Deadline: 10/15/2020
Amount: $100,000 max
Description:
The purpose of this program is to protect, restore, and enhance wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds. Funding will support smaller-scale, long-term, on-the-ground conservation projects that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA). Projects supported through this program that include enhancement and restoration activities must guarantee the results of the project for a period of at least 25 years, unless a shorter period is justified.
Funds may be used for:
  1. Acquisition: including fee-title acquisition and donation, conservation easement, and lease acquisition and donation; appraisal fees; acquisition negotiations; acquisition legal costs; boundary surveys; travel and transportation; and annual payments for ten-year conservation agreements
  2. Wetland restoration: the manipulation of the physical, chemical, and/or biological characteristics of a site with the goal of returning natural/historical functions to a former or degraded wetland
  3. Wetland enhancement: the manipulation of the physical, chemical, and/or biological characteristics of a wetland site to improve specific functions of the wetland
  4. Wetland establishment: the manipulation of the physical, chemical, and/or biological characteristics present to develop a wetland that did not previously exist