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
Washington State Parks will use this grant to restore grassland balds on Hope Island Natural Area Preserve in Skagit County. Building on past restoration phases, project work will remove invasive grasses and encroaching conifers, will seed and plant native forbs and grasses, and will install fencing to protect the Natural Area Preserve’s sensitive habitats. The primary habitat to be restored is grassland balds.