![Construction crews begin work on the Species Conservation Habitat project on dry lakebed at the southern end of the Salton Sea](/-/media/DWR-Images/Salton-Sea/20201020---North-NR---GTP-42.jpg?mw=200&hash=1014ECB8D9B8DF8322AD1641A48F7AEF)
Last week a fleet of bulldozers and other heavy equipment began the enormous task of moving roughly 5 million cubic yards of soil around a 4,110-acre area of dry lakebed at the southern end of the Salton Sea as part of the Species Conservation Habitat Project.