The Bureau of Land Management’s (Bureau) Aquatic Resources Program protects and restores riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources to provide functioning ecosystems fora. combination of balanced and diverse uses including fish and wildlife, and for the long-term needs of future generations. This program supports projects funded through the IIJA, Section 40804 (b) Ecosystem Restoration, and through the IRA, Sections 50221 Resilience, 50222 Ecosystems Restoration, and 50303 DOI.

The Aquatic Resources Program conserves and restores aquatic resources on Bureau-managed lands and ensures that water is available for a combination of balanced and diverse uses. Healthy riparian-wetland areas, fisheries, watersheds, riverscapes, and water supplies provide the resource values and ecosystem services that the Bureau needs to achieve the agency’s multiple use and sustained yield mandate.

This funding opportunity has three goals:

Ensuring water availability to sustain healthy riparian and wetland areas and aquatic habitats,

Restoring degraded water resources, riparian and wetland areas, and aquatic habitats, with a focus on process-based approaches and promoting riverscape health, and

Advancing decision support models, and the inventory, assessment, and monitoring information that feeds such models, to inform the protection of remaining high quality habitats and the strategic restoration of degraded systems.