Restoring Tidal Wetlands to Improve Shorebird Habitat, Erosion Control and Flood Protection

Recipient: California State Coastal Conservancy

Grant Amount: $7,000,000 Matching Funds: $14,000,000

This award will restore tidal wetlands, enhance managed ponds, and create a gravel beach at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. The project will add over 80 acres of habitat transition slopes to buffer levees and restore six miles of constructed beach and 1,300 acres of tidal marsh to benefit the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse and Ridgway's rail, threatened steelhead trout and western snowy plover, and shorebirds and waterfowl that migrate along the Pacific flyway.

For more information on the grant program funding this project, please visit the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage. For more information on the National Coastal Resilience Fund, visit National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s website.