Washington gets Interior grants for specie protection
Washington Ag Today August 26, 2011 The U.S. Interior Department has announced more than 53-million dollars in grants to 17 states, including Washington, to support conservation planning and acquisition of vital habitat for threatened and endangered fish, wildlife and plants. Methow Watershed, Phase 8, in Okanogan County is receiving 3.5 million dollars to secure 27-hundred acres and additional stream frontage protecting spawning and rearing habitat for listed salmonids, landscape corridors for listed carnivores and their mule deer prey, and habitat for at least 23 at-risk species covered by the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan. The Northern Blue Mountains Bull Trout Recovery project in Asotin and Columbia counties is receiving over 712-thousand dollars to conserve bull trout habitat through a combination of fee acquisition and conservation easements on at least five key properties totaling over 28-hundred acres in the Touchet and Asotin Creek watersheds. A Federal Crop Insurance sales deadline is coming up next week in the northwest. Seufer; “Canola and rapeseed and our onions has an August 31 sales closing date. So that is just around the corner.” Next Wednesday in fact. That’s Jo Lynn Seufer with the Risk Management Agency. The next major closing date is September 30th for winter coverage on barley, peas and lentils and for all wheat. I’m Bob Hoff and that’s Washington Ag Today on Northwest Aginfo Net. ? ? ? ? ? ?
