River habitat grants sought

FRITZ MAYER
Posted 8/15/18

REGION — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is seeking grant applications for projects that will restore habitat for wildlife in the Delaware River watershed. The matching grants …

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REGION — The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is seeking grant applications for projects that will restore habitat for wildlife in the Delaware River watershed. The matching grants will range from $50,000 to $250,000.  The grant will come from the newly established Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund.

The grants may be awarded to nonprofits, governments and government agencies and educational institutions. The projects must be completed entirely within the boundaries of the Delaware River watershed, which includes parts of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

Information on the NFWF website (tinyurl.com/yahzgd3u) breaks the program down into four goals: “To sustain and restore fish and wildlife populations through conservation and restoration of their associated habitats and promote native ecosystem restoration;

“To protect and maintain water quality through projects and non-regulatory programs aimed at improving land and watershed management and reduce pollutants that can impair water quality;

“To provide non-regulatory support to the management of water resources to meet the various human and ecological needs and legal requirements in the basin and restore ecological function to the watershed, river, and tributaries in order to provide enhanced tolerance of potential drought and flood conditions;

“To protect and maintain water quality through projects and non-regulatory programs aimed at improving land and watershed management and reduce pollutants that can impair water quality.”

A total of $4.3 million will be awarded. There is a webinar scheduled on the application process for Friday, August 17 at 1 p.m. Applicants may register at the website, tinyurl.com/yahzgd3u. The full proposals are due on September 27.

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