Category Overview
The State Lands Restoration and Enhancement category provides funding to two state agencies to help repair damaged plant and animal habitat. These grants focus on resource preservation and protection of public lands. Projects in this category help bring important natural areas and resources back to their original functions by improving the self sustaining and ecological functionality of sites.
Project Highlights
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will use this grant to help restore aquatic and riparian habitat along a three-mile stretch of the North Fork Toutle River in Mount St. Helens Wildlife Area, Cowlitz County. Adding to past protection measures, project work will construct channel stabilizing structures and plant native tree species to reduce riverbank erosion and allow for riparian forest habitat recovery. The primary habitat to be restored is side channel and riparian habitat.