Lewis County will receive more than a million dollars in state grants to improve habitat for salmon and trout, the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced Monday.
The funding is part of $50.3 million in grants for 145 projects across the state, with about half of the money coming from the Climate Commitment Act (CCA). The remaining grants were funded by the state Legislature and the federal government through the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.
“These grants are crucial to salmon recovery work in Washington,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement. “Without this funding, we’d have no chance of returning salmon to healthy, harvestable levels. The Climate Commitment Act is helping us go bigger and faster all across the state. It will take all of us pulling together to change the fate of salmon, which is inextricably linked to Washington’s economy and quality of life.”
In total, Lewis County will receive $1.2 million in grants, which include:
• $128,300 for the Lewis Conservation District Grant awarded to “replace two undersized culverts limiting fish passage from an unnamed tributary to the Middle Fork Newaukum River.”