Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account (ALEA) Volunteer Cooperative Grant Program
The ALEA Volunteer Cooperative Grant Program provides monetary
support for qualifying volunteer organizations and individuals
who want to undertake projects that are beneficial to the
fish and wildlife of Washington State. The outcome of these
projects must be available to the public as authorized by
Chapter
77.100 RCW.
Lead
Entity Program
Lead Entities provide an infrastructure to guide
investments. The Lead Entity infrastructure is built at the
watershed level with the involvement of local stakeholders
representing diverse
interests. Involving the communities directly allows them to
understand their watersheds and the needs of fish and provides
the opportunity to build consensus on how to best protect and
restore habitat.
Landowner
Incentive Program (LIP)
A competitive grant
program designed to provide financial assistance to private
landowners for the protection, enhancement or restoration
of habitat to benefit species at risk on privately owned
lands.
Regional
(RFEGs)
The Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups
are a statewide network of non-profit community-based salmon
enhancement
organizations. In 1990, the Washington State Legislature
created the Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Program
to involve local communities, citizen volunteers and landowners
in the state’s salmon recovery efforts.
Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund
Grants offered through the Cooperative Endangered Species
Conservation Fund (authorized under section 6 of the Endangered
Species Act) fund participation in a wide array of voluntary
conservation projects for candidate, proposed and listed
species. These funds may, in turn, be awarded to private
landowners and groups for conservation projects.
Salmon
Recovery Funding Board (SRFB)
The Board provides grant funds to protect
or restore salmon habitat and assist related activities.
Grants.Gov
Grants.gov is your source to find and apply for federal government
grants.
Family
Forest & Fish Passage Program
A
Department of Natural Resources Program. The
Family Forest Fish Passage Program is a cost-share
program that helps small forest landowners correct
fish passage barriers on their forestlands. The
program provides 75-100 percent of the cost of
correcting a barrier; it also provides technical
assistance.
Fisheries Restoration Irrigation Mitigation Act (FRIMA)
Grants Program
The
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is now accepting
grant proposals for the 2007 FRIMA Grants Program.
Funding for this program is from annual federal appropriations
to state fish and wildlife agencies to "create a voluntary,
cost-shared fish screen and fish passage construction program
for water withdrawal projects in Idaho, Oregon, Washington,
and western Montana.”
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