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Fourteen Community-Based Habitat Restoration Projects Funded in FY04


Volunteers place recycled oyster shell on the shoreline to create a new oyster reef in South Carolina.

In response to a June 30, 2003 Federal Register Notice advertising the availability of funds for all of NOAA’s competitive grant programs, the Community-based Restoration Program received seventy-five applications from non-profit organizations, academia, local and state agencies, and community groups, to conduct fishery habitat restoration projects. Applicants requested over $9.2 million in habitat restoration project funds in response to the announcement, which closed on September 12, 2003. After a competitive selection process, fourteen projects were selected for funding for a total of over $1.3M.

Funded projects include:

Alaska

  • Matanuska-Susitna Borough Fish Passage/Construction Project Phase II, $96,945

California

  • Odd Fellows Road Community-based Habitat Restoration Project, $206,277
  • Irving Creek Habitat Protection - Road Decommissioning Project, $46,261
  • Save San Francisco Bay Association Community-based Restoration Projects, $100,000

Oregon

  • Middle Fork John Day River Community-based Restoration Project, $64,968
  • Tryon Creek Habitat Complexity and Enhancement Project, $125,000

Washington

  • Tarboo Creek at Center Road Culvert Replacement, $60,000
  • Raging River Preston Reach Levee Removal, $70,000

Idaho

  • Lapwai Creek Nature Preserve: Linking Education with Restoration, $75,000

Massachusetts

  • Bridge Creek Salt Marsh Restoration Project, $117,675

North Carolina

  • Chaney Creek Watershed Habitat Restoration Project, $137,493
  • Stump Sound Oyster Habitat Restoration, $114,188

South Carolina

  • Evaluating Success of Intertidal Oyster Restoration in South Carolina, $56,582

Florida

  • Clam Bayou Restoration Project, $100,000

The NOAA Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) began in 1996 to encourage local efforts to restore fish habitats. Between 1996 and 2004, the CRP has secured funding for over 800 locally-driven restoration projects around the country, and continues to work with existing and new national and regional partnerships to leverage funding available for these activities. The CRP provides technical expertise through NMFS regional staff as needed in addition to funds, and brings together community groups, non-profit organizations, business interests, youth conservation corps and service organizations, academia, watershed groups, local government, state and Federal agencies to implement grass-roots habitat restoration projects of local significance to benefit NOAA trust resources. Additional information on the CRP as well as NOAA Restoration Center (RC) partnerships that are currently accepting applications for grass-roots habitat restoration projects is available on the RC web site at: www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration.

(Robin Bruckner, 301-713-0174)



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