Alaska Landowners to Receive Almost $470,000 to Conserve Species Under New Grant Program

Under the new Private Stewardship Grant program the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced 113 grants totaling more than $9.4 million in grants to individuals and groups to undertake conservation projects on private lands in 43 states for endangered, threatened and other at-risk species. Almost $470,000 of the newly awarded funds will support projects in Alaska.

President Bush originally proposed the creation of the Private Stewardship Grant program during a speech in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, in June 2000. The grants announced today, the first ever awarded under the program, will benefit species ranging from the Delmarva fox squirrel on Maryland