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Five Star Restoration Matching Grants Program A partnership between the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Association of Counties, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Southern Company, Wildlife Habitat Council and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Five Star Restoration Program provides modest financial assistance on a competitive basis to support community-based wetland, riparian, and coastal habitat restoration projects that build diverse partnerships and foster local natural resource stewardship through education, outreach and training activities.
Five Star projects have the ability to gain importance within their watersheds and to broadcast nationally messages on the combined values of partnership, restoration and education. Every year the program adds to the amount of enhanced wetlands, riparian buffers and healthy watersheds in the United States because each project has a long-term commitment to preserving the watershed it improves. Download the Five-Star brochure! Goals
The Five Star Program is open to any public or private entity. WHC and our partner organizations can help you prepare your application. Our biologists are available to help our members with the grant process at no cost to the organization. We can work with you to find partners, help strengthen your project’s objectives or provide advice on agencies that provide the necessary permits. It is never too early to get started, and in order to ease this process and help make your project a success, WHC has put together a helpful guide to assist your planning.
If you trace a waterway from the oceans and bays up the rivers, to the tributaries and small streams that interconnect, you will eventually find that each one has its beginnings in the backyards of ordinary people and businesses of all sizes. It is far too easy to overlook this simple fact: each action we take that alters land will have an effect on watersheds. The compounded effects of our daily lives can turn into positive waterway management and restoration activities that contribute significantly to water quality. As each homeowner must be careful with their disposal of automobile oil or their decision to use lawn fertilizers, each company must be mindful of their Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) of sediments and contaminants deposited in waterways and the proper implementation of runoff controls. We must take these issues personally if we are concerned about the natural landscape. It is because of these matters that WHC encourages corporate participation in the Five Star Restoration Program. If we view a corporation simply as a larger group of citizens who have resources and ideas to contribute to the quality of watersheds, we can work to multiply the effects of resource conservation. Five Star Facts
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