Explore our Columbia Region 2025–2026 projects
Use our interactive map to find out more about the 25 projects our Columbia Region board approved for 2025-2026.
25 Total 2025-26 Projects
7 Fish Projects 2025-26
18 Wildlife Projects 2025-26
$5.3M Total Funded 2025-26
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Our annual grant intake is now open. Apply for a fish or wildlife grant that aligns with a priority 1 action in our ecosystem-based action plans.
Begin your annual grant application with a mandatory notice of intent due Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 4 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. MT. This short project description is your first step and it’s part of how we are strengthening engagement of First Nations in the projects we fund.
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Final grant applications are due by Monday, November 3, 2025 at 4 p.m. PT / 5 p.m. MT. Learn more.
25 Fish & Wildlife Projects Approved 2025-2026
Our Columbia Region board approved approximately $5.3 million for 25 projects in 2025-2026. The projects—seven fish and 18 wildlife—will be delivered by First Nations, communities, and businesses, as well as agencies, stewardship groups, and consultants.
The projects align with our priorities for riparian areas, wetlands, uplands, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. The projects are diverse and support a wide range of fish species including kokanee, bull, rainbow, and westslope cutthroat trout, and wildlife such as bank and barn swallows, Vaux’s swift, bats, bighorn sheep, American badger, deer, elk, northern leopard frog, caribou, and western painted turtle.
The 2025-2026 projects will, among other things, benefit kokanee and rainbow trout by maintaining spawning channels, restore wetland habitat near Cranbrook, Golden, and Creston for a diverse array of wetland species, and enhance winter range for elk and bighorn sheep.
Read our Columbia Region 2025–2026 project list, look at our project map, and scroll up to explore our interactive map.
Annual Reports
Learn how the projects we funded last year in our Columbia Region helped to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams. Our annual reports provide an overview of our work for the year, and our project outcomes share results from the projects funded by our Columbia Region board.
Grant intake now open
Review our Columbia Region guidance document.
Submit a mandatory notice of intent.
In our Columbia Region, we’re encouraging applications that include other funding sources and projects that align with a priority 1 action in our action plans.
Learn about our grants
Join us for these online information sessions.
Introduction to the notice of intent: Thursday, August 7, 10 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. MT. Register now.
Overview of our grant intake: Thursday, October 2, 1 p.m. PT / 2 p.m. MT. Register now.
Project reports and outcomes
Review our project report list for work we’ve funded in past years. Each year, stewardship groups, First Nations, agencies and consultants receive grants from us to deliver fish and wildlife projects. These projects align with our Action Plans and help us fulfil our mission to conserve and enhance fish and wildlife in watersheds impacted by BC Hydro dams.
Read our project reports for results and outcomes.
Year-round grants
We have grants available all year, until the funding is allocated.
Community Engagement Grants of up to $1,500 can help stewardship groups and others.
Land Securement Grants help conserve critical ecosystems and habitats.
Seed Grants up to a maximum of $5,000 can help explore the feasibility of your project.
Contact a region manager to learn more.
Action Plans
We have identified conservation priorities for fish and wildlife in each of our three regions: Coastal, Columbia and Peace. These priorities and recommended actions are reflected in a series of watershed and ecosystem-based action plans that vary by region.
These plans recommend specific projects and priorities, and guide our grant decisions. In our Columbia Region, we fund projects that align with our five Columbia Region ecosystem-based action plans. Be sure to read our Overview of Columbia Region Action Plans.
Our Columbia Region
A local Board made up of BC Hydro, the Province of B.C., First Nations, and public stakeholders, guides the work of the FWCP and is responsible for approving all FWCP projects in the Columbia Region. Map of our Columbia Region.
Many of our annual and ongoing projects are delivered with support from the Province of B.C. through a letter of agreement (LOA) between the FWCP and the Province. Annual and ongoing projects include our nutrient restoration programs, operation of spawning channels, species’ recovery, and ecosystem enhancement projects. Several of our annual and ongoing contracts and agreements are administered by BC Hydro on behalf of the FWCP. We support high priority land securement projects in our Columbia Region. Read our annual report.
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