State funding allocated to 13 projects across North Peninsula

Published 12:37 am Sunday, September 5, 2010

The Olympic National Forest has approved more than $300,000 for 13 projects on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Forest Supervisor Dale Hom has signed a list of recommendations made by the Olympic Peninsula Resource Advisory Committee for spending revenue from the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.

Work will begin in the 2011 field season, the agency said.

A total of $329,165 in funding allocations were approved for the two Peninsula counties. Projects also were approved for national forest lands in Grays Harbor and Mason counties.

Six appropriations, totaling $156,725, were approved for Clallam County, while seven in Jefferson County received $172,440.

One of the Projects, the Olympic Sky program based in Jefferson County, received $30,000 from each of the two Peninsula counties for a total of $60,000.

In the Olympic Sky program, young people from ages of 16 to 20 build trails in both Clallam and Jefferson counties.

Clallam County

projects are:

• Dungeness River trestle extension — $25,000.

• Clallam County Sheriff’s Department Chain Gang — $41,725.

• Olympic Sky — $30,000

• Olympic Peninsula Cooperative Noxious Weed Control — $30,000.

• Bogachiel Rainforest trailhead vault — $15,000.

• Caraco and Canyon Creek wildlife habitat enhancement (thinning) — $15,000.

Jefferson County

projects are:

• Olympic Sky — $30,000.

• Quilcene Ranger Corps — $20,000.

• Olympic Peninsula Cooperative Noxious Weed Control — $50,000.

• Lower Big Quilcene River Trail bridge replacements — $35,000.

• Hood Canal steelhead project — $13,440.

• Washington Conservation Corps — $25,000.

• Falls View Campground water and waste water improvements — $29,000.

One project in Grays Harbor County — wood procurement in the upper Quinault — received $64,621.

Four projects in Mason County received a total of $46,633.