Migratory Bird Joint Ventures, using key funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have capacity to foster value-added approaches in leveraging the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funds to accomplish their missions. With additional JV funding, these efforts will become more widespread and even more beneficial to the American public.
- In the Appalachian Mountains JV, partners are improving the health and resiliency of privately-owned forests in Central Appalachia in conjunction with NRCS offices in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.
- Partners in the Lower Mississippi Valley JV are restoring and protecting bottomland hardwood forests, wetlands, and coastal floodplain systems in priority catchments in the Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
- In the Playa Lakes JV, partners are undertaking Lesser Prairie-Chicken habitat restoration in the Mescalero Sands ecological region of New Mexico through invasive plan control.
- Rainwater Basin JV partners are supporting removal of Eastern Red Cedar and enhancing grazing infrastructure on the Sandhills Refuge Complex in Nebraska.
- Rio Grande JV partners received an America The Beautiful grant to train partners, build capacity, monitor birds and habitats, and undertake adaptive management in Texas.
