California State Parks Provides $6.7 Million In Grants To Protect, Restore, And Enhance Wildlife Habitats

California State Parks today announced the selection of 19 local projects that will receive grants totaling $6.7 million from the California Habitat Conservation Fund Grant Program. These grants will help local agencies with the protection, restoration, and enhancement of wildlife habitat to maintain California’s quality of life. Since 1990, approximately $84 million has been allocated to habitat conservation projects throughout California.

“Protecting California’s biodiversity is critical as approximately 40% of the estimated 5,500 plant species found in this state are found nowhere else on Earth,” said State Parks Director Armando Quintero. “With funding from the California Habitat Conservation Fund, local, state and nonprofit organizations can work toward California’s 30×30 initiative that seeks to protect and restore biodiversity, expand public access to nature, and mitigate and build resilience to climate change.”

State Parks’ Office of Grant and Local Services (OGALS) conducted a competitive review process which is funded by the California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990 (Proposition 117). This grant program includes seven sub-categories: Deer and Mountain Habitat; Wetlands; Trail; Riparian Habitat; Wildlife Area Activities; Rare, Endangered, Threatened, or Fully Protected Species Habitat; and Anadromous Salmonids and Trout Habitat.