Category Overview
Urban Wildlife Habitat projects fund close-to-home places to play and explore nature. As our urban areas are increasingly expanding and densifying, these grants protect important fish and wildlife habitat within five miles of densely populated areas, creating green refuges that help keep our ecosystems healthy and provide places to enjoy nature right in our backyards.
Project Highlights
This project included acquisition of 20.72 acres within the roughly 900-acre Woodard Bay Natural Resources Conservation Area (NRCA). The project also included demolition of structures, and mulching for erosion and weed control purposes and to prepare the site for restoration. Woodard Bay NRCA provides habitat ranging from shoreline and wetlands to mature second growth forest. These habitats support shorebirds, songbirds, harbor seals, river otters, bald eagles, a maternity colony of bats, and a significant heron rookery at the site.