Restore Americas Estuaries

Community-based coastal habitat restoration:restore america's estuaries (rae) and its alliance members have worked since 1996 to restore our nation's critical coastal areas and bring them back to life. Through our community based restoration program, rae partners with government agencies, corporations, civic organizations, scientists, and local volunteers on restoration projects with tangible impacts. Among our goals are the return of abundant fisheries, strong local economies, and shorelines that are resilient to storms and flooding. Through these efforts raehas supported hundreds of local restoration projects throughout the united states, achieving meaningful environmental results, and engaging members of local communities in the protection of their natural resources.

National estuary program grant program:restore america's estuaries, under a cooperative agreement with the u.s. Environmental protection agency, administers two grant programs to protect and restore the natural resources within designated national estuary program areas. These grant programs address the following congressionally-set priorities: - loss of key habitats resulting in significant impacts on fisheries and water quality such as seagrass, mangroves, tidal and freshwater wetlands, forested wetlands, kelp beds, shellfish beds, and coral reefs; recurring harmful algae blooms; unusual or unexplained marine mammal mortalities; - proliferation or invasion of species that limit recreational uses, threaten wastewater systems, or cause other ecosystem damage; flooding and coastal erosion