Family Forest Fish
Passage Program
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.
The challenge is getting the
word out to landowners. Please encourage landowners to apply. The application
process is simple for the landowners. The program provides technical
assistance and project management, making the landowners' efforts as
minimal as they desire. There is a one-page application. The Fish Passage
Team is ready and willing to help in anyway possible.
The Family Forest
Fish Passage Program (FFFPP) is a multi-agency partnership between
the Department of Natural
Resources (DNR), the Interagency
Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC), and the Washington State
Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
Current Application
Deadline: June 30, 2006.
For more information and application
materials, click
here.
2005 Round 3 Statewide
Letter from WDFW -------
I am pleased to inform you that the Family Forest Fish Passage
Program (FFFPP), a partnership between the Department
of Natural Resources (DNR), the Interagency Committee for
Outdoor Recreation (IAC), and the Washington State Department of
Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), has finished this year’s
preliminary ranking of proposed projects. The program is in the
process of selecting which projects to fund next year based on
this ranking. The purpose of this letter is to provide an opportunity for you to provide input
on the ranked list in your area.
During the most recent application period, open from July 1st through
June 30th, we added 134 eligible sites to the project
pool, for a total of 332 statewide. To date the FFFPP has funded
63 sites, opening 132 miles of habitat. We have approximately
$3,670,000 available for the upcoming biennium.
The
attached report provides descriptions of the FFFPP projects in
your area. It may be divided into two groups: this
year’s proposed high priority
projects, which are recommended for funding at this
time, and proposed lower priority projects, which will remain on
the list and be considered in future cycles. In the interest of
conservation, photos are included only for the high-ranked projects. Additional project-specific information and
photos for all projects are available in IAC’s
PRISM database under the project numbers shown on the report. [Access
PRISM at click
here]
Please
review these materials and those available on PRISM and let us
know if you concur with our preliminary project
ranking. We are interested in any special considerations such as
priority species or sub-basins, or other projects being done in
the area,
which would result in your recommending an adjustment of the ranking.
We
would like to receive your comments within 3 weeks, and expect
DNR to make funding decisions based on WDFW’s
prioritized list in January. This schedule is necessary to make
funding decisions in time to allow for construction next summer.
Please
feel free to call me if you have any questions; my phone number is
(360) 902-2550.
end letter from WDFW ------------
NOPLE LEG & TRG:
- Please review and provide feedback,
if any, to the following by forwarding same to sbarkhuis@co.clallam.wa.us
by 1/6/06
- These documents are provided for background
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2004 Round 2 Statewide
The program approved 26 projects statewide during this second funding round.
These projects which will open 72.25 miles of fish habitat. Combined with
the 36 projects funded under the first funding cycle, a total of 128.81 miles
will be opened by 62 projects in the first 2 years of the program. For the
2nd Round, the program allocated $1,275,595. Combined with the $1,015,736
awarded the first funding round, a total of $2,291,331 has been spent correcting
fish barriers. 2004 Round 2 Funded Project in North Olympic
Peninsula Lead Entity:
Project: Ecotrust– Tangle Creek A #04-1721 WRIA
20
Sponsor: Clallam Conservation District
Contact: Joe Holtrop (360) 452-1912
Tributary to: Dickey River
Description: This 40 feet long, corrugated steel culvert is 4
feet in diameter. The road fill has washed out and the culvert
is plugged. Road fill material has
deposited in the crossing, causing the stream to run subsurface through the site,
creating a total fish passage barrier much of the year. The estimated project
cost is based on a proposed correction of replacing the existing barrier culvert
with an 80’ x 14’ bridge. The project site is near the mouth of the
stream at its entrance to the Dickey River; correcting this barrier would provide
valuable spawning and rearing habitat to the fish species listed below.
Species: Chinook, chum, coho, cutthroat and steelhead
Miles of upstream habitat: 1.86
Bankfull width: 12.5 feet
Estimated cost: $117,000 Project: Ecotrust - Tangle Creek B #04-1764 WRIA 20
Sponsor: Clallam Conservation District
Contact: Joe Holtrop (360) 452-1912
Tributary to: Dickey River
Description: This 25 feet long, round plastic culvert, is 2 feet in diameter.
It is located upstream from Tangle Creek A. The landowner will abandon this
crossing during construction of the other two high priority Ecotrust projects.
Species: Coho, steelhead and cutthroat
Miles of upstream habitat: 0.12
Bankfull width: 4 feet
Estimated cost: $3,000
Project: Ecotrust - Burly Creek #04-1763 WRIA 20
Sponsor: Clallam Conservation District
Contact: Joe Holtrop (360) 452-1912
Tributary to: Dickey River
Descriptions: This 40 feet long round corrugated steel culvert
has an outfall drop of 0.45 feet. This pipe inlet is smashed
and bent, and the bottom of the
culvert outlet is rusted out. The proposed correction is a round aluminum
culvert, 8 feet wide and 65 feet long. The project site is
near the mouth of the stream
at its entrance to the Dickey River. Correcting this barrier would provide
valuable spawning and rearing habitat to the fish species listed below.
Species: Chinook, chum, coho, cutthroat and steelhead
Miles of upstream habitat: 0.52
Bankfull width: 4.5 feet
Estimated cost: $25,000
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2004 Round 1 Statewide
The program approved 36 projects statewide in its first funding round; 25 of
these were completed in 2004, opening 40 miles of habitat. The remaining
10 projects are scheduled to be constructed in 2005. $1,015,736 was allocated
for the first set of projects. 2004 Round 1 Funded Project in North Olympic
Peninsula Lead Entity:
Project name: Sadilek - Pearson Creek Tributary
#04-1053
Status: Round 1 project to be constructed in 2005
Tributary to: Clallam River
Description: Correcting this 30 feet long, 1.5 feet in diameter,
round corrugated steel culvert will provide fish access to excellent
upstream spawning and rearing
habitat. The riparian area is in good condition, and clean spawning gravels
are present. The estimated project cost is based on replacing
the existing pipe with
an 8 feet diameter by 40 feet long round aluminum culvert using the WDFW No-Slope
Design Option. This should allow adequate over-sizing in comparison to the
stream size to meet WDFW fish passage requirements, as well as
100-year flood flow and
100-year debris flow passage. Aluminum is recommended for longevity purposes
as this is site is in close proximity to the marine environment.
Sponsor: Clallam Conservation District
Species: Coho, chum, steelhead, resident and searun cutthroat trout
Miles of upstream habitat: 0.37
Toe Width: 6.5 feet
Estimated Cost: $17,225
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