RI CRMC Habitat Restoration Project Fund 2014-2015

RI CRMC Habitat Restoration Project Fund 2014-2015

The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (RI CRMC)) is currently seeking pre-proposals for habitat restoration project funding through its R.I. Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration Program and Trust Fund.

Proposed projects should seek to restore or enhance ecological conditions that have been degraded by human impacts in coastal or estuarine habitats such as coastal wetlands, submerged aquatic vegetation beds, shellfish beds, vegetated coastal upland and anadromous fish runs.

This year, priority will be placed on those projects that seek to enhance coastal habitats’ resiliency to climate change and sea level rise, for example, projects that remove barriers to future wetland migration with sea level rise or that enhance shoreline vegetation where habitat is threatened by increased coastal erosion.

Municipalities, committees, boards or commissions chartered by a municipality, nonprofit organizations, civic groups, educational institutions and state agencies are eligible to apply.

Proposed projects must be located within Rhode Island.

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October 15, 2014