Alabama Restoration Area

Dune in Alabama

Dunes in Alabama

Restoration work in the Alabama Restoration Area focuses on restoring and conserving habitat and replenishing and protecting wildlife such as sea turtles, marine mammals, birds, and oysters. We are also providing and enhancing recreational opportunities, restoring water quality, and restoring habitats on federal lands.

Together, the Trustees are restoring natural resources—and the services they provide—that were injured by the spill. We are developing project-specific restoration plans that are consistent with the programmatic restoration plan (see chart below). As part of the restoration planning process, we accept restoration project ideas from the public. The public also has the opportunity to review and comment on any proposed project-specific restoration plans for the Alabama Restoration Area. Once a plan is approved, we will implement and monitor the selected projects.

Restoration Plans

Alabama Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge Supplemental Restoration Plan
Alabama Swift Tract Supplemental Environmental Assessment
Alabama Lloyd Tract Acquisition Supplemental Restoration Plan
Alabama Restoration Plan 2
Alabama Restoration Plan 3 Addendum
Alabama Restoration Plan 3
Alabama Restoration Plan 1

Recent News

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a small white bird with a black beak stands on a sandy ground

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group is

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a small white bird is standing on sandy ground with small green plants around it

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group will hold

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a stack of wild oysters is shown

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group (TIG)

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a couple stands on a beach with an orange sunset in the background

Through the cooperation and coordination of five

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The sun sets over a Gulf Coast marsh in Alabama.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group posted an

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Sunset over a marsh in Alabama on the Gulf of Mexico.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group will host

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Silhouette of a person walking on a beach in Alabama.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group posted an

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heavy machinery on a barge digging into piles of oyster cultch.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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Lightly vegetated dunes on a beach. Signs say "do not enter" "restoration in progress"

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group for the

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On a Mississippi Gulf Coast beach looking out to the water with a pier.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill Natural Resource

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Anglers fishing on kayaks in Texas, near Port Aransas. Copyright Texas Parks and Wildlife

The Trustee Council will hold its sixth annual

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Fishing pier at Meaher State Park near Spanish Fort, Alabama. Photo by Outdoor Alabama/Billy Pope.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group held its

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A Least Sandpiper splashing on the water. Water droplets surround it from the splash.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group marked

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Dunes and grass at a beach in the Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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The award-winning Gulf State Park at night. A boardwalk and dunes in the foreground.

Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Alabama, has

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Snowy egret starts its flight above Gulf of Mexico Waters. FWC photo by Andy Wraithmell

The Colonial Nesting Wading Bird Tracking and

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A school of Horse-eye jacks in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Trustee Council will hold its fifth annual

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Sunset over dunes and marsh in Destin Florida, a dolphin dorsal fin breaches the water in the foreground.

In 2019, the Deepwater Horizon Trustees continued

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Marsh along the shore of Weeks Bay, Alabama.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group is

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A lagoon shoreline has new plants, and other vegetation along the water's edge.

In early November, a team of Trustee staff working

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A man stands at a microphone addressing what we can assume is a panel of staff members, with an audience to his back.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group released

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A sandy beach along the Perdido River in Alabama. Trees line the opposite bank.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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The sun sets across a small bay behind the coastline. A dock and shelter sit above the water in the foreground.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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A boardwalk meandering through Alabama wetlands, with an interpretive sign.

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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A diver operates a camera in a coral nursery.

The Trustees are committed to providing annual

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A section of the newly re-opened Jeff Friend Trail in Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge in Alabama.

In January, the Jeff Friend Trail at Bon Secour

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One of multiple osprey nesting platforms installed in Alabama to support restoration of their populations.

Finding a suitable place to build a nest can be a

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Future building site with shrubs

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group is making

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green turtle on a beach

It’s been one year since we settled with BP and

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Alabama coastline

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group has

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Bayou Sullivan

Last week, the Alabama Trustee Implementation

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wading birds on the Alabama coast

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group is

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rock placement

The Swift Tract Living Shoreline project in

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Marsh in Alabama

The Alabama Trustee Implementation Group welcomes

Projects

Projects led by the trustees for the Alabama Restoration Area are below. Use the filters below to search for specific projects. Learn more about individual projects below or view them in our interactive map. You can also learn about the environmental compliance for each of these projects

Planning

Planning led by the trustees for the Florida Restoration Area are below. Use the filters below to search for specific planning efforts.

Alabama Allocation of Restoration Funds

The chart shows the restoration funding allocated to the Alabama Restoration Area for each restoration goal and the percentage of committed funds as of May 2023. For more information on the allocation of funds, please visit the Department of Justice Deepwater Horizon page.

Alabama Restoration Area funding chart May 2021

Monitoring and Adaptive Management

The Alabama Restoration Area considers monitoring and adaptive management throughout their restoration efforts. To find project-related monitoring and adaptive management information, click on the project names above or in the interactive project map. The Alabama Restoration area also has several Monitoring and Adaptive Management Projects:

Trustee Implementation Group

The trustees for the Alabama Restoration Area are:

Contact: altig@dcnr.alabama.gov