Mission Overview

The purpose of the Northwest Indiana - Southeast Chicago office is to:

• To promote wildlife habitat enhancements, land restoration, and land reuse opportunities for private industrial properties and public lands. 
  
• To demonstrate the use of ecological enhancements on contaminated, degraded and underutilized properties through hands-on pilot projects

Land Restoration Program

WHC works to demonstrate the methods and means that state and local governments, industry, and community groups can use ecological enhancements to increase the rate at which contaminated lands, both private and public (state, tribal, local), can be restored for a variety of reuses, including wildlife habitat enhancement as part of restoration designs.

WHC aims to identify and highlight potential pilot sites and success stories to its members and contacts, and encourages stakeholders to submit information on their success for outreach purposes. 

WHC and EPA are working together to foster partnerships among governments, industry, and communities to facilitate the ecological reuse of old gas station sites.

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