This project will restore river and floodplain habitat on a 105-acre property located along the Chagrin River. The restoration of this property will provide enhanced stormwater, flood, and erosion management, improved water quality, increased public access to the river, and improved fish and wildlife habitat.

This project will complete modeling, design, and permitting to restore 15 acres of coastal wetland at a retired cranberry bog in the Town of Bourne, Massachusetts. The project will lead to restored wetland structure and function, reestablished tidal exchange, and enhanced ecosystem and community resilience to climate change. Restoration designs will be achieved through a meaningful and iterative collaboration among technical team members, local community liaisons, and the public.

This land purchase will conserve and protect sensitive tidal marsh, pine flatwood, and savanna habitats, which act as a habitat and nursery ground for commercially and recreationally important fishery species, protect uplands from storm surge and coastal flooding, and allow carbon to be sequestered.

This investment will benefit ecosystems and communities by completing an effort to verify and map wetlands, as well as conducting wetland monitoring, partner training, and community outreach workshops on their ecosystem benefits. The effort will also support the update of land use permitting policies and regulations to help ensure the protection of these wetlands and the services they provide, including the mitigation of flooding, and will help identify and inform prioritization of future nature-based restoration projects in each wetland village.

This project will advance a holistic vision for community climate adaptation and habitat restoration in Padilla Bay, Washington. It will advance the currently funded Samish restoration project in planning a design solution that delivers tidal marsh, tidal slough, and connectivity benefits while also improving road and dike infrastructure resilience through developing a numerical model for restoration design. A secondary goal builds on community discussion catalyzed by the current project to convene a broader resilience working group to address the sea level rise vulnerabilities of roads, dikes, agriculture, drainage, rural communities, and habitat along the eastern shore of Padilla Bay, the Samish River delta, and the southern and western shores of Samish Bay.

This project will result in plans to restore the entire 1.8-mile Valley Creek urban riparian corridor, an important Lake Michigan coastal tributary. The City of Port Washington and the Wisconsin Coastal Management Program will partner to develop 90 percent design plans that include nature-based solutions to prevent degradation, protect critical infrastructure, reduce flooding risk, and restore riparian, floodplain, and estuary habitat.

This project will acquire 1,055 acres of undeveloped property in Iron County, Wisconsin, to provide long-term conservation of critical habitat in Lake Superior’s coastal zone. The acquisition will add to a contiguous block of county-owned land that is managed for conservation values, including habitat corridors, climate resilience, and public access. The project will support tribal communities by ensuring permanent public accessibility to the land and protecting treaty rights usage by the Lac du Flambeau and Bad River Indian reservations.

This land purchase will protect and conserve 68 acres of native coastal habitat in perpetuity. The Crooked River Ranch property is one of the few large undeveloped parcels along the Manatee River and will contribute significantly to creating a connected wildlife corridor and enhancing climate resilience and water quality in an area under intense pressure from development.

This project is focused on restoring a one-mile section of the Carmel River so that natural processes will reconnect the river with historic floodplain habitat and create a mosaic of self-sustaining riparian habitat types and instream complexity, benefitting the federally threatened South-Central California Coast steelhead and other species. The project will also restore and expand habitat for other diverse species, enhance multiple wildlife corridors, and create new opportunities for nature-based environmental education and recreation. The reconnected, lowered floodplains will create a self-sustaining, climate-resilient river system that can respond to a changing climate.

This project will preserve a total of 107 acres of pristine coastal habitat in Horry County, South Carolina. This collaborative acquisition and conservation project will increase public access and recreational opportunities along the Little River Neck, Waites Island, and Marsh Island and create multi-state habitat connectivity along the South Carolina and North Carolina border.

These funds will be used to replace aging, undersized pipe culverts that restrict tidal flow with habitat-supportive spans designed in two Maine towns, using best practices and incorporating climate resilient features. Replacement of culverts at the Buttermilk Brook crossing in Brunswick and Corbett Brook crossing in Perry will improve salt marsh connectivity and resilience, providing critical habitat for commercially and culturally important fish species for the Passamaquoddy Tribe.

This innovative project will demonstrate how the City of Homer’s expansive peatlands can become nature-based solutions for soaking up stormwater and protecting the fish and wildlife at the center of Alaska’s economy and culture. With a transformational grant from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the city is working with the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve and Kachemak Heritage Land Trust to acquire 55 acres of peatlands and design a system to channel its stormwater there for storage and filtration.

This investment in restored shoreline will improve community resilience by enhancing ecosystem services that mitigate flooding and extreme weather and protect human lives and critical infrastructure. The project will restore habitat within the Bay Point peninsula of Lawrence Township in Cumberland County. The Bay Point shoreline ecosystem also provides critical spawning habitat for horseshoe crabs and foraging grounds for the federally listed red knot.

Funding will support increased shell material collection and expanded restoration efforts within the Mullica River-Great Bay estuary. This expansion will create additional resilience in the existing oyster reefs while increasing the footprint of the reef system by 10 acres through coordinated shell planting efforts. The project team will also collaborate with local schools in the region to develop academic programs that allow students to engage in habitat-related scientific work.

This project will restore 61 acres of significant bluff, ravine, and nearshore habitat within a public nature preserve along Lake Michigan’s coast in Lake County, Illinois, preventing unnatural erosion that threatens the lake’s drinking water quality.

This purchase of 6,800 acres of critical coastal habitat in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, directly adjacent to the Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, will reduce coastal flood risks, conserve critical ecosystems, and preserve habitats for a variety of coastal resources, as well as provide much needed public recreational opportunities through the expansion of public lands.

This project will acquire 164 acres of critical coastal habitat on West Galveston Island, which is the final property needed to create a protected corridor of three miles through an ancient relict dune core, the island’s natural and best defense from coastal hazards.

This project will allow Virginia to acquire 1,900 acres of one of the largest unprotected blocks of contiguous forest in the Albemarle-Pamlico watershed region. The purchase will allow for the future restoration of climate-resilient forests in one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots, improve water quality in the Chowan River basin, provide an impetus for novel communication and collaboration with regional American Indian tribes, and create one of the region’s preeminent public access opportunities.

A collaborative NOAA-funded effort has secured and preserved a 400+ acre waterfront property in Pamlico County, ensuring wildlife habitat conservation and public access for outdoor activities in the Goose Creek Game Lands.

This planning project will produce designs for the restoration and enhancement of 12.7 acres of degraded wetland habitat along the Christina River in the Southbridge community. Implementation of these designs will help the community reduce flooding, enhance resiliency, accomplish ecological restoration, improve water quality in the Christina River, and create recreational opportunities for its residents and visitors.

This award funds the restoration of 6 acres of intertidal and wetland habitat along the Hudson River, reconnecting, diverting, and improving water flows that will impact over 400 acres downstream. The project will reduce flooding risks to nearby Schodack Park and the local communities, safeguarding the only land-based access to the park.

Through this project, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians will acquire a 42-acre beachfront property currently threatened by development. This property is located in an area of historic tribal villages and settlements within the tribe’s original reservation. It has a healthy, diverse community of native plants and features creeks that converge into wetlands that lead into the Pacific Ocean. Protection of this property—one of the last great pieces of undeveloped oceanfront in the region—is a critical, urgent priority for meeting Oregon’s coastal resilience and conservation goals.

This award funds the acquisition of three ecologically important coastal properties in Westerly, Rhode Island. The project will advance a larger plan to conserve, connect, and eventually restore high-value coastal wetland and migration corridors along this sensitive and dynamic barrier peninsula.

The New Hampshire Resilient Tidal Crossings project received a $2.9 million NOAA grant to upgrade priority tidal culverts on state roads in the towns of Rye and Stratham, New Hampshire. The upgrade will improve tidal flow, which reduces flooding and erosion and positively affects the ecosystem.

Puerto Rico’s Puerto Mosquito bioluminescent bay—the brightest bioluminescent bay on earth—is being restored to its original pristine condition thanks to an almost $3 million grant from NOAA

This award will implement natural shoreline enhancements and support green stormwater infrastructure along the Quartermaster Road intersection in Saipan. The project will create a more resilient shoreline, improve water quality, and protect critical habitat and infrastructure along Saipan’s most popular recreation corridor.

This award will increase coral cover, species diversity and reef complexity at four high-priority restoration sites to improve fish habitat and enhance shoreline protection from flooding and erosion. The project will expand Guam’s coral nurseries to a minimum combined capacity of 12,000 corals with a minimum of 10 species and five growth forms to increase live coral material and species diversity for reef restoration around Guam.

This award will develop preliminary designs for rehabilitation of degraded salt marsh and management of stormwater runoff with green infrastructure measures in South Norwalk. The project will enhance salt marsh habitat to improve flood resilience for the marsh and adjacent neighborhood during storm events.

This award will create final designs to renaturalize an existing drainage corridor as a meandering stream with tiered side slopes, various nature-based solutions, a variety of plant species, and sediment traps along sections of a historic stream in Moss Point, Mississippi. The project will increase resiliency and create habitat through improved flood protection, water quality, and increased public access to nature.

This award will design comprehensive resiliency solutions that improve the use of flat lands in Coral Bay to protect and enhance community infrastructure and critical mangrove, seagrass, and coral reef ecosystems that can benefit species such as shorebirds, pelicans, coral, and sea turtles. Project will mitigate sediment deposition and flooding to improve resiliency against threats from urbanization, flooding, storm surge, and sea level rise.

In partnership with Open Space Institute Land Trust, South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, The South Carolina Conservation Bank, and South Carolina Office of Resilience, BIL funds were used for the purchase of 1800 acres for the establishment of a new State Park, Black River State Park, outside of Andrews, SC.

The Hanapēpē Dune Restoration Project is a multi-year effort to restore and protect the dune system that safeguards the Hanapēpē Salt Pond on Kauaʻi.

The Popes Creek Waterfront Park Project is an effort to design and permit a living shoreline along 2,175 linear feet of the Potomac River where it meets Popes Creek in Charles County, Maryland.

The Ossabaw Island Living Shoreline project is a major ecosystem restoration and cultural-resource protection effort led by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Coastal Resources Division, with …