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Kennedy Creek NAP 2010
- Status
- Pending Legislative Approval
The Department of Natural Resources will use this grant to buy 81 acres within the Kennedy Creek Natural Area Preserve. The properties include privately owned salt marsh and land along Kennedy and Schneider Creeks. The preserve protects three, high quality, native, intertidal salt marsh ecosystems that are considered rare in the Puget Trough Ecoregion. The estuary protected by the preserve also provides critical habitat for shorebirds and waterfowl including dunlin, greater yellowlegs, black-bellied plovers, and sandpipers. Birds of prey including bald eagles, peregrine falcons, and merlin forage in the estuary. The site also supports a robust run of fall chum, as well as coho, winter steelhead, and coastal cutthroat. This grant is from the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program.
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.
