FWS HQ Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding through Sage - Steppe Restoration Progam FY25

<div style='text-align:Left;font-size:12pt'><p><span>For many years, the Fish and Wildlife Service has been conducting research, collaborating with partners, and supporting a landscape-wide conservation strategy to support a healthy sagebrush ecosystem in the west.</span></p><p><span /></p><p><span>Starting in FY22, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has committed $10 million per year ($50 million over 5 years) to the Service to expand work with partners to restore and conserve strategic areas within the sagebrush ecosystem. These funds build on existing collaborative efforts by the Service and our public and private partners to conserve the sagebrush ecosystem and the significant biological, cultural, and economic resources it supports. These projects will combat invasive grasses and wildfire, reduce encroaching conifers, safeguard precious water resources for neighboring communities and wildlife, and promote community and economic sustainability.</span></p></div>

多年来，美国鱼类及野生动物管理局（Fish and Wildlife Service）始终开展研究工作、与合作伙伴协同协作，并支持全域景观保护策略，以维护美国西部健康的蒿灌丛生态系统。

自2022财年起，《两党基础设施法案》（Bipartisan Infrastructure Law，缩写BIL）每年向该局拨款1000万美元（五年累计5000万美元），用于拓展与合作伙伴的合作范畴，以修复并保护蒿灌丛生态系统内的战略区域。该笔资金依托管理局及其公共、私营合作伙伴已有的协作成果，旨在保护蒿灌丛生态系统及其所支撑的重要生物、文化与经济资源。相关项目将对抗入侵草本植物与野火、遏制侵入性针叶林扩张、为周边社区与野生动物守护宝贵水资源，并推动社区与经济的可持续发展。