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 | Development of the Hood Canal Watershed Cooperative Weed Management Area (WA) | Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group | Hood Canal is located on the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The watershed encompasses three different counties and includes numerous NGO partners, many of whom are working on noxious weed control. Hood Canal is home to several ESU-listed salmonid and bird species. | $163,995.88 |
| 2016 | Chesapeake Land & Water Initiative (DE, MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) | Land Trust Alliance, Inc. | The entire 64,000 Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The LWI does have initial focal areas targeting the following sub-watersheds: Lower Susquehanna; Upper Susquehanna; Upper Potomac;Juniata; Shenandoah; Rapidan and Rappahannock; and Eastern Shore. | $199,999.91 |
| 2016 | Accelerating Use of Constructed Wetlands as a Nutrient-Removal Solution in Agricultural Watersheds (IL) | The Wetlands Initiative | Initially focused in the Big Bureau Creek subwatershed in north-central Illinois, which includes portions of Bureau, Lee, and LaSalle Counties. The project is anticipated to expand to the Vermilion-Illinois River Watershed (centered on Livingston County) and to at least one other Illinois watershed. | $120,001.99 |
| 2016 | Building Community Awareness of the Positive Role of Industry Investments in Conservation (PA) | Center for Aquatic Sciences | Philadelphia Metro Area, Pennsylvania | $24,171.10 |
| 2016 | Expanding the Channeled Scablands Cooperative Weed Management Area for Greater Sage Grouse (WA) | Lincoln County Conservation District | Project will be conducted within the boundaries of the Channeled Scablands CWMA within portions of Spokane, Lincoln and Whitman Counties in Washington state. The CWMA boundary will be extended north to include portions of Lincoln County that contain several 1000 acres of sage grouse habitat. | $74,901.74 |
| 2016 | Deploying CD3 Cleaning Stations with National Clean Drain Dry Initiative | Wildlife Forever | Locations are as follows Lake Washington Lake Minnetonka, Independence Lake, Forest Lake, Big Sandy Lake and Lake Washington boat launches were strategically selected to span urban-rural geography, AIS infestation level of clean to infested lakes,and to target boater demographics. |
$151,006.80 |
| 2016 | Automated Lake Monitoring System for Upper Saranac Lake | Paul Smith's College of Arts & Sciences | This project is located in Upper Saranac Lake (44.2591° N, 74.3302° W), a 4,843 acre waterbody located in Franklin County, New York. The lake is located within a 49,500 acre watershed dominated by forest cover, and is comprised of a shallow north basin (53 ft) and a deep south basin (92 ft). | $140,099.00 |
| 2016 | Kupu’s Youth Corps Teams Work to Preserve Hawai‘i’s Natural and Cultural Resources (HI) | Kupu | The project will occur in Department of Interior sites in Hawai'i, including National Park Service and US Fish and Wildlife sites such as the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail, Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, and Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge. | $69,987.26 |
| 2016 | Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps (AZ) (NM) | Conservation Legacy | Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Page, Arizona Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
$39,499.98 |
| 2016 | Choose Clean Water Conference (DC, MD, NY, PA, VA, WV) | National Wildlife Federation | The conference will take place in Charlottesville, Virginia but will have attendees from the Chesapeake Bay watershed. We selected the districts in the Bay watershed. The stormwater success stories will be collected mostly from Maryland and Virginia, in all different districts. |
$35,000.00 |