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FY 2014 Wetland Program Development Grants Awards
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- CA State Coastal Conservancy
Southern CA Wetlands Recovery Project - CA Water Resources Control Board
Building State Capacity to Demonstrate How to Conduct Wetland Compliance Monitoring, Assessment and Tracking - Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy
Visualizing and Sharing Intensive Data Assessments: A Project to Leverage Current Investments for Responsive Decision-Making in the Delta - Wiyot Tribe
Wetland Program Plan Development - Manzanita Band of Mission Indians
Wetland Program Development - San Carlos Apache
Development of Appropriate & Practical Wetland Compensatory Mitigation Tools
- Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians
Santa Ynez Chumash Tribal Wetland Program Plan Development - Hopi Tribe
Demonstration and Analysis of Restoration on White Ruin Cienaga - San Jose State University
Development of a Bar-Built Estuary Monitoring System and Resource Management Prioritization Tool for CA State Parks - Aquatic Science Center
Develop Capacities in the Lahontan Region to Apply EcoAtlas to Track Projects and Summarize Map-Based, and Rapid Assessment Information at the Landscape Scale
For additional information on these and other Wetland Program Development Grants,
please also see EPA's Wetland Grants Database.
CA State Coastal Conservancy - Southern CA Wetlands Recovery Project
Update the Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project's (WRP's) Regional Strategy to serve as a decision-making guidance document, and develop a WRP-wide In-Lieu Fee (ILF) program, to secure a funding source for wetlands restoration projects and obtain the greatest ecological benefits from mitigation projects.
CA Water Resources Control Board - Building State Capacity to Demonstrate How to Conduct Wetland Compliance Monitoring, Assessment and Tracking
Finalize a feasibility study for a draft Wetland Water Quality Control Plan, which will summarize the results of the policy demonstration projects. Develop a water quality assessment framework. Develop an implementation plan for wetland standards. Develop a Water Board staff policy training package. A business plan will be developed to sustain key elements of the Wetland and Riparian Area Monitoring Plan, especially the EcoAtlas information delivery system. The California Rapid Assessment Method for wetlands will be reviewed to improve its performance in a regulatory context.
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy - Visualizing and Sharing Intensive
Data Assessments: A Project to Leverage Current Investments for Responsive Decision-Making in the Delta
Standardize, visualize, and share Level 3 data. The Delta Conservancy will work through federal and state agency partners as well as the Delta Restoration Network to (a) collect high-priority datasets with strategic value for the region, (b) visualize those datasets geospatially, (c) share those datasets via web services, and (d) implement the best available measures of planning effectiveness, including landscape-scale habitat metrics, provided by an existing project funded by CDFW, that can be used to plan restoration and mitigation projects. These resources will be integrated into EcoAtlas.
Wiyot Tribe - Wetland Program Plan Development
Personnel training in wetland delineation and CRAM, wetland monitoring and assessment including delineation and mapping, development of a Wetland Program Plan (WPP), and education and outreach for youth and larger community.
Manzanita Band of Mission Indians - Wetland Program Development
Develop a Wetland Program Plan. Build capacity to delineate and assess wetlands, inventory and assess wetlands occurring on the Reservation, increase areas classified as wetlands, and develop quality assurance, monitoring, and wetland restoration plans.
San Carlos Apache - Development of Appropriate & Practical Wetland Compensatory Mitigation Tools
Continue developing Wetland Program Plan. Conduct baseline monitoring of wetlands and aquatic resources; develop and establish strategies that provide effective minimum requirements for compensatory mitigation proposals; develop and establish strategies that provide performance standards and success criteria for compensatory mitigation; and develop methods for local and regional education/outreach on the importance of aquatic resources, identifying protected waters, and compensatory mitigation regulations.
Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians - Santa Ynez Chumash Tribal Wetland Program Plan Development
Using a framework comprised of GIS analysis, baseline rapid assessments, field surveys, and surface and groundwater monitoring, the Tribe will inventory the size, extent, classification, and condition of wetland areas on the reservation. Hands-on training opportunities and educational information will also be provided to community members to build the Tribe's capacity to monitor and protect wetlands on the reservation and within the watershed. Completed reports documenting the results of the assessments/surveys, delineation maps, and a database identifying all wetland areas on the reservation will be developed along with a final draft of a Tribal Wetland Program Plan.
Hopi Tribe - Demonstration and Analysis of Restoration on White Ruin Cienaga
Design a restoration project for the White Ruin Cienaga. Train staff on data management, ecology and wetland remediation monitoring. Assess the success of several methods of mitigation on a pilot restoration project. Do baseline monitoring, and monitor changes in the White Ruin Cienaga prior to and after the restoration through installation of shallow groundwater monitoring wells, comparing water quality upstream and downstream of the Cienaga, and monitoring of effects on rare and endangered species.
San Jose State University - Development of a Bar-Built Estuary Monitoring System and Resource Management Prioritization Tool for CA State Parks
Establish a wetland habitat restoration and management prioritization tool for bar built estuaries (BBEs). Create a comprehensive geo-referenced database of BBE resources managed by California State Parks. Combine these data with estuary water elevation, CRAM assessments and watershed stressor data to link watershed stress and local condition. This watershed approach will inform how watershed and/or local actions will increase habitat function within BBEs, and coupled with historical analyses will provide a valuable management prioritization framework to direct management of wetlands by State Parks.
Aquatic Science Center - Develop Capacities in the Lahontan Region to Apply EcoAtlas to Track Projects and Summarize Map-Based, and Rapid Assessment Information at the Landscape Scale
Develop capacity in the Lahontan region to apply EcoAtlas through existing local, regional, state and federal programs to track projects and summarize rapid assessment information at the watershed scale. Host several workshops that will result in the creation of a Help Desk for EcoAtlas, train a user community that will recommend additional data types and functionalities, and establish institutional relationships with agencies in the region to oversee and nurture use of EcoAtlas. Many regional partners are involved and there will be an active transfer of results to and between all of them, improving the sustainability and usefulness of EcoAtlas.