This project aimed to restore oyster populations in Pensacola Bay, St. Andrews Bay, and Apalachicola Bay in Florida. This project placed 49,000 cubic yards of cultch material over 210 acres of previously constructed oyster bars. This project hoped to maximize oyster larvae settling and oyster colonization at each restoration site. 

This project built a living shoreline at Project GreenShores Site II in Pensacola Bay to reduce erosion, provide shoreline protection, and create both reef and salt marsh habitat. The constructed breakwaters created 9 acres of salt marsh habitat, and 4 acres of reef habitat. 

This project was initiated by BC Wildlife Services (BCWS) in 2019 to evaluate the degree to which fuel treatments have been effective in changing wildfire behavior. Two fuel treatments were studies: 1) manual treatment of older stands involving stand thinning, debris disposal + pruning, and 2) broadcast burning after timber harvesting.

The Carson National Forest (CNF) is at risk for high-intensity wildfires. Mimicking the Acequias traditional water-management system, the Cerro Negro Forest Council (CNFC) created forest mayordomos, or local managers who are a a pillar with local knowledge and heritage to serve the community within the Pueblo and Hispanic communities of northern New Mexico.  

Intensive campground use at the Grant Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park, California, has compacted the soil and left areas without understory vegetation or tree recruitment. To better inform the restoration of these sites after closure, natural regeneration potential was tested against planting and soil restoration methods.

To restore forest health and an ecological and climate-adapted fire regime, staff at Lassen Volcanic National Park (LAVO) in northern California partnered with the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Sierra Institute in 2019 to reduce forest fuel loads within wilderness areas of the North Fork Feather River watershed.

Two hurricanes in 2004 destroyed Fort Pierce, Florida’s waterfront. This waterfront is a public access space that includes a park and a marina. The city and Tetra Tech Inc. developed a 6-hectare island breakwater system that will protect the city under current conditions and adapt to projected sea-level rise.  

The Fort Sheridan Restoration Project restored 84 hectares of ravines, riparian woodlands, coastal bluff, beach, dunes, and lacustrine habitat along the coast of Lake Michigan. This project aimed to connect coastal habitats, restore native plant communities, and increase resilience along the coast. 

The Fort Valley Project was an experiment designed to test forest treatments that were intended to restore natural ecological qualities and reduce the hazard of intense wildfire in the urban/wildland interface around Flagstaff, Arizona. The primary goal of the project was the reverse the degradation of ponderosa pine ecosystems by restoring their structure and function along with the natural disturbance regimes that were characteristic of their evolutionary environment.

Faced with the decline of urban trees, concerned group formed an initiative to enhance urban tree that help reduce the impact from urban heat, heavy rainfall, and local flooding. Partnering with expert from U.S. Forest Service, the group assessed vulnerability of over 150 tree species in the region and implemented a project to protect native trees from pests and climate change.

The Fossil Creek watershed ecosystem has been drastically impacted by a diversion dam that was built in the early 1900s. The restoration of the stream course started in 1999 when Arizona Public Service (APS) signed an agreement to decommission its hydroelectric facilities along Fossil Creek.

A partnership between the California Coastal Commission and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is working to improve understanding of transportation critical infrastructure vulnerabilities to sea level rise and to adapt the transportation system for greater resilience to those changing conditions over the next century. 

The Fowl Meadow Purple Loosestrife Biological Control Project is a five-year collaborative wetland restoration project in the Neponset River Watershed, Massachusetts. The project uses Galerucella calmariensis and G. pusilla beetles and larvae as a biological control agent to control and reduce the presence of exotic, invasive Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria).

The Nature Conservancy constructed two demonstration living shorelines projects in the Fowl River in Theodore, Alabama. These living shorelines were constructed on private properties with failing bulkheads and erosion problems. This project retrofitted the existing bulkheads with tiered gabion baskets filled with native marsh plants and dredged material.   

Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina contains over 2600 acres of coastal wetlands that are at risk of drowning due to sea-level rise, low elevation, and limited sediment supply. This project served as an experiment to determine viability of thin-layer placement for marsh restoration in similar locations.  

The North Carolina Coastal Federation created the state’s first living shoreline at a freshwater, high-energy site. This living shoreline replaced a failing bulkhead, and provided the state with important information on freshwater living shorelines, sources of erosion, and stormwater management practices. The project owes some of its success to being small, non-controversial, and well-designed.  

Galloway Creek, a tributary to the impaired Clinton River in Michigan, provides cold-water base flows that support trout species. Development led to a straightened, degraded, and disconnected creek that runs through a golf course. This project restored floodplain connectivity, improved geomorphic stability, and built in-stream habitat for fish species and aquatic wildlife. 

Dredged material was used to nourish the beach at 61st Street on Galveston Island, TX. This project increases recreational opportunities on the beaches and increases tourism to Galveston and nearby Houston, TX. This project is part of a long-term strategy to provide storm protection, increase property value, and reduce erosion. 

The City of Gary initiated the “Vacant to Vibrant” project in 2014, which aimed to mitigate flooding due to aging sewer system. The project completed the construction of three sites in the Aetna neighborhood by 2016, converting 0.37 acres of vacant land into green infrastructure featuring bat houses, rain gardens, and native plantings.

Led by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), this project aimed to apply the integrated pest management (IPM) approach to control the invasive giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta) in Lake Raven, a 203-acre reservoir located in the Huntsville State Park, Texas.