Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, NOAA funded 125 habitat restoration projects in coastal areas throughout the country. … Through the Recovery Act, NOAA partnered with the [California Conservation Corps] to support more than 30 coastal habitat restoration projects. These projects benefitted threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead throughout coastal California. More than 200 corps members worked to open waterways to fish migration, stabilize stream banks, conduct project monitoring, and more.