The Tohono O’odham Nation won a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Tribal Wildlife Grants Program for “Engineering Design and Monitoring of State Route 86 Wildlife Connectivity Measures.”
Tribes have received more than $64 million through the Tribal Wildlife Grants Program since 2003 for more than 380 conservation projects administered by participating federally recognized tribes. These grants provide technical and financial assistance for wildlife projects.
The grants are provided exclusively to federally recognized tribal governments and are made possible under the 2002 Related Agencies Appropriations Act through the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program. Proposals for the 2015 grant cycle are due Sept. 2, 2014.