Many of the Tribe’s ongoing projects to restore and conserve the streams, forests, wetlands and other wild lands of Akwesasne have the potential to increase and improve habitat for the area’s wildlife. For example, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded the Tribe more than $190,000 for hardwood wetlands habitat restoration and management to help enhance and restore black ash resources for the benefit of wildlife. A number of the proposed ecological restoration projects from the Alcoa Inc. and General Motors settlement-associated natural resource damage assessment – including stream and wetland restoration, acquisition of land, amphibian and reptile enhancement and restoration projects, and freshwater mussel restoration projects – may also have the potential to help conserve the wildlife species that live in or pass through Akwesasne in the face of climate change.