Grants Library

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation supports vital conservation projects across the United States and its territories. Please search our grants library for additional information on individual grants.

Year Name Organization Location Award Amount
2012 Stakeholder-centered Management of Lake Erie Yellow Perch Michigan State University Lake Erie, with project participants from Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario. Yellow perch fisheries are co-managed by the U.S. and Canada, and harvest 4,000 metric tons annually. $73,432.00
2012 Gulf of Maine Risk Pool (ME) Island Institute This project will involve fishermen who are home ported and land in Maine and who exclusively fish in the Gulf of Maine. $110,000.00
2012 Weber River Native Fish Restoration (UT) Trout Unlimited, Inc. Weber River, tributary to the Great Salt Lake, Utah $95,000.00
2012 Dog River Watershed Habitat Restoration and Education (AL) Dog River Clearwater Revival Dog River Watershed is located in Mobile, Alabama. It is an estuarine waterway that flows into the Mobile Bay which connects directly into the Gulf of Mexico. Dog River is about 95 square miles. $23,389.40
2012 Genetic Monitoring Panel for Native Fishes in the Kern Basin (CA) University of California, Davis Kern River Basin in the southern Sierra Nevada Range, California $44,311.68
2012 Lower Mattole River Habitat Enhancement (CA) Mattole Salmon Group Lower Mattole River and estuary, California $75,000.00
2012 Saginaw Bay Imperiled Lake Plain Prairie Habitat Restoration (MI) Saginaw Basin Land Conservancy 107 acres at the Saganing River mouth owned by SCIT or SBLC, 64 acres at the AuGres River mouth owned by SBLC, 25 acres along county drain mouths all sites on the Saginaw Bay Arenac County, Michigan. $149,999.95
2012 Youth Voices for Westerly Creek (Denver & Aurora, CO) Earth Force, Inc. Project watershed’s in 2 cities, 3 counties (Arapahoe, Denver, Adams) & 3 school districts (Cherry Creek, Aurora, Denver), centered on an underserved neighborhood at Lat/Long: 39.7401, -104.8847 $14,535.00
2012 Lake Superior North Shore Forest Restoration and Protection (MN) Sugarloaf: The North Shore Stewardship Association Project will be located along a 15 mile stretch of mostly privately owned property in Cook and Lake County, Minnesota, along the North Shore of Lake Superior. Project area includes some state land. $20,000.00
2012 Longleaf Restoration on Florida State Forests Friends of Florida State Forests, Inc. Project is located in the Gulf Coastal Plain Ecosystem Partnership area $299,468.72