The Nez Perce Tribe is receiving a $1.9 million grant to restore impacted habitat from a historic hydraulic mine in Idaho.
The Idaho Capital Sun reports the grant is funded through the America the Beautiful Challenge, which was launched by the Biden administration in 2021.
It set the country’s first-ever goal to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
The Nez Perce Tribe’s project will restore 22 acres of an abandoned hydraulic mine in Leggett Creek.
The project aims to reduce excess sediment delivery into critical habitat for steelhead, Chinook salmon and bull trout while stabilizing eroding slopes by planting native evergreens and deciduous shrubs.
It will also improve aquatic passage of over 23 miles of upstream spawning and rearing fish habitat, according to the National Wildlife and Fish Foundation.
