We enable and accelerate the work of local conservation organizations, landowners, and government agencies by providing grants to restore cold water fish habitat.
Over the last decade, Atlantic Salmon Federation’s Maine Headwaters Project has removed seven dams, built fishways at ten dams, and replaced 12 large culverts with bridges in Maine’s Atlantic salmon watersheds. ASF currently has 18 projects in development including removal of the Coopers Mill dam on the Sheepscot River in Maine. In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation partnered with ASF…
In 2016, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded a Trout Unlimited project to connect more than 30 miles of brook trout habitat in the Peshtigo River watershed in Northern Wisconsin. Trout Unlimited recently highlighted the Peshtigo River project on its blog. The project called for removing or replacing road culverts, including as many as 10 in 2017, to reconnect important spawning and rearing habitat…
Missoula, Montana – Trout and Salmon Foundation (“TSF”) announced its 2016 grant recipients approved at TSF’s annual board meeting. “Consistent with Trout and Salmon Foundation’s long history, we are thrilled to support our conservation partners in funding meaningful trout and salmon habitat improvement projects. This year TSF funded 16 projects in salmon waters in Washington’s Pacific Northwest to classic…
In 2015, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded the West Arlington restoration project on the Batten Kill river in partnership with Batten Kill Watershed Alliance. This project was recently highlighted in a press release from Batten Kill Watershed Alliance: The project was designed by Green Mountain National Forest (GMNF) fisheries biologists under the guidance of Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department fisheries…
In 2014, Trout and Salmon Foundation funded the Mill Creek reconnect and habitat restoration project in partnership with Snake River Cutthroat Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Idaho Trout Unlimited. The project was completed during the summer of 2015 and reconnects Mill Creek with Big Creek (tributaries to the Pahsimeroi River in Central Idaho) and restores riparian and instream habitat in…
In 2015, TSF supported a plan by Trout Unlimited to install fish habitat structures and bank stabilization measures on 600 feet of Little Lyman Run. The project is planned in conjunction with a culvert replacement projected that was recently completed. There is an excellent overview of the culvert replacement project on TU’s website. The Little Lyman Run habitat work…
In 2015, Trout and Salmon Foundation helped Atlantic Salmon Federation fund the Blackstone Brook Fish Passage Project that reconnects an extensive portion of the Blackstone Brook drainage with the main stem of the Piscataquis River in central Maine by removing a gory 12×20 concrete box culvert and replacing it with a 42 foot steel bridge. Poor fish passage at dams,…
In 2014, TSF made a grant to Trout Unlimited and Seneca Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited to stabilize stream banks and improve habitat on Little Beaver Creek (MD). The project was completed in the summer of 2015. The before and after pictures are dramatic and are available on our picture gallery. Area partners have worked together since 2003 to repair stream…
In 2014, Trout and Salmon Foundation made a grant to Trout Unlimited to support completion of the Biddulph Diversion project on Rainey Creek. Rainey Creek is a native Yellowstone Cutthroat fishery and one of the four big spawning and rearing tributaries to the South Fork of the Snake River. The Biddulph Diversion project included building a new concrete fish screen box along with a…
The Rexburg Standard Journal (Idaho) published news of TSF’s investment in Henry’s Fork Foundation’s efforts to restore and repair Harriman Canal. In 2015, TSF made a $5,000 grant to Henry’s Fork Foundation for repair of the canal and to install a fish screen at the point of diversion from the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River. HFF Executive Director Brandon Hoffner is…
