Idaho Matters

New projects help to restore ecosystems in the Mountain West

The federal government is spending billions on infrastructure projects, including ecosystem restoration. Idaho Matters takes a look at what those dollars are buying.

Broadcast on:: 29 Aug 2023

A grassy hill. — (Still Epsilon / Flickr)

Two trillion dollars over 10 years. That's about how much new spending congress has approved during the Biden Administration.

Those numbers are so big that it can be hard to grasp the impact this money will have. The Mountain West News Bureau's Will Walked visited one project to see what some of that money is buying.