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Total Funding: $7,418,500Facilities Receiving Funding:
Statewide Projects: Regionwide Projects:
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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. Wisconsin Recovery Act Projects total approximately $7.48 million of those funds, across nine projects, and to employ 60 YCC students, 50 STEP students and 10 conservation interns.
Projects include:
$6.1 million for the construction of a new energy efficient administrative and visitor center for the Upper Mississippi River NF&WR (R3AF)
$500,000 for installation of energy efficient solar voltaic array at Necedah NWR (R3CA)
$454,000 for Lake Michigan shoreline restoration for critical migratory bird stopover on Land Trust Preserve, through the Great Lakes Northern Coastal Program (R3FA)
$150,000 for Southwest Wisconsin grassland, prairie and oak savanna habitat improvements, through the Wisconsin Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3EU)
$85,000 for Bad River Fish Passage improvement and sediment reduction NFHAP project with Ashland NFWCO (R3UA)
$65,000 for wetland vegetation and hydrological improvement to Lake Superior, Northern Clay Plain, benefitting the Coaster brook trout and waterfowl, through the Wisconsin Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (R3ET)
$24,000 for a NFHAP project to rehabilitate large woody habitat in the Northern Lakes and Forest ecosystem (R3UE)
$21,000 for the Troutmere Creek Fish Passage restoration project with Ashland NFWCO (R3TB)
$19,500 for the NFHAP Kickapoo DARE habitat improvement project with La Crosse NFWCO (R3UD)
$18,333 to employ 30 YCC students at Necedah NWR (R3NB)
$7,500 to employ 10 conservation interns at Necedah NWR (R3ND)
$10,000 to employ 40 STEP students at St. Croix WMD (R3NE)
$9,485 to employ 10 STEP students at Trempealeau NWR (R3NF)
$17,815 to employ 30 YCC students at the LaCrosse District of the Upper Mississippi River NF&WR
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
