Category Overview
Conserving land along our waterways protects important habitat and helps keep our rivers healthy, clean, and more resilient to drought. Riparian Protection projects conserve and restore fresh and saltwater habitat while protecting fish habitat. In doing so, the grants help provide our families, farms, and fisheries with clean water across the state.
Project Highlights
After over a decade we were successful of in acquiring 1,469.24 acres in the core of this site. This was the largest and most import parcel in this grant. DNR invested heavily into the weed control of this parcel as the aquatic weeds spread heavily in the surge plain. Given this significant amount of acreage, planning and implementation for public access is underway. We had many communications with the other priority parcel owners, but due to a host of reasons including change of ownership, at this time we will not be able to proceed with purchasing any of the other parcels.