Game and Fish receives $74,000 grant to protect Little Colorado River habitat

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The Arizona Game and Fish Department has received a $74,145 Water Quality Improvement Grant from a sister agency to improve streamside wildlife and fish habitat along the Little Colorado River (LCR) in Apache County. The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) awarded the grant to repair more than 1,000 feet of eroding stream banks to help protect important riparian habitat and two species listed on the Endangered Species Act – the Southwestern willow flycatcher, a small passerine bird, and the Little Colorado spinedace, a threatened native fish.</p>

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