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May 21, 2007
Ken Burton 202-208-5657 -
ken_burton@fws.gov
ALMOST $9 MILLION WILL GO TO SIXTY NATIVE AMERICAN PROJECTS FOR AN
EXTENSIVE RANGE OF CONSERVATION WORK
The Interior Department’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
announced today that almost $9 million in grants will go to sixty Native
American conservation projects in eighteen states.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne called the Tribal
Landowner Incentive and Tribal Wildlife Grant programs “an important
tool in the department’s effort to support tribal culture and fish and
wildlife resource management programs.”
The Tribal Landowner Incentive Program will provide more
than $2.5 million to fund twenty four projects, and the Tribal Wildlife
Grants program will fund thirty six proposals with more than $6.3
million.
The Tribal Landowner Incentive Program grants focus on the
protection, restoration and management of habitat to benefit species at
risk, including Federally-listed endangered or threatened species,
proposed or candidate species, as well as species of tribal concern.
The Tribal Wildlife Grant program provides funding to defray
the cost of the implementation of programs that benefit fish and
wildlife and their habitat, including species that are not hunted or
fished.
The grants made to Federally-recognized Indian tribes were
made possible under the Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2002, and
through a component of the State Wildlife Grant program.
A new publication,
Tribal Wildlife
Grant and Tribal Landowner Incentive Program Periodic Report 2006,
provides brief summaries of all grants awarded since the programs were
initiated, with feature-length articles on twenty projects. Copies of
the report are available through the office of the Native American
Liaison by contacting Patrick Durham at
pat_durham@fws.gov .
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the principal Federal agency
responsible for conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife and
plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American
people. The Service manages the 97-million-acre National Wildlife
Refuge System, which encompasses 547 national wildlife refuges,
thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. It also
operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 64 fishery resource offices and 81
ecological services field stations. The agency enforces federal
wildlife laws, administers the Endangered Species Act, manages migratory
bird populations, restores nationally significant fisheries, conserves
and restores wildlife habitat such as wetlands, and helps foreign
governments with their conservation efforts. It also oversees the
Federal Assistance program, which distributes hundreds of millions of
dollars in excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to state fish
and wildlife agencies.
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(Editors: A list of all Tribal grants follows.)
TLIP:
2007 Awards
Alaska:
·
Telida
Village
Council, AK
$80,516
Telida
Village Moose Habitat Enhancement by Willow Crushing
Arizona:
·
Hualapai Nation, AZ
$109,229
Rearing Endangered Razorback Sucker and Humpback chub in a Native Fish
Rearing Facility
California:
·
Hoopa
Valley
Tribe,
CA
$120,000
Improve Habitat Protection during Timber Sale Layout and Timber Harvest,
and Implement Habitat Improvement in the Wildlife Corridor Lands on the
Reservation
·
Los Coyotes Band of Indians,
CA
$114,250
Teaching our Youth about their Heritage
·
Round Valley Indian Tribes,
CA
$114,500
Mill Creek Riparian Corridor Development and Restoration Enhancement
Module
·
Yurok Tribe,
CA
$ 98,263
Lower Terwer Creek Streambank and Riparian Restoration Project
Florida:
·
Seminole Tribe of Florida,
FL
$120,000
Habitat Assessment and Management to Support Florida Panther and Other
Species on the Seminole Indian Reservations
Idaho:
·
Coeur d'Alene
Tribe,
ID
$110,239
Benewah Creek Channel and Floodplain Enhancement Project
·
Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, ID
$39,950
West Side Lower Kootenai River Tributary Restoration Project
Minnesota:
·
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe,
MN
$120,000
Road Decommissioning and Wetland Restoration for the Enhancement and
Protection of Habitat for Tribally Important Sensitive Species
Montana:
·
Chippewa Cree Tribe,
MT
$75,000
Tribal Cooperative Cougar Research and Management Project
New Mexico:
·
Santa Ana
Pueblo,
NM
$119,990
Riparian Backwater Enhancement and Population Monitoring for the
Southwestern Willow Flycatcher and Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Nevada:
·
Duckwater Shoshone Tribe,
NV
$120,000
Spring and Stream Channel Restoration of Little Warm Spring for the
Recovery of Railroad Valley Springfish
North Carolina:
·
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians,
NC $90,000
Wetland Delineation and Southern Brook Trout Habitat Enhancement
South Dakota:
·
Cheyenne River
Sioux Tribe,
SD
$119,292
Black-footed Ferret Recovery Management
·
Oglala Sioux Tribe,
SD
$120,000
Ecological Site Index and Prairie Dog Incentive Program
·
Rosebud Sioux Tribe,
SD
$119,000
estoration of Black Footed Ferrets to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Indian
Reservation
Washington:
·
Lummi Indian Nation,
WA
$120,000
South Fork Nessett’s Reach LWD Project
·
Nisqually Indian Tribe, WA
$119,760
Mashel River
and Ohop Creek Salmon Habitat Restoration Project
·
Nooksack Indian Tribe, WA
$100,000
South Fork Nooksack Instream Restoration Project - Phase 3 – Todd Creek
Reach
·
Yakama Nation,
WA
$113,920
Habitat Assessment and Strategic Plan for Shrub-Steppe Wildlife of the
Yakama Nation
Wisconsin:
·
Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, WI
$106,900
Coldwater Habitat Restoration Project and Management Strategy Project
·
Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, WI
$120,000
Powell Marsh Bio-Diversity Inventory
·
Stockbridge-Munsee Community, WI
$39,000
Spring Hole Restoration
TWG: 2007 Awards
Alaska:
·
Chickaloon Native Village,
AK
$199,727
Moose Creek and Matanuska Watershed Fish Habitat Restoration Project
·
Hoonah Indian Association,
AK
$199,210
Harbor Seal Decline in Glacier Bay: Assessing Factors Affecting Survival
of an Imperiled Species
·
Native Village of Kaktovik,
AK
$198,772
Responsive Natural Resource Management in Lands and Waters Adjacent to
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Native Village of Kaktovik
·
Native Village of Kotzebue,
AK
$163,800
Wintering Areas and Habitat Use of Ringed Seals in Kotzebue Sound,
Alaska: A Community Based Study
Arizona:
·
Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians, AZ
$199,988
Wildlife Management Program: Building Capacity through Training and
Education
California:
·
Hoopa
Valley
Tribe,
CA $200,000
Fisher Habitat Use and Population Monitoring on the Hoopa Valley
Reservation
·
Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, CA
$189,800
Hopland Tribal Fish Habitat Survey and Culvert Design Study
·
Karuk Tribe,
CA
$111,000
Bluff Creek Habitat Protection and Road Decommissioning Implementation
Project
Idaho:
·
Coeur d'Alene
Tribe,
ID
$119,292
Sharp-tailed Grouse Habitat Assessment on Hangman Creek
Maine:
·
Penobscot Indian Nation, ME
$200,000
Development of a Management Strategy for Moose and White-tailed Deer on
Penobscot Trust Lands - Phase 2
Michigan:
·
Keweenaw
Bay
Indian Community, MI
$176,466
Native Fish Species Projects on the L'anse Indian Reservation and
Adjacent Waters
·
Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, MI
$137,752
Operation and Evaluation, Lake Sturgeon Streamside Rearing Facility for
Rehabilitation
·
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, MI
$200,000
Wildlife Habitat Assessment and Restoration Plan Implementation Tactics
Minnesota:
·
Fond du Lac
(Lake Superior) Band of Chippewa, MN
$199,706
Moose Population Dynamics Research - Phase 2
Mississippi:
·
Mississippi
Band of Choctaw Indians , MS
$185,000
Choctaw Tribal Wildlife Program
Montana:
·
Blackfeet Tribe, MT
$200,000
Blackfeet Fisheries Management and Native Fish Conservation
·
Chippewa Cree Tribe, MT
$125,000
Chippewa Cree Bighorn Sheep Reintroduction Project
·
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, MT
$57,287
Bat Conservation on the Flathead Indian Reservation
·
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, MT
$64,850
Grizzly Bear and Northern Gray Wolf Management on the Flathead Indian
Reservation
Nevada:
·
Duck Valley - Shoshone Paiute Tribes, NV
$199,878
Survey and Monitor the Impacts of West Nile Virus on the Duck Valley
Indian Reservation’s Greater Sage-grouse Population
New Mexico:
·
Mescalero Apache,
NM
$200,000
Capacity Building
through Applied Habitat Restoration and Fisheries Management Training
for Nine Southwestern Tribes
·
Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, NM
$199,954
Wetland Restoration in Honor of Blue Water
·
Pueblo of Sandia, NM
$182,655
Restoring Wild Turkeys to the Pueblo of Sandia Lands
·
Pueblo of Tesuque, NM
$199,229
2007-2009 Wildlife Management Program and Habitat Restoration
·
Santa Ana
Pueblo, NM
$199,996
Restoration of Pronghorn Antelope on the Pueblo - A Continued Commitment
to Wildlife and Cultural Preservation
·
Santa Clara
Pueblo, NM
$199,118
Santa Clara Creek Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout Management
·
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo, NM
$200,000
Native Grassland Habitat Restoration at Hueco Ranch
New York:
·
Seneca Nation of Indians, NY
$199,232
Seneca Nation of Indians 2007 Tribal Wildlife Habitat Restoration
Program
·
St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, NY
$192,911
A Partnership for Hardwood Wetlands Habitat Restoration and Management
North Carolina:
·
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, NC
$200,000
EBCI Habitat Assessment and Wildlife Surveys
Oklahoma:
·
Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma, OK
$199,998
Artificial Propagation of the Neosho Madtom and the Reintroduction of
the Neosho Mucket and Rabbitsfoot to the Spring and Neosho Rivers
Washington:
·
Colville Confederated Tribes, WA
$149,712
Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse Monitoring and Augmentation Project
·
Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe,
WA
$73,869
Lamprey Assessment Project
·
Puyallup
Tribe, WA
$200,000
South Rainier
Elk Herd Management and Habitat Selection Study
·
Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe,
WA
$198,737
Assessment of Habitat Selection of Mountain Goats and Elk in the North
Cascades Mountains of Washington State
Wisconsin:
·
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, WI
$200,000
Menominee Tribal Wildlife Grant Project
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