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National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Short Grass Prairie Protect, restore and enhance shortgrass prairie, LPC Conservation in The Nature habitat, and playas in the southeastern New Mexico and 2013 34736 $60,000 $60,000 $50,000 $110,000 New Mexico; Texas New Mexico and Conservancy Texas focal area and implement public education and Texas outreach activities. Aerial Survey Western The Lesser Prairie Chicken Interstate Working Group will Assessment of Association of Fish use the newly developed range-wide aerial survey to Colorado; Kansas; New 2013 35249 $125,000 $125,000 $250,000 $375,000 Lesser Prairie and Wildlife assess Farm Bill Programs for each of the 15X15 km Mexico; Oklahoma; Texas Chicken (LPC) Agencies survey blocks. Assess the abundance of Guadalupe Bass in the River basin and re-introduce the species on the Upper San Antonio River in Texas. Project, which Basin Guadalupe San Antonio River supports the goals of the Southeast Aquatic Resources 2012 31188 Bass Assessment $44,201 $44,201 $300,000 $344,201 Texas Authority Partnership as part of the National Fish Habitat Action and Re- Plan, will restore aquatic and riparian habitats, expand of introduction (TX) the range and distribution of Guadalupe Bass, and improve the biotic integrity of the San Antonio River. Continue to reduce the gaps in knowledge of American Texas American Gulf Coast Bird Oystercatcher population status and breeding 2012 30267 Oystercatcher $134,975 $67,487 $67,487 $134,989 $269,964 Texas Observatory parameters, and begin implementation of conservation Conservation strategies on the Texas Gulf Coast. Anahuac National Texas Rice Create 350 acres of wetland/moist soil units and Wildlife Refuge Industry Coalition refurbish a 100-acre abandoned reservoir on the 2012 30280 $48,250 $24,125 $24,125 $167,950 $216,200 Texas Wetlands Initiative for the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge to create high quality (TX) Environment wetland habitat for wetland-dependent wildlife. Coastal Texas Assist the Natural Resource Conservation Service in the Wetland Reserve delivery of Grassland Reserve Program and Wetlands Program and Guadalupe-Blanco 2012 32573 Reserve Program conservation easements. Project will $52,440 $27,440 $25,000 $62,000 $114,440 Texas Grassland River Trust assist local and state offices with real estate specific due Reserve Program diligence tasks. Assistance Western Lesser Prairie Association of Fish Colorado; Kansas; New 2012 32526 Chicken Aerial Conduct aerial monitoring for Lesser Prairie Chicken. $55,092 $55,092 $0 $55,092 and Wildlife Mexico; Oklahoma; Texas Monitoring Agencies Fishery Science & Gulf Fishermen's Build regional capacity to develop and deliver a fishery Management Association / Gulf Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2012 30892 science and management education program for Gulf of $125,000 $0 $125,000 $50,000 $175,000 Education for Gulf of Maine Research Texas Mexico fisheries stakeholders. Fishermen Institute

135 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

The REAL School Gardens will create seven new outdoor classroom spaces with water conservation systems and native plant and wildlife habitats, sustain 23 existing outdoor classrooms, and eradicate invasive species on Fostering Native 1,050 square feet. Education efforts include providing Plants and Young REAL School 2012 31822 hands-on training on rainwater harvesting and drip $26,555 $0 $26,555 $88,000 $114,555 Texas Environmental Gardens irrigation for approximately 1,000 adults and children, Stewards (TX) creating standards-based lessons on water conservation appropriate for kindergarten through fifth grade students, and training over 250 teachers to utilize these lessons in their outdoor classrooms. Restore grassland bird populations through national policy leadership and market-based incentives that Alabama; Arkansas; Delaware; deliver large-scale habitat solutions. Project will enhance Southeastern Florida; Georgia; Illinois; University of capacity for the National Bobwhite Conservation 2012 30533 Grassland Birds $372,558 $372,558 $636,354 $1,008,912 Indiana; Kentucky; Louisiana; Tennessee Initiative, and the Center for Native Grasslands Initiative - III Maryland; Mississippi; Texas; Management to ensure national coordination and Virginia; West Virginia leadership for a resident game bird and a strong producer-focused native grass initiative. Continue and expand coordinated management and Alabama; Connecticut; monitoring of American Oystercatchers in American Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Massachusetts. Project will engage in four major 2012 30642 Oystercatcher Manomet, Inc. $133,510 $133,510 $287,763 $421,273 Louisiana; Maryland; activities: coastwide coordination, predation and Recovery - III Massachusetts; Mississippi; disturbance management, reducing knowledge gaps and Texas; Virginia coordinated monitoring to measure success. American Conduct a second comprehensive aerial survey of the Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Oystercatcher 2012 30643 Manomet, Inc. entire winter range of the American Oystercatcher from $83,750 $83,750 $106,298 $190,048 Georgia; Louisiana; Maryland; Coastwide Aerial New York to Texas. Mississippi; Texas; Virginia Survey South Texas Parks and This project will develop a Conservation Demonstration Conservation 2012 30723 Wildlife Area at the South Llano River to enhance efforts to $27,500 $27,500 $27,500 $55,000 Texas Demonstration Department restore habitats for Guadalupe bass. Area Evaluating Avian A comparative study of non-breeding grassland bird use Rocky Mountain 2012 28783 Use of Restored of restored grassland sites that have undergone varying $157,412 $157,412 $157,413 $314,825 Arizona; New Mexico; Texas Bird Observatory Desert Grasslands restoration techniques across the Sky Islands region. Gulf-Wide Strategy Coordinate two Gulf-wide meetings to organize all Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2012 30946 For Sea Turtle Multiple Agencies $50,000 $0 $50,000 $0 $50,000 partners around a detailed implementation strategy. Mississippi; Texas Recovery Halt tamarix invasion and reestablish 6,500 acres vital to migrating birds and mammals on the Texas/Mexican Valley border. Project will reduce the invasion from 25% to 1% Riparian Friends of the 2012 29968 and increase native trees from 50% to 70% and wildlife $35,000 $35,000 $124,070 $159,070 Texas Reestablishment Wildlife Corridor from 50% to 60%, and will educate and coordinate (TX) conservation efforts among preserves, teachers and students, and other stakeholders in the community.

136 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Strategies for Control aquatic invasives in Texas and Louisiana through Control of Giant a private-public partnership to protect lakes and wetlands 2012 29987 $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 Lousiana; Texas Salvinia and Other Institute, Inc. using innovative websites, trained volunteers and public Invasives education. RGWTP Mentor Law Provide the RGWTP with guidance on water 2012 35664 Consultant – $5,000 $5,000 $0 $5,000 New Mexico; Texas Group, PLLC transactions. Mentor Law Group

Sabine Lake Texas Parks & Restore approximately 25.8 acres of oyster reefs in Oyster Reef 2012 29193 Wildlife . Project will construct a network of small $525,000 $0 $525,000 $200,000 $725,000 Texas Restoration and Foundation patch reefs to mimic the nearby natural reefs. Enhancement (TX) Shorebird Habitat Protect, monitor and increase shorebird populations and Restoration in the restore habitat through implementation of protective 2012 29223 Conservian, Inc. $105,000 $0 $105,000 $105,000 $210,000 Texas Laguna Madre of measures to limit human-caused disturbance and habitat Texas degradation. Research Delta waterfowl. The John Bunker Sands John Bunker Researching Delta Wetland Center facility provides opportunities for 2011 28501 Sands Wetlands $5,000 $2,500 $2,500 $0 $5,000 Texas Waterfowl (TX) research, education, wildlife observation, and community Center gatherings. Southern District Education and Outreach project to train Texas fishermen of Texas MAROL Marina Association and recreational boaters on revisions and compliance 2011 28543 $45,000 $0 $45,000 $10,000 $55,000 Texas Annex V & Marine of Texas (MAT) requirements to Annex V, and provide both reception Debris Education facilities and compliance incentives. Texas and Provide funds for the preservation, restoration, and Oklahoma Playa Lakes Joint 2011 28747 general protection of migratory waterfowl habitat in the $78,200 $0 $78,200 $0 $78,200 Oklahoma; Texas Waterfowl Habitat Venture Northern District of Texas and the District of Oklahoma. Restoration Fund BoatU.S. The BoatU.S. Foundation will develop an online Clean Boating Foundation for education course teaching boaters about ways to 2011 29125 Online Course - $25,000 $0 $25,000 $0 $25,000 Texas Boating Safety and minimize the impacts of their boating activities on the TX Clean Water environment. American Our purpose is to gain an understanding of where sub- Oystercatcher Gulf Coast Bird adult oystercatchers go between fledging and breeding at 2011 25847 $24,094 $12,047 $12,047 $29,607 $53,701 Texas Stewardship in Observatory three years of age and to understand how they are using Texas - II the coast during this time. Electronic Fishery Test electronic monitoring in the fishery Monitoring for Gulf Ocean as a viable tool for accurately collecting data to ensure 2011 26493 $200,000 $80,000 $120,000 $126,000 $326,000 Florida; Texas of Mexico Reef Conservancy, Inc. adherence to catch limits, including the region’s catch- Fish share program. Comprehensive Reef Fish and Gulf of Mexico Protect reef fish through implementation of individual Headboat Reef Fish Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2011 26511 fishing quota systems and establish a pilot individual $200,002 $0 $200,002 $95,200 $295,202 Individual Fishing Shareholders' Mississippi; Texas fishing quota program for head boat operators. Quotas within the Alliance Gulf

137 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Unite the major organizations working on oystercatcher Alabama; Delaware; Florida; American conservation coastwide and in Massachusetts to improve Georgia; Louisiana; Maryland; 2011 23716 Oystercatcher Manomet, Inc. $218,952 $218,952 $285,411 $504,363 nesting success through control of predation and Massachusetts; Mississippi; Recovery - II disturbance. Texas; Virginia Alabama; Arkansas; Delaware; Southeast Work with partners to address policy barriers and Florida; Georgia; Illinois; University of 2011 25760 Grassland Birds opportunities for native grassland conservation and $421,999 $421,999 $667,739 $1,089,738 Indiana; Kentucky; Louisiana; Tennessee Initiative - II develop market-based solutions for landowners. Maryland; Mississippi; Texas; Virginia; West Virginia Restore Guadalupe bass populations by addressing Guadalupe Bass Texas Parks and factors leading to their decline, including flow alteration, 2011 23949 Restoration Wildlife $300,000 $300,000 $300,000 $600,000 Texas loss of watershed connectivity, habitat degradation, and Initiative (TX) Department hybridization. Restoration of Restore Guadalupe bass populations by addressing Texas Parks and Guadalupe Bass in factors leading to their decline, including flow alteration, 2011 27880 Wildlife $100,000 $0 $100,000 $0 $100,000 Texas the loss of watershed connectivity, habitat degradation, and Department Watershed (TX) hybridization. Implementing the Implement three key elements of the newly created Gulf Gulf of Mexico of Mexico Regional Marine Protected Area Plan focusing Friends of Rookery Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2011 26491 Regional Marine on managing for climate change, catastrophic event $35,000 $35,000 $46,200 $81,200 Bay, Inc. Mississippi; Texas Protected Area response, and outreach and training about the value of Plan (FL) - II Marine Protected Areas. Habitat Restore twelve acres of habitat destroyed by Hurricane Restoration on Friends of Ike. Project accomplishments will include planting 400 2011 25644 Anahuac National $4,444 $4,444 $7,381 $11,825 Texas Anahuac Refuge trees, shrubs, and vines to provide shelter, food, and Wildlife Refuge nesting sites for migratory and resident birds. (TX) Educate and train several board of directors, members, Friends of and volunteers to solicit members for current gifts, to Saving the Native Balcones include direct mail, email, and phone calls, personalized 2011 25814 Texas Warbler: Canyonlands to each member. Project will create an ongoing method $5,000 $5,000 $5,000 $10,000 Texas Building Capacity National Wildlife for sustaining and Refuge increasing low cost and personalized fund raising, and train directors in basic fund raising principles. Brazoria National Improve, support, and increase public birding at Brazoria Wildlife Refuge Friends of Brazoria 2011 29037 National Wildlife Refuge through birding facilities, $5,000 $5,000 $8,500 $13,500 Texas Birding Initiative Wildlife Refuges updated resources, events, and publicity. (TX) Identify and develop specific activities to enhance habitat for wildlife, and in particular the Attwater’s prairie- chicken, while providing conservation education to the Establishing the Friends of Attwater local community about the endangered bird and Friends of Attwater 2011 29146 Prairie-Chicken imperiled coastal prairie ecosystem. Project will enhance $5,000 $5,000 $6,000 $11,000 Texas Prairie-Chicken Refuge and promote the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Refuge (TX) Wildlife Refuge goal of recovering the endangered Attwater's prairie chicken and restoring native Texas coastal prairie.

138 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Using Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge as an Outdoor outdoor classroom, develop a variety of educational sites Classroom at Lacombe Heritage for regular observation of climate-oriented changes in the 2011 28863 Branch Marsh $9,878 $9,878 $3,600 $13,478 Louisiana Center cycles of marine, reptilian, avian, and mammalian National Wildlife reproduction, growth, and migration. Project will impact Refuge (LA) 60,000 students. Anahuac National Increase the acreage of habitat available on Anahuac Wildlife Refuge Friends of National Wildlife Refuge on an annual basis and provide 2011 25643 $548,615 $0 $548,615 $0 $548,615 Texas Moist Soil Anahuac Refuge increased acres of habitat this year for Management (TX) migrating/wintering shorebirds and waterfowl. Beach-Nesting Identify key colony locations and build a network to Bird Conservation American Bird Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2011 26241 protect vulnerable beach-nesting birds along the Gulf $270,000 $0 $270,000 $100,000 $370,000 in the Gulf of Conservancy Mississippi; Texas coast. Mexico This project will restore and protect Gulf coast shorebird Conservation of Alabama; Connecticut; Florida; populations and habitats along the Atlantic coast and 2011 26953 Shorebirds in the Manomet, Inc. $647,861 $0 $647,861 $323,226 $971,087 Louisiana; Massachusetts; implement protection measures on American Gulf Region Mississippi; Texas Oystercatcher and Piping Plover nesting sites

U.S. Gulf Shorebird Produce a Gulf-wide assessment on beach-nesting birds Alabama; Florida; Louisiana; 2011 27180 Conservian, Inc. $125,000 $0 $125,000 $0 $125,000 Assessment and and their habitat from past and current data. Mississippi; Texas Management Plan Kemp's Ridley Sea Volunteers and staff will conduct conservation research, Turtle National Park and environmental education efforts to help restore and 2011 23502 $100,000 $0 $100,000 $202,500 $302,500 Texas Conservation (TX) - Service enhance a nesting population of endangered Kemp's X ridley sea turtles in Texas. Upper Texas Partner with Brazoria County, USFWS Coastal Program, Coast Dune The Artist Boat, adult service organizations, and area schools to plant 14 2011 23719 $70,994 $0 $70,994 $251,996 $322,990 Texas Restoration and Inc. acres, or 10 miles of sand dunes through an outreach Outreach program with 4th-Gray participants.

American Reduce gaps in knowledge of the American Oystercatcher Gulf Coast Bird Oystercatcher population status and breeding 2010 20494 $100,000 $0 $100,000 $100,060 $200,060 Texas Stewardship in Observatory parameters on the Texas Gulf Coast. Project will enable Texas the implementation of conservation strategies. Establish wetland vegetation along banks to Trinity River Trinity Commons provide stabilization and a natural habitat. Project staff 2010 23107 Wetland $50,016 $0 $50,016 $25,000 $75,016 Texas Foundation, Inc. will work closely with the Trinity Audubon Center to Restoration (TX) engage the community. Society Brood Survival of Tympanuchus Evaluate the effects of red imported fire ants on 2010 509 Attwater's Prairie $364,350 $182,350 $182,000 $210,000 $574,350 Texas Cupido Pinnatus, abundance of insect prey for Attwater’s Prairie-Chickens. Chickens Ltd

139 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Alabama; Arkansas; Delaware; Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Establish capacity to bring additional resources, partners, Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Eastern Grassland University of strategic guidance, and greater focus to the conservation 2010 18445 $442,500 $392,500 $50,000 $503,500 $946,000 Kentucky; Louisiana; Maryland; Bird Initiative Tennessee of Northern Bobwhite and other declining grassland bird Michigan; Minnesota; species. Mississippi; Texas; Virginia; West Virginia; Wisconsin Developing a Develop a regional Marine Protected Area plan and a Regional Plan for Friends of Rookery functional network within coastal states of the Gulf of 2010 22502 Marine Protected $35,000 $35,000 $45,000 $80,000 Florida; Georgia; Texas Bay, Inc. Mexico. Plan will highlight priority actions and common Areas for the interests. Southeast Work to ensure that genetically diverse living collections of imperiled oak species are in place and safeguarded Ex Situ Botanic Gardens from climate change and disease threats. Project will Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Conservation of Conservation 2010 20305 work with the U.S. Forest Service and botanic gardens in $15,000 $15,000 $15,000 $30,000 Georgia; Illinois; Louisiana; Four Imperiled International the United States and Australia to collect material from Texas Oak Species (U.S.), Inc. populations of four species of imperiled oak and develop propagation protocols. Provide at least 20,000 acres of suitable alternative Gulf Coast shorebird, wading bird, waterfowl, and secretive marsh Migratory Ducks Unlimited, bird habitat for fall migrant shorebirds, with maximum 2010 25056 $2,500,000 $0 $2,500,000 $0 $2,500,000 Louisiana; Texas Waterfowl Habitat Inc. flooded acreage achieved during peak fall migration and Enhancement winter periods in agricultural habitats in the Chenier Plain of Louisiana and Texas. Monitoring Post- Gladys Porter Zoo and NFWF are joining forces to tag 15 Nesting adult nesting female turtles in Mexico. Tracking their 2010 25112 Movements of Gladys Porter Zoo movements will help pinpoint turtle movements in relation $60,181 $60,181 $0 $60,181 Mexico, Texas Kemp's Ridley Sea to the spill, and target areas for sea turtle response and Turtles recovery efforts. Private Lands Texas Rice Create 1,395 acres of moist soil/wetland units in rice Moist Soil Initiative Industry Coalition farmland and abandoned rice farmland on private lands 2010 25478 $527,050 $0 $527,050 $88,385 $615,435 Texas - Texas Chenier for the in the area east of in Chambers and Plain Environment Jefferson County, Texas. Wetland Provide flood water and wetland enhancements to offer Enhancement and The Nature 2010 25493 productive habitat for migratory waterfowl and shorebirds $136,762 $0 $136,762 $4,147 $140,909 Texas Early Flood Up, Conservancy to dissuade them from going to oil spill affected areas. Coastal Texas

140 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Restore, enhance, and create approximately 1,200 acres of wetland/moist soil unit habitat and will restore approximately 15,000 acres of native prairie on the Brazoria National Texas Rice Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. Project will implement Wildlife Refuge Industry Coalition numerous joint ventures and conservation programs, 2010 2903 Wetlands and $125,000 $0 $125,000 $502,747 $627,747 Texas for the including the Texas Mottled Duck Conservation Plan, the Prairie Restoration Environment International Shorebird Initative, the Gulf Coast Joint (TX) Venture, the North American Waterfowl Plan, and many other initatives for wading birds and grassland and upland bird species.

Restore oyster reefs along the north shore of Eagle Point in Galveston Bay, Texas, as part of a multi phase oyster North Shore Eagle Texas Parks and restoration project. Project will restore a total of 5 acres 2010 3437 Point Oyster Wildlife $47,999 $10,000 $37,999 $47,999 $95,998 Texas of oyster habitat by placing reef patches in close Restoration (TX) Department proximity to privately owned piers and involving citizen volunteers in stewardship of the reefs. Use satellite telemetry to answer critical questions about the reddish egret’s ecology including those that will Reddish Egret determine its resilience in the face of largescale habitat U.S. Fish and 2010 3630 Conservation in loss. Long term outcomes of this research will inform $81,992 $0 $81,992 $110,869 $192,861 Texas Wildlife Service Coastal Texas conservation needs for not only reddish egret, but other priority species using similar habitat on the Texas Gulf coast. Restoring Texas Restore 50,000 acres of native Texas grasslands and Grassland and National Audubon savannahs to conserve threatened populations of 2009 788 $44,230 $22,115 $22,115 $136,545 $180,775 Texas Savannah Bird Society, Inc. bobwhite quail, red-cockaded woodpecker, and other Habitat grassland and shrub-obligate birds. Improving Nesting Enhance prairie habitat and construct wetlands to Habitat for Mottled Katy Prairie increase the number of Mottled Ducks, Mottled Duck 2009 1337 $75,000 $37,500 $37,500 $75,000 $150,000 Texas Ducks at Katy Conservancy nesting sites, and Mottled Duck broods on 550 acres of Prairie (TX) the Katy Prairie in Texas. Purpose is to conserve and protect Cedar Lake Creek, Cedar Lake Creek U.S. Fish and 2009 26464 which is a major waterway providing fresh water to the $19,000 $19,000 $19,000 Texas Agreement Wildlife Service San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge. Bring partnerships and state of the art conservation tools Filling Gaps in together to map out and implement a future landscape to Lesser Prairie- Playa Lakes Joint recover the Lesser Prairie-Chicken. Project will improve Colorado; Kansas; New 2009 1210 $179,300 $179,300 $179,300 Chicken Venture Lesser Prairie-Chicken conservation in a landscape that Mexico; Oklahoma; Texas Conservation is showing decreasing ability to support birds above endangered status.

141 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Alabama; California; Connecticut; Delaware; Florida; Development of Georgia; Louisiana; Maryland; Work with partners to develop quantitative goals for National-Scale The Nature Massachusetts; New 2009 1047 restoring oyster reefs to ecological health within eight $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 Oyster Reef Conservancy Hampshire; New Jersey; New marine ecoregions of the continental United States. Restoration Goals York; North Carolina; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Texas; Virginia Improve visitor access to temporary contact station and Friends of the produce orientation brochures in preparation for the Visitor Contact Caddo Lake opening of the refuge. Other handout materials will be 2009 18921 Center Access and $5,000 $5,000 $6,000 $11,000 Texas National Wildlife developed to orient visitors to existing wildlife viewing Information (LA) Refuge trails and precautions for a safe and informative visit to the refuge. Hurricane Ike Recover critical equipment used in the area of marine Marine Mammal Texas Marine mammal rehabilitation and research that was destroyed 2009 19071 Rescue and Mammal Stranding in Hurricane Ike. Project will support emergency out-of- $38,633 $38,633 $12,878 $51,511 Louisiana; Texas Equipment Network habitat marine mammal captures made necessary by Recovery Hurricane Ike. Restore two acres of intertidal marsh and bird nesting Bay Harbor Habitat Coastal Beach and habitat on an island nearly lost from subsidence and 2009 43 $50,000 $50,000 $406,405 $456,405 Texas Restoration (TX) Bay Foundation erosion. Construction will place sandy dredge material to restore elevations. Restore a 75 acre reef previously lost due to changes in Shellfish The Nature bay hydrology. The recent re-direction of 2009 221 Restoration at Half $200,000 $0 $200,000 $1,050,000 $1,250,000 Texas Conservancy discharge into upper has recreated Moon Reef (TX) favorable salinity regimes.

East Bay Shoreline Protect up to nine miles of eroding shoreline and restore Protection & Galveston Bay intertidal marsh habitat east of Galveston Bay. 2009 260 $200,000 $50,000 $150,000 $303,959 $503,959 Texas Marsh Restoration Foundation Breakwaters will be constructed and volunteers recruited (TX) - II to plant marsh vegetation.

Construct a main channel to enhance tidal exchange Bahia Grande between the Bahia Grande estuary and Gulf of Mexico, 2009 380 Restoration - Main Ocean Trust $108,975 $58,975 $50,000 $2,000,000 $2,108,975 Texas restore its ecosystem functions, and engage the public in Channel (TX) wetlands restoration. Kemp's Ridley Sea Continue to conduct conservation, research, and Turtle National Park environmental education efforts to help restore a nesting 2009 1349 $100,000 $0 $100,000 $100,000 Texas Conservation (TX)- Service population of endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in IX Texas. The Nature Conservancy will continue restoring the Attwater's Prairie native coastal prairie along the Texas Gulf Coast. Project The Nature 2008 5619 Chicken Recovery will develop a plan for Attwater's Prairie Chicken's $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $107,961 $207,961 Texas Conservancy (TX)- II release on private lands within the Refugio-Goliad Prairie.

142 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

U.S. Fish and Enhance 800 acres of whooping crane critical habitat Whooping Crane Wildlife Service - designated in Aransas National Wildlife Refuge through 2008 7383 Critical Habitat $60,000 $30,000 $30,000 $38,808 $98,808 Texas Aransas National prescribed burning and invasive species control. Project Enhancement (TX) Wildlife Refuge will also benefit other migratory birds and fauna. Adapt a desalination process to provide water for Groundwater livestock, wildlife and trees used for windbreaks along 2008 7204 Desalination in a Michael McCulloch $32,896 $32,896 $91,859 $124,755 Texas the Cenozoic water aquifer along the west side of the Cenozoic Aquifer in Texas. Implement an innovative approach to managing livestock Quail-Friendly Texas AgriLife grazing and prescribed fire to achieve desirable patches 2008 7512 Rangelands $133,037 $133,037 $164,979 $298,016 Texas Extension Service of vegetation for quail while reducing the need for Management chemical control of prickly pear. Implement long-term conservation initiative for multiple Roost Arizona; California; Colorado; Bat Conservation bat species in the southwestern United States. Project 2008 7539 Conservation for $82,473 $82,473 $82,892 $165,365 Nevada; New Mexico; Texas; International, Inc. will use a partnership-based model to implement priority Southwestern Bats Utah conservation actions. Conduct capacity building activities for the newly-formed Capacity Building Texas Agricultural Land Trust. Project will enable the American 2008 6172 for Rural Lands Trust to hold easements, meet the demand for its $100,000 $100,000 $551,183 $651,183 Texas Farmland Trust Protection (TX) services and to significantly impact Texas' conservation goals through stewardship. Launch a long-term initiative to conserve critical Florida; Georgia; Indiana; populations of three imperiled bat species. Project will Protecting Bat Conservation Kentucky; New York; North 2008 6539 include assessments, site specific actions at key roosts, $225,950 $225,950 $452,927 $678,877 America's Bats - III International, Inc. Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; the development of conservation guidelines for two Virginia species and regional training events.

Alabama; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Connecticut; Delaware; District of Columbia; BoatU.S. Since 2007, the BoatU.S. Foundation has built a National Florida; Georgia; Illinois; Foundation for nationwide monofilament recycling program, with over 2008 575 Monofilament $170,664 $170,664 $170,644 $341,308 Indiana; Louisiana; Maine; Boating Safety and 700 locations. This proposal will grow and strengthen Recycling Program Maryland; Massachusetts; Clean Water these efforts to encourage line recycling. Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Texas; Virginia; Washington; Wisconsin Build a multi-use shelter for an information booth, San Bernard environmental education station and reception area National Wildlife Friends of Brazoria during refuge events. The shelter will be used during 2008 6570 $5,000 $5,000 $6,431 $11,431 Texas Refuge Shelter Wildlife Refuges events such as the annual Friends sponsored Migration (TX) Celebration.

143 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Improve existing and develop new communications Outreach for Friends of Aransas strategies to increase membership, volunteers, and sales Friends of Aransas and Matagorda 2008 7517 at the Nature store. Activities include website creation, $5,000 $5,000 $6,562 $11,562 Texas and Matagorda Island National updating the newsletter, and designing presentations and (TX) Wildlife Refuges displays for outreach events. Provide hands-on outdoor environmental education for Friends of Aransas under served students through the Stewards of the Bay Stewards of the and Matagorda 2008 6131 program. Students will participate in beach clean-up, $5,000 $5,000 $5,280 $10,280 Texas Bay II (TX) Island National water quality monitoring, and wetland ecology Wildlife Refuges investigation. Friends of Create seven hands-on learning stations for fourth and Cradle of Balcones fifth graders, community youth, teachers and families to Conservation 2008 6161 Canyonlands be used in outdoor classroom instruction. Students will $8,491 $8,491 $23,077 $31,568 Texas Balcones Refuge National Wildlife also build bird boxes to take home to encourage (TX) Refuge stewardship in their own backyard. Engage elementary students in field, lab, classroom and Growing Dishman service learning activities at the Bahia Grande wetland. 2008 6214 Mangroves and Elementary $5,000 $5,000 $576 $5,576 Texas Project will culminate in the planting of student-grown Minds II (TX) Harlingen C.I.S.D. black mangroves at the restoration site.

Expand and augment the Shoreline Watch, Weed Invasive Plant Warden, and other constituent networks to respond to Caddo Lake 2008 6810 Control on Caddo the spread of giant salvinia and water hyacinth. Project $50,000 $50,000 $57,565 $107,565 Louisiana; Texas Institute Lake (LA, TX) II will design and assess containment and removal techniques and provide publicity and outreach.

Snake Island Cove Construct offshore breakwaters for protection of 200 Seagrass Galveston Bay acres of marsh and 100 acres of shallow water habitat 2008 5846 $120,000 $10,000 $110,000 $290,055 $410,055 Texas Restoration & Foundation conducive to re-establishment of historically present Habitat Protection seagrasses in Snake Island Cove.

Manage and restore habitat for colonial wading and Texas Coastal National Audubon ground-nesting birds on Texas coastal islands. Project 2008 6598 Stewardship $101,700 $0 $101,700 $158,704 $260,404 Texas Society, Inc. will enhance habitat, supplement nesting substrate, Program remove exotic plants, and educate the public. Purchase from voluntary holders and permanently retire Commercial Texas Parks & 500 licenses to reduce fishing pressure on shrimp, 2008 6940 Shrimp License Wildlife $201,000 $0 $201,000 $300,000 $501,000 Texas dramatically reduce by-catch, and enable recovery of Buyback (TX) Foundation coastal habitat and resource. Western Gulf Restore approximately 912 acres of coastal marsh in Coast Mottled Ducks Unlimited, Southwest Louisiana, and collect data on mottled duck 2008 7124 $150,000 $35,000 $115,000 $281,000 $431,000 Texas Duck Conservation Inc. biology across the western gulf coast to help improve (LA) conservation strategies for the species. Investigate male white-tail deer breeding success and Assessing White- Quality Deer movements to assess potential for harvest-induced 2007 17834 Tail Deer Breeding Management microevolution in antler size. Project will use data to $28,500 $14,000 $14,500 $46,868 $75,368 Texas for Management Association evaluate programs utilizing antler selection criteria and inform management plans.

144 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Expand breeding facility by twelve pens for Attwater's Attwater's Prairie Prairie Chickens, resulting in significant increases in 2007 5012 Zoo, Inc. $100,000 $59,522 $40,478 $198,237 $298,237 Texas Chicken Recovery numbers of birds produced for release on existing release sites and on private lands. Enhance coastal migratory bird populations by Coastal Bend Bays Coastal Bend evaluating, improving, and creating nesting opportunities. & Estuaries 2007 6262 Migratory The project will facilitate nesting by planting native $145,985 $34,000 $111,985 $173,013 $318,998 Texas Program Waterbird Program vegetation, constructing platforms and removing partnership predators. Acquire a 697 acre easement on the San Francisco Salt Lakes Habitat The Nature Ranch in Willacy County, Texas. Project will protect 2007 7170 $140,444 $0 $140,444 $140,443 $280,887 Texas Protection (TX) Conservancy Tamaulipan thornscrub habitat and shallow salt lakes used by migratory and wintering waterbirds. Create a reliable method for delivering freshwater to 750 Wetland Habitat acres of wetlands at the Myrtle-Foester Whitmire Unit. Guadalupe-Blanco 2007 7435 Restoration at the Project will benefit hundreds of thousands of waterfowl $213,000 $191,137 $21,863 $584,120 $797,120 Texas River Trust Whitmire Unit (TX) and provide an educational environment for high school students. Monitor biodiversity in grasslands and shrublands while Managing demonstrating to the public the advantages of controlling Friends of the California; Florida; Ohio; Texas; 2007 5561 Landscapes for invasive plants while raising endangered ungulates. This $195,500 $195,500 $421,800 $617,300 National Zoo Virginia Native Biodiversity project will be carried out by a consortium of five wildlife institutions. Work with water rights holders in the Fort Quitman to Restoring the Rio Amistad reach of the Rio Grande and receive donation of Trans-Pecos 2007 5852 Grande of West 1,000 feet of water in one year as instream flow for fish, $50,000 $50,000 $124,866 $174,866 Texas Water Trust Texas (TX) wildlife, agriculture and recreation. Project will host at least one public workshop.

Habitat Work with landowners in two landscapes to Restoration for Environmental restore at least 1,600 acres of Black-capped Vireo 2007 6200 $72,935 $72,935 $155,567 $228,502 Texas Black-Capped Defense Fund, Inc. habitat. Project will facilitate a substantial population Vireo-II (TX) increase in two essential recovery units. Restore dune elevation to protect the Salt Bayou McFaddin NWR U.S. Fish and watershed. Project emphasizes the re-establishment of 2007 7217 (TX) Dune $100,000 $0 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 Texas Wildlife Service coastal ecosystems to provide nesting habitats for Restoration priority species. Continue efforts to reestablish viable populations of Northern northern Aplomado falcon to habitat in the southwest Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, 2007 4965 U.S. and Northern Mexico by propagating and releasing $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Idaho; Texas (TX) Conservation - Inc. captive-bred falcons. Project will involve private VI landowners through safe harbor programs. Partner with up to four landowners who will participate in Recovery Credit Texas Cooperative a recovery credit system to enhance the habitat for the 2007 5019 $225,000 $225,000 $225,000 $450,000 Texas System (TX) Extension endangered golden-cheeked warbler within a six-county area in central Texas.

145 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Assess the relationship between habitat fragmentation, Colorado; Kansas; Montana; Swift Fox Habitat Texas Tech patch utilization and genetic diversity in swift fox Nebraska; New Mexico; 2007 5048 Fragmentation $24,754 $24,754 $77,556 $102,310 University populations. Project will provide critical data for Oklahoma; South Dakota; Study - II (TX) conservation activities to managers and researchers. Texas; Wyoming Locate, photograph and study ivory-billed woodpeckers Ivory-billed in 18 forest tracts in the southeastern U.S. Project will Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Woodpecker 2007 6057 Cornell University facilitate conservation management efforts, land $56,330 $56,330 $142,054 $198,384 Georgia; Louisiana; Mississippi; Photo acquisition, and future research, which will aid in the Texas Documentation development of a recovery plan. Restore 1,174 linear feet of riparian buffer habitat and Texas State 2.67 acres of hillside. Project will remove invasive 2007 7416 $19,600 $19,600 $75,972 $95,572 Texas Restoration (TX) University vegetation and plant 7,832 native plants during 10 day service learning summer science camps. Conduct research on the amount, distribution and Plankton & Plastic Alabama; Alaska; California; American chemical condition of smaller plastic particles collected in 2007 14859 Surveys of U.S. $68,456 $68,456 $191,971 $260,427 Florida; Louisiana; Oregon; Chemistry Council U.S waters. Project will assess the presence, impacts, Ocean Waters Texas; Virginia and prevention methods of plastics found in the ocean. Grow and plant native vegetation for Lake Conroe near Lake Conroe Seven Coves Bass Houston, Texas to benefit fishery and wildlife habitat. 2007 6388 Native Plant $34,015 $34,015 $34,015 $68,030 Texas Club Project will also control invasive stands of aquatic Nursery (TX) vegetation via biological methods. Provide educational canoe outings for wildlife viewing, Roma Bluffs photography, interpretation, and environmental education Birding Center Friends of the 2007 5187 at the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. $5,000 $5,000 $7,933 $12,933 Texas Canoe Program Wildlife Corridor This program will provide a unique educational (TX) experience for visitors. Install a remote camera to observe Caracara nesting sites in Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, Texas. A Caracara Nest Friends of Brazoria 2007 5499 monitor will be integrated into the Discovery Center's $4,800 $4,800 $1,000 $5,800 Texas CAM (TX) Wildlife Refuges educational display so visitors can view the nests without disturbing the wetland. Purchase kayaks and develop an interpretive program to Laguna Atascosa Friends of Laguna use on the Lower Laguna Madre. Trained volunteers will 2007 5861 NWR Kayaking $4,950 $4,950 $9,309 $14,259 Texas Atascosa NWR lead kayak trips with opportunities for wildlife observation, Program (TX) photography, environmental education and fishing. Restore 65 acres of Coastal Prairie habitat for rare prairie Halls Bayou Unit Friends of Brazoria plants and grassland birds. Restoration will comprise 2007 5515 Coastal Prairie $16,150 $16,150 $43,885 $60,035 Texas Wildlife Refuges removal of invasive plants and intensive interseeding of Restoration (TX) native tall-grass species. Produce five ecoregion brochures with recommendations Native Plants for for native plants and their pollinators. Create art and Coevolution California; Mississippi; Texas; 2007 6022 Pollinator-Friendly copy for four education and native plant/pollinator $59,000 $59,000 $59,029 $118,029 Institute Wyoming Plantings conservation posters and 12 Celebrating Wildflowers Pollinator of the Month website updates.

146 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Develop an auxiliary rapid response network to detect, Giant Salvinia suppress and/or eradicate giant salvinia and other Caddo Lake 2007 4270 Control on Caddo aquatic weed infestations at Caddo Lake, Texas and $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 Louisiana; Texas Institute Lake (LA, TX) Louisiana. Conduct surveys to determine the extent of infestations on 350 acre Caddo Lake. Place 20 Student Conservation Association interns on Gulf Marine The Student public lands and coastal reserves to protect and restore Florida; Louisiana; Mississippi; 2007 4778 Habitat Intern Conservation marine habitats. Project will result in public education $60,000 $0 $60,000 $121,407 $181,407 Texas Program Association, Inc. and the development of valuable career skills in resource management for the interns. Repair earthen terraces and stabilize 1,200 feet of levee Upper Coast Texas Parks and separating a fresh to intermediate marsh from the Gulf 2007 4966 Wetland (TX) Wildlife $287,350 $15,000 $272,350 $148,000 $435,350 Texas Intracoastal Waterway. Project will strengthen critical Ecosystem Repair Department infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Rita.

Conduct conservation to help restore a nesting Kemps Ridley Sea National Park population of endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtles in Turtle Service - Padre 2007 5507 Texas. Project will continue to promote environmental $100,000 $0 $100,000 $368,644 $468,644 Texas Conservation (TX)- Island National education and partnership efforts through activities VIII Seashore conducted by volunteers and agency personnel. Increase fieldwork to protect high priority shorebirds Gulf Coast Barrier utilizing various methods, especially rope and fence. National Audubon 2007 5508 Beach Habitat Project will protect beach habitat thereby reducing $66,000 $0 $66,000 $132,000 $198,000 Texas Society Restoration erosion and increasing natural succession of barrier dunes and habitats. Provide bathymetric and habitat data for selected reefs High-Resolution Texas A&M and banks in the NW Gulf of Mexico. Data from this 2007 5589 Mapping of Reefs $121,370 $0 $121,370 $242,739 $364,109 Texas University project will be used in the analysis of boundary and Banks (GOM) alternatives for marine protected area development. Acquire 56 acres and protect approximately 229 acres of Galveston Island The Trust for intertidal habitat to support marine and avian species. 2007 5955 Coastal Habitat $100,000 $0 $100,000 $1,512,580 $1,612,580 Texas Public Land After one year the designated property will convey to Protection (TX) Galveston County. Create 2,050 acres of wetlands and restore 6,150 acres Texas Public Texas Rice of native prairie on four wildlife refuges on the Texas Lands Bird Industry Coalition 2007 7376 coast. Project will use levees to increase wetland area, $125,000 $0 $125,000 $924,536 $1,049,536 Texas Recovery Plan for the aiding the recovery plans for dozens of migratory and Initiative Environment native bird species. Increase fieldwork to protect high priority shorebirds Gulf Coast Barrier Florida Keys utilizing various methods. Project will protect beach 2007 19414 Beach Habitat $33,000 $0 $33,000 $81,966 $114,966 Texas Audubon Society habitat thereby reducing erosion and increasing natural Restoration-II succession of barrier dunes and habitats. Idaho; Kansas; Montana; Coordinate conservation efforts to identify wildlife Western Nebraska; Nevada; New Wyoming Game corridors in Western states. Project will address data Governors Mexico; North Dakota; 2007 6371 and Fish management, the development of coordinated $125,000 $47,500 $77,500 $364,113 $489,113 Association Oklahoma; Oregon; South Department conservation action plans, on-the-ground implementation Wildlife Corridors Dakota; Texas; Utah; of actions, and creation of improved maps. Washington; Wyoming

147 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Refine and utilize Geographic Information Systems data Southeastern management tools developed in previous year's grant. Southeast Aquatic Association of Fish Arkansas; Louisiana; 2007 18061 Information will be combined with State Wildlife Action $148,000 $53,000 $95,000 $25,000 $173,000 Habitat Plan II and Wildlife Oklahoma; Texas Plans to develop specific aquatic habitat targets for the Agencies Red and Sabine River basins. Develop and maintain an accessible, regional GIS Data Atlas of Houston Library. Create web portal with searchable data catalog, 2006 4099 Biodiversity - II $31,350 $31,350 $70,000 $101,350 Texas Wilderness image maps, thumbnails and an interActive web-mapping (TX) application. Restore Northern Bobwhite, Scaled Quail and other Texas Quail National Audubon 2006 18264 grassland species by working with landowners to restore $50,500 $50,500 $128,922 $179,422 Texas Initiative - II Society, Inc. wildlife corridors via good land management practices. Texas A&M University Evaluate South Texas native plant collections for market Kingsville/Caesar Native Plant release. Selected collections will be planted for seed 2006 6315 Kleberg Wildlife $51,038 $51,038 $132,657 $183,695 Texas Production & increase and harvested to produce an ecotype for use in Research Institute, Planting-II restoration projects. South Texas Natives Restore and enhance quail and other upland game bird Alabama; Arizona; Arkansas; habitats on United States Department of Agriculture- Upland Habitats Quail Unlimited, California; Kansas; Kentucky; 2006 14579 Forest Service and Department of Interior-Bureau of $160,000 $160,000 $320,000 $480,000 Partnership - XI Inc. New Mexico; Oregon; South Land Management administered lands under the Answer Carolina; Texas The Call Initiative. Restore Attwater's Prairie chicken habitat on future Refugio-Goliad The Nature release sites to benefit endangered, threatened and 2006 5310 Coastal Prairie Conservancy of declining species such as northern bobwhite quail, $114,692 $114,692 $245,000 $359,692 Texas Restoration (TX) Texas aplomado falcon, white-tailed hawk, and Henslow's sparrow. Columbia Establish a fund at a local community foundation to Community Bottomland Local develop local support and awareness of project. CFBC 2006 17742 Foundation of $25,000 $0 $25,000 $0 $25,000 Texas Conservation Fund will report annually on local sucesses and increased Brazoria County (TX) awareness within the area. Engage elementary students in field, lab, classroom and Growing Dishman service learning activities at the Bahia Grande wetland. 2006 4418 Mangroves and Elementary $4,999 $4,999 $576 $5,575 Texas The project will culminate in the annual planting of Minds (TX) Harlingen C.I.S.D. student-grown black mangroves at the restoration site.

Friends of Aransas Provide hands-on outdoor environmental education for Stewards of the and Matagorda 100 students through the Stewards of the Bay program. 2006 4576 $5,000 $5,000 $10,720 $15,720 Texas Bay (TX) Island National Students will participate in beach clean-up, water quality Wildlife Refuges monitoring, and wetland ecology investigation. Continue to implement and improve the environmental Hudson education outdoor classroom program at the San Woods/Northside Friends of Brazoria 2006 5299 Bernard National Wildlife Refuge. This program involves $3,000 $3,000 $11,560 $14,560 Texas Environmental Ed. - Wildlife Refuges 100 local fourth grade students in habitat restoration III projects at the refuge.

148 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Enhance the ability of the Texas Marine Mammal Emergency Marine Texas Marine Stranding Network to recover and treat live and dead 2006 4893 Mammal Mammal Stranding stranded marine mammals. Organization will expand $99,807 $99,807 $35,000 $134,807 Louisiana; Texas Response (LA) Network efforts to Louisiana area, responding to the effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Control and eradicate invasive plants within the St. Aransas County U.S. Fish and Charles Bay system that are negatively impacting habitat 2006 4332 Weed Control (TX) $35,500 $35,500 $36,000 $71,500 Texas Wildlife Service designated as critical for the recovery of the federally - II endangered whooping crane. Kemps Ridley Sea National Park Continue to promote the conservation and recovery of Turtle Service - Padre the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle in the Gulf of 2006 3832 $50,000 $0 $50,000 $227,823 $277,823 Texas Conservation (TX)- Island National Mexico through integrated research, education, and VII Seashore outreach. Re-establish tidal water flow throughout Bahia Grande by Bahia Grande (TX) constructing channel connections between Bahia Grande 2006 4207 Estuary Ocean Trust $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $500,157 $650,157 Texas basins. Project will restore 10,000 acres of estuarine Restoration habitat on the Texas coast. Control erosion, restore 8 acres of tidal marsh, and Protection and ensure continued productivity of 84 acres of tidal marsh Houston Audubon 2006 18133 Restoration of on North Deer Island in West Galveston Bay. Project will $125,000 $39,300 $85,700 $125,000 $250,000 Texas Society North Deer Island secure nesting habitat for 18 species of birds, including the endangered Brown Pelican. Create and restore 765 acres of wetlands adjacent to Mad Island and Texas Rice Matagorda Bay in Texas. Project will provide habitat for Peach Point Industry Coalition 2006 18134 migrating and nesting waterfowl, namely the Mottled $60,000 $0 $60,000 $187,000 $247,000 Texas Wetland for the Duck and Pintail Duck, shorebirds, wading birds, and Restoration Environment other wetland-dependent species. Develop and utilize data management tools to further Southeastern Database for the implement priority regional conservation strategies Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Association of Fish 2006 16145 Southeast Aquatic developed under the Southeast Aquatic Habitat Plan. $90,000 $33,480 $56,520 $22,500 $112,500 Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; and Wildlife Habitat Plan Project will include an initial geo-referenced database of Mississippi; Texas Agencies the Tennessee Cumberland watersheds. Build a new breeding site for the endangered Attwater's Attwater's Prairie prairie chicken on 1.7 acres of National Aeronautics and 2005 4091 Chicken Breeding Houston Zoo, Inc. $100,000 $75,000 $25,000 $283,230 $383,230 Texas Space Administration property. Project will enable better Facility (TX) breeding success and higher chick production. Restore 15,000 acres of native prairie on the Refugio- Attwater's Prairie Goliad prairie of Texas using prescribed burns, begin The Nature 2005 16916 Chicken Recovery planning to increase captive breeding capacity for the $50,000 $25,000 $25,000 $57,495 $107,495 Texas Conservancy (TX) endangered Attwater's Prairie Chicken, and create management plans for private landowners. Update and continue development of the BirdIQ.com ConocoPhillips Web Spectrum, 2005 17404 website which serves as a central source of information $17,000 $0 $17,000 $0 $17,000 Texas BirdIQ Website Inc. on environmental education activities involving birds.

149 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Organize and train volunteers to assist in the Natural Area management of NAPA's approximately 3500 acres NAPA Stewardship 2005 4286 Preservation throughout Texas. Project will expand existing efforts to $24,000 $24,000 $51,483 $75,483 Texas Program (TX) Association provide region seed stock to agencies, NGO's, and businesses for native prairie restoration efforts. Restore 5.5 acres of property boredered by three schools Twelve Hills Urban Twelve Hills to Native Blackland Prairie. Project will serve as a model 2005 4496 $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 $75,000 Texas Prairie (TX) Nature Center, Inc. for others engaged in education and community organization in urban areas. Involve 4,000 students in the restoration of 35 acres of Returning to Our Camp Tyler agricultural land. Project includes private landowner 2005 5722 $17,250 $17,250 $57,669 $74,919 Texas Roots (TX) Foundation workshops and the site will serve as a community resource for environmental education. Restore tallgrass prairie and educate Tallgrass Prairie children, college students, and community members 2005 6379 Restoration and Austin College $27,774 $27,774 $152,557 $180,331 Texas about prairie restoration through field trips, classroom Outreach (TX) work, and public events. Earth and Sky Educate the public about conservation and Earth Conservation 2005 17475 Earth & Sky, Inc. stewardship. Project will produce 18 radio programs with $55,994 $55,994 $773,552 $829,546 Texas Education related online activities. Program-V Engage Texas youth in habitat and nature education on Learning Across Texas Wildlife private agricultural lands by integrating new technologies 2005 17711 New Dimensions in Association $41,050 $41,050 $104,898 $145,948 Texas and land-based experiences to develop natural resource Science (TX) Foundation literacy and engaged stewardship action. Expand successful conservation, development and Nature Tourism as marketing programs,urban visitor and landowner Texas Prairie Colorado; Kansas; New 2005 17917 an Education Tool education in 15-county Texas Prairie Rivers Region. $86,038 $86,038 $180,120 $266,158 Rivers Region Inc. Mexico; Oklahoma; Texas for Conservation II Project will expand on its education/outreach program by hiring a full-time biologist. Provide detailed GIS analysis of Caddo Lake which will Caddo Lake The Nature assemble data on habitat, ownership, and rare species. 2005 3656 Conservation $46,391 $46,391 $91,216 $137,607 Louisiana; Texas Conservancy Develop a regional freshwater assessment of high quality Assessment (TX) freshwater/terrestrial habitats. Texas Rice Install water control structures and apply herbicides to Galveston Bay Industry Coalition create, restore, and enhance 1,480 acres of freshwater 2005 4032 Complex Wetlands $60,000 $60,000 $120,000 $180,000 Texas for the marsh on three public and private properties in coastal Initiative (TX) Environment Texas. Texas Rice Work with federal, state, and private entities to restore Texas Bobwhite Industry Coalition 1,100 acres of native tallgrass prairie and create 50 2005 4129 $105,000 $84,000 $21,000 $500,000 $605,000 Texas Quail Project (TX) for the acres of wetland on private lands on the Texas Gulf Environment coast. West Nueces-Las Conduct wildlife habitat enhancement activities on west Moras Soil & Wildlife Habitat Texas rangeland by reducing the extent of ashe juniper 2005 4732 Water $31,200 $31,200 $62,400 $93,600 Texas Enhancement (TX) and promoting proper grazing use to increase Conservation biodiversity of the ecosystem. District

150 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Restore the final 22 acres of a 72 acre site to native Lower Rio Grande North American thorn scrub, mesquite savannah and Barretal habitat. 2005 4894 Valley (TX) Wildlife Butterfly Project is adjacent to 1200 acres of protected land and $50,000 $50,000 $133,456 $183,456 Texas Corridor-II Association will add to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lower Rio Grande Wildlife Corridor. Habitat Work with private landowners in four central Texas Restoration for Environmental landscapes to implement brush manipulation and 2005 4905 $65,300 $65,300 $130,600 $195,900 Texas Black-Capped Defense Fund, Inc. prescribed fire to substantially recover populations of the Vireo (TX) black-capped vireo. Work with landowners to conduct restoration on at least (TX) Texas Wildlife six sub-watersheds on 80,000 acres of private lands. 2005 4972 Watershed Association $125,000 $125,000 $250,000 $375,000 Texas Project will improve the quality and increase the quantity Restoration-IV Foundation of water in the Leon River Watershed. Conduct prescribed burns, selective chemical Independence treatments, native plant revegetation and brown-headed The Nature 2005 5206 Creek Restoration cowbird trapping on 700 acres of existing Black-capped $75,000 $75,000 $156,314 $231,314 Texas Conservancy (TX) Vireo habitat. Project will also remove invasive Tamarisk from headwaters. Conserve native herbaceous ecotypes in north central North Texas Tarleton State Texas prairies by cataloguing prairie remnants, 2005 7322 Native Ecotype $71,075 $71,075 $193,845 $264,920 Texas University facilitating seed availability, and demonstrating Conservation (TX) restoration techniques. Provide well-controlled and documented field Restoration and demonstrations, produce educational materials, and Management for Texas Cooperative 2005 7500 conduct outreach activities to benefit bobwhite quail. $26,765 $26,765 $59,412 $86,177 Texas Bobwhite Quail Extension Project will result in the conversion of introduced grasses (TX) to natives on 250 acres. Create a statewide agricultural land trust to preserve rural land and conserve native wildlife habitat. Primary Texas Agricultural American 2005 17856 objective will be to increase awareness among $25,000 $25,000 $89,265 $114,265 Texas Land Trust Farmland Trust agricultural landowners about the use of conservation easements as a means of protecting land. Conduct landowner workshops and public outreach to Habitat increase private landowner participation to benefit the Restoration for Environmental 2005 3719 endangered Houston Toad. Project will conduct habitat $47,074 $28,037 $19,037 $85,184 $132,258 Texas Endangered Defense Fund, Inc. manipulation on approximately 1,400 acres of additional Houston Toad private in Bastrop and Lee counties. Evaluate the use of acoustic detectors to assess the Bats and Wind Bat Conservation relative risk at proposed wind facilities and evaluate bat 2005 5013 Energy $100,000 $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 Texas; West Virginia International, Inc. activities pre- and post-construction in relation to post- Cooperative construction bat fatality. Conduct restoration on 52 acres of historic black capped Cedar Ridge County vireo habitat in the Dallas county portion of the White 2005 5134 Preserve Habitat Audubon Society, $23,973 $20,000 $3,973 $51,978 $75,951 Texas Rock Escarpment through inventory, habitat Restoration (TX) Inc. manipulation, and monitoring.

151 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Identify swift fox habitat remnants in Texas, determine Swift Fox Habitat fox distribution and patch use patterns, and examine the Texas Tech 2005 5464 Fragmentation influence of fragmentation on genetic diversity. Project $34,127 $34,127 $102,548 $136,675 Texas University Study (TX) will provide management recommendations, including identification and dispersal. Develop safe livestock watering technologies to prevent Water for Bats and Bat Conservation Arizona; Idaho; New Mexico; 2005 18044 large numbers of bats and birds from being drowned in $76,850 $76,850 $76,850 $153,700 Other Wildlife International, Inc. Texas; Utah water tanks in the western United States. Continue efforts to reestablish populations of northern Northern Aplomado falcons to historic habitat in the southwest Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, 2005 18166 U.S. and northern Mexico by propagating and releasing $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Idaho; New Mexico; Texas (TX) Conservation- Inc. captive-bred falcons. Project involves private landowners V through Safe Harbor programs. Target degraded riparian areas of the Onion Creek Water Quality and watershed unit for restoration. The creek will be 2005 5129 Riparian Treefolks, Inc. $15,000 $15,000 $37,957 $52,957 Texas reforested with approximately 18,000 native seedlings, Restoration (TX) which will be done by 80 volunteers. Restore 35 acres of fallow fields at Sabal Palm Audubon Habitat Sanctuary in Brownsville, adjacent to U.S. Fish and Restoration at National Audubon 2005 18250 Wildlife Service and Nature Conservancy lands. Project $5,000 $5,000 $21,712 $26,712 Texas Sabal Palm Society, Inc. will remove exotics through controlled burns and Audubon (TX) herbicide application. Purchase fee title to both Mann and Gold tracts in Bear Springs Bandera County Bandera County. Project will result in both parcels being Blossom Nature 2005 3708 GCW Habitat permanently preserved and managed for the benefit of $91,250 $0 $91,250 $0 $91,250 Texas Conservation Protection (TX) the golden-cheeked warbler per the purposes of the Group Fund. Balcones Purchase remaining 433 acre parcel of the Penn Ranch Canyonlands NWR Trust for Public for addition to the Balcones Caonyonlands NWR. Habitat 2005 17299 $161,500 $0 $161,500 $0 $161,500 Texas Penn II Addition Land will benefit the golden cheeked warbler and black capped (TX) vireo, both federally protected species. At the request of the FWS, support purchase of 11 acre Ward Tract National Audubon Ward Tract in Dogwood Canyon, Dallas County. Tract 2005 17300 $67,892 $0 $67,892 $0 $67,892 Texas Acquisition (TX) Society, Inc. provides habitat for the GCW and is adjacent to Cedar Hill State park. Support administration costs incurred during Columbia implementation of the purposes of the Fund for Brazoria National 2005 17795 Bottomland Habitat expanding the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge. Project $50,000 $0 $50,000 $0 $50,000 Texas Wildlife Refuge Fund (TX)-Misc funds derived from in-lieu-fee settlements between the Army Corps and permitees. Columbia Provide support for miscellaneous expenses (ie travel) Brazoria National 2005 17916 Bottomlands Fund related to accomplishmend of Fund gaols and purposes $210,000 $0 $210,000 $0 $210,000 Texas Wildlife Refuge (TX) for expansion of the Brazoria NWR complex.

152 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Educate 800 to 1,200 K-12 students from the Lower Rio School Grande Valley of Texas about environmental issues. Environmental Friends of the 2005 3964 This project will create environmental education trunks to $4,737 $4,737 $8,575 $13,312 Texas Education and Wildlife Corridor be utilized as an indoor or outdoor tool for teachers and Outreach (TX) Friends volunteers. Create a 125' x 80' seed production plot and watering Coastal Prairie Friends of system on Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge through 2005 4079 Seed Production $3,000 $3,000 $3,395 $6,395 Texas Anahuac Refuge Friends volunteer work. Project will assist in the Plot (TX) restoration of 2000 acres over the next 15 years. Develop a two week lesson plan for 4th and 5th graders Water that includes a "Water Extravaganza Week" and field Our Lady of 2005 3678 ExTravaganza trips to the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Students $5,000 $5,000 $64,277 $69,277 Texas Sorrows School (TX) will learn about water conservation and how to avoid droughts. Teach 140 children about the environment through Club EC Boys and Girls weekly meetings and monthly visits to the Texas Mid- 2005 16913 (Environment and Club of Brazoria Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Students will $5,000 $5,000 $7,902 $12,902 Texas Conservation) (TX) County maintain marsh habitats, and engage in reforestation, fishing, and data collection. Use Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge as an outdoor Pearland Natural Pearland classroom to give 800 high school students experience 2005 18188 Science Rangers Independent $4,284 $4,284 $4,980 $9,264 Texas with monitoring water quality, and identifying alien plant (TX) School District species. Students will take six field trips to the refuge.

Construct a breakwater in Chambers County to protect (TX) Galveston Bay 1,000 acres of marsh as well as prairie and upland 2005 6714 $75,000 $30,000 $45,000 $75,000 $150,000 Texas Marsh Protection Foundation habitat. Project will benefit wintering waterfowl and support key grass and wetland avian species. Restore 750 feet of shoreline along the north shore of Jarbou Bayou (TX) City of Clear Lake Jarbou Bayou. The project will develop interpretive trails 2005 17123 Shoreline $50,000 $25,000 $25,000 $179,292 $229,292 Texas Shores adjacent to the shoreline, provide a canoe launch, and Restoration plant intertidal and prairie grasses. Protect 2,500 acres of intertidal marsh habitat critical to Mad Island (TX) The Nature migratory waterfowl, marine organisms, and other 2005 17327 $200,000 $0 $200,000 $650,000 $850,000 Texas Conservation Area Conservancy wetland species by constructing one mile of a permanent rock breakwater. Kemps Ridley Sea National Park Continue to enhance the survival of nesting Kemp's Turtle Service - Padre ridley turtles by locating and saving sea turtle hatchlings 2005 17399 $50,000 $0 $50,000 $248,318 $298,318 Texas Conservation (TX)- Island National and stranded turtles. At least 3,000 sea turtle hatchlings VI Seashore and 50 stranded sea turtles will be saved and released. Raise awareness about the Galveston Island State Park Galveston Island Friends of through educational and restoration initiatives. Project 2005 17626 (TX) Restoration Galveston Island $50,000 $0 $50,000 $60,686 $110,686 Texas will organize hands-on restoration opportunities for area Demonstration State Park school groups and volunteers.

153 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Starvation Cove Provide erosion protection, restore marsh and seagrass Acquisition and Galveston Bay and acquire coastal prairie. Project will benefit marine 2005 17859 $120,000 $0 $120,000 $500,000 $620,000 Texas Restoration Foundation and avian species that depend on 500 acres of habitat Project on Galveston Island. Alabama; Arizona; California; Colorado; Hawaii; Idaho; Coordinating Western Provide forums for identification and coordination of Kansas; Montana; Nebraska; Conservation Association of Fish priority multi-state conservation actions identified in 2005 7607 $100,000 $36,977 $63,023 $136,300 $236,300 Nevada; New Mexico; North Actions in Western and Wildlife Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies for Dakota; Oklahoma; South U.S. Agencies members of recipient organization. Carolina; Texas; Utah; Washington; Wyoming Provide leadership and coordination towards SCWCSs and incorporating State Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Tennessee Wildlife 2005 17967 Southeast Aquatic Strategies into a Southeast Aquatic Habitat Plan. Project $59,205 $2,484 $56,721 $22,215 $81,420 Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; Resources Agency Habitat Plan will integrate aquatic conservation strategies across state Mississippi; Texas boundaries in the southeast.

Alabama; Arkansas; Florida; Coordinating Southeastern Provide a forum for identification and coordination of Georgia; Kentucky; Louisiana; Conservation Association of Fish priority multi-state conservation actions identified in State 2005 17984 $90,316 $35,942 $54,374 $55,100 $145,416 Maryland; Mississippi; Texas; Actions in and Wildlife Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategies from Virgin Islands; Virginia; West Southeast US Agencies the Southeast. Virginia

Continue to produce and distribute conservation Earth and Sky education programs for the Earth and Sky radio series. Conservation 2004 15710 Earth & Sky, Inc. Programs are designed to educate Americans about $200,500 $200,500 $200,500 $401,000 Texas Education public land conservation issues, programs, and activities Program-IV via public and commercial radio. Conduct hands-on restoration activities with local students to remove invasive plants and replace them Plug into Your Useful Wild Plants, 2004 16545 with native species. Efforts will focus on federally listed $2,500 $0 $2,500 $10,044 $12,544 Texas Planet Inc. plant species on private and federal lands in the Austin, Texas area. Create an interpretive exhibit to educate the public about Government Parks and Wildlife the need for conservation of critical breeding habitat for 2004 16896 Canyon State Foundation of the endangered golden-cheeked warbler. Project occurs $50,000 $0 $50,000 $168,250 $218,250 Texas Natural Area (TX) Texas, Inc. in the increasingly urbanized recharge zone. Develop a geospatial database including information about vegetation, wetlands, soils, and land ownership to Atlas of Houston 2004 16914 be used in 24 counties in Texas. Project will provide $25,000 $0 $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 Texas Biodiversity (TX) Wilderness conservation data to local organizations to help identify priorities. Restore 10 acres of degraded habitat to native prairie Conservation grassland and build a nature trail in Seagoville, Texas. Education and Dallas Museum of 2004 17197 Project focuses on educating underserved 7th and 8th $16,661 $16,661 $11,711 $28,372 Texas Native Prairie Natural History graders, teachers, and parents through classes and hand- Grass on restoration activities.

154 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Offer educational programs for federal, state, and local Land Management Holistic Resource field biologists and wildlife and range conservationists in 2004 18013 Information Management of $10,000 $10,000 $40,033 $50,033 Texas Texas to assist private ranchers implement holistic Delivery (TX) Texas resource management systems on their lands. Create three acres of islands and restore 10 acres of Islands Galveston Bay 2004 3995 intertidal marsh in Dickinson Bay, Texas, using materials $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Texas Restoration Foundation donated by oystermen and other partners. Project (TX) South Texas Texas A&M Collect, process, and develop native seed ecotypes for Native Plant 2004 4498 University- production in different eco-regions in South Texas to $60,561 $60,561 $127,854 $188,415 Texas Production and Kingsville restore native habitats on private lands. Planting Create a nature preserve on 2,920 acres of land near the Mineola Preserve Sabine River in Texas. Project will restore habitat for 2004 5692 on the Sabine City of Mineola $43,203 $43,203 $687,300 $730,503 Texas waterfowl and migratory neotropical species and will River, Texas increase public education about the local environment. Revegetate 20 acres of former farmland and plan Lower Rio Grande North American revegetation of 72 acres in a wildlife corridor in Lower Rio 2004 16073 Valley Wildlife Butterfly $50,000 $50,000 $325,994 $375,994 Texas Grande Valley, Texas. Project provides habitat for Corridor (TX) Association threatened plant communities. Create, enhance, and protect 1,860 acres of wetland and Texas Rice Coastal Texas coastal prairie habitat in coastal counties in Texas by Industry Coalition 2004 16926 Wetlands installing water control structures and removing invasive $95,000 $95,000 $1,660,000 $1,755,000 Texas for the Migration Corridor plant species on private land. Project will improve Environment habitat for migratory birds. Northern Continue efforts to restore viable wild populations of the Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, northern aplomado falcon to historic habitat in South and 2004 4995 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $200,000 Idaho; New Mexico; Texas Restoration Inc. . Project activities include propagating and Project releasing young. Continue to support habitat improvement projects for Arizona; Arkansas; California; Upland Habitat Quail Unlimited, quail and other wildlife on public lands throughout the Colorado; Kansas; Kentucky; 2004 15539 $150,000 $150,000 $458,258 $608,258 Partnership-IX Inc. country. Projects will improve nesting, brood rearing, New Mexico; Oregon; South winter cover, and food for quail and other wildlife. Carolina; Texas; West Virginia Collect, propagate, and reintroduce the endangered Texas Snowbell Bamberger Ranch 2004 15858 Texas snowbell on five private ranches in counties where $16,343 $16,343 $16,370 $32,712 Texas Plant Recovery Preserve the plant is endemic. Black Bear Conduct a landowner survey to determine the social Michigan State 2004 15878 Feasibility Study feasibility of a Louisiana black bear reintroduction in $10,000 $0 $10,000 $11,125 $21,125 Texas University (TX) . Restore 2,500 acres of shrubland, savannah, and Chalk Mountain wetland habitat for migrating and resident birds, including Wildlife Environmental 2004 16090 the endangered black-capped vireo and golden-cheeked $85,426 $85,426 $173,101 $258,527 Texas Management Defense Fund, Inc. warbler. Efforts focus on partnering with private Association landowners to restore native plant species.

155 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Complete a series of on-the-ground conservation activities to help with recovery of the federally Bats in Forests Bat Conservation 2004 16359 endangered Indiana bat. Project will train and educate $125,000 $125,000 $125,000 $250,000 Texas and Caves International, Inc. professionals in related fields through workshops and publications. Restore 100,000 acres of wildlife corridors in Blackland Texas Quail Prairie, South Texas Plains, and Post Oak Savannah, 2004 17314 Audubon Texas $100,000 $100,000 $313,686 $413,686 Texas Initiative Texas. Efforts focus on working with landowners to recover the declining populations of quail.

Friends of Aransas Work with a contractor and 45 7th through 12th grade Texas Gulf Coast and Matagorda students to re-establish and maintain a viable coastal 2004 4637 Native Prairie $10,000 $10,000 $10,290 $20,290 Texas Island National prairie ecosystem at the Aransas and Matagorda Island Restoration Wildlife Refuges National Wildlife Refuge. Coordinate 10 volunteers in the restoration of 35 acres of Sabal Palm (TX) fallow fields at the Sabal Palm Audubon Sanctuary by National Audubon 2004 18146 Habitat removing exotic plants, replacing them with natives, and $11,500 $11,500 $53,705 $65,205 Texas Society, Inc. Restoration creating a wetland pond. Site will serve as an outdoor classroom. Continue to implement and improve the environmental Hudson education program at the San Bernard National Wildlife Woods/Northside Friends of Brazoria 2004 3913 Refuge. This program involves 110 local 4th grade $3,000 $3,000 $10,960 $13,960 Texas Environmental Ed. - Wildlife Refuges students in habitat restoration projects at the refuge and II (TX) sharing the information they have lear U.S. Fish and Develop and implement a long-term invasive plant Aransas (TX) Wildlife Service - species control plan for Aransas National Wildlife Refuge 2004 4285 $40,000 $40,000 $65,787 $105,787 Texas Weed Control Aransas National in Texas and surrounding lands, targeting water hyacinth, Wildlife Refuge Chinese tallow, and saltcedar. Central Texas Recognize Steve Manning for his efforts to improve water Chuck Yeager 2003 5372 Ecological quality and wildlife habitat in the Leon River watershed in $10,000 $0 $10,000 $0 $10,000 Texas Award, 2003-II Services Texas. Revise the existing PhillipsFlyway.com website by fixing ConocoPhillips broken links, loading information onto sites where it is Web Spectrum, 2003 15736 Flyway Website missing, adding animation and new features to home $17,000 $0 $17,000 $0 $17,000 Texas Inc. Update page, replacing or repairing non-functioning features, and assisting with general site maintenance and updates.

Continue to develop an environmental education Flying WILD Council For program to complement International Migratory Bird Day. 2003 16179 Environmental Environmental Project will encourage middle school participation in bird $93,000 $46,500 $46,501 $107,791 $200,791 Texas Education-II Education education events, such as school bird festivals, and habitat restoration activities. Expand an environmental education program to Flying WILD Council For complement International Migratory Bird Day. Project will 2003 17417 Environmental Environmental $114,800 $57,400 $57,400 $57,400 $172,200 Texas develop a middle school bird festival program and an Education-III Education associated distribution network.

156 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Determine the preference of sport divers for Sport Diver management restrictions protecting coral reef Preferences for Texas Agricultural 2003 18084 ecosystems in order to ensure the success of $25,042 $25,042 $26,100 $51,142 Texas Coral Experiment Station management activities. Project will apply results to the Conservation Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Continue to produce and distribute conservation Earth and Sky education programs for the Earth and Sky radio series. Conservation 2003 14608 Earth & Sky, Inc. Project is designed to educate Americans about public $183,100 $183,100 $274,598 $457,698 Texas Education land conservation issues, programs, and activities via Program - III public and commercial radio. Extend an existing 1,200-foot fully-accessible interpretive Texas Parks and San Jacinto (TX) trail through restored coastal prairie and tidal marsh. 2003 17877 Wildlife $50,000 $0 $50,000 $222,631 $272,631 Texas Interpretive Trail Popularity of the existing trail creates the need for Department expansion to three miles. Maintain and protect quantity and quality of water Edwards Aquifer discharged from Barton Springs into the only known Hill Country 2003 12490 Recharge habitat of the endangered Barton Springs salamander, $33,500 $33,500 $71,796 $105,296 Texas Conservancy Enhancement (TX) with ancillary benefits to other at-risk amphibians and karst invertebrates. Continue restoration of the Leon River watershed in Leon River (TX) Texas Wildlife Texas to benefit black-capped vireos and golden- 2003 14266 Watershed Association cheeked warblers through ashe juniper removal. Project $36,529 $36,529 $0 $36,529 Texas Restoration-II Foundation will improve water quality and native flora and fauna habitat. Continue to support habitat improvement projects for Alabama; Arizona; California; quail and other wildlife on public and private lands Colorado; Georgia; Indiana; Upland Habitat Quail Unlimited, 2003 14429 throughout the country. Projects will improve nesting, $140,200 $140,200 $1,029,239 $1,169,439 Kansas; Kentucky; New Partnership-VIII Inc. brood rearing, winter cover, and food for quail and other Mexico; Oregon; South wildlife. Carolina; Texas Improve habitat for the endangered black-capped vireo Leon River (TX) and golden-cheeked warbler, increase water quality and 2003 16055 Watershed Multiple Recipients $295,400 $295,400 $0 $295,400 Texas quantity, and improve grazing conditions within the Leon Restoration-III River watershed. Work with youth groups and federal, state, and private Kids entities to restore 2,350 acres of native tallgrass prairie KEEP Prairie Environmental 2003 16797 and create 50 acres of wetland on two tracts of private $120,000 $96,000 $24,000 $550,000 $670,000 Texas Restoration (TX) Education Project, lands and three tracts of public lands on the Texas Gulf Inc. coast. Establish an independent, locally-managed water trust to Rio Grande (TX) Environmental protect instream flows in National Park and 2003 17734 $150,000 $150,000 $298,144 $448,144 Texas Local Water Trust Defense Fund, Inc. certain tributaries to the Rio Grande for the benefit of native fish and wildlife. National Park Service - Analyze 90 mountain lion scat samples in order to Mountain Lion 2003 12401 Guadalupe determine the feasibility of reintroducing native desert $1,000 $0 $1,000 $450 $1,450 Texas Prey Analysis (TX) Mountains bighorn sheep to the Guadalupe Mountains. National Park

157 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Enhance protection of plovers, oystercatchers, terns, and Coastal Bird other coastal birds and their habitats at priority sites in National Audubon 2003 14193 Conservation New York, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Florida, and $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 $225,000 North Carolina; Texas Society, Inc. Program Texas by increasing local monitoring and outreach efforts. Black-Capped Texas Wildlife Enhance black-capped vireo habitat on private lands in Vireo Habitat 2003 14924 Association central Texas through the trapping of brown-headed $30,000 $30,000 $30,000 $60,000 Texas Enhancement (TX)- Foundation cowbirds to reduce nest parasitism. II Continue to refine and promote the North American Bat North American Bat Conservation Conservation Partnership and implement measures to 2003 15012 Bat Conservation- $150,000 $150,000 $275,000 $425,000 Texas International, Inc. protect North American bats and their habitats through VI on-the-ground conservation and education initiatives.

Refine and promote the North American Bat North American Bat Conservation Conservation Partnership and implement measures to 2003 16066 Bat Conservation- $124,997 $124,997 $132,769 $257,766 Texas International, Inc. protect North American bats and their habitats through VIa on-the-ground conservation and education initiatives.

Direct a grassroots effort to restore a quarter-mile of the Deep Tributary Eastwood Deep Tributary of the Dixon Branch Creek in Texas. 2003 12318 (TX) Riparian Homeowners Project includes implementing bioengineering $19,600 $19,600 $22,527 $42,127 Texas Restoration Association techniques; planting a buffer of native grasses, shrubs, and trees; and removing invasive species.

Plant bulrush species native to Texas in six acres of a 25- Clear Creek Clear Creek (TX) acre tidal mudflat within the Galveston Bay watershed. 2003 15234 Environmental $10,000 $10,000 $11,775 $21,775 Texas Restoration Project continues efforts to restore cordgrass species in Foundation saline waters and marshes in the Bay. Analyze habitat use, social organization, and Understanding Texas A&M demographics of Gulf of Mexico population of 2003 16972 Human Impacts on Research endangered sperm whales, with a focus on habitat near $74,861 $74,861 $129,155 $204,015 Texas Sperm Whales Foundation human industrial activities. Project will provide a mesoscale of behavior and disturbance of whales. Provide organizational support for the Laguna Atascosa Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge bookstore. Volunteers will run Friends of Laguna 2003 4021 NWR (TX) and manage the bookstore creating revenue that will $5,000 $5,000 $25,188 $30,188 Texas Atascosa NWR Bookstore directly support conservation and outreach projects at the Refuge. Distribute and promote a diverse array of accessible and Native Plant scientifically accurate native plant materials via the web. Lady Bird Johnson 2003 12400 Information Project will develop a distributed national network of $36,080 $36,080 $49,516 $85,596 Texas Wildflower Center Network researchers and volunteers to gather and input data into a web portal.

158 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Create volume one of a two-volume guidebook to Botanical approximately 3,300 species of native and naturalized Illustrated Flora of 2003 14510 Research Institute vascular plants found on public and private lands in East $46,100 $46,100 $189,446 $235,546 Texas of Texas Texas. Book will be made available through printed copies and on the Internet. Collect and store seeds of 200 native plant species of the Edwards Plateau, in partnership with Royal Botanic Lady Bird Johnson 2003 15007 (TO) Conservation Gardens in Kew, United Kingdom. Project will $34,150 $34,150 $146,305 $180,455 Texas Wildflower Center Initiative complement Seeds of Success, a native seed collection program on public lands in the United States.

Develop a hands-on environmental science curriculum Hudson for use at the Hudson Woods Unit of the San Bernard Woods/Northside( Friends of Brazoria 2003 18170 National Wildlife Refuge. Fourth-grade students will $4,850 $4,850 $4,960 $9,810 Texas TX) Environmental Wildlife Refuges conduct habitat restoration projects at the Refuge and Education present information to peers and adults. Develop an environmental education program at U.S. Fish and Balcones Canyonlands Refuge for local elementary Bridges to Wildlife Service - 2003 4817 school students and the general public about birds, bird- $6,280 $6,280 $7,258 $13,538 Texas Balcones (TX) Balcones watching, and bird conservation, with a focus on golden- Canyonlands NWR cheeked warblers and black-capped vireos. Continue to facilitate acquisition of priority migratory bird Bird Conservation habitat in coastal Texas through the Gulf Crossings Gulf Coast Bird 2003 4223 in the Gulf of Program (GCP) and develop a sourcebook that identifies $25,000 $0 $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 Texas Observatory Mexico-III the benefits the GCP has had on migratory bird conservation and regional ecotourism. Study the local bottlenose dolphin populations as bio- Dolphins as Texas A&M indicators in industrialized Galveston Bay, Texas. The Bioindicators in 2003 14891 Research study will provide a database for the future study of $38,892 $0 $38,892 $40,770 $79,662 Texas Galveston Bay Foundation pollution trends and development of management (TX) strategies. National Park Continue to promote the conservation and recovery of Conservation of Service - Padre the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle in the Gulf of 2003 15002 Kemps Ridley Sea $50,000 $0 $50,000 $87,570 $137,570 Texas Island National Mexico through integrated research, education, and Turtle-V Seashore outreach. Evaluate the flooding of private lands in Louisiana and Gulf Coast Winter Ducks Unlimited, Texas for winter duck habitat. Project will use GIS and 2002 16375 Water $25,000 $12,500 $12,500 $25,000 $50,000 Louisiana; Texas Inc. remote sensing technologies to determine winter water Management management. Create an environmental education program to Flying WILD Council For complement International Migratory Bird Day. Project will 2002 13375 Environmental Environmental encourage middle school participation in bird education $81,000 $40,500 $40,500 $0 $81,000 Texas Education Education events, such as school bird festivals, and habitat restoration activities.

159 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Enhance habitat for neotropical migrants and other avian Migratory Bird City of Houston species and increase birdwatching and other Urban Parks and 2002 16360 environmental education opportunities in Houston, $80,000 $40,000 $40,000 $80,000 $160,000 Texas Conservation Recreation Texas, as part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Treaty (TX) Department Urban Conservation Treaty Program. Ecosystem Implement a four-part educational program for urban and Holistic Resource Education on rural small-scale and large-scale landowners across 2002 12604 Management of $33,800 $33,800 $90,825 $124,625 Texas Private Lands in Texas to demonstrate more ecologically and Texas Texas economically sustainable land use practices. Create an educational exhibit and outreach program to Pollination Botanical educate the public about the value of native plants in the 2002 12605 Partnerships in Research Institute $25,900 $25,900 $40,065 $65,965 Texas landscape and the important role of pollinators in Texas of Texas maintaining a healthy ecosystem. Support awards given during the 2002 National Refuge National Wildlife National Wildlife Friends Conference in Washington, DC, as well as 2002 13478 Refuge System Refuge awards given during the 67th Annual North American $5,000 $0 $5,000 $10,100 $15,100 District of Columbia; Texas Awards Association Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Dallas, Texas. Continue to produce and distribute conservation Earth and Sky education programs for the Earth and Sky radio series. Conservation 2002 13531 Earth & Sky, Inc. Programs are designed to educate Americans about $175,000 $175,000 $350,072 $525,072 Texas Education public land conservation issues, programs, and activities Program-II via public and commercial radio. Create regional networks of support for student-driven Peer Leadership Peer Assistance environmental community service projects. High school 2002 13829 for Conservation in Network of students will work closely with their local national wildlife $20,000 $20,000 $40,000 $60,000 Texas Texas-II America, Inc. refuges in southeast Texas to design and construct educational native gardens. Host a working session of key state leaders from the National cattle industry and experts in land trust and conservation Cattlemen's Land 2002 15079 Cattlemens programs to help foster the proliferation of "Cattlemen's" $31,464 $31,464 $48,039 $79,503 Texas Trust Workshop Foundation, Inc. land trusts and other partnerships with the ranching industry. Educate the public about and build support for prairie Tourism Marketing Texas Prairie conservation by providing them with enhanced tourism 2002 17160 as Education for $123,000 $123,000 $273,596 $396,596 Colorado; Kansas; Texas Rivers Region Inc. experiences on private lands in Texas, Oklahoma, Conservation Colorado, and Kansas. West Nueces-Las Restore and enhance approximately 5,000 acres of West Texas Moras Soil & rangeland through the re-establishment of beneficial Rangeland 2002 4565 Water plant diversity. Project will implement prescribed burning $31,200 $31,200 $62,769 $93,969 Texas Ecosystem Conservation to reduce brush species, primarily ashe juniper, in Kinney Enhancement District County, Texas. Black-Capped Parks and Wildlife Enhance black-capped vireo habitat on private lands in 2002 12603 Vireo Habitat Foundation of central Texas through the trapping of brown-headed $40,000 $40,000 $87,000 $127,000 Texas Enhancement (TX) Texas, Inc. cowbirds to reduce nest parasitism.

160 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Enhance habitat for black-capped vireos and golden- Chalk Mountain Fossil Rim Wildlife cheeked warblers by restoring 1,700 acres of savanna 2002 13132 $124,080 $124,080 $217,313 $341,393 Texas (TX) Restoration Center and prairie and creating three wetlands on selected sites within the Chalk Mountain ecosystem in Texas. Acquire and conserve 200 acres of depressional prairie Katy Prairie (TX) wetlands, riparian corridor, and palustrine emergent Katy Prairie 2002 13373 Wetlands agricultural wetlands within the Cypress Creek watershed $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $200,000 Texas Conservancy Acquisiton-III on the Katy Prairie in Texas, for the benefit of a variety of wetland birds. Use GIS to identify and prioritize degraded riparian zones Southern Great National Wild on private lands in the Southern Great Plains. Project Colorado; Kansas; New 2002 13971 Plains Riparian Turkey Federation, $38,168 $38,168 $166,089 $204,257 will determine width of woody vegetation along Mexico; Texas Initiative Inc. watersheds and identify type of vegetation. Continue to support habitat improvement projects for Arizona; Arkansas; California; Upland Habitat Quail Unlimited, quail and other wildlife on public and private lands Colorado; Florida; Kansas; 2002 14234 $155,000 $155,000 $309,237 $464,237 Partnership-VII Inc. throughout the country. Projects will improve nesting, Kentucky; Mississippi; Texas; brood rearing, winter cover, and food for quail. Utah Texas Rice Construct wetlands and restore native grasslands for Texas Coastal Industry Coalition shorebird use on four private ranches. Project will 2002 16358 $124,000 $124,000 $400,000 $524,000 Texas Prairie Restoration for the restore a total of 1,080 acres of prairie and create 110 Environment acres of wetlands. United States Promote longleaf pine on non-industrial private land in Longleaf Pine Business Council western Louisiana and eastern Texas. Project will result 2002 13807 Restoration (LA, $10,000 $10,000 $0 $10,000 Louisiana; Texas for Sustainable in acreage establishment and help raise awareness of TX) Development and improve incentives for longleaf pine establishment. Swift Fox Den Site Document swift fox den site ecology and install artificial Texas Tech 2002 3859 Ecology in den sites and escape cover in Texas in order to reduce $39,117 $39,117 $120,500 $159,617 Texas University Northwest Texas the effects of coyote predation. Black-Tailed Bring together community partners to purchase, restore, Childress Prairie Dog and enhance an 80-acre parcel of land to reintroduce a 2002 12562 Independent $48,000 $48,000 $38,775 $86,775 Texas Enhancement in black-tailed prairie dog ecosystem, with the end goal School District Texas being a vast educational project open to the public. Purchase commercial fishing licenses from willing sellers Texas Commercial Parks and Wildlife who are participants in a limited-entry fishery. Removal 2002 12606 Fishery License Foundation of of excess licenses and the associated pressure from the $100,000 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 Texas Buyback Program Texas, Inc. fishery will eventually result in sustainable commercial fisheries. Disseminate focused education and management Mexico-U.S. Bat information about migratory bats along the United Bat Conservation Arizona; California; New 2002 13177 Conservation State/Mexico border. Project will focus on rapidly- $75,000 $75,000 $42,709 $117,709 International, Inc. Mexico; Texas Initiative growing border towns and tailor materials for a cross- section of society.

161 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Northern Work with private landowners in West Texas to release Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, Aplomado falcons in an effort to restore them to their 2002 13299 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 $200,000 Idaho; Texas (TX) Conservation - Inc. historic range. Project expands the reach of the I Foundation-funded Safe Harbor Program. Implement North American Bat Conservation Partnership North American priorities. Project will assist and improve communication Bat Conservation 2002 15041 Bat Conservation - between scientists, conservationists, and wildlife decision- $250,000 $250,000 $250,000 $500,000 Texas International, Inc. V makers, promoting the identification of continent-wide conservation priorities.

Restore marsh area and implement long-term Woodlands maintenance program to preserve area against Shadowlake Marsh 2002 14718 Community encroaching development. Project will introduce fish and $10,000 $10,000 $40,093 $50,093 Texas (TX) Enhancement Association, Inc. stabilize 800 feet of shoreline at a pond, establish native plants, and clear pond and marsh area of debris.

Continue to construct, restore, and manage wetlands and Texas Rice Coastal Wetlands native prairies on the Texas coast. Project meets critical Industry Coalition 2002 15604 and Prairie needs for working farm and ranch owners and wildlife $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $230,520 $330,520 Texas for the Restoration (TX)-II such as shorebirds, migratory birds, and the endangered Environment Attwater's prairie chicken.

Texas Prairie Create a fund for the conservation and recovery of the 2002 17397 Dawn-Flower Multiple Recipients Texas prairie dawn-flower and the habitat on which it $180,045 $0 $180,045 $0 $180,045 Texas Conservation Fund depends. Link together isolated forest habitats by reforesting tracts Santa Ana/Lower of land acquired for the Lower Rio Grande Valley and Friends of the 2002 14174 Rio Valley (TX) Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuges with native $5,000 $5,000 $58,534 $63,534 Texas Wildlife Corridor Reforestation vegetation. Volunteers will be Actively involved in the planting. Friends of Provide organizational start-up support for the Friends of Balcones Balcones Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. Canyonlands NWR 2002 14332 Canyonlands Program elements will include the development of $2,500 $2,500 $0 $2,500 Texas (TX) Friends Start- National Wildlife outreach tools such as an organizational brochure, Up Refuge newletters, and a website. Provide start-up support for the Santa Ana National Santa Ana NWR Wildlife Refuge Bookstore and Educational Center. (TX) Friends of the 2002 15633 Volunteers will operate the bookstore, creating income to $3,491 $3,491 $0 $3,491 Texas Bookstore/Educati Wildlife Corridor support refuge projects while providing educational on Center resources and opportunities for visitors. Lower Rio Grande Implement Integrated Pest Management strategies in the Hydrilla Control in Valley Lower Rio Grande. Project will release triploid grass carp 2002 15181 the Rio Grande $149,996 $149,996 $381,991 $531,986 Texas Development into the lower reaches of the Rio Grande to control the (TX) Council noxious aquatic weed hydrilla.

162 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Construct 1.5-acre landscape on Anahuac NWR in Texas Anahuac (TX) to provide habitat for resident and migratory butterflies Butterfly and Friends of 2002 4304 and hummingbirds. Landscape will include accessible $13,500 $13,500 $30,861 $44,361 Texas Hummingbird Anahuac Refuge trail and interpretive signage describing the importance Habitat of native plants and pollinators. Develop a community education project that will restore Bahia Grande and hydrology and create a nursery for black mangrove trees 2002 12937 Atascosa (TX) Ocean Trust $35,000 $0 $35,000 $46,587 $81,587 Texas for the 6,000-acre Bahia Grande, an estuary that has Restoration been dry since the 1930s. Continue to research and protect all nests found on North Kemps Ridley Sea and South Padre Island for the endangered Kemp's Turtle U.S. Geological 2002 13066 Ridley sea turtle. Project will aid in the recovery of this $50,000 $0 $50,000 $72,819 $122,819 Texas Conservation (TX)- Survey species and the establishment of secondary nesting IV population. Work with environmental educators, especially from Kids on Texas Boles Independent urban areas, to provide hands-on wetlands education to 2002 13094 $75,000 $25,000 $50,000 $162,865 $237,865 Texas Wetlands School District students in East Texas, the Houston area, and the San Antonio area. Hold the 18th international conference, "Converging Conference on Currents: Science, Culture and Policy at the Coast," to 2002 13729 Coastal Issues in Coastal Society $5,000 $0 $5,000 $8,483 $13,483 Texas; Virginia examine the science and management of coastal the Gulf of Mexico resouces in the Gulf of Mexico. National Wildlife Alabama; Alaska; California; The Student Place 35 conservation interns from diverse backgrounds Refuge Florida; Georgia; Louisiana; 2002 12674 Conservation underrepresented in conservation careers in positions at $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 Conservation Maryland; Mississippi; Texas; Association, Inc. National Wildlife Refuges across the country. Interns Virginia; Wyoming Acquire a 615-acre tract of gulf-front beach, salt marsh, Bolivar Flats (TX) and uplands adjacent to the Houston Audubon Society's Shorebird Houston Audubon 2001 15214 Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary. Project will benefit $50,000 $0 $50,000 $770,080 $820,080 Texas Sanctuary Society numerous migrating birds including waterfowl, Acquisition shorebirds, and songbirds. This project serves as a two-week outreach campaign to Reef mobilize volunteer divers to conduct fish monitoring California; Florida; Georgia; Great American Environmental 2001 8659 throughout the year. Locations throughout the country will $23,622 $23,622 $37,000 $60,622 Hawaii; Massachusetts; Texas; Fish Count-IV Education attract national coverage, creating awareness for marine Washington Foundation conservation. Develop interpretive trails and boardwalks and provide San Jacinto Marsh University of educational information to urban and multicultural visitors 2001 14116 (TX) Conservation $34,056 $34,056 $144,500 $178,556 Texas Houston to increase conservation education at tidal marshes in Education the San Jacinto Battleground State Historical Park. Obtain and compile additional historical information about Caprock Canyons Parks and Wildlife the Caprock Canyon bison herd, the last of a unique 2001 16298 (TX) Bison Herd Foundation of strain of native bison in the United States to develop $66,959 $1,959 $65,000 $1,959 $68,918 Texas Interpretation-II Texas, Inc. educational and interpretive materials and an ecosystem management plan.

163 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Continue to restore wetlands and enhance the Aquarena Springs Parks and Wildlife environmental educational experiences available for the 2001 17377 Restoration and Foundation of general public at the Texas Rivers Center. Project will $100,000 $50,000 $50,000 $50,000 $150,000 Texas Education (TX)-II Texas, Inc. remove exotic Chinese tallow trees and elephant ear plants from riparian areas. Implement a restoration and management plan to Leon River (TX) Texas Wildlife improve water quality and quantity and wildlife habitat in 2001 11685 Watershed Association the Leon River watershed in central Texas. Target $300,000 $300,000 $775,648 $1,075,648 Texas Restoration Foundation species include the federally-listed black-capped vireo and the golden-cheeked warbler. Restore prairie habitat through the installation of water Prairie and Texas Scottish guzzlers for numerous wildlife species, reintroducing 2001 12791 Pronghorn $48,000 $48,000 $127,389 $175,389 Texas Rite Hospital native prairie grasses, and erecting pronghorn-friendly Restoration (TX) fencing to allow voluntary herd movement. West Nueces-Las West Texas Moras Soil & Promote prudent use of prescribed burning on private 2001 13903 Rangeland Water lands in west Texas to restore 3,700 acres of wildlife $21,500 $21,500 $46,217 $67,717 Texas Reclamation Conservation habitat. District Identify and protect critical winter habitat of migratory Burrowing Owl Beaverhill Bird burrowing owls. Project will also educate and encourage 2001 11723 Habitat $39,074 $39,074 $90,800 $129,874 Texas Observatory landowners to undertake agricultural practices that Conservation benefit such habitat. Establish a safe harbors program in which ranchers and Environmental other private landowners will Actively manage wildlife 2001 11521 Safe Harbor $50,015 $50,015 $215,000 $265,015 Texas Defense Fund, Inc. habitat to benefit the black-capped vireo and golden- Program cheeked warbler. Research current fish assembleages in streams on Spatial and federally managed land. Project will determine Southwest Texas 2001 12623 Temporal Trends geographic distribution, population structure, $13,328 $13,328 $42,876 $56,204 Louisiana; Texas State University for Stream Fish reproductive ecology, and food habits of the sabine shiner. Continue captive propagation and reintroduction of the Northern northern aplomado falcon to national wildlife refuges and Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, 2001 12722 surrounding private lands in south Texas. Private lands $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 $75,000 Idaho; Texas (TX) Conservation- Inc. are enrolled under a "Safe Harbor" habitat agreement to IV reduce ESA concerns. Implement the newly-established North American Bat North American Conservation Partnership's continent-wide plan of Bat Conservation 2001 14347 Bat Conservation - species and habitat priorities. Project includes on-the- $150,000 $150,000 $150,000 $300,000 Texas International, Inc. IV ground conservation measures through the Bats and Forests and Bats and Mines initiatives. Restore the riverbank along Clear Creek in League City, Clear Creek (TX) Clear Creek Texas. Native plants will be planted at ten sites along 2001 14475 Riverbank Environmental $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $23,500 $38,500 Texas the creek to stabilize the bank and reduce sedimentation Restoration Foundation in order to improve fish and wildlife habitat.

164 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds

Restore the Keystone Wetlands in El Paso by removing Keystone (TX) Keystone Heritage exotic plants and replanting with native species. Project 2001 15632 Wetlands $7,551 $7,551 $1,569 $9,120 Texas Park will also design and construct raised walkways to provide Restoration education access to the area. Restore 3,150 acres of coastal prairie and wetlands with Texas Rice Coastal Wetlands a coalition of rice farmers, industry, and natural Industry Coalition 2001 12427 and Prairie resources interests. Project will improve water $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $648,677 $798,677 Texas for the Restoration (TX) deliverability, create new wetlands, and aid migratory Environment birds in the area. Assemble a coalition of non-profit conservation Shortgrass Bird organizations that will work with private landowners to Texas Prairie Colorado; Kansas; Nebraska; 2001 14086 Species conserve at-risk black-tailed prairie dogs and associated $150,000 $75,000 $75,000 $392,700 $542,700 Rivers Region Inc. New Mexico; Texas; Wyoming Conservation (TX) species within the Shortgrass Bird Conservation Region of the High Plains. Design and establish a nature trail with interpretive signs Expanding Friends of Aransas and wildlife observation points and blinds at the Tatton Educational and Matagorda 2001 12300 Unit at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge to increase $5,000 $5,000 $0 $5,000 Texas Opportunities at Island National outdoor conservation education opportunities for Aransas NWR Wildlife Refuges schoolchildren and adults. Build and establish a fully-accessible 140-linear foot pier on the Champion Lake tract of the Trinity River National Champion Lake Friends of Trinity 2001 13762 Wildlife Refuge to increase wildlife observation, fishing, $5,000 $5,000 $0 $5,000 Texas (TX) Pier Project River Refuge birding, photography, and conservation education programming opportunities. Acquire 1,370-acre Southmost Ranch which supports one of the last remaining groves of native sabal palms in Southmost Ranch The Nature 2001 9485 the United States. Project will serve as a demonstration $100,000 $0 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 Texas (TX) Acquisition Conservancy site for other private landowners in Texas interested in restoring their properties. Restore 995 acres of private land along the Texas Gulf Wetland Ducks Unlimited, Coast. Project will benefit migrating songbirds and 2001 11531 Restoration on $80,007 $0 $80,007 $133,308 $213,315 Texas Inc. waterfowl that use coastal wetlands for overwintering Private Lands (TX) habitat. Acquire land identified as top priority migratory bird Bird Conservation habitat in coastal Texas through the Gulf Crossings Gulf Coast Bird 2001 11533 in the Gulf of program. Three key sites acquired will be a tract on $80,000 $0 $80,000 $162,865 $242,865 Texas Observatory Mexico-II Mustang Island and two in the nearby Columbia Bottomlands (Bird Pond and Hudson Tract). Conduct volunteer marsh planting effort in the Galveston Marsh Mania (TX) Galveston Bay Bay area of Texas. Project will incorporate educational 2001 14886 $40,000 $0 $40,000 $80,000 $120,000 Texas 2001 Foundation components and target schools and local volunteer groups. Friends of Aransas Create dependable freshwater habitat on the Black Jack Aransas NWR and Matagorda Peninsula of the Aransas NWR to sustain populations of 2001 11573 (TX) Blackjack $20,000 $20,000 $30,790 $50,790 Texas Island National wildlife and migratory birds, including the endangered Water Project Wildlife Refuges whooping crane.

165 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Produce and distribute conservation education programs Earth and Sky for the Earth and Sky radio series. Programs will be Conservation 2000 10976 EarthTalk, Inc. designed to educate Americans about public land $65,600 $65,600 $134,100 $199,700 Texas Education conservation issues, programs, and activities via public Program and commercial radio. Acquire 12 acres of wetland and associated uplands (TX) Buffalo Bayou 2000 8615 along the Buffalo Bayou near Houston. Project site will $50,000 $50,000 $200,000 $250,000 Texas Acquisition Partnership be used for conservation education programs. Acquire 150 acres of wildlife habitat for the Fort Worth Fort Worth (TX) Fort Worth Nature Nature Center and Refuge. Acquisition will complement 2000 11239 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Texas Land Acquisition Center and Refuge the upland oak savanna, prairies, and wetland habitats and prevent Pending development of the project site. Develop landscape-level bird conservation plan and West Gulf Coastal partner infrastructure in the West Gulf Coastal Plain. U.S. Fish and Arkansas; Louisiana; 2000 11789 Plain Bird Strategies include identifying priority species and $246,903 $224,246 $22,658 $130,000 $376,903 Wildlife Service Oklahoma; Texas Conservation habitats, linking habitat objectives to population response, and developing effective solutions. Coordinate a binational cooperative effort to protect the Mexican Migratory Bat Conservation millions of bats that cross the American-Mexican border 2000 11103 $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 $225,000 Texas Bat Conservation International, Inc. annually. Project includes research, education, and conservation components. Complete the identification of continent-wide priorities for North American Bat Conservation bats and continue to enhance resource allocations for 2000 11425 Bat Conservation - $75,000 $75,000 $150,000 $225,000 Texas International, Inc. collective objectives in bat conservation, education, and III research. Second year of captive propagation and reintroduction of Northern the northern aplomado falcon to national wildlife refuges Aplomado Falcon Peregrine Fund, 2000 15471 and surrounding private lands in south Texas. Private $25,000 $25,000 $50,000 $75,000 Texas (TX) Conservation- Inc. lands are enrolled under a "Safe Harbor" habitat III agreement to reduce ESA concerns.

Restore eight acres of Galveston Bay wetland impacted John M. OQuinn I- by landfill activity to new emergent intertidal estuarine Scenic Galveston, 2000 11670 45 Estuarial habitat. Nesting and roosting habitat for migratory and $10,000 $10,000 $80,000 $90,000 Texas Inc. Corridor resident waterfowl will be created by removing a roadway and reducing an upland fill. Columbia Provide support for acquistion expenses related to Brazoria National 2000 3650 Bottomlands Fund accomplishment of Fund goals and purposes for $3,623,218 $44,000 $3,579,218 $0 $3,623,218 Texas Wildlife Refuge (TX) expansion of the Brazoria NWR complex. Tobusch Fishhook Support the conservation and recovery of the tobusch Cactus fishhook cactus in Texas. Fund provides an avenue for 2000 11397 Multiple Recipients $169,371 $0 $169,371 $0 $169,371 Texas Conservation Fund private individuals, corporations, and other parties to (TX) assist conservation efforts currently underway.

166 National Fish and Wildlife Foundation - Projects in Texas (2000 - 2012)

Award NFWF NFWF Non- Grantee NFWF Total Project Fiscal EZG# Project Title Grantee Project Description Federal Federal Matching Location Award Funds Year Funds Funds Funds Provide start-up support for the Aransas National Wildlife Friends of Aransas Aransas NWR Refuge Bookstore. Volunteers from the Friends of and Matagorda 2000 11470 (TX) Bookstore Aransas and Matagorda NWRs will operate the $5,000 $5,000 $0 $5,000 Texas Island National Start-Up bookstore and use revenues to support education and Wildlife Refuges conservation programs at the refuge. Migration Provide birding tours for the public at the Brazoria and Friends of Brazoria 2000 13536 Celebration (TX) San Bernard National Wildlife Refuges as part of the $1,049 $1,049 $0 $1,049 Texas Wildlife Refuges 2001 Migration Celebration 2001 spring birding festival. Monitor abiotic and biotic responses to the release of the Monitoring of U.S. Fish and California; Colorado; Nevada; 2000 11092 saltcedar biological control agent, saltcedar beetle, to $60,000 $60,000 $204,728 $264,728 Saltcedar Wildlife Service Texas; Utah; Wyoming determine target and non-target effects. Acquire and restore critical coastal wetland and prairie Texas Wetland Katy Prairie habitat in the Houston area. Project will ensure the long- 2000 8241 and Prairie $150,000 $100,000 $50,000 $687,500 $837,500 Texas Conservancy term conservation of habitat important to migrating Conservation waterfowl and neotropical birds. Conduct research on nesting Kemp's Ridley sea turtles Kemps Ridley Sea on Padre Island National Seashore, the most important U.S. Geological 2000 8850 Turtle nesting site of the species in the United States. Results $30,000 $0 $30,000 $0 $30,000 Texas Survey Conservation-II of this study will help guide future sea turtle restortion efforts. Sabal Palm Bi- Educate schoolchildren and families on the Texas Audubon 2000 8852 National Education Texas/Mexico border, highlighting habitat restoration in $9,444 $0 $9,444 $28,800 $38,244 Texas Society Program the border region near Brownsville, Texas. Kemps Ridley Sea Promote endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle Turtle U.S. Geological conservation by training volunteers to collect eggs on the 2000 12209 $50,000 $0 $50,000 $100,000 $150,000 Texas Conservation (TX)- Survey South Padre Island National Seashore. Project will also III monitor local sea turtle population. $31,522,581 $14,617,365 $16,905,215 $48,011,215 $79,533,796

Total # of Projects (2000-2012): 312 Total NFWF Award: $31,522,581 Total NFWF Federal Funds: $14,617,365 Total NFWF Non-Federal Funds: $16,905,215 Total Grantee Matching Funds: $48,011,215 Total Project Funds: $79,533,796

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