Competition for funding such restoration projects is pitting a growing number of U.S. jurisdictions against one another, as the fight intensifies for scarce resources to protect people and land from the devastating impacts of climate change https://news.trust.org/packages/ipcc-climate-vulnerability-and-adaptation. Poplar Island is in Maryland, where officials are planning a similar project to build up 2,000 acres of largely wildlife habitat on James and Barren Islands - also in the Chesapeake Bay - using dredged material from shipping channels.