Apply Any Time, for Any Amount
You Don’t Have to be Affiliated with a State agency
Anyone, Individual or a Group can submit a grant application, affiliation with a state resource management agency is not necessary. Grants are awarded to those applicants, whose projects best meet the goals of the Settlement Agreement and the Committee’s Mission:
“To fund and support sustainable long-term, cost effective projects
that protect or restore fish and their habitat above the McNary Dam.”
Included in the application are the specific criteria the Committee uses when considering funding. The actual amount requested has no bearing on the decision as there is no minimum or maximum allowed. The grants are reviewed on an on-going basis and do not have to be submitted during a specific cycle.
Below is the link to the Grant Application. Please contact the MFCC Coordinator if you would like to discuss the applicability of your project to this grant program. The MFCC will review the proposal and contact the applicant either to request more information or invite you to a review meeting to present your proposal.
Grants funded:
2011 - 2013
Facilities Inventory and RME Doc. for Lamprey
-Developing a framework for lamprey restoration efforts.PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) Tagging Spring Chinook Parr (A Juvenile Salmon)
-Identifying overwintering areas, movement, and survival, to better inform decisions such as habitat restoration work.Lamprey Test Tank
-Built a tank to test diversion screens.PIT Tagging Spring Chinook Parr- Year 2
-Trying to identify overwintering areas and movement, and suvival, to better inform management decisions such as habitat restoration work.Cle Elum River Restoration- Phase 2
-Habitat restoration using ELJ's, and other structures, reconnect side channels and flood plains.Lamprey Habitat Restoration Guide
-Developing a reference manual to guide habitat restoration work for lamprey.
2014 - 2017
Evaluation of restoration actions to increase overwintering survival of Juvenile Tucannon River Spring Chinook and Summer Steelhead
Yakama River Beaver Project
-Habitat restoration through beaver relocation.Yakama River Adult Lamprey Tracking Tags Only- Year 2
-Purchased tags used in tracking adult lamprey.