Posted October 5, 2016 12:21 pm by Comments

By Justin Stakes

CDFW Awards $31.4 Million to Fund Ecosystem and Watershed Restoration Projects
CDFW Awards $9.4 Million to Fund Additional Ecosystem and Watershed Restoration Projects
California Department of Fish and Wildlife
California Department of Fish and Wildlife

San Francisco, CA -(Ammoland.com)- The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced the selection of five additional projects to receive approximately $9.4 million in grants through its fiscal year 2015-16 Watershed Restoration Grant Program cycle.

These awards were made following an augmentation of funding from the Water Quality, Supply and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Proposition 1) in the 2016-17 Budget Act.

The grants will fund a diversity of planning, implementation and acquisition projects that further implement the objectives of the California Water Action Plan.

“In the first year of our Proposition 1 program, the number of proposals received outstripped the availability of funding,” CDFW Director Charlton H. Bonham said. “We are responding to this demand by readily supporting additional projects to address specific water action plan objectives which will ensure the program’s continued momentum.”

Projects approved for funding include:

  • American River Headwaters Restoration Project (up to $1.8 million to American River Conservancy)
  • Butte Creek Diversion 55 Fish Screen Project (up to $150,000 to Family Water Alliance, Inc.)
  • Johnson Meadow Acquisition, Upper Truckee River (up to $4 million …Read the Rest

    Source:: AmmoLand

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