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
State Parks will use this grant to restore native shrubs, grasses, and forbs on about 2000 acres in the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park in Kittitas County. This project will remove nonnative species, restore native plant communities in areas impacted by grazing and wildfires, and install an interpretive sign. Existing park trails offer opportunities to observe rare native species and habitats. The primary habitat to be restored is sage-steppe shrublands.