Stericycle is pleased to continue its commitment with the National Park Foundation in its fifth year of collaboration. Our commitment, initiated in 2021, has provided $1 million toward environmental efforts, which include wetland and habitat restoration. Recently, in 2024, the company supported wetland restoration efforts in Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.
The Ackerson Meadow Restoration Project is the largest wetland restoration project in Yosemite’s history. Once fully completed in 2025, the project is expected to restore approximately 90 acres of lost wetland and protect around 100 acres of threatened wetlands. As a key meadow habitat in the park, this landscape helps enhance water quality and supply and is an ecologically and regionally critical wildlife corridor.
“This high-profile wetland project demonstrates the important impact that donors such as Stericycle make in our national parks,” said Chad Jones, Senior Vice President, Corporate Partnerships, National Park Foundation. “Advancements undertaken in one of the country’s most popular national parks further increase the visibility of these efforts and highlight the supportive role of the National Park Foundation.”
Another project currently underway is supporting the Herring River restoration at the Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts. The Herring River wetland restoration project is a collaborative effort that leverages expertise and funding from multiple federal, state, and local entities with a goal of restoring approximately 1,000 acres of intertidal coastal wetlands. After the restoration is completed, natural tidal flows are anticipated once again to occur – expecting to result in improved water quality, enhanced connectivity and habitat for numerous aquatic species and waterfowl, and increased recreational opportunities for national park visitors.
Stericycle’s prior commitment has supported National Park Foundation’s rebuilding of oyster beds along identified coasts at the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in Jacksonville, Florida, as well as a project at the Cumberland Island National Seashore in Saint Mary’s, Georgia, to help decrease shoreline erosion, improve water quality, and restore ecosystems.
For 2025, Stericycle is currently working with the National Park Foundation to finalize new projects that are in an effort to further support ecosystem restoration in the United States.
To learn more about the National Park Foundation, visit www.nationalparks.org. To learn more about Stericycle's environmental efforts, visit www.stericycle.com/sustainability.
