Category Overview
The State Lands Restoration and Enhancement category provides funding to two state agencies to help repair damaged plant and animal habitat. These grants focus on resource preservation and protection of public lands. Projects in this category help bring important natural areas and resources back to their original functions by improving the self sustaining and ecological functionality of sites.
Project Highlights
The Department of Fish and Wildlife will use this grant to restore about 537 acres of abandoned agricultural fields in the Wells Wildlife Area near Brewster in Dougals County. The project will remove invasive non-native plants and establish a diverse shrubsteppe community of native grasses, forbs, and shrubs. This project area will connect with other publicly and privately owned restoration sites and will benefit Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, deer, game birds, and waterfowl. The primary habitat to be restored is shrubsteppe.