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 Department of Fish and Wildlife will use this grant to to restore 0.4 miles of West Foster Creek on the Wells Wildlife Area in Douglas County. This reach is in a degraded condition due to an incised stream channel and headcuts. The goal is to stop the incision process, improve water quality, stream habitat, and the surrounding riparian vegetation community. To achieve this goal, beaver dam analogs will be placed in the stream and restoration plantings will occur. The primary habitat restored is riparian.