Trust buys 871 acres to save salmon
Sunday, January 28, 2001
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Columbia Land Trust bought 871 acres of the Chinook River's floodplain to protect critical salmon habitat and then donated it to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Vancouver-based organization has announced.
Government agencies and nonprofit groups are working together to foot the bill for the $3.5 million project to restore the Chinook estuary near the mouth of the Columbia River, said Glenn Lamb, executive director of Columbia Land Trust.
"This is the largest single project in acreage we've done," he said Friday.
It's also the largest estuary restoration project in Washington and Oregon, said Greg Schirato of the state fish and wildlife department.
The trust used $210,000 of a $999,000 grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to purchase the land from Washington State University. The previous owner, a farmer, had willed the land to WSU to support its Puyallup agriculture program. The Natural Resource Conservation Service, a federal agency, paid $1.8 million for a conservation easement on the property, which bars farming and development there.
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