Five Star Restoration Grant Applications are no longer being accepted for 2012.
Please check back for information on the 2013 Five Star Restoration Grant Program.
The Five Star Restoration Grant 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. The program is 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.
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.
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.
Goals
Many students, youth groups, conservation organizations, citizen groups, government agencies, corporations and landowners have cooperated to realize the goals of the Five Star program, which include:
- Promoting long-term conservation education and volunteerism.
- Demonstrating conservation leadership to employees and local citizens.
- Fostering a diversity of partnerships within the surrounding community.
- Restoring and/or conserving wetland, tidal, and riparian ecosystems.
- Identifying more innovative and more efficient strategies to conserve native species in their natural habitats.
