The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is soliciting proposals for projects that enhance and improve the quality of state-identified, or tribal-identified, priority big game habitat, stopover areas, and migration corridors on federal land and/or voluntary efforts on private and tribal land.
Donor Name: National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF)
States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 11/08/2022
Size of the Grant: $1.7 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
Priorities
All proposals must outline specifically how projects will directly address state game and fish (wildlife) department priorities as identified in the state plans, or specific priority projects on tribal lands, to conserve or restore habitat and measurably contribute to the sustainability of local and regional big game populations and accomplishment of program priorities which include:
- Restoring degraded priority habitat, stopover areas, and migration corridors by activities identified in the state plans, or comparable tribal plans, such as removing encroaching trees from sagebrush ecosystems, rehabilitating areas damaged by fire, or treating exotic/invasive vegetation to improve the quality and value of these areas to big game and other wildlife.
- Work cooperatively with diverse partners to achieve wildlife friendly fencing measures, including potentially modifying (via smooth wire), removing (if no longer necessary), installing if serving to direct big game movement out of harm’s way, or seasonally adapting (seasonal lay down) fencing if proven to impede movement of big game through priority migration corridors or habitat.
- Implement measures such as conservation easements and management agreements or other actions to protect bottlenecks within corridors and other areas within priority habitat or stopover areas threatened by fragmentation.
- Utilize other proven actions necessary to improve the habitat quality /or restore priority big game habitat, stopover areas, or migration corridors across the West.
- In 2023 there are additional resources available for capacity to increase conservation delivery in Wyoming.
- Projects seeking capacity support must show how it will translate into habitat outcomes on-the-ground and are still required to fall within Tribally or State-identified priority areas.
Funding Information
The 2023 Western Big Game Seasonal Habitat and Migration Corridors Fund RFP has approximately $1.7 million available for the effort. For this round NFWF anticipates awarding six to ten grants. Grants can range from one to three years in length.
Geographic Focus
Only projects proposed in the tribally and state-identified focal areas within Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming will be eligible for funding.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include non-profit 501(c) organizations, U.S. Federal government agencies, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, and tribal governments and organizations.
For more information, visit NFWF.
