Ecosystem Restoration is a significant down payment in protecting our shared natural heritage. In collaboration with states, Tribes, local communities and federal agencies, we are using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to advance habitat restoration, conduct invasive species control and conserve at-risk species. These activities benefit several significant ecosystems and recreational sites.
What We Do
Our Projects and Initiatives
Ecosystem Restoration Focus Areas
Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is a once-in-a-generation investment in the nation’s infrastructure and economic competitiveness. We were directly appropriated $455 million over five years in BIL funds for programs related to the President’s America the Beautiful initiative.
Learn more about Bipartisan Infrastructure Law , the Ecosystem Restoration program funds strategic and evidence-based ecosystem restoration and conservation planning and actions that are outlined in our Restoration and Resilience Framework.
Across the country, our ecosystem restoration projects and conservation actions are focused to achieve impact toward the restoration and resilience goals which address climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.
Learn more about climate change impacts including drought, wildfire and coastal flooding; restore healthy lands and waters including rivers, wetlands, grasslands, islands and cultural resources and enhance communities’ quality of life by improving outdoor spaces and addressing legacy pollution. Nested within these goals are an initial set of keystone initiatives, each focused on turning the tide on a conservation challenge.
Since 2022, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received almost $34.19 million for 46 projects in five Ecosystem Restoration activity areas that will lead to better outdoor spaces and habitats for people and wildlife for generations to come. These projects will advance healthy forests, detect and eradicate invasive species invasive species
An invasive species is any plant or animal that has spread or been introduced into a new area where they are, or could, cause harm to the environment, economy, or human, animal, or plant health. Their unwelcome presence can destroy ecosystems and cost millions of dollars.
Learn more about invasive species ; invest in National Seed Strategy collection and production; restore recreation sites and national parks; and mitigate hazards on mined lands.
Ecosystem Restoration Projects With Funding From Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Activity | Project Name | Location | Funding | Fiscal Year |
Activity 4: Grants to States and Tribes for Voluntary Restoration | Gravel to Gravel: Grants to Tribes | Alaska | $5,000,000 | 2023 |
| Endemic Species Extinction Prevention – Captive Propagation Facility Construction / Novel Mosquito Management | Hawaii | $6,500,000 | 2022 |
| Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge Restoration | North Carolina | $1,000,000 | 2023 |
Activity 6: Invasive Species | Hawaii | $1,000,000 | 2022 | |
| Preventing Hawaiian Forest Bird Extinction | Hawaii | $300,000 | 2023 |
| Nihoa Island Restoration | Hawaii | $1,000,000 | 2023 |
| Stark Langmaid and Stark Bliss Phrag Control | Maryland | $6,000 | 2023 |
| Culebra National Wildlife Refuge Restoration | Puerto Rico | $1,000,000 | 2023 |
| Preventing the Introduction and Spread of Invasive Species Through Strategic Landscape-Level Approaches | National | $1,852,550 | 2022 |
| Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge Restoration |
| $1,000,000 | 2023 |
| Developing eDNA Genetic Markers | National | $300,000 | 2023 |
| Pilot Rapid Response Fund (Aquatic Species) | National | $1,000,000 | 2023 |
Activity 7: Resilient Recreation Sites on Federal Lands | Restore Tidal Marsh in Assateague | Virginia | $100,000 | 2023 |
| Improve Wayfinding Signs on National Wildlife Refuges | National | $600,000 | 2022 |
| Improve Virtual Recreational Trip Planning on National Wildlife Refuges | National | $100,000 | 2022 |
| Measure and Analyze Visitation Trends on National Wildlife Refuges | National | $300,000 | 2022 |
| Visitation Trends on National Wildlife Refuges | National | $500,000 | 2023 |
| Wayfinding Signs on National Wildlife Refuges | National | $375,000 | 2023 |
Activity 8: Revegetation and Hazard Mitigation on Mined Lands | Gravel to Gravel Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Resiliency Project: Cripple Creek Ecosystem Restoration | Alaska | $1,500,000 | 2023 |
| Gravel to Gravel Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Resiliency Project: Yukon River Watershed Ecosystem Action Plan | Alaska | $350,000 | 2023 |
| Mitigate Hazards in Kofa National Wildlife Refuge | Arizona | $1,180,000 | 2023 |
| Mitigate Hazards in Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge | Colorado | $435,000 | 2023 |
| Mitigate Hazards in Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge | Oklahoma | $115,000 | 2023 |
| Mitigate Hazards in Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge | Washington | $115,000 | 2023 |
| Mitigate Physical and Environmental Hazards on Mined Fish and Wildlife Service Lands | AZ, CA, NM, NV, OK | $1,000,000 | 2022 |
| Native Seed Collection and Production in Key Geographies | Multi-state | $1,840,000 | 2022 |
Activity 9: National Revegetation Effort including National Seed Strategy | Gravel to Gravel Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim Resiliency Project: Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration | Alaska | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Landscape Action with Native Seed | Alaska | $55,566 | 2023 |
| Restoring Native Prairie in Eastern Colorado | Colorado | $100,000 | 2023 |
| Hawaii Seed Collection, Research, & Restoration | Hawaii | $78,000 | 2023 |
| Native Prairie Restoration in Kansas | Kansas | $125,000 | 2023 |
| Stark Langmaid/Stark Bliss Earth Work and Planting | Maryland | $797,200 | 2023 |
| Grassland Restoration in Montana's Great Plains | Montana | $125,000 | 2023 |
| Native Prairie Restoration in Nebraska | Nebraska | $25,000 | 2023 |
| Rogue and Umpqua Native Plant Partnerships | Oregon | $259,767 | 2023 |
| Prairie Restoration on Easements in South Dakota | South Dakota | $100,000 | 2023 |
| Washington Statewide Native Seed Needs | Washington | $112,000 | 2023 |
| Wisconsin Seed Strategy Implementation | Wisconsin | $88,000 | 2023 |
| Native Seed Collection and Production in Key Geographies | Multi-state | $2,000,000 | 2022 |
| Tribal Native Plant Development Capacity-Building | Multi-state | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Midwest Seeds of Success Expansion | Multi-state | $200,000 | 2023 |
| Develop & Coordinate Southeastern Seeds of Success | Multi-state | $250,000 | 2023 |
| Mid-Atlantic Seed Collecting and Banking Network | Multi-state | $250,000 | 2023 |
| Interagency Seed and Restoration Planning Consultant | National | $250,000 | 2023 |
| FWS Native Seed Coordinator for National Capacity - Building | National | $104,000 | 2023 |
| National Botanist and Plant Restoration Ecologist | National | $400,000 | 2023 |
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