OLYMPIA — A Vancouver-based organization will receive nearly $300,000 for a salmon habitat restoration project in north Clark County, the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced Thursday.
The Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group was awarded $292,460 for a restoration project on the North Fork Lewis River near the Haapa boat launch. The group will use the grant to place large tree root wads and logs along a quarter-mile stretch of the river, remove noxious weeds, and plant more than 10,000 native trees and shrubs along the shoreline.
The Lewis River is home to chinook, chum and coho salmon and winter steelhead, according to the funding board.
The project’s award was among $18 million in grants given to organizations in 29 counties.
