; and (2) to carry out at least one of the following: (A) To address factors threatening to limit abundance, productivity, diversity, habitat quality, or other biological attributes important to sustaining viable salmon populations. (B) To restore or maintain ecological functions and processes related to salmon productivity and diversity at watershed or subwatershed scales. (C) To improve the resilience of salmon populations in response to acute events such as fires, landslides, and earthquakes. (D) To improve the resilience of salmon populations to climate change and prepare populations for other future changes. (E) To provide co-benefits to fish and wildlife, in particular where salmon can be used as indicator species for habitat quality. (F) To implement focused, prioritized protection and restoration in watersheds. (G) To improve conservation area resilience both downstream and upstream. (c) Applications To be eligible to receive a grant under this section, an eligible entity shall submit an application to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation at such time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Foundation may require. (d) Eligible entity defined In this section, the term eligible entity means an Indian Tribe, nongovernmental organization, State or local agency, or institution of higher education (as defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 )) that has approval to carry out a project with respect to a salmon conservation area under this section from the relevant Federal agency that has jurisdiction over such salmon conservation area. (e) Use of funds (1) In general An eligible entity that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant funds to carry out activities consistent with the purposes described in subsection (b), which include— (A) subject to subsection (f), land acquisition, conservation easements, and land exchanges; (B) purchasing mining rights; (C) the improvement of fish passages and removal of fish passage barriers and dams