The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced grant funding for wetlands in California to help protect the habitat.
EPA announced the $2,765,854 Wetland Program Development Grants award for programs to restore habitat, protect tribal water quality and preserve California wetlands across California in a June 16 news release.
"We are very pleased to support our partners in their efforts to improve water quality and restore California’s wetlands," EPA Pacific Southwest Regional Administrator Martha Guzman said in the news release. "Healthy wetlands provide numerous benefits to ecosystems and communities across California, and these grants will allow our state, local and tribal partners to make significant progress protecting these vital resources where it's needed most."
EPA's Wetland Program Development Grants assists state, local government agencies, tribal and interstate/intertribal entities to develop or refine programs that manage, protect and restore wetlands, the release reported.
According to the release, the projects funded in this round of grants are the Yurok Tribe's Wetland Program Plan, California State Coastal Conservancy, Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk, Southern California Coastal Water Resource Project, Association of Bay Area Governments, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission and the Aquatic Science Center.
