integrate a plan to employ this tactic into sturgeon in the Delaware River. Project will Provide coordination of the American future community shoreline and habitat serve to help quantify specific threats and oystercatcher recovery initiative and management practice. their impacts ultimately facilitating effective actionable change based on lessons learned $75,000 decision-making as stakeholders work to from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact recover this once iconic species. of predators and human disturbance Delaware Department of Agriculture $312,129 on populations of breeding shorebirds Cover Crop Improvements for Increased along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will Water Quality and Foraging Opportunities in Delaware State University contribute substantially to the goals of the Kent County (DE) Identifying Environmental Drivers of Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. Increase the diversity and quality of cover American Eel Emigration in the Delaware River $79,999 crops in the Delaware River watershed for (DE, NJ, NY, PA) purpose of increasing water quality for fish Model the outmigration of adult, silver- Mid-Atlantic 4R Nutrient species, as well as forage opportunities for phase American eel in both the tidal Stewardship Association migratory bird species. Project will ensure and non-tidal portions of the Delaware Accelerating Implementation of Farmer that local tributaries to the Delaware River, utilizing a large-scale passive Adoption of Nutrient Stewardship Practices Estuary remain healthy for fish species acoustic telemetry network annotated (DE, MD, PA, VA) and horseshoe crab, as well as improve with environmental and astronomical Bring together stakeholders involved in soil health in the fields with nutrient best parameters. Project will increase nutrient management and those who have management practices. understanding of the underlying drivers concerns about excess nutrients to develop $250,000 and timing of movement in the Delaware locally relevant solutions. Project will identify River Basin, informing conservation and barriers to nutrient management adoption, management of American eel in impounded design a communications strategy, engage 300 systems where passage and increased farms to implement nutrient management, mortality are key concerns. increase implementation of split application of $225,177 nitrogen and pilot a model for a Pennsylvania Manure Transport Exchange. $990,000

15 Nanticoke Watershed Alliance New Castle Conservation District Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Stormwater Management Strategies in the Dam Removal in the White Clay Creek (DE) Responsible Recreation – Hunting, Fishing and Nanticoke River Watershed (DE) Demolish a 6 foot high, 160 foot wide Outdoor Recreation During the Develop a stormwater management obstacle to fish passage on the White COVID 19 Crisis (DC) strategy for regulated and unregulated Clay Creek. Project will restore a mile of Developed the Responsible Recreation communities to meet Delaware’s river hydrology and stream habitat in the campaign, in collaboration with member Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed regionally significant and highly accessible agencies, partners and the outdoor Implementation Plan goals in the White Clay State Park, enabling shad and recreation industry as a whole. Project Nanticoke River watershed. Project will river herring to spawn, while restoring will address potential impact of the COVID begin implementation of the top three riparian habitat essential to benthic 19 crisis on outdoor recreation and its priorities: maximize existing water quality organisms and neotropical warblers. stakeholders. opportunities and investments; reinvigorate $349,085 $300,000 water quality project convening and coordination; and improve ditch Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Chesapeake Bay Trust management for water quality benefits. Developing the Mussels for Clean Water Chesapeake Bay Trust Regional Capacity $49,978 Initiative to Enhance Habitat and Water Building Initiative (DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) Quality (DE, NJ, PA) Build collaborative and organizational National Audubon Society Overcome key research and planning capacity of regional entities and The River Unites Us: Bird Conservation Across bottlenecks that impede implementation of organizations within the Chesapeake Bay the Delaware River Watershed (DE, NY, PA) the new Mussels for Clean Water Initiative watershed working together to accelerate Address conservation needs reflecting the that aims to restore beds of freshwater watershed restoration through tailored rich diversity of habitat and conditions mussels. Project will develop a Mussels assessment. Project will heighten capacity across three states in the Delaware for Clean Water Initiative Restoration Plan, of groups to advance clean water plans, River Watershed. Project will increase Genetics Management Plan, and Disease increase communication, coordination and the number of people engaged in direct Management Plan, as well as conduct collaboration among partners within and conservation efforts, measurably improve laboratory research to enhance juvenile across priority regions within the watershed, bird habitat, and increase scientific data mussel survival and growth in a hatchery and increase power of the grassroots awareness and support for restoration setting. movement for sustained environmental and efforts in Delaware. $178,028 clean water protections. $250,000 $1,500,000 University of Delaware National Wildlife Federation Using Natural Infrastructure to Increase Flood Chesapeake Bay Commission Delaware River Basin Urban Wildlife Resilience in Northeast Wilmington (DE) Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences Community Engagement Program Develop a master plan to retrofit vacant lots of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership (DE, NJ, NY, PA) using a community engagement planning (multiple states) Engage a broader demographic by approach to increase flood resilience in Draft and publish peer-reviewed identifying and addressing specific Wilmington, Delaware. Project will evaluate literature summarizing the core set of community barriers to conservation existing conditions and prospective designs lessons learned through the work of the engagement. Project will develop tools for to inform and support priority phases Chesapeake Bay restoration partnership cultivating programs that provide high- of implementation and transferability of which are applicable to other watershed- quality recreational and conservation findings. based/partnership-based restoration opportunities that benefit the communities $124,411 efforts. Project will share the key lessons and the environment, increasing public learned during the multi-decade,

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED access to the Delaware river and its lands, partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay and inspiring participants to engage in DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA restoration efforts, and will result in a outdoor activities and protect and improve multi-media series of “lessons learned” their local watershed. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay products. $499,999 Developing an Integrated Community-based $25,316 Monitoring Approach to Track Restoration (DC, National Wildlife Federation MD, PA, VA) Chesapeake Stormwater Network Developing Capacity Building Framework Leverage relationships with local, county, Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training and within the Chesapeake Bay Community state and federal agencies, community Engagement in Urban Watersheds (multiple (multiple states) partners and restoration experts to ensure states) Address gaps in capacity within the that the monitoring plan developed meets Focus stormwater training and engagement Chesapeake Bay community through diverse needs. Project will complete efforts on four critical and vulnerable a partnership with the Choose Clean research on existing restoration monitoring target populations in the Bay watershed Water Coalition and the Alliance for the protocols and engagement of diverse to accelerate the pace of local nutrient Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to stakeholders, conduct development reduction and promote more widespread research, analyze and develop a capacity of a comprehensive community-based implementation of effective stormwater and building framework. Project will target an restoration study design, and develop restoration practices across the watershed. audience of capacity builders and the NGO protocol testing and data generation at two $325,000 community with missions that include to four restoration sites at varying stages of improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. installation. $421,147 $230,279

16 Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Arizona State University Responsible Recreation: Protecting Conservation Partnership Developing and Testing Solar-Powered Net Funding Through Social Outreach (DC) Promoting Responsible Outdoor Recreation in Illumination to Reduce Leatherback Sea Turtle Maintain the integrity of conservation the Time of Coronavirus (DC) Bycatch (AZ, FL) funding mechanisms that are dependent Work with other leaders in the conservation Further develop and test a promising gill-net on the ongoing availability of access to our community to promote the message of gear technology for the reduction of sea public lands, waters and facilities that support responsible recreation. Project will launch turtle bycatch. Project will improve existing hunting, recreational fishing, boating, and a social media campaign promoting design to enhance both usability and impact shooting sports. Project will support activities #responsiblerecreation. for leatherback turtles and conduct both that generate the majority of funding for $300,000 controlled and active fishing tests of the state-based conservation through the gear. American System of Conservation Funding. $102,083 $300,000 FLORIDA City of Mexico Beach Department of Energy and Environment Alachua Conservation Trust City of Mexico Beach Wetland Restoration and Enhancing Community Partnerships for Restoring and Maintaining Longleaf Pine Dune Installation (FL) Restoration of the Anacostia River Corridor (DC) in the Ocala Local Implementation Team Restore 45 acres of wetlands to address Restore freshwater tidal habitat in the Geography (FL) flood control, water quality and habitat Anacostia River. Project will lead to the Enhance 18,000 acres of existing longleaf restoration, and complete design of a beach creation of one comprehensive restoration habitat and establish an additional 1,000 dune to protect against storm surge and plan and restoration of 10 acres of tidal acres of longleaf pine seedlings to benefit establish beach vegetation habitat for the wetland for American black duck and water red cockaded woodpecker, Bachman’s benefit of species. Project will conduct quality improvements. sparrow, and gopher tortoise in north- planning, design and permitting required $500,000 central Florida. Project will engage private to get the project construction-ready and landowners in longleaf restoration through a implement wetland restoration. prescribed burn association, and will restore $335,908

Department of Energy and Environment UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Oxon Run Environmental Assessment and and enhance longleaf pine habitat on the Preliminary Designs (DC) Ocala National Forest and public and private City of Mexico Beach Conduct an environmental assessment and lands surrounding Camp Blanding Joint Post Hurricane Michael Marine Debris develop preliminary designs for over 16,000 Training Center. Assessment and Removal in the City of Mexico feet of restored stream and wetland creation $285,000 Beach (FL) for Oxon Run in southeast Washington, Assess the current levels of marine debris District of Columbia. Project will develop Anthropocene Alliance that remain from Hurricane Michael along designs focused on reducing impacts from Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for the city of Mexico Beach and nearshore area a 100 year flood, removing 5,000 feet of a Resilience (multiple states) and develop a plan for removal. Project will trapezoidal concrete stream channel, and Convene six community-based organizations first assess and then, if warranted, establish improving in-stream habitat conditions. in disaster-prone neighborhoods to engage a removal and disposal effort to address $250,000 local partners to train volunteers and teach storm debris along 16,000 linear feet of the residents about nature-based practices city’s shoreline. Metropolitan Washington Council and install six high visibility projects as a $100,000 of Governments catalyst for broader implementation. Project River Herring Habitat Assessment (DC, MD) will reach 600 community members and Coral Restoration Foundation Evaluate river herring habitats upstream successes will be shared with peer flood Increasing Coral Nursery Capacity and Active and downstream of the fish blockages and survivors around the country through a Restoration of Reefs in the Florida Keys (FL) monitor for the strength of river herring, network of 48 leaders in 22 states. Support active coral restoration at four sites and provide a brief study informational plan. $494,758 in the Florida Keys to benefit endangered Project will restore river herring access and coral species. Project will improve 27.5 provide capacity and planning information Apalachee Regional Planning Council acres of reef habitat through increased coral for Prince George’s County Department of Franklin County Living Shoreline (FL) propagation and direct reef restoration. the Environments and District of Columbia Install nearshore reefs to reduce wave $99,998 Department of Energy and Environment. energy and allow the creation of expansive $49,805 intertidal salt marshes to protect 12 miles Dog Island Conservation District of shoreline and Highway 98. Project will Dog Island Post Hurricane Marine Debris National Wildlife Federation improve Apalachicola Bay’s health and Removal (FL) Developing Capacity Building Framework productivity with anticipated benefits Remove the debris field from Hurricane within the Chesapeake Bay Community to include 12 miles of shoreline habitat Michael that is impacting coastal habitat (multiple states) improved and roadway protected, 30 acres on Dog Island. Project will restore 2 miles Address gaps in capacity within the of intertidal marsh created, 20 acres of of beach and dunes that were severely Chesapeake Bay community through estuarine reef created, and almost 3,000 impacted by damage and debris from this a partnership with the Choose Clean community residents benefitted. storm. Water Coalition and the Alliance for the $7,443,063 $516,780 Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to research, analyze and develop a capacity building framework. Project will target an audience of capacity builders and the NGO community with missions that include improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. $421,147

17 Florida Agricultural Manomet Reef Fish Conservation and Mechanical University Coordinating American Oystercatcher and Education Foundation GIS Capacity and Training to Support Recovery on the Atlantic Coast (multiple Engaging the Next Generation of Gulf-Wide Ecosystem Conservation and states) Commercial Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico Restoration (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Provide coordination of the American (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Provide geographic information system oystercatcher recovery initiative and Develop a workforce training program to (GIS) expertise and training in support of actionable change based on lessons learned recruit and educate young fishermen for Gulf-wide ecosystem conservation and from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact the commercial seafood harvesting sector. restoration programs and projects. Project of predators and human disturbance Project will engage fishery leaders from will develop GIS layers and maps where on populations of breeding shorebirds various fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will in face-to-face meetings to design and plan and Natural Resources Damage Assessment contribute substantially to the goals of the a young fishermen training program for projects have been approved for planning Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. the Gulf of Mexico and develop a review of and implementation by the U.S. Department $79,999 similar programs around the United States. of Agriculture. $25,835 $300,000 Mote Marine Laboratory Using Electronic Monitoring for Sustainability Saltwater Florida Aquarium in the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fishery (FL, Expanding and Improving the Use of Electronic Coral Genetic Diversity and Diadema LA, TX) Monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Trawl Urchin Propagation Techniques for Reef Expand electronic monitoring in the Gulf of Fishery (multiple states) Restoration (FL) Mexico reef fish fishery to address fisheries Expand and improve the use of electronic Address key capacity gaps in the full management objectives by monitoring monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp execution of the Mission: Iconic Reefs for catch and bycatch, improving data trawl fishery by installing electronic strategy in the Florida Keys. Project will management, and enhancing usability. monitoring systems and collecting data increase genetic diversity of elkhorn coral Project will build on more than four years of on protected species interactions and red and develop a nursery stock of Diadema electronic monitoring system improvements snapper bycatch volume and locations. urchins to be used in the broader restoration and comprehensive data collection to Project will maximize the utility of the effort. advance implementation of electronic collected data for both fishery management $168,720 monitoring as a Gulf-wide priority. and dealer verification of catch origin and $500,292 sustainable fishing practices. Florida Fish and Wildlife $173,145 Conservation Commission Ocean Aid 360 Implementing a Comprehensive Marine Debris Restoring Coastal Estuaries through Gear Southeastern Association Management Program (FL) Removal and Community Engagement (FL) of Fish and Wildlife Build capacity for marine debris Mobilize diverse entities, including boaters, Implementing Innovative Technologies in the conservation and implement key elements anglers, watershed groups, industry, Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin of a comprehensive marine debris students and government; through training (FL, GA) management program in Florida. Project and sponsored events to detect and remove Increase implementation of agricultural will develop and implement multiple state marine debris along Florida coastlines. best management practices for irrigation marine debris plan activities and develop a Project will remove roughly 30,000 pounds efficiencies by providing technical and marine debris website to facilitate statewide of derelict fishing gear from estuary habitat. financial assistance to farmers to improve and regional marine debris prevention, $60,000 water conservation and benefit native removal, research, education and outreach. aquatics species in the lower Apalachicola-

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED $162,000 Okaloosa County Chattahoochee-Flint basin. Veterans Park Living Shoreline, Erosion Control $114,525 Gulf County Board of County and Habitat Restoration (FL) Commissioners Install a living shoreline to protect over The Longleaf Alliance St. Joseph Peninsula Dune Habitat 2,200 linear feet of shoreline at Veterans Collaborating to Restore Longleaf in the Gulf Enhancement Project (FL) Park on Choctawhatchee Bay. Project Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership Landscape Restore 3 miles of shoreline on St. Joseph will reduce the impact of wave energy (AL, FL) Peninsula through sand and vegetation and provide oyster habitat, a seagrass Restore and maintain 44,000 acres of restoration. Project will provide coastal recruitment area, and a salt marsh shelf. longleaf pine habitat in south Alabama and resilience by increasing the stability and $1,500,000 the western panhandle region of Florida longevity of the beach sand and encouraging to benefit rare and declining species such additional dune growth through trapping Okaloosa County as the Bachman’s sparrow, red-cockaded wind-blown sand, increasing storm Okaloosa Island Dune Restoration and woodpecker, gopher tortoise and northern protection by limiting the damaging effects Enhancement (FL) bobwhite. Project will provide technical of storm surge, and promoting wildlife Install sand fencing and plant native assistance to private landowners and deploy protection and increasing habitat. vegetation across a 3 mile stretch on an ecosystem support team to implement $3,700,000 Okaloosa Island. Project will reestablish prescribed burning, plant longleaf pine, the sand dunes to mitigate lost habitat and remove invasive species, and support rare create additional habitat and the native species recovery on public and private lands. vegetation will help stabilize the dunes $300,000 especially during major storm events. $60,000

18 The Nature Conservancy University of Florida Walton County, Florida Increasing Longleaf Pine Restoration and Hurricane Michael Marine Debris Removal in Coastal Dune Lake Hydrologic Restoration (FL) Management in the Okefenokee/Osceola Northwest Florida Remove two old and dilapidated culverts Landscape (FL, GA) Removal and disposal of hurricane caused vulnerable to catastrophic weather events Establish 1,000 acres of longleaf pine and vessel and structural debris resting on under County Road 30A and replace them improve the management of an additional coastal vegetation and adjacent uplands. with bridges on two coastal dune lakes. 50,000 acres of longleaf habitat with Project will address marine debris negatively Project will restore the connection and prescribed fire on public and private lands in impacting St. Andrew, St Joseph, and circulation of the lakes and improve the lake south Georgia and northeast Florida. Project Apalachicola Bay communities. community and adjacent ecosystems. will target longleaf pine establishment $3,000,000 $1,224,604 and improved management on lands that will maximize wildlife habitat value and University of Florida connectivity and reduce the likelihood and Testing Coral Intervention Methods to GEORGIA impact of catastrophic wildfire. Optimize Reef Restoration in the Florida Keys $275,000 (FL) Athens Land Trust Field test management interventions to Southeast Clarke Park Restoration and The Nature Conservancy address local threats to coral restoration Education Project (GA) Improving and Expanding Longleaf Pine success. Project will evaluate the Remove invasive plants and restore 3 acres Habitat in the Florida Panhandle (FL) effectiveness of localized coral predation of native oak-hickory-pine habitat in a Restore and enhance 31,000 acres of control and monitor water quality community park. Project will include direct longleaf pine habitat within the Apalachicola gradients to establish best practices in coral outreach to at least 16,780 individuals on Regional Stewardship Alliance area of the restoration. habitat restoration and employ 16 young Florida Panhandle located between the $149,204 conservation stewards and crew leaders Aucilla and Choctawhatchee rivers. Project to work over two summers to eradicate will plant longleaf pine and understory University of Georgia Research Foundation invasive plants on 15 acres of highly visible species, implement fire and mechanical Development of a Planted Longleaf Pine public greenspace and build a .25-mile UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES management in existing longleaf habitat, Growth and Yield Model for the Southeast trail that will increase educational and and provide financial assistance to priority (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC) outdoor recreation opportunities for the private landowners, improving habitat for Create a new growth and yield model community. the eastern indigo snake and Bachman’s system for longleaf pine that will allow more $49,854 sparrow. accurate growth projections for landowners $300,000 considering longleaf pine reforestation who City of Tybee Island may have timber management objectives. City of Tybee Island Coastal Marsh and Town of Cutler Bay Project will establish, document and measure Community Resilience Adaptation (GA) Cutler Bay Wetland Habitat Restoration (FL) permanent plots in planted unthinned Utilize a design approach focused on Create an environmental learning lab along longleaf pine stands on cut-over sites in the the interface of engineering, hydrology, the Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands within southeast United States, and the data will be ecology and social science to enhance the Town of Cutler. Project will engage 40 used to calibrate a growth and yield model natural features and protections that volunteers to improve and enhance the 2 for multiple factors for longleaf pine. reduce flooding impacts on critical human acre upland area with native trees, plants $243,999 infrastructure and fish and wildlife habitat. and shrubs in addition to establishing a Project will launch initial measures for the walking path with educational signage University of Hawaii - Manoa assessment and prioritized identification of promoting the conservation of the adjoining Studying Effects of Water Quality on Coral integrated design strategies thus increasing wetlands, pine rocklands and the sensitive Reproductive Success (FL, HI) resilience to storm and flood events. ecology of Biscayne Bay. Study coral proteins to determine the $125,000 $20,000 role of reduced coastal water quality and associated stressors on reproductive success College of William and Mary University of Florida of corals in Florida and Hawaii. Project Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western Gulf-wide, In-water Sea Turtle will study water quality effects on coral Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) Monitoring Plan (FL) reproduction to help understand the extent Expand on efforts to monitor declining Develop a statistically sound plan for the of reproductive failure at priority restoration whimbrel populations along the western establishment of a coordinated Gulf-wide sites and to identify site-specific stressors. Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the network for collection and compilation $149,803 whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel of critical abundance, demographic, and working group input, develop an index biological information on sea turtles in University of Miami of reproductive performance and engage the Gulf of Mexico. Project will provide Using Coral Reef Restoration to Enhance partners to establish a monitoring network, Gulf-wide monitoring of sea turtles and the Coastal Resilience of South Florida Shorelines expand roost surveys during spring implementation of standardized monitoring (FL) migration to improve protection at key protocols that will provide important context Restore over 150,000 coral colonies to over sites, continue building an online shorebird for project-level monitoring at individual 125 acres of reef habitat in Miami-Dade roost registry, and make managers aware of sites where restoration is implemented and Broward Counties, Florida. Project roost locations to facilitate their protection. and would assist with comparisons across will build coastal resilience to extreme $99,374 multiple projects. weather, waves, flooding, and beach $256,940 erosion; incorporate state-of-the-science approaches to build climate resilience into restored corals; and create essential habitat for fisheries and enhanced recreation opportunities. $2,996,814

19 Dunwoody Nature Center Georgia Forestry Commission Southeastern Association Dunwoody Nature Center Habitat and Restoring Shortleaf Pine and Oak Habitat in of Fish and Wildlife Wetland Restoration and Education (GA) the Georgia Cumberlands (GA) Implementing Innovative Technologies in the Restore 22 acres of habitat within the Restore and enhance shortleaf pine and Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Dunwoody Nature Center that includes shortleaf pine-oak savanna habitat on (FL, GA) 3 acres of natural wetlands, 2 miles of private lands in northwestern Georgia, Increase implementation of agricultural streams in the impaired Ball Mill Creek benefiting northern bobwhite, prairie best management practices for irrigation watershed and more than 15 acres of warbler, pine warbler, Bachman’s sparrow efficiencies by providing technical and transitioning and old-growth Piedmont and other forest- and savanna-dependent financial assistance to farmers to improve slope forests. Project will recruit and train birds. Project will establish 200 acres of water conservation and benefit native 1,000 community volunteers as eco- shortleaf pine and enhance an additional aquatics species in the lower Apalachicola- stewards through the project’s educational 2,000 acres of existing shortleaf pine and Chattahoochee-Flint basin. focus that will also be leveraged to educate shortleaf pine-oak savanna habitat with $114,525 over 15,000 students that come to the prescribed burning and mid-rotation grounds yearly. management techniques. The Longleaf Alliance $49,246 $150,000 Restoring Longleaf Pine Habitat on Public and Private Lands in the Fort Stewart/Altamaha Forest Landowners Association Kennesaw State University Research and Area (GA) Restoring Longleaf Pine on Large-Acreage Service Foundation Restore 16,500 acres of longleaf pine habitat Private Lands (GA, LA, SC) Testing Volatile Organic Compounds to with prescribed fire and plantings on public Establish 1,500 acres of longleaf pine and Combat White-nose Syndrome at Black and private lands in southeast Georgia. improve 4,500 acres of existing longleaf Diamond Tunnel in Georgia Project will support seasonal burn crews and forest with prescribed fire on large-acreage Implement an integrated disease technical assistance to private landowners private lands in Georgia, Louisiana and management system to increase to increase restoration on high-priority lands South Carolina. Project will address barriers survivorship of tri-colored bat populations around Fort Stewart, benefiting gopher to restoring longleaf pine on large-acreage affected by white-nose syndrome (WNS) at tortoise, northern bobwhite and other private lands and provide technical and Black Diamond Tunnel in Georgia. Project open-pine and grassland-dependent species. financial assistance to support planting will fumigate Black Diamond Tunnel with $265,000 and management, with a particular focus volatile organic compounds to reduce the on restoring forest lands impacted by amount of the fungus that causes WNS and The Nature Conservancy hurricanes Michael and Florence in Georgia compare fungal loads and bat mortality Accelerating Longleaf Pine Ecosystem and South Carolina. with four other significant sites that are Restoration in the Chattahoochee Fall Line $200,000 not receiving treatment, with the goal Area — V (AL, GA) of reducing the fungal load to zero and Accelerate longleaf pine conservation on Georgia Department of Natural Resources reducing the mortality rate by 50 percent. more than 20,400 acres of public and private Population Estimate and Threat Assessment of $117,422 land in west Georgia and east Alabama, Red Knot Along the Georgia Coast benefiting red-cockaded woodpecker, Assess the red knot population along the Manomet gopher tortoise and other at-risk species. coast of Georgia to provide a population Coordinating American Oystercatcher Project will improve forests through estimate and create a comprehensive Recovery on the Atlantic Coast silvicultural treatments and implement conservation plan for the Georgia coastline. (multiple states) prescribed fire on existing and restored Project will provide critical data on red knot Provide coordination of the American longleaf habitat, with activities focused on to help guide habitat management and a oystercatcher recovery initiative and properties buffering Fort Benning, as well

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED unified conservation plan to help assess actionable change based on lessons learned as high priority state and privately owned life-cycle threats for red knots and other from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact lands. high-priority shorebird species. of predators and human disturbance $283,000 $75,000 on populations of breeding shorebirds along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will The Nature Conservancy Georgia Forestry Commission contribute substantially to the goals of the Expanding Longleaf Pine Restoration in the Restoring Longleaf Forest Habitat Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. Talladega Mountains (AL, GA) on Private Lands in South Georgia to Benefit $79,999 Plant 420 acres of longleaf pine and improve At-Risk Species an additional 17,500 acres of existing Restore and enhance 15,000 acres of National Wildlife Federation longleaf habitat with prescribed fire within longleaf pine on family forests to improve Georgia Longleaf Stewardship on Private the Talladega Mountains Longleaf Pine habitat for at-risk species in south Georgia. Lands – II Conservation Partnership area of north- Project will engage and educate non- Identify and engage at least 40 landowners central Alabama and northwest Georgia. industrial private forest landowners and through wildlife and forestry technical Project will increase prescribed fire capacity provide technical and financial assistance assistance to restore and maintain longleaf with seasonal burn crews and establish to actively manage priority habitat and pine habitat in Georgia. Project will utilize longleaf on a recently acquire property improve populations of imperiled species, collaborative, data-driven outreach to adjoining the Talladega National Forest, including gopher tortoise and eastern restore and enhance 2,350 acres of longleaf benefiting red-cockaded woodpecker and indigo snake. pine, expanding and connecting existing other longleaf-dependent species. $300,000 longleaf forests to improve habitat for at-risk $274,000 species, such as gopher tortoise, as well as game species such as wild turkey and northern bobwhite. $150,000

20 The Nature Conservancy Upper Chattahoochee Chapter College of Charleston Improving Fish Passage for Aquatic Organisms of Trout Unlimited Understanding the Impacts of the in the Holly Creek Watershed (GA) Chattahoochee River Water Quality and Invasive Alga to Support Management of Replace one culvert in the Holly Creek Habitat Improvement Project on Crayfish Papahanaumokuakea (HI) watershed in northwest Georgia that has Creek (GA) Understand and mitigate the effects of the ranked as either a significant or severe Restore and stabilize 500 feet of impaired invasive alga at Pearl and Hermes Atoll in barrier to aquatic organism passage. Project streambank at Crayfish Creek to improve the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National will result in approximately 4 miles of stream water quality and wild trout habitat. Project Monument. Project will determine its habitat opened and benefit aquatic species, will engage 300 volunteers to remove current distribution in the Monument, including the trispot darter, bridled darter, trash and debris, including two abandoned ecological impact on diversity at multiple Coosa creekshell and Alabama rainbow. culverts, restore riparian forest by removing scales, assess its population dynamics, $250,000 invasive plant species, plant 1,000 native describe and model its physiological trees and shrubs, and engage 150 K-12 characteristics in cooperation with The Nature Conservancy students in educational programming. oceanographic phenomena, and develop Increasing Longleaf Pine Restoration and $50,000 best management practices for removal. Management in the Okefenokee/Osceola $120,000 Landscape (FL, GA) Establish 1,000 acres of longleaf pine HAWAII Coral Reef Alliance and improve the management of an Expanding Stream Gulch Restoration Actions additional 50,000 acres of longleaf habitat Ai.Fish to Improve Coral Reef Health in Wahikuli, West with prescribed fire on public and private Artificial-Intelligence Assisted Data Maui (HI) lands in south Georgia and northeast Management and Review Platform for Hawaii Address land-based pollution from Florida. Project will target longleaf pine Longline Fisheries (CA, HI) sedimentation using best management establishment and improved management Develop a web-based application using practices recommended by the Stream on lands that will maximize wildlife habitat machine learning and computer vision Restoration Knowledge Sharing Group in value and connectivity and reduce the algorithms to preprocess electronic West Maui. Project will install 30 practices UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES likelihood and impact of catastrophic monitoring data from the Hawaii pelagic to address erosion, stabilize sediment and wildfire. longline fisheries. Project will reduce costs increase the infiltration of storm water to $275,000 and improve timeliness of the review improving coral reef health. process, lowering the barrier to entry for $85,000 Trees Atlanta implementation of electronic monitoring South Bend Park Restoration (GA) and review technologies in the Hawaii- Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization Restore 5 acres within South Bend Park, a permitted longline fisheries. Decreasing Sedimentation of Priority Coral 78-acre City of Atlanta park in southeast $300,617 Reefs through Fire Risk Reduction in South Atlanta. Project will remove 5 acres of Kohala (HI) heavily invasive kudzu and plant 400 trees American Bird Conservancy Reduce the threat of erosion and and ground layer perennials to improve Establishing Populations of Endemic Seabirds sedimentation of coral reef ecosystems by and protect restored natural areas and at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge developing comprehensive wildfire planning help prevent streambank erosion, as well — VIII (HI) and ignition risk reduction for the entire as promote volunteerism by engaging 415 Translocate 20 Hawaiian petrel chicks and up region of South Kohala, Hawaii. Project will volunteers and engaging 5,125 members of to 20 Newell’s shearwater chicks to Kilauea implement recommendations from the the public through outreach and education. Point National Wildlife Refuge, Kauai. Project Pelekane Bay Watershed Management Plan, $33,000 will provide long-term resilience for these Wai‘ula‘ula Watershed Management Plan, endemic Hawaiian seabirds by establishing and South Kohala Conservation Action Plan. University of Georgia Research Foundation new breeding populations within a predator $79,908 Development of a Planted Longleaf Pine safe enclosure; additional actions include Growth and Yield Model for the Southeast habitat restoration, social attraction to Horsley Witten Group (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC) attract prospecting, pre-breeding adults and Protecting Kaopala’s Coastal Infrastructure Create a new growth and yield model monitoring recruitment of seabirds. Using a Nature-Based Flood Management system for longleaf pine that will allow $224,955 Design (HI) more accurate growth projections for Generate conceptual green infrastructure landowners considering longleaf pine American Bird Conservancy alternatives for an open parcel of land to reforestation who may have timber Saving Hawaii’s Imperiled Forest Birds XII (HI) reduce flooding while providing co-benefits management objectives. Project will Improve native Hawaiian forest bird such as water quality improvement, establish, document and measure populations on the islands of Hawaii, community open space, and nearshore permanent plots in planted unthinned Maui, and Kauai and continue efforts in marine and floodplain habitat improvement. longleaf pine stands on cut-over sites in implementing biotechnology-based avian Project will investigate options and prepare the southeast United States, and the data disease vector control program. Project will permit-ready design plans for a natural will be used to calibrate a growth and yield introduce Palila to the northern slope of floodplain restoration upstream from a model for multiple factors for longleaf pine. Mauna Kea, conduct predator management threatened coastal road. $243,999 and restore habitat on Hawaii and Maui, $126,406 maintain fencing around palila critical habitat, and conduct palila population surveys and mosquito surveys on the Alaka‘i Plateau and eastern Maui. $320,000

21 Island Conservation Oahu Resource Conservation and Pacific Rim Conservation Monitoring and Evaluating Rat Activity and Development Council Using Thermal Imaging Drones to Locate Eradication on Lehua Island (HI) Developing a Conservation Framework for Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels on Support an independent review of the Lehua Agricultural Wetlands on Oahu’s North Shore Oahu (HI) Island, Hawaii, Polynesian rat eradication (HI) Search for breeding colonies of Newell’s operation and continue seabird and rat Engage private landowners and land shearwater and Hawaiian petrel to monitoring. Project will continue to assess managers in the Hale‘iwa and Waialua determine if birds detected in previous rat presence, deploy appropriate removal communities on North Shore, Oahu in order surveys are prospecting or breeding on tools, assess seabirds response to the 2017 to identify and implement conservation Oahu. Project will test and develop thermal rat eradication attempt and will contract practices that will improve habitat for imaging drones to detect burrow nesting an independent evaluation of the rat species such as the ‘alae ‘ula by utilizing seabirds on a landscape scale, deploy song eradication operation as best practice for Farm Bill programs. Project will develop a meters at strategic locations, visit each site gleaning lessons learned from unsuccessful management plan for wetland bird habitat monthly to retrieve data for rapid analysis eradication operations. enhancement, which will incorporate and coordinate intensive visual and ground $75,000 effective conservation practices identified. searching. $124,000 $45,000 Maui Nui Marine Resource Council Implementing a Storm water Management Oregon State University Papahanaumokuakea Plan in the Pohakea Watershed (HI) Equipping Albatross with Radar- Marine Debris Project Identify management strategies for storm Detecting Tags to Monitor Fishing Around Marine Debris Removal from water-related sources of pollution such as Papahanaumokuakea (HI) Papahanaumokuakea Marine National sediments, nutrients, pathogens, and other Deploy radar-detecting tracking devices Monument (HI) chemicals currently being transported within on breeding black-footed and Laysan Mitigate hazards to protected species and Pohakea watershed. Project will monitor albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife coral reef habitat of Papahanaumokuakea water quality and erosion with the County Refuge to determine the frequency of Marine National Monument through large of Maui and private landowners to mitigate vessel encounters and potential drivers of scale marine debris removal from the coral land-based sources of pollution and reduce albatross-fisheries associations within and reefs and shorelines. Project will remove an pollutant inputs to important reef systems. outside the Papahanaumokuakea Marine estimated 240,000 pounds of derelict fishing $45,000 National Monument. Project will allow gear and plastics, restoring 1,300 acres of managers to infer and mitigate the potential coral reef habitat and 400 acres of shoreline Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute bycatch risk to breeding albatrosses, thus habitat. Collection of Decommissioned Fishing Nets to furthering conservation goals for the $299,629 Clean Beaches and Reefs on Maui, Hawaii species, and increase monitoring of illegal Collect decommissioned fishing nets from fishing. Pono Pacific Land Management the shores of the island of Maui, Hawaii $216,904 Ungulate Fencing Assessment and Feasibility by communication with local commercial Study on Northeast Lanai (HI) fishermen that utilize harbors on Maui. Pacific Rim Conservation Identify, map, and provide cost estimates Project will convert to energy 6 tons of nets, Creating Resilient Tropical Seabird Colonies at and implementation plans for ungulate resulting in less polluted beaches and reefs James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge (HI) fencing alignments along the northern and reducing the negative impact derelict Translocate three species of seabirds to and southern boarders of the program fishing nets can have on threatened and create new resilient breeding colonies at area, as well as interior fencing options on endangered species, including sea turtles, James Campbell National Wildlife Refuge, northeast Lanai, Hawaii. Project will assist in corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and humpback Oahu, Hawaii. Project will safeguard sea prioritizing fence implementation locations

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED whales. level rise vulnerable species by translocating and provide conservation recommendations $9,478 chicks from low-lying nesting colonies in for ungulate monitoring and control the NW Hawaiian Islands to a “high island” strategies. National Marine Sanctuary Foundation protected predator proof fence location on $19,017 Community Engagement Programing for Oahu. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National $320,000 Queen Emma Land Company Monument Discovery Center (HI) Reduce Chronic Sedimentation and Restore Provide dedicated cultural programming Pacific Rim Conservation Resilience to South Kohala Reefs (HI) at the Mokupapapa Discovery Center and Creating the First Predator-Free Montane Remove unmanaged feral goats from other Hawaii based education centers Hawaiian Petrel Colony on Kauai, Hawaii the Pelekane Watershed to significantly to nurture and strengthen connections Construct a 3 acre predator-exclusion decrease erosion and subsequent with the remote ocean wilderness of fence at Pohakea within the Hono O Na sedimentation of nearshore coral reefs. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Pali Natural Area Reserve, Kauai. Project Project will allow vegetation to reestablish in Monument. Project will create exhibits, host will protect a small colony of Newell’s critical and susceptible erosion-prone areas, public outreach events and use social media shearwaters and serve as a social attraction preventing 15,000 pounds of sedimentation to highlight the ecological and cultural site for Hawaiian petrels and band rumped runoff annually. resources of the Monument and spotlight storm-petrels, predators will be removed $31,130 the work that is being supported to protect from within the fenced site following them. construction and habitat restoration $200,491 along with artificial burrows will be used to enhance the sites potential for nesting seabirds. $440,000

22 Ridge to Reefs U.S. Department of the Interior, University of Hawaii Reducing Land-based Sources of Pollution at U.S. Geological Survey, Pacific Island Restoring Maui’s Coastal Dunes to Improve Three Priority Sites in Maui Nui (HI) Ecosystems Research Center Community Resilience and Enhance Wildlife Implement sediment and nutrient reducing Mapping Native and Nonnative Vegetation Habitat (HI) practices to reduce runoff onto three reef Communities on Lanai (HI) Using a collaborative and community-based tracks in Maui Nui. Project will work with Develop vegetation classification maps planning process to develop site-specific plans management and local partners in West and conduct a change analysis for Lanai for the restoration of coastal dunes on Maui’s and South Maui and on Lanai to install best using high-resolution spatial imagery, north shore. Project will result in reduced practices, pilot new approaches and plan for historical data and images combined with impacts of erosion and high wave flooding, further implementation actions. data samples collected on the ground to mitigation of extensive losses of wind blown $268,950 produce native and nonnative vegetation sand from beaches, improved public shorelines maps. Project will inform land managers on access, and restored or expanded habitat for The Nature Conservancy areas of recent and rapid invasive species unique native Hawaiian plants and animals. Assessment of Kiwikiu and Mosquito encroachment and guide future Hawaiian $199,506 Populations in Waikamoi Preserve (HI) petrel habitat conservation and restoration Determine the current status of the efforts. University of Hawaii windward population of kiwikiu in the $115,616 Studying Effects of Water Quality on Coral Waikamoi Preserve on Maui and assess the Reproductive Success (FL, HI) abundance and distribution of mosquitoes University of Hawaii Study coral proteins to determine the that cause avian malaria. Project will Community Engagement Building and Water role of reduced coastal water quality and conduct a population assessment of kiwikiu Quality Monitoring on Lanai (HI) associated stressors on reproductive success and mosquitoes in the Waikamoi Preserve Engage the community by facilitating the of corals in Florida and Hawaii. Project and install remote cameras to document building, deployment, and monitoring will study water quality effects on coral predator presence. of real-time water quality sensors at two reproduction to help understand the extent $25,000 strategic coastal sites on northeast Lanai, of reproductive failure at priority restoration Hawaii. Project will establish, support, sites and to identify site-specific stressors. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES The Nature Conservancy and enhance a diverse community of $149,803 Coral Reef and Nearshore Water Quality participants from local community colleges, Assessment on Northeast Lanai (HI) grade schools, conservation organizations, Zoological Society of San Diego Establish a baseline of the nearshore fish and interested citizen scientists to fill Reintroduction of the ‘Alala to Hawaii and coral communities along the northeast downstream data gaps to inform future Island — IV (HI) coast of Lanai, Hawaii to inform local management decisions and monitor long- Implement a conservation breeding and watershed mitigation activities and the State term water quality improvements. reintroduction program for the ‘Alala in of Hawaii’s 30x30 Initiative. Project will $48,889 the Pu’u Maka’ ala Natural Area Reserve collect benthic, fish, and nearshore water on Hawaii Island. Project will continue quality data and establish sedimentation University of Hawaii efforts toward establishing a self-sustaining flow patterns and recommendations for Discovering Deepwater Habitats and Species population of ‘Alala by tracking released monitoring. in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National individuals, providing veterinary care as $71,433 Monument (HI) needed, and conducting intensive post- Establish an online catalog of deep- release monitoring. Trees for Honolulu’s Future sea habitats and species of the $64,999 Tree Planting and Community Outreach in Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Kaimuki (HI) Monument to increase management Zoological Society of San Diego Train volunteers to inventory urban tree understanding of the resources of these Review of Hawaiian Petrel Reproductive canopy, plant trees on streets and in parks, remote environments. Project will combine Success Monitoring on the Island of Lanai (HI) and educate people on the benefits of trees. animal records from 284 submersible dives Develop a reproductive success monitoring Project will plant 100 new trees, receive conducted in deep-sea habitats into a single, plan for Hawaiian petrels on the island of commitments of adjacent landowners to help standardized dataset and create an animal Lanai in Hawaii. Project will detect changes maintain existing and new trees, and engage identification guide and interactive web in Hawaiian petrel reproductive success due 5,000 community members, 275 students map. to predation or other emerging threats, and and 12 teachers in education and outreach. $122,460 report on the effectiveness of Hawaiian petrel $33,000 conservation measures on Lanai, including University of Hawaii predator control and habitat restoration. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Responding to Invasive Species and Hurricane $41,143 Geological Survey Walaka Impacts in Papahanaumokuakea (HI) Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) Mapping Increase conservation and management and Sedimentation Evaluation on Lanai (HI) capacity for mitigating the impacts IDAHO Map, model, and monitor sources of fine- of an invasive species outbreak and sediment pollution from the ridgelines down hurricane damage at two locations in Idaho Department of Water Resources to the shoreline on northeast Lanai, Hawaii. Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Identifying, Assessing, Prioritizing and Project will collect high-quality airborne Monument. Project will evaluate the Implementing Water Transactions in the light detection and ranging data, conduct potential management/control options for Upper Salmon and Teton River Basins (ID) infiltration tests, and install erosion pin the invasive red alga outbreak at Pearl and Identify, assess, prioritize, and implement monitoring sites to identify sedimentation Hermes Atoll and recommend monitoring new water transactions in the Upper Salmon hot spots in order to inform management and management actions for reefs and and Teton River Basins. Project will improve decisions on fencing of priority watersheds, island habitats at French Frigate Shoals tributary flows for the benefit of Snake River ungulate population control, and re- damaged by Hurricane Walaka. spring/summer-run Chinook salmon, Snake vegetation efforts. $299,891 River steelhead, and native trout populations. $149,868 $293,683

23 Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation Pheasants Forever Friends of the Forest Preserves Managing the Encroachment of Invasive Plant Improving Sage-Grouse Habitat through Expanding the Centennial Volunteers Program Species to Improve Sagebrush Habitat (ID) Juniper Removal and Mesic Restoration (ID) to Increase Forest Preserves Conservation (IL) Work collaboratively across jurisdictions in Restore mesic habitat using low-tech rock Fortify and expand the Centennial southern Idaho to implement ecologically structures and upland habitats by removing Volunteers program at seven forest based rangeland improvement projects to invading juniper in southwestern and central preserves to increase invasive species reduce the threat of annual grass invasion. Idaho. Project will restore 3,889 acres pf control work and improve restoration Project will treat invasives and improve sage-grouse habitat, increasing the resiliency management. Project will restore 80 acres management on more than 20,000 acres. and persistence of mesic habitats within along the North Branch of the Chicago Long term, restoration will reduce fire the project landscape to benefit population River and the Little Calumet River through size, frequency, and intensity, allowing maintenance and growth of sage-grouse. outreach and engagement of over 750 ecosystems to reach desired conditions and $446,522 people. provide ample wildlife habitat. $186,609 $220,000 West Box Elder Conservation District Creating and Improving Wet Meadow and Friends of the Forest Preserves Mule Deer Foundation Grassland Habitat along Grouse Creek (UT, ID) Restoring Biodiversity in the Southern Lake Improving Coordination between Idaho Improve and create wet meadow and Michigan Watershed through Invasive Species Stakeholders to Implement Ungulate grassland habitat for wildlife, promote Control (IL) Conservation Projects (ID) aquatic habitat protection, and expand Engage local participants from diverse Coordinate between the Mule Deer water developments to limit cattle use of urban communities and increase capacity to Foundation and the Idaho Migration riparian areas in Grouse Creek in Box Elder respond to invasive species in the Calumet and Transportation Team to work on County, Utah. Project will bring 3,000 acres region in the Southern Lake Michigan wildlife corridor issues where ungulates under improved management and restore Watershed, Illinois. Project will control cross roadways. Project will improve 24 hydrology on more than 500 acres of mesic invasive species on 254 acres of high-quality miles of fencing, place 1,800 acres under habitat. natural areas within eight project sites. permanent conservation easement, improve $215,303 $200,000 management on 255,000 acres, restore 1,700 acres and significantly decrease Friends of the Forest Preserves wildlife-vehicle collisions. ILLINOIS Wetland Restoration, Community Engagement $309,661 and Citizen Science at Watersmeet Woods Center for Neighborhood Technology Forest Preserve (IL) National Audubon Society Installing Green Infrastructure to Improve Remove invasive species on 40 acres of Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush Water Quality and Reduce Flooding in habitat for birds, amphibians and wetland Conservation (multiple states) Riverdale (IL) plants at Watersmeet Woods forest preserve Strategically coordinate internal and Increase stormwater infiltration and reduce in the Chicago River watershed to improve external communication between a runoff in Ivanhoe Park by installing rain regional water quality. Project will engage wide range of stakeholders committed gardens and bioswales. Project will improve 50 volunteers and support five Conservation to improving communications about the downstream water quality by capturing Corps interns in invasive plant removal and sagebrush ecosystem to elevate not only 294,000 gallons of stormwater annually and train 10 citizen science leaders to monitor individual efforts but also the larger dialog engage residents throughout the planning plants and animals at the project site. about the value and need for sagebrush process to ensure the final designs provide a $25,000 conservation. Project will bring 100 acres direct community benefit. of sagebrush habitat under improved $121,008 Illinois Corn Growers Association

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED management, develop media resources Increasing Adoption of Voluntary Conservation for community stake holders and host field Forest Preserve Foundation Practices on Private Lands (IL, KY) tour events that elevate on-the-ground Restoration of Sweet Woods in the Forest Address natural resource concerns conservation. Preserves of Cook County (IL) on a field-by-field basis by identifying $29,636 Restore 180 acres of native uplands conservation practices that effectively ecosystem in Sweet Woods Forest Preserve, address environmental issues in a financially Nez Perce Tribe a high-priority conservation area for the viable way throughout Illinois and Kentucky. Increase Flow Restoration Efforts in the Nez Forest Preserves of Cook County. Project will Project will prevent 95 tons of nutrient Perce Tribal Geographies (ID, OR, WA) be conducted by professional restoration pollution and 6,375 tons of sediment from Increase flow restoration efforts in the contractors, as well as a 21-person entering the system annually by increasing Nez Perce tribal geographies. Project will restoration crew from Greencorps, a best management practices on 33,000 acres. increase tribal capacity to coordinate with program which provides conservation work $257,782 other groups developing water transactions and training for adults facing barriers to within the broad geography of ceded employment. Lake County Forest Preserve District lands, and also enable the Tribe to propose $324,994 Expanding Invasive Buckthorn Management to transactions uniquely linked to tribal a Landscape Scale (IL) relationships, tribal treaty rights, and tribal Friends of the Chicago River Improve ecosystem function and habitat sovereignty. Expanded Habitat Restoration at Crooked complexity near the North Branch of the $15,000 Creek (IL) Chicago River by clearing invasive woody Improve habitat quality in the Crooked Creek species and planting a native cover crop watershed through invasive species control. mixture. Project will restore and enhance Project will increase high-quality habitat and 140 acres of natural areas buffering the improve stormwater infiltration across 85 Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve and acres, and improve adjacent habitat for the expand invasive species management to the endangered Hine’s emerald dragonfly. landscape scale. $243,979 $171,146

24 Lake County Forest Preserve District Trout Unlimited INDIANA Maintaining and Enhancing Coastal Dune and Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for Swale Habitat by Removing Invasive Species Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) Big Oaks Conservation Society (IL, WI) Conduct an evaluation to understand brook Dock and Fishing Outreach Maintain and enhance previous restoration trout response, including abundance, young at Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge (IN) efforts through continued, targeted use of of year, multiple life stages, and effective Build a dock and concrete pad and host the invasive plant strike team to identify, breeders, to the improved access to and fishing events for the public at Big Oaks map and eradicate or contain invasive quality of habitat. Project will track progress National Wildlife Refuge. Project will species in Lake County, Illinois and Kenosha towards the Great Lakes Business Plan increase accessible facilities at the refuge, County, Wisconsin. Project will restore and stream habitat related goals. increase the number of fishing participants, retreat 200 acres of high-quality coastal $292,650 and raise awareness of conservation. dune and swale habitat which provides $6,705 habitat for three federally and 63 state- Trout Unlimited protected species. Conservation Assessment of Brook Trout and Delta Institute $250,000 Planning and Impact Tool Development in the Duck Creek Tributary Restoration Great Lakes Region (multiple states) and Stabilization (IN) Pollinator Partnership Conduct a broad assessment of existing Restore a 0.2 mile section of Duck Creek Improving Pollinator Habitat Connectivity in brook trout population viability within the through stream bank restoration and the Midwest and Great Lakes Flyway (AR, IL, U.S. portion of the Great Lakes watershed riparian buffer installation as part of a MI, MN, WI) that will build off of and be compatible with phased approach. Project will improve water Develop and expand a regional seed the analysis and associated tools developed quality, enhance instream and riparian collection and native plant materials for NFWF’s Mid-Atlantic/Northeast region. habitat quality, and reduce local flooding by network program in the Midwest and Great Project will assist NFWF in identifying increasing infiltration capacity. Lakes region to support monarch butterflies, conservation needs and priority investment $100,000 rusty patched bumble bees and other areas throughout the basin and associated declining pollinator species. Project will tools will enable NFWF to develop and

Indiana Dunes Environmental UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES improve more than 5,000 acres of pollinator measure population-based recovery goals Learning Center habitat, collect 50 pounds of milkweed seed, over time across multiple NFWF landscapes, Environmental STEM Education collect 50 pounds of nectar plant seed, and particularly the Northeast and Great Lakes. in the Lake Michigan Watershed (IN) propagate 2,000 milkweed and 1,000 nectar $126,967 Deliver a continuum of community- species seedlings. based environmental programs that $74,971 Trout Unlimited connect classroom lessons with the Lake Engaging Landowners in Farm Bill Programs Michigan watershed. Project will reach 200 Prairie Enthusiasts (IA, IL, MN, WI) participating teachers and 5,000 Northwest Increasing Technical Assistance to Engage Restore cold-water streams and watersheds Indiana students with limited access to Landowners in Pollinator Conservation (IA, IL, in the Driftless Area, creating habitat nature in primarily low-income, urban areas MN, WI) practices for fish, shorebirds, amphibians, and restore 5 acres through planting 25 Create two landowner-focused staff reptiles and other aquatic biota. Project will trees, removing invasive plants, planting positions and develop an outreach and improve management on 525 acres, restore native plugs and spreading native needs. technical assistance program in the upper 30 miles of stream, prevent 9,000 tons of $40,000 Midwest to implement recovery plans for sediment and four tons of nutrient pollution the monarch butterfly, Karner blue butterfly, from entering the system annually. LaGrange County Community Foundation and rusty patched bumble bee. Project $199,961 Removing and Managing Woody and will identify and engage private working Herbaceous Invasive Species Around landowners to carry out pollinator habitat Wetlands Initiative Duff Lake (IN) restoration and management projects, Increase Landowner Adoption of Wetland Build on a previously successful grant to bringing 3,000 acres under improved Construction (IL) control invasive herbaceous and woody management and restoring 2,000 acres of Accelerate implementation of constructed plant species through retreatment efforts habitat. wetlands, reducing nutrient runoff in priority on ecologically unique, restored fen, prairie, $245,508 watersheds across Bureau, Ford, LaSalle, and oak savanna habitat around Duff Livingston, and Marshall-Putnam counties Lake in LaGrange County, Indiana. Project Shedd Aquarium Society in north-central Illinois. Project will reach will reinforce the effects of the original Installing Floating, In-stream Habitat to 300 landowners, install six new constructed project and protect the acquired effects by Support Greater Biodiversity in the Chicago wetlands and increase on-the-ground controlling invasive plant species on a total River (IL) sustainability efforts. of 208 acres of habitat. Design and install floating, in-stream habitat $143,393 $139,800 to advance a section of unique habitat in the Chicago River, designated as the “Wild Mile.” Wetlands Initiative Student Conservation Association Project will enhance habitat quality, creating Restoring Remnant Wetland Habitat (IL) Calumet Tree Conservation Corps (IN) a more naturalized shoreline and support Restore habitat quality and biodiversity in Reduce stormwater runoff and create public engagement through stewardship the Indian Ridge Marsh, a priority remnant urban habitat by planting 500 new trees activities at the installed habitat site. wetland in the Calumet region, to benefit in northwest Indiana. Project will build $128,150 wetland-dependent birds and wildlife while upon previous investments and continue engaging the surrounding low-income to improve water quality at a regional communities with the site as a local natural scale while engaging the community and area open for public access. Project will volunteers. restore 76 acres of marsh, wet meadow and $165,653 upland prairie habitats. $134,281

25 Trout Unlimited Prairie Enthusiasts Pheasants Forever Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for Increasing Technical Assistance to Engage Coordinating Range Wildlife Conservation in Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) Landowners in Pollinator Conservation (IA, IL, the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range (CO, KS, NM, Conduct an evaluation to understand brook MN, WI) OK, TX) trout response, including abundance, young Create two landowner-focused staff Work with private landowners and other of year, multiple life stages, and effective positions and develop an outreach and partners to implement on-the-ground breeders, to the improved access to and technical assistance program in the upper riparian habitat restoration across the lesser quality of habitat. Project will track progress Midwest to implement recovery plans for prairie chicken range. Project will enroll towards the Great Lakes Business Plan the monarch butterfly, Karner blue butterfly, landowners into voluntary contracts that will stream habitat related goals. and rusty patched bumble bee. Project restore or improve management on 30,000 $292,650 will identify and engage private working acres of southwestern grassland habitat. landowners to carry out pollinator habitat $101,436 restoration and management projects, IOWA bringing 3,000 acres under improved Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory management and restoring 2,000 acres of Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in Friends of the Neal Smith NWR habitat. the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to Spurs and Tails: Engaging Hunters at Neal $245,508 Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) Smith National Wildlife Refuge (IA) Implement a collaborative network of Host a “Spurs and Tails” pheasant hunting Sustainable Environmental Consultants automated radio telemetry stations contest, construct an informational kiosk, NRCS-CIG On-Farm Trials Danone Soil Health throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan and sponsor a National Hunting and Fishing 2019 (IA) Desert to monitor the annual cycle of Day at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge. Accelerate implementation of innovative grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, Project will support hunter recruitment, soil health practices on farms within Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared retention, and reactivation efforts and Danone’s dairy supply chain and evaluate longspur. Project will initiate this effort increase awareness of the refuge’s the ecological and economic benefits of by holding webinars to recruit and train conservation value. this effort. Project will: 1) provide the pool partners and develop a plan to track $10,152 of pre-identified participating farmers grassland birds across the region, install with the technical assistance needed to telemetry stations to track focal species, and Iowa Department of Natural Resources design and implement new practices; 2) deploy tags on focal species. Loess Hills Prairie and Woodland Protection (IA) verify practice eligibility and on-the-ground $250,000 Protect an 834 acre tract of untilled prairie implementation prior to NFWF providing and oak woodland in the Loess Hills of incentive payments to participating western Plymouth County, Iowa. Project will farmers; and 3) gather and analyze data KENTUCKY connect existing protected lands, prevent on farm condition and profitability and fragmentation from development, and make comparisons to pre-project baseline Illinois Corn Growers Association ensure wildlife populations and their habitat conditions. Increasing Adoption of Voluntary Conservation are properly managed. $183,220 Practices on Private Lands (IL, KY) $270,000 Address natural resource concerns Trout Unlimited on a field-by-field basis by identifying Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation Engaging Landowners in Water Quality conservation practices that effectively Increasing Native Prairie Habitat Abundance and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill Programs address environmental issues in a financially and Quality to Benefit Pollinators (IA) (IA, IL, MN, WI) viable way throughout Illinois and Kentucky. Purchase seeds and plant new native prairie Restore cold-water streams and watersheds Project will prevent 95 tons of nutrient

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED habitat to increase the amount of quality in the Driftless Area, creating habitat pollution and 6,375 tons of sediment from native prairie on public land to benefit practices for fish, shorebirds, amphibians, entering the system annually by increasing monarchs, pollinators, birds, wildlife, water reptiles and other aquatic biota. Project will best management practices on 33,000 acres. and soil and to improve management on improve management on 525 acres, restore $257,782 remnant and previously restored prairie and 30 miles of stream, prevent 9,000 tons of savanna habitat throughout Iowa. Project sediment and 4 tons of nutrient pollution Kentucky Association will bring 2,000 acres under improved from entering the system annually. For Environmental Education management and restore 415 acres of $199,961 Regional Environmental Education Landscape habitat through new prairie plantings. Analysis for the Southeastern States (KY) $75,000 Conduct a landscape analysis for each of KANSAS the eight southeast states that focuses Iowa Soybean Association on identifying the potential collaborators, Increasing Adoption of Conservation Friends of the Great Plains Nature Center key players, and initiatives in that state as Agriculture Practices through Technical Aquatic Education, Clean Up and Restoration well as determining opportunities are on Assistance (IA) at the East Fork Chisholm Creek (KS) the horizon for best practices to have the Leverage a network of agronomists to Restore 5 acres of riparian habitat and biggest impact. Project will collect research, increase conservation capacity to accelerate perform water quality monitoring and trash data and best practices from other states producer conservation practice adoption removal on a mile of East Fork Chisholm and similar systems to provide the tools and throughout Ohio. Project will develop Creek. Project will use professional provide recommendations for the southeast cover crop, edge of field, and strip till best naturalists and volunteers to lead aquatic region. management practice recommendations, education with 900 high school students and $99,992 improve management on 65,500 acres and use 100 volunteers to collect 2,000 pounds prevent 131 tons of nutrient runoff annually. of trash and debris and remove 5 acres of $250,000 invasive bush honeysuckle in the riparian area surrounding the creek. $50,000

26 Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries LOUISIANA Friends of Black Bayou Foundation Strategic Planning Retreat, Friends Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest Anthropocene Alliance of Black Bayou, Black Bayou Lake National Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for Wildlife Refuge (LA) Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Resilience (multiple states) Conduct strategic planning to align the Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for Convene six community-based organizations organization’s vision and goals with Wildlife report, which provides technical in disaster-prone neighborhoods to engage the refuge system mission. Project will guidance to land managers on how to local partners to train volunteers and teach determine strategies for engaging the manage bottomland hardwood forests residents about nature-based practices community, addressing conservation issues, for the conservation of wildlife. Project and install six high visibility projects as a and achieving organizational goals. will revise the report to integrate new catalyst for broader implementation. Project $2,764 science on the habitat needs of priority will reach 600 community members and wildlife species, include updates from the successes will be shared with peer flood Friends of Louisiana Wildlife Refuges Forest Resource Conservation Working survivors around the country through a Peer-to-Peer Conference: “Building a Shared Group, and add a section dedicated to network of 48 leaders in 22 states. Knowledge Base” (LA, MS) the management of restored or young $494,758 Host a Peer-to-Peer coaching event and bottomland hardwood stands. convene eleven Friends groups at the $79,254 College of William and Mary Southeast Louisiana National Wildlife Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western Refuges Complex Headquarters. Project will Mississippi River Trust Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) focus on increasing organizational capacity, Forest and Wetlands Restoration and Expand on efforts to monitor declining enhancing communication between Management in the Mississippi River Basin (KY, whimbrel populations along the western the public and refuge, and increasing MO, TN) Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the volunteerism for participating Friends Restore and enhance privately-owned whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel organizations. upland, riparian and bottomland hardwood working group input, develop an index of $14,790 forests through technical and financial reproductive performance and engage UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES assistance within the Mississippi River partners to establish a monitoring network, Jefferson Parish Department of Basin in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. expand roost surveys during spring Environmental Affairs Project will engage private landowners to migration to improve protection at key sites, Bucktown Marsh Restoration and Living implement conservation practices on 3,000 continue building an online shorebird roost Shoreline Construction and Monitoring (LA) acres to improve forest health, reduce forest registry, and make managers aware of roost Rebuild a one mile living shoreline and fuels, improve water quality and improve locations to facilitate their protection. creating up to 70 acres of marsh, tidal ecological functions, benefiting forest birds, $99,374 creeks, and lagoons to restore water waterfowl and aquatic species. quality and ecological functions of the $222,000 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical Lake Pontchartrain shoreline. Project will University attenuate wave activity and protect the Mississippi River Trust GIS Capacity and Training to Support Gulf- existing shoreline and levee from erosion Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower Wide Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration and storm surge to mitigate impacts of Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple states) (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) future storms, and protect approximately Reforest and protect frequently flooded, Provide geographic information system 1,375 homes and critical infrastructure. marginal cropland on private lands through (GIS) expertise and training in support of $2,500,000 the adoption of Wetland Reserve Easements Gulf-wide ecosystem conservation and in the active floodplain of the Lower restoration programs and projects. Project Lower Mississippi River Mississippi River. Project will establish 7,500 will develop GIS layers and maps where Conservation Committee acres of bottomland hardwood forest to Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council Restoring Hydrology and Monitoring Species expand and enhance habitat and improve and Natural Resources Damage Assessment Response in the Blackhawk Scar Lakes water quality, benefiting the Louisiana black projects have been approved for planning Ecosystem (LA) bear, swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl and implementation by the U.S. Department Repair and replace water control structures and freshwater fish. of Agriculture. to restore more natural hydrology and $653,696 $300,000 stream connectivity to 700 acres of floodplain habitat on the R.K. Yancey Wildlife Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves Forest Landowners Association Management Area in Louisiana. Project will Building Partnerships to Restore Woodlands Restoring Longleaf Pine on Large-Acreage monitor floodplain resource use by alligator and Improve Water Quality in the Cumberland Private Lands (GA, LA, SC) gar and associated fish communities, Plateau (KY) Establish 1,500 acres of longleaf pine and monitor water quality improvements post- Restore shortleaf pine-oak and riparian improve 4,500 acres of existing longleaf restoration, and engage private landowners forests and implement agricultural best forest with prescribed fire on large-acreage to share lessons learned and floodplain management practices to improve wildlife private lands in Georgia, Louisiana and management recommendations to improve habitat and water quality within the South Carolina. Project will address barriers fish and wildlife habitat. Cumberland Plateau region in Kentucky. to restoring longleaf pine on large-acreage $400,000 Project will improve forest and farmland private lands and provide technical and management on nearly 1,000 acres of financial assistance to support planting public and private land, restore reclaimed and management, with a particular focus mineland, and treat the invasive hemlock on restoring forest lands impacted by woolly adelgid to protect 5 miles of riparian hurricanes Michael and Florence in Georgia forest, benefiting Indiana bats, northern and South Carolina. bobwhite, and freshwater fishes and $200,000 mussels. $237,997

27 Louisiana Wildlife Mississippi State University Saltwater and Fisheries Foundation Black Bear Monitoring in the Lower Mississippi Expanding and Improving the Use of Electronic Monitoring Reintroduced Whooping Cranes to Alluvial Valley (AR, LA, MS) Monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Trawl Establish a Self-Sustaining Population (LA,TX) Monitor and collect baseline data on black Fishery (multiple states) Study habitat use across various life stages bear movement, gene flow, and genetic Expand and improve the use of electronic of a whooping crane population that has isolation among five recovering populations monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp been reintroduced into southwest Louisiana within the Mississippi Alluvial Valley in trawl fishery by installing electronic since 2011. Project will track and monitor Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. monitoring systems and collecting data juvenile whooping crane habitat use and Project will help assess black bear response on protected species interactions and red home range and create range maps to to bottomland hardwood restoration snapper bycatch volume and locations. help federal and state agencies develop efforts and establish a regional black Project will maximize the utility of the management plans and recommendations bear monitoring protocol by leveraging collected data for both fishery management for whooping cranes. monitoring efforts in the three states, and dealer verification of catch origin and $46,542 coordinating standardized protocols for sustainable fishing practices. sampling, and collaborating on analyses. $173,145 Louisiana Wildlife $138,483 and Fisheries Foundation Stephen F. Austin State University Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest National Wild Turkey Federation Monitoring Avian Response to Forest Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) Enhancing Longleaf Habitat in West-Central Management in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint Louisiana through Planting, Prescribed Fire, Valley (AR, LA, MS, TX) Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for and Outreach Develop a baseline inventory of bird species Wildlife report, which provides technical Establish or enhance 5,700 acres of longleaf in bottomland hardwood restoration sites in guidance to land managers on how to pine to improve habitat for the Louisiana the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley through manage bottomland hardwood forests for pine snake and red-cockaded woodpecker the deployment of autonomous sound the conservation of wildlife. Project will in west-central Louisiana, anchored by Fort recorders. Project will compare baseline revise the report to integrate new science Polk and Kisatchie National Forest. Project data to avian community metrics captured on the habitat needs of priority wildlife will provide financial assistance to plant in bottomland hardwood forests at different species, include updates from the Forest new longleaf forests and enhance existing successional stages to identify effective Resource Conservation Working Group, and longleaf habitat with prescribed fire, as management activities used in forestry add a section dedicated to the management well as support landowner outreach and wildlife treatments and stages of stand of restored or young bottomland hardwood technical assistance through field days and development that need further treatments stands. development of forest management plans. for maintaining desired forest conditions. $79,254 $300,000 $73,377

Manomet Reef Fish Conservation and Education The Nature Conservancy Increasing On-the-Ground Capacity to Improve Foundation Restoring Forested Wetlands through a Shorebird Habitat (LA) Engaging the Next Generation of Commercial Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership Increase on-the-ground capacity and Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico (AL, FL, LA, (AR, LA, MS) technical assistance in support of the MS, TX) Restore and protect forested wetlands implementation of the Natural Resources Develop a workforce training program to within high-priority areas in the Mississippi Conservation Service Working Lands for recruit and educate young fishermen for Alluvial Valley region of Arkansas, Wildlife, Shorebirds in Louisiana Wetlands the commercial seafood harvesting sector. Mississippi, and Louisiana. Project will program. Project will bring 6,000 acres Project will engage fishery leaders from reforest 2,650 acres of marginal cropland,

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED under improved management, targeting 75 various fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico restore 600 acres of hydrologic wetland producers through presentations, site visits, in face-to-face meetings to design and plan function and protect 3,300 acres with and conversations. a young fishermen training program for conservation easements, benefiting $250,139 the Gulf of Mexico and develop a review of Louisiana black bear, swamp rabbits, similar programs around the United States. waterfowl and neotropical migratory Mississippi River Trust $25,835 songbirds. Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower $696,304 Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple states) Restore the Earth Foundation Reforest and protect frequently flooded, Landscape-scale Restoration: A Green-Gray Water Institute of the Gulf marginal cropland on private lands through Approach to Gulf Coast Resiliency (LA) Assessing Wetland Restoration Alternatives in the adoption of Wetland Reserve Easements Restore 4,000 acres of critical historic bald Port Fourchon (LA) in the active floodplain of the Lower cypress forest at Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Use Louisiana Coastal Master Plan methods Mississippi River. Project will establish 7,500 Management Area in Montegut, Louisiana. to design a nature-based approach for acres of bottomland hardwood forest to Project will plant approximately 400,000 ecosystem restoration and community expand and enhance habitat and improve native trees to reduce vulnerability and adaptation that utilizes dredged material water quality, benefiting the Louisiana black increase protection from flood and storm from channel deepening to create and bear, swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl risks for over 200,000 residents and habitat manage coastal wetlands. Project will and freshwater fish. for native wildlife in the area. work with partners to assess the possible $653,696 $2,614,998 benefits of a suite of restoration alternatives considering physical, ecological, and community metrics. $500,000

28 MAINE Maine Audubon Society Maine Coast Heritage Trust Reconnecting Maine’s Rivers Using Snow Brook Fish Passage Restoration Project Blue Planet Strategies Field Experience to Build Stream (ME) Reducing Entanglements of Critically Restoration Capacity Replace an aging highway culvert, which Endangered Marine Life with Gear Tracking Provide hands-on training to surveyors, for decades has blocked all fish passage Technology (ME) civil engineers, municipal and state road to 5.5 miles of stream and 155 acres of Develop an innovative gear tracking professionals and engineering students pond habitat. Project will provide access technology to be tested in the New England that results in replacement road-stream to the freshwater refugia and spawning groundfish fishery designed to track gear crossings that reconnect previously blocked habitat necessary to maintain sustainable anchored at the sea floor connected by stream segments. Project will replace 24 populations of alewife and blueback herring, vertical line to surface buoys. Project poorly functioning culverts identified on sea-run brook trout, eel, smelt and tomcod, will reduce entanglement of critically priority public lands and roads, restore 2 indirectly providing increased food supply endangered marine life, reduce the amount miles of riparian forest and restore access for and benefiting many birds, mammals and of derelict gear and advance gear tracking to 36 miles of stream for native brook fish that feed on alewife and other species technology. trout and Atlantic salmon and reduce flood within this subwatershed of the Penobscot $231,000 hazard risk in Maine municipalities. River watershed. $199,987 $125,000 Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association Manomet in New England’s Groundfish Fishery Piloting Electronic Monitoring in the Northern Coordinating American Oystercatcher (MA, ME, NH, RI) Gulf of Maine Scallop Fleet (ME) Recovery on the Atlantic Coast (multiple Advance electronic monitoring in New Develop an electronic monitoring program states) England’s groundfish fishery by continuing for the northern Gulf of Maine scallop Provide coordination of the American operation of a successful pilot project fleet to test the feasibility of electronic oystercatcher recovery initiative and and working with stakeholders to clarify monitoring on small scallop vessels. Project actionable change based on lessons learned standards and needs related to the will test the use of video recognition from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES technology. Project will engage 35 vessels software for review, expand existing data of predators and human disturbance to finalize electronic monitoring standards collection to the Maine state water’s on populations of breeding shorebirds and ensure that data is effectively stored, fishery, and refine protocols for electronic along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will shared, and used by regional stock monitoring in scallop fisheries. contribute substantially to the goals of the assessment scientists and other data $95,811 Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. end users. $79,999 $524,586 Maine Coast Heritage Trust Bagaduce Watershed Fish Passage New England Marine Monitoring Gulf of Maine Research Institute Restoration Project (ME) Integrating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to Scaling Maximized Retention Electronic Work at two sites in one town and Strengthen Electronic Monitoring (MA, ME, Monitoring in the Northeast Groundfish watershed, identified as high value habitat NH, RI) Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI) for American eel, alewife, river herring, Integrate existing artificial intelligence Expand the Maximized Retention Electronic rainbow smelt, a variety of migratory algorithms into electronic monitoring Monitoring program by adding three to birds and modeled former habitat for review, transmission, and storage workflows four vessels to the electronic monitoring Atlantic salmon. Project will involve many to reduce program costs. Project will fleet and refining in person dockside partners and community members, who advance the artificial intelligence used in monitoring. Project will conduct outreach create a rock ramp nature-like fishway the New England Groundfish electronic to vessels, assess the economic impacts of at one site, and construct fish passage monitoring fisheries to automate catch this programs previous years for fishermen, improvements, dam repairs and public accounting and streamline data storage thus and continue review of collected electronic safety and education infrastructure at the addressing management priorities. monitoring data. second site. $241,109 $405,000 $250,000 Project SHARE Integrated Monitoring Maine Coast Heritage Trust Enhancing Instream Habitat for Brook Implementing Wireless Electronic Monitoring Restoring and Monitoring Fish Passage at Trout and Salmon in Narraguagus River and and Reporting Tools in New England Snows Brook in Sedgwick, Maine Tributaries (ME) (MA, ME, NH, RI) Construct and monitor a fish restoration Implement instream habitat restoration Expand broadband, wireless electronic project using a community-driven projects in Downeast Maine, specifically the reporting to high volume fishing vessels approach in Sedgwick, Maine. Project will Narraguagus River, Northern Stream and in New England, including ground fish invest in construction and monitoring to Third Lake Stream. Project will restore 4 vessels, limited access scallop vessels, and enhance existing efforts by a community miles of instream habitat to benefit Atlantic charter vessels. Project will demonstrate network to restore fish passage along salmon and native brook trout using large the scalability and transferability of wireless a designated evacuation route and woody material and engage 200 community electronic monitoring technology and transportation artery, thus raising members. electronic reporting using broadband vessel awareness of this and other restoration $200,000 monitoring system. projects in the region. $229,530 $490,000

29 Town of Camden, Maine Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Carroll County Government, Megunticook River Watershed Fish Passage Expanding Tree Canopy in Charles County Bureau of Resource Management and Flood Prevention Site Assessments and (MD) Roberts Field Restoration (MD) Design (ME) Improve local water quality and habitat Engineer drawings to retrofit the Roberts Develop a comprehensive plan to address in Charles County, Maryland. Project will Field existing wet pond stormwater fish passage, watershed connectivity create an Urban Tree Canopy Plan with local management facility with a drainage area barriers, flooding hazards, vulnerable organizations and government agencies, of 47 acres, 21 of which are impervious, infrastructure, and degraded stream train 40 Chesapeake Tree Stewards, expand to an innovative wet pond and submerged and wetland habitat in the Megunticook the urban tree canopy by planting 75 native gravel wetland facility and create 900 linear River watershed. Project will include site trees in the Town of La Plata, and reforest 55 feet of restored stream. Project will lead to assessment and alternatives analysis for six acres of land with native trees throughout improved water quality, provide additional dams, and envisioning a sea wall where the Charles County. natural habitat, reduce thermal impacts, river outlets to Camden Harbor. $297,289 and maintain the community amenity at $139,000 the headwaters for Piney Run, a cold-water Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay trout stream. Town of South Thomaston, Maine Healthy Streams Farm Stewardship: $50,000 Collection of Derelict Lobstering Gear in the Chesapeake Logperch Initiative (MD, PA) Town of South Thomaston, Maine Develop and pilot a conservation incentive Center for Watershed Protection Facilitate a central collection bin for obsolete program that accelerates the adoption and Maryland State Fairgrounds Green and derelict lobstering gear in the Town establishment of riparian forest buffers by Infrastructure Planning and Design of South Thomaston, Maine, home to agricultural producers in the Susquehanna Provide technical and coordination approximately 3,000 lobster harvesters. Basin of York County, Pennsylvania and Cecil assistance to the Maryland State Fair Project will recycle 55 tons of lobstering and Harford counties in Maryland. Project and its many partners to advance high- gear, including line, buoys, bait bags and will multiply the amount of implementation profile green infrastructure projects and plastic-coated metal traps, as well as of agricultural best management practices, facilitate improved Fairgrounds operations. gear from ground fishing, scalloping and restore 160 acres of riparian forest habitat, Project will include a project site survey, clamming. and improve the in-stream habitat and geotechnical investigation, stormwater $10,000 passage specifically for the threatened engineering design, project implementation Chesapeake logperch. planning and coordination, and capacity Wildlife Management Institute $487,837 building for local residents. Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England $49,476 Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and Baltimore Green Space American Woodcock (multiple states) Community Care of Urban Forest Patches: Chesapeake Bay Commission Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs Preparing for Preservation in Baltimore (MD) Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences by supporting habitat biologists and Lead neighborhood efforts to plant of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership outreach specialists to interface with private perennials, shrubs, and trees and (multiple states) landowners to provide young forest habitat remove invasive plants and trash from Draft and publish peer-reviewed literature for more than 50 Species of Conservation three community forests in Baltimore summarizing the core set of lessons learned Need in New England. Project will develop City to help communities demonstrate through the work of the Chesapeake Bay forest management plans that utilize existing their capacity to steward the land and restoration partnership which are applicable Best Management Practices, develop strengthen native habitat and stormwater to other watershed-based/partnership- healthy diverse forest age classes, and management functions. Project will engage based restoration efforts. Project will share protect riparian habitat values, improving 300 community members in educational the key lessons learned during the multi-

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED management on 200 acres. programming and 100 volunteers in decade, partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay $156,290 restoration activities to plant 38 trees and restoration efforts, and will result in a multi- coordinate care on 3 acres. media series of “lessons learned” products. $48,067 $25,316 MARYLAND Blue Water Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Trust Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Implementing Green Stormwater Chesapeake Bay Trust Regional Capacity Developing an Integrated Community-based Infrastructure in East and West Baltimore (MD) Building Initiative (DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) Monitoring Approach to Track Restoration (DC, Implement green stormwater infrastructure Build collaborative and organizational MD, PA, VA) projects and expand outreach and planning capacity of regional entities and Leverage relationships with local, county, services to new target neighborhoods organizations within the Chesapeake Bay state and federal agencies, community in West Baltimore to reduce nitrogen, watershed working together to accelerate partners and restoration experts to ensure phosphorus, and sediment pollution, watershed restoration through tailored that the monitoring plan developed meets develop regional scale partnerships, and assessment. Project will heighten capacity diverse needs. Project will complete increase citizen engagement. Project will of groups to advance clean water plans, research on existing restoration monitoring expand, develop, and build upon previous increase communication, coordination and protocols and engagement of diverse success in East Baltimore to support collaboration among partners within and stakeholders, conduct development neighborhoods in West Baltimore facing across priority regions within the watershed, of a comprehensive community-based stormwater challenges in the Dead Run- and increase power of the grassroots restoration study design, and develop Gwynns Falls watershed. movement for sustained environmental and protocol testing and data generation at two $500,000 clean water protections. to four restoration sites at varying stages of $1,500,000 installation. $230,279

30 Chesapeake Stormwater Network Greater Baybrook Alliance Metropolitan Washington Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Greater Baybrook Green Infrastructure Council of Governments and Engagement in Urban Watersheds Master Plan (MD) River Herring Habitat Assessment for Oxon (multiple states) Develop a green infrastructure master plan Run and Lower Beaverdam Creek (DC, MD) Focus stormwater training and engagement that will create a network of green hubs Evaluate river herring habitats upstream efforts on four critical and vulnerable and corridors and related programming and downstream of the fish blockages and target populations in the Bay watershed and jobs. Project will build upon a green propose structures to provide passage for to accelerate the pace of local nutrient infrastructure concept plan, conducted by these blockages, monitor for the strength reduction and promote more widespread the American Planning Association, for the of river herring, and provide a brief study implementation of effective stormwater and Brooklyn community and is identified as a informational plan. Project will restore restoration practices across the watershed. high-priority in the 2016 Greater Baybrook river herring access and use of high quality $325,000 Vision and Action Plan, the communities’ migratory stream habitat and provide master plan. capacity and planning information for College of William and Mary, Virginia $49,788 Prince George’s County Department of Institute of Marine Science the Environments and District of Columbia Using Mobile Applications to Turn Recreational Howard County, Maryland Department of Energy and Environment. Anglers into Community Scientists (MD, VA) Planting the Trees for the Future Initiative (MD) $49,805 Understand the success of the “eBird” Expand local collaborations on application and explore how that approach environmental restoration, the rate and Mid-Atlantic 4R Nutrient could be adapted to engaging recreational scale of reforestation and other natural Stewardship Association anglers in community science. Project filters, strategic land conservation, and Accelerating Implementation of Farmer will determine the priorities and concerns environmental job opportunities in Central Adoption of Nutrient Stewardship Practices recreational fishermen, fisheries managers, Maryland. Project will triple the average (DE, MD, PA, VA) and fisheries scientists have regarding annual number of trees planted across Bring together stakeholders involved in mobile applications, and use this input to the pilot area by the end of the three-year nutrient management and those who have begin developing an “eFish” application period, with a target rate of 100,000 trees environmental concerns about excess UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES for community science based on this per year across the Greater Baltimore nutrients to work together to develop stakeholder input. Wilderness Coalition territory, including locally relevant solutions. Project will $43,374 Howard County, Baltimore County, and identify barriers to nutrient management Baltimore City. adoption, design a communications strategy, Community Ecology Institute $999,202 engage 300 farms to implement nutrient Hickory Ridge Walkable Watershed Concept management, increase implementation Plan Development for the Patuxent River Lower Shore Land Trust of split application of nitrogen and pilot a Watershed (MD) Delmarva Working and Natural Lands model for a Pennsylvania Manure Transport Address stormwater management that Conservation and Restoration (MD) Exchange. brings key stakeholders and members of Develop a Delmarva Rural Lands Working $990,000 the community together with planners to Group and Tri-County Forest Conservation develop a shared vision and set of priorities. Program to assess, prioritize, and implement Montgomery County, Maryland Project will be a community-based concept restoration and conservation projects in Glenmont Forest Green Streets Water Quality plan that includes a network of stormwater the Chesapeake Bay portion of the lower Restoration (MD) management opportunity sites that focus Delmarva Peninsula in Maryland. Project will Construct a community-wide green street on Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay lead to healthy riparian forests, improved project in Silver Spring, Maryland with 67 watershed restoration goals to address water quality, and restored wetland habitat, rain gardens, bioretention gardens, and tree flooding and stormwater runoff, nutrient benefiting American black duck, and other box filters to improve water quality. Project and sediment reduction, improving water terrestrial and aquatic living resources. will work in collaboration with Rock Creek quality, and improving access to community $194,636 Conservancy, and the green infrastructure amenities. implemented will educate and engage the $49,949 Manomet community while reducing 133 pounds of Coordinating American Oystercatcher nitrogen, 20 pounds of phosphorous, and Delmarva Poultry Industry Recovery on the Atlantic Coast 35 tons of sediment pollution annually to Establishing a Poultry Litter Matching (multiple states) Rock Creek, the Potomac River, and the Service for a Cleaner Bay and Healthy Farms Provide coordination of the American Chesapeake Bay. (DE, MD, VA) oystercatcher recovery initiative and $500,000 Develop an online poultry litter matching actionable change based on lessons learned tool to connect producers with excess litter from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact National Wildlife Federation to improve crop growth and soil health. of predators and human disturbance Developing Capacity Building Framework Project will support the implementation of on populations of breeding shorebirds within the Chesapeake Bay Community Maryland’s Phosphorus Management Tool along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will (multiple states) and Phase 3 Watershed Implementation contribute substantially to the goals of the Address gaps in capacity within the Plans across Delmarva, thereby helping to Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. Chesapeake Bay community through meet regional water quality and healthy $79,999 a partnership with the Choose Clean watershed goals. Water Coalition and the Alliance for the $49,890 Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to research, analyze and develop a capacity building framework. Project will target an audience of capacity builders and the NGO community with missions that include improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. $421,147

31 National Wildlife Federation Smithsonian Institution MASSACHUSETTS Modeling an Approach to Greening Gray River Herring Response to Dam Removal in the Infrastructure (MD) Patapsco River (MD) Bridgewater State University Conduct studies of offshore breakwaters Uses environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques Restoring a Retired Cranberry Farm into in the Choptank River and complete and ichthyoplankton surveys to assess river an Atlantic White Cedar Wetland Habitat engineered designs incorporating original herring spawning habitat use in the Patapsco Complex (MA) structures with oyster castles and oyster River and develops a relationship between Restore a 42 acre retired cranberry farm spat on identified sites, including Bill Burton sonar run counts and eDNA concentration. into a wetland complex dominated by Fishing Piers State Park and Horne Bay along Project will build on four years of monitoring Atlantic white cedar swamps and floodplains Horn Point Laboratory’s campus. Project prior to complete removal of Bloede Dam to to provide habitat for native reptile and will develop oyster retrofit designs that will determine changes in habitat use following wetland plant species. Project will engage create complex fish and shellfish habitat dam removal and enables eDNA methods to 50 local residents, 200 secondary school and provide enhanced, measurable nutrient be used to estimate run counts for long term students and eight educators in educational and sediment reduction benefits when population monitoring. outreach activities, as well as train four implemented. $86,694 undergraduate students in restoration $50,000 ecology. The Nature Conservancy $49,621 Neighborhood Design Center Identifying, Prioritizing, and Incentivizing Municipal Urban Forestry Needs Analysis and Marsh Management Actions in the Buzzards Bay Coalition Pilot Projects for Prince George’s County (MD) Chesapeake Bay (MD, VA) Marsh Island Salt Marsh Restoration Project in Conduct an urban forestry needs analysis Develop a marsh management action Fairhaven (MA) for municipalities in Prince George’s decision support tool and resilience credit Remove historically placed dredged County. Project will survey urban forest targeting parameters, plus streamline material to re-introduce tidal hydrology, managers to assess their current urban and enhance the effectiveness of marsh and plant marsh vegetation. Project will forest status and identify opportunities to management actions and make funding create vital fish nursery habitat, enhance provide planning and technical assistance opportunities more accessible for water quality, provide needed sandy for managing public trees, and will also tidal marsh conservation practitioners material for nearby municipal coastal assist the Town of Forest Heights and throughout the Chesapeake Bay. Project will resilience projects, as well as build upon the City of New Carrollton to assess and evaluate the climatic and human pressures the significant investment over the past manage their public trees. that are degrading tidal marsh habitats decade to improve water quality, expand $49,301 within a holistic context that weighs inputs, fish passage, and permanently protect actions, and outcomes to determine best natural shorelines in Buzzards Bay. Potomac Conservancy management practices. $2,000,000 Expanding Growing Native Tree Initiative $49,699 (MD, VA) Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Expand the Growing Native program by Trout Unlimited Developing a Crew Training Program for Young building a regional coalition of stakeholders Chesapeake Bay Watershed Priority Brook Fishermen in Cape Cod (MA) to connect disparate native tree planting Trout Strongholds Conservation Analysis (MD, Develop a crew training program focused efforts in the Potomac Watershed and NY, PA, VA, WV) on safety and fishing skills to build capacity build a network of volunteers increasing Complete focal analyses for 11 brook for the next generation of fishermen on the number of native seeds collected trout stronghold patches within the Cape Cod. Project will prepare 60 to 80 and market existing native tree planting Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will participants with necessary knowledge for opportunities. Project will convene develop a strategic restoration approach fisheries management, connect captains

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED the coalition, build a website that will focused on brook trout populations, and to competent crew members and promote consolidates community engagement following the compilation of the available fishing as a viable career path. opportunities, and expand seed collection data for each patch and the completion of $50,071 drop off sites, nursery sites, and community- the conservation portfolio analysis, Trout led seed events. Unlimited will provide a summary report for Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance $47,518 each priority patch that outlines potential Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring projects, current data available, monitoring in New England’s Groundfish Fishery (MA, ME, Shorerivers needs, and other information. NH, RI) Old Love Point Park Stream and Park $41,574 Advance electronic monitoring in New Restoration (MD) England’s groundfish fishery by continuing Produce a comprehensive stream Wicomico Environmental Trust operation of a successful pilot project restoration design that incorporates new Monitoring Water Quality and Health of the and working with stakeholders to clarify stormwater practices within the park, Wicomico River (MD) standards and needs related to the wetland areas adjacent to the stream Recruit volunteers to monitor the waters technology. Project will engage 35 vessels restoration, and a stream restoration of the Wicomico River and its tributaries to finalize electronic monitoring standards design that will complement both the new on Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore to and ensure that data is effectively stored, stormwater and wetland areas. Project collect and develop objective, scientifically shared, and used by regional stock will design approximately 1,500 linear credible water quality data. Project will assessment scientists and other data feet of stream restoration, 2 to 3 acres of train volunteers to collect water samples end users. wetlands/floodplains, and two to three and record site conditions, assess samples $524,586 bioretentions. water clarity, total nitrogen and phosphorus, $50,000 chlorophyll a, and bacteria, and conduct scientific analysis by trained scientists before results are delivered to the public. $50,000

32 City of Chicopee Fishing Partnership Support Services Housatonic Valley Association Planning to Reduce Nitrogen Pollution and Developing the Next Generation of Developing a Municipal Culvert Cooperative to Improve Water Quality in Long Island Sound Massachusetts Fishermen Through a Improve Fish Passage in the Housatonic River (MA) Registered Apprentice Program (CT, MA) Prepare a study to identify low-cost Increase the fisheries workforce by training Create a municipal culvert cooperative that improvements to reduce nitrogen pollution the next generation of professional builds on years of road-stream crossing from a water pollution control facility in fishermen. Project will utilize a four-week assessments and replacement planning Chicopee, Massachusetts. Project will apprentice program registered with the work in the Housatonic River of western reduce effluent, a source of nitrogen state of Massachusetts to train the next Massachusetts and northwest Connecticut. pollution into Long Island Sound, by a generation of fishermen and improve safety, Project will complete 10 shovel-ready culvert minimum of 123,200 pounds annually. profitability, and conservation in the New designs and utilize two demonstration sites $14,738 England groundfish, scallop and lobster to show other municipalities best practices fisheries. for stream restoration that benefit native Cornell Cooperative Extension $65,000 brook trout and reduce flood hazard risks. of Suffolk County $151,510 Implementing a Bycatch Avoidance Friends of the Assabet River National Communication Network (MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) Wildlife Refuge Industrial Economics Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Peer-to-Peer Conference: “Creating Stronger Assessing the Socio-economic Impacts Communication Network to identify and and More Effective Friends Groups in of Coastal and Emergency Resilience report real-time bycatch of nine species, Massachusetts” Projects (MA) helping to avoid the implementation Host a Peer-to-Peer coaching event and Collect data on the core socio-economic of restrictive management measures convene five Friends groups at Assabet metrics to measure and model the impact associated with this bycatch. Project will River National Wildlife Refuge. Project of about 60 projects funded through NFWF enhance the network by improving daily will focus on increasing organizational programs. Project will estimate the extent to reporting rates, recruiting additional vessels capacity, developing mechanisms for sharing which these resilience projects reduce the to the network, and conducting five at-sea resources and conservation practices, and risk of flooding to communities from coastal UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES observer days to facilitate proper reporting. increasing volunteerism for participating storms, sea level rise, and nuisance flooding, $57,621 Friends organizations. and in the event of a significant flood $5,364 event, determine the extent to which these East Quabbin Land Trust resilience projects mitigated actual damage. Finalizing Designs to Remove a Barrier to Friends of Herring River $485,366 Brook Trout at Wheelwright Pond on the Ware Permitting and Final Design for Herring River River (MA) Tidal Restoration in Cape Cod (MA) Integrated Monitoring Complete final design and permitting for the Remove or replace man-made barriers to Implementing Wireless Electronic Monitoring removal of a significant barrier to aquatic tidal flow to install an innovative tidal control and Reporting Tools in New England organism passage at Wheelwright Pond on infrastructure, which will allow tidal flow (MA, ME,NH, RI) the Ware River in eastern Massachusetts. to be increased incrementally. Project will Expand broadband, wireless electronic Project will set the stage for implementing restore more than 890 acres of degraded reporting to high volume fishing vessels the removal of the barrier and eventually former estuarine habitat and restore salt in New England, including ground fish reconnect 41 miles of upstream habitat, marsh and other native estuarine habitats vessels, limited access scallop vessels, and including 34 miles of high-quality eastern throughout the river and its connected sub- charter vessels. Project will demonstrate brook trout habitat, in a state-designated basins, resulting in ecological and economic the scalability and transferability of wireless coldwater fishery resource. benefits to the region, Cape Cod Bay and the electronic monitoring technology and $89,995 Gulf of Maine. electronic reporting using broadband vessel $300,000 monitoring system. Eastern Research Group $229,530 Resilience Knowledge Capture Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Transfer (MA) Scaling Maximized Retention Electronic Manomet Identify and capture best practices and Monitoring in the Northeast Groundfish Coordinating American Oystercatcher lessons learned from resilience practitioners Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI) Recovery on the Atlantic Coast and use them to develop learning Expand the Maximized Retention Electronic (multiple states) products to help enhance the technical Monitoring program by adding three to Provide coordination of the American capacity of practitioners and decision four vessels to the electronic monitoring oystercatcher recovery initiative and makers so they may effectively implement fleet and refining in person dockside actionable change based on lessons learned resilience projects. Project will draw upon monitoring. Project will conduct outreach from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact the knowledge base acquired from the to vessels, assess the economic impacts of of predators and human disturbance implementation of a portfolio of large- this programs previous years for fishermen, on populations of breeding shorebirds scale resilience projects funded by NFWF, and continue review of collected electronic along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will NOAA, and the DOI, and by documenting monitoring data. contribute substantially to the goals of the and sharing effective approaches for $405,000 Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. overcoming common challenges that have $79,999 hindered project implementation in the past, project will result in more successful projects delivering greater impact that will be sustainable over the long-term. $190,933

33 Mystic River Watershed Association Springfield Water and Sewer Commission Town of Rockport Creating a Trash Free Mystic River (MA) Reducing Nitrogen into Long Island Sound Collection of Gear for Scallop, Lobster Enhance 66 acres of the Torbert Macdonald at the Springfield Regional Wastewater and Fishing Industries in the Town of Park in the lower basin of the Mystic River Treatment Facility (MA) Rockport (MA) by engaging 200 community volunteers, Install instruments to enhance nitrogen Collect and recycle or convert to energy educating 10 teachers and providing removal at the Springfield Regional old, unused and broken fishing gear for stewardship opportunities to an additional Wastewater Treatment Facility in Springfield, the scallop, lobster and fishing industries 200 youths. Project will include land surveys Massachusetts. Project will eliminate 3,000 in the Town of Rockport, Massachusetts. to gather data on density of trash, removal pounds of effluent total inorganic nitrogen Project will recycle or convert to energy 4 and categorization of trash, and public annually that is currently loading from tons of fishing gear and serve approximately events such as using canoes to keep urban the plant into the Connecticut River and 40 fishermen with the disposal of rope, waterways and riverfronts clean. downstream to Long Island Sound. monofilament line, nets, heavy metal traps, $34,583 $290,385 light metal plastic coated traps, dredges, nets and buoy. New Bedford Port Authority The Trustees of Reservations $11,904 Collection of Derelict Fishing Gear in New Using Salt Marsh Habitat Restoration for Bedford, Massachusetts Resiliency (MA) Town of Scituate Collect and recycle or convert to energy Implement and monitor ditch remediation Recover and Consolidate Fishing Gear in the fishing gear from the Port of New Bedford, to restore salt marsh in Massachusetts’ Town of Scituate (MA) Massachusetts, the nation’s most valuable Great Marsh. Project will reverse salt marsh Work with the commercial fishing industry, commercial fishing port since 2001, home subsidence, reestablish and maintain high volunteers, and Town of Scituate employees to approximately 350 commercial fishing marsh habitat, improve coastal resilience to recover and consolidate fishing gear in vessels and 150 out-of-state fishing vessels. and demonstrate ditch remediation as a Cape Cod and Massachusetts Bays. Project Project will recycle or convert to energy viable and cost-effective restoration strategy will collect 54 tons of fishing gear, including 86 tons of fishing gear, including nets and at the landscape level. plastic coated traps, heavy metal traps, lobster pots. $217,931 heavy traps, nets, buoys, line, rope and $9,696 monofilament nets. Town of Chatham $10,000 New England Marine Monitoring Recycling Fishing Gear to Protect Fish and Integrating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to Wildlife and Reduce Derelict Fishing Gear in Town of Wellfleet Strengthen Electronic Monitoring Chatham, Massachusetts Collection of Derelict Gear from (MA, ME, NH, RI) Recycle previously used fishing gear from Shellfish Aquaculture and Fishing Fleets in Integrate existing artificial intelligence local fisherman in the Town of Chatham, Wellfleet (MA) algorithms into electronic monitoring Massachusetts, one of the biggest fishing Collect derelict gear from shellfish review, transmission, and storage workflows communities on Cape Cod. Project will aquaculture farmers and fishing fleets to reduce program costs. Project will recycle or convert to energy 35 tons operating in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. advance the artificial intelligence used in of fishing gear, including fishing rope, Project will recycle or convert to energy the New England Groundfish electronic monofilament line, nets, heavy metal traps, 190 tons of aquaculture and fishing gear, monitoring fisheries to automate catch light metal coated traps, dredges, nets, and including plastic nets, bags, buckets, accounting and streamline data storage thus buoys in order to protect fish and wildlife metal cages, rebar, racks, zip-ties, buoys, addressing management priorities. populations and reduce pollution during the wood frames, and rope, supporting the $241,109 peak beach season. large aquaculture industry that employs $10,000 15 percent of Wellfleet’s population and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Northern Middlesex reducing beach and coastal pollution during Council of Governments Town of Montague Planning Department the peak beach season. Habitat Restoration and Trail and Park Green Infrastructure to Reduce Nitrogen $3,900 Visioning around Merrimack River (MA) Pollution at Montague Town Hall (MA) Restore nearly 2 acres of degraded riverine Construct green infrastructure in a paved Trout Unlimited habitat in a highly urbanized section of the lot near the Connecticut River in Turners Restoring Instream Habitat and Engaging Merrimack River. Project will engage 150 Falls, Massachusetts. Project will prevent Private Landowners to Improve Fish Passage volunteers to remove invasive plants and 77,882 gallons of polluted stormwater and (MA, NY, VT) replace with native flora of high habitat 27 pounds of nitrogen from entering the Restore instream and riparian forest habitat value and remove trash from 2 miles Connecticut River and then downstream to in priority locations based on previous of riverfront for the benefit of riparian Long Island Sound annually. outreach and training to private landowners, ecosystems and native bird species. $10,642 municipalities, and forestry professionals. $38,291 Project will add large woody material to 5 Town of Provincetown miles of stream, restore 5 miles of adjacent Rich Earth Institute Recovery and Recycling of Abandoned Fishing riparian forest to create habitat for native Deploying a Nitrogen Reclamation Project in Gear in the Town of Provincetown (MA) brook and complete 90-percent designs for the Long Island Sound Watershed — III (VT) Support the responsible recovery of three aquatic barriers to be removed in the Enhance the deployment of nitrogen abandoned fishing gear and limit offshore future. reclamation technology in Windham County, disposal practices in the lobster, sea scallop, $133,842 Vermont, Franklin County, Massachusetts groundfish, squid, mackerel and menhaden and Cheshire County, New Hampshire. fisheries in Provincetown’s MacMillian Pier, Project will divert 150 pounds of nitrogen home to a fishing fleet of over 55 vessels. annually from entering the Connecticut Project will collect approximately 70 tons River and downstream to Long Island Sound. of fishing gear, including lobster pots and $96,734 cages, net, ropes, lines and chains. $12,000

34 Wildlife Management Institute City of Detroit Conservation Resource Alliance Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England Restoring and Improving Habitat Connectivity Improving Aquatic Organism Passage on the Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and in Historic Palmer Park (MI) East Branch Maple River (MI) American Woodcock (multiple states) Restore the aquatic habitat at Lake Frances Restore fish passage barriers with channel Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs in Detroit’s Historic Palmer Park and spanning timber bridge structures, in-stream by supporting habitat biologists and connect it to Witherell Woods natural area. habitat and channel restoration to restore outreach specialists to interface with private Project will restore more than 60 acres aquatic organism passage for brook trout, landowners to provide young forest habitat of habitat benefiting over 100 species of lake sturgeon, and other coldwater species, for more than 50 Species of Conservation flora and fauna, improve public access and improve degraded riparian habitat Need in New England. Project will develop and increase educational opportunities benefiting species such as the federally forest management plans that utilize existing in unique natural areas rarely found in an endangered Hungerford’s crawling water Best Management Practices, develop urban setting. beetle. Project will open 8 miles of stream, healthy diverse forest age classes, and $300,000 reduce sediment loading by 200 tons protect riparian habitat values, improving annually and rectify two passage barriers. management on 200 acres. City of Ecorse $285,000 $156,290 Restoring Riparian Habitat and Improving Public Access at Ecorse Creek (MI) Conservation Resource Alliance Engage an underserved community by Reconnecting Blood Creek (MI) MICHIGAN raising awareness of natural resource Fully restore connectivity on Blood Creek by assets and garner support for initiating the opening the remaining 2.8 miles of stream American Bird Conservancy restoration of the Ecorse Creek watershed for native fish passage. Project will replace Providing Technical Assistance to Private in Wayne County, Michigan. Project will existing culverts to improve water quality, Forestland Owners to Conserve At-Risk Bird restore 100 linear feet of riparian habitat, increase spawning, rearing and refuge Species (MI) bring 3.88 acres of riparian corridor under habitat, and restore hydrology and natural Utilize Natural Resource Conservation management for invasive species and sediment movement. Service incentive programs to assist promoting native plant biodiversity, create $64,000 UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES landowners in the development of forest safe public access to 3.7 miles of Ecorse management plans to benefit at-risk bird Creek for kayaking or canoing reach more Friends of Grand Rapids Parks species, and execute conservation practices than 3,300 community members and install Improving Water Quality and Green on non-industrial private forestland in an interpretive sign. Infrastructure through Urban Forestry (MI) Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern $102,000 Plant 1,500 diverse native and urban Lower Peninsula. Project will bring 1,000 resilient trees in the Back Hills, Roosevelt acres of forestland under improved Clinton Conservation District Park, Burton Heights, Garfield Park and management to expand the availability of Increasing Farmer Participation in Alger Heights communities in Michigan to high-quality forest bird habitat across the Conservation through Targeted Technical mitigate urban tree canopy losses, improve landscape. Assistance (MI) water quality and decrease stormwater $157,837 Increase farmer participation in runoff. Project will add 430,355 gallons of conservation by implementing Natural stormwater capacity annually and engage Arenac Conservation District Resource Conservation Service Farm Bill local low and middle-income communities. Restoring Wetland Habitat by Removing programs to do conservation planning and $249,506 Invasive Phragmites in the Saginaw Bay implement novel conservation practices Watershed (MI) in the Middle Grand River Watershed, Huron Pines Resource Conservation and Remove invasive phragmites from Saginaw Michigan. Project will hire a new technician Development Council Bay coastal wetlands previously treated and in to work with landowners to create and Implementing Nature-Based Solutions to surrounding wetlands that will receive initial implement conservation management Improve Water Quality (MI) treatment. Project will restore more than plans, bring 10,000 acres under improved Build community capacity to enable four 1,500 acres by controlling invasive phragmites management to improve soil and water coastal communities in Michigan to implement through an adaptive management strategy quality and prevent 5,000 pounds of on-the-ground green infrastructure projects that uses pre- and post-treatment remote nitrogen runoff. that have been identified and supported by sensing and in-field monitoring. $182,695 city leaders and active community members. $530,099 Project will add 500,000 gallons of stormwater Columbus Township storage annually and replace 0.4 acres of Bat Conservation International Restoring and Improving Public Access to impervious surfaces with 0.7 acres of green Enhancing Foraging Habitat for Bats Affected Columbus Township Roadside Park (MI) infrastructure. by White-Nose Syndrome in Michigan and Build on the ongoing Belle river restoration $301,638 Canada project in Columbus Township, Michigan by Improve survival of bats with white-nose planting native riparian species, controlling Huron Pines Resource Conservation syndrome (WNS) by enhancing their foraging invasive species, restoring wetland habitat, and Development Council efficiency in the fall, when bats accumulate and building public trails and fishing access. Opening Coldwater Habitat for Brook Trout critical fat reserves, and in spring, when bats Project will re-vegetate 1,000 feet of in the Pigeon River (MI) are recovering from WNS. Project will use riverbank, provide 0.2 acres of off-channel Improve fish passage to coldwater brook light and chemical attractants at seven sites aquatic habitat, one paddle craft launch, and trout streams in the upper Pigeon River in Michigan and Manitoba to concentrate 1,500 feet of trails. watershed by replacing four undersized insects near hibernacula in fall and spring $289,900 road-stream crossings that are barriers to fish to determine whether more insect prey passage. Project will open 13 miles to benefit improves survivability, with the goal of brook trout and other aquatic species by fully reducing the mortality rate from 71 percent restoring habitat connectivity and a suite of to 30 percent. other natural river processes. $249,995 $146,763

35 Huron River Watershed Council Michigan Department of Natural Resources The Nature Conservancy Improving Water Quality with Green Saginaw Bay Rock Habitat and Sediment Design and Permitting for the North Maumee Stormwater Infrastructure (MI) Transport Reef (MI) Bay Bottomlands Restoration (MI) Design and install two green stormwater Develop preliminary designs to restore Develop final design of a 75 acres infrastructure projects in the City of critical reef spawning habitat, allowing for restoration of emergent marsh and Wixom, Michigan. Project will capture and sediment transport and dispersing excessive shrub-scrub peninsula in North Maumee infiltrate over 1.3 million gallons of runoff wind/wave action in the bay to reduce Bay, Monroe County, Michigan to reduce and reduce total phosphorus loading by 1.2 flooding, erosion, sedimentation. Project will inundation affecting infrastructure and pounds annually, while improving base flow improve habitat for walleye, lake whitefish, improving water quality in areas receiving and dissolved oxygen in Norton Creek to lake trout, and other fish populations. runoff from agricultural activities. Project better support diverse aquatic biota. $118,550 will refine existing engineering plans, $122,257 monitor baseline site conditions, and Michigan Trout Unlimited continue communication with permitting International Wildlife Refuge Alliance Adding Woody Habitat Structures to Improve officials to complete design and Building Organizational Capacity Prior to the Habitat for Brook Trout (MI) permitting. Opening of the Refuge Gateway (MI) Add varied types of woody habitat in $192,936 Provide training for the organization’s staff areas of the Upper Manistee River with a and volunteers, purchase donor management documented lack of habitat heterogeneity Trout Unlimited software, and update educational materials and quality wood to improve habitat for Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for for Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge. brook trout and macroinvertebrates. Project Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) Project will increase organizational capacity will install 50 woody structures and restore 7 Conduct an evaluation to understand and knowledge of conservation prior to the miles of stream. brook trout response, including opening of the Refuge Gateway. $150,000 abundance, young of year, multiple life $22,786 stages, and effective breeders, to the National Wildlife Federation improved access to and quality of habitat. Kalamazoo Nature Center Utilizing Detroit’s Public Spaces to Create Project will track progress towards the Restoring Prairie Fen Wetland and Upland Habitat and Build Diverse, Resilient Great Lakes Business Plan stream habitat Habitat by Managing Invasive Species (MI) Communities (MI) related goals. Support land managers in the removal and Create high quality public green spaces $292,650 management of invasive species in Southwest while increasing community resiliency, Michigan’s Kalamazoo River watershed to public engagement, and stewardship in Trout Unlimited restore prairie fen wetland habitats. Project Detroit to install three large-scale GSI Conservation Assessment of Brook Trout and will remove invasive species, reintroduce projects and six smaller rain gardens. Planning and Impact Tool Development in the historical fire regimes, conduct annual Project will engage hundreds of community Great Lakes Region (multiple states) monitoring and perform outreach activities to members through installation days, Conduct a broad-scale assessment of restore 1,500 acres of wetland. workshops, and garden tours and will divert existing brook trout population viability $137,427 more than 600,000 gallons of storm water within the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes annually. watershed that will build off of and be Loyola University Chicago $290,000 compatible with the analysis and associated Enhancing Biodiversity and Habitat Complexity tools developed for NFWF’s Mid-Atlantic/ in Cheboygan Marsh (MI) Pollinator Partnership Northeast region. Project will assist NFWF Restore and enhance biodiversity and Improving Pollinator Habitat Connectivity in in identifying conservation needs and habitat complexity in the Cheboygan the Midwest and Great Lakes Flyway priority investment areas throughout the

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Marsh-Duncan Bay Great Lakes coastal (AR, IL, MI, MN, WI) basin and associated tools will enable wetland complex by removing invasive Develop and expand a regional seed NFWF to develop and measure population- cattail from 92 acres. Project will collection network program in the Midwest based recovery goals over time across increase diversity of plants, amphibians, and Great Lakes region to support monarch multiple NFWF landscapes, particularly the macroinvertebrates, fish, and birds butterflies, rusty patched bumble bees and Northeast and Great Lakes. within the coastal wetland complex, and other declining pollinator species. Project will $126,967 result in the removal of 1,850 pounds of improve more than 5,000 acres of pollinator elemental phosphorus and 12,125 pounds habitat, collect 50 pounds of milkweed seed, Trout Unlimited of elemental nitrogen from the Great Lakes collect 50 pounds of nectar plant seed, and Reconnecting Cold-Water Stream Habitat in ecosystem. propagate 2,000 milkweed and 1,000 nectar the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan (MI) $185,215 species seedlings. Improve aquatic connectivity, restore $74,971 habitat in cold-water streams and increase Macomb County, Michigan watershed resiliency in the Western Upper Restoring Riparian Habitat to Increase St. Suzanne Cody Rouge Community Peninsula of Michigan. Project will rectify Biodiversity and Divert Runoff (MI) Resource Center three fish passage barriers, open 21 miles Restore 1.35 miles of riparian habitat along the Supporting Green Stormwater Infrastructure in of stream and restore 10 miles of instream Sterling Relief and Red Run drains in Macomb Detroit Faith Communities (MI) habitat. County, Michigan. Project will increase habitat Support a network of churches in northwest $255,000 complexity and biodiversity, connect new Detroit, Michigan to maintain existing and existing habitat corridors, benefit native bioretention practices and install new pollinators, plant 475 trees, 2,500 shrubs and green stormwater practices. Project will use 4,000 native pollinator plugs, develop a mile Michigan native plants to capture water long waterfront trail, and capture and infiltrate from a combined 18,600 square feet of an estimated 200,000 gallons of urban surfaces and engage community youths in stormwater runoff per year. environmental education. $300,000 $50,000

36 MINNESOTA Trout Unlimited Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for Educational Outdoor Laboratories and Friends of Crane Meadows National Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) Hydrology Restoration on the Tchoutacabouffa Wildlife Refuge Conduct an evaluation to understand brook River (MS) Constructing a Sedge Meadows Observation trout response, including abundance, Create a restored green space for scientific Deck at Crane Meadows National Wildlife young of year, multiple life stages, and and educational activities for the community Refuge (MN) effective breeders, to the improved access that will ultimately improve ecological Construct an educational kiosk, install a to and quality of habitat. Project will track health and water quality. Project will restore granite trail, and build an observation deck progress towards the Great Lakes Business the hydrology of a 9-acre pond, plant 75 overlooking the last intact sedge meadow Plan stream habitat related goals. trees, remove invasive plants on 4 acres, in Minnesota. Project will educate visitors $292,650 and engage 136 volunteers in restoration about the importance of sedge meadows projects and 250 students at educational and provide hands-on experiences at Crane field days. Meadows National Wildlife Refuge for MISSISSIPPI $40,000 students from eight local schools. $14,600 Anthropocene Alliance Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for Foundation Monarch Joint Venture Resilience (multiple states) Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest Developing and Implementing a Convene six community-based Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) Monitoring and Evaluation Program for organizations in disaster-prone Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint the Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators neighborhoods to engage local partners Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for Conservation Fund (MN) to train volunteers and teach residents Wildlife report, which provides technical Develop and implement an evaluation plan about nature-based practices and install guidance to land managers on how to of NFWF’s Pollinator Fund investment sites, six high visibility projects as a catalyst for manage bottomland hardwood forests for including citizen science monitoring. Project broader implementation. Project will reach the conservation of wildlife. Project will will provide a formal report detailing NFWF’s 600 community members and successes revise the report to integrate new science UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES contribution to monarch habitat throughout will be shared with peer flood survivors on the habitat needs of priority wildlife the central flyway. around the country through a network of species, include updates from the Forest $170,000 48 leaders in 22 states. Resource Conservation Working Group, and $494,758 add a section dedicated to the management Pollinator Partnership of restored or young bottomland hardwood Improving Pollinator Habitat Connectivity in Ducks Unlimited stands. the Midwest and Great Lakes Flyway Enhancing Hydrology and Restoring Forests in $79,254 (AR, IL, MI, MN, WI) the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley (AR, MS) Develop and expand a regional seed Restore and enhance bottomland Mississippi Commercial Fisheries United collection and native plant materials hardwood forests and wetlands on public Developing a Strategic Framework for Permit network program in the Midwest and Great and private lands within the Delta of Banking in the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fishery Lakes region to support monarch butterflies, Arkansas and Mississippi. Project will (MS) rusty patched bumble bees and other restore hydrology, enhance existing Develop a strategic framework to advance declining pollinator species. Project will forests, and reforest areas to impact a permit and quota banking opportunities improve more than 5,000 acres of pollinator total of 2,590 acres, benefiting migratory for Mississippi fishing communities in the habitat, collect 50 pounds of milkweed seed, waterfowl, Louisiana black bear and other Gulf of Mexico reef fish fishery. Project collect 50 pounds of nectar plant seed, and forested wetland-dependent species. will develop a tool that could increase the propagate 2,000 milkweed and 1,000 nectar $375,000 capacity of individual fishermen and fishing species seedlings. businesses while helping to retain access to $74,971 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical fisheries. University $69,284 Prairie Enthusiasts GIS Capacity and Training to Support Gulf- Increasing Technical Assistance to Engage Wide Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration Mississippi Forestry Foundation Landowners in Pollinator Conservation (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Partnering to Restore and Enhance Longleaf in (IA, IL, MN, WI) Provide geographic information system Mississippi Create two landowner-focused staff (GIS) expertise and training in support of Establish 325 acres of longleaf pine and positions and develop an outreach and Gulf-wide ecosystem conservation and enhance an additional 4,000 acres of technical assistance program in the upper restoration programs and projects. Project longleaf habitat with prescribed fire and Midwest to implement recovery plans for will develop GIS layers and maps where thinnings in south Mississippi. Project the monarch butterfly, Karner blue butterfly, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council will coordinate restoration and outreach and rusty patched bumble bee. Project and Natural Resources Damage Assessment activities across multiple partners, engage will identify and engage private working projects have been approved for planning private landowners through educational landowners to carry out pollinator habitat and implementation by the U.S. Department workshops, and provide technical and restoration and management projects, of Agriculture. financial assistance to landowners to bringing 3,000 acres under improved $300,000 plant longleaf pine seedlings, implement management and restoring 2,000 acres of prescribed burning, and remove mid-story habitat. hardwoods to improve habitat for gopher $245,508 tortoise. $122,496

37 Mississippi River Trust Stephen F. Austin State University MISSOURI Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower Monitoring Avian Response to Forest Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple Management in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Anthropocene Alliance states) Valley (AR, LA, MS, TX) Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for Reforest and protect frequently flooded, Develop a baseline inventory of bird Resilience (multiple states) marginal cropland on private lands species in bottomland hardwood Convene six community-based organizations through the adoption of Wetland Reserve restoration sites in the Lower Mississippi in disaster-prone neighborhoods to engage Easements in the active floodplain of Alluvial Valley through the deployment of local partners to train volunteers and teach the Lower Mississippi River. Project will autonomous sound recorders. Project will residents about nature-based practices establish 7,500 acres of bottomland compare baseline data to avian community and install six high visibility projects as a hardwood forest to expand and enhance metrics captured in bottomland hardwood catalyst for broader implementation. Project habitat and improve water quality, forests at different successional stages to will reach 600 community members and benefiting the Louisiana black bear, identify effective management activities successes will be shared with peer flood swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl and used in forestry wildlife treatments and survivors around the country through a freshwater fish. stages of stand development that need network of 48 leaders in 22 states. $653,696 further treatments for maintaining desired $494,758 forest conditions. Mississippi State University $73,377 Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Black Bear Monitoring in the Lower Foundation Mississippi Alluvial Valley (AR, LA, MS) The Nature Conservancy Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest Monitor and collect baseline data on Restoring Bottomland Hardwood Forests in Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) black bear movement, gene flow, and the Yazoo River Basin (MS) Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint genetic isolation among five recovering Restore 1,000 acres of bottomland Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for populations within the Mississippi Alluvial hardwood forests on marginal agricultural Wildlife report, which provides technical Valley. Project will help assess black lands in the Yazoo River Basin of the Lower guidance to land managers on how to bear response to bottomland hardwood Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Project will restore manage bottomland hardwood forests for restoration efforts and establish a regional habitat for Louisiana black bear, swamp the conservation of wildlife. Project will black bear monitoring protocol by rabbits and waterfowl, while improving revise the report to integrate new science leveraging monitoring efforts, coordinating water quality through sediment and nutrient on the habitat needs of priority wildlife standardized protocols for sampling, and reduction. species, include updates from the Forest collaborating on analyses. $225,000 Resource Conservation Working Group, and $138,483 add a section dedicated to the management The Nature Conservancy of restored or young bottomland hardwood National Audubon Society Restoring Forested Wetlands through a stands. 2020 Guy Bradley Award Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership $79,254 - Federal Winner (MS) (AR, LA, MS) Retired Agent in Charge Tom Chisdock Restore and protect forested wetlands Mississippi River Trust from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service within high-priority areas in the Mississippi Forest and Wetlands Restoration and is the federal level recipient of the 2020 Alluvial Valley (MAV) region of Arkansas, Management in the Mississippi River Basin Guy Bradley Award. The Pascagoula Mississippi, and Louisiana. Project will (KY, MO, TN) River Audubon Center is the beneficiary reforest 2,650 acres of marginal cropland, Restore and enhance privately owned organization of his $2,500 award. restore 600 acres of hydrologic wetland upland, riparian and bottomland hardwood $2,500 function and protect 3,300 acres with forests through technical and financial

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED conservation easements, benefiting assistance within the Mississippi River Reef Fish Conservation and Education Louisiana black bear, swamp rabbits, Basin in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Foundation waterfowl and neotropical migratory Project will engage private landowners to Engaging the Next Generation of songbirds. implement conservation practices on 3,000 Commercial Fishermen in the Gulf of $696,304 acres to improve forest health, reduce forest Mexico (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) fuels, improve water quality and improve Develop a workforce training program to Trout Unlimited ecological functions, benefiting forest birds, recruit and educate young fishermen for Engaging Landowners in Water Quality and waterfowl and aquatic species. the commercial seafood harvesting sector. Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill Programs (IA, IL, MN, $222,000 Project will engage fishery leaders from WI) various fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico Restore cold-water streams and watersheds Mississippi River Trust in face-to-face meetings to design and plan in the Driftless Area, creating habitat Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower a fisheries management training program practices for fish, shorebirds, amphibians, Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple states) for the Gulf of Mexico and develop a reptiles and other aquatic biota. Project will Reforest and protect frequently flooded, review of similar programs around the improve management on 525 acres, restore marginal cropland on private lands through United States. 30 miles of stream, prevent 9,000 tons of the adoption of Wetland Reserve Easements $25,835 sediment and 4 tons of nutrient pollution in the active floodplain of the Lower from entering the system annually. Mississippi River. Project will establish 7,500 $199,961 acres of bottomland hardwood forest to expand and enhance habitat and improve water quality, benefiting the Louisiana black bear, swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl and freshwater fish. $653,696

38 MONTANA Montana Department of Natural Resources National Wildlife Federation and Conservation Approaches to Mitigate Fencing for Wildlife American Bird Conservancy Support for Water Transfers to Instream Movement (MT) Advancing Grassland Bird Conservation Flows (MT) Improve habitat conditions through through Landowner Outreach (MT, SD) Assist organizations developing water restoration, conservation and modifying Promote educational opportunities and transactions with review and coordination fencing to improve movement and survival land stewardship activities in the Northern of project proposals. Project will efficiently for pronghorn and other ungulates. Project Great Plains by offering workshops process instream flow water right change will coordinate fence mitigation efforts in and providing conservation technical applications to legally protect instream southwest Montana and guide landscape- assistance, developing conservation water acquired through water right level mitigation efforts. plans, and assisting private landowners transactions. $83,040 in enrolling in Farm Bill programs. Project $46,410 will enhanced landowner knowledge of Prickly Pear Land Trust grassland conservation and soil health, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Conserving Private Grasslands through an implement sustainable wildlife-compatible Collaborating with Landowners on Black- Agricultural Land Easement Coordinator (MT) management across the project area, and Footed Ferret Conservation on Private Build on past success by sustaining the restore and improve management practices Working Lands (MT) Agricultural Land Easement Coordinator on 3,500 acres. Work with landowners to eliminate human- position that is shared between the $188,813 caused mortality of prairie dogs on private Montana Association of Land Trusts and the working lands in southeast Montana to Natural Resource Conservation Service to Chippewa Cree Tribe of the maintain a stable food supply for black- facilitate coordination between the entities Rocky Boy’s Reservation footed ferret populations. Project will and increase the number of volunteer Improving Grassland Habitat on the Rocky maintain habitat and introduce black-footed conservation easements on private land in Boy’s Indian Reservation (MT) ferrets on 4,500 acres. Montana. Project will bring 60,000 acres Enhance, protect and preserve the natural $285,055 under permanent conservation easements. resources on the Rocky Boy’s Indian $234,282 UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Reservation in north-central Montana while Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks protecting the rights of all tribal members, Employing an Integrated Weed Management Ranchers Stewardship Alliance promoting sustainability, and providing Approach to Restore Big Game Wintering Enhancing and Protecting Grasslands through for economic opportunity and education. Habitat (MT) Technical Assistance for Ranchers (MT) Project will improve grassland connectivity Implement an Integrated Weed Management Coordinate between the ranching and and restore habitat by altering grazing approach to enhance elk, mule deer, and conservation communities in Blaine, management, using prescribed burning and pronghorn habitat on Montana’s Rocky Phillips and Valley counties, Montana, modifying 19 miles of fencing. Mountain Front. Project will improve forage offering a suite of technical and financial $220,000 quantity and quality on more than 260,000 tools for landowners. Project will improve acres of big game winter range. management on 5,700 acres of grassland Clark Fork Coalition $299,958 habitat to maintain a core grazing landscape. Water Transaction Development in the Clark $298,888 Fork River Basin (MT) Montana State University Identify, implement and monitor water Filling Demographic Information Gaps for the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory transactions in the Clark Fork basin of Declining McCown’s Longspur (MT) Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in Montana. Project will improve stream flows Identify population limiting factors for the the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to and aquatic habitat conditions for native McCown’s longspur and the actions needed Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) trout. to slow and reverse the population decline. Implement a network of automated radio $179,776 Project will assess high-priority information telemetry stations throughout the Great gaps on the breeding and migratory Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to monitor Climate Conservation demographics of longspurs using native the annual cycle of grassland birds, including Building Resilience with the Aaniih mixed-grass prairie, fallow fields and planted Baird’s sparrow, Sprague’s pipit and chestnut- and Nakoda Nations (MT) crop lands in northeastern Montana and collared longspur. Project will initiate this Increase ecological resilience in the Little restore 1,000 acres of marginal cropland to effort by holding webinars to recruit and Rockies by applying adaptive management native grassland cover. train partners and develop a plan to track techniques to restore ponderosa pine $194,064 grassland birds across the region, install forests and protect irreplaceable cultural telemetry stations to track focal species, and sites. Project will restore 300 acres and National Audubon Society deploy tags on focal species. engage 450 community members through Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush $250,000 collaborative learning and outreach to Conservation (multiple states) encourage the community and regional Strategically coordinate internal and external Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory leaders to prioritize adaptive management communication between a wide range Monitoring Grassland Bird Population across all programs, with forest restoration of stakeholders committed to improving Responses to Investments in the Northern serving as a visible example of resilience communications about the sagebrush Great Plains (MT, ND, NE, SD, WY) and opportunity. ecosystem to elevate not only individual Continue evaluating the impacts of NFWF- $261,470 efforts but also the larger dialog about the funded conservation easement and grazing value and need for sagebrush conservation. management projects on priority grassland Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush bird species in the Northern Great Plains. habitat under improved management, Project will compare density, population size, develop media resources for community and trend of priority grassland birds between stakeholders and host field tour events that NFWF projects and controls within the elevate on-the-ground conservation. Northern Great Plains region. $29,636 $372,899

39 The Nature Conservancy U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Expanding the Candidate Conservation Land Management, Miles City Field Office Monitoring Grassland Bird Population Agreement with Assurances Program to Improving Habitat Connectivity for Pronghorn Responses to Investments in the Northern Protect Grasslands (MT) and Mule Deer by Modifying Fences (MT) Great Plains (MT, ND, NE, SD, WY) Expand the Candidate Conservation Facilitate pronghorn and mule deer Continue evaluating and quantifying the Agreement with Assurances program to movement and reduce neonatal mortality impacts of NFWF-funded conservation enter into voluntary agreements with on Bureau of Land Management lands easement and grazing management landowners to conserve habitat for greater throughout eastern Montana. Project will projects on priority grassland bird species sage-grouse and multiple grassland modify 14 miles of fence in big-game winter in the Northern Great Plains. Project will bird species in the Missouri-Milk River ranges to wildlife friendly specifications. compare density, population size, and trend Grasslands. Project will improve 26 miles of $50,000 of priority grassland birds between NFWF fencing to wildlife-friendly specifications, projects and controls within the Northern restore 5 acres of riparian habitat and World Wildlife Fund Great Plains region. improve management on 50,000 acres. Restoring Grasslands on Private Lands (MT) $372,899 $142,178 Recruit and implement restoration projects and to collect soil carbon data to monitor Sandhills Task Force The Nature Conservancy changes in ecosystem function at restoration Improving Grassland Habitat by Addressing Increasing the Pace and Scale of Sagebrush sites on private lands in Blaine, Phillips and Invasive Eastern Red Cedar Infestations (NE) and Mesic Habitat Restoration (MT) Valley counties in Montana. Project will Improve grassland bird and wildlife habitat Increase the pace and scale of sagebrush restore more than 3,622 acres of marginal in Nebraska’s Sandhills on privately owned habitat restoration in mesic seeps and cropland to grassland. land by controlling eastern red cedar streams in southwest Montana by $266,206 infestations and improving grazing systems. developing a systematic, basin-scale Project will use prescribed fire, mechanical inventory of mesic sites, funding a World Wildlife Fund treatment, remove seed sources and install conservation coordinator position and Securing Black-Footed Ferret Populations watering locations to improve 10,000 advancing on-the-ground projects to restore Through Sylvatic Plague Mitigation (MT, SD) acres and increase rangeland resiliency for habitats for sagebrush-obligate species. Establish a population of black-footed drought and future cedar invasion. Project will implement a robust monitoring ferrets protected from sylvatic plague in the $300,000 program, restore 150 acres of habitat on Missouri-Milk River Grasslands, Montana public lands and install 200 structures to and central South Dakota. Project will improve hydrology on 15 acres of mesic improve the status of 20 black-footed ferrets NEVADA habitat. at two reintroduction sites, recover prairie $60,133 dog habitat lost to sylvatic plague at a third Lincoln County Conservation District site, and set the stage to establish a new Installing Beaver Dam Analogs to Restore The Trust for Public Land ferret population on private lands. Wilson Creek’s Wetland and Sagebrush Habitat Conserving Habitat Connectivity in Kootenai $271,946 (NV) Forestlands with a Permanent Conservation Restore Wilson Creek’s historic wetland Easement (MT) value by constructing beaver dam analogs Place a permanent conservation easement NEBRASKA out of pinyon and juniper trees to raise on nearly 30,000 acres of critical wildlife the water table and restore sagebrush habitat, prime fisheries and highly Pheasants Forever landscape. Project will install 100 beaver productive timberland near the City of Incentivizing Grassland Habitat Restoration on dam analogs and plant sedge and willow Libby in Lincoln County, Montana. Project Private Working Lands in the Sandhills (NE) clippings along the creek bank to aid

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED will conserve habitat and landscape-scale Provide incentives to landowners to enhance stabilization. connections for big game winter range and wildlife habitat on working lands in the Eastern $82,359 migration corridors, public access to outdoor Nebraska Sandhills by removing invasive recreation, protect clean drinking water cedar, improving grazing infrastructure and National Audubon Society for nearby communities, and sustain local restoring habitat with prescribed fire. Project Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush jobs in the timber and outdoor recreation will improve management on 48,922 acres of Conservation (multiple states) industries. private working lands, benefiting both cattle Strategically coordinate internal and $300,000 and wildlife. external communication between a $75,837 wide range of stakeholders committed Trout Unlimited to improving communications about the Restoring, Reconnecting and Protecting Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory sagebrush ecosystem to elevate not only Instream Flow in the Upper Clark Fork Basin Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in individual efforts but also the larger dialog (MT) the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to about the value and need for sagebrush Develop water right leases and transactions Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) conservation. Project will bring 100 acres that work to augment streamflow and Implement a collaborative network of of sagebrush habitat under improved critical habitat for native trout species, automated radio telemetry stations management, develop media resources including bull trout and westslope cutthroat throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan for community stake holders and host field trout, throughout the Clark Fork River Desert to monitor the annual cycle of tour events that elevate on-the-ground basin, Blackfoot River and Bitterroot River grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, conservation. subbasins. Project will reconnect key Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared longspur. $29,636 tributaries to their mainstems and restore Project will initiate this effort by holding chronically dewatered stream reaches. webinars to recruit and train partners and $124,034 develop a plan to track grassland birds across the region, install telemetry stations to track focal species, and deploy tags on focal species. $250,000

40 Paradise Sonoma Conservation District Walker Basin Conservancy Connecticut River Watershed Council Installing Drainage Structures to Restore Water Acquisitions Grant No. 2 (NV) Implementing an Innovative Approach Stream and Wet Meadow Hydrology (NV) Acquire Willow Stay Ranch II, LLC (Alton to Restore Forests on Upper Connecticut Work across public and private boundaries and Susan Anker). Project will purchase River (NH, VT) in local streams, seasonal springs and 2,626 acre-feet of water to aid in the goal Restore healthy riparian forests and drainages to restore and improve hydrology of restoring Walker Lake to a 12,000 total floodplains in tributaries of the Upper in meadow and mesic systems in north dissolved solids level. Connecticut River in New Hampshire and central Nevada. Project will restore 100 $8,580,000 Vermont that provide important habitat acres of mesic habitat by installing 170 low- for freshwater mussels, fish, birds and tech restoration structures, including beaver Western Rivers Conservancy pollinators. Project will implement an dam analogs, rock dams, rock Zuni bowls, Conserving Habitat for Sage-grouse and innovative, 10 acre floodplain restoration post vanes and rock baffles. Restoring Hydrology for Lahontan Cutthroat from an old hay field and restore 3 miles $27,500 Trout (NV, OR) of riparian forest to improve water quality Restore greater sage-grouse habitat, and benefit native brook trout, wood turtle, State of Nevada reintroduce a metapopulation of Lahontan rusty blackbird and other aquatic and Removing Invasive Pinyon and Juniper to cutthroat trout and habitat connectivity riparian species. Conserve Mule Deer Winter Range (NV) to the greater sagebrush landscape $174,214 Restore winter ground in the Ruby on Disaster Peak Ranch, straddling the Mountains, south of Elko, Nevada by treating Nevada-Oregon border. Project will Connecticut River Watershed Council invasive pinyon and juniper trees with a permanently conserve the Disaster Restoring Riverbanks to Reduce Nitrogen (NH) combination of hand-thinning, mastication, Peak Ranch, bringing 3,345 acres under Install bioengineered streambank weed abatement and seeding. Project will improved management and restoring stabilization and riparian restoration restore 1,100 acres of habitat for mule deer. improved hydrology in the mesic areas of projects in Coos and Cheshire counties, $200,000 the ranch. New Hampshire. Project will eliminate 80 $100,668 pounds of nitrogen annually flowing into the Connecticut River downstream to Long

The Regents of the University of California UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Headstarting Tortoises and Raven Predation Island Sound. Pressure on Tortoise Recruitment (CA, NV) NEW HAMPSHIRE $280,769 Utilize radio-telemetry to track head-started Mojave desert tortoises that have been Androscoggin River Watershed Council Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk released in the wild to estimate size- Removing Barriers to Fish Passage County dependent survival and use lifelike tortoise in Three Priority Headwater Streams Implementing a Bycatch Avoidance models and camera traps to evaluate the to Benefit Brook Trout (NH) Communication Network (MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) role of raven predation in size-dependent Restore aquatic organism passage in the Expand the Bycatch Avoidance tortoise mortality. Project will use collected Stearns Brook subwatershed of northeast Communication Network to identify and information to gauge the effectiveness of New Hampshire by removal of barriers report real-time bycatch of nine species, desert tortoise head-starting as a recovery to passage for eastern brook trout in helping to avoid the implementation tool and to understand the role that ravens three high-quality headwater streams, of restrictive management measures play in limiting survival and recruitment Clay Brook, the South Branch of Stearns associated with this bycatch. Project will of young tortoises into declining desert Brook and Alder Brook. Project will enhance the network by improving daily tortoise populations. replace three undersized culverts with reporting rates, recruiting additional vessels $299,658 bridges, reconnecting 6 miles of critical to the network, and conducting five at-sea upstream cold water habitat in an area observer days to facilitate proper reporting. Trout Unlimited which is targeted as a priority by the New $57,621 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Core Grant 2020 Hampshire Fish and Game Department. (CA, OR, NV) $135,020 Greater Lovell Land Trust Address the needs identified in the Lahontan Developing a Watershed Management Plan Cutthroat Trout (LCT) Business Plan. Project Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance for the Upper Saco River to Improve Water will provide partner coordination, science Pre-Implementation of Electronic Monitoring Quality (NH) guidance, and field crew activities, including in New England’s Groundfish Fishery Develop a watershed-based management LCT expansion, hybridization management/ (MA, ME, NH, RI) plan for Kearsarge Brook in the Saco assessment, barrier retrofitting and design, Advance electronic monitoring in New River that will outline strategies to and eDNA monitoring. England’s groundfish fishery by continuing protect source water and address $582,702 operation of a successful pilot project water quality impairment identified and working with stakeholders to clarify by the New Hampshire Department of Truckee Meadows Parks Foundation standards and needs related to the Environmental Services. Project will result Truckee Meadows Nature Study Area and technology. Project will engage 35 vessels to in a community-supported and data-driven Wetland Restoration (NV) finalize electronic monitoring standards and plan that meets the criteria for Natural Restore 40 acres of a decommissioned golf ensure that data is effectively stored, shared, Resource Conservation Service National course to return it to a wetland, riparian and and used by regional stock assessment Water Quality Initiative standards and upland system and nature study area in Reno, scientists and other data end users. the Environmental Protection Agency Nevada. Project will engage 150 volunteers $524,586 Clean Water Act Section 319 program to restore 5 acres of emergent wetland, requirements. 27 acres of wet meadow, and 8 acres of $115,206 upland through invasive species removal, plant 200 trees in riparian areas and provide 500 community member opportunities for recreation and public education. $30,000

41 Gulf of Maine Research Institute New Hampshire Fish and Game Department NEW JERSEY Scaling Maximized Retention Electronic Gear Collection in Seabrook (NH) Monitoring in the Northeast Groundfish Provide a reliable and cost-free solution American Littoral Society Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI) for the disposal of damaged and derelict Improving Habitat Quality for Horseshoe Crab Expand the Maximized Retention Electronic fishing gear to benefit coastal waterways, and Red Knot in Cape May County (NJ) Monitoring program by adding three to recreational parks, and marine habitats. Restore, stabilize, and expand important four vessels to the electronic monitoring Project will recycle or convert to energy habitat for horseshoe crabs and shorebirds fleet and refining in person dockside 30 tons of fishing gear, primarily consisting using proven restoration strategies to monitoring. Project will conduct outreach of metal lobster traps, and distribute reduce erosion, combat sea level rise, and to vessels, assess the economic impacts of educational materials to the local fishing increase resilience to storms. Project will this programs previous years for fishermen, community to encourage participation. create intertidal oyster reefs at the mouth and continue review of collected electronic $9,999 of Dias Creek to preserve and expand monitoring data. important horseshoe crab spawning habitat $405,000 Rich Earth Institute and add sand to Pierce’s Point beach to Deploying a Nitrogen Reclamation Project in further sustain previous restoration efforts. Integrated Monitoring the Long Island Sound Watershed — III (VT) $486,658 Implementing Wireless Electronic Monitoring Enhance the deployment of nitrogen and Reporting Tools in New England reclamation technology in Windham County, American Littoral Society (MA, ME,NH, RI) Vermont, Franklin County, Massachusetts Improving the Resiliency of Horseshoe Crab Expand broadband, wireless electronic and Cheshire County, New Hampshire. and Shorebird Habitat (NJ) reporting to high volume fishing vessels in New Project will divert 150 pounds of nitrogen Improve the resiliency of 0.34 linear miles England, including ground fish vessels, limited annually from entering the Connecticut (5.8 acres) of important horseshoe crab access scallop vessels, and charter vessels. River and downstream to Long Island Sound. spawning and red knot foraging beach Project will demonstrate the scalability and $96,734 habitat at Fortescue beach located in transferability of wireless electronic monitoring Downe Township, New Jersey by creating technology and electronic reporting using The Nature Conservancy up to 1,200 linear feet of hybrid living reef broadband vessel monitoring system. Forest Management Practices (NH) breakwaters that will minimize sand loss $229,530 Develop and implement a collaborative during winter storms. Project will engage forest management decision support tool eight local partners, 250 volunteers and Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association for creating forest and riparian habitat reach 2,500 people through our existing Piloting Electronic Monitoring in the Northern management plans. Project will create at outreach programs to include horseshoe Gulf of Maine Scallop Fleet (ME) least four forest management plans and two crab tagging and re-sighting. Develop an electronic monitoring program demonstration sites to implement forest $500,000 for the northern Gulf of Maine scallop management practices on blocks larger than fleet to test the feasibility of electronic 10,000 acres and improve management on American Littoral Society monitoring on small scallop vessels. Project 150 acres to benefit forest birds, including Managing Anthropogenic Disturbances to will test the use of video recognition wood thrush and American woodcock. Migratory Shorebirds in Delaware Bay (NJ) software for review, expand existing data $165,218 Conserve and protect beach habitat in collection to the Maine state water’s the Delaware Bay for horseshoe crabs and fishery, and refine protocols for electronic Town of Hampton shorebirds, including the federally listed red monitoring in scallop fisheries. Site Assessment and Preliminary Designs to knot. Project will use strategies to reduce $95,811 Mitigate Flooding in Hampton (NH) disturbance to shorebirds allowing for Conduct a site assessment of chronic high improved foraging conditions and promote

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED New England Marine Monitoring tide and episodic coastal storm-based long-term community understanding of the Integrating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to flooding in barrier beach neighborhoods importance of beach restrictions to protect Strengthen Electronic Monitoring along the harbor-side of the Hampton- shorebirds and horseshoe crabs. (MA, ME, NH, RI) Seabrook Estuary. Project will provide $86,700 Integrate existing artificial intelligence conceptual recommendations for flood algorithms into electronic monitoring mitigation strategies and select high-priority American Littoral Society review, transmission, and storage workflows strategies to restore natural hydrology and Pocket Park Green Stormwater Infrastructure to reduce program costs. Project will improve estuarine salt marsh habitat. in the Cohansey Watershed (NJ) advance the artificial intelligence used in $185,800 Improve stormwater retention potential of the New England Groundfish electronic a stormwater “pocket park” by installing monitoring fisheries to automate catch Wildlife Management Institute tree trenches and increase the permeability accounting and streamline data storage thus Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England of the park’s compacted soils with the use addressing management priorities. Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and of deep rooted, native grasses. Project will $241,109 American Woodcock (multiple states) reduce paved impervious surfaces and Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs improve management of 30 pounds per New Hampshire Fish and Game Department by supporting habitat biologists and year of total suspended solids in runoff that Annual Coastal Lobster Trap Cleanup (NH) outreach specialists to interface with private flows directly into Indian Field Branch. Collect and recycle or convert to energy landowners to provide young forest habitat $95,632 derelict lobster traps through an annual for more than 50 Species of Conservation collection event in partnership with the New Need in New England. Project will develop Hampshire Fish and Game Department, forest management plans that utilize existing commercial harvesters, municipalities, and Best Management Practices, develop volunteers. Project will recycle or convert healthy diverse forest age classes, and to energy 30 tons of lobster traps, utilizing protect riparian habitat values, improving disposal bins at Rye and Hampton Harbors. management on 200 acres. $4,995 $156,290

42 Borough of Barnegat Light Friends of the Heinz Refuge at Tinicum Musconetcong Watershed Association Collection of Fishing Gear and Public Outreach Developing a Marketing Plan for Delaware Push Back the Lawn — Incentivizing in the Borough of Barnegat Light (NJ) Valley Friends Organizations (DE, NJ, PA) Landowners to Protect their Streams (NJ) Collect fishing nets and materials and provide Develop a marketing plan to build Simplify and incentivize riparian buffers by outreach to the fishing community in the membership for John Heinz National conducting a community-based initiative Borough of Barnegat Light in New Jersey, Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum, Bombay Hook within the Lower-Middle Musconetcong home to a large commercial fishing industry. National Wildlife Refuge, and Edwin B. Watershed. Project will establish new or Project will recycle or convert to energy Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge. Project improved riparian buffers along 2 miles of approximately three tons of fishing gear. will raise awareness of the participating the Musconetcong River through targeted $10,000 Friends organizations and their outreach and planning with public and conservation value to acquire and maintain private river and tributary front landowners Cornell Cooperative Extension active members and volunteers. in the Watershed. Implementing a Bycatch Avoidance $13,200 $175,000 Communication Network (MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Groundwork Hudson Valley NY/NJ Baykeeper Communication Network to identify and Wallkill-Saw Mill Riparian Restoration Determining Design Alternatives for A Nature- report real-time bycatch of nine species. Partnership (NJ, NY) based Approach to Coastal Community Project will enhance the network by Improve riparian conditions along two Protection at Naval Weapons Station Earle (NJ) improving daily reporting rates, recruiting tributaries to the Hudson River by restoring Stabilize the shoreline around U.S. Naval additional vessels to the network, and 7 acres of habitat. Project will engage 50 Weapons Station Earle to protect the conducting five at-sea observer days to youths and 300 volunteers and create 15 surrounding community and enhance facilitate proper reporting. jobs for students recruited from Yonkers the coastal habitat. Project will conduct $57,621 public schools to revegetate the riparian a preliminary design and site assessment corridor with 1,000 willow species, focused on performing a coastal engineering Delaware River Basin Commission sycamores, silver maples, dogwood shrubs evaluation to determine the most suitable Improving Water Resources Management in and button bushes and to remove invasive design alternatives for a nature-based UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES the Delaware River Basin via Data Access vines on 2 acres. approach to the protection of coastal (DE, NJ, NY, PA) $49,574 communities. Support the Delaware River Basin $154,744 Commission’s comprehensive Water Manomet Resources Program to improve water Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery National Wildlife Federation quality management, monitoring and on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) Delaware River Basin Urban Wildlife ultimately improve aquatic habitat. Project Provide coordination of the American Community Engagement Program will manage, protect, and improve water oystercatcher recovery initiative and (DE, NJ, NY, PA) resources by developing a basin-focused actionable change based on lessons learned Engage a broader demographic by Water Quality Data Portal to facilitate data from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact identifying and addressing specific access for the public. of predators and human disturbance community barriers to conservation $200,000 on populations of breeding shorebirds engagement. Project will develop tools for along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will cultivating programs that provide high- Delaware State University contribute substantially to the goals of the quality recreational and conservation Developing Risk Assessment Framework for Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. opportunities that benefit the communities Atlantic Sturgeon (DE, NJ, PA) $79,999 and the environment, increasing public Provide estimates of adult spawning run access to the Delaware river and its lands, size which will serve as a key parameter Mercer County Park Commission and inspiring participants to engage in for a broader effort to develop a species- Installation of a Living Shoreline and Enhancing outdoor activities and protect and improve specific risk assessment model for Atlantic Public Access in Roebling Park (NJ) their local watershed. sturgeon in the Delaware River. Project will Implement a restoration effort at Roebling $499,999 serve to help quantify specific threats and Park in Hamilton, New Jersey to secure their impacts ultimately facilitating effective eroded shoreline, preserve Native American New Jersey Audubon Society decision-making as stakeholders work to artifacts, and reintroduce freshwater mussels. Implementing Agricultural Best Management recover this once iconic species. Project will construct a 500 linear-foot living Practices in the Kirkwood Cohansey $312,129 shoreline along Watson’s Creek, conduct a Aquifer — IV (NJ) feasibility study for the re-introduction of Minimize agricultural impacts to water Delaware State University freshwater mussels, and install a user-friendly resources in the Kirkwood Cohansey Cluster Identifying Environmental Drivers of American and ecologically sensitive public boat launch. geography of the Delaware River Watershed Eel Emigration in the Delaware River $150,000 Initiative by targeting preserved farms and (DE, NJ, NY, PA) those with a diversity of crop types through Model the outmigration of adult, silver-phase Musconetcong Watershed Association the Healthy Land and Waters Grant program. American eel in the Delaware River, utilizing Habitat Management and Restoration in the Project will address key stressors to the a large-scale passive acoustic telemetry Musconetcong Watershed (NJ) Kirkwood Cohansey aquifer from agricultural network annotated with environmental Improve riparian buffers along the and forested landscapes by implementing and astronomical parameters. Project will Musconetcong Education Trail and control 250 acres of best management practices and increase understanding of the underlying existing invasive species infestations. Project 5 acres of wetland restoration. drivers and timing of movement in the will restore 0.75 acres of riparian buffer $159,108 Delaware River Basin, informing conservation through native tree and shrub planting and and management of American eel in enhance New Zealand mud snail monitoring impounded systems where passage and through development of a management plan. increased mortality are key concerns. $224,999 $225,177

43 New Jersey Audubon Society Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Sussex County Municipal Utilities Restoring Atlantic White-Cedar in the Maurice Developing the Mussels for Clean Water Authority-Wallkill River Watershed River and Rancocas Creek Watersheds (NJ) Initiative to Enhance Habitat and Water Management Group Sustain and enhance fish and wildlife Quality (DE, NJ, PA) Community-Driven Wetland Restoration in the habitat, improve and maintain water quality, Overcome key research and planning Upper Paulins Kill Watershed (NJ) and enhance water resource management bottlenecks that impede implementation of Restore and enhance 10 acres of wetlands to benefit declining Atlantic white-cedar the new Mussels for Clean Water Initiative along a first and second-order tributary in habitat. Project will restore 70 acres of that aims to restore beds of freshwater the Upper Paulins Kill watershed through Atlantic white-cedar wetland habitat and mussels. Project will develop a Mussels riparian reforestation, invasive species 30 acres of associated upland habitat on at for Clean Water Initiative Restoration Plan, management, beaver dam analog creation, least two properties in southern New Jersey Genetics Management Plan, and Disease and dormant hardwood cutting installation. who have existing Forest Stewardship Plans. Management Plan, as well as conduct Project will not only improve habitat $94,823 laboratory research to enhance juvenile conditions for threatened and endangered mussel survival and growth in a hatchery species documented on the restoration New Jersey Audubon Society setting. site, but will also help turn it into a Wildlife Habitat Restoration and Agricultural $178,028 demonstration site for comprehensive, Community Engagement in Cape May community-driven conservation practices. County (NJ) Pinelands Preservation Alliance $70,116 Work closely with the agricultural community Addressing Flooding and Stormwater in in Cape May County to recruit at least 10 Burlington County (NJ) The Nature Conservancy public and private landowners to increase Provide homeowners and municipalities County Line Dam Removal: Increasing Aquatic participation in habitat management with expert advice and financial assistance Connectivity in the Paulins Kill Watershed (NJ) programs. Project will restore 100 acres of to create rain gardens and other nature- Increase aquatic connectivity and wildlife habitat and provide vital resources to based infrastructure projects that capture improve water quality needed to sustain local and migrating wildlife species, many of polluted stormwater and prevent it from diadromous fish and sensitive mussel which are considered at-risk or imperiled. entering lakes and rivers. Project will species. Project will remove a 220-foot- $114,740 reach 1,000 community members and 500 wide, run-of-the-river dam located on the volunteers and offer a technical assistance main stem Paulins Kill benefiting resident New Jersey Conservation Foundation workshop where Rutgers University and migratory fish species, reconnecting Ecological Restoration of a Former Cranberry engineers will design rain gardens for 15.8 miles of stream and improving the Farm in Burlington County (NJ) homeowners and municipalities will get overall ecological function of the Paulins Conduct baseline monitoring data, perform one-on-one assistance and designs for large- Kill watershed. engineering studies, design spillways and scale projects. $498,797 recreational access trails along the Burrs $204,000 Mill Branch of the Rancocas River. Project U.S. Department of the Interior, will design a plan to protect 438 acres of Princeton Hydro Fish and Wildlife Service land on a former cranberry farm, resulting in South River Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Tidal Marsh Restoration at Reeds Beach (NJ) water quality improvements and creation of Resiliency Enhancement Project (NJ) Restore tidal marsh at Reeds Beach in Cape exemplary passive recreational opportunities. Conduct an ecosystem restoration site May Court House, New Jersey through $146,996 assessment and design for 165 acres of shallow tidal ditch enhancement, clearing tidal marshes and transitional forest in of blocked tidal ditches, and re-orientation New Jersey Department of Transportation New Jersey’s Raritan River Watershed, of straight tidal ditches. Project will Using Dredged Material to Enhance Marsh at which will provide high quality habitat for restore 52 acres of tidal marsh, improving

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge (NJ) fish, resident birds, and migratory species. tidal hydrology, vegetation health, and Restore and improve 30 acres of Project will result in an engineering plan enhancing habitat for wildlife including previously storm damaged Good Luck sheet with a permit-ready design to reduce American black duck, saltmarsh sparrow, Point Marsh using the technique of coastal inundation and erosion along 2.5 diamondback terrapin, fish and shellfish. Sediment Enrichment. Project will use miles of shoreline for neighboring flood- $50,000 dredged material to enhance the saltmarsh prone communities and enhance breeding environment and habitat allowing for the and/or foraging habitat for 10 state-listed Wildlife Management Institute natural sediment to remain in the estuarine threatened and endangered avian species. Enhancing Forest Habitat in the Northern system, feeding the marsh and replenishing $249,635 Delaware River Watershed — III (PA, NJ) loss from erosion and sea-level rise. Implement forest management plan $2,000,000 Stockton University activities on public and private lands in Derelict Blue Crab Trap Recycling Event for the northern Delaware River Watershed. North Jersey RC&D Area New Jersey Bays Project will aid in the creation of young Implementing Data-Driven Agriculture Provide recycling and energy production forest habitat, the enhancement of Conservation Practices (NJ) services for the disposal of derelict blue crab middle-aged and mature forest habitat, Increase implementation of agricultural best traps from New Jersey coastal bays at a one- the control of native and exotic invasives, management practices in the Lower-Middle week event at the Stockton University Maine as well as expand partnerships and build Musconetcong watershed in the New Field Station. Project will recycle or produce upon previous success to enhance work in Jersey Highlands Cluster geography of the energy from up to 500 blue crab traps, northwest New Jersey. Delaware River Watershed Initiative. Project providing both direct and indirect economic $199,982 will utilize environmental data to target benefits to commercial industry partners in technical and financial assistance toward New Jersey. conservation practice implementation on $1,650 over 1,000 acres, achieving the greatest positive impact on water quality. $249,810

44 NEW MEXICO New Mexico Department of Game and Fish The Trust for Public Land Rio Chama Aquatic Habitat Restoration (NM) Protection of Cañon Ciruela for Incorporation Conservation Science Global Improve instream habitat and channel into the Sabinoso Wilderness (NM) Pollinators for Rare Plants in New Mexico (NM) function for resident fish species, including Work with the Bureau of Land Management Research the 10 rare plants that occur in Rio Grande chub, brown trout, and rainbow to acquire the 8,914 acre Cañon Ciruela New Mexico that are threatened by habitat trout, and enhance riparian health for property in eastern New Mexico as an fragmentation and landscape change. several associated wildlife species. Project addition to the Sabinoso Wilderness. Project Project determine pollinators for each of will increase fish passage and riparian health will significantly increase the size of the the plants, whether the pollinators are a and function through channel shaping and Wilderness, support habitat for numerous limiting factor in successful seed set for the revegetation. species, and improve public access. plants, and what the resource requirements $100,000 $450,000 for the pollinators are, in order to generate management plans for these pollinators. Pheasants Forever Trout Unlimited $90,000 Coordinating Range Wildlife Conservation Rio Chama/San Antonio Rio Grande Cutthroat in the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range Trout Restoration (NM) Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District (CO, KS, NM, OK, TX) Advance cutthroat conservation objectives Water Conservation Pilots and Habitat Work with private landowners and other outlined in the 2013 Rio Grande Cutthroat Restoration to Sustain Agriculture and Species partners to implement on-the-ground Trout Conservation Strategy, a multi-partner in the Middle Rio Grande (NM) riparian habitat restoration across the lesser document intended to ensure Rio Grande Improve riparian and aquatic habitat at up prairie chicken range. Project will enroll cutthroat persistence throughout its range. to four outfall sites where conveyed water landowners into voluntary contracts that will Project will entail partner coordination, re-enters the Rio Grande, execute irrigation restore or improve management on 30,000 site characterization, project prioritization, efficiency pilot projects on up to five lateral acres of southwestern grassland habitat. and project implementation in the possible diversions, and implement a late-season $101,436 locations of Nabor and East Wolf Creeks, forbearance native water leasing pilot and Rio Brazos in the upper Rio Chama beginning in the 2020 irrigation year. Project Rio Puerco Alliance basin, and in several streams in the Rio San UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES will provide Rio Grande silvery minnow with Brazos River and Tributaries Wetland and Antonio basin, all in northern New Mexico. refuge and spawning habitat, with focus on Stream Restoration (NM) $96,059 low flow critical periods. Restore Encinado Creek to provide access to $1,000,000 the floodplain, and minimize bank erosion University of Oklahoma and a narrowing width/depth ratio. Project Developing Tools to Advance Grassland Bird National Audubon Society will prevent erosion, raise the water table, Wintering Habitat Management Practices Activating a Community and spread water as sheet flow, lowering (CO, NM, OK, TX) for the Middle Rio Grande (NM) stream temperatures, reducing runoff Expand on an existing framework studying Empower local river stewards to restore and and creating improved habitat for the the wintering ecology of longspurs and enhance riparian habitat in the Middle Rio threatened and endangered species that live other grassland birds in the Great Plains Grande for birds and people. Project will in the project area. using species distribution modeling, recruit 125 community members, students $151,684 automated radio telemetry biologging, and and teachers to plant 200 native trees, weather radar analysis. Project will develop shrubs and plants on 6 acres of riparian Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory tools to improve field grassland bird surveys habitat and engage 11,000 people in Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in to more accurately estimate abundance storytelling through digital media. the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to and habitat usage, and to improve grazing $25,000 Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) management regimes to best advance bird Implement a network of automated radio conservation. New Mexico Association telemetry stations throughout the Great $138,145 of Conservation Districts Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to monitor Modifying Fences to Improve Habitat the annual cycle of grassland birds, including Connectivity for Ungulates (NM) Baird’s sparrow, Sprague’s pipit and chestnut- NEW YORK Improve fencing to wildlife-friendly collared longspur. Project will initiate this specifications to provide permeability into effort by holding webinars to recruit and Academy of Natural Sciences historic winter range habitat for pronghorn, train partners and develop a plan to track of Drexel University elk and mule deer in the Taos Plateau. grassland birds across the region, install Evaluating Headwater Biodiversity and Project will modify or remove 20 miles of telemetry stations to track focal species, and Resilience to Inform Conservation in the fencing. deploy tags on focal species. Delaware Basin (NY, PA) $153,818 $250,000 Study the diversity and functioning of headwater streams, their potential New Mexico Association Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory resilience, and the species in their of Conservation Districts Monitoring Wintering Grassland Birds in the watersheds that are vulnerable to human Pronghorn Restoration in the Southeast Chihuahuan Desert — IV (NM) activities and climate change. Project will Plains: II (NM) Apply a rigorous sampling protocol to provide data and approaches to partners Expand ongoing efforts to restore grassland estimate the density of wintering grassland that can be applied to maintain protection habitat and facilitate broader pronghorn birds in the Chihuahuan Desert, including of important headwaters and to give an movement throughout its historic range Sprague’s pipits and chestnut-collared understanding of where climate change may within Lincoln, Chaves and Eddy counties, longspurs. Project will implement a pose a higher threat to certain areas within New Mexico. Project will modify 40 miles of previously-developed monitoring program the watershed. fence and remove mesquite across 13,000 to produce baseline estimates of wintering $327,500 acres of grassland in historic pronghorn bird populations and evaluate the impact of antelope habitat. ongoing grassland restoration investments. $246,534 $230,000

45 Atlantic Marine Conservation Society City Island Oyster Reef Cortland County Soil and Water Secure Marine Mammal Tissue Sample Archive Viva La Sound! Cultivating Community and Conservation District Purchase a equipment to house marine Environmental Stewardship on City Island in Improving Fish Passage and Restoring Riparian mammal tissue samples. Project will replace the Bronx (NY) Habitat along Grout Book and Vigil Creek (NY) a specialized ultra-low freezer that is failing Host a public environmental awareness Improve and enhance stream and riparian to preserve the region’s archived samples. program kicking off with “Viva la Sound,” habitat to benefit fish, wildlife and water $14,564 a Long Island Sound appreciation festival quality by completing four stream corridor followed by educational workshops for and riparian habitat enhancement projects Bronx River Alliance adults, students and teachers at City Island, to protect and improve important brook Project Water DROP: Detecting River Outfalls Bronx, New York. Project will provide the trout habitat in Cortland County, New York. and Pollutants (NY) community with environmental education Project will prevent more than 530 pounds Monitor water quality along the entire about the importance of protecting of sediment and nutrients from entering Bronx River in the Bronx and Westchester City Island’s shoreline and the Long local waterways annually, rectify four fish County, New York. Project will improve Island Sound through the lens of oyster passage barriers, and open 6 miles of water quality and management of the Bronx restoration and clean water initiatives. stream. River downstream to Long Island Sound by $8,361 $275,000 identifying and addressing sources of illicit pollution and informing the update to the Connecticut Fund for the Environment Delaware River Basin Commission watershed-scale Bronx River Intermunicipal A Watershed Plan for the Hutchinson River, Improving Water Resources Management in Watershed Plan. Westchester County (NY) the Delaware River Basin via Data Access $49,232 Develop a watershed plan for the Hutchison (DE, NJ, NY, PA) River watershed, Westchester County, New Support the Delaware River Basin Chesapeake Bay Commission York. Project will ensure that restoration Commission’s comprehensive Water Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences and protection strategies are identified that Resources Program to improve water of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership address watershed resilience to flooding quality management, monitoring and (multiple states) and storms and local and Long Island Sound ultimately improve aquatic habitat. Project Draft and publish peer-reviewed water quality. will manage, protect, and improve water literature summarizing the core set of $200,000 resources by developing a basin-focused lessons learned through the work of the Water Quality Data Portal to facilitate data Chesapeake Bay restoration partnership Cornell Cooperative Extension access for the public. which are applicable to other watershed- of Suffolk County $200,000 based/partnership-based restoration Implementing a Bycatch Avoidance efforts. Project will share the key lessons Communication Network (MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) Delaware State University learned during the multi-decade, Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Identifying Environmental Drivers of American partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay Communication Network to identify and Eel Emigration in the Delaware River restoration efforts, and will result in a report real-time bycatch of nine species, (DE, NJ, NY, PA) multi-media series of “lessons learned” helping to avoid the implementation Model the outmigration of adult, silver- products. of restrictive management measures phase American eel in both the tidal $25,316 associated with this bycatch. Project will and non-tidal portions of the Delaware enhance the network by improving daily River, utilizing a large-scale passive Chesapeake Stormwater Network reporting rates, recruiting additional vessels acoustic telemetry network annotated Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training to the network, and conducting five at-sea with environmental and astronomical and Engagement in Urban Watersheds observer days to facilitate proper reporting. parameters. Project will increase

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED (multiple states) $57,621 understanding of the underlying drivers Focus stormwater training and engagement and timing of movement in the Delaware efforts on four critical and vulnerable Cornell Cooperative Extension River Basin, informing conservation and target populations in the Bay watershed of Suffolk County management of American eel in impounded to accelerate the pace of local nutrient Reducing Discard Mortality in the Recreational systems where passage and increased reduction and promote more widespread Atlantic Striped Bass Fishery (NY) mortality are key concerns. implementation of effective stormwater Conduct outreach and education in the $225,177 and restoration practices across the recreational Atlantic striped bass fishery on watershed. proper fish handling and fishing methods Frank Melville Memorial Foundation $325,000 in order to reduce discard mortality in Long Installation of Nitrogen Removing Biofilter at Island, New York waters. Project will target Frank Melville Memorial Park (NY) Citizens Campaign Fund for the recreational anglers through fishing groups, Install an innovative on-site wastewater Environment charter boats, and fishing expos to offer treatment system in the Frank Melville Developing a Long Island Sound Student education on techniques to lower discard Memorial Park in Setauket, New York. Action Plan (NY) mortality in the recreational Atlantic striped Project will provide a visible proof-of- Deliver an educational program about bass fishery. concept to inform wider use of efficient challenges to restoration and protection of $78,797 low-cost residential treatment system with the health and living resources Long Island the promise to decrease nitrogen pollution Sound at four high schools on Long Island, into the ground and surface waters of local New York. Project will deliver a shared bays, harbors, streams and rivers that flow Student Action plan for the Sound. into Long Island Sound. $65,500 $29,987

46 Friends of the Upper Delaware River Manomet National Audubon Society Improving Trout Habitat and River Access in Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery Removing Infrastructure to Restore Tidal the Upper Delaware River Watershed (NY, PA) on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) Marsh to the Mastic Beach Coastline (NY) Implement five stream restoration projects Provide coordination of the American Restore priority coastal habitat in a flood- including the replacement of three oystercatcher recovery initiative and prone area of the Town of Brookhaven failing culverts, installation of habitat actionable change based on lessons learned to benefit priority bird species and other improvement structures, floodplain from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact wildlife, reduce flooding, and better protect reconnection, and continued outreach to of predators and human disturbance inland areas from rising sea levels and the community. Project will improve water on populations of breeding shorebirds storm events. Project will remove portions quality, improve trout spawning habitat, along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will of a coastal road that regularly floods due expand fish passage, and develop scientific contribute substantially to the goals of the to sea-level rise and restore the area to support for future stream restoration Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. tidal marsh habitat, contributing to a larger projects. $79,999 ongoing multi-faceted coastal retreat and $405,478 floodplain restoration on the 7,600 acre National Audubon Society Mastic Beach/Shirley peninsula. Groundwork Hudson Valley Be a Good Egg: Share the Shore with $244,288 Wallkill-Saw Mill Riparian Restoration Shorebirds — IV (NY) Partnership (NJ, NY) Expand the “Be a Good Egg,” environmental National Audubon Society Improve riparian conditions along two education program in the Long Island Sound The River Unites Us: Bird Conservation Across tributaries to the Hudson River by restoring watershed of New York. Project will increase the Delaware River Watershed (DE, NY, PA) 7 acres of habitat pursuant to management support for coastal conservation and engage Address conservation needs reflecting the strategies outlined in the National Wildlife people in actions that help shorebirds thrive rich diversity of habitat and conditions Refuge’s Comprehensive Conservation in important coastal habitats of the Sound. across three states in the Delaware Plan. Project will engage 50 youths and 300 $47,564 River Watershed. Project will increase volunteers and create 15 jobs for students the number of people engaged in direct recruited from Yonkers public schools to National Audubon Society conservation efforts, measurably improve UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES revegetate the riparian corridor with 1,000 Identifying Forest Blocks and Implementing bird habitat, and increase scientific data willow species, sycamores, silver maples, Strategies to Improve Habitat for Birds (NY, VT) awareness and support for restoration dogwood shrubs and button bushes and to Improve forest management practices efforts in Delaware. remove invasive vines on 2 acres. through Audubon’s Woods, Wildlife, and $250,000 $49,574 Warblers program and continue to work with family forest owners, professional National Wildlife Federation Henry L. Ferguson Museum foresters and industry in the Lake Champlain Delaware River Basin Urban Wildlife Stakeholder Engagement and Planning for and Upper Hudson watersheds in New Community Engagement Program (DE, NJ, Eelgrass Protection on Fishers Island (NY) York and Lake Champlain Basin in Vermont. NY, PA) Deliver an education and engagement Protect will restore 450 acres of young forest Engage a broader demographic by program to stakeholder communities habitat and 1,000 acres of late successional identifying and addressing specific presenting scenarios for eelgrass protection habitat to benefit American woodcock, community barriers to conservation at Fishers Island, New York. Project will secure golden-winged warbler, black-throated blue engagement. Project will develop tools for and integrate community feedback about warbler, and wood thrush. cultivating programs that provide high- strategies to best protect this important $200,000 quality recreational and conservation coastal habitat of Long Island Sound. opportunities that benefit the communities $44,798 National Audubon Society and the environment, increasing public Planning to Enhance Coastal Resiliency with access to the Delaware river and its lands, Highstead Tidal Marsh Restoration at Sunken Meadow and inspiring participants to engage in A Partnership Approach to Watershed Park (NY) outdoor activities and protect and improve Restoration and Community Engagement Conduct a site assessment and develop a their local watershed. (CT, NY) preliminary design to restore salt marsh $499,999 Restore 10 acres of urban watershed habitat at Sunken Meadow State Park, New York. and prevent 1,200 pounds of trash from Project will set the stage to improve marsh New York City Audubon Society entering waterways in efforts to improve habitat for saltmarsh sparrow and other Community Science and Restoration for a watershed, wildlife and community health. wildlife and buffer the park and nearby Wildlife-friendly City (NY) Project will engage 2,100 community communities from storms and sea-level rise. Restore 3 acres of Jamaica Bay coastline to members, volunteers and students in $175,409 support bird and horseshoe crab habitat stewardship opportunities and reach with a native plant meadow, fishing line 10,000 people through outreach events, National Audubon Society disposal bins and educational signage. workshops, and online communications Restoration and Management of Shorebird Project will provide shorebird migration with information, opportunities for action Habitats along the Atlantic Coast (NY, NC, SC) data, support state and region-wide and exchange of best practices in watershed Manage and protect shorebird habitats horseshoe crab conservation, enhance restoration. to reduce threats, and develop plans and a total of 15 acres of habitat and involve $49,525 permits needed to restore habitat at key 775 youths and adults in hands-on sites that support 25 percent of North conservation. Carolina’s nesting American oystercatchers. $50,000 Project will protect and manage shorebird habitat at 40 sites across three states and will secure permitting to restore shorebird habitat at two sites that will increase habitat quality and flyway connectivity. $179,999

47 New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, Town of Brookhaven Tioga County Soil and Water Conservation and Historic Preservation Long Island Sound Environmental District of New York Restoring Coastal Wetland Habitat via Invasive Education Series (NY) Strengthening the Conservation Community Species Management (NY) Provide a Long Island Sound environmental Foundation in the Upper Susquehanna Improve habitat structure through invasive education series in the Town of Brookhaven, Watershed (NY, PA) species control and native plant restoration New York. Project will reach 550 community Focus on providing training to new and in coastal wetlands in the Lake Ontario members, increasing knowledge and existing staff to further provide a framework Watershed. Project will restore more than engagement of the public in the protection for the Upper Susquehanna Coalition to 80 acres of wetland habitat to protect rare and restoration of Long Island Sound and its evaluate available programs for future and significant elements, manage invasive coastal ecosystem. sustainability. Project will implement species, and reduce shoreline erosion. $8,799 114 acres of riparian buffer, 400 acres of $352,113 prescribed grazing, 3,800 acres of stream Trout Unlimited corridor restoration and 39 acres of wetland Science Museum of Long Island Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for restoration that is estimated to generate Green Infrastructure at the Leeds Pond Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) nutrient reductions of 4,155 pounds of Preserve and Science Museum to Improve Conduct an evaluation to understand brook nitrogen, 689 pounds of phosphorus and Water Quality in Long Island Sound (NY) trout response, including abundance, young 456,130 pounds of sediment annually. Design and install a green infrastructure of year, multiple life stages, and effective $1,000,000 demonstration at the 36 acre Leeds Pond breeders, to the improved access to and Preserve, home of the Science Museum of quality of habitat. Project will track progress Trout Unlimited Long Island, that borders both Manhasset towards the Great Lakes Business Plan Conservation Assessment of Brook Trout and Bay and Leeds Pond in Plandome Manor, stream habitat related goals. Planning and Impact Tool Development in the New York. Project will prevent 2.6 million $292,650 Great Lakes Region (multiple states) gallons of polluted stormwater from Conduct a broad-scale assessment of entering Manhasset Bay and Long Island Trout Unlimited existing brook trout population viability and demonstrate to people visiting the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Priority Brook within the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes museum how the various types of green Trout Strongholds Conservation Analysis watershed that will build off of and be infrastructure controls and reduces (MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) compatible with the analysis and associated stormwater runoff. Complete focal analyses for 11 brook tools developed for NFWF’s Mid-Atlantic/ $46,021 trout stronghold patches within the Northeast region. Project will assist NFWF in Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will identifying conservation needs and priority SUNY Maritime College develop a strategic restoration approach investment areas throughout the basin Boogie Down to the Sound, focused on brook trout populations, and and associated tools will enable NFWF to A Celebration of Long Island Sound — II (NY) following the compilation of the available develop and measure population-based Host the Boogie Down to the Sound, a two- data for each patch and the completion of recovery goals over time across multiple day hands-on, on-the-water event at SUNY- the conservation portfolio analysis, Trout NFWF landscapes, particularly the Northeast Maritime College, Throggs Neck, New York. Unlimited will provide a summary report for and Great Lakes. Project will build awareness and connect up each priority patch that outlines potential $126,967 to 1,000 students and community residents projects, current data available, monitoring to Long Island Sound. needs, and other information. Trout Unlimited $9,025 $41,574 Restoring Instream Habitat and Engaging Private Landowners to Improve Fish Passage The Trust for Public Land Rockaway Waterfront Alliance (MA, NY, VT)

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED A Green Schoolyard at PS 107X: Restoring the Rockaway Waterfront Dunes Restore instream and riparian forest habitat Providing Community Green Space and (NY) in priority locations based on previous Improving Water Quality (NY) Develop a comprehensive site assessment outreach and training to private landowners, Construct green infrastructure on a and preliminary design to enhance and municipalities, and forestry professionals. playground at Public School 107X in the restore 7 miles of coastal dunes along New Project will add large woody material to 5 Bronx, New York. Project will enhance York City’s Atlantic shoreline. Project will miles of stream, restore 5 miles of adjacent community outdoor recreational green transform the shoreline into an extensive, riparian forest to create habitat for native space and capture 2.7 million gallons of biodiverse and habitat-rich dune system to brook and complete 90-percent designs for polluted stormwater annually before it flows recognize the importance of biodiversity and three aquatic barriers to be removed in the into the Bronx River and Long Island Sound. monitoring while preparing the community future. $242,372 and its dune system for sea level rise. $133,842 $372,299 The Whaling Museum Society Trout Unlimited Sound Effects: A Public Conservation The Nature Conservancy Wylie Brook Aquatic Passage Connectivity Education Program – III (NY) Establishing a Freshwater Preserve at Follensby Project (NY) Deliver a public education series with Pond (NY) Replace three undersized culverts that are a hands-on learning and conservation-based Establish the first known whole-catchment barrier for brook trout, which will reconnect activities to inform people about the effects freshwater preserve in the United States at more than 7 miles of habitat for brook of pollution on Long Island Sound. Project Follensby Pond, located in the heart of New trout in the watershed. Project will build will teach 300 adult, family, and elementary York’s Adirondack Park. Project will protect a partnership between Trout Unlimited, school age audiences about actions they can intact ecosystems and landscapes while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state take to improve the health of the Sound. providing new recreational access to the Department of Environmental Conservation $9,940 14,700-acre property. and the local township of Coventry, New $650,000 York, and enhance the eastern brook trout population stronghold. $171,118

48 Village of Sea Cliff, New York Wyoming County Soil and Water College of William and Mary Hempstead Harbor 2021 Water Quality Conservation District Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western Monitoring Program — XIII (NY) Improving Fish Passage by Removing the Pike Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) Conduct water quality monitoring in Dam in the Genessee River Basin (NY) Expand on efforts to monitor declining Hempstead Harbor, Nassau County, New Remove a barrier to aquatic organism whimbrel populations along the western York. Project will inform management of passage on Wiscoy Creek in the Genesee Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the Hempstead Harbor an embayment of Long River Watershed, and replace it with a whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel Island Sound. grade-control structure that will restore working group input, develop an index of $75,000 fish passage and enhance aquatic habitat. reproductive performance and engage Project will open and restore 25 miles of partners to establish a monitoring network, Waterfront Alliance stream to benefit brook trout. expand roost surveys during spring Sound In! Community Estuary Days on the $125,000 migration to improve protection at key sites, Bronx Shores of Long Island Sound (NY) continue building an online shorebird roost Deliver educational programs and festivals registry, and make managers aware of roost about Long Island Sound in the Bronx, NORTH CAROLINA locations to facilitate their protection. New York. Project will build on existing $99,374 partnerships with grassroots organizations Cape Fear Resource in underserved urban neighborhoods to Conservation and Development Conservation Trust for North Carolina increase awareness of Long Island Sound Enhancing Aquatic Connectivity, Resiliency Seeding Resilience Through Restoration and and knowledge about what can be done to and Flood Capacity in the Black River Education in Princeville (NC) restore it. Watershed (NC) Design and implement nature-based $30,000 Complete the engineering, design and stormwater interventions and related replacement of two culverts for the purpose educational features to increase flood Western New York Land Conservancy of enhancing up to 2 miles of stream resilience and awareness along the Tar Restoring and Enhancing Wetlands at the habitat within the lower Black River basin to River in eastern North Carolina. Project Margery Gallogly Nature Sanctuary (NY) improve aquatic connectivity, resilience and will engage the town’s 1,000 citizens, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Restore coastal wetlands and adjacent flood capacity for local coastal communities implement 16,500 square feet of green riparian and upland habitats at the Margery and fish habitat. Project will improve stormwater best management practices Gallogly Nature Sanctuary in New York. drainage in these areas and decrease the to treat 75,684 square feet of impervious Project will improve 90 acres of habitat for likelihood of overbank flooding and road surfaces, create 3,000 feet of new trails populations of species of conservation need, overtopping during storm events. and plant thousands of native plants, including nesting birds, migratory waterfowl $500,000 while providing a visible educational and and spawning fish. recreational resource at the hub of the $100,000 Carteret County Shore Protection Office community. Building Adaptive Shorelines for Resilient $200,000 Western New York Land Conservancy Coastal Communities (NC) Treating Invasive Species along the Niagara Construct living shorelines to naturally Haywood Waterways Association River Gorge (NY) stabilize and protect 3,800 linear Cultivating River Stewards of the French Broad Build on a previously successful grant to feet of eroding estuarine shorelines Basin (NC) monitor and conduct follow-up control at two important project sites within Conduct riparian buffer improvements and activities on invasive plant species on Carteret County. Project will enable the site-specific and media-based education habitat that was previously restored along communities of Beaufort and Down East to efforts to diverse audiences throughout the the Niagara River Gorge. Project will enhance existing resilient infrastructure, five watersheds of the French Broad River control invasive species on 115 acres which and it will protect commercially and basin. Project will engage 130 community will result in increased nesting songbird recreationally important fish, shellfish, members in live-staking workshops, 350 diversity and a 90 percent reduction in submerged aquatic vegetation habitat and students in educational programming and invasive cover. the largest colony of nesting royal terns in 150 volunteers in the removal of invasive $150,000 North Carolina. species on 5 acres and plant native species $1,513,500 on riparian habitat. Wildlife Management Institute $35,635 Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England City of Wilmington, North Carolina Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and Clear Run Branch Drainage Improvement and Manomet American Woodcock (multiple states) Stream Restoration (NC) Coordinating American Oystercatcher Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs Construct a stable stream channel that Recovery on the Atlantic Coast (multiple by supporting habitat biologists and can safely accommodate high flows from states) outreach specialists to interface with private upstream development during storms and Provide coordination of the American landowners to provide young forest habitat alleviate flooding along the channel. Project oystercatcher recovery initiative and for more than 50 Species of Conservation will improve wildlife habitat and decrease actionable change based on lessons learned Need in New England. Project will develop flood risk through stream and floodplain from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact forest management plans that utilize existing restoration or enhancement of 7.5 acres of of predators and human disturbance Best Management Practices, develop floodplain habitat and 5,900 feet of stream on populations of breeding shorebirds healthy diverse forest age classes, and channel. along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will protect riparian habitat values, improving $1,410,345 contribute substantially to the goals of the management on 200 acres. Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. $156,290 $79,999

49 N.C. Department of Agriculture and N.C. Department of Natural The Nature Conservancy Consumer Services and Cultural Resources Restoring Pocosin Hydrology to Improve Flood Restoring Longleaf Pine and Bottomland Brunswick Town Fort Anderson Shoreline Resiliency and Wildlife Habitat (NC) Hardwood Forest in the Bladen Restoration Project (NC) Restore hydrologic conditions across a Lakes Region (NC) Install a living shoreline to protect 1,000 prioritized 7,500-acre area of drained Plant 491 acres of longleaf pine and linear feet along the Brunswick Town/Ft. headwater pocosin wetlands on the enhance an additional 8,400 acres of Anderson State Historic Site by attenuating southern portion of Angola Bay Game Land. existing longleaf forest with prescribed wave action and mitigating erosion. Project Project will produce a finalized design and fire and thinnings on public and private will protect and provide salt marsh and install restoration infrastructure that will lands in the Bladen Lakes region of North oyster habitat, and safeguard the site’s enable managers to effectively control Carolina, increasing habitat for red- historical resources. drainage levels, providing community flood cockaded woodpecker. Project will train $2,002,500 resilience benefits in the Northeast Cape landowners and professionals to conduct Fear River floodplain while enhancing prescribed burns on longleaf forests, North Carolina Coastal Federation pocosin wetland habitat. enroll landowners in the Red-Cockaded Marine Debris Removal for Habitat $820,644 Woodpecker Safe Harbor Program, and Improvement in North Carolina develop management plans to improve Address marine debris generated by Town of Duck bottomland hardwood forest habitat. Hurricane Florence in North Carolina North Duck Village Living Shoreline (NC) $148,000 coastal waterways. Project will remove Construct 1,100 linear feet of sheetpile 40-44 abandoned and derelict vessels that sill and restore eroded wetlands along National Audubon Society have been prioritized by state and federal the shoreline of Currituck Sound. Project Improving Natural Infrastructure in Currituck agencies based on their current impact to will create a more resilient coastal edge, Sound (NC) wildlife and habitats. improve coastal habitat, and protect the Complete a comprehensive marsh site $645,557 adjacent sidewalk, bike lane, and Duck Road assessment in Currituck Sound, North that serve as the primary transportation Carolina to determine optimal locations, North Carolina Coastal Federation artery along the Northern Outer Banks. techniques and design for restoring and Protecting Education Infrastructure, Critical $384,011 fortifying existing marsh. Project will State Roadways and Estuarine Habitats with generate a design plan at one to three Living Shorelines (NC) USS North Carolina Battleship Commission of the highest priority sites in order to Install three large-scale living shorelines Shoreline Restoration and Tidal Wetland increase community resilience to flooding, that will protect important community Creation at the Battleship North Carolina (NC) sea level rise, storms, and other coastal infrastructure as well as restore and protect Restore 800 linear feet of estuarine challenges. vital salt marsh and oyster habitat in Bogue intertidal shoreline and create $95,807 Sound and the White Oak River. Project approximately 2 acres of intertidal will result in a total of 3,518 linear feet of estuarine marsh habitat within a North National Audubon Society saltwater marsh living shorelines, protecting Carolina Significant Natural Heritage Area. Restoration and Management of Shorebird and restoring a total of more than 23 acres Project will remove and reconnect 2 acres Habitats along the Atlantic Coast (NY, NC, SC) of salt marsh, oyster and upland habitat. of existing parking lot to the Cape Fear Manage and protect shorebird habitats $2,719,349 River, resulting in 2 acres of tidal wetland to reduce threats, and develop plans and creation to build resilience against future permits needed to restore habitat at key The Nature Conservancy storms and sea level rise. sites that support 25 percent of North Onslow Bight Longleaf Pine Ecosystem $1,250,000 Carolina’s nesting American oystercatchers. Restoration — V (NC)

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Project will protect and manage shorebird Restore and enhance 35,000 acres of Wake Soil and Water Conservation District habitat at 40 sites across three states and longleaf pine habitat on public and private Advancing Soil Health through Best will secure permitting to restore shorebird lands in the Onslow Bight region of eastern Management Practice Adoption and habitat at two sites, which will increase North Carolina. Project will increase Installation (NC) habitat quality and flyway connectivity. prescribed burning through a burn crew to Provide technical field assistance to farmers, $179,999 assist partners with longleaf management, provide training on the benefits of cover complete aerial ignition burns to improve crops and grazing cover and encourage N.C. Department of Environmental Quality safety and effectiveness, remove invasive long-term adoption of best management Overcoming Local Barriers to Implementation species, and monitor Bachman’s sparrow practices (BMPs) that improve soil health and Getting to Shovel Readiness (NC) response to habitat restoration. in Wake County, North Carolina. Project Establish an incentive-based state $300,000 will improve wildlife and aquatic habitats framework which will support and benefit both above and below ground comprehensive local community resilience The Nature Conservancy ecosystems by implementing BMPs on 500 planning and build upon an existing Restoring Longleaf Pine Habitat in the North acres that prevent 2,000 tons of sediment vulnerability assessment and knowledge Carolina Sandhills and 5.5 tons of nutrient pollution from base that will help strengthen ecosystems Implement prescribed burning and longleaf entering the system annually. at the Rachel Carson Reserve. Project will habitat restoration on 44,000 acres of public $95,820 protect the Town of Beaufort and result in and private lands within the Sandhills region several shovel-ready projects that increase of North Carolina, which encompasses Fort the resilience of natural resources and Bragg and Uwharrie National Forest. Project coastal communities in North Carolina. will support burn crews to increase burning $1,141,047 capacity and assist with mid-story control and other management, improving habitat for Bachman’s sparrow, red-cockaded woodpecker, and northern bobwhite. $299,999

50 University of Georgia Research Foundation OHIO Temple University, of The Commonwealth Development of a Planted Longleaf Pine System of Higher Education Growth and Yield Model for the Southeast American Farmland Trust Using Polyethylene Glycol to Control the (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC) Technical Assistance for Soil Health (OH) Fungus that Causes White-Nose Syndrome in Create a new growth and yield model Build holistic soil health management systems Bats (OH, PA) system for longleaf pine that will allow more through targeted one-on-one technical Treat and monitor hibernation sites used accurate growth projections for landowners assistance on farms in Mercer, Van Wert by little brown bats and other species considering longleaf pine reforestation and Paulding counties in Ohio. Project will to test the effectiveness of polyethylene who may have timber management utilize technical assistance to benchmark glycol 8000 to suppress the fungus that objectives. Project will establish, document current management, develop continuous causes white-nose syndrome. Project will and measure permanent plots in planted improvement plans and implement soil conduct field trials at three control and unthinned longleaf pine stands on cut-over health management practices on 8,000 acres three treatment hibernacula in Ohio and sites in the southeast United States, and the of farmland. Pennsylvania, evaluate the effects on non- data will be used to calibrate a growth and $599,528 target flora and fauna, and strive to reduce yield model for multiple factors for longleaf the fungal infection rate by 50 percent. pine. Anthropocene Alliance $178,724 $243,999 Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for Resilience (multiple states) The Nature Conservancy Convene six community-based organizations Restoring Riparian, Wetland and Forest Habitat NORTH DAKOTA in disaster-prone neighborhoods to engage along the Grand River (OH) local partners to train volunteers and teach Restore coastal, riparian, wetland and forest National Audubon Society residents about nature-based practices habitats in the Grand River Corridor and Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush and install six high visibility projects as a Northeast Ohio Coastal areas to improve Conservation (multiple states) catalyst for broader implementation. Project habitats for native plants and wildlife. Strategically coordinate internal and external will reach 600 community members and Project will restore 714 acres and improve communication between a wide range successes will be shared with peer flood habitat resiliency by controlling invasive UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES of stakeholders committed to improving survivors around the country through a species. communications about the sagebrush network of 48 leaders in 22 states. $226,692 ecosystem to elevate not only individual $494,758 efforts but also the larger dialog about the Trout Unlimited value and need for sagebrush conservation. Cleveland Metroparks Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush Cleveland Harbor Eastern Embayment Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) habitat under improved management, Resilience Study (OH) Conduct an evaluation to understand brook develop media resources for community Develop a comprehensive plan to address trout response, including abundance, stake holders and host field tour events that lack of in-water and nearshore habitat in the young of year, multiple life stages, and elevate on-the-ground conservation. eastern embayment in the City of Cleveland. effective breeders, to the improved access $29,636 Project will evaluate existing conditions to to and quality of habitat. Project will track examine potential for the beneficial re-use progress towards the Great Lakes Business Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory of local dredge materials to create natural Plan stream habitat related goals. Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in habitat. $292,650 the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to $125,000 Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) Trout Unlimited Implement a collaborative network of Friends of Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Conservation Assessment of Brook Trout and automated radio telemetry stations Anglers of Tomorrow: Increasing Access at Planning and Impact Tool Development in the throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge (OH) Great Lakes Region (multiple states) Desert to monitor the annual cycle of Host fishing events for military veterans Conduct a broad-scale assessment of grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, and people living with disabilities, build a existing brook trout population viability Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared fishing trail, and create a parking space at within the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes longspur. Project will initiate this effort Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. Project will watershed that will build off of and be by holding webinars to recruit and train increase accessible facilities at the refuge, compatible with the analysis and associated partners and develop a plan to track expand the number of fishing participants, tools developed for NFWF’s Mid-Atlantic/ grassland birds across the region, install and raise awareness of the Friends group. Northeast region. Project will assist NFWF telemetry stations to track focal species, and $13,485 in identifying conservation needs and deploy tags on focal species. priority investment areas throughout the $250,000 Pheasants Forever basin and associated tools will enable On-Farm Sustainability Through Conservation NFWF to develop and measure population- Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Agronomy Approaches (OH) based recovery goals over time across Monitoring Grassland Bird Population Increase conservation capacity by leveraging multiple NFWF landscapes, particularly the Responses to Investments in the Northern a network of agronomists to accelerate Northeast and Great Lakes. Great Plains (MT, ND, NE, SD, WY) farmer conservation practice adoption $126,967 Continue evaluating the impacts of NFWF- aligned with state and federal water funded conservation easement and grazing priorities and programs throughout Ohio. management projects on priority grassland Project will create one technical assistance bird species in the Northern Great Plains. position to target 200 landowners and Project will compare density, population size, agriculture retail partners to create solutions and trend of priority grassland birds between for both farm profitability and natural NFWF projects and controls within the resource conservation. Northern Great Plains region. $252,024 $372,899

51 OKLAHOMA OREGON Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Decreasing Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions along Pheasants Forever Crook County Soil U.S. Highway 97 to Conserve Mule Deer Coordinating Range Wildlife Conservation in and Water Conservation District Populations (OR) the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range (CO, KS, NM, Conserving Sage-Grouse Habitat (OR) Install exclusionary structures to direct mule OK, TX) Provide technical assistance to benefit deer and elk to newly constructed wildlife Work with private landowners and other greater sage-grouse in Crook and Deschutes underpass along U.S. Highway 97 between partners to implement on-the-ground counties, Oregon. Project will develop nine miles 178 and 183 in central Oregon. Project riparian habitat restoration across the lesser site-specific plans for bringing 300,000 acres will improve public safety and reduce prairie chicken range. Project will enroll under improved management. wildlife-vehicle collisions by installing 10 landowners into voluntary contracts that will $71,958 miles of fencing, reconnecting 75 miles of a restore or improve management on 30,000 migration corridor. acres of southwestern grassland habitat. Crooked River Watershed Council $187,069 $101,436 Improving Irrigation Efficiency and Water Quality in the Crooked River Basin (OR) Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Implement conservation projects that will Real-Time Instream Flow Assessment of Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in result in measurable change on instream Transactions (OR) the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to flows and water quality in the Lower Crooked Develop a real-time instream flow tracking Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) River watershed in Oregon. Project will bring system to ensure that Columbia Basin Implement a collaborative network of 1,500 acres under improved management, Water Transactions Program transactions automated radio telemetry stations targeting 1,400 producers and landowners. are monitored and enforced through an throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan $119,488 automated program. Project will increase Desert to monitor the annual cycle of instream flows by ensuring stakeholders are grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, Deschutes River Conservancy immediately aware when legally protected Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared Deschutes Basin Streamflow Restoration (OR) senior instream flows are not being met and longspur. Project will initiate this effort Restore stream flow in Oregon’s Deschutes regulation or management adjustments are by holding webinars to recruit and train Basin through water transactions. Project necessary. partners and develop a plan to track will improve habitat and water quality for $28,529 grassland birds across the region, install native fish, including salmon and federally telemetry stations to track focal species, and listed steelhead trout. Oregon Water Resources Department deploy tags on focal species. $224,999 Water Transaction Coordination and $250,000 Monitoring (OR) Family Water Alliance Provide assistance to Oregon Qualified Local The Learning Center at the Euchee Collaboration to Identify Projects along the Entities on water transactions for proposed Butterfly Farm Klamath River Basin (CA, OR) streamflow restoration projects, including Increasing and Improving Native Seed Identify projects within the Klamath Basin instream transfers, instream leases, and Resources for Pollinator Habitat Restoration Watershed to improve delivery of water allocations of conserved water. Project will (OK) to fish and farms. Project will include ensure the conditions specified in final Improve seed bank volume and species ecosystem restoration, water supply orders are monitored and when necessary diversity to increase the quantity and enhancement, and collaboration from enforced through regulation to protect all quality of monarch and pollinator habitat multiple stakeholder groups. instream flows. restoration in Oklahoma. Project will $10,000 $50,000 increase plant identification training to

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED improve the efficiency of target species National Audubon Society Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission harvesting, expedite seed processing and Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush Integrated Fisheries Restoration and storage and produce 20,000 native nectar Conservation (multiple states) Monitoring Plan for the Klamath River (CA, OR) and milkweed plants to be planted on tribal Coordinate communication between Complete a final draft of the Integrated lands. stakeholders to elevate dialog about the value Fisheries Restoration and Monitoring Plan $74,816 and need for sagebrush conservation. Project for the Klamath River. Project will convene will bring 100 acres of sagebrush habitat a series of work sessions and produce a University of Oklahoma under improved management, develop revised version of the Klamath Plan. Developing Tools to Advance Grassland Bird media resources for community stake holders $200,000 Wintering Habitat Management Practices (CO, and host field tour events that elevate on- NM, OK, TX) the-ground conservation. Sustainable Northwest Expand on an existing framework studying $29,636 Pacific Northwest Forest Collaboratives and the wintering ecology of longspurs and Indian Tribes Restoration Initiative (OR, WA) other grassland birds in the Great Plains Nez Perce Tribe Partner with Indian tribes and forest using species distribution modeling, Increase Flow Restoration Efforts in the Nez collaboratives to implement and monitor automated radio telemetry biologging, and Perce Tribal Geographies (ID, OR, WA) fuels and wildfire risk reduction projects weather radar analysis. Project will develop Increase flow restoration efforts in the Nez with forest restoration and wildlife habitat tools to improve field grassland bird surveys Perce tribal geographies. Project will increase enhancement on three Pacific Northwest to more accurately estimate abundance tribal capacity to coordinate with other landscapes. Project will improve rural and and habitat usage, and to improve grazing groups developing water transactions within indigenous community protection against management regimes to best advance bird the broad geography of ceded lands, and fire and restore forests, resulting in more conservation. also enable the Tribe to propose transactions than 430,000 acres managed for strategic $138,145 uniquely linked to tribal relationships, tribal fuel reductions and long-term conservation treaty rights, and tribal sovereignty. outcomes in Oregon and Washington. $15,000 $349,470

52 The Trust for Public Land Western Rivers Conservancy Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Spence Mountain Conservation (OR) Conserving Habitat for Sage-grouse and Lancaster City Retrofit and Rain Garden Work with Klamath Trails Alliance, Klamath Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (NV, OR) Implementation (PA) County, and other federal, state and Restore greater sage-grouse habitat, Support the City of Lancaster in local partners to acquire the 7,500-acre reintroduce Lahontan cutthroat trout and implementing two green infrastructure Spence Mountain property in southern habitat connectivity to the greater sagebrush projects within the southwest quadrant of Oregon. Project will protect critical fish landscape on Disaster Peak Ranch, straddling Lancaster City. Project will partner with the and wildlife habitat from subdivision and the Nevada-Oregon border. Project will Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professionals fragmentation, including shoreline habitat permanently conserve the Disaster Peak and Interfaith Partners of the Chesapeake to for threatened and endangered species of Ranch, bringing 3,345 acres under improved retrofit an existing rain garden in Brandon fish, winter range for black-tailed deer, and management and restoring improved Park and a rain garden will be installed on bird habitat for species traveling along the hydrology in the mesic areas of the ranch. the property of a neighborhood church Pacific Flyway. $100,668 to reduce the amount of stormwater that $435,000 enters Lancaster City’s combined sewer overflow system. Trout Unlimited PENNSYLVANIA $200,000 Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Core Grant 2020 (CA, OR, NV) Academy of Natural Sciences Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Continue to address the needs identified of Drexel University Little Beaver Creek Stream and Riparian Buffer in the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout (LCT) Evaluating Headwater Biodiversity and Restoration (PA) Business Plan. Project will provide partner Resilience to Inform Conservation in the Conduct initial feasibility analysis and coordination, science guidance, and field Delaware Basin (NY, PA) planning efforts on the highly eroded crew activities, including LCT expansion, Study the diversity and functioning of streambanks of 1,275-foot segment of Little hybridization management/assessment, headwater streams, their potential resilience, Beaver Creek, which runs through farm barrier retrofitting and design, and eDNA and the species in their watersheds that property owned in Strasburg Township, monitoring. are vulnerable to human activities and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Project will UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES $582,702 climate change. Project will provide data and result in a report which will outline project approaches to partners that can be applied to scope, permitting requirements, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, maintain protection of important headwaters estimated project costs which will address U.S. Forest Service and to give an understanding of where streambank erosion. Riparian Restoration and Steelhead Recovery climate change may pose a higher threat to $49,998 at Camp Creek (OR) certain areas within the watershed. Protect riparian habitat to allow full $327,500 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay expression of streamside and floodplain Paradise Township Plain Sect Clean Water vegetation through exclosure fencing Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Demonstration Farm (PA) along designated critical habitat for Mid- Developing an Integrated Community-based Support a landowner in Paradise Township Columbia River summer steelhead. Project Monitoring Approach to Track Restoration in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania within will allow streamside sedges and grasses to (DC, MD, PA, VA) the Pequea Creek Watershed with the grow to over 30 inches, and protect native Leverage relationships with local, county, installation of animal waste management hardwoods shrubs, increasing critical shade state and federal agencies, community facilities, loafing lot management and to cool existing water temperatures. partners and restoration experts to ensure barnyard runoff controls. $105,374 that the monitoring plan developed meets $200,000 diverse needs. Project will complete Umatilla County Soil and Water research on existing restoration monitoring Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Conservation District protocols and engagement of diverse Restoring the Octoraro Reservoir: Continued Technical Assistance for Producers in stakeholders, conduct development Plain Sect Conservation Action (PA) the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater of a comprehensive community-based Achieve pollutant reductions in Management Area (OR) restoration study design, and develop subwatersheds contributing to drinking Administer soil health education and protocol testing and data generation at two water supplies in the Octoraro Creek outreach, provide technical assistance to four restoration sites at varying stages of Watershed through outreach and to producers, and monitor outcomes in installation. agricultural best management practices the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater $230,279 installation on Plain Sect farms. Project Management Area in Oregon. Project will prioritize farms and agricultural will increase awareness, implementation Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay best management practices based on and technical assistance in conservation Healthy Streams Farm Stewardship: their nitrogen reduction potential, with practices for producers, targeting 1,300 Chesapeake Logperch Initiative (MD, PA) implementation efforts being led by the producers to prevent 1,200 tons of Develop and pilot a conservation incentive Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay alongside sediment, 54 tons of phosphorus and 123 program that accelerates the adoption and partners belonging to Octoraro Source tons of nitrogen runoff from entering the establishment of riparian forest buffers by Water Collaborative. system annually. agricultural producers in the Susquehanna $500,000 $134,910 Basin of York County, Pennsylvania and Cecil and Harford counties in Maryland. Project will multiply the amount of implementation of agricultural best management practices, restore 160 acres of riparian forest habitat, and improve the in-stream habitat and passage specifically for the threatened Chesapeake logperch. $487,837

53 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Bedford County Conservation District Bradford County Conservation District Turkey Hill Clean Water Partnership: Continued Bedford County Watershed Action Plan Bradford County Accelerated Watershed Momentum for Market-Driven Conservation Development (PA) Implementation Plan Development (PA) Action (PA) Conduct subwatershed assessments of Accelerate planning of Bradford County’s Work collectively with Turkey Hill Dairy, Spicer Brook, Cumberland Valley Run, Watershed Implementation Plan. Project the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay and Beaverdam Creek and their related will address resource gaps in project the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers tributaries in Lebanon County to determine implementation utilizing Bradford County’s Cooperative Association to support the excessive sources of nutrients and sediment database of planning needs resulting from farmers that supply milk to Turkey Hill Dairy and provide recommendations for landowner and/or municipal assistance by installing conservation practices. Project restoration or improvements with the goal requests. will accelerate implementation and build of identifying best management practices $49,986 momentum for the Turkey Hill Clean Water for implementation. Project will deliver Partnership. Watershed Action Plans that will identify Brandywine Conservancy $500,000 priority restoration sites and the associated Water Quality Interventions in the concept master plans for those sites. Brandywine-Christina Watershed (PA) American Bird Conservancy $47,000 Restore water quality in the Delaware River Restoring Dynamic Forest Structure Watershed by implementing water-quality for Priority Birds in the Delaware River Berks County Conservation District improvement projects that include innovative Watershed — IV (PA) Implementation of Best Management nutrient reduction practices, and watershed- Develop and implement a comprehensive Practices and Riparian Restoration on Irish scale water quality interventions. Project forest management strategy targeting long- Creek Farm (PA) will build on prior success to implement term availability of diverse forest age classes Implement agricultural best management traditional and innovative best management and structural complexity benefiting the practices, including manure storage, practices known to improve water quality entire reproductive cycle of golden-winged stable animal heavy-use areas, livestock resulting in improved management. warbler, cerulean warbler and wood thrush. exclusion fencing, and pasture management $100,000 Project will draft the comprehensive plans conservation practices to reduce non-point for two new Dynamic Forest Restoration source pollution runoff into the Irish Creek. Brandywine Red Clay Alliance Blocks and will continue to implement Project will conserve and 4.8 acres of non- Dam Removal on Brandywine Creek (PA) management activities and monitor avian tidal wetlands by controlling invasive species Restore a 3,300 foot section of the response outlined in existing comprehensive and protect 10 acres of critical floodplain Brandywine Creek to free-flowing condition plans. habitat. by removal of the 280 foot Lenape Dam. $362,136 $132,500 Project will enhance fish habitat, restore fish populations and migration, and improve American Bird Conservancy Berks Nature water hydrology and safe public access to Restoring Dynamic Forest Structure to Improve Implementing Agricultural Best Management the stream for boaters and anglers. Wildlife Habitat for Birds in the Pennsylvania Practices in the Middle Schuylkill Cluster (PA) $57,182 Wilds Install whole-farm agricultural best Improve forest management planning management practices on farms located Bucks County Conservation District and habitat management within the in priority focus areas within the Middle Water Quality Best Management Practices at Pennsylvania Wilds region where forest Schuylkill Cluster geography of the Delaware Lake Luxembourg (PA) health is limited by a lack of age class River Watershed Initiative. Project will Convert the 17-acre Conservation Pool diversity and structural complexity. Project play a role in a larger watershed approach of Lake Luxembourg in Bucks County, will deploy both timber harvests and non- addressing a critical mass of agriculture Pennsylvania to regional stormwater best

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED commercial methods to create or enhance restoration initiatives by managing 614 acres management practices. Project will enhance 450 acres of young forest habitat, 500 acres with best management practices, resulting water quality and habitat value through of mature forest habitat and 400 acres of in an estimated 24,210 pounds of nitrogen reduced phosphorous and sediment loading, late successional habitat to support the reduced annually. the establishment of 7 acres of emergent entire reproductive cycle of golden-winged $250,000 wetland, and native wetland plantings and warbler, cerulean warbler and wood thrush. placement of large woody debris structures $175,000 Borough of Akron benefiting herptile and avian species. Akron Borough Community Rain Garden and $250,000 Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania Stream Restoration (PA) Louisiana Waterthrush Community Implement a rain garden for runoff control Capital Resource Conservation and Conservation in Buffalo Creek (PA) from the Akron Borough office building and Development Area Council Restore a mile of riparian buffer, deliver a restore approximately 500 feet of eroded Support for a Successful Transition to series of informal and formal educational stream through Roland Park. Project will Rotational Grazing (PA) programs, and host recycling and household reduce stormwater runoff and maximize Support the transition of up to 1,000 acres hazardous waste collection events to infiltration and will continue community of crop land and unmanaged pasture to support clean streams and healthy forests education events to encourage its residents, a rotational grazing system, including in Buffalo Creek. Project will educate 540 businesses, and churches to do similar cost-share for grazing infrastructure and students and 1,290 adults, plant 520 trees, Best Management Practices to reduce technical assistance to ensure the successful 220 shrubs, and 430 perennials, remove 5 stormwater runoff and maximize infiltration. implementation of the funded grazing acres of invasive species, prevent 289,800 $120,000 projects. Project will complement work pounds of waste from entering waterways being conducted in the Chesapeake Bay and monitor 30 sites. Watershed to promote rotational grazing $31,857 and soil health, including the Mountains to Bay Grazing Alliance and the Pennsylvania Soil Health Coalition. $406,224

54 Chesapeake Bay Commission Chesapeake Stormwater Network Delaware River Basin Commission Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training Improving Water Resources Management in of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership and Engagement in Urban Watersheds the Delaware River Basin via Data Access (multiple states) (multiple states) (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Draft and publish peer-reviewed literature Focus stormwater training and engagement Support the Delaware River Basin summarizing the core set of lessons learned efforts on four critical and vulnerable Commission’s comprehensive Water through the work of the Chesapeake Bay target populations in the Bay watershed Resources Program to improve water restoration partnership which are applicable to accelerate the pace of local nutrient quality management, monitoring and to other watershed-based/partnership- reduction and promote more widespread ultimately improve aquatic habitat. Project based restoration efforts. Project will share implementation of effective stormwater and will manage, protect, and improve water the key lessons learned during the multi- restoration practices across the watershed. resources by developing a Basin-focused decade, partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay $325,000 Water Quality Data Portal to facilitate data restoration efforts, and will result in a multi- access for the public. media series of “lessons learned” products. Chester County Conservation District $200,000 $25,316 Agricultural Best Management Practice Operation and Maintenance Initiative (PA) Delaware River City Corporation Chesapeake Bay Foundation Provide education, technical assistance, Building Bridesburg Riverfront Park (PA) Accelerating Riparian Forest Buffer and financial assistance for agricultural Build Bridesburg Riverfront Park, the last of Implementation in Priority Pennsylvania best management practices within the eight planned parks on the Riverfront North Counties Brandywine-Christina and Schuylkill Highlands greenway. Project will transform a former Build relationships between private and of the Delaware River. Project will implement concrete factory in a neighborhood that has public partners of conservation districts at least 42 best management practices, been cut off from its river by industry for a in Pennsylvania’s Final Phase 3 Watershed including grassed waterways and roof runoff century into a 10 acre park and open space Implementation Plan to accelerate on an estimated 12 farms. with native meadows, trees, and shrubs, implementation, maintenance resources, $324,450 reducing forest fragmentation reducing non- and innovative financial incentives of point source pollution. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES riparian forested buffers in Pennsylvania. Conservation Foundation $160,036 Project will provide technical assistance of Lancaster County to local contractors and implement 360 Cocalico Creek Floodplain Restoration (PA) Delaware Riverkeeper Network acres of buffers, resulting in an annual load Establish native vegetation and stabilize Restoring Big Creek Watershed and reduction of 42,071 pounds nitrogen, 635 streambanks in preparation for next Reintroducing Native Brook Trout (PA) pounds phosphorus, and 1,656,578 pounds phases of floodplain restoration within the Evaluate limestone sand additions to of sediment. Little Cocalico Creek and Cocalico Creek the strip-mined headwaters of Big Creek $975,926 watershed. Project will improve water Pennsylvania. Project will re-introduce quality through reduction of polluted runoff native brook trout to the currently fishless Chesapeake Bay Trust and increase of wetland habitat. watershed, piloting long-term strategies to Chesapeake Bay Trust Regional Capacity $200,000 maintain water quality and ecological health. Building Initiative (DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) $94,798 Build collaborative and organizational CRC Watersheds capacity of regional entities and Watershed Restoration and Habitat Delaware State University organizations within the Chesapeake Bay Improvement (PA) Developing Risk Assessment Framework for watershed working together to accelerate Improve habitat for fish and wildlife and Atlantic Sturgeon (DE, NJ, PA) watershed restoration through tailored increase opportunities for recreation and Provide estimates of adult spawning run assessment. Project will heighten capacity education in up to 10 locations within the size which will serve as a key parameter of groups to advance clean water plans, Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creek watersheds. for a broader effort to develop a species- increase communication, coordination and Project will leverage partnerships with local specific risk assessment model for Atlantic collaboration among partners within and educational institutions, municipalities, Sturgeon in the Delaware River. Project will across priority regions within the watershed, corporations, and civic organizations to serve to help quantify specific threats and and increase power of the grassroots restore riparian buffer areas and remove their impacts ultimately facilitating effective movement for sustained environmental and invasive plant material at sites that are decision-making as stakeholders work to clean water protections. crucial to the local watersheds and the recover this once iconic species. $1,500,000 greater Delaware River watershed. $312,129 $82,100 Chesapeake Conservancy Delaware State University Precision Conservation Partnership Cumberland County Identifying Environmental Drivers of American Implementing a Regional Restoration Plan in Cumberland County Conservation District Eel Emigration in the Delaware River Central Pennsylvania Cover Crop Incentive (PA) (DE, NJ, NY, PA) Implement a regional restoration plan in Continue and expand a successfully Model the outmigration of adult, silver-phase central Pennsylvania, build upon a Precision implemented cover crop incentive program American eel in the Delaware River, utilizing Conservation Partnership, and increase and in Cumberland County which incentivizes a large-scale passive acoustic telemetry strengthen local capacity and partnerships. low or no-till cover crops through offering network annotated with environmental Project will result in full-farm restoration payments to farmers to utilize approved and astronomical parameters. Project will on 25 farms, enhanced coordination of winter small grain crops. Project will increase understanding of the underlying outreach and technical assistance, improved encourage implementation of additional drivers and timing of movement in the messaging to accelerate landowner cover crop acres on county farms, which are Delaware River Basin, informing conservation recruitment, and knowledge transfer in the a priority agricultural water quality practice and management of American eel in region, and prioritize restoration projects to with respect to the Pennsylvania Phase 3 impounded systems where passage and improve 46 miles of impaired streams. Watershed Implementation Plan. increased mortality are key concerns. $1,000,000 $54,600 $225,177

55 Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Indiana University of Pennsylvania Lancaster Farmland Trust Abandoned Mine Reclamation Research Institute Stream Restoration on Cedar Creek (PA) Wyoming Valley Chesapeake Bay Tributary Restoring Large Forest Blocks in State Parks For Implement the following priority practices: Field Assessments and Monitoring (PA) Key Bird Species in the Laurel Highlands (PA) loafing lot management, forest and grass Conduct field assessments and monitoring Restore multiple forest age classes and buffers with exclusion fencing, and stream of various streamside conditions and habitat complexity for key bird species in restoration along five properties on Cedar structural impediments to aquatic organism large forest blocks in two state parks in Creek in East Earl Township. Project will passage at culverts throughout the south central Pennsylvania, which serve as reduce nutrient and sediment pollution targeted supporting municipalities with anchors in a network of forested lands in near the headwaters of the Conestoga River a focus on Sugar Notch Run, Solomon, the region. Project will write comprehensive Watershed, improving water quality for Warrior, Nanticoke, and Newport creeks, forest management plans for more than downstream neighbors. along the Susquehanna River in the 33,000 acres of forest and implement habitat $161,934 Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County. Project management practices that benefit golden- will communicate and recommend to winged warbler, cerulean warbler and wood Londonderry Township partners, projects for future improvements thrush while also monitoring population Conewago Creek Water Quality and best management practices. responses. Improvements (PA) $50,000 $199,896 Restore the floodplain of the Conewago Creek and its tributary, Brills Run, including Ferguson Township John Bartram Association 4,877 feet of stream restoration, 2,988 Park Hills Stream Restoration (PA) Youth Stewardship and Community Recreation feet of stream creation, the restoration of Restore 2,350 linear feet of eroding, Access on the Tidal Schuylkill River (PA) approximately 15 acres of the floodplain to forested, urban stream using Regenerative Implement a year-round, youth-driven river historical conditions, and the enhancement Stormwater Conveyance techniques. Project engagement program at Bartram’s Garden, of a 15-acre wetland system. Project will will mitigate 178,632 pounds annually of hiring up to 16 local youth interns annually remove approximately 125,000 cubic yards total suspended solids, achieve 0.3 acres of to serve as riverfront ambassadors for river of legacy sediment, and a yearly sediment floodplain connection and will restore 0.45 recreation programs that currently welcome load reduction of 1,524 tons. miles of forest buffer habitat. roughly 8,000 neighbors annually. Project $200,000 $200,000 will encourage students to deepen their own skills and understanding in both watershed Lower Allen Township Friends of the Heinz Refuge at Tinicum stewardship and river recreation while also Detention Basin Retrofit in Residential Lower Developing a Marketing Plan for Delaware sharing their learnings with members of Allen Township (PA) Valley Friends Organizations (DE, NJ, PA) the public through on-site recreation, and Retrofit an existing dry detention basin Develop a marketing plan to build facilitated volunteer days. to a bioretention facility in the Moreland membership for John Heinz National Wildlife $258,367 residential neighborhood of Lower Allen Refuge at Tinicum, Bombay Hook National Township. Project will retrofit a total Wildlife Refuge, and Edwin B. Forsythe Lackawanna River Conservation drainage area of 17.7 acres improving water National Wildlife Refuge. Project will raise Association quality and stormwater management while awareness of the participating Friends Leggett’s Creek Greenway Project (PA) engaging and educating the local community organizations and enhance their efforts to Address environmental issues caused by about stormwater pollution. acquire and maintain active members and past anthracite coal mining activities and $160,486 volunteers. commercial and residential development $13,200 within this subwatershed which has Lower Allen Township resulted in a compromised ecosystem Sheepford East Detention Basin Retrofit

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Friends of the Upper Delaware River lacking in biodiversity. Project will mitigate Project (PA) Improving Trout Habitat and River Access in erosion and sediment loading through the Address nonpoint source pollution through the Upper Delaware River Watershed (NY, PA) installation of bank stabilization measures, local, watershed-based planning by Implement five stream-restoration projects, and storm water runoff management, and retrofitting an existing dry detention basin including the replacement of three failing monitoring and management program will in the Sheepford Crossings residential culverts, installation of habitat improvement be established to ensure sustained project neighborhood in Mechanicsburg, structures, floodplain reconnection, and efficiency. Pennsylvania. Project will retrofit the existing continued outreach to the community. $50,000 basin, which handles a total drainage area of Project will improve water quality, improve 55 acres, into a bioretention facility. trout spawning habitat, expand fish passage, Lancaster Farmland Trust $131,625 develop scientific support for future stream Implementation of Agricultural Best restoration projects. Management Practices in Salisbury Township Lower Merion Conservancy $405,478 (PA) Improving Wildlife Habitat and Water Quality Reduce nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment along the Cynwyd Heritage Trail (PA) Hallam Borough pollution flowing from Salisbury Township Improve stormwater management, restore Streambank Restoration on a Tributary to farms to the Chesapeake Bay, specifically in wildlife habitat, and improve recreational Kreutz Creek (PA) the Pequea Creek Watershed. Project will access on the Cynwyd Heritage Trail and Restore 545 linear feet of stream bank expand on an existing, innovative initiative in along sections of Vine Creek, an important along with 400 linear feet of eroded swale Salisbury Township to drive the agricultural feature of the trail and a tributary to the on an unnamed tributary to Kreutz Creek in community toward environmental Schuylkill River. Project will reduce erosion Hallam Borough, York County. Project will compliance and sustainability and result in and flood damage to Vine Creek, convert stabilize stream banks and reduce sediment best management practices implemented on open space into a habitat corridor, and discharge to Kreutz Creek. five farms in the Pequea Creek Watershed, increase public awareness of stormwater $200,000 and contribute to the completion of two issues and habitat loss through creation of whole-stream restoration efforts. meadows, rain gardens, and bioswales. $494,347 $223,830

56 Manheim Borough Mount Joy Borough National Wildlife Federation Memorial Park Stream Restoration (PA) Stormwater Management in Rotary Park (PA) Delaware River Basin Urban Wildlife Implement riparian buffers and stream Establish a native vegetative bioswale to Community Engagement Program bank stabilization for a 3,000-linear-foot slow down the velocity of water through (DE, NJ, NY, PA) section of the Chiques Creek. Project will a native grass channel while providing Engage a broader demographic by reduce sediment and associated nutrients heavy erosion control to prevent future identifying and addressing specific and other pollutants entering the stream washouts. Project will reduce the amount community barriers to conservation in addition to providing educational and annual sediment, phosphorus, and nitrogen engagement. Project will develop tools for passive recreational opportunities. transported to Little Chiques Creek and cultivating programs that provide high- $200,000 erect educational kiosks throughout the park quality recreational and conservation to promote education on pollutants, erosion opportunities that benefit the communities Manheim Township control, and stormwater best management and the environment, increasing public Stoner Park Streambank Restoration (PA) practices for borough residents and access to the Delaware river and its lands, Restore streambank along Landis Run participants at the park. and inspiring participants to engage in within Stoner Park for approximately 1,336 $100,000 outdoor activities and protect and improve linear feet of property owned by Manheim their local watershed. Township. Project will contribute to the Mountville Borough $499,999 sediment load reduction objectives of Mountville Borough Dry Extended Detention Manheim Township’s Pollutant Reduction Basin and Constructed Wetland Project (PA) National Wildlife Federation Plan by eliminating a known source of Retrofit an existing dry detention basin in Developing Capacity Building Framework sediment. Spring Hill Park to a dry extended detention within the Chesapeake Bay Community $200,000 basin with a linear area of constructed (multiple states) wetlands to treat continual spring flow Address gaps in capacity within the Manheim Township through the basin. Project will align with Chesapeake Bay community through Streambank Restoration on a Tributary to Pennsylvania’s state-level priority initiatives a partnership with the Choose Clean Conestoga Creek (PA) to strategically advance load reduction Water Coalition and the Alliance for the UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Restore approximately 1,065 linear feet of efforts through accelerated implementation Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to an unnamed tributary to the Conestoga of structural load-reduction practices, research, analyze and develop a capacity River along Manheim Township property in including bioretention, rain gardens, building framework. Project will target an Lancaster County, PA. Project will provide bioswales and stormwater wetlands. audience of capacity builders and the NGO sediment load reductions to help meet $200,000 community with missions that include Manheim Township’s Pollutant Reduction improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Plan by eliminating a causal source of National Audubon Society $421,147 sediment. Implementing a Landscape-Scale Approach $93,780 to Managing Private Forestlands for Birds and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary Resilience (PA) Designing Living Shorelines Alternatives in the Mid-Atlantic 4R Implement strategic, landscape-scale Delaware Estuary (PA) Nutrient Stewardship Association forest conservation to benefit forest birds Address issues of coastal resilience and Accelerating Implementation of Farmer on private lands in Pennsylvania through water quality to enhance the benefits in Adoption of Nutrient Stewardship Practices financial incentives provided by the freshwater tidal zone. Project will design (DE, MD, PA, VA) American Forest Foundation’s Family Forest an innovative living shoreline approach Bring together stakeholders involved in Carbon Program. Project will restore 900 incorporating freshwater mussels for a nutrient management and those who have acres of mature forest habitat for wood high-priority area of erosion on the banks of environmental concerns about excess thrush, 225 acres of late successional forest the Schuylkill River at the Fairmount Water nutrients to work together to develop habitat for cerulean warblers and enroll Works in Philadelphia. locally relevant solutions. Project will 20 landowners in habitat management on $125,000 identify barriers to nutrient management their lands that will also facilitate carbon adoption, design a communications strategy, sequestration. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary engage 300 farms to implement nutrient $183,419 Developing the Mussels for Clean Water management, increase implementation Initiative to Enhance Habitat and Water of split application of nitrogen and pilot a National Audubon Society Quality (DE, NJ, PA) model for a Pennsylvania Manure Transport The River Unites Us: Bird Conservation Across Overcome key research and planning Exchange. the Delaware River Watershed (DE, NY, PA) bottlenecks that impede implementation of $990,000 Address conservation needs reflecting the the new Mussels for Clean Water Initiative rich diversity of habitat and conditions that aims to restore beds of freshwater Mount Joy Borough across three states in the Delaware River mussels. Project will develop a Mussels Little Chiques Park Stream Bank Restoration Watershed. Project will increase the number for Clean Water Initiative Restoration Plan, and Green Infrastructure Master Plan (PA) of people engaged in direct conservation Genetics Management Plan, and Disease Design and permit an approximately efforts, measurably improve bird habitat, Management Plan, as well as conduct 5,000-linear-foot stream segment of Little and increase scientific data awareness and laboratory research to enhance juvenile Chiques Creek, located within the bounds support for restoration efforts in Delaware. mussel survival and growth in a hatchery of Little Chiques Park situated in Mount Joy, $250,000 setting. Pennsylvania. Project will plan to improve $178,028 drainage patterns within the park as they impact the stream corridor and cause uncontrolled flooding within the park, and will improve public access to the creek for fishing and other recreation purposes. $50,000

57 Penn Township Schuylkill River Development Corporation TeamAg Stream Restoration along Chiques Creek (PA) Bartram’s Mile Fishing Pier Rehabilitation (PA) Agriculture Runoff Water Quality Partner with a private landowner to restore Rehabilitate an abandoned industrial Improvement in Salisbury Township (PA) an eroded stream channel that conveys pier into a usable recreational pier and Implement prepared Comprehensive stormwater to a tributary to Chiques Creek the surrounding riverbank on the tidal Nutrient Management Plans for several by stabilizing eroded stream banks, installing Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. Project will small Plain Sect dairies in Salisbury Township in-stream fish habitat structures, and planting improve recreational opportunities and river identified with critical water concerns, a native riparian forest buffer. Project will access consistent with local conservation including leaking manure storage facilities, achieve a portion of the township’s required efforts, and restore shorelines resulting in runoff from barnyards and loafing areas, pollutant reductions through stream enhancements to water quality and wildlife inadequate manure storage, improper restoration and native forest riparian buffers. habitat. treatment of milk house wastewater, and $200,000 $50,000 lack of cattle stream crossings and fencing to exclude cattle. Project will implement Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Springettsbury Township environmental improvements on farms to Improving Public Access and Recreation in the Waste Water Treatment Plant in a West increase their economic and environmental Pennsylvania Portion of the Delaware River Tributary of Codorus Creek (PA) performance. Improve public access and recreation by Implement stream restoration to remove $200,000 providing grants to public entities and approximately 529,500 pounds of sediment nonprofit groups for the planning, acquisition, per year, stabilize approximately 1.2 miles of Temple University, Of The Commonwealth development, expansion and rehabilitation actively eroding streambanks, and restore System of Higher Education of public boating facilities located in the approximately 0.6 miles of streams and 1.2 Using Polyethylene Glycol to Control the Pennsylvania portion of the Delaware River miles of permanent riparian buffer on an Fungus that Causes White-Nose Syndrome in Watershed. Project will ensure that boaters unnamed tributary to the Codorus Creek. Bats (OH, PA) in the Delaware River watershed have safe, Project will provide design, permitting, Treat and monitor hibernation sites used clean and updated boating facilities. construction, and operations, maintenance, by little brown bats and other species $200,000 and monitoring. to test the effectiveness of polyethylene $200,000 glycol 8000 to suppress the fungus that Pennsylvania State University causes white-nose syndrome. Project will Advancing Conservation-Based Estate Planning Stroud Water Research Center conduct field trials at three control and with Private Forest Landowners (PA) Accelerating Farm Stewardship Forested three treatment hibernacula in Ohio and Advance conservation-based estate planning Buffers and Best Management Practices Pennsylvania, evaluate the effects on non- through a targeted workshop series to Implementation (PA) target flora and fauna, and strive to reduce increase awareness and implementation Build on Farm Stewardship Program success the fungal infection rate by 50 percent. of evolving legal and financial tools to and add new emphases on implementing $178,724 achieve conservation-based estate planning agricultural best management practices in Pennsylvania. Project will implement while bringing along much-needed Terre Hill Borough outreach to estate planning attorneys, forested buffers. Project will accelerate Terre Hill Borough Rain Garden, Bioretention, financial planners and consulting foresters. the rate of best management practices and Bioswale (PA) $79,987 implementation, incentivize the inclusion of Construct a rain garden, bioretention forested buffers that earn vouchers to pay facility, and a bioswale, which will remove Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust for planning and implementation, and focus over 7,000 pounds annually of sediment Fulmor Heights Green Stormwater efforts in existing or emerging clusters of from the streams. Project will contribute Infrastructure — I (PA) conservation so that research can help to implementing projects that correspond

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Facilitate a phased plan to manage document the recovery of stream health. with Terre Hill Borough’s Pollution Reduction stormwater runoff, eroded creek-side slopes, $499,920 Plan. and repurpose a degraded stream corridor $73,000 into a biodiverse and sustainable landscape Stroud Water Research Center along Pennypack Creek. Project will connect Agricultural Best Management Practices and Tioga County Soil and Water Conservation the three largest landowners in the focus Buffers in Chester County Focus Areas (PA) District of New York area through water quality improvement Implement agricultural best management Strengthening the Conservation Community projects, reducing sediment load by nearly practices and forested buffers in the Foundation in the Upper Susquehanna 2,400 pounds per year. Brandywine-Christina Cluster of the Watershed (NY, PA) $183,199 Delaware River Watershed Initiative. Focus on providing training to new and Project will treat at least 1,516 acres with existing staff to further provide a framework Red Barn Consulting agricultural best management practices, for the Upper Susquehanna Coalition to Altria Rapid Planning Assistance Program (PA) including stormwater runoff controls for evaluate available programs for future Provide conservation planning assistance barnyards, mushroom compost processing sustainability. Project will implement to more than 100 agricultural producers in areas, and grassed waterways on five to 114 acres of riparian buffer, 400 acres of the Lower Susquehanna region to support seven farms. prescribed grazing, 3,800 acres of stream long-term, on-farm conservation efforts $249,606 corridor restoration and 39 acres of wetland and emerging supply chain sustainability restoration that is estimated to generate initiatives. Project will provide on-demand nutrient reductions of 4,155 pounds of conservation plan writing services through nitrogen, 689 pounds of phosphorus and expert agricultural service providers in 456,130 pounds of sediment annually. the region and link recommended on- $1,000,000 farm conservation improvements with state and local priorities for water quality improvement and agricultural sustainability. $250,000

58 Trout Unlimited West Lampeter Township York County Planning Commission Chesapeake Bay Watershed Priority Brook Groff Farm Floodplain Restoration (PA) Improving the Delivery of Outreach and Trout Strongholds Conservation Analysis (MD, Restore a 2,300-linear-foot section of an Technical Assistance for Implementation in NY, PA, VA, WV) eroded streambank and create approximately York County (PA) Complete focal analyses for 11 brook 4.4 acres of riparian habitat on a large portion Complete groundwork for a successful trout stronghold patches within the of streambank of Big Spring Run in the Mill messaging campaign, a coalition with Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will Creek Watershed. Project will reduce pounds broader and more diverse representation, develop a strategic restoration approach of sediment, pounds of nitrogen, and pounds and reported implementation of water focused on brook trout populations, and of phosphorus through the construction of quality best management practices. Project following the compilation of the available agricultural best management practices on will develop a Countywide Action Plan data for each patch and the completion of Groff Farm. messaging strategy to effectively educate the conservation portfolio analysis, Trout $200,000 the community, expand the capacity of the Unlimited will provide a summary report for York County Coalition for Clean Waters, each priority patch that outlines potential Western Pennsylvania Conservancy a key partner in Countywide Action Plan projects, current data available, monitoring Assessing Eastern Brook Trout Patches to implementation efforts, and embark on a needs, and other information. Determine Future Actions that Improve long-term clean water messaging campaign. $41,574 Connectivity (PA) $50,000 Assess population status and habitat Trout Unlimited condition within previously identified Strengthening Stronghold Brook Trout Patches eastern brook population patches in the RHODE ISLAND through Stream Restoration and Habitat Mid-Upper Allegheny River and Pennsylvania Improvement (PA) Wilds focal geographies to determine the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance Complete 10 high-priority habitat most appropriate restoration actions to Pre-Implementation of Electronic restoration projects and 20 new technical improve aquatic connectivity. Project will Monitoring in New England’s Groundfish assistance projects located within eastern assess at least five patches by completing Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI) brook trout stronghold patches in three 100 electrofishing surveys, reconnect Advance electronic monitoring in New UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES geographic focus areas in the Chesapeake at least two priority patches through England’s groundfish fishery by continuing Bay watershed of Pennsylvania. Project will culvert replacement and restore 1.5 miles operation of a successful pilot project select focal geographies considering existing of forested riparian buffer to reduce and working with stakeholders to clarify partnerships, ownership, access, and sedimentation. standards and needs related to the presence of both stronghold and persistent $186,863 technology. Project will engage 35 vessels to eastern brook trout patches. finalize electronic monitoring standards and $274,298 Wildlands Conservancy ensure that data is effectively stored, shared, Penrose Swamp Acquisition (PA) and used by regional stock assessment Trout Unlimited Facilitate the acquisition of the 2,700-acre scientists and other data end users. Testing a Methodology for Monitoring Eastern Penrose Swamp property Carbon and Luzerne $524,586 Brook Trout Restoration Response in the Cross counties. Project will result in permanent Fork Watershed (PA) protection of a core Natural Heritage Area Cornell Cooperative Extension Develop a methodology and conduct and an Important Bird Area, as well as of Suffolk County eastern brook trout population response wetlands, intact forest, Penrose Creek, and Implementing a Bycatch Avoidance monitoring in the Cross Fork Creek sections of Beaver and Hazle creeks. Communication Network (MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) watershed, the largest drainage in the Kettle $99,957 Expand the Bycatch Avoidance Creek watershed in Pennsylvania. Project Communication Network to identify and will replace one culvert, opening 8.5 miles of Wildlife Management Institute report real-time bycatch of nine species, previously inaccessible stream habitat and Enhancing Forest Habitat in the Northern helping to avoid the implementation improve 1,500 feet of dirt and gravel road Delaware River Watershed — III (PA, NJ) of restrictive management measures to reduce sedimentation and improve water Implement forest management plan activities associated with this bycatch. Project will quality, and then will monitor brook trout on public and private lands in the northern enhance the network by improving daily population response. Delaware River Watershed. Project will aid reporting rates, recruiting additional vessels $139,987 in the creation of young forest habitat, the to the network, and conducting five at-sea enhancement of middle-aged and mature observer days to facilitate proper reporting. West Hempfield Township forest habitat, the control of native and exotic $57,621 Streambank Stabilization and Stormwater invasives, as well as expand partnerships and Management on a Tributary to Chiques Creek build upon previous success to enhance work Gulf of Maine Research Institute (PA) in northwest New Jersey. Scaling Maximized Retention Electronic Partner with a plain-sect farmer to stabilize $199,982 Monitoring in the Northeast Groundfish an eroded stream and drainage channel Fishery (MA, ME, NH, RI) that conveys stormwater discharge from Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association Expand the Maximized Retention Electronic an upland developed area to Chiques Green Stormwater Infrastructure at Overlook Monitoring program by adding three to Creek and install a bioretention basin to Elementary School (PA) four vessels to the electronic monitoring reduce stormwater volume and provide Install green stormwater infrastructure to fleet and refining in person dockside water quality benefits. Project will advance better manage stormwater volume and monitoring. Project will conduct outreach load reduction efforts through accelerated filtration prior to discharge to the Sandy to vessels, assess the economic impacts of implementation of structural load-reduction Run. Project will facilitate high-visibility this programs previous years for fishermen, practices. improvements on school district properties and continue review of collected electronic $200,000 to concurrently implement water quality monitoring data. improvements and allow for hands on $405,000 environmental education at the schools. $50,000

59 Integrated Monitoring Trout Unlimited City of Charleston, South Carolina Implementing Wireless Electronic Monitoring Assessing Brook Trout Populations Johns Island Restoration Plan and Reporting Tools in New England and Aquatic Barrier Status in the Big River To Improve Flood Resiliency (SC) (MA, ME,NH, RI) Management Area (RI) Reduce barriers to coastal resilience Expand broadband, wireless electronic Conduct an inventory of native brook trout by producing a preliminary floodplain reporting to high volume fishing vessels populations, a water temperature study restoration planning framework that will in New England, including ground fish and a fisheries barrier assessment within integrate ecological function to increase vessels, limited access scallop vessels, and the Big River Management Area located in the overall resilience of Johns Island’s charter vessels. Project will demonstrate central Rhode Island. Project will produce communities, fish and wildlife. Project the scalability and transferability of wireless a report that will summarize the status of will evaluate how and where stream electronic monitoring technology and brook trout populations, distribution of naturalization, floodplain protection and electronic reporting using broadband vessel water temperatures and prioritize future enhancement, wetland restoration/creation, monitoring system. implementation efforts to enhance brook and other nature-based infrastructure can $229,530 trout habitat and protect water quality be used to mitigate current and likely future within the 22 miles of mapped streams. flood risk on the island. Manomet $89,958 $117,500 Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) Wildlife Management Institute City of North Charleston Provide coordination of the American Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England North Charleston Restoration oystercatcher recovery initiative and Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and for Resilience (SC) actionable change based on lessons learned American Woodcock (multiple states) Conduct Restoration Master Planning for from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs three waterways, with parallel goals of of predators and human disturbance by supporting habitat biologists and reducing flood risk and restoring habitat. on populations of breeding shorebirds outreach specialists to interface with private Project will advance three site-level along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will landowners to provide young forest habitat concepts to 30 percent design and explore contribute substantially to the goals of the for more than 50 Species of Conservation the potential for design-build delivery of the Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. Need in New England. Project will develop projects to be initiated alongside other local $79,999 forest management plans that utilize existing efforts. Best Management Practices, develop $200,000 New England Marine Monitoring healthy diverse forest age classes, and Integrating Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to protect riparian habitat values, improving Charleston County Parks and Recreation Strengthen Electronic Monitoring management on 200 acres. Department (MA, ME, NH, RI) $156,290 Fishing Pier Installation at Sol Legare Boat Integrate existing artificial intelligence Landing (SC) algorithms into electronic monitoring Install a fishing pier at Sol Legare Boat review, transmission, and storage workflows SOUTH CAROLINA Landing, a popular fishing facility located on to reduce program costs. Project will James Island. Project will enable the public advance the artificial intelligence used in City of Charleston to have increased access to shore-based the New England Groundfish electronic Church Creek Habitat Restoration and Flood saltwater fishing and crabbing on the Stono monitoring fisheries to automate catch Protection Project (SC) River and will contribute to the quality of life accounting and streamline data storage thus Implement nature-based solutions and for residents of Charleston County. addressing management priorities. green infrastructure to protect critical $102,870 $241,109 infrastructure in and around the Church

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Creek Basin, promote community resilience Chesterfield County Soil and Water Partnership for Providence Parks around the basin and in surrounding Conservation District Conservation and Recreation in Rhode Island communities, and enhance ecosystem Expanding Longleaf Pine Restoration in the Restore 2 acres of habitat to promote services and hydrological function. Project South Carolina Sandhills Region conservation efforts of New England will complete 33 acres of floodplain Establish and improve 1,600 acres of cottontail while reaching over 900 youths restoration, 2.5 miles of instream longleaf pine forest on public and private with schoolyard habitat implementation and restoration, 28.5 acres of land restoration, lands in Chesterfield and Darlington outdoor programs. Project will engage more and 29.5 acres of wetland restoration. counties, South Carolina, which will benefit than 2,000 people in outdoor experiences, $1,345,000 northern bobwhite, Bachman’s sparrow, and including fishing and birding programs. southern hognose snake. Project will utilize $48,306 City of Charleston geospatial data to improve outreach to high- Renaturalizing the Church Creek Drainage priority landowners, provide technical and Rhode Island Department of Basin (SC) financial assistance to private landowners Environmental Management Develop an engineering and design plan, to restore and maintain longleaf pine, and Improve Coastal Resiliency at Quonochontaug strengthen stakeholder participation, test increase prescribed burning capacity with a Pond and Breachway (RI) outreach and educational opportunities, and burn specialist. Assess 49 acres of breachway, shoreline complete necessary permitting to restore $299,000 and adjacent landscape at Quonochontaug natural floodplain function. Project will Salt Pond to develop preliminary designs steer and direct next steps to institutionalize that incorporate green infrastructure and a training program that would result in ecologically enhanced shoreline into the the proliferation of renaturalization as gray infrastructure that exists. Project will be an effective resilience strategy in a broad a permit-ready, 60-percent site design with geographic area far beyond the project site. coastal adaptation elements that provide $125,000 improved resilience. $75,000

60 College of William and Mary Manomet The Nature Conservancy Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery Linking Healthy Longleaf Pine Forest Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) Management and Carbon Data for Landowner Expand on efforts to monitor declining Provide coordination of the American Benefit (SC) whimbrel populations along the western oystercatcher recovery initiative and Utilize data from an innovative longleaf pine Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the actionable change based on lessons learned carbon monitoring project in coastal South whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel from 2009-2019 and reduce the impact Carolina to better understand carbon uptake working group input, develop an index of of predators and human disturbance from healthy managed longleaf pine forests. reproductive performance and engage on populations of breeding shorebirds Project will conduct a workshop to inform 25 partners to establish a monitoring network, along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will landowners about carbon markets, create an expand roost surveys during spring contribute substantially to the goals of the informative brochure for continued use with migration to improve protection at key sites, Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. landowners and partners, and communicate continue building an online shorebird roost $79,999 carbon sequestration data findings to registry, and make managers aware of roost professionals across the Southeast. locations to facilitate their protection. National Audubon Society $99,285 $99,374 Restoration and Management of Shorebird Habitats along the Atlantic Coast (NY, NC, SC) University of Georgia Research Foundation Forest Landowners Association Manage and protect shorebird habitats Development of a Planted Longleaf Pine Restoring Longleaf Pine on Large-Acreage to reduce threats, and develop plans and Growth and Yield Model for the Southeast Private Lands (GA, LA, SC) permits needed to restore habitat at key (AL, FL, GA, NC, SC) Establish 1,500 acres of longleaf pine and sites that support 25 percent of North Create a new growth and yield model improve 4,500 acres of existing longleaf Carolina’s nesting American oystercatchers. system for longleaf pine that will allow forest with prescribed fire on large-acreage Project will protect and manage shorebird more accurate growth projections for private lands in Georgia, Louisiana and habitat at 40 sites across three states and landowners considering longleaf pine South Carolina. Project will address barriers will secure permitting to restore shorebird reforestation who may have timber to restoring longleaf pine on large-acreage habitat at two sites. management objectives. Project will UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES private lands and provide technical and $179,999 establish, document and measure financial assistance to support planting permanent plots in planted unthinned and management, with a particular focus National Wild Turkey Federation longleaf pine stands on cut-over sites in on restoring forest lands impacted by Responsible Recreation – National Wild Turkey the southeast United States, and the data hurricanes Michael and Florence in Georgia Federation (SC) will be used to calibrate a growth and yield and South Carolina. Further the Responsible Recreation initiative model for multiple factors for longleaf pine. $200,000 by deploying a social media ad campaign, $243,999 producing a series of informational videos Georgia Tech Research and implementing a digital radio campaign. University of South Carolina Coastal Wetland Restoration and Community Project also will explore a dedicated website Assessing and Protecting a Critical Whimbrel Resiliency in West Ashley, City of Charleston for the initiative. Nocturnal Roost Site at Deveaux Bank (SC) (SC) $500,000 Improve understanding of Deveaux Bank, Deliver at least 90 percent complete South Carolina, the largest known whimbrel engineering design plans for the restoration The Longleaf Alliance nocturnal roost site during northward and conservation of approximately 293 acres Longleaf Pine Restoration and Red-Cockaded migration. Project will utilize emerging of tidal marshes in flood prone areas of the Woodpecker Recovery (SC) technologies to gather information on West Ashley Resilience Hub, in Charleston, Restore, enhance and conserve more than whimbrel migratory and foraging behavior South Carolina. Project will engage 5,000 acres of longleaf pine and bottomland at Deveaux Bank that will help inform future governmental and non-governmental hardwood forest to benefit the federally management decisions and conservation agencies, stakeholder and community endangered red-cockaded woodpecker in efforts. members in planning workshops to develop South Carolina’s coastal plain. Project will $84,418 engineering and design plans as well as provide landowner outreach and financial citizen science initiatives. assistance for longleaf establishment, $219,395 prescribed burning, and working forest SOUTH DAKOTA conservation easements, as well as Kiawah Conservancy translocation of red-cockaded woodpeckers American Bird Conservancy Informed Scenario Planning For Community- to state lands and private properties. Advancing Grassland Bird Conservation Wide Resilience Strategy Building on Kiawah $292,000 through Landowner Outreach (MT, SD) Island (SC) Promote educational opportunities and Address barriers to coastal resilience The Longleaf Alliance land stewardship activities in the Northern by engaging stakeholders within the South Lowcountry - ACE Basin Longleaf Great Plains by offering workshops and community to reach a consensus on the Ecosystem Restoration Partnership — VI (SC) providing conservation technical assistance, use of nature-based solutions to increase Establish 850 acres of longleaf pine and developing conservation plans, and assisting resilience to flooding and natural hazards enhance an additional 5,000 acres of existing private landowners in enrolling in Farm Bill for both human and wildlife communities. longleaf habitat with prescribed fire and programs. Project will enhanced landowner Project will engage stakeholders in scenario mid-story hardwood removal on public and knowledge of grassland conservation and planning, and discuss the use of nature- private lands within the South-Lowcountry soil health, implement sustainable wildlife- based solutions within the barrier island and ACE Basin in South Carolina. Project will compatible management across the project community. conserve working forests with conservation area, and restore and improve management $125,924 easements and restore populations of gopher practices on 3,500 acres. tortoises by hatching and releasing up to 100 $188,813 juvenile tortoises on restored habitat. $286,000

61 Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory TENNESSEE Conserving Pronghorn and Black-Footed Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in Ferret Populations on the Lower Brule Indian the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to Ducks Unlimited Reservation (SD) Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) Outreach and Education for Responsible Modify fences to improve passage and Implement a collaborative network of Outdoor Recreation (TN) habitat connectivity for pronghorn and automated radio telemetry stations Deploy creative communication and continue efforts to conserve prairie dogs throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan outreach tools that seizes on opportunities and recover black-footed ferrets on the Desert to monitor the annual cycle of to foster safe and responsible outdoor Lower Brule Indian Reservation in South grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, activities while strengthening support for Dakota. Project will increase tribal capacity, Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared fish and wildlife conservation and public improve 15 miles of fencing, and mitigate longspur. Project will initiate this effort conservation. threats from sylvatic plague on 1,800 acres by holding webinars to recruit and train $300,000 of black-footed ferret habitat. partners and develop a plan to track $295,201 grassland birds across the region, install Heights Community Development telemetry stations to track focal species, and Corporation National Audubon Society deploy tags on focal species. Right-of-Way Restoration and Maintenance in Achieving Grassland Conservation by Providing $250,000 the Wolf River Watershed (TN) Technical Assistance to Landowners (SD) Improve water quality in the Wolf River Improve existing grassland habitat health Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory watershed by removing invasive plants, and establish 5-10 year conservation Monitoring Grassland Bird Population trash and debris and installing bioswales agreements with landowners through the Responses to Investments in the Northern that will act as nature-based infrastructure South Dakota Prairie Management Toolbox Great Plains (MT, ND, NE, SD, WY) on 8 miles of urban roadways. Project will which provides cost-share and technical Continue evaluating and quantifying the mobilize 450 volunteers as well as engage assistance for woody species removal, impacts of NFWF-funded conservation 220 students and 10 teachers to accomplish prescribed fire, and grazing infrastructure. easement and grazing management projects these outcomes which will prevent 20,000 Project will bring 10,000 acres under on priority grassland bird species in the pounds of trash and debris entering the improved management and restore 1,500 Northern Great Plains. Project will compare river each year. acres of habitat. density, population size, and trend of priority $46,640 $331,951 grassland birds between NFWF projects and controls within the Northern Great Plains Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries National Audubon Society region. Foundation Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush $372,899 Revising the Lower Mississippi Desired Forest Conservation (multiple states) Condition for Wildlife Report (multiple states) Strategically coordinate internal and South Dakota State University Update the Lower Mississippi Valley Joint external communication between a Identifying Native Grassland Habitat to Inform Venture’s Desired Forest Condition for wide range of stakeholders committed and Prioritize Conservation Investments (SD) Wildlife report, which provides technical to improving communications about the Complete an ongoing assessment currently guidance to land managers on how to sagebrush ecosystem to elevate not only underway to identify native, undisturbed, manage bottomland hardwood forests for individual efforts but also the larger dialog land tracts within priority grassland regions the conservation of wildlife. Project will about the value and need for sagebrush of western South Dakota to determine the revise the report to integrate new science conservation. Project will bring 100 acres extent of known tillage history to better on the habitat needs of priority wildlife of sagebrush habitat under improved inform and prioritize future conservation species, include updates from the Forest management, develop media resources investments. Project will establish a Resource Conservation Working Group, and

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED for community stake holders and host field publicly available baseline inventory of add a section dedicated to the management tour events that elevate on-the-ground the potential extent of native grassland of restored or young bottomland hardwood conservation. habitats in western South Dakota for the stands. $29,636 benefit of all endemic grassland species and $79,254 communities. Pheasants Forever $299,509 Mississippi River Trust Responsible Recreation – Forest and Wetlands Restoration and “The Uplands are Open” (SD) World Wildlife Fund Management in the Mississippi River Basin (KY, Encourage that outdoor recreation Securing Black-Footed Ferret Populations MO, TN) activities continue in a safe and responsible Through Sylvatic Plague Mitigation (MT, SD) Restore and enhance privately owned manner following CDC guidelines, while Establish a population of black-footed upland, riparian and bottomland hardwood also encouraging our public lands remain ferret protected from sylvatic plague in the forests through technical and financial open whenever and wherever possible. Missouri-Milk River Grasslands, Montana assistance within the Mississippi River Project will focus on public upland and central South Dakota. Project will Basin in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. properties and utilize a full suite of online improve the status of 20 black-footed ferrets Project will engage private landowners to communication tools. at two reintroduction sites, recover prairie implement conservation practices on 3,000 $300,000 dog habitat lost to sylvatic plague at a third acres to improve forest health, reduce forest site, and set the stage to establish a new fuels, improve water quality and improve ferret population on private lands. ecological functions, benefiting forest birds, $271,946 waterfowl and aquatic species. $222,000

62 Mississippi River Trust TEXAS City of Houston Forested Wetland Restoration in the Lower Urban Prairie Project (TX) Mississippi River Floodplain (multiple states) American Bird Conservancy Integrate principles of resilience within Reforest and protect frequently flooded, Implementing Best Management Practices for an affordable housing development that marginal cropland on private lands through Pollinator Habitat Restoration (TX) consists of two components: restoring a the adoption of Wetland Reserve Easements Support on-the-ground implementation of prairie ecosystem and developing a green in the active floodplain of the Lower site-specific land management practices corridor within existing gas line easement Mississippi River. Project will establish 7,500 to increase the quality, quantity, and for community growth. Project will reach acres of bottomland hardwood forest to connectivity of habitat for monarch 200 community members, restore up to 8 expand and enhance habitat and improve butterflies and pollinators in southern acres of land and serve as a demonstration water quality, benefiting the Louisiana black Texas. Project will restore 500 acres of for how best to integrate green stormwater bear, swamp rabbit, forest birds, waterfowl degraded habitat within the core area of the infrastructure and incorporate an urban and freshwater fish. monarch’s migratory route by incentivizing prairie ecosystem that prepares the $653,696 landowners for conducting pre-approved community to be more resilient. land management practices to restore $400,000 Pheasants Forever degraded habitat back to suitable habitat for Accelerating Forest Restoration and monarchs, pollinators and grassland birds. College of William and Mary Management in the Cumberland Plateau (TN) $75,000 Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western Increase private landowner technical Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) assistance in the Cumberland Plateau Anthropocene Alliance Expand on efforts to monitor declining region of Tennessee to restore and Higher Ground: Green Infrastructure for whimbrel populations along the western enhance forest and freshwater habitats. Resilience (multiple states) Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the Project will engage 450 landowners to Convene six community-based organizations whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel establish or enhance more than 1,000 acres in disaster-prone neighborhoods to engage working group input, develop an index of of shortleaf pine-oak and riparian forest local partners to train volunteers and teach reproductive performance and engage and implement best management practices residents about nature-based practices partners to establish a monitoring network, UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES on 350 acres of agricultural land to improve and install six high visibility projects as a expand roost surveys during spring forest habitat and water quality, benefiting catalyst for broader implementation. Project migration to improve protection at key sites, northern bobwhite and prairie warbler, as will reach 600 community members and continue building an online shorebird roost well as freshwater fishes and mussels. successes will be shared with peer flood registry, and make managers aware of roost $261,579 survivors around the country through a locations to facilitate their protection. network of 48 leaders in 22 states. $99,374 Tennessee Aquarium $494,758 Increasing Adoption of Soil Health Practices on Florida Agricultural and Mechanical the Cumberland Plateau (TN) Austin Area Urban League University Reduce soil degradation and runoff Building Equitable Futures for Our GIS Capacity and Training to Support Gulf- by implementing no-till and other soil Communities Program (TX) Wide Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration health practices on vegetable farms in Create opportunities for individuals to attain (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) Bledsoe, Rhea, and Sequatchie counties, sufficient knowledge, skills, resources, and Provide geographic information system Tennessee. Project will engage 100 private self-efficacy to enable them to become (GIS) expertise and training in support of landowners and producers through Resiliency Ambassadors. Project will provide Gulf-wide ecosystem conservation and field days and a demonstration video to educational programming on preparedness restoration programs and projects. Project implement environmentally sustainable to 196 community members and offer will develop GIS layers and maps where and profitable farming practices on 150 youth Environmentalist Ambassador jobs Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council acres, which will improve water quality and to 20 collegiate students who will have and Natural Resources Damage Assessment protect and improve habitat for the laurel access to capacity building education before projects have been approved for planning dace, Tennessee dace, and many other they are eligible to act as Career Services and implementation by the U.S. Department freshwater fish. Ambassadors within the local community. of Agriculture. $90,000 $300,000 $300,000

Tennessee Department of Agriculture Borderlands Research Institute-Sul Ross Friends of the Wildlife Corridor Expanding Prescribed Fire Implementation on State University Reforesting the La Sal del Rey Tract at Lower the Cumberland Plateau — II (TN) Marfa and Marathon Grassland Habitat Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge (TX) Expand prescribed burning on public and Enhancement for Migratory Birds and Plant seedlings and reforest 20 acres of privately owned shortleaf pine forests in the Pronghorn — III (TX) a previously farmed field in the La Sal del Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee to benefit Conduct brush management activities in Rey Tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley birds such as Bachman’s sparrow, prairie the Marfa and Marathon grasslands to National Wildlife Refuge. Project will engage warbler and northern bobwhite. Project improve grassland health and habitat for community members and 750 school will support a prescribed fire strike team pronghorn and grassland birds. Project children in a four-day planting event that that will implement at least 1,500 acres of will conduct brush management on 4,000 supports opening the Sal del Rey Tract to prescribed burning. acres of brush-invaded grassland using hunting in 2021, doubling youth hunting $230,000 herbicide treatments, as well as implement opportunities on the refuge. fence modifications to promote pronghorn $15,000 movements. $246,759

63 Gulf Coast Bird Observatory Mote Marine Laboratory Pheasants Forever Studying Migrant and Resident Populations of Using Electronic Monitoring for Sustainability Providing Technical Assistance Loggerhead Shrike to Inform Conservation (TX) in the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Fishery for Landowners Using Prescribed Fire to Study habitat affiliations for both migrant (FL, LA, TX) Benefit Monarch Habitat (TX) and resident loggerhead shrikes present on Expand electronic monitoring in the Gulf of Provide technical assistance to private the Texas Gulf Coast to determine if migrant Mexico reef fish fishery to address fisheries working lands through the development individuals are using sub-optimal wintering management objectives by monitoring of a landscape-scale partnership that will habitat. Project will perform genetic and for catch and bycatch, improving data educate and train private landowners and stable isotope analyses on shrike feathers management, and enhancing usability. land managers in the use of prescribed collected during banding to compare bird Project will build on more than four fire to enhance habitat for monarchs and origin and habitat quality. years of electronic monitoring system other pollinators on central Texas. Project $92,359 improvements and comprehensive data will restore 6,600 acres of habitat, develop collection to advance implementation 30 conservation plans and facilitate 18 Houston Wilderness of electronic monitoring as a Gulf-wide workshops reaching 500 landowners. Restoring Riparian Habitat Along the Port of priority. $300,000 Houston Ship Channel (TX) $500,292 Reforest riparian areas by planting 10,000 Reef Fish Conservation and Education targeted, native tree species with high air Pheasants Forever Foundation pollution and water absorption capabilities Coordinating Range Wildlife Conservation in Engaging the Next Generation along 25 miles of the Port of Houston Ship the Lesser Prairie Chicken Range (CO, KS, NM, of Commercial Fishermen in the Gulf of Channel. Project will restore and improve OK, TX) Mexico (AL, FL, LA, MS, TX) management on 180 acres to benefit a Work with private landowners and other Develop a workforce training program to multitude of migratory and resident birds. partners to implement on-the-ground recruit and educate young fishermen for $100,000 riparian habitat restoration across the lesser the commercial seafood harvesting sector. prairie chicken range. Project will enroll Project will engage fishery leaders from Katy Prairie Conservancy landowners into voluntary contracts that will various fisheries across the Gulf of Mexico Enhancing Grassland Conservation for Wildlife restore or improve management on 30,000 in face-to-face meetings to design and plan Habitat in the Katy Prairie (TX) acres of southwestern grassland habitat. a young fishermen training program for Create and enhance grassland habitat, $101,436 the Gulf of Mexico and develop a review of enhance landscape connectivity for wildlife similar programs around the United States. migration and ensure the health of the Pheasants Forever $25,835 landscape by aiding with regional flood Farm Bill Program Delivery and Support to control in the Katy Prairie of Waller County, Improve Water Quality within the Colorado Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Texas. Project will bring 200 acres under River Watershed (TX) Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in improved management and restore 145 Increase technical assistance capacity the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to acres of grassland to benefit multiple to accelerate delivery of voluntary Farm Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) declining bird species of concern. Bill conservation programs and practices Implement a collaborative network of $94,631 that address water quantity and quality, automated radio telemetry stations as well as wildlife habitat, within the throughout the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Colorado River watershed in Texas. Project Desert to monitor the annual cycle of Foundation will improve partners’ ability to deliver grassland birds, including Baird’s sparrow, Monitoring Reintroduced Whooping Cranes to technical assistance to Texan landowners Sprague’s pipit and chestnut-collared Establish a Self-Sustaining Population (LA, TX) for wildlife and natural resource longspur. Project will initiate this effort

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Study habitat use across various life stages conservation. by holding webinars to recruit and train of a whooping crane population that has $150,474 partners and develop a plan to track been reintroduced into southwest Louisiana grassland birds across the region, install since 2011. Project will track and monitor Pheasants Forever telemetry stations to track focal species, and juvenile whooping crane habitat use and Providing Technical Assistance deploy tags on focal species. home range and create range maps to to Landowners Conducting Habitat $250,000 help federal and state agencies develop Restoration for Grassland Birds (TX) management plans and recommendations Build off previously successful work in Saltwater for whooping cranes. southeast Texas by continuing support Expanding and Improving the Use of Electronic $46,542 for a range and wildlife conservationist Monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico Shrimp Trawl to increase technical assistance capacity. Fishery (multiple states) Manomet Project will hold workshops and field days Expand and improve the use of electronic Coordinating American Oystercatcher for 400 landowners to restore 5,000 acres monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico shrimp Recovery on the Atlantic Coast (multiple of working grassland bird habitat, bring trawl fishery by installing electronic states) 2,000 acres under improved management monitoring systems and collecting data Provide coordination of the American and develop 35 management plans. on protected species interactions and red oystercatcher recovery initiative and $36,506 snapper bycatch volume and locations. actionable change based on lessons learned Project will maximize the utility of the from 2009 to 2019 and reduce the impact collected data for both fishery management of predators and human disturbance and dealer verification of catch origin and on populations of breeding shorebirds sustainable fishing practices. along the U.S. Atlantic coast. Project will $173,145 contribute substantially to the goals of the Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. $79,999

64 Stephen F. Austin State University Texas Water Trade UTAH Monitoring Avian Response to Forest Groundwater Leasing Program to Restore Management in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Comanche Springs (TX) Mountain Island Ranch Valley (AR, LA, MS, TX) Demonstrate the feasibility of restoring Restoring Wet Meadow Habitat on Mountain Develop a baseline inventory of bird species Comanche Springs through a groundwater Island Ranch along the Little Dolores River in bottomland hardwood restoration sites in leasing program. Project will evaluate using (CO, UT) the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley through voluntary market transactions to reduce Improve wet meadow habitat and forage the deployment of autonomous sound pumping in the Edwards-Trinity aquifer to along the Little Dolores River in Western recorders. Project will compare baseline support the reintroduction of Comanche Colorado to benefit Gunnison sage-grouse, data to avian community metrics captured Springs pupfish and Pecos gambusia. elk, mule deer, wild turkeys, and waterfowl; in bottomland hardwood forests at different $300,050 restore stream flows and improve water successional stages to identify effective quality; improve soil health; and increase management activities used in forestry Texas Water Trade drought resilience. Project will install wildlife treatments and stages of stand Protecting Continuous Flows on the 170 beaver dam analogues and Zeedyk development that need further treatments Headwaters of the Colorado River (TX) structures, remove invasive vegetation and for maintaining desired forest conditions. Provide landowner outreach and technical alter grazing patterns to restore 240 acres of $73,377 assistance within the Llano, Pedernales and wet meadow habitat. San Saba sub-basins of the Texas Colorado $175,500 Texas A&M AgriLife Research River. Project will increase landowner Salinity Tolerance of Texas Hornshell (TX) enrollment in programs benefiting National Audubon Society Study the salinity tolerance of Texas threatened freshwater mussels species. Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush hornshell and identify potential locations $189,293 Conservation (multiple states) for its reintroduction or reaches for habitat Strategically coordinate internal and external restoration. Project will provide a better The Nature Conservancy communication between a wide range understanding of habitat requirements for Monitoring and Habitat Enhancement at of stakeholders committed to improving Texas hornshell by examining the effects of Diamond Y Spring Preserve (TX) communications about the sagebrush UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES salinity tolerance for multiple life stages. Monitor and enhance aquatic species and ecosystem to elevate not only individual $189,868 habitats at Diamond Y Spring Preserve. efforts but also the larger dialog about the Project will map habitats and establish fish value and need for sagebrush conservation. Texas A&M Forest Service monitoring, evaluate breeding success of Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush Longleaf Pine Restoration and Management (TX) species, including Leon Springs pupfish, habitat under improved management, Engage private landowners through Pecos gambusia, and others, map vegetation develop media resources for community education, outreach, and technical and and monitor hydrology to determine stake holders and host field tour events that financial assistance to restore, enhance, restoration potential, update the preserve’s elevate on-the-ground conservation. and conserve 1,000 acres of longleaf pine conservation plan, and initiate selected $29,636 and bottomland hardwood forest in East habitat management and restoration Texas. Project will reach landowners through actions. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources workshops and county landowner association $197,893 Reducing Human-Wildlife Conflicts with meetings, and promote stewardship Ungulates Migrating through Salt Lake and planning, prescribed burning, and other U.S. Department of the Interior, Utah Counties (UT) forest management practices, benefiting U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Reduce vehicle collisions along State Route northern bobwhite, Swainson’s warbler, and Texas Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office 73 by fencing sections of the road and game species such as wild turkey. Restoration of the Phantom Spring Ciénega (TX) improving habitat conditions within the $181,971 Restore the Phantom Spring Ciénega to migration corridor along the west side of maintain habitat for Pecos gambusia, Utah Lake that have become infested with Texas General Land Office Comanche Springs pupfish and other invasive cheatgrass. Project will restore 195 Swan Lake Marsh Restoration (TX) endangered aquatic species. Project will acres of habitat and reduce wildlife-vehicle Restore approximately 80 acres of coastal remove all of the existing water control collisions by nearly 60 percent. marsh complex within Swan Lake in features that are no longer functioning $90,275 Galveston County, Texas by utilizing dredged and deepen the ciénega to eliminate the materials to increase intertidal elevations need for pumping all together, exploring West Box Elder Conservation District to support marsh habitats and reduce the alternative plans as necessary. Creating and Improving Wet Meadow and risk of coastal flooding. Project will protect $30,139 Grassland Habitat along Grouse Creek (UT, ID) critical port infrastructure, important aquatic Improve and create wet meadow and nursery and wildlife habitat, and protect University of Oklahoma grassland habitat for wildlife, promote adjacent coastal prairies. Developing Tools to Advance Grassland Bird aquatic habitat protection, and expand $3,000,000 Wintering Habitat Management Practices water developments to limit cattle use of (CO, NM, OK, TX) riparian areas in Grouse Creek in Box Elder Texas Rice Industry Coalition Expand on an existing framework studying County, Utah. Project will bring 3,000 acres for the Environment the wintering ecology of longspurs and other under improved management and restore Restoring Wetland and Prairie Habitat at the grassland birds in the Great Plains using hydrology on more than 500 acres of mesic Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (TX) species distribution modeling, automated habitat. Restore habitat for grassland birds, butterflies, radio telemetry biologging, and weather $215,303 other pollinator species and mammals on the radar analysis. Project will develop tools to Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge in Chambers improve field grassland bird surveys to more County, Texas. Project will create and restore accurately estimate abundance and habitat 490 acres of year-round freshwater wetland usage, and to improve grazing management and native prairie habitat. regimes to best advance bird conservation. $27,300 $138,145

65 VERMONT Rich Earth Institute Wildlife Management Institute Deploying a Nitrogen Reclamation Project in Enhancing Forest Habitat for New England Connecticut River Watershed Council the Long Island Sound Watershed — III (VT) Cottontails, Golden-Winged Warbler and Implementing an Innovative Approach to Enhance the deployment of nitrogen American Woodcock (multiple states) Restore Forests on Upper Connecticut River reclamation technology in Windham County, Enhance participation in Farm Bill programs (NH, VT) Vermont, Franklin County, Massachusetts by supporting habitat biologists and Restore healthy riparian forests and and Cheshire County, New Hampshire. outreach specialists to interface with private floodplains in tributaries of the Upper Project will divert 150 pounds of nitrogen landowners to provide young forest habitat Connecticut River in New Hampshire and annually from entering the Connecticut for more than 50 Species of Conservation Vermont that provide important habitat River and downstream to Long Island Sound. Need in New England. Project will develop for freshwater mussels, fish, birds and $96,734 forest management plans that utilize existing pollinators. Project will implement an Best Management Practices, develop innovative, 10-acre floodplain restoration Trout Unlimited healthy diverse forest age classes, and from an old hay field and restore 3 miles Restoring Instream Habitat and Engaging protect riparian habitat values, improving of riparian forest to improve water quality Private Landowners to Improve Fish Passage management on 200 acres. and benefit native brook trout, wood turtle, (MA, NY, VT) $156,290 rusty blackbird and other aquatic and Restore instream and riparian forest habitat riparian species. based on previous outreach and training $174,214 to private landowners, municipalities, and VIRGINIA forestry professionals. Project will add large Essex County Natural Resources woody material to 5 miles of stream, restore Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Conservation District 5 miles of adjacent riparian forest to create Developing an Integrated Community-based Planning for Cover Cropping to Reduce habitat for native brook and complete 90 Monitoring Approach to Track Restoration (DC, Nitrogen (VT) percent designs for three aquatic barriers to MD, PA, VA) Develop a cover cropping species mix be removed in the future. Leverage relationships with local, county, and planting strategy and methods for $133,842 state and federal agencies, community monitoring reductions in nitrogen from partners and restoration experts to ensure farm runoff in Essex County, Connecticut. Vermont Association of Conservation that the monitoring plan developed meets Project will create a robust on-farm planting Districts diverse needs. Project will complete strategy to reduce nitrogen into the Planning for Pocket Wetland Restoration to research on existing restoration monitoring Connecticut River and downstream to Long Prevent Nitrogen Pollution from Farms (VT) protocols and engagement of diverse Island Sound. Develop 14 watershed plans to identify high- stakeholders, conduct development $24,521 priority areas to restore pocket wetlands in of a comprehensive community-based agricultural fields in Vermont’s Connecticut restoration study design, and develop Friends of Nulhegan Basin Fish River Basin. Project will ultimately restore protocol testing and data generation at two and Wildlife Refuge freshwater wetlands and enable greater to four restoration sites at varying stages of Maintaining Access to Silvio O. Conte National reduction in nitrogen loading from nonpoint installation. Fish and Wildlife Refuge (VT) source runoff from the Connecticut River $230,279 Re-deck the primary access bridge to the downstream to Long Island Sound. Nulhegan Bay Division of Silvio O. Conte $49,925 Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay National Fish and Wildlife Refuge. Project Expanding the Woodland Stewardship will provide continued public access to Vermont Land Trust Network Program in the Blue Ridge (VA) the refuge for hunting, fishing, and other Incentivizing Ecological Restoration on Expand the Woodland Stewardship Network

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED outdoor recreation activities while raising Vermont Farmland into the Blue Ridge geography of Virginia by awareness of conservation and increasing Produce ecological assessments and building at least two additional networks of the volunteer base. riparian/wetland restoration plans for 12 private landowners with forest management $4,000 farmland conservation projects and an plans that will improve management on associated plan for a market-based financing privately owned, non-industrial forestland. National Audubon Society model in the Connecticut River Watershed, Project will create management plans Identifying Forest Blocks and Implementing Vermont. Project will develop a strategy for for 1,000 acres of forest and improve Strategies to Improve Habitat for Birds (NY, VT) incentivizing on-farm projects to reduce management of 150 acres to benefit golden- Improve forest management practices nitrogen along the Connecticut River and winged and cerulean warblers. through Audubon’s Woods, Wildlife, and downstream to Long Island Sound. $50,000 Warblers program and continue to work $199,478 with family forest owners, professional Canaan Valley Institute foresters and industry in the Lake Vermont Land Trust Restoration of Aquatic Connectivity and Champlain and Upper Hudson watersheds Restoring Riparian Forests, Instream Habitat Riparian Corridor Habitat Enhancement (VA) in New York and Lake Champlain Basin in and Wetlands (VT) Restore aquatic connectivity and reduce Vermont. Protect will restore 450 acres of Design and implement a suite of forest, sedimentation through riparian corridor young forest habitat and 1,000 acres of late stream and agricultural practices in the enhancement to benefit the hellbender, successional habitat to benefit American heavily agricultural basins of Vermont’s freshwater mussels and fish in the Upper woodcock, golden-winged warbler, black- two largest lakes, Champlain and Tennessee River Basin in southwestern throated blue warbler and wood thrush. Memphremagog, as part of the Headwaters Virginia. Project will remove one fish passage $200,000 to Lakeshore Initiative. Project will restore barrier, open 5 miles of stream, construct 10 miles of riparian forest with a 50 foot 2 miles of livestock exclusion fencing, buffer, restore a mile of instream habitat and restore 3 miles of riparian forest buffer, 100 acres of wetland. establish 10 hellbender nest sites, and utilize $137,650 environmental DNA sampling. $155,588

66 Capital Region Land Conservancy Chesapeake Bay Trust City of Petersburg Preserving Open Space and Protecting Chesapeake Bay Trust Regional Capacity Fleets Branch Stream Restoration (VA) Vulnerable Habitat (VA) Building Initiative (DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) Implement a shovel-ready, cost effective Develop a strategy for the city of Richmond Build collaborative and organizational stream restoration project. Project will to identify and protect additional lands capacity of regional entities and complete phase two of a 2,027-linear-foot that improve the health and function of organizations within the Chesapeake Bay restoration of Fleets Branch that has already tributaries, improve habitat and establish watershed working together to accelerate been designed, the first half of which is wildlife corridors, while also creating public watershed restoration through tailored presently under construction. access. Project will include significant assessment. Project will heighten capacity $500,000 community outreach and engagement to of groups to advance clean water plans, improve public participation in the location increase communication, coordination and College of William and Mary and design of habitat restoration, and collaboration among partners within and Conserving Whimbrel Across the Western outcomes will include one implementation across priority regions within the watershed, Atlantic Flyway (multiple states, Canada) plan that includes prioritization of 10 and increase power of the grassroots Expand on efforts to monitor declining parcels. movement for sustained environmental and whimbrel populations along the western $50,000 clean water protections. Atlantic Flyway. Project will update the $1,500,000 whimbrel conservation plan with whimbrel Chesapeake Bay Commission working group input, develop an index Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences Chesapeake Stormwater Network of reproductive performance and engage of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training and partners to establish a monitoring network, (multiple states) Engagement in Urban Watersheds (multiple expand roost surveys during spring Draft and publish peer-reviewed literature states) migration to improve protection at key summarizing the core set of lessons learned Focus stormwater training and engagement sites, continue building an online shorebird through the work of the Chesapeake Bay efforts on four critical and vulnerable roost registry, and make managers aware of restoration partnership which are applicable target populations in the Bay watershed roost locations to facilitate their protection. to other watershed-based/partnership- to accelerate the pace of local nutrient $99,374 UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES based restoration efforts. Project will share reduction and promote more widespread the key lessons learned during the multi- implementation of effective stormwater and College of William and Mary, Virginia decade, partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay restoration practices across the watershed. Institute of Marine Science restoration efforts, and will result in a multi- $325,000 Analyzing Impacts of Poultry Litter media series of “lessons learned” products. on Water Quality on Eastern Shore Freshwater $25,316 City of Hopewell, Virginia Streams (VA) Hopewell Stormwater Green Infrastructure Investigate and expand freshwater stream Chesapeake Bay Foundation (VA) assessments on the Eastern Shore of Bringing the Lynnhaven River Oyster Implement a stormwater green Virginia, specifically Chesapeake Bay Population to Restored Status (VA) infrastructure project, including the drainages in Accomack and Northampton Deliver a comprehensive oyster restoration stabilization of three storm drain outfall counties. Project will examine freshwater project in the Lynnhaven River that will channels that convey stormwater down stream nutrient levels to identify water enhance the population of native eastern the highly erodible escarpment between quality impairments from poultry oysters and engage the watershed the developed areas of the city and the operations via stormwater runoff using community on oyster restoration projects. James and Appomattox river floodplains. estimates of land cover in the drainage Project will establish 7 acres of new oyster Project will provide a significant reduction areas, including variables such as reef and place 15 million young oysters within in stormwater pollutant load to the the presence and distance of poultry the river, which are estimated to remove Appomattox River, specifically two outfalls operations, agricultural fields, residential 335 pounds of nitrogen and 67 pounds of located in the Ashton Creek-Appomattox housing, forest and swamps. phosphorus from the Lynnhaven River. River Priority Subwatershed. $49,310 $490,372 $500,000 College of William and Mary, Virginia Chesapeake Bay Foundation City of Hopewell, Virginia Institute of Marine Science Greening Southside Richmond (VA) Outfall and Gully Stabilization Project Design Test and Implement Commercial Grade Improve water quality in Little Westham, and Regional Pollutant Reduction Calculator Biodegradable Hinges on Dungeness Crab Almond, Proctors, and Falling creeks located (VA) Traps (AK, VA, WA) in Southside Richmond, Virginia by reducing Restore three severely eroding stormwater Employ commercial-grade biodegradable impervious surfaces and managed turf, outfalls in the City of Hopewell, Virginia hinges on Dungeness crab traps to minimize planting 250 trees on municipal property, and develop standard design guidance and adverse impacts when the traps become and installing green infrastructure projects a pollutant reduction calculator to assist derelict. Project will test the durability of to retain and treat polluted runoff. Project regional adoption of the newly approved the hinges in both the active fishery utilizing will work with Richmond’s Office of Chesapeake Bay Program’s Guidance for watermen and in a simulated derelict trap Sustainability to identify areas where green crediting Outfall and Gully Stabilization mode to ensure the function as needed infrastructure projects are most needed Projects. Project will improve the water to be functional for fishermen and protect to reduce heat stress and improve health quality of local impaired waters and the marine ecosystems. outcomes for communities. Appomattox River and create a planning $130,579 $227,467 tool for evaluating and design that will be distributed to regional partners. $34,100

67 College of William and Mary, Virginia Headwaters Soil and Water Manomet Institute of Marine Science Conservation District Coordinating American Oystercatcher Recovery Using Mobile Applications to Turn Recreational Demonstrating Sustainable Farm Operations at on the Atlantic Coast (multiple states) Anglers into Community Scientists (MD, VA) the Augusta County Correctional Center (VA) Provide coordination of the American Understand the success of the “eBird” Install 5 miles of stream fencing, improve oystercatcher recovery initiative and application and explore how that approach 350 acres of livestock pasture management, actionable change based on lessons could be adapted to engaging recreational and establish 35 acres of grass buffers and learned from 2009-2019 and reduce anglers in community science. Project will 16 acres of forest buffers on an agriculture the impact of predators and human determine the priorities and concerns operation at the Augusta County Correctional disturbance on populations of breeding recreational fishermen, fisheries managers, Center. Project will improve sustainability of shorebirds along the U.S. Atlantic coast. and fisheries scientists have regarding the farm operation and advance measurable Project will contribute substantially to the mobile applications, and use this input to progress toward Virginia’s Phase 3 Watershed goals of the Atlantic Flyway Business Plan. begin developing an “eFish” application for Implementation Plan. $79,999 community science. $238,024 $43,374 Middle Peninsula Planning District James River Association Commission Daniel Hall Reconnecting Fish Migratory Pathways (VA) Creating Coastal Resiliency through Living 2020 Guy Bradley Award - State Winner Facilitate the removal and replacement of a Shoreline Strategies (VA) $2,500 was awarded to the 2020 Guy culvert on Flowerdew Hundred creek in the Assist homeowners in Mathews County Bradley Award state level recipient, Sergeant James River watershed that acts as a critical through the Fight the Flood program to Daniel Hall from the Virginia Department of barrier to fish passage. Project will target design, permit, install and monitor living Game and Inland Fisheries. American Shad and river herring and achieve shorelines that meet Federal Emergency $2,500 the outcome of restoring aquatic connectivity Management Agency storm event for these native anadromous fish. standards. Project will survey locations for Delmarva Poultry Industry $70,000 living shorelines in targeted locations on Poultry Litter Matching Service for a Cleaner the East River and the North River. Bay and Healthy Farms (DE, MD, VA) James River Association $219,410 Develop an online poultry litter matching Water Quality Improvements through a Living tool to connect producers with excess litter Shoreline Collaborative (VA) National Wildlife Federation to improve crop growth and soil health. Combat erosion and adapt to changing Developing Capacity Building Framework Project will support the implementation shorelines through accelerated living within the Chesapeake Bay Community of Maryland’s Phosphorus Management shorelines implementation. Project will (multiple states) Tool (PMT) and Phase 3 Watershed develop and deliver a living shoreline training Address gaps in capacity within the Implementation Plans across Delmarva, program to increase technical capacity, Chesapeake Bay community through thereby helping to meet regional water formalize an existing partnership in the a partnership with the Choose Clean quality and healthy watershed goals. lower James River, increase the capacity of Water Coalition and the Alliance for the $49,890 partners, and bring in partners from outside Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to of the watershed to expand the network of research, analyze and develop a capacity Elizabeth River Project knowledge to build on existing efforts. building framework. Project will target an Restoring Two Key Tributaries in the Elizabeth $1,000,000 audience of capacity builders and the NGO River (VA) community with missions that include Work with Norfolk, three universities and Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. citizens and businesses to restore urban Glen Stream Restoration (VA) $421,147

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED water quality, oysters and wetlands in two Improve 550 feet of stream through use key tributaries to the Elizabeth River. Project of vegetation that will increase plant, soil Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional will achieve a subwatershed management and water interaction, leveraging natural Commission plan for Knitting Mill Creek and construction ability to absorb the particulate matter and Urban Green Stormwater Infrastructure of catalyst projects, including a living excess nutrients that flow from the man- Implementation (VA) shoreline, oyster reef, rain gardens and made landscape. Project will restore natural Install three urban stormwater green other green infrastructure to be open to the drainage patterns and water table levels, and infrastructure projects at or adjacent to public at a new Resilience Learning Park. the project will offer educational experiences two schools in Fauquier County, and use $499,168 for more than 450,000 visitors a year. to conduct outreach and education in $94,154 the school district. Project will improve Hampton Roads Planning District participation in the Virginia Conservation Retrofitting Businesses and Industrial Lynnhaven River Now Assistance Program in Fauquier County by Properties (VA) Restoration of the Eastern Oyster in the providing program outreach and cost- Identify large-scale private industrial and Eastern Branch of the Lynnhaven River (VA) share matching funds for a minimum business sites willing to improve water Restore oyster reefs in the Eastern Branch of five BMP projects, and develop a quality and provide flood protection with of the Lynnhaven River in Virginia Beach, GIS-based prioritization to guide future green infrastructure and implementation of Virginia. Project will remove approximately implementation in the Rappahannock- best management practices (BMPs). Project 1,626 pounds of nitrogen a year through Rapidan Region. will identify 10-12 business or industries denitrification and 2,541 pounds of nitrogen $301,227 that will implement BMPs in the private storage in the shells and bodies of oysters sector, 2) develop a list of design concepts, and reef fauna, an additional 60 acres reef budgets, and funding solutions for future habitat target in the Lynnhaven, resulting in implementation, and 3) identify barriers and removal of 32,520 pounds of nitrogen a year provide incentives for reporting nutrient through denitrification and 50,820 pounds of credits for the Bay total maximum daily load. nitrogen storage. $50,000 $500,000

68 The Nature Conservancy The Potomac Conservancy Winrock International Institute of Assessing and Mitigating American Growing Native Tree Initiative (MD, VA) Agriculture Development Oystercatcher Predation Impacts (VA) Connect disparate native tree planting efforts Methods and Protocols for Calculating Carbon Identify causes of chick loss to inform in the Potomac Watershed and build a Sequestration Benefits (VA) existing predator management activities network of volunteers increasing the number Develop methods, protocols and a tool that at critical nesting sites for American of native seeds collected and market existing NFWF staff and grantees can use to calculate oystercatcher on the Atlantic coast of native tree planting opportunities. Project will the total greenhouse gas emissions avoided Virginia. Project will increase oystercatcher convene the coalition, build a website that and/or sequestered annually as a result of reproductive output and help avoid will consolidates community engagement NFWF-funded projects (i.e. the annualized population reversal in the most important opportunities, and expand seed collection carbon benefit). Project will use selected American oystercatcher breeding area in the drop off sites, nursery sites, and community- methods and protocols to estimate the flyway. led seed events. carbon benefits of 35 Acres for America $29,992 $47,518 projects and 100-125 additional projectsthat are representative of the NFWF portfolio, The Nature Conservancy Trout Unlimited and will develop a “carbon calculator” tool Building Oyster Reefs and Enhanced Saltmarsh Sediment Reductions Through Collaborative and train NFWF staff to use it. Habitat in Wachapreague (VA) Technical Assistance in Virginia Headwaters $118,830 Build and monitor oyster reefs with two Expand technical assistance capacity in the types of oyster substrate adjacent to an headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia eroding salt marsh to enhance and protect to improve water quality and habitat for WASHINGTON the seaside town of Wachapreague, VA. native eastern brook trout. Project will install Project will further engage the town of 15 miles of exclusion fencing, establish 80 College of William and Mary, Virginia Wachapreague and similar communities acres of new riparian forest buffer, exclude Institute of Marine Science protected by the Virginia coastal bay system livestock from and protect 151 acres, and Test and Implement Commercial Grade in nature-based solutions to increase restore and stabilize 14 miles of streambanks Biodegradable Hinges on Dungeness Crab resilience in this vulnerable area as well as and 1.5 miles of eroding streambanks. Traps (AK, VA, WA) UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES benefit people and wildlife. $949,142 Employ commercial-grade biodegradable $804,878 hinges on dungeness crab traps to minimize Trout Unlimited adverse impacts when the traps become The Nature Conservancy Chesapeake Bay Watershed Priority Brook derelict. Project will test the durability of Identifying, Prioritizing, and Incentivizing Trout Strongholds Conservation Analysis the hinges in both the active fishery utilizing Marsh Management Actions in the (MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) watermen and in a simulated derelict trap Chesapeake Bay (MD, VA) Complete focal analyses for 11 brook mode to ensure the function as needed Develop a marsh management action trout stronghold patches within the to be functional for fishermen and protect decision support tool and resilience credit Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will marine ecosystems. targeting parameters, plus streamline develop a strategic restoration approach $130,579 and enhance the effectiveness of marsh focused on brook trout populations, and management actions and make funding following the compilation of the available Columbia Land Trust opportunities more accessible for data for each patch and the completion of Acquisition of Mount Adams-Klickitat Canyon tidal marsh conservation practitioners the conservation portfolio analysis, Trout Forest (WA) throughout the Chesapeake Bay. Project will Unlimited will provide a summary report for Conserve the 9,900-acre Mount Adams- evaluate the climatic and human pressures each priority patch that outlines potential Klickitat Canyon Forest through fee that are degrading tidal marsh habitats projects, current data available, monitoring acquisition. Project will protect critical within a holistic context that weighs inputs, needs, and other information. habitat for 36 federally and state-listed actions, and outcomes to determine best $41,574 wildlife species or species of concern, as well management practices. as ensure the canyon’s role as a central link $49,699 Trout Unlimited in a wildlife migration and dispersal corridor Responsible Recreation Outreach (VA) that connects 2 million acres of federal and The Nature Conservancy Collaborate with partners in the outdoor tribal protected habitat to the north with Propagating and Restoring Native Freshwater recreation community to promote tens of thousands of acres of state and Mussel Species in the Upper Clinch River (VA) responsible fishing during the pandemic. private conservation lands to the south. Restore populations of three native Project will include a digital and print media $500,000 freshwater mussels species by propagating campaign. them, raising them to a suitable size for $300,000 Fieldwork Communications release into the wild and introducing them Nationwide Communication on Fisheries into suitable historic habitat in the Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute Electronic Technologies and Fisheries portion of the Clinch River in southwestern Installing Hellbender Nest Boxes as a Information Systems (WA) Virginia. Project will release 100,000 native Restoration Strategy (VA) Develop and execute nationwide mussels considered ecosystem engineers Install hellbender nest boxes in Copper Creek, communication strategy for electronic that are currently under-represented in the VA in the second phase of an effort to restore monitoring and reporting technologies and river, with the goal of raising overall mussel limited hellbender shelter and nesting habitat modernization of the U.S. fisheries data assemblage densities beyond 10 mussels per on private land that will lead to increased systems. Project will develop communication square meter. survival and reproduction. Project will install materials and engage a network of $199,787 60 nest boxes for hellbenders, repeatedly stakeholders using digital platforms monitor species response and produce and social media to advance electronic behavior change in 12 households with monitoring and reporting technologies. agricultural property on the river. $152,982 $116,474

69 Friends of Willapa National Wildlife Refuge National Audubon Society Port of Grays Harbor Overlook and Outdoor Classroom for Willapa Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush Collection of Fishing Gear and Public Outreach National Wildlife Refuge (WA) Conservation (multiple states) at Westport Marina (WA) Construct an overlook at Willapa National Strategically coordinate internal and external Collect and recycle or convert to energy Wildlife Refuge. Project will provide an communication between a wide range retired crab, shrimp, tuna, oyster, salmon, outdoor classroom for environmental of stakeholders committed to improving and whiting affiliated fishing gear at education, increase accessible facilities, and communications about the sagebrush Westport Marina, in Westport, Washington. raise awareness of the Friends group. ecosystem to elevate not only individual Project will collect and recycle or convert $15,000 efforts but also the larger dialog about the to energy nearly 40 tons of fishing gear, value and need for sagebrush conservation. serving 170 resident vessels and hundreds Kwiaht: Center for the Historical Ecology of Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush of transient seasonal vessels, while program the Salish Sea habitat under improved management, outreach will educate fisherman and the Determining if Salish Sea Northern Anchovy can develop media resources for community public on the value and impact of recycling be Alternative Prey for Chinook Salmon (WA) stake holders and host field tour events that fishing gear. Assess the role of northern anchovy in elevate on-the-ground conservation. $8,293 Chinook diets as a possible alternative to $29,636 their declining prey base. Project will sample Quileute Tribe and monitor Chinook salmon and forage fish Nez Perce Tribe Restoring Thunder Field to Address Erosion around the San Juan Islands to determine Increase Flow Restoration Efforts in the Nez and Enhance Salmonoid Habitat (WA) whether increasing stocks of northern Perce Tribal Geographies (ID, OR, WA) Finalize engineering designs that address anchovy are a viable prey alternative or a Increase flow restoration efforts in the erosion and avulsion threats at Thunder competitor to current prey biomass. Nez Perce tribal geographies. Project will Field to enhance salmonid habitat along $27,916 increase tribal capacity to coordinate with 5.5 miles of river channel and associated other groups developing water transactions floodplains, wetlands, and riparian habitat Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership within the broad geography of ceded on the Quillayute River. Project will reduce Steigerwald Flood Risk Reduction and lands, and also enable the Tribe to propose channel migration and erosion using large Floodplain Restoration for Salmonids and transactions uniquely linked to tribal wood and earthen structures to protect Lamprey (WA) relationships, tribal treaty rights, and tribal riparian, upland and stream habitat for Reconfigure a 5.5-mile levee system to sovereignty. wildlife. reconnect 960 acres of historic floodplain $15,000 $169,127 habitat, fish passage and establish native vegetation along a section of the lower Nooksack Salmon Enhancement SR3 SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation and Columbia River. Project will improve rearing Association Research habitat for salmon, steelhead, and lamprey; Whatcom Stream Stewards Program (WA) Monitoring the Nutritional Health of Southern re-establish unobstructed fish passage to a Restore 15 acres of riparian habitat to Resident Killer Whales for Management (WA) 7 square mile watershed; reduce flood risk improve water quality and habitat for Use unmanned aerial systems to monitor to an industrial park, municipal wastewater Chinook salmon, bull trout and steelhead in the body condition, growth and pregnancy treatment plant, and private residences; and Puget Sound and Whatcom County. Project rates of Southern Resident killer whales. improve recreation opportunities. will engage five local resource management Project will relay nutritional health $1,987,219 partners and 2,000 volunteers to plant and effects on reproductive success to 5,000 trees and remove 6 acres of invasive management to facilitative adaptive Mid Sound Fisheries Enhancement Group vegetation. management of fisheries harvest, Restoring Shorelines to Increase Prey Availability $32,404 salmon restoration efforts, and medical

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED for Southern Resident Killer Whales (WA) interventions. Engage Central Puget Sound residential Pheasants Forever $159,996 landowners to restore forage fish and juvenile Increasing Regional Capacity for Mule Deer salmon habitat using innovative outreach Conservation (WA) Sustainable Northwest strategies and technical and financial Increase organizational capacity to assist in Pacific Northwest Forest Collaboratives and incentives. Project will focus on restoring developing and implementing conservation Indian Tribes Restoration Initiative (OR, WA) beach habitat to increase the prey availability and restoration projects, promoting Natural Partner with Indian Tribes and Forest for Southern Resident killer whales. Resource Conservation Service programs Collaboratives to implement and monitor $141,020 and building robust regional partnerships. fuels and wildfire risk reduction projects $274,596 with forest restoration and wildlife habitat Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust enhancement on three Pacific Northwest Issaquah Creek Riparian Restoration at Lake Port of Bellingham landscapes. Project will improve rural and Sammamish State Park (WA) Recycling Used Gill and Seine Nets in the Port Indigenous community protection against Engage community members, volunteers, of Bellingham (WA) fire and restore forests, resulting in more and AmeriCorps members to continue Collect and recycle or convert to energy than 430,000 acres managed for strategic and expand ecological restoration efforts used gill and seine nets in the Port of fuel reductions and long-term conservation within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Bellingham, Washington, home to the outcomes in Oregon and Washington. Lake Sammamish Urban Wildlife Refuge second largest commercial fishing fleet in $349,470 Partnership. Project will undertake 10 new Washington State. Project will recycle or acres of restoration, support restoration convert to energy 15 tons of fishing gear on more than 40 acres, plant 4,000 native through a partnership with local recyclers, trees and shrubs, engage more than providing a safe and environmentally 200 volunteers, and connect with 100 friendly option for local fisherman to dispose youths through the organization’s outdoor of their used nets. environmental education program. $9,850 $50,000

70 The Whale Museum Washington Department of Ecology WEST VIRGINIA Increasing Boater Awareness on Regulations to Restoring Graveyard Spit to Prevent Coastal Protect Southern Resident Killer Whales (WA) Erosion in Willipa Bay (WA) Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust Establish clear messaging to communicate Develop the final engineering designs and Collaborative Conservation and Brook Trout new rules for recreational boaters near permitting for the construction of a nature- Restoration in the Cacapon Watershed (WV) Southern Resident killer whales. Project will based dune and cobble berm to restore and Conserve high-quality riparian corridors support the creation of key messaging and protect Graveyard Spit along the northern through conservation easements and design and generation of materials that will entrance to Willapa Bay, Washington. Project improve brook trout habitat. Project help the communities using the Puget Sound will halt the ongoing loss of the spit and the will convene the Cacapon Watershed and Salish Sea region to understand and vulnerable back-barrier estuary, while also Collaborative to identify shared goals of comply with recently released regulations. protecting community infrastructure that is watershed partners and build capacity for $79,345 threatened by coastal erosion and sea level increased land protection and ecologically rise. sustainable land management, and behavior The Whale Museum $240,504 change research will be conducted to learn Modeling Movement and Distribution of Killer effective strategies for engaging landowners Whales in the Salish Sea (WA) Washington Department of Fish and in stewardship. Conduct analysis of 42 year dataset to Wildlife $350,630 establish models that relate Southern Provide Streamflow Monitoring and Water Resident killer whale movement to biotic Transaction Support (WA) Chesapeake Bay Commission and abiotic factors such as salmon returns, Provide stream monitoring and technical Lessons Learned from Decades of Experiences temperature and depth. Project will develop assistance to all Washington state Qualified of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership a baseline model of temporal and spatial Local Entities on prioritization, identification, (multiple states) killer whale use in the Salish Sea that can and development of water right Draft and publish peer-reviewed literature be used to overlay threats for improved transactions. Project will provide review summarizing the core set of lessons learned management action. on monitoring plans to ensure that stream through the work of the Chesapeake Bay $21,519 flow and, where appropriate, biological restoration partnership which are applicable UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES monitoring are incorporated into project to other watershed-based/partnership- Trout Unlimited monitoring plans. based restoration efforts. Project will share Elevating Instream Flow Enhancement in the $112,017 the key lessons learned during the multi- Methow and Okanogan Basins - Colville (WA) decade, partnership-based, Chesapeake Bay Identify, prioritize and develop water Washington Water Trust restoration efforts, and will result in a multi- transactions in the Methow and Okanogan Stream Flow Restoration to Benefit Salmon, media series of “lessons learned” products. subbasins of Washington working in Steelhead and Trout in the Columbia Basin $25,316 collaboration with the Confederated (WA) Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Project Restore fish-critical streams in the Columbia Chesapeake Bay Trust will increase habitat and instream flow in River Basin by implementing instream Chesapeake Bay Trust Regional Capacity priority tributaries and will build capacity flow acquisitions in the Methow, Yakima, Building Initiative (DC, MD, PA, VA, WV) for working with agricultural landowners on Wenatchee, Klickitat, and White Salmon Build collaborative and organizational conservation projects that will benefit Pacific River basins. Project will benefit ESA-listed capacity of regional entities and salmon, steelhead and their habitat. Chinook salmon and steelhead. organizations within the Chesapeake Bay $79,740 $135,000 watershed working together to accelerate watershed restoration through tailored Trout Unlimited Washington Water Trust assessment. Project will heighten capacity Hydrologic Flow Restoration in the Yakima, Stream Flow Restoration to Benefit Salmon, of groups to advance clean water plans, Entiat, and Wenatchee Basins (WA) Steelhead and Trout in the Columbia Basin, increase communication, coordination and Identify, prioritize and develop projects Colville (WA) collaboration among partners within and with willing water right holders in the Restore fish-critical streams in the across priority regions within the watershed, Entiat, Yakima and Wenatchee subbasins of Columbia River Basin by implementing and increase power of the grassroots Washington to complete significant instream instream flow acquisitions in the Okanogan, movement for sustained environmental and flow enhancements to priority streams and Wenatchee, and Methow watersheds. clean water protections. tributaries. Project will improve tributary Project will continue its partnership with $1,500,000 instream habitat to benefit listed salmon the Confederated Tribes of the Colville and other fish species and their habitats. Reservation to benefit ESA-listed steelhead, Chesapeake Stormwater Network $221,624 spring Chinook, and bull trout. Chesapeake Bay Stormwater Training and $99,296 Engagement in Urban Watersheds (multiple U.S. Department of Commerce, National states) Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Washington Water Trust Focus stormwater training and engagement Northwest Fisheries Science Center Stream Flow Restoration to Benefit Salmon, efforts on four critical and vulnerable Monitoring Distribution, Habitat Use, and Prey Steelhead and Trout in the Columbia Basin, target populations in the Bay watershed Selection of Southern Resident Killer Whales Umatilla (WA) to accelerate the pace of local nutrient (WA) Restore fish-critical streams in the Columbia reduction and promote more widespread Conduct boat-based surveys for Southern River Basin by implementing instream implementation of effective stormwater and Resident killer whales in the coastal waters flow acquisitions in the Walla Walla basin. restoration practices across the watershed. of Washington. Project will determine whale Project will continue its partnership with $325,000 distribution, habitat use, and prey selection the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla to fill data gaps for managers about Reservation to benefit ESA-threatened population use of this lesser understood summer steelhead and bull trout. coastal habitat. $117,975 $197,935

71 National Wildlife Federation WISCONSIN Milwaukee Public Schools Developing Capacity Building Framework Designing and Constructing Green Stormwater within the Chesapeake Bay Community City of Port Washington Infrastructure on Milwaukee Schoolyards (WI) (multiple states) Implementing Green Stormwater Infrastructure Conduct detailed design, permitting and Address gaps in capacity within the Improvements in City of Port Washington (WI) construction of green infrastructure at Chesapeake Bay community through Provide flood storage and improve five Milwaukee schoolyards to address a partnership with the Choose Clean water quality through implementation stormwater needs. Project will plant 57 Water Coalition and the Alliance for the of green infrastructure within the Sauk trees, build more than 87,000 acres of Chesapeake Bay, with the objective to Creek watershed, Wisconsin. Project will greenspace, remove 11,500 acres of research, analyze and develop a capacity enhance wet meadow habitat by installing impervious surface and add 4 million gallons building framework. Project will target an vegetative swales and native vegetation, of stormwater storage annually. audience of capacity builders and the NGO adding nearly 1.5 million gallons of $625,000 community with missions that include stormwater storage annually. improving the Chesapeake Bay watershed. $400,000 Milwaukee Public Schools $421,147 Stormwater Management Green Infrastructure Crossroads at Big Creek at Milwaukee Schoolyards (WI) Trout Unlimited Transforming a Patchwork of Rural Lands into Design and construct green infrastructure Chesapeake Bay Watershed Priority Brook Wildlife Habitat (WI) projects, including asphalt removal, porous Trout Strongholds Conservation Analysis Manage ecological trajectories to transform pavement installation, bioswales and rain (MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) a patchwork of past rural and agricultural gardens at five Milwaukee schoolyards on Complete focal analyses for 11 brook lands into reconnected, thriving, high- 11 acres to address local stormwater needs. trout stronghold patches within the quality forest and meadow habitat at Big Project will plant 57 trees, engage 2,335 Chesapeake Bay watershed. Project will Creek estuary in Wisconsin. Project will students and 175 teachers in stormwater develop a strategic restoration approach restore 125 acres of habitat, control invasive based curriculum and the development focused on brook trout populations, and species, and improve habitat connectivity of outdoor classrooms and engage 50 following the compilation of the available and resilience. volunteers through site maintenance data for each patch and the completion of $189,438 opportunities. the conservation portfolio analysis, Trout $50,000 Unlimited will provide a summary report for Harbor District each priority patch that outlines potential Improving Shoreline Habitat and Public Neighborhood House of Milwaukee projects, current data available, monitoring Accessibility in Downtown Milwaukee (WI) Building Green Stormwater Infrastructure needs, and other information. Improve habitat in downtown Milwaukee, to Reduce Pollution and Engage Youth in $41,574 ensuring public accessibility will accompany Conservation (WI) waterfront development, to improve Replace old infrastructure on Milwaukee’s Trout Unlimited shoreline habitat. Project will plant 50 near west side with green infrastructure Linking Stream Habitat on Public and Private trees and restore downtown shoreline components focused on conserving Lands in the Upper Greenbrier River to Benefit habitat to benefit fish, waterfowl, insects, and improving water resources and Brook Trout (WV) and macroinvertebrates by naturalizing reducing sewer overflows that impact the Expand the footprint of the Upper portions of dock walls and providing native Menomonee River. Project will add more Greenbrier River Watershed restoration vegetation. than 7,000 gallons of stormwater storage efforts from the headwaters located on $254,500 with green stormwater infrastructure and public lands in the Monongahela National use the green infrastructure components Forest to the downstream watersheds Hunger Task Force as learning tools for an environmental

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED dominated by private lands, in one of Restoring Prairie Habitat and Engaging the education program. the largest identified eastern brook trout Community to Increase Native Wildlife (WI) $75,000 patches on the river. Project will install Restore prairie habitat along the Root 3 miles of livestock exclusion fencing, River in Franklin, Wisconsin to increase Ozaukee County restore 6 miles of riparian forest buffer and habitat availability for wildlife, improve Enhancing Habitat Restoration Benefits implement best management practices for habitat connectivity, increase native species through Invasive Species Management in sediment reduction on 200 acres. competition, decrease runoff and increase Ozaukee County (WI) $95,414 critical populations of rusty patched bumble Support continued improvements to the bee and other species. Project will restore native local ecology within 14 ecologically Trout Unlimited 20 acres of prairie 12 of which are crop land diverse Ozaukee County parks, natural areas Restoring, Enhancing, and Expanding Brook being converted back to prairie, and 8 of and environmentally sensitive lands, by Trout Patch Strongholds in Thorn Creek (WV) which will restore remnant prairie habitat. controlling aquatic, coastal, and terrestrial Restore riparian buffers, in-stream habitat, $107,140 invasive vegetation on habitat that was eroding stream banks and aquatic organism previously restored and treated for invasive passage within the Thorn Creek watershed Lake County Forest Preserve District species. Project will restore 250 acres and the Upper South Branch of the Coastal Dune and Swale Habitat (IL, WI) through invasive species management, Potomac to the benefit of water quality, Maintain and enhance previous restoration reforestation through native tree and shrub local agricultural producers, and brook efforts through continued, targeted use of plantings, and stream, wetland and prairie trout strongholds. Project will result in the the invasive plant strike team to identify, map restoration. completion of restoration efforts to enhance and eradicate or contain invasive species in $150,000 a brook trout stronghold, the expansion of Lake County, Illinois and Kenosha County, such efforts into the Upper South Branch Wisconsin. Project will restore and retreat of the Potomac, and the documentation of 200 acres of high-quality coastal dune and additional un-assessed brook trout patches. swale habitat which provides habitat for three $476,470 federally and 63 state-protected species. $250,000

72 Pollinator Partnership Trout Unlimited Wisconsin Department of Natural Improving Pollinator Habitat Connectivity in Conservation Assessment of Brook Trout and Resources the Midwest and Great Lakes Flyway Planning and Impact Tool Development in the Restoring Ecological Function and Reducing (AR, IL, MI, MN, WI) Great Lakes Region (multiple states) Invasives on State Natural Areas (WI) Expand a regional seed collection and native Conduct a broad-scale assessment of Conduct ecological restoration through a plant materials network program in the existing brook trout population viability combination of prescribed fire, selective Midwest and Great Lakes region to support within the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes tree thinning, brush mowing, invasive monarch butterflies, rusty patched bumble watershed that will build off of and be species control, and revegetation on high- bees and other declining pollinator species. compatible with the analysis and associated conservation-value state natural areas and Project will improve more than 5,000 acres tools developed for NFWF’s Mid-Atlantic/ surrounding landscapes in Wisconsin’s Lake of pollinator habitat, collect 50 pounds of Northeast region. Project will assist NFWF in Michigan Watershed. Project will restore milkweed seed, collect 50 pounds of nectar identifying conservation needs and priority 1,800 acres on public and private properties plant seed, and propagate 2,000 milkweed investment areas throughout the basin to form protective buffers around quality and 1,000 nectar species seedlings. and associated tools will enable NFWF to habitats to expand available habitat and $74,971 develop and measure population-based habitat diversity, control invasives, and recovery goals over time across multiple improve connectivity. Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network NFWF landscapes, particularly the Northeast $228,570 Restoring Forest-Wetland Habitat for the Rusty and Great Lakes. Patched Bumble Bee (WI) $126,967 Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Restore prairie, woods, and wetland habitat Preserve within the Pike River Watershed to benefit Trout Unlimited Restoring Riparian and Coastal Wetland populations of the rusty patched bumble bee Engaging Landowners in Water Quality Habitat in the Woodland Dunes Nature Center and other pollinators in Wisconsin. Project and Wildlife Habitat Farm Bill Programs and Preserve (WI) will remove invasive species, improve water (IA, IL, MN, WI) Restore degraded riparian and coastal quality and improve public recreation by Restore cold-water streams and watersheds wetland habitat in the Woodland Dunes restoring nearly 30 acres of habitat. in the Driftless Area, creating habitat Nature Center and Preserve in Wisconsin. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES $50,105 practices for fish, shorebirds, amphibians, Project will improve 33 acres of habitat by reptiles and other aquatic biota. Project will restoring hardwood swamp canopy cover, Sheboygan County improve management on 525 acres, restore controlling invasive species and developing Restoring Riparian and Wetland Habitat (WI) 30 miles of stream, prevent 9,000 tons of a plan for realigning and naturalizing Forget Protect and enhance ecological integrity of sediment and 4 tons of nutrient pollution Me Not Creek, a tributary to Lake Michigan. stream and coastal wetland habitat in the from entering the system annually. $191,001 Amsterdam Dunes Preserve on the western $199,961 shore of Lake Michigan by decreasing bank erosion reducing sediment and nutrient Trout Unlimited WYOMING runoff, increasing aquatic and terrestrial Reconnecting Coldwater Habitat and habitat availability, restoring hydrologic Monitoring Brook Trout Response (WI) Greater Yellowstone Coalition function and controlling invasive species. Replace at least seven barriers to aquatic Improving Connectivity by Promoting Safe Project will restore 21 acres of wetland organism passage in and adjacent to the Passage of Ungulates through Dry Piney habitat and 0.35 miles of riparian habitat. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wildlife Habitat (WY) $230,000 reconnecting at least 30 miles of coldwater Secure roadway safety for humans and wild habitat. Project will survey brook trout animals by constructing a series of crossings, The Prairie Enthusiasts population dynamics and movement at fencing and related improvements near Engage Landowners in Pollinator Conservation project sites before and after construction Dry Piney Creek on U.S. Highway 189 in (IA, IL, MN, WI) and reconnect important brook trout habitat southwest Wyoming. Project will construct Create two landowner-focused staff positions in northern Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan 29 miles of fencing to guide wildlife to safe and develop an outreach and technical watershed. crossings and significantly decrease the assistance program in the upper Midwest to $345,107 number of wildlife-vehicle collisions. implement recovery plans for the monarch $122,081 butterfly, Karner blue butterfly, and rusty Village of Elm Grove patched bumble bee. Project will identify Converting the Underwood Creek Culvert National Audubon Society and engage private working landowners to in Elm Grove into an Ecologically Restored Increase Collaboration of Sagebrush carry out pollinator habitat restoration and Stream (WI) Conservation (multiple states) management projects, bringing 3,000 acres Convert an enclosed culvert on Underwood Strategically coordinate internal and external under improved management and restoring Creek in downtown Elm Grove into a communication between a wide range 2,000 acres of habitat. bio-engineered channel with natural of stakeholders committed to improving $245,508 hydraulic function, improved fish passage communications about the sagebrush and restored riparian habitat. Project will ecosystem to elevate not only individual Trout Unlimited rectify one fish passage barrier to improve efforts but also the larger dialog about the Brook Trout Monitoring and Evaluation for stream ecology with the added benefits of value and need for sagebrush conservation. Sustain our Great Lakes (multiple states) increased recreational value and improved Project will bring 100 acres of sagebrush Conduct an evaluation to understand brook stormwater management. habitat under improved management, trout response, including abundance, young $300,000 develop media resources for community of year, multiple life stages, and effective stake holders and host field tour events that breeders, to the improved access to and elevate on-the-ground conservation. quality of habitat. Project will track progress $29,636 towards the Great Lakes Business Plan stream habitat related goals. $292,650

73 Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory The Nature Conservancy U.S. TERRITORIES Implement a Radio Telemetry Network in Restoring Mesic Habitat and Providing the Great Plains and Chihuahuan Desert to Technical Assistance for Federal and State AMERICAN SAMOA Monitor Grassland Birds (multiple states) Implementers (WY) Implement a collaborative network of Study stream morphology and vegetation Ridge to Reefs automated radio telemetry stations changes in response to the installation of Implementing Green Infrastructure Solutions throughout the Great Plains and beaver dam analogues and rock structures in the Faga’alu and Vatia Watersheds, (AS) Chihuahuan Desert to monitor the annual for mesic restoration. Project will install Implement three green infrastructure cycle of grassland birds, including Baird’s more than 200 structures, bring 1,100 acres projects across two priority watersheds; sparrow, Sprague’s pipit and chestnut- under improved management and provide Vatia and Faga’alu in American Samoa. collared longspur. Project will initiate this training on mesic structure installation to Project will train the watershed coordinator effort by holding webinars to recruit and Federal and State staff implementing these and local partners in restoration site train partners and develop a plan to track techniques in Wyoming. selection, design and implementation grassland birds across the region, install $98,271 to focus on reduction of nutrients from telemetry stations to track focal species, piggeries and septic systems and sediment and deploy tags on focal species. Trout Unlimited associated with a quarry. $250,000 Snake River Cutthroat Trout Fish Passage $85,000 Restoration in Spread Creek — IV (WY) Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory Support native fisheries conservation by San Diego State University Research Monitoring Grassland Bird Population National Forest and National Park Service Foundation Responses to Investments in the Northern managers by addressing impacts of irrigation Evaluating Sediment Mitigation in Faga’alu (AS) Great Plains (MT, ND, NE, SD, WY) on native fish passage. Project will eliminate Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of Continue evaluating and quantifying the entrainment of native fish, including Snake sediment mitigation activities in Faga’alu impacts of NFWF-funded conservation River cutthroat trout and bluehead suckers Watershed, American Samoa. Project will easement and grazing management into the Spread Creek irrigation system and combine existing data sets with fieldwork projects on priority grassland bird species ensure unimpeded migration between the to quantify the impact of mitigation on in the Northern Great Plains. Project will Snake River and upper Spread Creek. sediment load, sediment sources based on compare density, population size, and trend $60,000 geochemical composition, and benthic cover of priority grassland birds between NFWF at a priority coral reef site. projects and controls within the Northern Wyoming Game and Fish Department $83,211 Great Plains region. Restoring Habitat and Improving Connectivity $372,899 in the Thunder Basin Grasslands (WY) U.S. Department of the Interior, Benefit sage-grouse, pronghorn, and other U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sheridan County Weed and Pest sagebrush and grassland obligates by Identifying Seabird Nesting Areas on Tutuila Eradicating Invasive Medusahead and addressing encroaching juniper, modifying Island (AS) Ventenata Grasses to Conserve Sagebrush fences to wildlife friendly specifications, Survey up to 30 locations across Tutuila Habitat (WY) and re-planting native sagebrush on a Island, American Samoa for Tahiti petrel Protect sagebrush communities with post-wildfire site within the Thunder Basin and other montane seabirds. Project will long-term management of invasive Grasslands. Project will restore 600 acres deploy passive acoustic song meters from grasses by engaging new communities, of habitat, improve 12 miles of fencing and January through March 2020, along with ensuring efficient communication across conserve eight sage-grouse leks. trail cameras to evaluate seabird activity jurisdictional boundaries, and targeting $250,000 and to detect the presence and activity of prioritized treatment areas in northeastern nonnative mammalian predators; acoustic

UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES U.S. AND STATES UNITED Wyoming. Project will eradicate Wyoming Game and Fish Department data will be analyzed to provide information medusahead and ventenata on more than Restoring Native Grassland and Sagebrush about where birds are concentrated and 5,000 acres. Habitat to Benefit Ungulates (WY) inform focused on-the-ground searches. $250,000 Restore native grassland and sagebrush $24,911 habitat southwestern Wyoming by treating Sublette County Conservation District and removing invasive species to benefit University of California - Santa Barbara Providing Technical Assistance for Landowners ungulate species. Project will improve 19 Measuring the Impacts of Herbivorous Fish on to Conduct Mesic Restoration on Working miles of fencing and restore more than Coral Reefs to Better Inform Reef Management Lands (WY) 3,500 acres of habitat. (AS) Provide tools for landowners to adopt $249,000 Fill knowledge gaps regarding the low-tech restoration technologies for relationship between herbivorous fish mesic habitat restoration and launch a biomass and coral reef condition and how program that delivers funding assistance this relationship impacts the resilience of for project implementation. Project will coral reefs in American Samoa. Project build resilience and restore critical mesic will identify species that both prevent habitats in semi-arid sagebrush rangelands macroalgae from increasing and remove benefiting both wildlife and livestock on macroalgae once abundant to prioritize working lands. species and inform fisheries management $143,106 options. $61,608

74 GUAM Pacific Coastal Research and Planning The Ocean Foundation Shoreline Stabilization and Enhancement Plan Planning a Collaborative Sustainable Seafood The University of Guam for the Beach Road Pathway (CNMI) Strategy in Puerto Rico Developing a Genetic Toolkit to Assess Stress Develop a Shoreline Master Plan for a highly Promote locally caught fish and plan Levels in Coral Reefs (GU) used 6-mile portion of Saipan’s western a social marketing campaign to raise Develop a genetic toolkit to detect, identify coast. Project will produce a comprehensive awareness about local fish markets, local and quantify stress before the onset of management plan as well as select one sustainable seafood, and underutilized physical symptoms in two of the most project for further development and species thus creating new access to markets common and important coral species on implementation. for Puerto Rico’s fishermen. Project will Guam. Project will help reef managers $248,903 engage industry stakeholders and develop identify reefs under stress, pinpoint the an outreach plan to facilitate access and causative stressors, and target resilient commercialize sustainable products. individuals to propagate for restoration PUERTO RICO $26,000 actions. $118,779 Marine Applied Research Center The Ocean Foundation Identifying Coral Reef Restoration Priorities in Tracking Habitat Use and Movement The University of Guam Puerto Rico Based on Resilience Factors (PR) of Atlantic Leatherbacks in the Northern Restoring Staghorn Corals and Ecosystem Generate information on spatial variation in Caribbean (PR, USVI) Services on Reef Flats in Guam, Micronesia the resilience and vulnerability of the coral Investigate the nesting population dynamics Upscale current staghorn restoration efforts reefs in Puerto Rico to rising environmental of leatherback sea turtles within and in Guam, Micronesia. Project will undertake stressors. Project will develop maps that between the beaches of St. Croix and additional research to develop needed represent resilience, vulnerability, and Puerto Rico. Project will monitor turtle best practices that assist restored coral opportunities for restoration and recovery to movements using satellite tags through the community adaptation to projected future help prioritize conservation efforts. nesting season to understand if populations climate conditions. $79,903 are declining or shifting use of Caribbean $848,872 beaches. UNITED STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES Protectores de Cuencas $19,888 Using Habitat Restoration, Expansion and NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS Creation to Protect and Adapt Critical University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla Infrastructure (PR) Strengthening Puerto Rico’s Natural Coastal CNMI Office of Planning and Development Assess and design fringing reef to restore Systems Through Ecological Restoration, Enhancing Wetlands and Corals Resilience and expand mangrove habitats at nearshore Education and Community Engagement (PR) in Saipan’s Priority Management Watershed areas adjacent to PR-250. Project will use Restore and monitor damaged coastal dunes (CNMI) engineering with nature approaches to using environmental education to engage Build community resilience in Saipan’s most restore, expand and create habitats that local community. Project will strengthen populated priority management watershed reduce flood risks and dynamically adapt to coastal resilience to mitigate future storms, through wetland and coral reef restoration. sea level rise while increasing essential fish floods and other natural hazards; achieve Project will restore 2.5 acres of wetlands habitats, as well as provide education and ecological conservation and biodiversity and one acre of coral reefs benefiting over recreation opportunities. through dune restoration and monitoring; 250 species, including endangered as well $118,867 and educate and engage the population as economically important species, and using the Latino Earth Partnership, a 10-step establish a pipeline of projects to reduce Sociedad Ambiente Marino restoration education process and citizen flooding and pollutant runoff and increase Restoring the three-dimensional structure of science program. community resiliency. hurricane-impacted coral reefs in Puerto Rico $852,080 $1,679,215 Restore the three-dimensional structure across of coral reefs that were severely Mariana Islands Nature Alliance damaged by hurricanes Irma and Maria. U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS Removal of Marine Debris from Typhoon Yutu Project will use a multi-method restoration in Coastal Areas of Saipan and Tinian (CNMI) approach that combines the outplanting The Ocean Foundation Assess, remove and dispose of marine debris of artificial coral colonies created with Tracking Habitat Use and Movement from Typhoon Yutu, in Tinian Harbor. Project emerging 3D printing technology with of Atlantic Leatherbacks in the Northern will remove marine debris to prevent further multispecies outplants composed of Caribbean (PR, USVI) damage to coral reef and other sensitive morphologically complex branching and Investigate the nesting population dynamics coastal habitats. massive corals. of leatherback sea turtles within and $2,467,302 $1,645,187 between the beaches of St. Croix and Puerto Rico. Project will monitor turtle Pacific Coastal Research and Planning SymbioSeas movements using satellite tags through the Removal of the Derelict Fishing Vessel Lady Identifying Priority Sites for Reef Restoration in nesting season to understand if populations Carolina from the Reef in Saipan Lagoon Saipan (CNMI) are declining or shifting use of Caribbean (CNMI) Develop a framework for identifying, beaches. Remove and properly dispose of the derelict prioritizing candidate sites to implement $19,888 fishing vessel Lady Carolina from the coral coral reef restoration in Saipan. Project reef in the Saipan Lagoon. Project will will assess restoration need, restoration remove and dispose of the vessel broken up feasibility, and likelihood of short and long- by Typhoon Yutu to prevent further damage term coral survivorship. to the reef and allow it to recover. $249,972 $1,500,000

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76 UNITED STATES AND INTERNATIONAL 77 ASIA - INDONESIA - ASIA MPA Enforcement International International Enforcement MPA Coral for Capacity Enforcement Enhancing and St. Eustatius in Saba, Management Reef Montserrat coral for capacity enforcement Increase will Project Caribbean. in the conservation for assessment an enforcement provide Indonesia Locally Managed Marine Area Marine Area Managed Indonesia Locally Foundation Newto Conservation Reef Expanding Coral Indonesia Islands in Eastern Managed of Locally networks new Create and Numfor, in Yapen Marine Areas will solidify capacity Indonesia. Project communities networked currently 44 at the new into resources direct to in order Yapen and Numfor of island communities of coral 200,000 hectares over conserving conservation. into reef $45,000 Saba to identify critical gaps and conduct and gaps critical identify Saba to and enforcement for training enforcement of Saba, countries in the staff management and Montserrat. St. Eustatius $47,700 Knowledge - Ecosystem Oikonos Shearwater Pink-Footed of the Conservation - III in Chile for the IUCN- efforts conservation Advance direct through shearwater pink-footed listed will protect Project actions. on-the-ground of known on all three colonies and monitor community- islands, continue breeding stewardship and education focused to capacity national activities, and will build mortality. fishery-related reduce $343,000 Delphinus Pro in the Fisheries Sustainable Promoting and Ecuador of Peru Region Humboldt Current and species bycatch threatened Reduce (sea turtles, small cetaceans, mortality in the Humboldt priority sites at seabirds) safer will promote Project region. current training outreach, scale broad provide gear, sustainable promote to building capacity and Ecuador. Peru and fishing in gillnet $300,000 Society Conservation Wildlife Caye of South Water Management Improving Technology-based through Reserve Marine Solutions (Belize) reporting and monitoring a spatial Utilize and protection biodiversity improve to tool the South across livelihoods sustainable Project in Belize. Reserve Marine Caye Water build performance, will assess management compliance promote capacity, management engagement strengthen and among fishers, in the reserve. of users $59,922 LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN THE AND AMERICA LATIN Saskatchewan Stock Growers Association Growers Stock Saskatchewan (Canada) Connectivity Grassland Increasing and conserve to producers livestock Engage pronghorn benefit that prairies native restore in species bird grassland multiple and restore will Project Saskatchewan. southwest bring grasslands, of cultivated 90 acres management improved under 82,000 acres modifyand 12 miles of fencing. $300,000 BirdLife International BirdLife Bycatch Shearwater Pink-Footed Sustaining Fisheries Purse-Seine in Chilean Reductions in pink-footed reduction long-term Promote seine purse Chilean in bycatch shearwater through capacity build will Project fisheries. engagement manufacturers; net for trainings and officers compliance with fisheries of mitigation database open an through the fleet. across measures $297,398 Azul Equilibrio Ecuador in Reduction Bycatch Leatherback communities of artisanal fishing Engage Pacific of eastern bycatch reduce to Ecuador will train sea turtles. Project leatherback techniques and release fishermen on safe for sustainable incentives market explore practices. catch $74,500 de Islas y Conservacion Grupo de Ecologia in Mexico Shearwater Townsend’s Protecting of Townsend’s stronghold last the Protect the in sites assess additional and shearwater Project Mexico. Archipelago, Revillagigedo monitoring a comprehensive will develop the across shearwaters monitor plan; study a feasibility develop and archipelago; European of introduced eradication the for Clarión Island. on rabbit $260,000 Island Conservation in Chile Control Coatimundi on Isla eradication coatimundi Complete pink-footed the protect Crusoe to Robinson local will will empower Project shearwater. with rangers, park including stakeholders, manage to tools and skills, knowledge, the Fernández Juan the mammals in invasive Archipelago. $845,000 Foundation MarViva Leatherbacks Pacific Eastern of Bycatch Reduce Chile of Northern in Long Line Fisheries at-sea reduce to capacity Build local in Chile. Project of leatherbacks mortality officials on fishermen and local will train and pilot the techniques turtle release safe in northern long-line hooks use of circle fisheries. $139,000 CANADA Ocean Wise Conservation Association Ocean Wise Conservation in Southern of Contaminants Bioaccumulation (Canada) Web Killer Whale Food Resident of concern priority contaminants Analyze salmon and sediment, from data quality, assess habitat killer whales to health relative and the bioaccumulation killer whales. Resident of Southern risks regulations chemical will inform Project exposure reduce the to practices and best killer whales to of Southern Resident contaminants. $132,740 Nature Conservancy of Canada Conservancy Nature and Controlling Hydrology Wetland Restoring Island (Canada) on Pelee Phragmites Invasive and health of wildlife ecological Improve Erie by Island in Lake on Pelee habitat invasive treating hyrology, wetland restoring vegetation. native and restoring phragmites and of wetland 62 acres will restore Project of upland habitat. 20 acres $100,000 Halton Region Conservation Foundation Conservation Region Halton Salmon and Atlantic Trout, Brook Improving (Canada) Habitat Eel American trout, brook for habitat riparian Improve other eel, and American salmon, Atlantic in Creek Limestone the species in aquatic woody strategic through Canada Ontario, 2 miles will install Project removal. debris a plant improvements, habitat of instream an remove vegetation, riparian mile of native 1.5 miles of stream, open culvert, undersized bank. creek of eroding 50 feet stabilize and $90,750 College of William and Mary College Western the Across Conserving Whimbrel Canada) states, (multiple Flyway Atlantic declining to monitor Expand on efforts western along the populations whimbrel the will update Project Flyway. Atlantic an plan, develop conservation whimbrel expand performance, of reproductive index to during spring migration surveys roost continue sites, key at protection improve registry, roost building an online shorebird locations of roost aware managers and make their protection. facilitate to $99,374 Bat Conservation International Conservation Bat by Affected Bats for Habitat Enhancing Foraging and Canada in Michigan Syndrome White-Nose white-nose with of bats survival Improve foraging their enhancing by syndrome chemical and light Project will use efficiency. and in Michigan sites at seven attractants insects near concentrate to Manitoba determine to spring and fall in hibernacula improves prey insect more whether the of reducing goal the with survivability, 30 percent. to 71 percent from rate mortality $249,995 GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROJECT COMMITMENTS

In the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP Exploration and Production, Inc. and Transocean Deepwater, Inc. each pled guilty to criminal violations of federal law. The plea agreements in those cases require BP and Transocean, among other things, to make certain monetary payments to NFWF that are designated to fund projects benefiting Gulf Coast natural resources injured as a result of the spill. NFWF has established the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund to receive and administer these funds. Funding was committed to the following projects under the Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund during Fiscal Year 2020 in accordance with the terms of the plea agreements. Since its inception in 2013, NFWF has awarded nearly $1.5 billion to projects in the Gulf States.

78 ALABAMA United States Army Corps of Engineers, Florida Fish and Wildlife Mobile District Conservation Commission Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, Little Dauphin Island Restoration Apalachicola Bay Oyster Reef Marine Environmental Sciences Assessment Restoration — II Consortium Study both nearshore and onshore Implement up to 1,000 acres of oyster reef Lower Fish River Watershed Restoration restoration options for a future project restoration in Apalachicola Bay. Restoration Address sediment and nutrient issues to enhance and protect Little Dauphin of oyster reefs in Apalachicola Bay is a in the lower Fish River Watershed, a Island. Included in the Bon Secour National priority conservation goal for the state priority coastal watershed draining into Wildlife Refuge managed by the U.S. Fish of Florida, and this project will enhance Weeks Bay. Project activities will consist and Wildlife Service, Little Dauphin Island resiliency in a fishery that once included of planning, engineering and design, and is an important nesting and foraging area more than 10,000 acres of reefs. This permitting efforts to identify solutions for six for several coastal bird species, including project also includes the development of tributaries. In addition, the project includes several imperiled shorebird species. oyster harvest management strategies for engineering and design, permitting, and $1,481,500 Apalachicola Bay and Suwanee Sound to construction of a tributary to the Fish River ensure sustainability of the restored reefs. near the community of Marlow. $20,057,000 $6,554,000 FLORIDA Florida Fish and Wildlife Mobile Bay National Estuary Program, Apalachee Regional Planning Council Conservation Commission Marine Environmental Sciences Franklin County Living Shoreline Lake Wimico Acquisition and Management Consortium Create 20 acres of estuarine reef and Manage a 20,161 acre parcel that surrounds Fowl River Watershed Restoration: Coastal facilitate the natural restoration of Lake Wimico, a shallow natural lake in Spits and Wetlands Project — I (Amendment) approximately 30 acres of intertidal marsh southern Gulf County, that was acquired Restore important coastal spits and along Highway 98 in an effort to restore with GEBF funds in 2019. Preservation and wetlands within the lower reaches of Fowl and protect this shoreline from erosion. management of the Lake Wimico parcel will

River, which is a significant priority action This section of shoreline is vulnerable protect water quality and freshwater flows GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND identified in the recently completed Fowl to damage from major storms and was into the Apalachicola River and Apalachicola River Watershed Management Plan, funded damaged by Hurricane Michael in 2018. Bay, enhancing the historic Apalachicola Bay under a prior GEBF award. This project $8,312,000 oyster fishery. will fund engineering and design studies to $1,500,632 develop a solution to stabilize and protect Apalachicola Riverkeeper four priority in-river wetland spits and Apalachicola River Slough Restoration — I Florida Fish and Wildlife restore marshland throughout the intertidal Restore the connection of three slough Conservation Commission portions of lower Fowl River. Amendment systems in the Apalachicola River Panhandle Dune Restoration to add an adjacent 50-acre wetland area to watershed. River sloughs are important Restore and enhance up to 21 miles of the scope of work. for transporting freshwater to floodplains degraded dune habitats across the Florida $513,611 and controlling the storage and release of Panhandle. In areas where disturbance freshwater and nutrients into the river and has created gaps, restoring the dunes will The Conservation Fund ultimately to Apalachicola Bay. In addition improve habitat functionality and resiliency. Blackwater River South Tract Acquisition to restoring hydrologic connectivity on $2,310,000 Acquire and permanently protect 2,300 three sloughs, the project will also develop acres of coastal habitat at the confluence an Apalachicola River Slough Restoration Florida Fish and Wildlife of the Blackwater and Perdido rivers. The Plan to further assess current conditions Conservation Commission subject tract includes four miles of frontage and quantify the benefits of implementing St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge Saltmarsh along both rivers, over 1,200 acres of large-scale slough restoration in the lower Restoration — I wetlands, and a 90+ acre lake. Protection Apalachicola River system. Complete engineering and design plans of the subject property will maintain water $5,357,000 to restore up to 28 acres of saltmarsh quality in the Perdido estuary and the living habitat along the St. Marks River within coastal and marine resources it supports. Ducks Unlimited the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and $5,212,000 MK Ranch Hydrologic Restoration Wilderness Area. The project will restore Restore wetland structure and function to saltmarsh habitat by removing remnant Town of Dauphin Island the MK Ranch within the Apalachicola River dredge spoil islands that consist of large Restoration of the North Side of Dauphin Wildlife Environmental Area (ARWEA). MK crushed limestone piles. Permitting, design, Island — I (Amendment) Ranch comprises approximately 6,400 acres and planning will evaluate beneficial use Complete engineering and design of expansive historic tidal marsh in the alternatives for crushed limestone, including plans to fill borrow pits previously lower Apalachicola River Basin and acts as the construction of bird nesting, artificial excavated for emergency barriers during a filter and storage area for water flowing reefs, and oyster reef restoration in the St. the Deepwater Horizon response. The from upland sites to the tributaries of Lake Marks River and Apalachee Bay. project will restore beach and marsh Wimico and Apalachicola Bay. Previous $806,000 habitat on the north side of Dauphin unpermitted excavation activity severed Island to enhance the barrier island’s the river from its floodplain, resulting in resilience to future storms. Amendment to extensive loss and degradation of wetland include engineering and design for marsh habitat, resulting in diminished water restoration in Graveline Bay. quality and adverse ecological impacts in $575,000 Apalachicola Bay. $21,997,000

79 The Conservation Fund Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program Texas General Land Office Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge Acquisitions Nueces Delta Shoreline Erosion Protection Salt Bayou (McFaddin NWR) Beach and Ridge Acquire priority inholdings in the Archie Carr Construct 3,900 linear feet of breakwater Restoration (Amendment) National Wildlife Refuge to protect critical to protect 650 acres of marsh habitat along Restore the beach ridge system along the sea turtle nesting habitat. The targeted the face of the Nueces Delta shoreline. The Gulf Coast within the McFaddin National tracts contain undeveloped beach and dune Nueces Delta is also important habitat for Wildlife Refuge, between High Island and habitats that are utilized by the largest nesting many bird species impacted by the spill, Sea Rim State Park on the Texas upper population of loggerhead and green sea turtles such as white pelicans, brown pelicans, coast. This 17-mile beach ridge restoration in North America. Conservation of these tracts reddish egrets, black skimmers, least project will complete restoration of 20 miles will protect available nesting habitat for use by terns, snowy plovers, and piping plovers. of coastline, protecting from erosion and sea turtles and will minimize fragmentation, Construction of a living shoreline will salt water intrusion the largest estuarine address protected landscape gaps, and reduce enhance the bay and estuarine habitat and marsh system in Texas. Amendment to cover the risk of additional coastal armoring. contribute to the protection and restoration pre-construction surveys and construction $4,507,000 of a large contiguous area of salt marsh oversight. which will benefit these estuarine species. $676,883 MISSISSIPPI $3,328,000 Texas General Land Office Mississippi Department Ducks Unlimited Swan Lake Marsh Restoration of Environmental Quality Mad Island Marsh Shoreline Protection Restore nearly 80 acres of coastal marsh Invasive Species Management Strengthen and protect nearly 2 miles of the within Swan Lake, an embayment within on Coastal State Land — II rapidly eroding banks of the Gulf Intracoastal the Galveston Bay system near Texas City. Develop invasive species management Waterway within the Mad Island Wildlife Restoration of the marsh complex within activities to control and/or eradicate the Management Area. Construction of a 9,800- Swan Lake will provide an important aquatic invasive Amazonian Apple Snail in the lower foot riprap breakwater will provide critical nursery and wildlife habitat, protecting Pascagoula estuary. protection for nearly 370 acres of vulnerable hundreds of acres of adjacent coastal marsh $837,000 coastal habitats including a freshwater lake, and prairie habitat for fishes, crabs, shrimp, palustrine emergent wetlands, and coastal and coastal birds. Mississippi Department high marsh and prairie. The breakwaters will $5,000,000 of Environmental Quality reduce rates of land loss from erosion and Oyster Restoration and Management — II serve as a barrier and buffer from storm surge. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Deploy cultch material in several locations $3,041,000 Dagger Island Restoration Project throughout the western Mississippi Sound (Amendment) as a pilot study to assess factors influencing Galveston Bay Foundation Construct a half-mile, nearshore breakwater oyster survivability. Oyster production and Chocolate Bay Wetland Habitat Acquisition and beneficially use dredge material growth will be monitored to confirm the Acquire and permanently protect nearly to restore an island in order to protect viability of identified locations for future 5,000 acres of coastal habitat on West approximately 5,236 acres of coastal habitat, large-scale oyster restoration efforts. Galveston Bay in Galveston and Brazoria including 2,630 acres of seagrass in Redfish $3,393,000 counties. The subject property, the former Bay, an area adjacent to Corpus Christi Bay. Alatar Ranch, contains a wide array of Project also will restore approximately 28 Mississippi Department coastal habitats: extensive coastal wetlands, acres of coastal wetland habitat and create of Environmental Quality tidal flats, and rare coastal prairie habitats, oyster, invertebrate and fisheries habitat. Reef Fish Assessment for Mississippi as well as 13 miles of frontage along coastal Amendment to cover increased cost of Coastal and Nearshore Waters: Restoration waterways. Permanent protection of this construction.

GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL GULF through Improved Data Collection and pristine stretch of Texas coast will preserve $98,118 Management — IV water quality and provide habitat for Complete the final phase of data collection estuarine fisheries and wetland dependent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department efforts to assess reef fish populations in coastal wildlife including numerous coastal birds. Enhancement of Buffalo Lake Marsh Complex Mississippi and nearshore Gulf of Mexico $10,500,000 Enhance management of nearly 2,000 acres waters through biological, environmental, of freshwater wetland habitat in the Buffalo and fishery-dependent components that will Galveston Bay Foundation Lake Marsh Complex to support migratory provide necessary data to reduce scientific Matagorda Peninsula Acquisition waterfowl, shorebirds, and waterbirds. uncertainty around factors influencing red Acquire and permanently protect 1,100 Repairing damaged water control structures snapper and reef fish population structures. acres along 1.4 miles of critical barrier will prevent saltwater intrusion into the $3,622,000 island habitat on Matagorda Peninsula for marsh complex and allow refuge staff inclusion in the newly established Matagorda to manage water levels. Additionally, TEXAS Peninsula Coastal Management Area, owned construction of a new overflow spillway and managed by Texas Parks and Wildlife and an 850-foot levee will help protect the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program Department. wetlands against flood events and allow for Mission River Land Acquisition $2,426,000 independent management of the wetland Acquire and permanently protect 375 acres units which is key to providing appropriate of critical coastal marsh habitat in the Mission Texas Agricultural Land Trust habitat for shorebirds and waterbirds during River Delta, an estuary adjacent to Copano East Matagorda Bay Land Conservation the spring migration and breeding season. and Aransas Bays in the mid-coast of Texas. Conserve 3,547 acres of coastal working lands $450,000 Acquisition of the proposed tract will expand in the mid coast of Texas through a perpetual and connect existing conservation areas to conservation easement. The property create a nearly 6,000 acre intact corridor for has frontage along the Gulf Intracoastal wildlife, including the endangered whooping Waterway near East Matagorda Bay and is crane and other coastal waterbirds. composed of a suite of coastal marsh, prairie, $600,000 and freshwater wetland habitats. $3,981,500 80 81 IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) FISCAL YEAR 2020 PROJECT COMMITMENTS

NFWF’s IDEA department serves as a manager and trustee for funds arising from legal and regulatory actions involving natural resources and the environment. These funds originate primarily from court orders, settlements of legal cases, regulatory permits, licenses, and conservation and mitigation plans. GULF ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFIT FUND BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL GULF

82 ALASKA ARIZONA California Department of Fish and Wildlife California Department of Fish and Wildlife Iowa State University Aquatic Consultants Endowment - Wister Pond Water Source (CA) Assessment of Avian Nest Survival: Does Navajo Agricultural Products Industry Pond Purchase water from Imperial Irrigation Human Disturbance Bias Our Estimates? (AK) Drains (AZ, NM, UT) District to benefit Wister Pond in San Diego Obtain the first true estimates of tundra Install two gravity drains in grow out ponds County, California. nesting shorebird nest survival on Alaska’s on the Navajo Nation that will be used to $45,744 North Slope that are free of bias associated raise endangered fishes for stocking into the Mitigation with human disturbance. Project will San Juan River. determine if prior efforts to assess nest $131,629 California Department of Fish and Wildlife survival were affected by human disturbance Mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife at nests, determine if basic ecological Endowment - Wister Pond Operation and principles relating life-history traits and Maintenance (CA) environmental factors to nest survival are CALIFORNIA Conduct long-term operation and correct, and develop best practices for maintenance of Wister Pond in San Diego accounting for human disturbance effects on Alpine Watershed Group County, California. nest survival in the future. Hope Valley Restoration and Aquatic Habitat $36,300 $87,896 Enhancement Project — II & III (CA) Mitigation Federal Criminal Case Stabilize approximately 450 feet of eroding U.S. v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. banks along the West Fork Carson River in California Department of Fish and Wildlife lower Hope Valley and help improve aquatic California Department of Fish and Wildlife Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota habitat within two specific reaches. Project Endowment - Burke-Robey (CA) IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Addressing Critical Gaps in Wetland will help reduce erosion and sedimentation Perform long-term management of mitigation Information: Enhancing Proactive Growth and provide shading at the two project sites. land in Humboldt County, California. and Conservation Management Decisions on $360,912 $16,356 Alaska’s North Slope (AK) State Civil Case Mitigation Fill critical geospatial information gaps related to wetland habitat in Alaska’s North Audubon California California Department of Fish and Wildlife Slope. Project will utilize nationally compliant Lake Isabella Willow Flycatcher Restoration California Department of Fish and Wildlife mapping standards and protocols to map (CA) Endowment - Hambro Acquisition (CA) approximately 10 million acres of private, Continue restoration of 1,150 acres of Perform long-term management of mitigation state and Native lands. southwestern willow flycatcher habitat land in Del Norte County, California. $293,557 to compensate for impacts of long-term $23,797 Federal Criminal Case operations of the Lake Isabella reservoir, Mitigation U.S. v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.; in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps U.S. v. Noble Drilling (U.S.) LLC of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife California Department of Fish and Wildlife Service. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Southeast Alaska Land Trust $119,800 Endowment - 2003 Kern River Exp Project (CA) Huizer Fishing Access Site Interpretive Mitigation Perform long-term management of mitigation Signage (AK) land in Kern and San Bernardino counties, Design, produce and install interpretive Cachuma Operation and Maintenance California. signage at the Marjory and Edgar Huizer Board $22,578 Fishing Access Site in Juneau, Alaska. Project South Side Erosion Control and Restoration Mitigation will provide information about local wildlife Project at Quiota Creek Crossing 8 (CA) and the importance of coastal ecosystems, Reduce fine sediment transport and enhance California Department of Fish and Wildlife and will educate readers about the benefits stream water quality for southern California California Department of Fish and Wildlife of land conservation. steelhead at a newly completed fish passage Endowment - Borax Mine Overburden (CA) $1,840 improvement project site at Quiota Creek Perform long-term management of mitigation Federal Criminal Case in Santa Barbara County, California. Project land in Kern and San Bernardino counties, U.S. v. Brannon Finney will install a small settling basin in two California. intermittent drainages that are conveying fine $37,978 University of Alaska Anchorage sediments to the creek, install a culvert to Mitigation Steller’s Eider and Polar Bear Projects on reduce erosion potential, plant native coast Alaska’s North Slope (AK) live oaks near the settling basins, and hydro- California Department of Fish and Wildlife Support research on Alaska’s North Slope mulch/seed all disturbed areas. California Department of Fish and Wildlife related to Steller’s eiders and their potential $43,973 Endowment - Kern River Pipeline (CA) predators, as well as human interactions Federal Criminal Case Perform long-term management of mitigation with polar bears. Project will allow for better U.S. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. land in Kern and San Bernardino counties, management and conservation of the two California. species in the short term and will engage California Department of Fish and Wildlife $14,328 Alaska Native Science and Engineering California Department of Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program students in the work. Endowment - Topaz Solar Farm (CA) $39,902 Perform long-term management of mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife Federal Criminal Case land in San Luis Obispo County, California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife U.S. v. Noble Drilling (U.S.) LLC $421,023 Endowment - Mojave Projects LB (CA) Mitigation Perform long-term management of mitigation land in San Bernardino County, California. $12,128 Mitigation

83 California Department of Fish and Wildlife California Department Cass Gidley Marina - Sausalito Community California Department of Fish and Wildlife of Parks and Recreation Boating Center Endowment - North Baja Pipeline (CA) McGrath Restoration Activities - Year 8 (CA) Sausalito Community Boating Center - Perform long-term management of mitigation Continue restoration activites at McGrath Expanding Public Recreation at Sausalito’s land in Riverside and Imperial counties, Lake. Project will fund staff time and materials Shoreline (CA) California. for dune restoration work and western snowy Construct a recreational boating and paddling $20,928 plover and California least tern management facility along the Sausalito, California, Mitigation activities. shoreline including an Americans with $75,000 Disabilities Act accessible ramp, landing, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife Federal Civil Case dock. Project will provide affordable and safe California Department of Fish and Wildlife U.S., et al. v. Berry Petroleum Company access to boats and the water, educational Initial and Capital Account - Southern programs, a fishing dock, and a connection California Edison Tehachapi Renewable California State University - Stanislaus for residents to the local bay ecosystem. Transition Project Fremont Valley (CA) Tipton Kangaroo Rat Monitoring and Shrub $175,000 Perform short-term management of Association Study in Unit 15 of Kern National Federal Civil Case mitigation land in Kern, Los Angeles, and San Wildlife Refuge (CA) U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. Bernardino counties, California. Conduct Tipton kangaroo rat monitoring and $65,564 a Tipton kangaroo rat shrub association study CBEC Eco Engineering Mitigation in Unit 15 of Kern National Wildlife Refuge Lower Feather River Restoration Project - Site to enhance management and conservation Selection and Technical Support (CA) California Department of Fish and Wildlife strategies for Tipton kangaroo rat and fulfill Assist in selecting a preferred site for a Renewable Energy Action Team Initial and monitoring obligations. potential aquatic resource mitigation project Capital Account - Catalina and Pacific Wind $3,945 in Yuba County, California, titled “Lower (CA) Mitigation Feather River Restoration Project” under the Perform short-term management of Sacramento District California In-Lieu Fee mitigation land in Kern County, California. California Trout Program, and developing a conceptual plan $51,671 Scott River Emergency Water Transactions for the selected site . Mitigation 2020 (CA) $16,710 Engage with water rights holders who are Mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife willing to lease their water rights to enhance Renewable Energy Action Team Initial and flows in Miner, Sugar and Shackleford-Mill Central Coast Salmon Enhancement Capital Account - Catalina and Pacific Wind Creeks of the Klamath River Basin for the Restoring Villa Creek Estuary - Final Designs, (CA) benefit of coho salmon. California Environmental Quality Act Perform short-term management of $58,369 Clearance and Permitting (CA) mitigation land in Kern County, California. Mitigation Complete final designs and permitting for a $9,745 project that will return hydrologic function Mitigation California Trout to the Villa Creek Estuary in San Luis Obispo Parks Creek Fish Passage and Cardoza Ranch County, California, and create refugia for California Department of Parks and Efficiency Implementation Project (CA) sensitive species including federally listed Recreation Initiate pre-project monitoring and tidewater goby and steelhead. Project will Montara State Beach Facility Improvement implementation of the Parks Creek Fish utilize completed 65-percent designs to (CA) Passage and Cardoza Ranch Efficiency acheive 100-percent designs, secure permits, Continue amenity improvements at Montara Implementation Project. Project will evaluate secure shovel ready construction estimates, State Beach in San Mateo County, California, and rate an existing real-time monitoring and conduct community and stakeholder by constructing fully accessible restroom station in Parks Creek to manage the new outreach. facilities. Project will accommodate the needs point of diversion on the Shasta River, $156,189 of shoreline visitors, improve public health establish a monitoring program to document Federal Criminal Case

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED and safety, and reduce maintenance costs. the changes in stream conditions due to U.S. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. $80,000 project implementation, and build a new on- Federal Civil Case, channel fish screen structure at the proposed Central Coast Salmon Enhancement U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. point of diversion. Arroyo Grande Creek Stream Gauge $100,000 Modification Implementation Project (CA) California Department of Parks and Mitigation Modify a concrete weir and construct a Recreation resting pool to restore reliable access to California State Parks Endowment - Morro California Trout and improve 3.3 miles of critical southern Shoulderband Snail Habitat Management Final Fish Passage Design for the I-5 and California steelhead habitat in Arroyo Grande, (CA) Metrolink Barriers in Trabuco Creek (CA) California. Project will provide passage for Perform long-term management of mitigation Generate final design plans for a project both adult and juvenile life stages at low and land in San Luis Obispo County, California. that will restore fish passage for southern high flows. $11,903 California steelhead under the Metrolink $464,969 Mitigation railroad bridge and nearby Interstate 5 Federal Criminal Case bridge array on Trabuco Creek in the San U.S. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Juan Creek watershed in Orange County, California. Project will help address one of the most significant threats to the recovery of endangered southern California steelhead. $596,302 Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

84 City of Oakland Corvus Ecological Consulting EcoVision Partners Jack London Aquatic Center Non-Motorized 2020 Raven Monitoring, Removal and Morro Shoulderband Survey (CA) Launch Dock Replacement (CA) Management within Desert Tortoise Develop a survey methodology to estimate Replace a low float non-motorized vessel Conservation Areas Joshua Tree National species presence and relative abundance for launch dock at Jack London Aquatic Center Park and Pinto Mountains Critical Habitat Morro shoulderband snail on conserved lands in Oakland, California. Project will provide Unit (CA) in Los Osos, an unincorporated community of access to Oakland Estuary for recreational Conduct research on the interaction San Luis Obispo County, California. activities and community programs, as the between desert tortoises and common $14,910 dock is a popular fishing location and serves ravens in Joshua Tree National Park and the Mitigation hundreds of youth and adults in kayaking, Pinto Mountains Critical Habitat Unit. sailing, and rowing programs each year. $129,522 Eel River Watershed Improvement Group $243,000 Mitigation Noisy Creek Habitat Accessibility (CA) Federal Civil Case Plant 65 red alder saplings, 19 black U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. County of San Luis Obispo cottonwoods, and seven redwoods along 550 Avila Beach Bob Jones Bike Path — III (CA) feet of Noisy Creek, a tributary to Hall Creek, City of Santa Rosa Conduct environmental review and tributary to the Mad River, in Humboldt California Department of Fish and Wildlife engineering of a segment of the Bob Jones County, California. Project will help improve Endowment - Airfield Neighborhood Park Pathway at Avila Beach, California. Project stream conditions and fish passage by re- (CA) will result in the acquisition and restoration establishing a riparian corridor. Perform long-term management of mitigation of at least 2 acres of biologically sensitive $15,830 land in Sonoma County, California. riparian habitat. State Civil Case $17,662 $37.10 IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Mitigation State Civil Case Fagundes Agribusiness California Department of Fish and Wildlife City of Sausalito Desert Tortoise Preserve Committee Initial and Capital Account - Cross Creek West Dunphy Park Improvement and Native Plants Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment Perform short-term management of Living Shoreline Project (CA) - Manzana Wind (CA) mitigation land in Kings County, California. Complete improvements of Dunphy Park Perform long-term management of mitigation $17,070 in Sausalito, California, by constructing land in Kern County, California. Mitigation recreational amenities and increasing $11,530 accessibility. Project will prepare the park to Mitigation Fletcher Ranch Road Properties serve as a resource against coastal flooding California Department of Fish and Wildlife and sea level rise. East Bay Regional Park District Endowment - Mountain House Conservation $275,000 Bay Point Regional Shoreline Restoration - Perform long-term management of mitigation Federal Civil Case Transition Zone Planting (CA) land in Alameda County, California. U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. Establish native plantings and enhance $3,312 transition zone habitat. Project will Mitigation Coastal San Luis Resource plant approximately 1,125 plants in the Conservation District upland-wetland transition zone at the Friends of the Palo Alto Parks Nipomo Lupine Dune Protected Area Bay Point Regional Shoreline, located in Salt Marsh Trail Enhancement Project (CA) Management (CA) unincorporated Contra Costa County, Create and install interpretive panels Support management of the Nipomo Lupine California. and interactive exhibits in the Palo Alto Dune Protected Area Management project $105,000 Baylands Preserve along the south shore to protect and enhance naturally occurring Federal Criminal Case of the San Francisco Bay Estuary. Project populations of Nipomo lupine. (multiple prosecutions) will help community members develop an $10,000 appreciation and understanding of the marsh State Civil Case East Bay Regional Park District environment, increase recreational benefits Encinal Beach Shoreline Recreation for the community, and help transform over Corvus Ecological Consulting Improvements (CA) 2 miles of multi-use trails and an 850-foot 2020 Raven Monitoring, Removal and Complete public access improvements at boardwalk. Management within Desert Tortoise Encinal Beach Park in Alameda, California, $54,000 Conservation Areas Chemehuevi Critical including linking trails and facilities; Federal Civil Case Habitat Unit (CA) improving water access; upgrading U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. Conduct research on the interaction between accessibility of parking lots, trails, and beach desert tortoises and common ravens in the access points; establishing native dune; Full Frame Productions Chemehuevi Critical Habitat Unit. restoring upland habitat; and reducing the California Endangered Species and Habitats: $116,690 frequency of inundation at high tide. Project Educational Video Project Distribution Mitigation will enhance the short- and long-term Assistance (CA) recreation opportunities at the park. Support the Callifornia Department of Corvus Ecological Consulting $200,000 Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 2020 Raven Monitoring, Removal and Federal Civil Case Service, and the National Marine Fisheries Management within Desert Tortoise U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. Service with the successful distribution of a Conservation Areas Chuckwalla Bench series of educational and outreach videos Critical Habitat Unit (CA) that focus on California endangered species Conduct research on the interaction between and habitats and assist the agencies with desert tortoises and common ravens in the their engagement initiatives. Chuckwalla Bench Critical Habitat Unit. $16,902 $35,076 Federal Criminal Case Mitigation U.S. v. Wildlife Management, LLC

85 Full Frame Productions Habitat Restoration Sciences Marine Life Studies California Endangered Species and Habitats San Diego County Endowment - Jacumba Removing Derelict Crab Pots to Reduce Educational Video Projects (CA) Solar Open Space Preserve (CA) Marine Wildlife Entanglement (CA) Produce a series of educational and outreach Perform long-term management of mitigation Remove derelict crab and spawn prawn pots videos that feature collaborative efforts land in San Diego County, California. from the Monterey Bay National Marine to protect California endangered species $7,811 Sanctuary. Project will reduce potential and habitats. The videos will focus on the Mitigation entanglements of endangered marine California tiger salamander, the Western wildlife and increase navigational safety for snowy plover, the San Joaquin kit fox, and Institute for Wildlife Studies recreational and commercial boaters. coho salmon. Non-lead Ammunition Outreach and $80,013 $7,716 Education (CA) Federal Criminal Case Federal Criminal Case Further California condor recovery efforts U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. U.S. v. Wildlife Management, LLC by providing non-lead ammunition outreach and education to hunters and ranchers Mendocino County Resource Conservation Golden Gate Audubon Society throughout California. Project addresses the District Pier 94 Wetland Restoration and Subtidal primary cause of mortality in condors. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Expansion Pilot (CA) $103,389 Endowment - Willits Bypass (CA) Increase biodiversity and protect the Mitigation Perform long-term management of mitigation ecosystems of a partially restored wetland land in Mendocino County, California. in San Francisco. Project will evaluate and Ironwood Consulting $592,278 monitor native oyster and eelgrass and Ivanpah Valley Tortoise Connectivity Study Mitigation generate a report with recommendations for (CA) future habitat restoration sites along the San Conduct desert tortoise surveys as part Mid Klamath Watershed Council Francisco Bay shoreline. of a study that analyzes demography, Fish Passage and Woodloading (CA) $50,104 density, demographic connectivity, genetic Remedy a chronic fish passage issue at the Federal Criminal Case connectivity, immune function, and habitat mouth of China Creek by rerouting the channel (multiple prosecutions) condition of desert tortoises in the Mojave across the active delta in a more desirable Desert. Project will help provide land configuration using large wood. Project will Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center managers and planners insight into the install three to four wood structures within Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife impacts of development on the connectivity the stream channel above the mouth to add Refuge and Dune Complex Interpretive Video of desert tortoise populations. cover complexity, aid in gravel retention and (CA) $213,379 sorting, and encourage floodplain connectivity Develop a film to increase awareness and Mitigation downstream of the Upper Mid Klamath for the understanding of the Guadalupe-Nipomo benefit of coho salmon. Dunes Complex and the National Wildlife J&D Basile $36,840 Refuge. Project will promote access to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Refuge and other public Dunes Complex lands. Initial and Capital Account - Cross Creek East $63,809 (CA) Mojave Desert Land Trust State Civil Case Perform short-term management of California Department of Fish and Wildlife - mitigation land in Tulare and Kings counties, Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center California. - Hidden Valley Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center $17,070 Perform long-term management of mitigation Educational and Public Programs Coordinator Mitigation land in San Bernardino and Imperial counties, Position (CA) California. Help support a full-time Educational Koopmann Family Trust $79,082 and Public Programs Coordinator at California Department of Fish and Wildlife Mitigation the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center Endowment - Koopmann Preserve (CA)

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED to coordinate school programs, field Perform long-term management of mitigation Mojave Environmental Holdings trips, afterschool programs, and public land in Alameda County, California. California Department of Fish and Wildlife conservation and cultural events. $10,981 Endowment - Cuddeback-Kramer Preserve (CA) $12,677 Mitigation Perform long-term management of mitigation State Civil Case land in San Bernardino County, California. Marin County Parks $52,967 Habitat Restoration Sciences Black Point Boat Launch Visitor Upgrades Mitigation San Diego County Endowment - Greenhills (CA) Ranch (CA) Install trash and recycling receptacles, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Perform long-term management of mitigation picnic tables, a shade structure, bike racks, Kaweah/Tule Rivers Aquatic Resource Credit land in San Diego County, California. irrigated landscape plantings, and educational Purchase (CA) $20,967 materials in an effort to upgrade visitor Purchase 0.64 Kaweah/Tule Rivers Aquatic Mitigation amenities at Black Point Boat Launch in Resource Credit from the National Fish and Marin County, California. Project will create Wildlife Foundation’s Sacramento District Habitat Restoration Sciences recreation opportunities for community California In-Lieu Fee Program by the National California Department of Fish and Wildlife members at the site beyond fishing and Fish and Wildlife Foundation as the fiduciary Endowment - JAL Preserve (CA) boating. administrator of the Sacramento District Perform long-term management of mitigation $67,500 Wetlands Conservation Fund established land in San Diego County, California. Federal Civil Case by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, $12,905 U.S. v. M/V Cosco Busan, et al. Sacramento District. Mitigation $179,612 Mitigation

86 National Park Service San Mateo Resource Conservation District Suisun Resource Conservation District California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Pacific Gas and Electric Company Bay Area Future of the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse and Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment Habitat Conservation Plan – San Bruno Other Native Wetland Species in the San - Mojave Milkweed (CA) Mountain Lower West Peak Restoration (CA) Francisco Estuary (CA) Perform long-term management of mitigation Release management reserve funds for Address the lack of comprehensive recovery land in San Bernardino County, California. funding of unrealized implementation, information for the salt marsh harvest mouse $2,775 monitoring, or maintenance costs for the San and other small mammals through a unified Mitigation Bruno Mountain Lower West Peak Restoration assessment and survey approach. Project Project in San Mateo County. will coordinate a team of experts to conduct Pacific Gas and Electric Company $18,216 the first single-season, estuary-wide survey Pacific Gas and Electric Company Bay Area Mitigation to determine which areas are most resilient Habitat Conservation Plan - (CA) and summarize findings in population heat Fund contractors to secure conservation Santa Barbara Zoo maps that will identify key areas to increase easements on lands within Santa Clara Nest Management of Reintroduced Condors understanding of how and where we should County to benefit Coyote ceanothus. in Southern California (CA) focus recovery actions. $193,466 Further California condor recovery efforts in $159,671 Mitigation the Central District by monitoring California Federal Criminal Case condor breeding and nesting. Project will (multiple prosecutions) PCO support a dedicated field biologist who will be Pacific Gas and Electric Company Multiple focused on a largely inland condor population Sundance Biology Region Habitat Conservation Plan – Zayante whose nesting has been threatened primarily Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, Sandhills Conservation Bank Credit Purchase by microtrash, and who will provide critical and Management in Fremont-Kramer IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) for Zayante Band Winged Grasshopper and support and minimize condor nestling Critical Habitat Unit / Remote Egg Oiling Mount Hermon June Beetle (CA) mortality due to microtrash ingestion and Implementation in Fremont-Kramer Critical Purchase Zayante Band Winged Grasshopper other causes of nest failure. Habitat Unit (CA) credits and Mount Hermon June Beetle $99,994 Conduct research on the interaction between credits from the PCO Zayante Sandhills Federal Criminal Case desert tortoises and common ravens in the Conservation Bank to provide mitigation U.S. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Fremont-Kramer Critical Habitat Unit. for Zayante Band Winged Grasshopper and $179,477 Mount Hermon june beetle under the Pacific Santa Paula Creek Mitigation Bank Mitigation Gas and Electric Company Multiple Region California Department of Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Plan for threatened and Endowment - Santa Paula Creek Mitigation (CA) Sundance Biology endangered species. Perform long-term management of mitigation Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, $1,229,222 land in Ventura County, California. and Management: Remote Egg Oiling Mitigation $4,166 Implementation on Transmission Line Towers Mitigation - Fremont-Kramer Critical Habitat Unit (CA) Point Millerton Ranch Conduct research on the interaction between California Department of Fish and Wildlife Save the Redwoods League desert tortoises and common ravens in the Endowment - Point Millerton aka Tract 4870 Pacific Gas and Electric Company Multiple Fremont-Kramer Critical Habitat Unit. (CA) Region Habitat Conservation Plan $63,740 Perform long-term management of mitigation Conservation - Andersonia Acquisition (CA) Mitigation land in Madera County, California. Fund the acquisition of habitat lands, after $11,326 which Pacific Gas and Electric Company will Sundance Biology Mitigation have rights to all mitigation values, including Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, and the right to develop a conservation easement Management in Mojave National Preserve, Prunuske Chatham on the property in partnership with Save Piute-Fenner and Ivanpah Critical Habitat Herndon and Reedley College Tree Replanting the Redwoods League. Project will provide Units / Remote Egg Oiling Implementation in – Pacific Gas and Electric Company San mitigation toward the Pacific Gas and Mojave National Preserve, Piute-Fenner and Joaquin Valley Habitat Conservation Plan (CA) Electric Company Multiple Region Habitat Ivanpah Critical Habitat Units (CA) Plant over 3,000 trees for the fulfillment of Conservation Plan conservation goal for Conduct research on the interaction the Master Streambed Alteration Agreement northern spotted owl and marbled murrelet between desert tortoises and common in the Pacific Gas and Electric Company San in Mendocino County, California. ravens in the Mojave National Preserve, Joaquin Valley Habitat Conservation Plan. $3,566,500 Ivanpah Critical Habitat Unit, and Piute- $191,107 Mitigation Fenner Critical Habitat Unit. Mitigation $191,081 Southern Sierra Research Station Mitigation San Mateo Resource Conservation District Biological Studies in Support of Endangered Pacific Gas and Electric Company Bay Area Species Act Compliance for Routine and Sundance Biology Habitat Conservation Plan - San Bruno Long-term Operation of Isabella Dam and Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, Mountain Butterfly Restoration (CA) Reservoir in Kern County (CA) and Management: Remote Egg Oiling Fund the restoration of habitat as part of Conduct southwestern willow flycatcher Implementation on Transmission Line Towers Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s ongoing surveys, least Bell’s vireo surveys, and brown- – Mojave National Preserve, Piute-Fenner conservation goals related to butterfly species headed cowbird point count surveys and and Ivanpah Critical Habitat Units (CA) covered by the Pacific Gas and Electric control in the U.S. Forest Service’s South Fork Research the interaction between desert Company Bay Area Habitat Conservation Wildlife Area. Project will evaluate habitat tortoises and common ravens in the Mojave Plan. Project will fund the development and suitability for the flycatcher and vireo as well National Preserve, Ivanpah Critical Habitat implementation of a site-specific plan. as conduct nest monitoring. Unit, and Piute-Fenner Critical Habitat Unit. $15,000 $64,334 $63,230 Mitigation Mitigation Mitigation

87 Sundance Biology Telonics Transition Habitat Conservancy Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, and Radio-Collars for Peninsular Bighorn Sheep (CA) California Department of Fish and Wildlife - Management in Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Refurbish 35 radio-collars, including 29 very Renewable Energy Action Team Endowment Unit / Remote Egg Oiling Implementation in high frequency and six global positioning - Fremont-Kramer (CA) Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Unit (CA) system radio-collars, with three years of Perform long-term management of mitigation Conduct research on the interaction between satellite air service. Project will monitor land in San Bernardino County, California. desert tortoises and common ravens in the peninsular bighorn sheep located in San $111,023 Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Unit. Diego and Imperial counties, California. Mitigation $149,625 $19,644 Mitigation Mitigation Trout Unlimited Dutch Charlie Creek Instream Habitat Sundance Biology The Land Conservancy Enhancement Project — I (CA) Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, of San Luis Obispo County Restore approximately 0.8 miles of high- and Management: Remote Egg Oiling Habitat Restoration for Recovery of Federally priority salmonid recovery habitat in Dutch Implementation on Transmission Line Towers Listed Species at Black Lake Ecological Area (CA) Charlie Creek by installing 59 pieces of - Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Unit (CA) Restore wetland habitat within the main large wood at 16 structure sites. Project Conduct research on the interaction between portion of coastal freshwater marsh that will be the first phase of a larger overall desert tortoises and common ravens in the feeds Black Lake to recover federal and state effort where 2.17 total miles of high-priority Ord-Rodman Critical Habitat Unit. endangered marsh sandwort and federal salmon recovery habitat will be restored with $51,455 threatened and state species of special instream large wood. Mitigation concern California red-legged frog. Project $93,050 will fund wetland habitat restoration activities State Civil Case Sundance Biology including sediment removal and re-contouring, Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, and hydrophytic vegetation management within Trout Unlimited Management in Superior-Cronese Critical the marsh, invasive species removal, and Gulch C Coho Salmon Fish Passage Habitat Unit and Fort Irwin’s Southeast outplanting of marsh sandwort. Improvement Project (CA) Conservation Area / Remote Egg Oiling $94,758 Restore access for adult and juvenile coho Implementation in Superior-Cronese Critical State Civil Case salmon and steelhead trout to approximately Habitat Unit and Fort Irwin’s Southeast 1.3 miles of habitat upstream of two Conservation Area (CA) The Land Conservancy culverted stream crossings and improve Conduct research on the interaction between of San Luis Obispo County the geomorphic function of Gulch C at the desert tortoises and common ravens in the Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook Interpretive confluence. Project will replace stream Superior-Cronese Critical Habitat Unit and Opportunities and Visitor Service Amenities crossings with structures that meet state and Fort Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area. (CA) federal agency fish passage requirements $179,477 Construct an interactive playground and will convey the 100-year flood with Mitigation structure, including education elements to associated sediment and large wood. teach youth about local flora and fauna, at $50,000 Sundance Biology Kathleen’s Canyon Overlook in Lower Black State Civil Case Raven Nest Monitoring, Removal, Lake Canyon Wetland Preserve. and Management: Remote Egg Oiling $15,000 U.S. Department of the Interior, Implementation on Transmission Line Towers State Civil Case U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - - Superior-Cronese Critical Habitat Unit and Kern National Wildlife Refuge Fort Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area (CA) The Restoration Trust Endangered Species Habitat Management Conduct research on the interaction between Wetland Management of Bordoni Ranch (CA) and Biological Monitoring in Unit 15 of Kern desert tortoises and common ravens in the Perform long-term land management of National Wildlife Refuge (CA) Superior-Cronese Critical Habitat Unit and Bordoni Ranch Mitigation Area in Solano Conduct habitat management, biological Fort Irwin’s Southeast Conservation Area. County, California. monitoring, and other management and

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED $78,390 $9,999 maintenance in Unit 15 of Kern National Mitigation Mitigation Wildlife Refuge. $10,615 Sundance Biology The Restoration Trust Mitigation Equipment for Techno-Tortoise Bait Stations The Restoration Trust - Roberts Ranch and Variable Radius Point Counts (CA) Endowment (CA) U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Purchase trail camera kits, Techno-Tortoise Perform long-term land management of Plant Health Inspection Service, Wildlife three-dimensional printed tortoise replicas, Roberts Ranch Mitigation Area in Alameda Services, National Wildlife Research Center rangefinders, and other equipment necessary County, California. Raven Management for Desert Tortoise to carry out the first year of a 10-year effort $9,291 Protection (CA) to collect estimates of common raven Mitigation Conduct wildlife damage management predator pressure on the Mojave desert activities to control ravens for the protection tortoise using a cost-effective approach. Thomas K. Moss of the federally-listed desert tortoise in the $24,357 California Department of Fish and Wildlife Mojave and Colorado Deserts located within Mitigation Endowment - Pletz Residence (CA) California. Perform long-term management of mitigation $81,700 land in Monterey County, California. Mitigation $3,226 Mitigation

88 Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Westervelt Ecological Services Westervelt Ecological Services Conservation District U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endowment - Pacific Gas and Electric Company Multiple Carpinteria Salt Marsh Limonium PG&E Palermo (CA) Region Habitat Conservation Plan duriusculum Removal Project (CA) Perform long-term management of mitigation Conservation – Colusa Basin Mitigation Bank Reduce the population of invasive European land in Butte, Yuba and Sutter counties, Credit Purchase for Giant Garter Snake (CA) Sea Lavender in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh California. Purchase 15 Giant Garter Snake Credits within a one-acre site at the Estero Street $6,850 from the Westervelt Ecological Services entrance to the salt marsh. Project will clear Mitigation Colusa Basin Mitigation Bank. Project will habitat for the restoration of native salt provide mitigation for the giant garter snake marsh vegetation, specifically the endangered Westervelt Ecological Services under the Pacific Gas and Electric Company salt marsh bird’s beak. California Department of Fish and Wildlife Multiple-Region Habitat Conservation Plan. $42,900 Initial and Capital Account - CD Hillman (CA) $675,000 State Civil Case Perform short-term management of Mitigation mitigation land in Kern County, California. Vollmar Natural Lands Consulting $30,180 Westervelt Ecological Services Flying M Ranch Vernal Pool Preservation Mitigation Grasslands Mitigation Bank Credit Purchase Project Development Plan (CA) for Seasonal Wetlands (CA) Develop a Project Development Plan for the Westervelt Ecological Services Purchase 3.08 Seasonal Wetland Credits from Sacramento District California In-Lieu Fee California Department of Fish and Wildlife the Westervelt Ecological Services Grasslands Program mitigation project entitled, “Flying Initial and Capital Account - Cottonwood Mitigation Bank under National Fish and M Ranch, Vernal Pool Preservation Project, Creek (CA) Wildlife Foundation’s Sacramento District Southern Sierra Foothills Vernal Pool Service Perform short-term management of California In-Lieu Fee Program. The credit IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Area.” Project will preserve vernal pool mitigation land in Tulare County, California. purchase fulfills a compensatory mitigation wetland resources and ensure long-term $18,375 obligation resulting from the Sacramento protection of the wetland resource functions Mitigation District California In-Lieu Fee Program’s and values of the project site in California. authorized sale of 3.08 Aquatic Resource $85,627 Westervelt Ecological Services Credits in the San Joaquin River Aquatic Mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife Resource Service Area. Initial and Capital Account - Alkali Flats $28,052 Westervelt Ecological Services Mitigation Site (CA) Mitigation California Department of Fish and Wildlife Perform short-term management of Endowment - Meridian Ranch Mitigation mitigation land in Kern County, California. WRA Bank (CA) $10,385 Mendota Wetland Restoration Project Perform long-term management of mitigation Mitigation Development Plan (CA) land in Butte County, California. Develop a Project Development Plan for $10,653 Westervelt Ecological Services the Sacramento District California In-Lieu Mitigation Pacific Gas and Electric Company San Fee Program mitigation project entitled, Joaquin Valley Operations and Maintenance “Mendota Wetland Restoration Project Westervelt Ecological Services Habitat Conservation Plan – Grasslands Development Plan” located in the Kings River California Department of Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Bank Credit Purchase for Giant Aquatic Resource Service Area. Project will Endowment – Maxwell Public Utility District Garter Snake (CA) preserve aquatic wetland resources and (CA) Purchase two Giant Garter Snake ensure long-term protection of the wetland Perform long-term management of mitigation Conservation Credits from the Westervelt resource functions and values of the project land in Colusa County, California. Ecological Services Grasslands Mitigation site in Fresno County, California. $13,439 Bank. Project will provide mitigation under $376,740 Mitigation the Pacific Gas and Electric Company San Mitigation Joaquin Valley Operations and Maintenance Westervelt Ecological Services Habitat Conservation Plan. Yurok Tribe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endowment - $93,500 McGarvey Creek Coho Habitat Enhancement Ferrari Ranch (CA) Mitigation Using Beaver Dam Analogues (CA) Perform long-term management of mitigation Increase salmonid rearing habitat capacity, land in Solano County, California. Westervelt Ecological Services watershed resiliency to climate change and $17,742 Pacific Gas and Electric Company Multiple drought, and our understanding of Beaven Mitigation Region Habitat Conservation Plan Dam Analogue performance and efficacy as a Conservation – Sutter Basin Conservation salmonid recovery tool. Project will conduct Westervelt Ecological Services Bank Credit Purchase for Giant Garter Snake one year of monitoring and three-years of California Department of Fish and Wildlife Purchase 15 Giant Garter Snake Credits maintenance at Beaver Dam Analogue sites Endowment - Dutchman Creek Conservation from the Westervelt Ecological Services in McGarvey Creek, planning and design of Bank (CA) Sutter Basin Conservation Bank. Project will at least one additional habitat enhancement Perform long-term management of mitigation provide mitigation for the giant garter snake site in McGarvey Creek, and reporting and land in Merced County, California. under the Pacific Gas and Electric Company stakeholder outreach. $14,794 Multiple-Region Habitat Conservation Plan. $106,460 Mitigation $675,000 Mitigation Mitigation

89 Zoological Society of San Diego U.S. Department of the Interior, HAWAII Zoological Society of San Diego Unlawful U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 2 Wildlife Trafficking Efforts (CA) Nonnative Fish Management on San Juan Papahanaumokuakea Marine Debris Project Purchase equipment to house live reptiles and River (CO) Marine Debris Removal from reptile eggs confiscated through illegal wildlife Implement five years of nonnative fish Papahanaumokuakea Marine National trafficking matters in California. Project will management on the San Juan River in Monument (HI) provide support to efforts to rescue and care accordance with the San Juan River Basin Mitigate hazards to protected species and for unlawfully trafficked animals. Recovery Implementation Program. coral reef habitat of Papahanaumokuakea $1,660 $150,361 Marine National Monument through large- Federal Criminal Case Mitigation scale marine debris removal from the coral U.S. v. Estep reefs and shorelines. Project will remove an estimated 240,000 pounds of derelict fishing Zoological Society of San Diego CONNECTICUT gear and plastics, restoring 1,300 acres of Head-starting Desert Tortoises and coral reef habitat and 400 acres of shoreline Understanding Juvenile Tortoise Habitat Cornell Cooperative Extension habitat. Requirements (CA) of Suffolk County $60,000 Assist with the completion of an ongoing Assessing and Removing Derelict Lobster Gear Federal Criminal Case project involving head-starting the Mojave in Long Island Sound (CT) U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. desert tortoise in Nevada and California. Remove 3,640 derelict lobster pots from Project will involve conducting releases and Long Island Sound using a specialized grapple Pulama Lanai post-release monitoring on approximately 145 system. Project will implement a program with Kaheawa Wind Power Mitigation Lanai juvenile head-started tortoises and evaluating local lobster fishermen to remove abandoned Hawaiian Petrel Protection — III (HI) effects of small mammal burrow density and gear to reduce debris in the sound and ghost Expand ecosystem-level Hawaiian petrel vegetation community. fishing impacts to the depleted Southern New colony management on the island of Lanai $45,000 England lobster stock. to improve reproductive success in areas Mitigation $50,000 that are currently under-protected from Federal Criminal Case mammalian predators. U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $33,142 COLORADO Mitigation

Advanced Telemetry Systems FLORIDA State of Hawaii, San Juan River Receiver Data Logger (CO) Department of Land and Natural Resources Purchase a coded receiver data logger to Conservation Fisheries Aquatic Resources On-line Violators Course track endangered fishes in the San Juan River. Okaloosa Darter Collection, Propagation, and Development (HI) $5,830 Reintroduction (FL) Preserve and protect coral reefs through the Mitigation Fund the collection, propagation, and development of an aquatic resources on-line reintroduction of the threatened Okaloosa violators course. Ecosystems Research Institute darter. $9,628 San Juan River Habitat Assessment - II (CO) $19,325 Federal Criminal Case Assess important habitats for endangered Mitigation U.S. v. Doorae Shipping, Co. LTD. fishes in the San Juan River. $239,200 Matrix Design Group Mitigation College Pond Conceptual Design (FL) MARYLAND Create an alternative conceptual design FISHBIO for an off-channel impoundment as part College of William and Mary, Virginia San Juan River Waterfall Fish Capture and of a larger project for Okaloosa darter Institute of Marine Science Transport Feasibility Assessment (CO) conservation. Targeted “Hotspot” Removal of Derelict Blue

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED Fund a trap and transport feasibility study at $5,000 Crab Traps (MD, VA) the base of a waterfall on the San Juan River. Mitigation Hire five commercial crabbers to remove $50,000 derelict blue crab traps from areas of high Mitigation Sea Turtle Conservancy commercial crabbing activity in Virginia and Eliminating Light Pollution on Ft. Lauderdale’s Maryland waters. Project will reduce bycatch Keller-Bliesner Engineering Sea Turtle Nesting Beach (FL) mortality, help validate derelict crab trap Secondary Channel Habitat Maintenance for Conduct a program to assist beachfront density models, and increase subsequent Native Fishes in the San Juan River (CO) property owners with retrofitting their lights blue crab harvest for commercial crabbers. Perform habitat maintenance on secondary to reduce sea turtle disorientation on high- $115,680 channels in the San Juan River for native fish. priority nesting beaches. Project will help Federal Criminal Case $29,110 reduce sea turtle disorientation rates from U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Mitigation nearby beach lighting to help prevent sea turtle mortality. State of Colorado $309,997 MONTANA Department of Natural Resources Federal Criminal Case Maybell Boat Ramp Realignment on the U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. River Design Group Yampa River (CO) Lost Trail NWF Restoration (MT) Support river access for multiple important Provide support for project management and Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish coordination for Lost Trail National Wildlife Recovery Program projects in the Yampa River. Refuge restoration stream and wetland design. $20,778 $17,209 Mitigation Mitigation

90 River Design Group Ironwood Consulting Keller-Bliesner Engineering Swan River NWR Wetland Restoration (MT) Ivanpah Valley Tortoise Connectivity Study (NV) Secondary Channel Habitat Maintenance for Fund professional services on the Swan River Conduct desert tortoise surveys as part Native Fishes in the San Juan River (NM) National Wildlife Refuge restoration project. of a study that analyzes demography, Perform habitat maintenance on secondary $40,513 density, demographic connectivity, genetic channels in the San Juan River for native fish. Mitigation connectivity, immune function, and habitat $29,110 condition of desert tortoises in the Mojave Mitigation Swan Valley Connections Desert. Project will help provide land North American Wetlands Conservation Act managers and planners insight into the Lutgen & Associates dba Document Grant Writing Services (MT) impacts of development on the connectivity Technologies Fund grant writing services for the Swan River of desert tortoise populations. Printers for Fish Hatchery (NM) National Wildlfe Refuge restoration project. $213,379 Fund the purchase of printers for fish $15,300 Mitigation hatchery in Dexter, New Mexico. Mitigation $1,453 Zoological Society of San Diego Mitigation Programming, Concept Design, and NEVADA Conceptual Cost Estimating for a Desert Prairie AquaTech Tortoise Recovery Center (NV) Feed for Endangered Fish (NM) Brenneman, Melissa dba TopoWorks Assist with programming, concept design, Fund the purchase of feed for endangered Desert Tortoise Monitoring – Final Database and conceptual cost estimating for a Desert fish down at Dexter, New Mexico. Project Developer 2020 (NV) Tortoise Recovery Center in Henderson.. is part of a pilot study assessing the effects Assist an ongoing Desert Tortoise $25,588 of Mercury on the reproductive success of IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Monitoring project in Nevada. Funds will Mitigation Colorado pikeminnow. be used to complete final data products $1,364 for 2020 surveys by compiling collection Mitigation databases, providing independent review, NEW MEXICO documenting corrections, addingnew fields, U.S. Department of the Interior, and formatting. Advanced Telemetry Systems U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $6,843 San Juan River Coded Receiver Data Logger (NM) Nonnative Fish Management Mitigation Fund the purchase of a coded receiver data on the San Juan River (NM) logger to track endangered fishes in the San Implement five years of nonnative fish Climate Conservation Juan River. management on the San Juan River in Desert Tortoise Transportation Ecology $5,830 accordance with the San Juan River Basin Workshop (NV) Mitigation Recovery Implementation Program. Facilitate the Center for Large Landscape $150,361 Conservation in organizing and hosting a Anglim’s Western Metal Works Mitigation transportation ecology workshop in Clark Z-Habitat Steps (NM) County Wetlands Park, Las Vegas, Nevada to Fund the fabrication of metal steps to be U.S. Department of the Interior, address issues and challenges encountered used at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when attempting to implement installation National Fish Hatchery in Dexter, New San Juan River Recovery Actions (NM) of fencing and culverts to reduce desert Mexico. Contribute towards a San Juan River Recovery tortoise road mortality, ensure population $2,077 Implementation Program staff biologist to connectivity, and protect tortoise populations Mitigation conduct recovery actions. and habitat. $133,384 $9,600 Aquatic Consultants Mitigation Mitigation Navajo Agricultural Products Industry Pond Drains (AZ, NM, UT) Climate Conservation Install two gravity drains in grow out ponds NEW YORK Desert Tortoise Workshop Survey (NV) on the Navajo Nation that will be used to Design, implement, analyze, and summarize raise endangered fishes for stocking into the Brooklyn Public Library a survey of 100 respondents to assist in the San Juan River. Local History and STEM Programming at planning and development of the Desert $131,629 Brooklyn Public Library (NY) Tortoise Workshop organized by the Center Mitigation Expand community access to neighborhood’s for Large Landscape Conservation in Las oral history and archive collection, purchase Vegas, Nevada. The survey will help to guide Ecosystems Research Institute of telescope for STEM programming. the content of the workshop, as well as the San Juan River Habitat Assessment – II – (NM) $2,722 post-workshop activities, based upon the Assess important habitats for endangered Other responses from practitioners across the fishes in the San Juan River. desert tortoise range states. $239,200 Connecticut Fund for the Environment $3,200 Mitigation Adding Bronx River to Unified Water Study (NY) Mitigation Coordinate, distribute, and publicize the FISHBIO regional Long Island Sound Report Card over San Juan River Waterfall Fish Capture and a three year budget cycle. Transport Feasibility Assessment (NM) $7,100 Fund a trap and transport feasibility study at Other the base of a waterfall on the San Juan River. $50,000 Mitigation

91 Cornell Cooperative Extension Hudson River Sloop Clearwater National Wildlife Federation of Suffolk County Sloop Clearwater Sailing Classroom Program Greenpoint Seed Kit Activities, Curriculum (NY) Assessing and Removing Derelict Lobster Gear (NY) Support teachers and families from the four in Long Island Sound (NY) Provide students from the North River Greenpoint Eco-Schools (PS 31, PS 34, PS Remove 3,640 derelict lobster pots from neighborhood in West Harlem with an 110, and MS 126) while they teach and learn Long Island Sound using a specialized grapple environmental education classroom taking remotely during the Covid-19 outbreak. system. Project will implement a program with place on-board a 106-foot wooden replica $53,612 local lobster fishermen to remove abandoned of a traditional 17th century Dutch sloop. Other gear to reduce debris in the sound and ghost Project will increase students’ awareness and fishing impacts to the depleted Southern New appreciation of the Hudson River as a natural National Wildlife Federation England lobster stock. resource, and help them understand the Manhattan Avenue Street End Park Garden $50,000 connection between human behaviors and Upgrades (NY) Federal Criminal Case the health of the River. Upgrade Manhattan Avenue Street End Park U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $17,722 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. Project Other will include the purchase of additional plants Cornell Cooperative Extension for the space and tools for volunteers and of Suffolk County JB’s Excavation Services enhancement of the site as a habitat for Marine Meadows Eelgrass Restoration French Creek Wetland Restoration Project (NY) wildlife. Initiative (NY) Fund the French Creek Wetland Restoration $10,762 Conduct land-based opportunities for the Project. Other public to participate in eelgrass restoration $88,400 activities. Project will hold two marine Mitigation Neighbors Allied for Good Growth meadows workshops resulting in the Reusable Greenpoint: Bag Printing and preparation of thousands of shoots of eelgrass National Audubon Society Giveaway (NY) for restoration planting at two restoration sites For the Birds! Pre-Recorded Lessons and Purchase and print reusable bags to be throughout Long Island, New York. Activities (NY) distributed to Greenpoint residents. $8,992 Deliver Audubon New York’s For the Birds! to $7,500 Federal Criminal Case four classrooms at P.S. 31 Samuel F. Dupont Other U.S. v. Parente School through seven pre-recorded lessons. The lessons will be delivered to approximately Neighbors Allied for Good Growth Council on the Environment dba GrowNYC 100 third-grade students. Safe Soils In Greenpoint (NY) Public Training to Install New York City Rain $1,555 Fund the purchase of a handheld x-ray Barrels and Rainwater Harvesting to Improve Other fluorescent analyzer that will allow for the Community Water Quality (NY) analysis of soil samples for neighborhood Deliver workshops to teach how to install National Audubon Society residents. The analysis will allow for and maintain rain barrels provided by the Audubon New York’s For the Birds! information to be relayed to residents New York City Department of Environmental Environmental Education Program (NY) regarding the concentration of lead and other Protection and install rainwater harvesting Deliver environmental education programing heavy metals at their home. systems in public greenspace in West Harlem, to students grades six through eight at I.S $9,280 New York. Project will increase successful 303 Herbert S. Eisenberg School. Project will Other public use of rain barrels and demonstrate deliver five bird watching classes to students the value of rainwater harvesting to reduce and offering three community bird walks to I.S. New York City Audubon Society stormwater from streets, sidewalks, and roofs 303 students, faculty and their families. Community Wildlife Conservation in New York into local waterways. $7,916 City (NY) $21,400 Other Work with community partners to create Other diverse teams to conduct wildlife monitoring National Audubon Society and coastal habitat enhancement projects in

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College For the Birds! An Environmental Education Jamaica Bay, Pelham Bay Park, Calvert Vaux Foundation Program (NY) Park, and Manhattan, New York. Project will Introduction of Herbaceous Plants To Raft Deliver youth and adult environmental enhance the capacity for environmental Planter Boxes at North Henry Street Inlet (NY) education programs and hands-on stewardship at a local level by engaging New Introduce herbaceous plants to raft planter stewardship activities for 350 people to learn York City residents, including minority and boxes which are currently in place within the about birds in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New immigrant community members, directly in North Henry Street inlet in order to provide York. Project will provide an opportunity for hands-on conservation. food for pollinator wildlife. residents to interact with natural resources in $7,096 $5,350 local parks and create direct connections to Other Other the natural world in their community. $13,830 New York City Department of Parks and Horticultural Society of New York Other Recreation McGolrick Park Horticultural Maintenance (NY) Expansion of Coney Island Creek Provide monthly horticultural maintenance at National Wildlife Federation Shorekeepers, Brooklyn (NY) two sites in McGolrick Park, The Urban Oasis Greenpoint Schoolyard Habitats Project (NY) Expand current coalition of volunteers who Garden, and the Pollinator Garden. Project Partner with PS 31, PS 34, and MS 126 to receive specialized training and resources to activities will include weeding, pruning, complete schoolyard habitat enhancements care for street trees and natural areas. Project removal of invasive plants, picking up trash, that make the gardens more functional for will involve the public in debris clean-up and amending the soil, mulching, and watering in classes and increase the overall biodiversity monitoring projects in the salt marsh and the designated garden areas. of the school grounds. upland coastal maritime community. $11,000 $26,218 $7,916 Other Other Other

92 Newtown Creek Alliance Open Space Alliance For North Brooklyn The Wetland Trust Newtown Creek SAMPLES Project — III (NY) 61 Franklin St. Community Garden Bog Turtle Habitat Restoration (NY) Continue weekly Newtown Creek water Improvements and Workshops (NY) Fund restoration and monitoring for bog sampling program; funds would cover 2020 Fund garden updates including building turtle habitat. season. raised-beds, installing a hand washing station, $6,000 $7,336 and purchasing new tools and supplies. Mitigation Other Workshops will also be conducted to educate the public on local ecology and sustainable U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Newtown Creek Alliance and environmentally friendly practices. Jamaica Bay, Plumb Beach, and Marine Park Environmental Education Public Events $7,500 Feasibility Study (NY) At Kingsland Wildflowers (NY) Other Fund a saltwater marsh feasibility study in Host three environmental education events Jamaica Bay, Plumb Beach, and Marine Park. and a mid-summer festival event at Kingsland Open Space Alliance For North Brooklyn $400,000 Wildflowers. Project will provide community Under the K Bridge Park Equipment and Other members with hands-on education about Celebration and OSA Capacity Building (NY) native plants, green roofs, and the ecological Fund the purchase of equipment and a park U.S. Department of the Interior, importance of both within an urban context. opening celebration of the Under the K U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service $18,590 Bridge Park. The funds will also go towards Restoration of Upper St. Lawrence River Other institutional capacity building for Open Space Muskellunge: Equipment Purchase (NY) Alliance for North Brooklyn. Update and expand the current capacity for Newtown Creek Alliance $56,475 culture at the Aquatic Research Lab at the Newtown Creek Urban Ecology Education NC Other Thousand Islands Biological Station in support IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) U³ Project (NY) of the muskellunge population recovery effort Deliver an urban environmental education Panthera Corporation through the purchase of equipment. curriculum focused on the ecology of Panthera Corporation “Tigers Forever” (NY) $6,861 Newtown Creek to students and support local Contribution towards Panthera’s Tigers Mitigation stewardship projects in concert with schools Forever initiative. Project focuses on in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Project increasing tiger numbers worldwide. U.S. Department of the Interior, will increase knowledge and awareness $4,800 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of Newtown Creek, a nearby community Federal Criminal Case St. Lawrence Fish Enhancement, Mitigation, waterway, and its natural resources. U.S. v. Schlom et al. and Research Fund (NY) $13,787 Support fish enhancement, mitigation, and Other PS 110K PTA research projects in the St. Lawrence River. PS110 Garden Renovation Update (NY) $552,151 North Brooklyn Community Boathouse Install native trees, perennials, and ground Mitigation Greenpoint Public Paddle and Kayak Events covers in existing PS 110 garden. Project will (NY) also include an event to celebrate the garden. Various Recipients Hold a series of free walk-up paddle and $21,295 Musky Broodstock Collection Equipment kayak events in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New Other Purchase (NY) York. Project will serve over 100 community Fund the purchase of equipment to add in members and will work to create a greater Rockaway Waterfront Alliance musky broodstock collection. connection to waterways in the community. Marine Conservation Corps Youth Service- $28,749 $46,228 Learning Program (NY) Mitigation Other Deliver an education and service learning program for youth ages 14 to 18 focused on Various Recipients North Brooklyn Community Boathouse marine conservation projects and involve Eel Bay Wetland Enhancement Project (NY) North Brooklyn Community Boathouse community members in environmental Fund wetland restoration project in the Capacity Building (NY) stewardship in and around Jamaica Bay and Town of Orleans, Jefferson County, New York. Fund institutional capacity building that will the Rockaway Peninsula, New York. Project Project will increase Northern pike spawning culminate in a workshop for board members will restore 11.5 acres of degraded shoreline and nursery habitat, as well as increase the and volunteer leaders. The purpose of the and collect 1,500 pounds of marine debris overall value of the wetland to benefit other exercises is to re-envision and re-connect while increasing awareness and appreciation wetland dependent species. with the organization’s mission and revitalize of coastal resources in the community. $53,652 the internal and external communications. $7,100 Mitigation $15,000 Other Other Wildlife Conservation Society Rocking the Boat New York Aquarium Urban Naturalist Initiative Northwest Marine Technology Students Working On-the-Water to Restore Train high school students as researchers Coded-wire Tag Equipment Purchase (NY) Tidal Wetlands along the Bronx River (NY) and advocates to engage 650 community Fund the purchase of coded-wire tag Engage students to enhance tidal wetlands members in scientific data collection, clean- equipment. Project will track Northern pike and educate community members of all ages up efforts, and recreation along Coney Island that are produced in wetland restoration about the ecological value of the natural Creek. Project will provide students with a projects to determine how they recruit to the habitat to the Bronx River and Long Island seven-month Youth Naturalist internship adult population in out years. Sound in Hunts Point, New York. Project with Wildlife Conservation Society’s New $25,360 will help develop an awareness of natural York Aquarium. Mitigation resources along a highly urbanized river and $7,916 foster a community of local environmental Other stewards. $37,274 Other 93 NORTH CAROLINA OHIO Various Recipients Pennsylvania Wetlands Replacement (PA) Conservation Fisheries The Nature Conservancy Conduct wetland restorations on private lands, Preventing Extinction of the Carolina Madtom Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Research in Ohio particularly in the Pocono Mountains region. in North Carolina Fund research of hemlock woolly adelgid in $55,656 Enable captive breeding of Carolina madtom Ohio. Mitigation from the Neuse River basin and areas of the $10,000 Tar River basin. Project will capture and hold Other live individuals from the Neuse River basin TEXAS with the intent to breed them. $45,000 OREGON Ducks Unlimited Federal Criminal Case Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge (TX) U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; MidCoast Watersheds Council Enhance wildlife habitat quality and wetland U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress Lower Drift Creek Tidal Restoration values of the Anahuac National Wildlife Design — I (OR) Refuge through installation of a fixed-crest Kris Bass Engineering Implement a restoration design project on an rock weir structure near the mouth of Brushy Roanoke River Habitat Restoration and Barrier 80-acre site owned by the Siletz Bay National Bayou along the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Removal Planning (NC) Wildlife Refuge located near Lincoln City, Project will reduce daily tidal energy, thus Conduct a GIS and field assessment of Oregon. Project will evaluate alternatives to reducing marsh loss through erosion and barriers for aquatic species passage in the remove fish passage barriers and enhance saltwater intrusion, on approximately 500 Roanoke River basin. Project will identify ecological processes to help coho salmon, acres of coastal emergent marsh. specific retrofit projects and provide needed other estuarine dependent species, and $200,000 information for eventual implementation. promote community resiliency. Federal Criminal Case $29,997 $57,020 U.S. v. Thome Ship Management PTE, LTD. Federal Criminal Case Federal Criminal Case and Egyptian Tanker Company U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; (multiple prosecutions) U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress Tom Smith Land Acquisition Consulting Oregon State University Foundation Land Acquisition Support for Columbia North American Marine Environment Reference Database Expansion for Field and Bottomlands (TX) Protection Association Laboratory Wood Species Identification (OR) Provide support in developing land acquisition Education of Seafarers and Shoreside Provide support for student research through opportunities for bottomland hardwood in the Personnel on the International Convention the Wood Identification and Screening Center Texas Mid-Coast Refuge Complex. for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships to further timber identification databases. $33,458 Compliance in North Carolina Project will work to expand existing electronic Mitigation Fund activities associated with educating wood species identification technologies seafarers in North Carolina about the XyloTron and Direct Analysis in Real Time U.S. Department of the Interior, International Convention for the Prevention Mass Spectrometry for field and laboratory U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 2 of Pollution from Ships compliance. wood species identification purposes. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southwest $1,500 $8,300 Region 2 Endowment - Houston Toad Captive Federal Criminal Case Federal Criminal Case Breeding Long-Term Support (TX) U.S. v. Paccship (UK). LTD U.S. v. Lumber Liquidators, Inc. Support of a captive breeding program for federally endangered Houston toad. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Trout Unlimited $30,810 Magnificent Ramshorn Propagation and Lalo Springs Fish Passage and Screening Mitigation Restoration (NC) Project (OR) Establish at least one population of the Improve fish passage and reduce entrainment magnificent ramshorn in the wild in eastern near Lalo Springs in the Klamath Basin. UTAH

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED North Carolina. Project will support a biologist Project will allow greater habitat access to propagate magnificent ramshorn, identify through the removal of a culvert and the Advanced Telemetry Systems potential ponds for stocking, conduct habitat addition of a series of hardened channels San Juan River Coded Receiver Data Logger improvements, implement stocking, and between existing pools. Project will also (UT) conduct evaluations of stocking success. eliminate entrainment risk for suckers and Fund the purchase of a coded receiver data $75,000 redband trout by installing a fish screen on a logger to track endangered fishes in the San Federal Criminal Case pump intake along the Sprague River. Juan River. U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; $32,500 $5,830 U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress Mitigation Mitigation

The Conservation Fund American Conservation Experience Rocky and Deep Rivers Conservation Corridor PENNSYLVANIA American Conservation Experience Resource (NC) Fellowship (UT) Protect 317 acres along the Deep River, which Magnolia Land Partners Conduct work with Resource Associates and will be added to the Deep River State Natural Enhancement and Protection of Bog Turtle and land managers on damaged habitat and arid Area and Deep River State Trail. Project will Bat Habitats (PA) land native vegetation restoration projects preserve habitat for the federally endangered Fund the enhancement and protection of that benefit at-risk wildlife species. Project Cape Fear shiner. bog turtle and bat habitats in Oley Township, will focus on restoring and enhancing desert $370,000 Pennsylvania. tortoise habitat in two National Conservation Federal Criminal Case $12,500 Areas of Utah. U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; Mitigation $100,000 U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress Mitigation

94 American Conservation Experience Utah State University Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Desert Tortoise Habitat Restoration by Youth Survival Analysis of Desert Tortoises University Crews on Public Lands in Southern Utah within the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve (UT) Peat Fire Vulnerability and Consequences in Engage and employ youth to help restore Identify conservation objectives for the the Great Dismal Swamp NWR (VA) habitat for the endangered Mojave Desert Mojave Desert Tortoise Upper Virgin River Use available data, modeling methods, and tortoise in the Beaver Dam Wash National Recovery Unit, including maintaining self- new field data collection to provide a model Conservation Area and the Red Cliffs National sustaining populations and protecting and to predict smoldering peat fire vulnerability Conservation Area. Project will focus on managing habitat to maintain the long-term over time and space and to provide planting of native plants, re-seeding of viability of the tortoise population. Includes assessments of ecosystem recovery and damaged areas, implementation of arid land an assessment of a suite of desert tortoise habitat following large-scale smoldering fires. vegetation restoration and monitoring. population demographic measures including $43,824 $75,003 density, survival, and recruitment. Results Other Mitigation will be used to update predictive models, such as population viability analysis, to Aquatic Consultants accurately reflect the status of desert tortoise WASHINGTON Navajo Agricultural Products Industry Pond populations in Utah. Drains (AZ, NM, UT) $8,766 Port of Bellingham Install two gravity drains in grow out ponds Mitigation Design and Engineering for the Gate 1 on the Navajo Nation that will be used to Pumpout Float and Pile Replacement (WA) raise endangered fishes for stocking into the Remove and replace the Gate 1 pumpout San Juan River. VIRGINIA float and piling system with a new gangway, $131,629 concrete piling, and concrete floats. Project IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) Mitigation City of Roanoke Stormwater Division will remove the wooden floats and creosote Polychlorinated Biphenyls Monitoring And piling and replace them with environmentally Ecosystems Research Institute Source Tracking in Roanoke City (VA) friendly new floats and piling. San Juan River Habitat Assessment – II (UT) Assess polychorinated biphenyls in Roanoke’s $97,435 Assess important habitats for endangered impaired waterways. Project will track and Federal Criminal Case fishes in the San Juan River. identify specific sections in the Roanoke River, U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $239,200 Peter Creek, and Tinker Creek that serve as the Mitigation dominant sources of polychlorinated biphenyls Port of Friday Harbor into the water column. Harbor Marine Pollution Prevention (WA) Keller-Bliesner Engineering $102,708 Construct a waterfront marine spill response Secondary Channel Habitat Maintenance for Federal Criminal Case facility and purchase a pumpout eco-barge. Native Fishes in the San Juan River (UT) U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; Project will create a program to quickly Perform habitat maintenance on secondary U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress respond to oil spills and mitigate impacts to channels in the San Juan River for native species harmed by contaminants habitats fishes. College of William and Mary, Virginia vital to orca and minke whales, harbor seals, $29,110 Institute of Marine Science sea lions, river otters, eagles, aukletes and Mitigation Targeted “Hotspot” Removal of Derelict Blue many more species. Crab Traps (MD, VA) $400,000 Ogden City Hire five commercial crabbers to remove Federal Criminal Case Ogden River Restoration (UT) derelict blue crab traps from areas of high U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Provide support for Utah Conservation Crops commercial crabbing activity in Virginia and Crews to conduct follow-up maintenance Maryland waters. Project will reduce bycatch The Longbranch Improvement Club along the Ogden River. Project will benefit the mortality, help validate derelict crab trap The Longbranch Marina Pumpout Station (WA) Ogden River through planting of riparian and density models, and increase subsequent Pursue permits and approvals required to wetland plants to enhance the river corridor blue crab harvest for commercial crabbers. start the design process for new construction and surrounding area. $115,680 of a boat pumpout station at the Longbranch $4,500 Federal Criminal Case Marina, Longbranch, Washington, located Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. on the Filucy Bay of the Puget Sound. Project U.S. v. SC Utah Enterprises, LLC, will provide a valuable service to the public d.b.a. A-One Salvage & Pic A Part Friends of the Rivers of Virginia recreational boaters while protecting the Lynch Park to Veteran’s Park River and Stream fragile shellfish environment. Providia Management Group Stabilization/Restoration Project, Town of $82,500 Stewart Lake Cattail Management (UT) Rocky Mount and Franklin County (VA) Federal Criminal Case Fund cattail control in Stewart Lake, Utah. Utilize natural channel design techniques U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. $40,000 and bank restoration best management Mitigation practices to address the eroding river, stream Washington State Parks and Recreation banks, and streambed along the right bank Commission U.S. Department of the Interior, of the Pigg River. Project will restore and Sucia Island Sewer Pump-out Station (WA) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Region 2 stabilize the stream bed, stream, and river Install a floating, independent sewer Nonnative Fish Management banks resulting in significantly reduced pump-out station in Fossil Bay located on on the San Juan River (UT) sedimentation, which will improve habitat for Sucia Island. The station will be periodically Implement five years of nonnative fish the federally endangered Roanoke logperch, emptied and the sewage transported upland management on the San Juan River in the state-listed orangefin madtom, and other to a sewage treatment facility. accordance with the San Juan River Basin native aquatic species. $87,500 Recovery Implementation Program. $100,000 Federal Criminal Case $150,361 Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. Mitigation U.S. v. Duke Energy Carolinas; U.S. v. Duke Energy Progress 95 WEST VIRGINIA Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Terry Creek Conservation Easement (WY) Environmental Resources Allstar Ecology LLC Permanently protect 640 acres of essential Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Spruce Mountain Bat Mitigation (WV) golden eagle habitat in Wyoming. Project will Environmental Resources Training and Gearing Fund the support of bat mitigation on Spruce protect key forage habitat in close proximity for Response to Marine Mammal Strandings Mountain, West Virginia to a known nest location for golden eagles Strengthen the stranding response in Puerto $9,540 and along a known migration corridor Rico by training the personnel in the most Mitigation for golden eagles through a conservation current techniques and protocols for effective easement. response to the different situations that could The Wetland Trust $50,000 occur during a marine mammal-stranding Columbia Pipeline Conservation Easement – Mitigation event. Project will improve ability to conduct Payment II (WV) necropsies and preserve samples will increase Columbia Pipeline Conservation easement Wildlands Photography and Bio-Consulting our understanding of marine mammal health payment for recordation of easement. Habitat Use, Movements, and Fate of Resident in Caribbean waters. $15,000 and Migrant Golden Eagles Over Two Major $40,000 Mitigation Wind Development Areas in Wyoming (WY) Federal Criminal Case Conduct satellite tagging of golden eagles U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD. on two major wind development regions in WYOMING Wyoming. Project will substantially enhance data quality, ongoing analyses of risk American Wind Wildlife Institute assessments, seasonal and yearly variations American Wind Wildlife Institute Eagle Vehicle in spatial uses of habitats by eagles, and the Strike Mitigation Model (WY) development of appropriate management/ Utilize field data to verify and update the mitigation strategies to reduce wind American Wind Wildlife Institute vehicle development impacts on golden eagles. strike model and construct and evaluate $137,670 a Resource Equivalency Analysis of the Mitigation updated vehicle strike model. Project work will reduce death, injury, and disturbances to golden eagles through vehicle strike NATIONWIDE mitigation modeling and construction of a resource equivalency analysis to further Southern Environmental Enforcement understand what may happen to golden Network eagle populations if not for fatal events. Advanced Environmental Crimes Training $142,524 Program Mitigation Develop and administer Advanced Environmental Crimes Training Program Craighead Beringia South courses that provide classroom and practical Non-lead Ammunition Distribution Programs instruction for advanced investigation to Offset Golden Eagle Mortalities (WY) techniques applicable to the investigation of In consultation with the Wyoming Game and environmental crimes. Fish Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife $211,051 Service, distrubute non-lead ammunition to Federal Criminal Case hunters in specific hunting zones in Wyoming. U.S. v. Wal-Mart, Inc. Project will work towards creating a robust and defensible method to offset golden eagle mortality through the use of non-lead PUERTO RICO

IMPACT-DIRECTED ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS (IDEA) ACCOUNTS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT-DIRECTED distribution programs and reduce golden eagle mortalities by lead poisoning. National Wildlife Refuge Association $255,775 Leatherback Turtles Nesting Habitats Mitigation Restoration in Puerto Rico Restore nesting habitats for leatherback Raptor View Research Institute sea turtles in index beaches of Puerto Rico Estimating Natal Origins of Immature Golden by reducing and preventing light pollution; Eagles killed on Wind Farms in Wyoming restoring and enhancing the legal protection Use stable hydrogen isotope analysis utilizing of nesting habitat; and reducing direct the weighed growing season average sources of mortality. Project will provide a precipitation to reveal natal origins of significant reduction of disoriented turtles, immature golden eagles found as mortalities road kills, poaching, predation, and an on wind farms in Wyoming. increase in successful nests and hatchling $6,939 production. Federal Criminal Case $1,187,371 U.S. v. Duke Energy Renewables, Inc. Federal Criminal Case U.S. v. Princess Cruise Lines, LTD.

96 A yellowfin tuna swims next to kelp growing off California’s coast.

ON THE FRONT COVER Young bighorn sheep

ON THE BACK COVER Painted bunting

PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Perry (front cover, bighorn sheep), Peter Brannon (p. 2, snowy egret). All other photos by Minden Pictures.

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