Delaware Watershed National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Grants 2018, FWS Northeast Region

<p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;color:black;
background:white'><span style='color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;'>In 2018, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation launched the Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The fund represents the first step in implementing a strategy developed by partners with guidance from the Service to focus conservation in four key areas: clean water, habitat, recreation, and flow management. This map displays projects that have been awarded funding to date to help conserve and connect lands and waterways that support native fish, wildlife, and plants, and contribute to the vitality of the communities in the watershed.</span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;color:black;
background:white'>This dataset represents the
25 projects awarded funding from the Delaware Watershed Conservation <span style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;
text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'>Fund in 2018</span><span style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;
text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'>. These projects will
collectively restore 12 </span><span style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:
0px'>miles of riparian habitat and 64 miles of stream habitat, </span><span style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;
text-align:start;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;
text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'>conserve and enhance 626 acres
of wetland habitat, restore 549 acres of floodplain, improve 1,406 acres of forest </span>habitat,
and open 1,794 acres for public access.</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:107%'></span></p>