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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Friends of Port Louisa Tour Training (IA) | Friends of Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge | Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge -- this project will include class time in the new refuge headquarters as well as familiarization time on the refuge. | $4,630.41 |
| 2016 | New Orleans Urban Youth Conservation Internship Program (LA) | Limitless Vistas, Inc. | New Orleans, Louisiana | $108,636.14 |
| 2016 | Yadkin River Watershed Protection Task Force (NC) | Yadkin Riverkeeper | The High Rock Lake Drainage area encompasses the Upper Yadkin, South Yadkin, and portions of the Lower Yadkin River HUC 08 Watersheds. The project area is approximately 4000 sqmi and extends from the High Rock Lake Dam on the Yadkin River upstream through the headwaters. | $49,431.99 |
| 2016 | Development of Cold Water Habitat (CA) | Montague Water Conservation District | Project Site is located at base of Dwinnell Dam on the edge of the Shasta River, Lake Shastina, Siskiyou County. MWCD owns and operates Dwinnell Reservoir. Project is fully on MWCD property. Lat/Lon: Decimal: 41.32'30.66" -122.22'27.39") |
$229,130.87 |
| 2016 | Evaluation and Biological Control of Fire-promoting Invasive Riparian Plants in Los Padres National Forest River Systems (CA) | University of California - Santa Barbara | All of LPNF will be considered for potential biocontrol releases to manage tamarisk, focusing on major river systems within/adjacent to LPNF for Santa Clara, Ventura, Santa Ynez and Sisquoc/Cuyama watersheds, with initial activity in Piru and Sespe drainages. | $96,268.07 |
| 2016 | Montopolis Wetland and Creek Rehab (TX) | Ecology Action of Texas | The project location is in the Country Club Creek East Watershed of Southeast Austin, Texas. Specifically, the project will target the Montopolis Wetland occurring in the Circle Acres Nature Preserve which is owned by Ecology Action and an adjacent one mile section of Country Club Creek East. | $46,162.92 |
| 2016 | Restoring Oyster Reefs in Choctawhatchee Bay through Community Stewardship (FL) | Northwest Florida State College Foundation, Inc. | Project will occur in the estuarine regions of Okaloosa and Walton Counties in the Choctawhatchee Watershed of Northwest Florida. Project will consist of constructing two oyster reefs in Choctawhatchee Bay and populating those reefs with oysters grown by stewards in the surrounding community. | $39,992.37 |
| 2016 | Wolf River Greenway Restoration (TN) - IV | Wolf River Conservancy, Inc. | All of the project sites are located in Memphis, Tennessee. Three of them: the Lucius Burch State Natural Area, Lovitt Woods and the Gower property are located near the intersection of Germantown Road and Wolf River Boulevard. The fourth site is Kennedy Park at 4575 Raleigh-LaGrange Road. | $29,531.83 |
| 2016 | Conservation Easement Acquisition in the Laguna Madre Watershed (TX) | The Nature Conservancy | Laguna Madre Watershed, Cameron County, Texas | $363,596.72 |
| 2016 | GreenSkills Training to Benefit the Urban Watershed and Tree Canopy of New Haven (CT) | New Haven Urban Resources Initiative | The GreenSkills program is a resource for all of New Haven where we will plant 500 trees. We target our outreach seeking tree recipients/stewards primarily in underserved communities and communities with lower canopy coverage, which tend to correlate. | $28,714.05 |