Collaborate with Idaho Department of Fish and Game, along with nonprofit partners and citizen scientists, to restore ecological function to degraded forested lowlands in northern Idaho's Kootenai Valley, an east-west linkage between the Purcell and Selkirk mountain ranges. Project will improve riparian and pollinator habitat for native western toads, northern leopard frogs and bumble bees, and support connectivity for wide-ranging mammals such as grizzly bears, lynx and wolverines.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Northern Rockies - Great Migrations and Crucial Corridors
Project Title: Restoration of a Lowland Wetland Forest in Northern Idaho's Kootenai Valley
Organization:
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Project ID:
2502.18.061818
Description:
Award Amount:
$157421.26
Location:
Kootenai River Valley in the northernmost part of the Idaho panhandle