The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) will be expanding its Fisheries Restoration Grants Program into the Central Valley in 2016 to support the recovery of the Central Valley’s winter-run and spring-run Chinook salmon and steelhead populations. Program grants were previously only available for projects located within coastal watersheds from San Diego to Del Norte counties. This year’s expansion, endorsed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, will allow the program scope to include projects that include high-priority recommended actions from the federal recovery plan in the Central Valley.