Conservation Resource Alliance (CRA)

The stream restoration program is designed to address stream bank erosion, failing road stream crossings, dams, and recreational access sites, which cause adverse biological impacts to animal and plant life and threaten the ecology of entire watersheds. Restoration programs provide for road crossing improvements, structural stabilization measures, dam removal, and stream channel restoration to improve habitat and water quality. Four million acres in fifteen counties and fifteen streams have been aided through this program.

The planning and consulting programs involve facilitating local leadership and planning in cra's service area, plus agile and carefully matched involvement in regional efforts at the state, great lakes and national scale. Through our planning and consulting work, cra is committed to staying proactive and highly current on each local watershed and corridor. We have also added value by sharing our successful models with others throughout the great lakes.

The landowner & site services program is designed to assist landowners by developing management plans to keep wildlife corridors open between existing natural areas and along river corridors, in order to allow for the unrestricted movement of wildlife and the protection of water quality. Corridors along wetlands and streams contain a high diversity of plants and animals whose habitat has become increasingly fragmented by development.