Private landowners in Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Idaho will soon receive more than $2 million in grants from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for projects that help conserve endangered, threatened and other at-risk species.
Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton today announced the Pacific Region grants as part of a national announcement that $9.4 million in grants to benefit imperiled species have been awarded to 113 landowners in 43 states.
President Bush originally proposed the creation of the Private Stewardship Grant program during a speech in Lake Tahoe, Nev., in June 2000. The grants announced today, the first awarded under the program, will benefit species ranging from the whooping crane in the state of Nebraska and the Delmarva fox squirrel on Maryland
