The Bureau of Land Management will invest $161 million in ecosystem restoration projects throughout the Western U.S., and some of that money will go to Arizona.
The funding will pay to reduce wildfire risk, restore habitat, manage watersheds and improve wildlife migration corridors.
BLM lands in northwest Arizona, north of the Grand Canyon, will get some of the money.
The agency will also invest nearly $10 million to protect sky island country in southeast Arizona, including portions of the San Pedro River.
"It’s going to protect critical wildlife habitat corridors between the islands," said BLM Director Tracy Stone Manning. "And then it’s going to take care of some long-standing cattle trespass issues we’ve had in the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area."
The work will be funded by the Inflation Reduction Act and includes lands in southern Utah along the northern Arizona border.
