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Chesapeake Small Watershed Grants
The Small Watershed Grants (SWG) Program, delivered in partnership with EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership promotes voluntary, community-based efforts to protect and restore the diverse and vital habitats of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and streams.Image
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Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants
The Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Program will catalyze, strengthen and mature regional-scale partnerships based on evidence that collaboratives of this scale are effective mechanisms for achieving and sustaining water quality improvements by inspiring engagement, improving capacity and advancing impact over time.Image
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Chesapeake WILD
The Chesapeake Watershed Investments for Landscape Defense (WILD) Grants Program delivered in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service supports efforts to improve the condition and connectivity of habitats for at risk and federally listed species.Image
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Pennsylvania Most Effective Basins
The intent of the Pennsylvania Most Effective Basins program is to assist the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in achieving its 2025 water quality goals for the agricultural sector under the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and Pennsylvania’s Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP).Image
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New England Gear Innovation Fund
The New England Gear Innovation Fund, a part of the Fisheries Innovation Fund, seeks to support the development and adoption of innovative gear technologies that reduce the risk of lethal or sub-lethal fishing gear entanglement for the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (NARW). The program, which is a partnership between NFWF and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, focuses on the New England region of the United States.Image
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Western Joshua Tree Conservation Fund
The Western Joshua Tree Conservation Fund (formerly known as the Western Joshua Tree Mitigation Fund) was established under California state law to receive deposits of fees paid by permittees for their authorized impacts to and/or taking of western Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) in lieu of completing their respective mitigation obligations on their own, and deposits of other funding to support the conservation of the species. Monies in the Western Joshua Tree Conservation Fund are for the purposes of acquiring, conserving, and managing lands that are suitable habitat for the western Joshua tree, and completing other activities to address threats to the western Joshua tree. The Western Joshua Tree Conservation Fund is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.Image
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California Forests and Watersheds Program
NFWF’s California Forests and Watersheds Program supports a variety of grant opportunities, funded through public and private entities, to increase headwaters resilience, improve forest health, and recover from and build greater resilience to wildfire, for the benefit of fish and wildlife throughout these environments.Image
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Bats for the Future Fund
The Bats for the Future Fund provides funding for existing and novel treatments for white-nose syndrome, a disease that has killed millions of bats over the two decades.Image
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Bring Back the Native Fish
Bring Back the Native Fish invests in conservation activities that restore, protect and enhance native populations of sensitive or listed fish species across the United States, especially in areas on or adjacent to federal agency lands. The program emphasizes coordination between private landowners and federal agencies, tribes, corporations and states to improve the ecosystem functions and health of watersheds.Image