The Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office is seeking applications for its Family Forest Fish Passage Program to help Washington restore its once thriving fish populations.
Donor Name: Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office
State: Washington
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/01/2022
Details:
Small forest landowners own about 4 million acres of forests in Washington–about half the private forestland in the state. As part of Washington’s salmon recovery efforts, all private forest owners are required to fix artificial, in-stream fish barriers. The state Legislature committed to helping small forest landowners pay for these repairs by creating the Family Forest Fish Passage Program in 2003.
Landowners enrolled in the program will not be required to fix their fish blockages until the State provides financial assistance. Landowners not enrolled in the program must fix the blockage at their own expense and future forest practices applications for logging could be denied until the barrier is corrected.
Funding Information
- There are no minimum or maximum grant requests in this program.
- Funding is awarded every 2 years and comes from the sale of state bonds.
Eligibility Criteria
- A small forest landowner: You harvest less than 2 million board feet of timber each year from lands you own in Washington.
- The culvert is on forestland and associated with a road: The land is capable of supporting a merchantable stand of timber and is not being used for anything incompatible with growing timber.
- The structure is on a fish-bearing stream.
For more information, visit Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office.