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Recovering Salmon Habitat
on the North Olympic Peninsula

Cheryl Baumann, Coordinator
cbaumann@co.clallam.wa.us
(360) 417-2326

Landowner habitat recovery resources on the North Olympic Peninsula

Many of these links are to outside websites. NOPLE strives to keep them current.
Apologies for any dead-ends you may encounter.

North Olympic Peninsula landowner assistance and incentive programs

  • The Clallam Conservation District (CCD) provides assistance (both technical and financial) in implementing stewardship plans; conducts workshops on livestock and land stewardship, natural landscaping, and low impact development; puts out a regular newsletter with conservation tips; and offers such programs as the Conservation Reserve Enhancement program (CREPs) (a voluntary program offering agricultural producers, farmers and ranchers farmland owners payments to restore riparian habitats on their land alongside salmon streams),and the Irrigation Efficiencies Program (assists family farms in conserving irrigators with irrigation water conservation diversions from WRIA 18 streams). (360) 452-1912 x 5
  • The Department of Natural Resources Small Forest Landowner Office (SFLO) was created by Washington State Legislature to equip small forest landowners with the resources to keep their land in forestry use, and administers both the Family Forest Fish Passage Program, a voluntary program through which landowners can receive financial and technical assistance for removing or repairing fish blockages and the Forestry Riparian Easement Program which partially compensates eligible small forest landowners in exchange for a 50-year easement on "qualifying timber". The landowner still owns the property and retains full access, but has "leased" the trees and their associated riparian function to the state. Contact the SFLO at 360-374-6131.
  • The North Olympic Salmon Coalition is one of 14 Fegional Fisheries Enhancement Groups created by the Washington State Legislative to work with landowners, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Conservation Districts and Tribal biologists to identify and develop salmon habitat restoration projects. (360) 379-8051
  • North Olympic Peninsula Lead Entity is the local contact for the SRFB Salmon Habitat Recovery grant program and also serves as a referral source for technical assistance as well as other grant opportunities. 360-417-2430.
  • Washington State University Cooperative Extension of Clallam County provides programs for both commercial and part time agricultural producers, including sustainable agriculture, small-scale farming, water quality, agricultural marketing/tourism, pasture management, farmland preservation, and alternative crop production. 417-2279.
  • County Noxious weed program assists landowners in eradicating noxious weeds. 417-2442.
  • Master Gardeners pass on the latest hoticultural research findings to local home gardeners through various programs. 417-2279
  • The WA Department of Ecology offers several good guides for coastal property owners: “Slope Stabilization and Erosion Control Using Vegetation”; “Vegetation Management: A Guide for Puget Sound Property Owners”; and “Surface Water and Groundwater on Coastal Bluffs.” Click here.
  • The WA Department of Fish and Wildlife offers a free publication entitled ”Your Impact on Salmon/Fish: A Self-Assessment.” Click here.
  • North Olympic Land Trust Conservation Easements provides a potentially tax-beneficial means for a landowner to protect some or all of the significant natural or historical features of a property forever, while retaining private ownership. 417-1815.
  • Also available for land easements and acquisitions for the purpose of conservation include the Wild Salmon Center, the Nature Conservancy, and Trust for Public Lands.
  • The Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) is a competitive grant process that provides financial assistance to private landowners for the protection, enhancement or restoration of habitat to benefit “species at risk” on privately owned lands. 417-2430.
  • WA Water Acquisition Program buys, leases and accepts donations of water-rights to streams where critically low flows limit fish survival, to be held permanently in trust by the state for the benefit of fish. 360-407-6222 or 407-7262.
  • WA Water Trust acquires water rights from voluntary lessors or sellers, and then leave water in the stream to restore Washington's waterways. 206.675.1585
  • US Forest Service has offices in Forks at (360) 374-6522 and Olympia at (360) 956-2402
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service has a local office in Lacey, (360) 753-9440. For a variety of grant programs available through them, click here.

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