NFWF Grant Profile

Improve water quality and in-stream habitat connectivity on private lands in Bledsoe, Rhea, and Sequatchie counties, Tennessee. Project will engage 150 landowners to implement conservation practices on 200 acres of cropland to reduce erosion and improve water quality, replace a failing culvert to improve habitat connectivity within 12 miles of stream, and monitor the response of the endangered Laurel dace and other at-risk fish species to stream habitat and water quality improvements.