Six years after breaking ground, progress at the Salton Sea Management Project is rapidly accelerating. Now, as the initiative gathers momentum, a vast reclamation of lost habitat begins to emerge. In the dusty landscape at the south end of the Salton Sea, the SSMP is hard at work building the Species Conservation Habitat, one of the largest conservation engineering projects in the country. The Salton Sea has been receding rapidly, exposing more of the lakebed, sending more dust into the air and removing thousands of acres of habitat for the many species that call this desert home. In 2018, the SSMP began its 10-year project to replace 30,000 acres of lost habitat, and now, six years into this ambitious effort, the work is beginning to bear fruit.