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 Thornton-Lansing Road Habitat Restoration (IL) Forest Preserve District of Cook County These sites span 600 acres in Thornton, IL within the historic Lake Michigan watershed. They represent a sand ridge and swale complex of remnant wet prairie, savanna, marsh and riparian woodland. $100,000.00
2012 Swan Lake Marsh Restoration (Ontario) Walpole Island First Nation Its a dyked 171 acre wetland called the Swan Lake Club, located on St. Anne Island at Walpole Island First Nation in Canada. Within the St. Clair River a binational Area of Concern in RAP Area 1A. $22,352.76
2012 Garden of the Gods Restoration Project (CO) - II Rocky Mountain Field Institute, Inc. Garden of the Gods Park, Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Southern Colorado. Owned and managed by the City of Colorado Springs. $25,000.00
2012 Bookstore Start-Up for the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center (TN) Friends of Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, Inc. The Blue Goose Bookstore will be located in the New TNWR Administrative Headquarters/Visitor Services Center in The Big Sandy unit in Henry County Tennessee. $5,000.00
2012 Calf Island Forest Restoration and Invasive Control (CT) Calf Island Conservancy, Inc. Calf Island, a unit of the Stewart B McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, located 3,000 feet from the mainland off Greenwich CT. 40 degrees, 59' 35" North latitude; 73 degrees 38' 22" West longitude $21,398.00
2012 Missouri Farm Bill Technical Assistance Initiative Pheasants Forever, Inc. Positions will be located in counties with extremely high CRP expirations and will service 3 - 5 counties each. Specific locations include Dexter, Edina, and Chillicothe. $286,991.78
2012 Sustainable Invasive Plant Collaboration in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Upper Peninsula Resource Conservation and Development Council All 15 counties in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and three adjacent counties in northeastern Wisconsin which together comprise 5 Cooperative Species Management Areas. $51,466.00
2012 Friends of the Bay Water Quality Monitoring 2012 (NY) Friends of the Bay, Inc. Oyster Bay/Cold Spring Harbor Estuary and surrounding watershed 40°53’52” and 73°32’11” $25,996.00
2012 Reducing Caribbean Hawksbill Harvest in Bastimentos, Panama Sea Turtle Conservancy Project activities will focus on Bastimentos Island National Marine Park in Bocas del Toro Province, Panama. Data to evaluate project’s success will also be collected in adjacent Comarca Ngöbe-Bugle. $100,000.00
2012 Fish Passage on the Farmington River (CT) Farmington River Watershed Association, Inc. Farmington and Pequabuck Rivers and the east and west branches of Salmon Brook, CT Latitude 41 deg., 54 min. 4.3 sec, longitude -72 deg. 45 min. 24.4 sec. $65,800.00