TWRA Announces Availability Of 2025-26 Clean Streams Grants To Help With Habitat Protection Program

  • Tuesday, May 27, 2025

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency announced the availability of grant dollars to assist cities, schools, community organizations, civic groups, watershed organizations, conservation groups and others with stream clean-up projects during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Five grants, at a maximum of $1,000 each, are available for each of TWRA’s four regional Aquatic Habitat Protection regions (a total of $5,000 per region). The funds will be obligated as grants, so the grantee must have a nonprofit tax number. The application deadline for this program is June 30, 2025.

The grant money could be used to buy supplies such as rakes, work gloves, and garbage bags. Additionally, the funds could be used to pay disposal fees for solid waste and tire removal or to provide promotional items like project advertisement or T-shirts and refreshments for volunteer support.

The grant application form can be viewed and completed by scanning the attached QR code.

Contact TWRA’s Jason E. Miller at jason.edward.miller@tn.gov with any questions or contact a regional Aquatic Habitat Protection Biologist at a TWRA regional office listed below.

Region 1

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Allen Pyburn

200 Lowell Thomas Drive

Jackson, TN 38301

(731) 423-6541

Allen.Pyburn@tn.gov

Region 2

Katie Murphy

5107 Edmondson Pike

Nashville, TN 37204

(615)-934-6213

Katie.M.Murphy@tn.gov

Region 3

Bobby Brown

464 Industrial Boulevard

Crossville, TN 38555

(931) 484-9571

Bobby.Brown@tn.gov

Region 4

Rob Lindbom

3030 Wildlife Way

Morristown, TN 37814

(423) 587-7037

Dennis.Lindbom@tn.gov

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