Livestock ponds supply water for cattle while providing important habitat for protected species like the CRLF and CTS. The Wildlife-Friendly Ponds initiative helped ranchers restore pond habitat, increased water availability for cattle and improved downstream water quality. These goals were accomplished through pond restoration, including de-sedimentation, embankment and spillway repair, fencing and turtle rafts. The initiative streamlines regulatory hurdles and provided a cost-sharing to EQIP-eligible ranchers. The initiative restored 11 ponds on public and private land (two of the ponds were primarily developed under ACRCD’s Rangeland Resilience Project and are quantified in that project.)