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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Optimizing a Technique for Detecting and Monitoring Polar Bear Dens in the Arctic Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (AK) | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Our experimental sites will be located on the North Slope of Alaska. Effort will be concentrated in and around oil fields. We have received a Certificate of Authorization (COA) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) flight missions in this area. | $129,118.00 |
| 2016 | Desecheo Island (PR) Seabird Restoration - II | Island Conservation | Desecheo Island (286 acres), a National Wildlife Refuge managed by USFWS, is located 21km west of Puerto Rico and is part of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. | $110,000.00 |
| 2016 | Viewing Albatrosses From Space: Using Satellite Imagery To Count Nesting Birds (HI) | Oregon State University | Study sites will include albatross colonies in Hawaii (Midway Atoll and Oahu) and Japan (Torishima and the Senakaku Islands). Digital image processing will occur at Oregon State University’s main campus in Corvallis and the Hatfield Marine Science Center. | $119,604.59 |
| 2016 | Agricultural Land Easement Program (MT) | Prickly Pear Land Trust | Montana has 9 million acres of core sage grouse habitat and 24 million acres of general sage grouse habitat. Montana land trusts in the Bitterroot Valley and greater Gallatin and Missoula areas have consistently received NRCS funding for soils and grasslands conservation projects. Focal work would b | $120,110.53 |
| 2016 | Native Youth for Habitat Restoration (ID, NV) | Golden Eagle Audubon Society | The Duck Valley Indian Reservation and the Morely Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area. | $26,382.35 |
| 2016 | Escalante Watershed Restoration for Healthy Communities (UT) | Grand Staircase Escalante Partners | Utah, Garfield County, Escalante Watershed, communities of Escalante and Boulder and within Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, managed by the National Park Service. | $29,440.00 |
| 2016 | Lower Yreka Creek Coho Habitat Restoration Project (CA) | Siskiyou Gardens, Parks and Greenways Association | Siskiyou County, CA, north of the City of Yreka, on the lowermost two miles of Yreka Creek just above its confluence with the Shasta River. | $131,000.00 |
| 2016 | Urban Youth: The Future of Conservation Leadership (MI) | The Greening of Detroit | The Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge's Refuge Gateway and the adjacent Humbug Marsh Unit | $39,961.77 |
| 2016 | Attwater Prairie-Chicken Digital Media Development (TX) | Friends of Attwater Prairie-Chicken Refuge | The Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR is located in southeast Texas near Eagle Lake in Colorado County [1206 Apc Nwr Rd, Eagle Lake,Texas 77434]. Some content may be taken at the Houston Zoo & NASA Johnson Space Center (both in greater Houston, Texas- Harris County), where breeding facilities exist. | $10,000.00 |
| 2016 | Conserving and Restoring Critical Land and Water Resources in the Santa Fe National Forest (NM) | New Mexico Wilderness Alliance | Santa Fe National Forest, near Santa Fe, New Mexico | $20,000.00 |