| Cooperative
Endangered Species Conservation Fund
2008 Grant Awards in Washington State
- Habitat Conservation
Plan Land Acquisition ($7,087,781 awarded)
- Habitat Conservation
Planning Assistance ($1,347,300 awarded)
- Recovery Land
Acquisition (no funds awarded to WA)
The State of Washington
has been awarded grant funding from the 2008 Cooperative Endangered
Species
Conservation Fund ("Section 6"),
for the four projects listed below.
In order to compete for this national funding, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Washington Department of Natural Resources, with assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, reviewed and evaluated ten project proposals and recommended them for national competition.
All land acquisitions that may result from these awards to the State can only be made from willing sellers, for fair market value, based on current appraisals.
Questions about these funded projects may be directed to the associated agency contact.
Projects Awarded Funds under the
Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Land Acquisition Grant Program
Project
Name: Okanogan-Similkameen
Watershed, Phase I
Location: Okanogan County, WA
Award: $5,000,000
Proposal: This
project would secure approximately 6,200 acres of ecologically
critical animal movement corridors for grizzly bear, gray wolf,
Canada lynx, and wolverine and their ungulate prey. The corridors
would link the North Cascades Ecosystem with the Kettle/Selkirk
Mountains Ecosystem as well as the grassland/shrub-steppe habitat
of southern British Columbia with the shrub-steppe habitat
of the Columbia Basin. The acquisition would provide benefits
for at least 48 species listed by the State, Federal, or Canadian
governments.
State
Agency Sponsor - Contact: WDFW – Elizabeth
Rodrick (360) 902-2696
Project
Name: Heart
of the Cascades, Phase I
Location: Kittitas County, WA
Award: $2,087,781 (award is for partial funding of $3,600,000 requested)
Proposal: This
project would conserve biodiversity at the landscape scale
by conserving the checkerboard ownership pattern in the Central
Cascades. This grant funding would acquire 10,370 acres of
ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir mixed conifer, and riparian habitats
in the Rock Creek drainage along the Naches River. Benefits
are expected for the northern spotted owl, bull trout, grizzly
bear, gray wolf, Canada lynx, and a number of unlisted species.
State
Agency Sponsor - Contact: WDFW – Elizabeth
Rodrick (360) 902-2696
Projects Awarded
Funds under the Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) Land Acquisition
Grant Program
Project
Name: Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife Area HCP
Location: Statewide, all 39 counties, WA
Award: $666,900
Proposal: This
grant funds the fourth year of an HCP process for the State’s
wildlife areas covering a total of approximately 830,000
acres. The HCP would offer benefits to protected species
and land users by providing certainty that land management
activities meet Federal species protection requirements.
Listed species that would benefit include but are not limited
to: pygmy rabbit, woodland caribou, snowy plover, spotted
owl, marbled murrelet, bull trout, Chinook salmon, steelhead,
Oregon silverspot, golden paintbrush, and Kincaid’s
lupine. Unlisted species include greater sage-grouse, northern
goshawk, burrowing owl, Oregon spotted frog, Larch Mountain
salamander, coho salmon, Mardon skipper, Taylor’s
checkerspot, and giant Columbia River limpet.
State
Agency Sponsor - Contact: WDFW – Jane
Banyard (360) 902-2572
Project
Name: Washington State Hydraulic Project Approval HCP
Location: Statewide, all 39 counties,
WA
Award: $680,400
Proposal:Funding is sought for the fourth year of the HCP process for the State’s primary fish-protection regulatory program, the Hydraulic Project Approval (HPA) program. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife seeks an HCP as a means of continuing conservation of fish and shellfish species and habitat, while achieving long-term certainty that the HPA program meets Federal species protection requirements. Listed species that would benefit include bull trout; steelhead; and Chinook, Coho, and sockeye salmon. Unlisted species include but are not limited to: coastal cutthroat trout; green sturgeon; Pacific, river, and western brook lamprey; California floater mussel; and giant Columbia River limpet.
State
Agency Sponsor - Contact: WDFW – Jane
Banyard (360) 902-2572
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