The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved approximately $11.7 million to support the Coastwide Reference Monitoring System (CRMS). This monitoring system, initiated in 2016 by the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (CWPPRA) program, was designed to monitor the effectiveness of restoration actions at multiple, scales from individual projects to the influence of projects on the entire coastal landscape.

Because we recognize the critical role data plays in ecosystem restoration planning, we have been using the CRMS data collection and management system in

The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved the Final Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #5: Living Coastal and Marine Resources – Marine Mammals and Oysters (PDF, 243 pages).

We released the draft restoration plan in March 2020 and accepted public comment through April 20, 2020. This final plan will replenish and protect living coastal and marine resources (specifically, oysters and marine mammals) in the Louisiana Restoration Area. One project approved in the plan will focus on increasing capacity to respond to marine mammal strandings, and the other three will focus on

The Colonial Nesting Wading Bird Tracking and Habitat Use Assessment project, approved September 2018 in the Alabama Trustee Implementation Group’s second restoration plan, is now underway. The purpose of this $1.5 million project is to collect information on wading bird ranges, movements and other important aspects of habitat use for future planning to restore wading bird species in Alabama injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The project relies heavily on the use of electronic transmitters attached to captured birds.

Field biologists are surveying three important coastal breeding

The Florida Trustee Implementation Group is initiating our second post-settlement draft restoration plan to address, in part, natural resource injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In the upcoming draft restoration plan a range of projects will be considered for some or all of the restoration types listed below:

• Habitat Projects on Federally Managed Lands
• Birds
• Marine Mammals
• Sea Turtles
• Provide and Enhance Recreational Opportunities (Specifically, enhancing recreational fishing opportunities.)

The draft restoration plan will include proposed projects or activities for

Help is on the way for common loons thanks to a project approved by the Open Ocean Trustees in their first post-settlement restoration plan. Common loons nest around Minnesota’s lakes each year after the spring thaw. Each winter, they migrate south, including to the Gulf of Mexico, where many were injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  

The loon restoration project aims to help restore the bird population in a number of ways, including by reducing exposure to lead-based fishing tackle. Other parts of the project include acquiring loon breeding habitat and providing nesting platforms.

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Outreach materials are now available from the July 16 Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustee Council’s annual meeting webinar. During this virtual event, our fifth annual public meeting, we provided updates on our work since our last meeting in June 2019. 

You can view all the materials presented at the meeting, including the presentations and fact sheets, below.

The Trustees and representatives of the seven Trustee Implementation Groups, responsible for planning and implementing restoration projects for the natural resources injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, gave updates on

The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved the Final Phase 2 Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment #3.3: Large-scale Barataria Marsh Creation: Upper Barataria Component (PDF, 155 pages).

The project was initially evaluated for engineering and design funding in the 2018 Strategic Restoration Plan. We then released the draft restoration plan in March 2020 and accepted public comment through April 17, 2020. The 1,207 acre marsh creation project approved in the plan will be led by NOAA, in partnership with other federal and state trustees, and private contractors.

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The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved the Final Supplemental Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (PDF, 116 pages) for the Cypremort Point State Park Improvements Project Modifications. The modifications include substituting the original proposed breakwater system project feature with other recreational use features. The original breakwater was constructed using another funding source.

We released the draft supplemental restoration plan and environmental assessment for this project on April 17, 2020 and accepted public comment for 30 days.

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The Regionwide Trustee Implementation Group is initiating our first post-settlement draft restoration plan to address, in part, natural resource injuries caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In the upcoming draft restoration plan a range of projects will be considered for some or all of the restoration types listed below:

• Birds
• Marine Mammals
• Oysters
• Sea Turtles

The draft restoration plan will include proposed projects or activities for some or all of the restoration types listed above that best address the priorities identified in our September 2019 request for project ideas.

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