12/22 OPB Ecotrope – Feds grant $5.6 million for Northwest wetlands
By Cassandra Profita
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar just announced more than $19 million in grants for 24 conservation projects on more than 5,900 acres of coastal habitats through the 2011 National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program.
In the Pacific Region, grants totaling nearly $5.6 million will support the acquisition and restoration of 2,478 acres at seven locations ranging from Willapa Bay, Drayton Harbor and Tarboo-Dabob Bay in Washington to Tillamook Bay and the Coquille River Valley in Oregon.
They include $2 million for acquisition of 1,080 acres of land in north and central Willapa Bay in southwest Washington, $1 million for acquisition of 100 acres in the Tillamook Bay estuary on Oregon’s north coast, and $317,000 for acquisition of 76 acres in the Miami River Basin, which empties into Tillamook Bay. A grant of $1 million will go toward acquisition of 622 acres of land in the Coquille Valley on Oregon’s south coast.
More at
http://ecotrope.opb.org/2010/12/feds-grant-5-6-million-for-northwest-wetlands/