As Trinidad Reservoir, Colorado, has never had any lasting fish habitat work done since it was officially opened in 1977, our organization would like to enhance the habitat for sport and bait fish located within its waters. We have several nonprofit bass fishing groups, the local Trout Unlimited chapter, the American Legion veterans, and several youth groups that would like to partner with us in these endeavors. We also work with and have the endorsements of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who own the reservoir and control the water management operations, as well as the Colorado Parks and Wildlife - Trinidad Lake State Park, who manage the recreation and natural resources at the lake.

This grant will enhance the fishing experience and fisheries habitat at Cordell Hull Lake, Tennessee. With 19 designated fish attractor locations already in place and a plan to add more, the grant will offer improved opportunities for anglers. The collaboration between the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake, USACE, and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) should help ensure that the new attractors are well-placed and maintained.

By targeting both vessel-accessible and land-accessible areas, we'd be making the lake more accessible to a wider range of anglers, which is fantastic for inclusivity and community engagement all the while enhancing fisheries habitat and ecology.

Lake Columbia is a water supply reservoir for the surrounding area. This designation imposes strict limitations on the use of organic materials for fish habitat enhancement, making traditional methods like hinge cuts and brush piles unfeasible. The primary objective of this project is to introduce Mossback habitat structures in barren areas of the lake, particularly on a flat in approximately 10 feet of water on the western side. This effort aims to improve habitat diversity and support the population of fish species, including Largemouth Bass, Black Crappie, and various sunfish.

The construction, assembly and placement of fish habitat (PVC trees) in Lake Chicot, Arkansas, with cooperation of Arkansas Game and Fish Commission biologists is the primary and ongoing activity of the Southeast Arkansas Crappie Federation. We have constructed or assembled more than 300 PVC trees over the past two years, and we hope to continue this work for several more years.

Specific project objectives are: 1) Construct or acquire habitat structures (PVC trees, see Attachment A and B images of the construction site and deployment of structures) for placement in Lake Chicot, 2) Build spawning beds, primarily for bream, accessible to youth and senior fishing from the shoreline, 3) Rehabilitate public launch sites on Lake Chicot, 4) Purchase gravel for an all-weather access to our workshop that would allow us to continue the construction of habitat structures during rainy weather.

The project objective is to assist with ongoing efforts to enhance and maintain the aquatic vegetation communities within Graham-Mebane Lake, North Carolina, by adding 10 additional artificial structures to the lake to improve fishing habitats. Primary focus long-term is natural habitat for Largemouth Bass. But new aquatic plants should benefit all the fish and turtles in the lake.

The objective of this project is to provide floating grass planters and the grasses necessary to replenish grasses in to the lake. LFSA will purchase, deliver, oversee and deploy floating grasses planters for the replenishment of native grasses in Lake Fork Reservoir, Texas. We will using Quitman High School Vocational program along with one of our members pond for growing the grasses. We will also be using Yantis High School Vocational program to build the floating grasses planters. LFSA will purchase, deliver and help oversee the building of the planters along with overseeing the grasses being grown.

The objective of this project is to improve the structure within Lake Wilhelm, Pennsylvania, and in doing so, increase fishing opportunities through the development of micro food webs that attract large gamefish for anglers to target. The Friends of Goddard will partner with the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission [PFBC] along with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to install habitat structures within Lake Wilhelm. PFBC will lead the selection of and the location of the structures, but typical structures include short vertical plank structures and porcupine cribs that are placed in groupings in areas previously without cover.

The objective of this project is to create additional aquatic habitat in Pymatuning Lake, Pennsylvania, through artificial habitat structures. We will specifically use this funding to create 100 porcupine cribs as part of our annual habitat project. These habitat structures will also allow us to have more habitat diversity for fish at the proposed 2025 project placement site. They will also improve recruitment, species richness, and the efficiency of aquatic fish populations while providing improved fishing opportunities. This project will add additional structures to the annual project at the lake. Artificial habitat improvement structures will be constructed on land and then will be placed by two specialized boats. These structures will mimic new natural habitat at the lake. The natural habitat at the lake has been degrading over the past decade and new habitat structures help replace this loss. The structures will be constructed out of rough-cut hemlock, nails and concrete block.

Grant will go towards the enhancement of fisheries habitat at Cordell Hull Lake, Tennessee. With 19 designated fish attractor locations already in place and a plan to add more, the grant will offer improved opportunities for anglers. The collaboration between the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake, USACE, and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) should help ensure that the new attractors are well-placed and maintained. By targeting both vessel-accessible and land-accessible areas, we'd be making the lake more accessible to a wider range of anglers, which is fantastic for inclusivity and community engagement all the while enhancing fisheries habitat and ecology. Currently Cordell Hull Lake has 19 fish attractors that are on a rotational schedule of maintenance and inspection with side scan. Each year USACE staff builds attractors with high school volunteers out of materials ranging from brush, rough cut cedar lumber, and pvc. With the grant, the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake and all partners are confident an additional fish attractor location can be added as well as refreshing an existing site that had trees previously placed. The type of fish attractors would be commercially manufactured pvc attractors that Cordell Hull Lake hasn't utilized before. Grant funding would allow the Friends of Cordell Hull Lake to purchase approximately 5 "Predator Prey Trees" that will be placed via boat adjacent to a known land fishing area.

Bod Kidd Lake, Arkansas, is almost 50 years old and much of the standing timber and woody structures that were once in the lake are now gone. The addition of Mossback Fish Habitat will greatly benefit the lake by adding needed fish habitat.

Specific project objectives are: 1. Work with Prairie Grove High School and Prairie Grove Junior High Fishing Club to construct and place Mossback Fish Habitat Structures in Bob Kidd Lake 2. Place 2 fish cities (30 Mossback structures) in the lake for fish habitat 3. Structures should improve angling catch rates and angler satisfaction 4. Prairie Grove High School students and Junior High Fishing Club members will get hands on experience constructing and placing fish habitat in the lake. A follow up fish habitat and fish management presentation will be given before or after the work days to tie the project to education in local high schools. 5. This project is linked to at least 3 other habitat builds with the Northwest Arkansas Fish Habitat Alliance and Arkansas Game and Fish Foundation.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is also working to improve fish habitat in the lake by adding at least 10 habitat sites in 2024-2025 with trees adjacent to the lake. The AGFC also adds approximately 50 Christmas trees to the lake each year to improve fish habitat. (see attached Bob Kidd Lake Fisheries Management Plan). Funds ($2,000)from the Small Grant Program will be used to purchase Mossback Fish Habitat for Bob Kidd Lake. The Habitat Alliance will also be working with 2 other high schools to add Mossback Fish Habitat to Siloam Springs City Lake and Lake Leatherwood. We plan to work with the Bass Federation Youth Fishing Club to add natural porcupine cribs to Beaver Lake. The total amount of the money we have raised to date is $41,010 in cash and $10,000 of in kind labor to construct and place the habitat structures. The total budget will be $53,010 with $2,000 in cash from the RFHP Small Grant Program.

Long an exceptional fresh water fishery and a haven for ducks, wading birds and other wildlife, Lake Livingston, Texas, is nearly 60 years old. It has lost much of its aquatic habitat and the water quality has declined. Once a destination for bass anglers, there has seen a precipitous decline in angling activity. Recreation on Lake Livingston is a major economic engine for numerous surrounding communities and the decline in the fishery has negatively affected local revenues.

Since 2013 and with start-up and continuing assistance from Friends of Reservoirs, Texas Parks & Wildlife the Trinity River Authority, the Hookers Fishing Club (Livingston, TX), and 5 local high school Ag programs, Friends of Lake Livingston is restoring habitat for fish and wildlife populations by adding aquatic and riparian plants to create feeding and breeding grounds and reducing erosion! Working with the local community to achieve these objectives is considered fundamental to the FoLL project. Additionally, the FoLL project has recently partnered with the Livingston, TX Hookers club who will be working with the FoLL project team to begin introducing hybrid bass into Lake Livingston.

The long-term goal of the project is to increase the abundance and diversity of native aquatic plant species and riparian habitat in and around Lake Livingston, TX, thereby improving littoral habitat conditions for the fish community and other aquatic life. Texas Parks & Wildlife has proposed that a successful restoration will need to cover 5% - (4,250 acres) of the lake and/or shoreline habitat. Additionally, through work with our volunteer high schools, we have discovered that a significant number of volunteering students do not know how to fish or if they do, rarely go. As such, we have started a new program called Angler Education, in collaboration with the Livingston “Hookers” fishing club and with "Fishing Futures" - Texas – Angler Education program. At our recent high school plantings, fishing instruction and actual Fishing has now been incorporated into the volunteer effort.