"Private Stewardship grants continue to provide support to private landowners who have made voluntary commitments to conserve species on their land," said Acting Service Director Matt Hogan.
:Following the recent rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas, Secretary Norton set aside $800,000 from the fiscal year 2005 Private Stewardship Grants Program to fund a separate - call for proposals - for projects specifically designed to benefit that species conservation. The Service recently announced the availability of this grant money through " COLOR: bluewww.Grants.gov. Additional information may be found at: http://www.fws.gov/southeast/grants.
Alabama
:Building from the Core - (application by Alabama Forest Resources Center) - Bullock, Russell, and Macon Counties, Alabama - ($143,795) - The Alabama Forest Resources Center will work with two plantation owners in southeastern Alabama to restore suitable habitat for the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker and other imperiled species using the successful "Red Hills Red-cockaded Woodpecker Model." This project will build from one of the few red-cockaded woodpecker core populations in the State and seeks to expand the red-cockaded woodpecker population through burning, planting, mid-story control, and Safe Harbor implementation.
Alaska
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Afognak Motorized Access Denial: Ouzinkie Phase I - (application by Wildlife Forever) - Kodiak Borough - ($50,000) - Wildlife Forever will work with Ouzinkie Native Corporation to reclaim forest roads to reduce habitat fragmentation and improve habitat security for brown bears. The project will also benefit Pacific salmon.
California
Bahia Restoration Project - (application by Marin Audubon Society) - Marin County, California - ($100,000) - The Marin Audubon Society will restore tidal marsh, associated transition and upland habitat, and plant and animal communities to a condition similar to that found in the historic tidal marshes of the Petaluma River. The restored habitat will benefit California clapper rail, salt marsh salt marsh
Salt marshes are found in tidal areas near the coast, where freshwater mixes with saltwater.
Learn more about salt marsh harvest mouse, steelhead trout, California black rail, San Pablo song sparrow, salt marsh common yellowthroat, and Sacramento splittail.
Colorado
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Private Lands Habitat Enhancement for Grassland Species at Risk - (application by Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory) - Kiowa, Cheyenne, Las Animas, Bent, El Paso, Prowers, Baca, and Lincoln Counties, Colorado - ($128,897) - The Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, working with Colorado Division of Wildlife, the Mayor of Town of Eads, and Kiowa County Economic Development Foundation, will, through six individual projects, restore shortgrass prairie rangelands to benefit grassland and riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian species at risk, principally declining grassland birds such as lesser prairie-chicken, mountain plover and long-billed curlew. The six projects vary in the type of management proposed and include reseeding cropland to native prairie, playa restoration, and altering livestock grazing management.
Florida
:Nokuse Plantation - (application by a private landowner) - Walton County, Florida - ($180,000) - The grant to Nokuse Plantation, a 53,000 acre site within the proposed Northwest Florida Greenway, will restore an historical longleaf pine-wiregrass community on approximately 4,392 acres by undertaking prescribed burning and planting longleaf pine seedlings. These actions will help establish a protected landscape-level wildlife corridor wildlife corridor
To maintain healthy species populations and ecosystems, fish and wildlife need the freedom to move and migrate. As habitats and migration routes are affected by climate change and fragmented by roads, fences, energy development and other man-made barriers, wildlife struggle to reach necessary areas to feed, breed and find shelter. A wildlife corridor is a piece of undeveloped land connecting two habitats so wildlife can move safely between them.
Learn more about wildlife corridor between Eglin Air Force Base and the Choctawhatchee River Wildlife Management Area and will benefit the projects two flagship species, the gopher tortoise and the Florida black bear.
Hawaii
Habitat Restoration on Kona Hema Preserve - (application by The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii and Zoological Society of San Diego) - Hawaii County, Hawaii - ($100,000) - The objectives of this project are to fund the first year of restoration of The Nature Conservancys Kona Hema Preserve totaling 6,291 acres of montane ohia and koa/ohia forest habitat. Restoration includes alien animal removal and outplanting of native endangered and non-endangered plant species. The restoration will benefit the alala or Hawaiian crow, io or Hawaiian hawk, akiapolaau, opeapea or Hawaiian hoary bat, Hawaii akepa, Hawaii creeper, and many native Hawaiian plants. Captive propagation of alala for potential release in the Kona Hema Preserve is a part of the project.
http://endangered.fws.gov/grants/private_stewardship.html. The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance number for this grant program is 15-632.
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