Project Title: Hardwood Reforestation (FFS #R2EE*)

State: Texas

Project Description: The Trinity River Basin will benefit from an agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and the Trinity Basin Conservation Foundation (TBCF) that uses Recovery Act funding to restore habitat on private lands. As part of the Service’s Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program, Recovery Act funding as well as cooperative funding from TBCF will enhance more than 200 acres of wildlife habitat as part of the Trinity River Basin Environmental Restoration Initiative. The initiative focuses primarily on eight counties-Anderson, Ellis, Freestone, Henderson, Houston, Kaufman, Leon and Navarro-in the middle Trinity River Basin.

News Release: Recovery Act Funding Creates Partnerships to Restore Trinity River Basin Habitat

Photos:

Bottomland hardwood forest

Trinity River, south of the project site

*A portion of the Recovery Act funding awarded under FFS #R2EE will also be used to complete projects in the State of Oklahoma. For information on these projects, see the Partnerships Projects in the Southwest Region page.

Originally posted 08/21/2009
Updated 08/25/2009
Updated 10/08/2009