The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Alaska Aquatic Resources Program protects and
restores riparian and wetland areas, aquatic habitats, and water resources to provide functioning
ecosystems for a combination of balanced and diverse uses including fish and wildlife, and for
the long-term needs of future generations. Policy guidance for the Program ensures that public
land management based on multiple use and sustained yield provides healthy and productive
riparian, wetland, and aquatic habitat, achieves land health standards, and considers society’s
long-term needs for healthy watersheds. The issues the Program addresses are diverse and
include restoration, habitat fragmentation and degradation, drought resiliency, water availability,
and aquatic invasive species. Program staff provide professional expertise and policy guidance to
BLM managers, Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments, and non-governmental partners on
these issues, and implement the best management practices to minimize or avoid impacts to
water resources, riparian and wetland areas, and aquatic habitats on public lands. This program
supports projects funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 40804 (b)
Ecosystem Restoration. This program also supports projects funded through the Inflation
Reduction Act (IRA), Sections 50221 Resilience, 50222 Ecosystems Restoration and 50303
DOI.