Habitat Restoration | Yosemite Conservancy

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Preserving natural habitats and healthy ecosystems for flora, fauna and future generations.

Yosemite’s nearly 750,000 acres harbor diverse terrain, from low-elevation meadows and woodlands, to alpine lakes and talus slopes. Your support can fund projects to restore habitats, so natural processes and native species can thrive in healthy ecosystems.

Current Projects

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Ackerson Meadow: Monitoring and Management
Enable scientists and subject matter experts to complete rare species monitoring, stewardship access, and adaptive management at the Ackerson Meadow restoration site — the largest single wetland-restoration project in the history of the Sierra Nevada. 
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Kerrick Meadow Restoration
Reroute the popular wilderness trail bisecting Kerrick Meadow to restore ecological stability for local amphibian populations and protect hikers from seasonal flooding and erosion.
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Keep It Wild
Support youth crews in minimizing modern human impacts on Yosemite’s wilderness ecosystems through the removal of inappropriately located backcountry campsites and campfire rings, informal trails, and non-native plants.
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You’ll see signs of healthy habitat restored through donor-funded projects almost anywhere you go in Yosemite. Milkweed blooming in Yosemite Valley meadows. Rare plants flourishing in the soaked “spray zone” beside Vernal Fall. Giant sequoia seedlings stretching out of healthy soil, 300 feet below the crowns of their mature relatives. Wetland rebounding in Lyell Canyon, as vegetation takes root in the former footprint of a relocated trail.

Our habitat restoration projects have rehabilitated and protected ecosystems in popular parts of the park, such as Mariposa Grove and Tuolumne Meadows, and in the far reaches of the Yosemite Wilderness, where “Keep It Wild” crews carefully repair areas impacted by backcountry camping. Want to learn more? Take a look at our iconic and past projects.

Areas of Focus

Thanks to supporters, we’ve provided over $152 million to Yosemite for more than 800 completed projects. Donor gifts help improve trails, restore habitat, protect wildlife, inspire the next generation of nature-lovers and more. Explore our funding areas to see current and past projects.