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Notice of Funding Opportunity for Central Valley Project Improvement Act
The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the Notice of Funding Opportunity for projects that enhance Chinook salmon and steelhead trout production and associated habitats in the Central Valley, consistent with the Central Valley Project Improvement Act.
Press Release
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$4.7M in Grants Given to Support Endangered Species Recovery in California
In 2023, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation issued $4.7 million in grants to several projects that support endangered species recovery in the Central and San Joaquin Valleys. The grants are funded through the Central Valley Project Conservation Program and the Central...
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Endangered Species Act
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Numana Dam Fish Passage Project
On September 13, the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service broke ground to commence construction on a fish passage project at Numana Dam in northern Nevada. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, Nevada Department of Wildlife and other partners joined the Service...
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Habitat Restoration
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Proposed Delisting of Apache Trout
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to remove the native Arizona Apache trout from the List of Endangered and Threatened Species. Collaboration and partner-driven habitat conservation, non-native trout removal, and reintroduction efforts helped save the Apache trout from the brink of...
Press Release
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Celebrating ESA's 50th with Abernathy Fish Technology Center
From delisting the first fish, to using DNA to help bull trout return to their natal waters, and joining forces with botanists to use DNA to conserve a threatened plant, Abernathy Fish Technology Center's work in conservation genetics has informed important decisions for threatened and endangered...
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Endangered Species Act
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Environmental Achievement Award
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program, a multi-agency effort to restore the upper 152-miles of the San Joaquin River from Friant Dam to the confluence with the Merced River, recently received the Department of the Interior’s highest honor for environmental restoration.
Press Release
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Take a Kid Fishing
At Winthrop National Fish Hatchery's Kids Fishing Day event in 2022, kids often caught fish so big, they could barely lift them. After two years of Covid that closed public events, the trout had gotten enormous!
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Recreation
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Stop, collaborate and listen. We got a win for the sturgeon condition.
After more than two decades of teamwork, an alliance to open new waters for endangered pallid sturgeon on the Lower Yellowstone River finally came to fruition in April 2022, and the results are optimistic. In the first month alone, a total of 9 pallid sturgeon (3 wild and 6 hatchery-raised) have...
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Wildlife Management
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Endangered California salmon returned to safer waters after more than a century
*** A Joint News Release Issued by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and the Bureau of Reclamation*** State and federal biologists have begun moving endangered adult winter-run Chinook salmon to the upper reaches of Battle Creek and threatened...
Press Release
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Success!
Success on the first try. That’s what transpired this past December and January, when the Coleman National Fish Hatchery transported smaller fry for release into the Sacramento River. A total of two million juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon to be exact.
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Migratory Species

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Through our partnerships we are able to expand our capabilities through the inclusion of services in areas such as:

  • Grant opportunities
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  • Cooperative Agreements

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