Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund Grants Award Summary: Fiscal Year 2023

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is awarding more than $40.6 million in grants to 10 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands to support land acquisition and conservation planning projects on over 7,200 acres of habitat for 65 listed and at-risk species through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CESCF).

Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Land Acquisition Grants awarded for fiscal year 2023 totaling $24,087,466.

Region

State

Project Title

Award Amount

l

Washington

White Salmon Watershed HCP Phase 2

$6,606,303

3

Iowa

Davis County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan Land Acquisition

$1,723,125

8

California

Multiple Species Conservation Program County of San Diego Subarea Plan- Otay Ranch Village 14 and Planning Areas 16 and 19

$2,500,000

8

California

Western Placer County HCP/NCCP

$4,286,413

8

California

Western Riverside County MSHCP

$8,971,625

Recovery Land Acquisition Grants awarded for fiscal year 2023 totaling $12,601,218.56.

Region

State/ Territory

Project Title·

Award Amount

2

Arizona

Sonoita Creek Headwaters and Springs Protection

$2,331,726.56

4

Georgia

Recovery Land Acquisition for Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Gopher Tortoise and Wood Storks

$1,325,993

4

U.S. Virgin Islands

Permanent Protection for Endangered Species in USVI

$1,376,832

5

Vermont

Addison - Indiana Bat Recovery

$566,667

8

California

Butte County Meadowfoam Recovery 3 Parcel Land Acquisition

$7,000,000

Conservation Planning Assistance Grants awarded for fiscal year 2023 totaling $3,976,209.95.

Region

State

Project Title

Award Amount

1

Oregon

Oregon Private Forest Accord Aquatic Species HCP

$1,000,000.00

2

Texas

Guadalupe River HCP

$1,000,000.00

2

Texas

Texas Hornshell Mussel HCP

$562,500.00

4

Georgia

Lower Flint River Basin HCP

$663,709.95

5

Massachusetts

Responding to a Changing Piping Plover Landscape in Massachusetts

$300,000.00

5

Pennsylvania

Amendment to the Existing State-Lands Bat HCP

$450,000.00

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