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 Natural Resources and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will use this grant to restore 800 acres of outwash prairie, grassland bald, and oak woodland habitat at five of the most significant conservation sites in the southern Puget Sound region: Bald Hill, Mima Mounds, Rocky Prairie, Scatter Creek, and West Rocky Prairie. These sites harbor some of the last remaining populations of plants and animals listed as threatened with extinction or as endangered as well as the Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Species of Greatest Conservation in the region. The departments will get native seeds and transplants, prepare restoration areas for seeding through prescribed burning and controlling invasive plants, and then seed and replant the areas. In addition, the two departments will remove invasive species in some of the areas and enhance habitat for Oregon spotted frog at Rocky Prairie.