New report highlights BPA’s Fish and Wildlife Program’s achievements

A newly released review of BPA's Fish and Wildlife Program shows the extraordinary accomplishments the agency and its partners have achieved to protect and enhance fish and wildlife habitat and our regional environment.  The work is part of BPA's mitigation efforts for the effects of the federal hydrosystem on fish and wildlife.

According to the BPA Fish and Wildlife 2023 Review, since 2005 BPA and its partners have improved approximately 854,000 acres of habitat across the Northwest, equivalent to more than nine Seattles.

The 22-page report also states that in the same timeframe, electric ratepayers have helped to protect more than 1-million acres of wildlife habitat across the Northwest with more being protected each year. That's larger than Oregon's Siuslaw National Forest.

“I want to thank the tribes, federal and state agencies and other organizations who are our partners in implementing these projects," says Scott Armentrout, executive vice president for BPA Environment, Fish and Wildlife. “Bonneville funds hundreds of actions around the Pacific Northwest each year. These actions are intended to have long-term benefits, such as restoring habitat as well as protecting land in perpetuity for fish and wildlife."

The BPA Fish and Wildlife 2023 Review is a comprehensive report outlining how BPA resources have supported fish and wildlife program from 2005 through 2023. BPA intends to provide an annual update to the BPA Fish and Wildlife Program Review in the future.