PORT ANGELES — Clallam County tribes and groups received $1.2 million — and Jefferson groups got $1.2 million — in salmon recovery money from the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board.
In total, $19.2 million in grants to 28 counties were announced.
Don “Bud” Hover, chairman of the state funding board, said in a news release the grants “give local groups the money they need to fix the rivers, estuaries and bays in their communities and they put local people to work.”
The Clallam grants are:
— $288,950 to the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe for replacing a culvert with a steel bridge on a logging road near the Hoko River.
– $200,000 to the Lower Elwha tribe for designing the Pysht River estuary restoration project.
– $179,245 to the Makah tribe to replace the Crooked Creek tributary culvert.
– $166,527 to the Washington Water Trust for designing projects to store and recharge the Dungeness River acquifer.
– $116,737 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition for replacing a drainage pipe on Sands Creek.
– $110,727 to the North Olympic Land Trust for land conservation on the Clallam River.
– $62,893 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition for repairing a U.S. Forest Service roads along the North Fork of the Calawah River.
— $44,445 to the Makah tribe for restoration of the Big River floodplain.
The Jefferson County grants are:
— $345,275 to Jefferson County for conserving land along the Dosewallips and Duckabush rivers.
— $288,680 to the North Olympic Salmon Coalition for removing the Discovery Bay railroad grade.
— $207,900 to Jefferson County for conserving land along the Big Quilcene River.
— $126,100 to the Jefferson County Land Trust for conserving Snow Creek.
— $104,278 to the Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition for opening passages in the Christmas Creek tributaries.
The projects are based on regional salmon recovery plans, which are approved by the federal government.
Each project is reviewed by regional salmon recovery organizations and the Salmon Recovery Funding Board’s technical review panel.
“This process ensures that we fund the projects that the local citizens feel are most important and that scientists agree will do the most to recover salmon,” Hover said.
