Congratulations 2023 Ecofootprint Grant recipients Paid Advertisement Ecofootprint is a two-year, $500,000 grant program created in 2023 by Enbridge in partnership with Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc, to support environment restoration and improvement projects along the Line 5 Segment Relocation Project in northern Wisconsin across Ashland, Bayfield, and Iron counties as well as the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa and the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa We are pleased to announce the first-year recipients: Northwestern Sands Barren Restoration This program is an effort of Bayfield County Forestry and Parks Department to create and maintain pine-oak barrens. which is a globally rare landscape left behind by glaciers 10,000 years ago. Historically, barrens were a common landscape in Northwest Wisconsin but were nearly wiped out by fire suppression, agriculture, and reforestation in collaboration with the Wisconsin DNR, Bayfield County will receive a $50,000 Ecofootprint award to maintain high quality barrens in strategic locations to maximize the connectivity of these isolated landscapes Cranberry River Fish Passage Project This project is the vision of the Bayfield County Land and Water Conservation Department in collaboration with the Town of Clover and Wisconsin DNR With support of a $100,000 Ecofootprint award, this project will add 5.5 miles of spawning grounds for native brook trout to the Cranberry River system through the replacement of a falling culvert that is preventing trout from swimming upstream CENBRIDGE Le Than Everg LUMBERJACK WI Lin B Enbridge is partnering with Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc., (RC&D) to administer the Ecofootprint Grant Program Lumberjack RC&D is a nine-county, conservation nonprofit in northeastern Wisconsin which through its own community conservation grant program has distributed more than $1.2 million to over 100 conservation projects in the past 20 years A Ecofootprint grant awards were selected from among applicants by a panel of ecology, conservation and philanthropy experts according to the following program priorities Improving and/or protecting surface water and/or groundwater quality in watersheds crossed by project Advancing research and science related to threatened and endangered species and/or declining populations Fostering environmental post-secondary education and stewardship Improving research related to the transportation of crude oil as it relates to the environment Focusing on environmental areas most relevant to local communities The second application round of the Ecofootprint Grant Program will open on January 15, 2024. Learn more: enbridge.com/ecofootprintgrant lumberjackRCD.org Prepared and paid for by bridge Congratulations 2023 Ecofootprint Grant recipients Paid Advertisement Ecofootprint is a two - year , $ 500,000 grant program created in 2023 by Enbridge in partnership with Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development Council , Inc , to support environment restoration and improvement projects along the Line 5 Segment Relocation Project in northern Wisconsin across Ashland , Bayfield , and Iron counties as well as the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa and the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa We are pleased to announce the first - year recipients : Northwestern Sands Barren Restoration This program is an effort of Bayfield County Forestry and Parks Department to create and maintain pine - oak barrens . which is a globally rare landscape left behind by glaciers 10,000 years ago . Historically , barrens were a common landscape in Northwest Wisconsin but were nearly wiped out by fire suppression , agriculture , and reforestation in collaboration with the Wisconsin DNR , Bayfield County will receive a $ 50,000 Ecofootprint award to maintain high quality barrens in strategic locations to maximize the connectivity of these isolated landscapes Cranberry River Fish Passage Project This project is the vision of the Bayfield County Land and Water Conservation Department in collaboration with the Town of Clover and Wisconsin DNR With support of a $ 100,000 Ecofootprint award , this project will add 5.5 miles of spawning grounds for native brook trout to the Cranberry River system through the replacement of a falling culvert that is preventing trout from swimming upstream CENBRIDGE Le Than Everg LUMBERJACK WI Lin B Enbridge is partnering with Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development Council , Inc. , ( RC & D ) to administer the Ecofootprint Grant Program Lumberjack RC & D is a nine - county , conservation nonprofit in northeastern Wisconsin which through its own community conservation grant program has distributed more than $ 1.2 million to over 100 conservation projects in the past 20 years A Ecofootprint grant awards were selected from among applicants by a panel of ecology , conservation and philanthropy experts according to the following program priorities Improving and / or protecting surface water and / or groundwater quality in watersheds crossed by project Advancing research and science related to threatened and endangered species and / or declining populations Fostering environmental post - secondary education and stewardship Improving research related to the transportation of crude oil as it relates to the environment Focusing on environmental areas most relevant to local communities The second application round of the Ecofootprint Grant Program will open on January 15 , 2024 . Learn more : enbridge.com/ecofootprintgrant lumberjackRCD.org Prepared and paid for by bridge