Peninsula gets more than $6 million in salmon recovery funds

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board has awarded more than $6 million in grants to projects intended to restore and protect salmon habitat in the North Olympic Peninsula.

The $6,409,318 granted to the Peninsula funds 10 projects in Clallam County, for a total of $4,131,462, and six projects in Jefferson County, for a total of $2,277,856.

The Peninsula grant funding was among the $42.8 million in grants by the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced by the state Recreation and Conservation Office on Tuesday.

The largest amount given to any single entity was $1,608,281 granted the North Olympic Land Trust, a conservation nonprofit based in Port Angeles, for five projects in Clallam County.

Two Jefferson County Land Trust projects were funded for a total of $783,813.

A list of recipients will appear in Thursday’s editions of the Peninsula Daily News.