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Green Marker Bradley Lake
In 1998 the city purchased this 60 acre old farm...
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Green Marker Bradley Lake Acquisition
This project is for the acquisition of 59.1 acres for...
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Green Marker Bradley Lake Park Phase III
Bradley Lake Park Phase III is the final phase of...
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Green Marker Buckley/White River Multi-Use Skate Park
This project in eastern Pierce County will create opportunities for...
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Green Marker Buckley Foothills Trail Extension
The City of Buckley plans to complete development of the...
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Red Marker Bud Blancher Trail
Eatonville will use this grant to build a 2.3-mile, non-motorized,...
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Green Marker Carbonado's 8th Avenue Park
This project in Pierce County creates a much needed park...
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Green Marker Chambers Creek North Dock & Pedestrian Overpass
The Pierce County Public Works Department will use this grant...
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Green Marker Children's Nature Exploration Area
The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Chinese Reconciliation Park Phase 1
The Chinese Garden and Reconciliation Park is a unique multi-phased...
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Green Marker Chinese Reconciliation Park- Phase 2
Tacoma will use this grant to build a Chinese picnic...
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Red Marker Cushman-Pierson Trails Connector
The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Red Marker DeMolay Property Acquisition
The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Dickman Mill
Purchase of 3.5 acres of saltwater property on Commencement Bay...
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Red Marker DuPont PowderWorks Skatepark
DuPont will use this grant to construct a 6,000-square-foot skate...
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Green Marker Edgemont Park
This project redevelops five acre Edgemont Park, the only active...
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Green Marker Flett Creek
Acquisition of land to provide permanent protection of two Garry...
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Green Marker Foothills Trail
Almost 25 miles of abandoned Burlington Northern Railroad right-of-way were...
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Green Marker Foothills Trail - Cascade Junction Sec.
This project is part of Pierce County’s work to provide...
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Green Marker Foothills Trail - Orting to S. Prairie
This development project constructs over 6.1 miles of trail along...
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Green Marker Fox Island Fishing Pier
This project involves the development of a fishing pier at...
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Red Marker Franklin Park Development
The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Red Marker Frontier Park Renovation - Inclusive Playground
Pierce County Parks and Recreation Services and the fifth-grade class...
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Green Marker Gig Harbor Skateboard Park
The City of Gig Harbor will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Harbor Family Park Acquisition
Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to buy...
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Green Marker Sprinker Skate Park
Pierce County Parks and Recreation is requesting funds to add...
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Green Marker Inholdings & Adjacent Properties - 2000
State Parks hopes to acquire key lands within and immediately...
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Red Marker Inholdings and Adjacent Properties 2010
State Parks will use this grant to buy private property...
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Green Marker Interurban Trail & Trailhead
Edgewood will use this grant to begin developing the city's...
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Green Marker Kenneth Leo Marvin Veterans Memorial Park
Gig Harbor will use this grant to develop 6.76 acres...
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Red Marker Knight Forest Acquisition
The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Lakewood Skate Park
Lakewood is one of the state’s newest incorporated areas. It...
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Red Marker Leach Creek Property Acquisition
University Place will use this grant to help buy nearly...
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Green Marker McKenna Boat Launch Playground
Pierce County Parks and Centralia City Light propose to install...
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Green Marker Milton Interurban Trail
The City of Milton will acquire almost 20 acres of...
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Green Marker Nisqually/Mashel, 1992
Addition of approximately 86 acres along the Nisqually and Mashel...
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Green Marker Nisqually/Mashel, 1994
This 183-acre acquisition further supports a planned state park on...
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Green Marker Nisqually/Mashel Ph. 2
Purchased 330 acres at the confluence of the Mashel and...
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Green Marker Nisqually-Mashel - 03-05 Acquisition
This project will purchase 250 acres from a commercial timber...
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Green Marker Nisqually Mashel - Phase 5
The wooded area surrounding the confluence of the Mashel and...
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Green Marker Nisqually Mashel - Phase 6
The area surrounding the confluence of the Mashel and Nisqually...
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Green Marker Nisqually River Riparian Project
The Nisqually River, a major salmon-producing river, has its headwater...
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Red Marker Nisqually State Park - Acquisitions
State Parks will use this grant to buy 82.98 acres...
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Green Marker Northeast Tacoma Acquisition
Purchase of 2.5 acres to provide an outdoor play area...
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Green Marker Palmer Property Acquisition
This acquisition in eastern Pierce County will provide the City...
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Red Marker Playground By The Sound
Pierce County Public Works and Utilities will use this grant...
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Green Marker Point Defiance Waterfront Improve.
Development of a pedestrian trail between the ferry terminal at...
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Green Marker Puyallup River Levee Setback
Pierce County will use this grant to buy 19.2 acres...
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Green Marker Sehmel Homestead
This 95.2-acre acquisition is centrally located within the Gig Harbor/Peninsula...
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Green Marker Skansie Brothers Park Acquisition
This one-acre property acquisition lies immediately south of Gig Harbor's...
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Green Marker Skansie Brothers Park Phase II
The City of Gig Harbor is requesting funding for the...
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Green Marker Springbrook Park
The City of Lakewood seeks WWRP aid to acquire and...
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Green Marker Sumner Trail #1 Confluence Trail to Bridge Street
Sumner will use this grant to build a trail that...
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Red Marker Sumner Urban to Mountain Trail, Section #4
Sumner will use this grant to build .37 mile of...
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Green Marker Sunnyside Beach
This development consisted of the expansion of a five-acre community...
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Green Marker Tacoma Narrows
This 36-acre acquisition creates a significant new waterfront park near...
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Red Marker Taylor Bay Phase 1
The Key Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant...
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Green Marker Thea Foss Waterway - 21st Street Park
This project will complete the initial phase of the Thea...
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Green Marker Thea's Park
Development of three acres of waterfront property into a passive...
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Green Marker Tiger Mountain - High Point Trailhead
Construction of High Point Trailhead, renovation of ten miles of...
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Green Marker Wapato Hills Habitat Area
Wapato Hills is the largest contiguous parcel of undeveloped open...
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Green Marker Wapato Hills Park
This 14-acre purchase in Pierce County will satisfy previously identified...
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Green Marker Wapato Park
This project renovated and expanded facilities in an 80-acre community...
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Green Marker Wapato Park Miranda Property Acquisition
The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Wapato Park Property Acquisition
With the acquisition of these two small parcels, the Metropolitan...
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Green Marker Wapato Park Shoreline Access
The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Green Marker Wards Lake Phase III Acq & Development
This project would expand Wards Lake Park by 2/3 of...
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Green Marker Wards Lake Phase II Acquisition
The City of Lakewood is working to acquire Wards Lake...
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Green Marker Wards Lake Phase I Acquisition
Acquisition of property along Wards Lake for a new neighborhood...
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Green Marker Wright Park Spray and Playground
The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
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Note: Not all projects are shown. red = pending, green = funded

Pierce County

Projects Funded in 2011 - 2012 13 total projects $7,347,068

Bud Blancher Trail - Town of Eatonville - $700,000 Eatonville will use this grant to build a 2.3-mile, non-motorized,...
Cushman-Pierson Trails Connector - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $1,076,605 The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
DeMolay Property Acquisition - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $1,267,875 The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
DuPont PowderWorks Skatepark - City of DuPont - $97,057 DuPont will use this grant to construct a 6,000-square-foot skate...
Franklin Park Development - Tacoma MPD - $500,000 The Tacoma Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
Frontier Park Renovation - Inclusive Playground - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $125,700 Pierce County Parks and Recreation Services and the fifth-grade class...
Inholdings and Adjacent Properties 2010 - State Parks - $900,000 State Parks will use this grant to buy private property...
Knight Forest Acquisition - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $381,832 The Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant to...
Leach Creek Property Acquisition - City of University Place - $75,000 University Place will use this grant to help buy nearly...
Nisqually State Park - Acquisitions - State Parks - $900,000 State Parks will use this grant to buy 82.98 acres...
Playground By The Sound - Pierce Co Public Works - $100,000 Pierce County Public Works and Utilities will use this grant...
Sumner Urban to Mountain Trail, Section #4 - City of Sumner - $978,999 Sumner will use this grant to build .37 mile of...
Taylor Bay Phase 1 - Key Peninsula Metro Park Dist - $244,000 The Key Peninsula Metropolitan Park District will use this grant...

1990 - 2010 Funded Projects 69 total projects $34,949,130

Bradley Lake - City of Puyallup - $268,820
Bradley Lake Acquisition - Puyallup Parks & Recreation - $500,000
Bradley Lake Park Phase III - City of Puyallup - $300,000
Buckley Foothills Trail Extension - City of Buckley - $100,982
Buckley/White River Multi-Use Skate Park - City of Buckley - $235,225
Carbonado's 8th Avenue Park - Carbonado Town of - $31,300
Chambers Creek Acquisition - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $1,049,687
Chambers Creek North Dock & Pedestrian Overpass - Pierce Co Public Works - $750,000
Children's Nature Exploration Area - Tacoma MPD - $350,000
Chinese Reconciliation Park Phase 1 - City of Tacoma - $554,221
Chinese Reconciliation Park- Phase 2 - City of Tacoma - $419,092
Devil's Head Acquisition - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $2,187,500
Dickman Mill - Tacoma MPD - $570,512
Dickman Mill Development Phase 1 - Tacoma MPD - $500,000
Edgemont Park - City of Edgewood - $61,315
Flett Creek - Clover Park Technical College - $280,119
Foothills Trail - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $500,000
Foothills Trail - Cascade Junction Sec. - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $300,000
Foothills Trail - Orting to S. Prairie - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $281,492
Fox Island Fishing Pier - Dept of Fish & Wildlife - $888,030
Gig Harbor Skateboard Park - Gig Harbor Public Works - $92,348
Harbor Family Park Acquisition - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $500,000
Inholdings & Adjacent Properties - 2000 - State Parks - $500,000
Interurban Trail & Trailhead - City of Edgewood - $714,920
Kenneth Leo Marvin Veterans Memorial Park - City of Gig Harbor - $300,000
Knutson Property Acquisition - City of Puyallup - $500,000
Lakewood Skate Park - City of Lakewood - $110,196
Mashel Riparian Habitat Acq & Protect - Town of Eatonville - $823,286
McKenna Boat Launch Playground - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $10,656
Milton Interurban Trail - City of Milton - $328,779
Minter Creek Phase 1 - Key Peninsula Metro Park Dist - $120,000
Nisqually Mashel - Phase 5 - State Parks - $500,000
Nisqually Mashel - Phase 6 - State Parks - $1,215,994
Nisqually River Riparian Project - Nisqually R Land Trust - $104,161
Nisqually-Mashel - 03-05 Acquisition - State Parks - $883,169
Nisqually/Mashel Ph. 2 - State Parks - $1,791,655
Nisqually/Mashel, 1992 - State Parks - $1,438,505
Nisqually/Mashel, 1994 - State Parks - $1,006,368
Northeast Tacoma Acquisition - Tacoma MPD - $167,486
Orting Valley Farms - Pierce County - $750,000
Palmer Property Acquisition - City of Puyallup - $88,600
Point Defiance Waterfront Improve. - Tacoma MPD - $267,497
Puyallup River Levee Setback - Pierce County - $431,351
Sehmel Homestead - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $319,644
Shoreline Acquisition - City of Tacoma - $2,280,000
Skansie Brothers Park Acquisition - City of Gig Harbor - $406,250
Skansie Brothers Park Phase II - City of Gig Harbor - $500,000
Springbrook Park - City of Lakewood - $238,126
Sprinker Skate Park - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $275,000
Sunnyside Beach - Steilacoom Parks & Comm Svcs - $158,857
Tacoma Narrows - Pierce County Parks & Rec - $1,108,500
Thea Foss Waterway - 21st Street Park - Tacoma Public Works - $300,000
Thea's Park - Tacoma MPD - $366,664
Tiger Mountain - High Point Trailhead - Dept of Natural Resources - $653,800
Titlow Park Renovation/Expansion - Tacoma MPD - $182,095
Wapato Hills Habitat Area - City of Tacoma - $900,000
Wapato Hills Neighborhood Park - Tacoma MPD - $300,000
Wapato Hills Park - Tacoma MPD - $500,000
Wapato Park - Tacoma MPD - $181,827
Wapato Park Property Acquisition - Tacoma MPD - $182,149
Wapato Park Shoreline Access - Tacoma MPD - $500,000
Wards Lake Phase I Acquisition - City of Lakewood - $150,575
Wards Lake Phase II Acquisition - City of Lakewood - $250,005
Wards Lake Phase III Acq & Development - City of Lakewood - $317,550
Wollochet Bay Estuary Park - Peninsula Metropolitan Park - $369,350
Wright Park Spray and Playground - Tacoma MPD - $500,000

What is the WWRP?

The Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program (WWRP) is a state grant program that creates and conserves local and state parks, wildlife habitat and working farms. The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office administers WWRP grants, and the legislature funds the program.

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