North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity
Selinda
Barkhuis, Coordinator
sbarkhuis@co.clallam.wa.us
www.NOPLEgroup.org
Clallam County Courthouse
223 E.
Fourth Street, # 5
Port Angeles, WA 98362
Phone
direct (360) 417-2430
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Salmon Recovery Newsletter
V2 E3, March 2005
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Find
electronic versions (with live links) of this and previous Newsletters at http://www.noplegroup.org
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Events
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HOOD CANAL: LAST
GASP? Watershed Day VI Presented by Water/Beach
Watchers. Is it too late to help save Hood Canal? Hear what
the top regional experts are describing as a crucial time for Hood Canal and the life it contains. Fort Worden State Park, The Commons Port
Townsend, WA Saturday, March 12th
9:00am-3:00pm. Speakers: Jan
Newton-University of Washington, Senior Oceanographer; Greg Bargmann-Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Fisheries Manager; Dan Hannafious- Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program, Salmon
Enhancement Group; Dave Christensen-Hood Canal Coordinating Council, Water
Quality Program Manager; Pat Pearson and Cammy Mills-
Shore Stewards Program; For more
information or to register, call (360) 379-5610. Event includes lunch. $15 for early registration/$20 at the
door. Register early so you are included
in the headcount for lunch.
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Washington Water
Outlook Seminar. The water supply situation in Washington's Cascade and Olympic Mountains is unfolding as one of the worst in at least 50
years. A special workshop sponsored by
the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group will describe likely flows in the next 6+
months using a variety of new state-of-the-science prediction tools, and
experts will discuss the implications of the evolving drought for the region's
water resource needs. The workshop,
which will be held in the Visitor's Center at the Arboretum in Seattle, is free and open to the public but attendance is
limited. March 21,
2005. For more information, agenda, and to
register, see http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/washwateroutlook.shtml
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7th Puget Sound Georgia Basin Research Conference is scheduled for March 29-31, 2005 at the
Washington Convention and Trade Center in Seattle. http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/psgb/save.html
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2005 Sustainability
and Restoration Regional Conference: A Practical Partnership for the 21st
Century, April 4-8, 2005 in Seattle http://www.engr.washington.edu/epp/ser/index.html
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2005 Northwest
Sustainability Conference, April 22 - 24, 2005 in Seattle http://www.nweec.org/sust-400b_04-05_seattle.htm
Federal
& WA State Salmon Recovery News
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Gov. Christine Gregoire and
Lands Commissioner Doug Sutherland sign landmark forest and stream application http://www.dnr.wa.gov/htdocs/adm/comm/nr05_gov_dnr.htm
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Salmon related legislation currently making the
rounds in Olympia at http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo1/billsearch.cfm?Searchterm=salmon#
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TVW provides unedited television coverage of state
government deliberations and public policy events. Programming can be accessed
on cable networks throughout Washington State.
Listen and watch real-time audio and video of our television signal, archives
or select webcast-only LIVE events for FREE. http://www.tvw.org/
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For highlights of Shared Strategy Summits (including all platform statements) go to http://sharedsalmonstrategy.org/summit/highlights.htm
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NOAA Critical Habitat Designations: NOAA has
extended the public comment period until March 15, 2005 for the proposed critical habitat for 20
Evolutionary Significant Units (ESU's) of salmon and
steelhead in the NW and California. For Clallam County, this is Hood Canal Chum, Puget Sound Chinook and Lake Ozette Sockeye. The
critical habitat designations were originally published in February of 2000,
but withdrawn in April, 2002 under lawsuit.
A good map is available through http://map.streamnet.org/website/criticalhabitat/viewer. The Chinook nearshore habitat appears to
extend only to the mouth of the Elwha and does not include Freshwater Bay.
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USFW Critical Habitat Designations: Also, the
USFWS proposed Critical Habitat for Bull Trout last June. A final rule will be
published June 15, 2005. For Clallam County, this includes the Elwha, Little River, the Dungeness, and portions of
Ennis Creek, Morse Creek, Siebert Creek and Bell Creek. The proposed nearshore will include
everything from Discovery Bay
to Pillar A map is located at http://164.159.13.37/
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For links to ESU-level recovery efforts that effect
the Olympic Peninsula, go to http://noplegroup.org/NOPLE/pages/bibliography.htm#ESA
Olympic
Peninsula
Salmon Recovery News
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Matriotti Creek is
cleaner http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2005news/2005-027.html
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A river reigns through the Queets http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0130/cover.html
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Late January, 2005 Snow Levels per ONP. Cox Valley (Hurricane Ridge) survey revealed a 8" snow depth, with a 2.3"
water content equivalent! The average for this time of year is 77" snow
depth with a 24.9" water content. (9% of the
average since measuring began in 1968).
The Deer
Park snow
course is more bleak! No snow! It's
average should be 44" snow depth with 14.0" water content. (Deer Park
snow surveys began in 1949) No snow had been recorded once before in 1977 at Deer Park.
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Olympic Peninsula Salmon and
Habitat Information clearinghouse http://www.noplegroup.org
More News
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The process of
setting the 2005 Salmon Fisheries Season has started http://wdfw.wa.gov/fish/northfalcon/
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WDFW is seeking public comments by March 11, 2005 on a draft management framework to guide future
acquisitions of land for fish and wildlife habitat and recreation needs http://wdfw.wa.gov/do/newreal/jan2805b.htm
Education
and Resources
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Peninsula College is
offering a new course that will be
offered this spring quarter starting in April. This course will take a
multi-dimensional approach to studying Pacific salmon based on their natural
life cycle. Students will study the ecology of Pacific salmon in both a
sociological and biological context. For
more, see http://noplegroup.org/NOPLE/documents/misc/PCSpring05ENV230L.pdf or contact Jack Ganzhorn,
Associate Professor, Peninsula College, 360-417-6493
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The Coastal Training Program will offer its two most popular classes this April
and May. Both classes address the theme of shoreline stabilization, but they
take different approaches. http://www.coastaltraining-wa.org/
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"Growth and Water Resources". A new
online, distance-learning training module called "Growth and Water
Resources" has recently been posted on EPA’s Watershed Academy Web. This
training module explains how changes in land use affect water resources, and
presents national data on trends in development patterns and activities on land
that have become increasingly significant challenges for achieving water
quality standards. http://www.lgean.org/html/whatsnew.cfm?id=864
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The Climate Impacts Group's (CIG) February 2, 2005 meeting presentations have been posted on-line at http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/workshopfiles/salmon05/index.shtml. The CIG recently launched a new list serve
for issuing meeting notices, climate updates, our new quarterly newsletter, and
other information related to planning for climate variability and change which
may be an effective way to reach interested members of the Pacific Northwest resource management community http://www.cses.washington.edu/cig/outreach/newsletter.shtml.
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National Sea Grant
Library. For more than three decades, the National Sea Grant
Library (NSGL) has served as the archive and lending library for Sea Grant
funded publications produced by the 30 National Sea Grant College programs. The library includes 32,000 titles of books,
journal reprints, conference proceedings, advisory and technical reports,
handbooks, maps and other information not readily available through
conventional resources. Subjects include
oceanography, marine education, aquaculture, fishery, limnology, coastal zone
management, marine recreation, marine law--to name a
few. Publications are accessible through
the web-searchable database, where you'll find many publications available as
full-text PDF files. The database also
contains citations, abstracts and other bibliographic information. The NSGL also lends documents to scientists,
educators, fishers and many others both for research and general use. http://nsgl.gso.uri.edu/
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NANOOS. Northwest
Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems http://nanoos.org/
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Northwest Eco-building
Guild—The Olympic Peninsula
Chapter. http://www.ecobuilding.org/chap/ptt/index.php
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Low Impact Development Technical Guidance Manual for Puget
Sound. The low impact development (LID) approach in the
guidance manual will help engineers, land planners,
developers and others manage stormwater runoff more
effectively while keeping pollution out of the Sound. LID practices
emphasize protection and use of native vegetation, in concert with special
practices, to manage stormwater and protect natural
resources. LID can manage stormwater runoff in residential neighborhoods, retail
centers, large lots in rural areas, strip malls,
high-density urban areas and industrial parks.
LID techniques include rain
gardens, which involve layering soil, vegetation and mulch; natural drainage
systems that use native plants and trees; sidewalks, roads and parking lots
with permeable pavements; and other practices.
These practices filter oil, grease, dirt and other contaminants from stormwater runoff and reduce high flows by infiltrating stormwater to recharge groundwater, wetlands and
streams. Numerous professionals,
including engineers, academics, landscape architects and others, as well as
Washington Department of Ecology staff, contributed to the development of the
guidance manual. The Department of
Ecology provided funding for development of the manual. For a
copy of the technical guidance manual for low impact development visit http://www.psat.wa.gov/Programs/LID.htm
or call (800) 54-SOUND.
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Some pretty interesting reading entitled “The Death of Environmentalism” which you
can find at the equally interesting website http://www.thebreakthrough.org
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WSU's Forest
Stewardship class will be offered in
Port Hadlock this spring (WSU Extension Office, Shold Business Building, Spruce Room), Thursday evenings
April 7- May 26, 2005. http://ext.nrs.wsu.edu/doc/JeffersonBrochReg.pdf
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Knotweed slideshow. Ed Bowen of Lake Ozette has put together an excellent powerpoint entitled “Invasive Knotweed in western
Clallam and west slope Jefferson Counties.”
It is now available in an easy-to-access format at http://noplegroup.org/NOPLE/documents/misc/ClJfKntweed/album/index.htm
Grants
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For a list of links to Olympic Peninsula landowner
salmon habitat recovery resources,
go to http://www.noplegroup.org/NOPLE/pages/landownerresources.htm
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TENTATIVE!!!! The “time-compressed” 2005 SRFB 6th
Round will probably start up again
in early May with preproposals tentatively due in early-June!!!! Please note that the SRFB will probably only
have half the funds available this year.
That means if NOPLE were to come in again near the top as we did last
round (not at all a given), we would get a TOTAL of about $850,000. Please keep that in mind as you design your
projects. http://noplegroup.org/NOPLE/pages/applications.htm
for more information
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TENTATIVE!!!! Community Salmon Fund. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation received a
$1 million grant from the SRFB which they are matching with $1 million of their
own to fund 13 or so community salmon fund programs among the 26 lead entities
of the State of Washington. It has not
yet been decided which lead entities will be the recipients. At this time, I merely want to give you heads
up that IF
the North Olympic Peninsula is selected, a request for RFPs
would be forthcoming within a matter of months or perhaps later this year, with
criteria that will probably be substantially similar to last year’s
program. For more information, go to http://noplegroup.org/NOPLE/pages/applications.htm
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The CSREES - Cooperative
State
Research, Education, and Extension Service—National Water Program offers a variety of grants with
applications due in March 2005 http://www.usawaterquality.org/
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The Private Stewardship Program provides grants and other assistance on a
competitive basis to individuals and groups engaged in local, private, and
voluntary conservation efforts that benefit federally listed, proposed, or
candidate species, or other at-risk species. About $6.5 million is available FY
2005 through this grant program to support on-the-ground conservation efforts
on private lands. A ten percent (10%)
match of cash or through in-kind contributions is required. The program is
available to private landowners and their partners. They are accepting grant
proposals for the FY 2005 funding period between January 18, 2005 and March 21,
2005. http://endangered.fws.gov/grants/private_stewardship/index.html
· EPA Targeted Watersheds grants. On February 18, EPA announced the call for nominations for the third year of Targeted Watersheds grants. Formerly called the Watershed Initiative program, the Targeted Watersheds Grant Program is an integral part of the agency’s watershed approach to clean water by providing assistance to state and local community groups to protect inland and coastal watersheds. This year Congress has provided a total of $18 million for grants to support community-based approaches and activities to protect and restore local water resources – $10 million of which will go to support projects across the country and $8 million will be directed to projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. These grants will be used to help support innovative market-based approaches to watershed projects, such as water quality trading. This most recent announcement for proposals relates to the nationwide proposals only. In its first two years the Agency selected 34 watershed organizations to receive grants averaging $700,000. The selected organizations were those with workplans that were most ready-to-go and were likely to achieve environmental results in a relatively short time period. For 2005, the Agency is continuing its focus on approaches aimed to provide quick, measurable environmental results; partnerships, innovation, and program integration. Friday’s announcement kicked off the third year of the competition. Governors and tribal leaders are invited to submit nominations for projects that would promote and advance the successes of existing watershed work. Nominations are due on or before May 19, 2005. Final selections of watershed grantees will be announced this summer. The Federal Register Notice with the Call for Nominations, and other information about the Targeted Watersheds Grant Program is available at http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/.
· 2005 Kodak American Greenways Grants Program. The Conservation Fund Announces The Kodak American Greenways Awards Program, a partnership project of the Eastman Kodak Company, the Conservation Fund ( http://www.conservationfund.org/ ),and the National Geographic Society ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ), provides small grants to stimulate the planning and design of greenways in communities throughout America. Grants may be used for activities such as mapping, ecological assessments, surveying, conferences, and design activities; developing brochures, interpretative displays, audio-visual productions, or public opinion surveys; hiring consultants, incorporating land trusts, building a foot bridge, planning a bike path, or other creative projects. In general, grants can be used for all appropriate expenses needed to complete a greenway project, including planning, technical assistance, legal, and other costs. Awards will primarily go to local, regional, or statewide nonprofit organizations. Although public agencies may also apply, community organizations will receive preference. The maximum grant amount is $2,500, and most grants will range from $500 to $1,500. Applications will only be accepted online from March 1 through June 1. See the Conservation Fund Web site for complete program guidelines and application requirements. RFP Link: http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/525/cf . For additional RFPs in Environment, http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_environment.jhtml
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The Family Forest Fish Passage Program provides 75%-100% of the cost of replacing,
repairing or removing fish barriers such as culverts, weirs, dams, spillways
and other artificial instream structures.
To qualify, you must be a small forest landowner (harvest less than 2
million board feet of timber per year) and have a fish barrier that is on
forestland. Application Deadline: June 30, 2005 http://www.dnr.wa.gov/sflo/fffpp/
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Native Plant Conservation Initiative. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, in partnership with the
Plant Conservation Alliance, is pleased to announce a
Request for Proposals for the 2005
Native Plant Conservation Initiative (NPCI). Through this initiative,
grants of federal dollars will be provided to non-profit organizations and
agencies at all levels of government to promote the conservation of native
plants. This Request for Proposals includes two separate grant cycles, with
pre-proposal submission dates of Feb 15 and Aug 15, 2005. http://www.nfwf.org/programs/npci.htm For additional RFPs
in Environment, visit: http://fdncenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_environment.jhtml
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The Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program provides up to 75% cost-sharing for such wildlife
habitat enhancement projects as: forage enhancement for threatened wildlife
species, restablishment of threatened habitat types,
wetland and riparian enhancement and others. Application Deadline: Open enrollment http://www.wa.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/whip/whip.html
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Partners for Fish & Wildlife Program provides technical and financial assistance to
private landowners for habitat restoration on their lands. A variety of habitats can be restored to
benefit Federal trust species (for example, migratory birds and fish and
threatened and endangered species.)
Normally the cost share is 50 percent (the Service and the landowner
each pay half of the project costs), but the percentage is flexible. Services or labor can qualify for cost-sharing.
Application Deadline: Open enrollment http://partners.fws.gov/
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Forest Land
Enhancement Program. The USDA Forest Service has agreed to release
$5 million to fund the Forest Land Enhancement Program (FLEP), a private
landowner assistance program authorized by the 2002 Farm Bill. Agency officials have yet to specify a date
when the money would be released.
Additional funding for FLEP for FY 2005 and beyond remains uncertain,
given that the Senate Appropriations Committee's mark of the FY 2005 Interior
Appropriations Bill, currently being wrapped into a larger omnibus bill,
contains language that would cancel the remaining funding for the program. The
House bill originally included similar language but was struck from the bill at
the last minute due to efforts from Agriculture Committee Chairman Goodlatte (VA). Application Deadline: Open enrollment. http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/programs/loa/flep.shtml
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Forestry Riparian Easement Program. DNR's
Forestry Riparian Easement Program partially compensates eligible small forest
landowners in exchange for a 50-year easement on "qualifying timber".
This is the timber the landowner is required to leave unharvested
as a result of new forest practices rules protecting Washington's forests and fish. Landowners cannot cut or remove
the qualifying timber during the easement period. The landowner still owns the
property and retains full access, but has "leased" the trees and
their associated riparian function to the state. Application Deadline: Open
Enrollment http://www.dnr.wa.gov/sflo/frep/
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A good source of relevant grant opportunities will
come to your email box via SFLO-mail, the bi-monthly e-mail newsletter produced
by the Small Forest Landowner Office. This newsletter provides up-to-date
information relevant to small forest landowners in Washington State. To subscribe, please send a message to mailto:sflo-mail@wadnr.gov with the word "subscribe" in the
subject box and "your name" and "your e-mail address"
in the message box.
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For an extensive list of grant programs, go to http://dnr.metrokc.gov/wlr/PI/Fundsrcs.htm#anchor149508
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For a searchable database of grant programs, check out http://ssrc.boisestate.edu/