als for funding.
The grants cover a wide range of conservation projects, including:
- A grant for $49,791 for the Band of Pomo Indians in California for the Big Valley Rancheria Clear Lake Hitch Study Project. The Clear Lake Hitch is a culturally significant native fish in Clear Lake. This multi-tribal effort will seek to accelerate the recovery of this fish and to provide stock to other streams in the watershed.
- A grant of $62,604 to the Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma will help manage the Tribe’s Wildlife Conservation Area, which, among other things, includes the Grey Snow Eagle House (Bah Kho-Je Xla Chi), the first Federally-funded eagle rehabilitation facility in the United States. This facility cares for injured eagles that cannot return to the wild, rehabilitates eagles that are returned to the wild, and utilizes the eagles’ natural molting process to provide eagle feathers for Native American religious and other ceremonies.
- A grant of $199,831 to the confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, located in Washington State, will help the tribe improve management of over-stressed meadow habitat on their 1.4 million acre Yakama reservation in southcentral Washington. Meadows and wetlands in the managed forest occupy just over 8,600 acres and include many ecologically and culturally important wildlife and plant species.
- The Lummi Nation of Washington State will receive a grant of $200,000 to support endangered species recovery work in the Nooksack River Basin. It will seek to restore degraded habitat identified as limiting the production of bull trout, steelhead, Chinook and other salmon.
- The Yurok Tribe of the Klamath River Reserve in northern California will get a $200,000 grant to reintroduce California condors to the Yurok Ancestral Territory. The condor is listed as an endangered species by Federal and State agencies.
(Editors: A list of all Tribal grants follows.)
2008 Tribal Wildlife Grants
|Native Village of Tetlin
Moose Management and Restoration Project on Tetlin Tribal Lands
|Aleut Community of St. Paul
Establishing Long-term Trends of Winter Seaducks, Gulls and Beach-cast Birds on the Pribilof Islands
|Sitka Tribe of Alaska
Stock Identification of Pacific Herring in Sitka Sound
|Native Village of Chickaloon
Matanuska Watershed Salmon Habitat Restoration and Research Project
|Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Gopher Tortoise Reintroduction in Restored Longleaf Pine Habitat
and Red Cockaded Woodpecker Safe Harbor Agreement
|Colorado River Indian Tribes
Mesquite Resource Assessment and Mesquite/Wildlife Integrated Resource Management Plan
|Big Valley Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians
Big Valley Rancheria Clear Lake Hitch Study
|Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake
Clear Lake Hitch Study and Recovery Project
|Karuk Tribe of California
Bluff Creek Habitat Protection Project
Yurok Tribe Condor Release Initiative
Clear Lake Hitch Study
|Miccosukee Tribe of Indians
Implementation of the Miccosukee Fisheries Management Plan
|Sac and Fox Tribes of the Mississippi in Iowa (Meskwaki)
Meskwaki Buffalo Herd and Prairie Restoration
|Nez Perce Tribe
Restoration of Bighorn Sheep and Habitat along the Main Stem Salmon River
|Idaho and Nevada:|
|Shoshone Paiute Tribe - Duck Valley Reservation
Restore Habitat and Monitor the Impacts of West Nile Virus on the Duck Valley Reservation's Greater Sage-grouse Population
|Aroostook Band of Micmacs
Aroostook Band of Micmacs Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project
|Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
Aquatic Habitat Study of the Meduxnekeag Watershed
|Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) Surveillance and Detection in Grand Portage Waters and within the 1854 Ceded Territory
| Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Assessment of Double-Crested Cormorant Predation Effects on Selected Fish Species and Colonial Waterbird Management on the Pelican Island Complex in Leech Lake
|Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians
Gray Wolf Inventory, Monitoring, and Management Plan Development
|Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes
Restoration of Swift Fox on Fort Peck Indian Reservation and Northeastern Mont