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Geographic Focus: The Acorn Foundation currently prioritizes funding to organizations based in the western and southern United States.

Project Focus: The Foundation is particularly interested in small and innovative community-based projects that engage in community organizing in order to:
* Preserve and restore habitats supporting biological diversity and wildlife;
* Advocate for environmental justice, particularly in low-income and indigenous communities;
* Prevent or remedy toxic pollution.

General operating and project support are provided.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Grants are awarded to organizations working to resolve:
* conservation conflict,
* identity-based conflict
* police-community conflict.

AFF will fund community reconciliation projects within the United States that put the transition model to the test in addressing one of AFF's three priority issues (listed above).

AFF does not make grants to/for endowments, capital improvements, fundraising events/sponsorships, international projects, scholarships, loans, or individuals.

Geographic Focus: Western United States

Funding Interests:
* Restoration-returning an area of land to a previous or unimpaired condition.
* Reclamation-converting degraded lands to productive or desired use.
* Revegetation-causing vegetation to grow again.

Types of Support: In 2007, CIPM will award research grants in two areas: Seed Money and Improving Invasive Plant Management Decision Making.

Geographic Focus: Four Corners Region

Projects Supported: general support; project support; seed money; equipment; project planning; conferences, seminars, and workshops; capacity building; endowment; and, technical assistance.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: These grants are for tree-related projects and community forestry promotional activities only. An educational component should be included in each project. Projects which enhance good community tree planting, care or maintenance, are eligible. In general, projects must be on public property, but projects on private property that provide public benefit and access are acceptable. In 2008, grant dollars will be divided into 4 tiers (Management/Maintenance; Media; Tree Planting; and Xcel Utility)

Geographic Focus: Boulder County

Projects Supported: specific projects, unrestricted expenses, capital campaigns, start-ups endowments and technical assistance.

Primary funding areas include: the Arts, Civic Engagement, Education, the Environment, and Health and Human Services.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, international programs are also supported

Program Focus: The Compton Foundation was founded to address community, national, and international concerns in the following areas of interest: Peace and Security Issues, Population and Reproductive Health, Environment and Sustainability

The goals of the Environment and Sustainability program are:
* advancing ecologically healthy, economically sustainable, and socially just visions for the management and use of fresh water in the western U.S.;
* reduce the U.S. contribution to the global climate crisis; and,
* promote community-based strategies to support healthy ecosystems and thriving rural communities.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus:
* Seek to protect a specific wild land or waterway for its habitat and recreational values.
* Engage grassroots citizen action in support of the conservation effort. We do not fund general education or scientific research projects.
* Quantifiable with specific goals, objectives, and action plans, and should include a clear measure for evaluating success.
* Have a good chance of closure or significant measurable results over a fairly short term (one to three years).

Geographic Scope: Nationwide

Conservation and Science Program, sub-program Western Conservation

Project Focus: Western Land Protection, Western Watershed Restoration, Strengthening Resilience through Adaptive Climate Change Management and Broadening Environmental Constituencies.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Program Goal: To accelerate the conservation of essential habitats identified in state wildlife action plans.

Strategies:
* Identify Critical Lands – This strategy supports state efforts to develop and implement wildlife action plans that identify priority lands for habitat conservation.
* Implement Land Protection – This strategy supports the protection of priority areas identified in state wildlife action plans, the development of new sources of conservation funding, and the integration of state wildlife action plans into local, regional and national planning efforts.
* Build Conservation Knowledge – This strategy supports training, research and education initiatives that advance the Environment Program’s mission.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Program Focus: Our challenge grant can be used to raise new money from your board, from membership, from foundations. Funds raised can go for your selected purposes - they are “unrestricted funds.” Our grant is used for marketing and fundraising purposes only.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, with an emphasis on the Western US

Program Focus: The Foundation supports a variety of approaches to preserving the environment, including legal action, scientific inquiry, legislative advocacy and direct action.

The Foundation is particularly interested in projects involving regional cooperation and those that combine conservation with environmentally sustainable development, giving local people a stake in conservation. In the western United States, the Foundation awards grants on a range of issues from protection of old growth forests and rivers to the preservation and rebuilding of eastern Pacific fish stocks.

Geographic Focus: U.S. & Canada

Projects Supported: habitat improvement, streambank stabilization, aeration systems, fishery reefs, silt removal, planting vegetation, improving fish passage, hatchery construction/renovation, stocking & rearing projects, litter cleanup, heavy equipment rental for projects

Geographic Scope: Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico; primarily company communities (Henderson & Climax Mines in Colorado)

Funding Categories: education, environmental quality & education, community & civic development

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: Parks, Conservation and Recreation and Community Development and Revitalization

Geographic Focus: Emphasis on Boulder County, the Four Corners area, and Summit County

Project Focus:
* archaeological preservation and education;
* environmental education;
* arts and culture, including museums and libraries;
* Native American issues.

Grant money can go to: General support, project support, technical assistance; matching grants; and, capital expenditures (only as matching grants).

Geographic Focus: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

Project Focus: In 2008, focused funding areas include:
* temperate federal forest protection;
* energy development on public lands;
* near-shore marine and estuary conservation; and,
* river conservation and salmon habitat.

Geographic Focus: The intermountain west, with an emphasis on Montana. Organizations in developing countries are also supported.

Project Focus: The Foundation supports field projects that satisfy the following criteria:
* designed and supported by the local people most directly affected;
* modest in scale at its inception;
* has clearly stated objectives and include measurable and verifiable indices of success; and,
* designed and justified on sound criteria and firm scientific grounds.

Types of support include: project support, general support, advocacy, research, and project planning.

Geographic Focus: The Maki Foundation's primary concern is environmental protection in the western United States with an emphasis on Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Project Focus: Currently, the Foundation's priorities are as follows:
* wilderness and wild lands protection;
* river and wetlands conservation;
* biological diversity conservation; and,
* public lands management.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Foundation focuses on the Environment, including: Protection of Ecosystems and Biological Diversity; Alternative Energy and Conversion from the Oil Economy; Alternative Agriculture and Local Green Economic Development; Breaking the Link Between Resource Extraction, Civil and International Conflict, and Markets; and the Development of Environmental Movements.

The Foundation does not consider grants for capital programs or traditional charitable programs. The Foundation cannot provide ongoing support for the basic programs of any single organization.

Geographic Focus: Programs in countries in North America, South America, and Central America are supported.

Project Focus: Grants are provided in the following four categories --
* environmental education;
* conservation and biodiversity;
* environmental justice; and,
* sustainable development.

The foundation supports specific projects and their related costs.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Partners Program provides technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Tribes who are willing to work with the Fish and Wildlife Service and other partners on a voluntary basis to help meet the habitat needs of Federal Trust Species.

Geographic Focus: Priority will be given to projects in regions where ConocoPhillips has an operating presence, including Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming

Project Focus: The ConocoPhillips SPIRIT of Conservation Migratory Bird Program provides funding for projects that benefit migratory birds and their habitats.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Foundation seeks to make a significant impact on bird conservation by focusing on five key issues:

* Demonstrating that implementation of actions within existing conservation strategies will have a positive impact on bird populations;
* Evaluating which species conservation plans are succeeding, and why;
* Stimulating development of effective plans for those species for which no strategy is available, and revising those that need improvement;
* Building international capacity for conservation along migratory paths; and
* Accelerating the recovery of imperiled species, particularly those designated as candidate, threatened or endangered at the federal level.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Through its Freshwater Fish Conservation Initiative, the Foundation and its partners seek to increase populations of flagship freshwater, anadromous and diadramous fish species and other aquatic species through the protection, restoration and enhancement of spawning and rearing habitat in the upper reaches of targeted watersheds, removal of barriers to fish passage and maintenance of critical in-stream flows.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus:
1. Conserve targeted landscape-scale habitats by protecting key private lands adjacent to public or other conserved lands and enhancing stewardship on both private and public lands to achieve targeted habitat objectives in priority landscapes
2. Increase populations of select federally-listed or candidate species to levels needed for recovery to facilitate change in species listing status

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: This program provides competitive seed grants to creative and innovative proposals that seek to increase the number and effectiveness of organizations interested in assisting the Refuge System nationwide.

Grants are provided to support proposals that fall within the following areas of emphasis: start-up grants, capacity building grants, and project specific grants

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Supports on-the-ground conservation projects that protect, enhance, and/or restore native plant communities on public and private lands. Projects typically fall into one of three categories and may contain elements of each: protection and restoration, information and education, and inventory and assessment.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Pulling Together Initiative (PTI) provides support for the formation of local Weed Management Area (WMA) partnerships. These partnerships engage federal resource agencies, state and local governments, private landowners, and other interested parties in developing long-term weed management projects within the scope of an integrated pest management strategy.

PTI grants provide an opportunity to initiate working partnerships, demonstrate successful collaborative efforts, and develop permanent funding sources for the maintenance of Weed Management Area partnerships.

Geographic Scope: National

Projects Supported: include technical assistance, training, consultants, community outreach, obtaining 501(c)(3) status, group facilitation, basic start-up and operating costs, materials and equipment, program development, nonprofit management skill building, and communications.

Priority will be given to organizations in underserved and culturally diverse communities that have had limited access to financial and organizational resources.

Geographic Scope: National

Projects Supported: projects that address community-based forest stewardship, watershed health and restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, and recreation issues in proactive ways by completing innovative on-the-ground conservation work in partnership with other community groups and individuals. The NFF Matching Awards Program focuses on “action-oriented” projects that serve to demonstrate and evaluate measurable outcomes. In addition, each partner must meet the non-federal cash match on at least a 1:1 basis.

Geographic Scope: Nationwide

Projects Supported: conservation projects that benefit Wilderness Areas in the National Forest

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: This grant is offered for community-based environmental education initiatives set in National Wildlife Refuges that are to be used as outdoor classrooms. Its purpose is to promote a greater understanding of local conservation issues, support site-specific environmental education, use on-site programs to focus on refuge issues, emphasize species of importance, and other goals that promote education and stewardship along the lines of the Nature of Learning framework

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Foundation seeks to fund programs in the following areas:
* Civil rights/justice;
* Environment (other than hazardous waste);
* Population control;
* Peace/arms control; and
* Leadership development (as it relates to the first four areas).

Typically, no grants are given for capital campaigns, publications, films, endowment campaigns, building campaigns or conferences.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, primarily where the company does business

Program Focus:
* Alternative Energy
* Biodiversity
* Forests
* Resource Extraction
* Social Activism
* Sustainable Agriculture
* Toxics/Nuclear
* Water/Marine

Geographic Focus: Nationwide and international

Program Focus:
* Leadership Grants: Ranging from $25,000 to $500,000, these grants focus on watershed protection and/or access to safe drinking water and are available to local, regional, national or trans-border organizations for projects in any of the countries in which RBC is located, including Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and the UK.
* Community Action Grants: These grants are focused on watershed protection and are available to local or community organizations in Canada, United States or the Caribbean.

Geographic Focus: California, national, international

Project Focus: Reducing the impact of industry on environment, including protecting natural resources from extraction processes; reducing pollution, toxics, and waste from production processes; encouraging laws, policies, and corporate behaviors that support sustainable, sensible, and sound industry practice; and stimulating large-scale market shifts toward recycled materials, alternative inputs, and conservation.

Geographic Focus: Summit County and the towns of Alma, Buena Vista, Fairplay, Kremmling, and Leadville

Project Focus: The Foundation supports nonprofit organizations providing programs and services in the following areas:
* arts and culture;
* health and human services;
* education;
* environment; and,
* sports.

The Foundation funds specific projects, which have measurable results

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: The Surdna Foundation focuses funding towards organizations working to:
* Build support for programs to stabilize climate change at the local, state and national level.
* Improve transportation systems and patterns of land use across metropolitan areas, working landscapes, and intact ecosystems.
* Safeguard the biological diversity and productivity of U.S. domestic oceans.

Generally, Surdna does not support: programs addressing toxics, hazardous waste, environmental education, sustainable agriculture, or food production and distribution; individuals; academic research.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, with special regard to New York State

Project Focus: The Foundation provides grants to be used as start-up funds or seed money to support research on fish, wildlife, and other natural resources, as well as to fund conservation and related education projects.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: mapping, ecological assessments, surveying, conferences, and design activities; developing brochures, interpretative displays, audio-visual productions or public opinion surveys; hiring consultants, incorporating land trusts, building a foot bridge, planning a bike path, or other creative projects. In general, grants can be used for all appropriate expenses needed to complete, expand or improve a greenway project including planning, technical assistance, legal and other costs. Grants MAY NOT be used for academic research, general institutional support, lobbying, or political activities.

Geographic Scope: Colorado

Programs of Interest: education, public recreation, conservation

Geographic Scope: Colorado, Primarily Pikes Peak Area

Programs Supported: general support, building funds, equipment, challenge grants, collaborations & coalitions, technical assistance, capacity building, property acquisition

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, with an emphasis on New York city

Project Focus: Support is provided in the following areas:
* Responsible Mining: The Foundation supports capacity building to promote responsible mining.
* Coral Reef Conservation: The Foundation supports research as well as community-led work promoting the conservation of coral reefs.
* Land Protection: The Foundation supports the implementation of comprehensive land conservation strategies. Support focuses on communities in which Tiffany & Co. operates.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide & International

Project Focus:
* capital ("brick-and-mortar") improvements that serve to protect, restore, or conserve sites of exceptional cultural, historic, or natural significance, or
* the education of local host communities and the traveling public about conservation and preservation of sites of exceptional cultural, historical, or natural significance.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, with an emphasis on Maryland and the Eastern Shore

Project Focus: The Town Creek Foundation's National portfolio has had two primary foci in recent years:
* Programs and organizations that strengthen the environmental movement generally, and
* Programs and organizations that are working to reduce the pressure on forests from the paper products industry.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Program Focus: The goal of EAS is to conserve coldwater fisheries through innovative grassroots conservation projects. Successful projects are based on sound science, benefit the resource, strengthen the local TU chapter and council, and help build the constituency for protecting trout and salmon.

Geographic Focus: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin

Environment Program Focus: The focus is on creating cleaner, healthier rivers and oceans; ensuring access to an abundant supply of clean water and healthy seafood; and supporting the millions of people in America and around the world whose lives and livelihoods depend on fishing.

Applicable category: Ensuring Efficient and Rapid Restoration of Mississippi and Colorado Rivers, River Basins and Delta Wetlands

Geographic Scope: Nationwide, primarily where there are company operations

Funding Areas of Interest: preserve or enhance natural resources, promote environmental education, and community development

Geographic Scope: Colorado, primarily Delta, Eagle, Garfield, Gunnison, Mesa, Montrose, Rio Blanco, and Ouray counties

Projects Supported: education, environment, and general community

Geographic Focus: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming

Program Focus:
* Leadership Grants: The bulk of our grantmaking funds are allocated by a small Advisory Committee made up of experts and activists deeply engaged with grassroots river protection groups in the West. Every three years, the Foundation will convene a group of Advisors to nominate and determine potential grantees for that cycle.
* Discretionary Grants: a. Provide a real opportunity to change western water policy on a local, state or national level; or b. Defend environmental laws critical for the protection of all western rivers; or c. Focus on a specific strategy for protection of a biologically important western watershed.
* Policy Grants: small grants to encourage policy research and analysis of issues that affect western water. Research topics might include alternatives for managing water demand, mechanisms for transferring water to environmental and recreational use, commentary on federal and state actions that affect water policy. Grants may be used for arranging meetings. Preference will be given to projects that will be disseminated in a manner that reach advocates for the West's rivers.

Geographic Focus: Colorado, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico

Areas of Interest: environmental conservation, population issues, education

Projects Supported: project & general support, equipment, land/property acquisition, project planning, training events, endowment, challenge/matching grants

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus:
* empower individuals and communities to organize for social change;
* seek to strengthen civil liberties and civil rights issues (e.g. equal opportunity, equal justice and racism, equal protection and due process, disabilities, and reproductive rights);
* build community development that seeks to break the cycle of poverty, create economic opportunity, and build effective leadership in distressed communities (e.g. access to quality employment, leadership development, and community participation); and,
* demonstrate linkages and interdependence of ecosystems and economics with win-win solutions and collaborative approaches.

Requests will be considered for either general support or specific project support.

Geographic Focus: Eastern High Plains of Colorado, private/public lands east of the I-25 Corridor in Colorado’s high plains.

Project Focus: 3-year program that targets six currently uncommon invasive weeds. The purpose is to help build local partnerships to address and eradicate these six weeds before they gain a significant foothold on our high plains.

The target species are:
* Diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa )
* Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens )
* Spotted knapweed (Centaurea maculosa)
* Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula)
* Dalmatian toadflax (Linaria dalmatica)
* Saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) Only in the Republican Watershed

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: The program is designed to accept applications from landowners, land trusts or other conservation organizations that own property which include needed habitat for:
* Gunnison sage grouse
* Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse
* Shortgrass Prairie species
* Lesser prairie chicken
* Greater sage grouse

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: CWCG projects should focus on species and habitat conservation, particularly for those determined to be “in greatest conservation need” in the Colorado Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan. The plan can be found on the Colorado Wildlife Action Plan page.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Projects Supported: small woody plantings, grass plantings, wetland enhancements, and stream improvements.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Program Priorities:
* Critical winter range for big game species
* Critical migration corridors for big game
* Important access for hunting and fishing opportunities
* Important habitat for sage-dependent Species of Concern
* Important habitat for grassland-dependent Species of Concern
* Threatened and Endangered Species or other Species of Concern
* Wetlands and riparian corridors
* Also see attached map for high priority habitat acquisition areas

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus:
* Funding for all phases of wetland and riparian creation, restoration and enhancement
* Funding for conservation easements and fee-title purchase through Division of Wildlife’s Wildlife Habitat Protection Program
* Wildlife and aquatic resource inventories
* Education and outreach
* Project monitoring and evaluation

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: Locally led conservation allows for the citizens of Colorado to decide for themselves what is important and effective in protecting their natural resources - whether for water supply or quality, soil fertility and stability, weed control, forest health, sustainable grasslands, wildlife habitat, wise land development, or some other natural resource concern. This grant is a vehicle to help implement solutions to problems local citizens have prioritized as important to them.

Geographic Focus: Western Colorado

Project Focus: Financial assistance to landowners in order to improve the efficiency of irrigation systems on their land in western Colorado.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: The grants must be used either for acquisitions of land or water to be used for recreational purposes or for construction or redevelopment of outdoor recreational facilities. Planning grants to local governments cannot be funded through Land and Water Conservation Fund funds.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Project Focus: species and habitat conservation, particularly for those determined to be “in greatest conservation need” in the Colorado Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan. The plan can be found off of the Colorado Wildlife Action Plan page.

Recent Projects:
* On-the-ground habitat restoration and improvements.
* Aquatic and terrestrial habitat assessments and usage studies.
* Species population field studies.
* Planning and design of habitat improvements.
* Riparian corridor protection.
* Development of improved population survey techniques.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, Colorado is eligible for Tier-II grants which focus on program implementation

Funding Interests: The funding interests are directed toward the restoration of habitats on private land that are required for the survival of species at risk. Examples include restoring native vegetation, prescribed burns, grazing management, brush and weed (invasive exotic plant species) management, removing fish passage barriers, stream restoration, and purchasing conservation easements.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, communities with brownfields

Project Goals: Bring together community groups, job training organizations, educators, labor groups, investors, lenders, developers, and other affected parties to address the issue of providing environmental employment and training for residents in communities impacted by brownfields. EPA’s Brownfields Program is an organized commitment to help communities revitalize brownfields properties both environmentally and economically, mitigate potential health risks, and restore economic vitality to areas where brownfields exist.

Project Focus: CARE is designed to complement national regulatory approaches and meet community needs by building the capacity of communities to understand and take effective actions at the local level to address existing environmental concerns. The CARE program will provide funding, information, training, technical support, and help to build collaborative local partnerships, improved access to voluntary programs and address community environmental concerns.

EPA will award two types of cooperative agreements (Level I and Level II) under this solicitation as part of the CARE grant program.

ƒ *Level I cooperative agreements will support the following types of activities: working with the funded entity to form community-based collaborative partnerships; developing a comprehensive understanding of the many sources of risk from toxics and environmental pollutants; and setting community risk reduction priorities.

ƒ *Level II cooperative agreements will fund activities to identify and demonstrate actual risk reduction projects “on the ground” in their community. Level II agreements are for communities that have already completed the actions typically taken in a Level I agreement. However, receipt of a Level I cooperative agreement is not a prerequisite to receiving a Level II cooperative agreement.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Projects Supported: Construction of municipal wastewater facilities and implementation of nonpoint source pollution control and estuary protection projects.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, for community based projects

Projects Supported: trainings; wetlands projects involving restoration, science, education

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Offers grants for project implementation and capacity building.

Geographic Focus: Declared disaster area

Project Focus: The Hazard Mitigation Grant Program provides grants to implement long-term hazard mitigation measures after a major disaster declaration. The purpose of the HMGP is to reduce the loss of life and property due to natural disasters and to enable mitigation measures to be implemented during the immediate recovery from a disaster.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in the United States that further the goals of the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. These projects must involve long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Project Focus: Projects must involve long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats for the benefit of all wetlands-associated migratory birds.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Projects Supported: establishing trails, providing habitat, and purchasing land, conservation easements, and development rights

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Projects Supported: Surveys to identify conservation projects of high priority areas, develop comprehensive recreation plans, & research, mapping, and education project to inform landowners about conservation tools and options.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Projects Supported: Trail and infrastructure development.

Geographic Focus: Upper Arkansas - John Martin Reservoir Watershed

Project Focus: Projects that promote conservation and improvement of soil, water, air, energy, plant and animal life, and other conservation purposes on Tribal and private working lands.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, Colorado

Project Focus: EQIP provides assistance to farmers and ranchers who face threats to soil, water, air, and related natural resources on their land. Through EQIP, the NRCS provides assistance to agricultural producers in a manner that will promote agricultural production and environmental quality as compatible goals, optimize environmental benefits, and help farmers and ranchers meet Federal, State, Tribal, and local environmental requirements.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, Colorado is NOT part of the state grant program

National Funding Categories:
* Natural Resource Concerns category--Up to $10 million available for proposals addressing one or more of the CIG natural resource concerns. This component was also offered in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.
* Technology category--Up to $5 million available for proposals addressing one or more of the CIG technology categories. This component was offered in 2006.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Projects Supported: wetland restoration, enhancement, and protection on private land
Program Options for Landowners: Short-term 10-year restoration cost-share agreements, Mid-term 30-year conservation easements, and Permanent easements.

Geographich Focus: Nationwide

2008 Program Priorities: Agricultural Management, Conservation Technical Assistance, Environmental Quality Incentives, Wildlife Habitat Incentives

Species Benefited: grasshopper sparrow, bobwhite quail, swift fox, short-eared owl, Karnerblue butterfly, gopher tortoise, Louisiana black bear, Eastern collared lizard, Bachman’s sparrow, ovenbird, and acorn woodpecker, greater sage grouse, and salmon.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Projects Supported: recycling programs in schools and communities; construction of nature preserves; major tree planting programs; videos, skits, and newsletters created by students that focused on environmental issues; and environmental science projects.

Geographic Focus: Nationwide, granted through Regional Offices

Program Focus: Sites listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) or proposed for listing under the National Contingency Plan (NCP), where a response action has begun under CERCLA

Geographic Focus: Nationwide

Projects Supported: Native aquatic species habitat restoration & protection, mainly in headwaters areas or large watershed scale when anadromous fish are involved.

Geographic Focus: Colorado

Program Focus: Emphasis on watershed-based planning and restoration of impaired waters through developing and implementing TMDLs and watershed-based solutions to prevent and remedy water quality problems.