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Mason Conservation District receives three grants
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 - Mason County Journal - Page A-7
By GORDON WEEKS
gordon@masoncoun com
Salmon in Goldsborough Creek, Oakland Bay,
Lynch Cove and Case Inlet are among the fish that
will benefit from $1.2 million in grants the Washing-
ton Salmon Recovery Funding Board awarded Mason
County organizations.
In total, organizations in 29 counties were given
$18 million in grants to restore salmon habitat, con-
serve pristine areas and help bring salmon back from
the brink of extinction.
"Salmon are important to Washington because
they support thousands of jobs in Washington -- fish-
ing, seafood processing, boat sales and repair, tour-
ism and more," Gov. Jay Inslee said in a news release.
"When we restore land and water for salmon, we also
are helping our communities. We get less flooding,
cleaner water and better beaches. We also make sure
our grandchildren will be able to catch a fish or enjoy
watching the return of wild salmon."
The Capitol Land Trust was awarded $110,925 to
conserve habitat on Goldsborough Creek.
The Capitol Land Trust will use the grant to buy
420 acres on the North Fork Goldsborough Creek
near Shelton. About a half-mile of North Fork Golds-
borough Creek and tributaries bisect the land, which
contains second-growth forest and wetlands.
The land is next to property by the land trust al-
ready conserved. The site will provide habitat for
steelhead, coho salmon and cutthroat trout.
The Capitol Land Trust also received $23,500 to
maintain plantings on two of the largest conserved
shorelines on Oakland Bay, Twin Rivers Ranch Pre-
serve and Oakland Bay Historical Park. The land
trust will maintain 12 acres of shoreline plantings on
Deer, Cranberry and Malaney creeks. Those creeks
support runs of native coho and steelhead, which are
listed as threatened with extinction under the federal
Endangered Species Act; chum and chinook salmon;
and coastal cutthroat trout.
The Great Peninsula Conservancy will use a
$297,132 grant to restore habitat on the Union River
estuary on Lynch Cove in Belfair. The conservancy
will remove fill, structures, infrastructures and inva-
sive plants; restore the grade to conditions before it
was filled in 1973; restore side channel habitat; and
plant native trees and bushes. The work will restore
about a quarter-mile each of natural shoreline and
Photo courtesy of state Salmon Recovery Funding Board and the Recreation and Conservation OffiCe
The South Puget Sound Enhancement Group is partnering with Mason Coun . a pson Lumber
Co. to replace two culverts that block fish on Like's Creek, a tributary Creek hear
Shelton, The group received an $84,900 grant from the Washington nding Board
to replace a railroad culvert that has blocked fish f0rabout 100 yea ,i9 ....
tidal channels and about 7 acres of tidal march and $2.4 million project.
estuary, which is vital habitat to Puget Sound chi- The Mason Conservation District's third grant
nook, Hood Canal summer chum and winter steel- provides $352,096 to place 21 logjams in the Holman
head. Flats area of the South Fork Skok~h River to im-
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The Mason Conservatmn District received three prove habitat for sal ~; i
grants The ~~ Enhancement
The district will use a $13,617 grant to c0mpl~place a Simp-
final designs for a project to enhance up to ~feet:: ~ofi~Isiimbe k, a tributary
of shoreline along Case Inlet in Allyn. The project of Goldsborough Creek near Shelton. The culvert has
includes removing about 120 feet of shoreline armor
and planting shrubs and trees. Steelhead and chi-
nook salmon use the shoreline.
The district will use a $360,500 grant to design
projects in the Skokomish River Basin. The district
has already evaluated significant degradation in
the river basin and recommended a series of proj-
ects. With this grant, the district will begin
ing projects to submit to Congress for funding on the
blocked fish from passing for about 100 years.
The group will contribute $43,000 from another
grant and will partner with Mason County to remove
a second blocking culvert further upstream.
PUD 3 commissioner appointed to national board
STAFF REPORT sists APPA in promoting federal Pacific Northwest utility trade
news@masoncoun~com legislation that is important to groups and on boards for public-
public-power utilities like PUD power consortiums.
Mason County PUD 3 Com- 3, and works to protect utilities Gott was the first woman elect-
missioner Linda Gott was recent- from harmful legislation. It also ed to the PUD 3 commission in its
ly appointed to a three-year term provides advice on other issues of 75-year history.
on the Policy Makers Council of importance to the national organi- APPA is based in Washington,
the American Public Power As- zation. D.C. It is the service organization
sociation (APPA) Board of Direc- Gott was elected to the Mason for the nation's more than 2,000
tors. County PUD 3 Board of Commis- community-owned electric utili-
Gott previously served a one- sioners in 1999 and is in her third ties. Collectively, these utilities
year term on the board, six-year term. She has served in serve more than 47 million Ameri-
The 40-member council as- a variety of leadership roles with cans.
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