Appalachian Mountain Club: $5,000 to remove a culvert in a tributary to Chairback Ponds, in the Sebec River (Maine) drainage, and restore 6.1 miles of stream habitat to benefit native and wild brook trout and landlocked salmon as part of AMC’s multi-year Restoring Native Brook Trout and Atlantic Salmon Habitat in Maine’s 100 Mile Wilderness project. http://www.outdoors.org/
American Rivers: $5,000 to complete a 140-acre meadow restoration in the Pine Creek watershed (California) designed to replenish groundwater and prolong summer streamflow, while improving wet meadow and riparian habitat to benefit Eagle Lake Rainbow Trout, a California Heritage Trout, a Species of Special Concern, and the most widely planted trout species in the world. https://www.americanrivers.org/
Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to remove and replace a culvert and habitat improvement project on Murray Hollow Brook (Vermont), as part of Trout Unlimited’s Battenkill Home Rivers Initiative, and reconnect 5.5 miles of coldwater habitat and restore at least 1 mile of coldwater habitat to benefit native Eastern brook trout and wild brown trout. https://www.tu.org/
Oregon Natural Desert Association: $5,000 to complete restoration work on the South Fork of Crooked River (Oregon), including planting more than 5,000 willow, cottonwood, and dogwood trees in a nearly one acre enclosure, to benefit native species, particularly interior Redband trout. https://onda.org/
Montana Trout Unlimited: $4,500 to protect, restore and enhance the riparian corridor and instream habitat for 5-acres along 0.75-stream mile of Flint Creek (Montana), an important tributary of the Clark Fork River, to enhance fish habitat for brown trout, bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, and mountain whitefish. https://montanatu.org/
Montana Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to remove a channel-spawning diversion dam on Boulder River (Montana) and to restore fish passage to over 70-miles of mainstem Boulder River, its tributaries and upstream spawning grounds for wild trout and native whitefish. https://montanatu.org/
Lower Clark Fork Watershed Group: $5,000 to support expanded revegetation along the main stem Bull and East Fork of the Bull River (Montana) and redeveloping the historic closed canopy cedar forest to improve habitat for native fish, particularly bull trout, a listed species under the Endangered Species Act. https://lowerclarkforkwatershedgroup.org/
Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to support a fish passage project that will open up 1.2 miles of upstream coldwater habitat for Eastern brook trout by replacing a culvert on an unnamed tributary to Lyman Brook (New Hampshire) in the Salmon Falls River watershed. https://www.tu.org/
Conservation Resource Alliance: $5,000 to replace three road/stream crossings on the Jordon River (Michigan) with channel-spanning timber bridges to open 12 miles upstream to 20 miles downstream and provide full passage to benefit brook trout, brown trout, steelhead, and salmon. https://www.rivercare.org/
Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to replace an undersized culvert on Spargo Creek (Michigan) with an arch culvert and to reconnect over 1.5 miles of upstream, cold-water habitat to support native brook trout and wild brown trout in a type 1 trout stream. https://www.tu.org/
Iowa Coldwater Conservancy: $5,000 to reshape and install a floodplain bench along 2,200 ft of streambank on Casey Springs (Iowa) in addition to the placement of 8 rock weir structures and 10 rootballs to maintain channel stability, reduce erosion, and provide overhead cover for native South Pine-strain Brook Trout and wild brown trout. https://iowacoldwater.org/
Colorado Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to install a fish barrier to protect and isolate the native Colorado River Cutthroat Trout population in a 13-mile segment of Clear Fork of Muddy Creek (Colorado) and to allow this native trout species to re-establish in the main stem. https://coloradotu.org/
Big Hole Watershed Committee: $5,000 to restore Smith Springs (Montana) in order to provide critical improvements to a large wet meadow fen encompassing approximately 5 acres, enhance instream habitat conditions by stabilizing the excessively, eroding streambanks along Smith Springs, and increase instream habitat complexity to support native brook trout. https://bhwc.org/
East Yellowstone Trout Unlimited: $5,000 to install a large, self-cleaning fish screen on the opening of an irrigation canal on the South Fork of the Shoshone River (Wyoming) to prevent Yellowstone Cutthroat trout, Brown trout and Mountain Whitefish, from becoming entrained and perishing in the ephemeral irrigation and canal system. https://www.eastyellowstonetu.org/
