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
2009 Shasta Valley Water Trust Capacity Building (CA) Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District Any stream within Shasta Valley RCD boundaries, but primarily focus will be in the Shasta River and its tributaries, Siskiyou County, California. $20,470.00
2009 Steller’s Eider Conservation (AK) II – Survey & Nesting Studies U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Barrow Area, Alaska (North Slope Borough)
Bristol Bay, Alaska (North Aleutian Basin)
$77,000.00
2009 Conservation Demonstration Sites in Flooded Watersheds (IA, IL) Trees Forever, Inc. The project will be located within major watersheds in western Illinois and eastern, north central and central Iowa. Projects will be targeted to streams and upland areas which flooded in 2008. $60,000.00
2009 Chesapeake Club: Nonpoint Source Pollution Outreach Campaign Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation The Washington, D.C., Richmond and Hampton Roads media markets. The project is a partnership of leading water quality agencies in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. $500,000.00
2009 Bristol Bay Watersheds Anadromous Waters Protection (AK) The Nature Conservancy Nushagak River and Kvichak River watersheds in the Bristol Bay region of Southwest, Alaska. $100,000.00
2009 Photo-identification of Beluga Whales in Upper Cook Inlet (AK) LGL Alaska Research Associates, Inc. The project is located in Upper Cook Inlet, Southcentral Alaska. Field work will be conducted in the waters adjacent to Anchorage, and office work will be conducted in Anchorage. $299,500.00
2009 Innovative Stormwater Treatment in Fairfax, Virginia Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University In Fairfax County and the City of Fairfax, Virginia; we will focus on controls within headwater catchments of 3 impaired streams, Cameron Run, Difficult Run, and Accotink Creek. $311,720.15
2009 Central Upper Peninsula Cooperative Weed Management Area (MI) The Nature Conservancy Nature Conservancy and various private and state lands in Marquette, Alger, Delta, and Schoolcraft counties in Michigan. Federal lands include Hiawatha National Forest, Pictured Rocks NL, Seney NWR. $17,650.55
2009 James River Sturgeon Spawning Habitat Restoration and Monitoring (VA) James River Association Three sites on the James and Appomattox rivers in central Virginia near the City of Hopewell and the James River and Presquile National Wildlife Refuges. $50,000.00
2009 Green River Basin Big Game Wildlife-Friendly Fencing (WY) Wyoming Land Trust Portion of the pronghorn migration route between GTNP and southern Sublette County that lies between USFS boundary to the North and Highway 191, as documented by Joel and Kim Berger and Steve Cain $400,000.00