This project aimed to restore beach, dune, and back-barrier marsh habitats at four barrier island locations in Louisiana (Chenier Ronquille, Shell Island, North Breton Island, and Caillou Lake Headlands). These restoration projects will restore habitat for brown pelicans, terns, skimmers, and gulls, and increase the resiliency of the islands to sea-level rise and storm surges.

This project restored 20 acres of degraded dune habitat in Perdido Key, Florida. Restoration consisted of plantings of native vegetation seaward of the dunes to provide a buffer to the dunes and enhance dune habitat. Plantings included sea oats, panic grasses, cord grasses, sea purslane, and beach elder. 

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 planted approximately 474,634 native plants seaward of existing dunes along Pensacola Beach on Santa Rosa Island, Florida. Plantings were 76% sea oats, 19% panic grass, and 5% other native species. These plants were chosen to maximize sand stabilization and limit wind erosion of the dunes.

Local organizations in Knox County, Indiana, campaigned to raise awareness of the environmental and economic destruction that encroaching invasive species can have on communities. Representatives from the agriculture, horticulture and landscaping industries collaborated with conservation experts and the county attorney to determine the scope of an ordinance proposal that would ban 64 invasive plant species in the county.

Urban development caused poor water quality, a falling water table, and erosion in the Sante Fe River. The city and county of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Watershed Association are integrating river restoration with green infrastructure projects and public recreation opportunities to improve water quality, riverine habitat and mitigate flood risk.  

Pensacola faces increasing threats from sea-level rise, storm surges, and erosion along the Gulf Coast. The city of Pensacola created Project Greenshores to re-establish marsh habitat along its coastline. This project, a pioneer in constructing living shorelines in Florida, restored salt marsh habitat and enhanced shoreline protection.  

In 2011, Tropical Storm Irene brought intense flooding to Otter Creek, causing severe damage to the city of Rutland, but minimal damage to Middlebury, located only 30 miles downstream. Middlebury’s conservation and restoration of Otter Creek’s floodplain and wetlands mitigated potential flood impacts and damage.  

Johnson Creek in Portland Oregon faces frequent nuisance flooding events due to urbanization and development-caused degradation. The city of Portland began purchasing vulnerable properties and moving people out of the floodplain, in order to begin reconnecting Johnson Creek to its floodplain and restoring wetland habitat. 

Curtis Prairie at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum is the site of the world's first ecological restoration project. Begun in 1936 by Dr. Theodore Sperry, the project has been ongoing for more than seventy years and has yielded a wealth of research data about the dynamics of tallgrass prairie ecosystems and the practices most effective in their restoration and management.