Total Funding: $1,747,000 Facilities Receiving Funding: Carterville National Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office - Darby Creek* Cedar Point National Wildlife Refuge Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Statewide Projects: Ohio Partners for Fish and Wildlife Regionwide Projects: Youth Employment in the Midwest Region (Completed) *This project is taking place in Illinois.

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The Midwest Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service benefitted from $28.5 million it received for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for projects throughout its 8-states. Ohio Recovery Act Projects total approximately $1.77 million of those funds, across six projects, and to employ 30 YCC students and 6 conservation interns.

Projects include:

$700,000 for installation of solar energy improvements to the Visitor Center at Ottawa NWR (R3CB)

$625,000 for dike erosion repairs at Cedar Point NWR (R3BA)

$200,000 for drainage ditch clean out at Cedar Point NWR (R3GF)

$80,000 for invasive species removal in western Ohio’s oak savanna habitat to benefit the endangered Indiana bat, through Ohio Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EQ)

$72,000 for Big Darby Creek Watershed Restoration in the Ohio River Basin, at Carterville NFWCO (R3UB)

$70,000 for Beaver Farm prairie and wetland restoration through the Ohio Partners for Fish and Wildlife (R3ER)

$18,140 to employ 30 YCC students at Ottawa NWR (R3NA)

$7,500 to employ 6 conservation interns at Ottawa NWR (R3NC)

There are 73 Recovery Act projects in the Midwest Region, including six of which are region-wide student/intern employment projects totaling $443,700 including:

$93,242 to employ 150 Youth Conservation Corps employees at rural field stations throughout the Midwest (R3NA)

$198,084 to employ 240 Youth Conservation Corps employees each at 20 urban field stations throughout the Midwest (R3NB)

$30,000 to employ 24 conservation interns at rural field stations (R3NC)

$38,565 to employ 50 conservation interns each at rural field stations (R3ND)

$10,000 to employ 40 Student Temporary Employment (STEP) employees at urban field stations (R3NE)

$73,809 to employ 60 Student Temporary Employment (STEP) employees and other temporary youth hires at rural field stations (R3NF)

The $28.5 million dollars awarded through ARRA to the Midwest was distributed to field offices for projects in each of the 8 states in the region (and one project in Nebraska at Boyer Chute NWR, administered by staff at Desoto NWR, Iowa):

Iowa – five projects and employing 60 YCC and 10 STEP students, totaling $2.58 million

Illinois – four projects and employing 30 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $1.04 million

Indiana – four projects and employing 30 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $172,000

Michigan – 18 projects and employing 30 YCC students and 16 conservation interns, totaling $6.42 million

Minnesota – 10 projects and employing 40 STEP students, 90 YCC students and 12 conservation interns, totaling $3.45 million

Missouri – nine projects and employing 60 YCC students and 10 conservation interns, totaling $5.14 million

Nebraska – one project totaling $250,000 (administered by Desoto NWR, IA)

Ohio – six projects and employing 30 YCC students and 6 conservation interns, totaling $1.77 million

Wisconsin – nine projects and employing 60 YCC students, 50 STEP students, and 10 conservation interns, totaling $7.48 million