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 Hawksbill Conservation in Estero Padre Ramos, Nicaragua Wild Earth Allies Estero Padre Ramos is an estuary located on the Pacific Coast in Northwest Nicaragua. The primary hawksbill nesting areas (Venecia & Isla Tigra) are located north of the mouth of the estuary $74,984.00
2012 Sierra Nevada Meadow Community Clearinghouse (CA) University of California, Davis Throughout the Sierra Nevada, but based at the Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis. $125,000.00
2012 Build Local Capacity for Community Reef Fisheries Monitoring in Indonesia Conservation International Foundation The project will be implemented in three MPAs within the Bird’s Head Seascape, in West Papua, Indonesia—the Kaimana, Kofiau, and Ayau MPAs. $29,999.70
2012 Bycatch Avoidance Network for River Herring/Butterfish (NY) Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County This project will take place in NY, RI, and NJ with vessels fishing in the offshore Loligo squid fishery. The fishing areas are in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of these 3 states. $99,932.29
2012 Hermosa Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Re-establishment (CO) U.S. Forest Service La Plata and San Juan Counties, southwest Colorado $56,000.00
2012 Swan Lake Bull Trout Conservation (MT) USDA-Forest Service, Flathead National Forest Swan Lake is located in Northwestern Montana, and is
approximately 3,000 acres in size. It is fed by the Swan River and is tributary to the larger Flathead River system.
$45,000.00
2012 Frenchman Bay Eelgrass Restoration (ME) Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Frenchman Bay, in the waters off Hadley Point, Berry Cove, and Thomas Island in the Gulf of Maine $25,266.00
2012 Riparian Restoration in Natrona and Coraopolis (PA) Friends of the Riverfront Our restoration project takes place at two sites. One in Natrona (on the Allegheny River) and one in Coraopolis (on the Ohio River). $25,000.00
2012 Arctic Ice Seal Disease Investigation (AK) University of Alaska Anchorage Seals collected at Arctic Sea and Bering Sea and analyzed at University of Alaska, Anchorage. $83,487.77
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