Deadline: 15-Apr-2022
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) is soliciting proposals for the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program to restore, enhance, or protect anadromous salmonid habitat in watersheds of California or projects that lead to process-based restoration, enhancement, or protection of anadromous salmonid habitat.
The goal of the Fisheries Restoration Grant Program (FRGP) is to recover and conserve California's salmon and steelhead trout populations through process-based restoration activities that restore self-sustaining ecosystems.
Project Types
- Priority 1 Project Types – Projects that restore, enhance, or protect salmonid habitat in anadromous watersheds through implementation or design projects that lead to implementation.
- Priority 2 Project Types – Projects that consist of watershed-scale or larger effectiveness monitoring (eg, intensively monitored watershed project). Such projects provide monitoring of habitat restoration actions at the watershed or larger scales and the physical, biological and chemical response, and projects conducting watershed-scale or larger restoration planning (eg, strategic action plans).
- Priority 3 Project Types – Projects that support implementation projects through planning, outreach, and/or education.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants are limited to state and local government agencies, public entities, California Native American Tribes, and nonprofit organizations.
- Private individuals and for-profit enterprises interested in submitting restoration proposals are encouraged to work with an eligible entity.
- No project that is required mitigation or used for mitigation under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), California Endangered Species Act (CESA), Federal Endangered Species Act (ESA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), California Forest Practices Act (FPA) or Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) will be considered for funding.
- No project that is under an enforcement action by a regulatory agency will be considered for funding.
For more information, visit CDFW.
For more information, visit https://wildlife.ca.gov/Grants/FRGP/Solicitation
