Nez Perce Tribe receives $1.9 million grant to restore creek near abandoned mine
The project at Leggett Creek will reduce excess sediment delivery into critical habitat for steelhead, spring Chinook and bull trout. (Bill Schaefer/Getty Images)
The Nez Perce Tribe is receiving a $1.9 million grant to restore impacted habitat from a historic hydraulic mine in Idaho.
The grant is funded through the America the Beautiful Challenge, which was launched by the Biden administration in 2021 as a partnership with the departments of the Interior, Agriculture and Defense, as well as Native Americans in Philanthropy and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. It set the country’s first-ever goal to conserve at least 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
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