Restoring America’s Natural Infrastructure
Ecosystem Restoration is a significant down payment in protecting our shared natural heritage. In collaboration with states, Tribes, local communities and federal agencies, we are using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to advance habitat restoration, conduct invasive species control and conserve at-risk species. These activities benefit several significant ecosystems and recreational sites.

What We Do

Our Projects and Initiatives

Ecosystem Restoration Focus Areas

Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is a once-in-a-generation investment in the nation’s infrastructure and economic competitiveness. We were directly appropriated $455 million over five years in BIL funds for programs related to the President’s America the Beautiful initiative.

Learn more about Bipartisan Infrastructure Law , the Ecosystem Restoration program funds strategic and evidence-based ecosystem restoration and conservation planning and actions that are outlined in our Restoration and Resilience Framework. The framework includes a commitment to nine conservation challenges, or Keystone Initiatives. These include the Klamath River Basin, the sagebrush biome, Atlantic Coast salt marshes, Gravel to Gravel (Alaska), Hawaiian forest birds, grasslands and Appalachia, as well as the National Early Detection and Rapid Response (EDRR) Framework for invasive species and the National Seed Strategy (NSS).

Across the country, our ecosystem restoration projects, and conservation actions, are focused to restore our nation’s lands and waters through locally led, landscape-scale restoration projects.

Since 2022, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received just over $66.5 million for 96 ecosystem restoration projects that engage with our nation’s communities to advance habitat restoration, conduct invasive species invasive species
An invasive species is any plant or animal that has spread or been introduced into a new area where they are, or could, cause harm to the environment, economy, or human, animal, or plant health. Their unwelcome presence can destroy ecosystems and cost millions of dollars.

Learn more about invasive species control, conserve threatened and endangered species and will lead to better outdoor spaces and habitats for people and wildlife for generations to come.

 Use these links to see a list of ecosystem restoration projects funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: 

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Science and Technology
Rapid Response Funding to Combat Aquatic Invasive Species
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the selection of four projects, totaling $785,000, that will address the early detection and rapid response for aquatic invasive species.
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Land Management
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Having Positive, Lasting Impacts
A note from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Annual Report. Also, read the full report and listen to the Nature's Infrastructure Podcast.
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New projects begin in midwest to safeguard seeds and clean-up contaminants
It has been said that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. When it comes to habitat restoration, not only does it take quality native seeds and know-how, it takes a vision. We know that making a future full of native grasses, functional wetlands and the wildlife that call the midwest...
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Habitat Restoration
Natural flows return to Cripple Creek
Nearly 90 years after its channel was abandoned, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service employees, partners, local students and community landowners strive to restore its natural flow.
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Wildlife Management
Saving Kauaʻi Forest Birds
The Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) are one step closer to protecting forest birds from mosquito-borne diseases in key high-elevation native forest bird habitat on Kauaʻi, with their proposal to employ Incompatible Insect Technique...
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Science and Technology
Conserving at Flyway Scales
Migratory birds face threats as wetlands vanish due to climate change and human actions. An innovative new tool represents a transformative leap in better understanding these crucial ecosystems and their avian inhabitants.
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