The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) announced $2.5 million in grants to improve, restore, and expand important forest and wetland habitats in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. The projects supported by the grants will enhance and restore private and public land through the installation of water management infrastructure, landowner technical assistance, tree establishment, and wetland reconstruction. The grants will also increase the capacity of a bottomland hardwood nursery to supply seedlings for other projects in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Collectively, more than 4.2 million bottomland hardwood seedlings will be planted, and 3,900 acres of existing hardwood forest will be restored with wildlife-friendly forest treatments.