GLIN==> Funding Opportunity - Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership

Funding Opportunity:


Description
The Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership (Partnership) received
funding from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to complete
on-the-ground fish habitat projects. The Partnership recognizes that most
work to protect, restore and enhance fish habitat will be done at the local
level by local watershed associations, municipalities, tribes, states and
non-governmental organizations. The Partnership will work with organizations
to encourage local conservation actions that fit within the Partnership's
Strategic Plan priorities. Up to $500,000 will be available for habitat
projects. A "project" is defined as an action that will protect, restore or
enhance Great Lakes fish habitat. Project proposals will be compiled, ranked
by a subcommittee of the Partnership and submitted to the Partnership's
Steering Committee for review. These funds are available through a portion
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
allocation, so the Service will be responsible for making final funding
decisions. Focus areas for 2012 funding are: 1) Fish habitat protection and
restoration, specific to one or more of the following: a) Tributary stream
restoration or protection to improve fish and aquatic species passage,
riparian habitat, large woody debris, water temperatures, natural stream
flow functions, or natural stream channel form; b) Coastal and connecting
channel wetland restoration, enhancement and protection; c) Connecting
channel restoration or protection to improve fish and aquatic species
passage and/or riparian habitat. 2) Inventory and assessment of habitats in
local watersheds that will lead directly to future on-the-ground projects.
We will limit funding for the second focus area to no more than 25 percent
of available project funds. 

Agency Name:  Fish and Wildlife Service 

Current Closing Date for Applications:	 Oct 14, 2011  	 

Link to Full Announcement:  Great Lakes Basin Fish Habitat Partnership Call
for Project Proposals  <http://www.fws.gov/midwest/fisheries/nfhap.html> 

If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically,
please contact:

Mark Brouder 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ashland, WI 
Phone 715-682-6185, ext 11 Mark Brouder  <mailto:mark_brouder at fws.gov> 



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Heather Braun
Habitat Restoration Project Manager
Great Lakes Commission
2805 S. Industrial Hwy., Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-6791
Ph: 734.971.9135 ext. 132
www.glc.org


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