TRUST GETS ALMOST $1 MILLION FOR COLUMBIA WETLANDS
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
Columbian staff writerThe Columbia Land Trust has been awarded almost $1 million to buy and restore wetlands on the lower Columbia River.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allotted $999,000 to let the Vancouver-based land trust buy more than 1,500 acres of wetlands and associated upland habitat and to restore and enhance more than 4,400 acres of wetlands.
Ducks Unlimited, a partner in the project, will design and restore the wetlands.
Highlights include buying a 900-acre estuarine marsh along the Chinook River, restoring more than 2,000 acres at the Julia Butler Hansen Wildlife Refuge near Cathlamet and restoring the 1,817-acre Smith and Bybee Lakes wildlife area in Portland.
Glenn Lamb, the trust's executive director, called the lands some of the most significant habitat for waterfowl, shorebirds and wading birds in the lower Columbia.
Other sites for work include the Grays River, Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, Shillapoo Lake, Eagle Island on the North Fork of the Lewis River, Sauvie Island wildlife area, Deer Island and private lands in Oregon's Clatsop County.
The grant announced this week is by far the biggest ever received by the land trust, a non-profit organization that works with landowners on voluntary land conservation projects.
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