Coos Watershed Association gets grant funding to restore salmon runs
By Kristina NelsonNORTH BAY - Furthering their commitment to restore Coho salmon runs in creeks and rivers along the South Coast, the Coos Watershed Association gets some big help from a Northwest environmental foundation. MultimediaAfter five years of waiting, last month, the CWA received some good news from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, after they pledged $260,000 to support a 10 year model restoration plan to bring numbers of coho up in water bodies on the South Coast. "We have a highly involved monitoring program which is one reason why I think Bonneville wanted to work with us. We have quite an number of spawning surveys, to count the number of fish that are returning to streams," says CWA Executive Director Jon Souder. Since 1993, the CWA has been working with landowners and land managers in the Coos Bay area to monitor and manage Coho salmon on 300 sites to keep them off the endangered species list and provide economic stability for communities. With the funding from Bonneville, which works out to $26,000 a year over ten years, the CWA will be able to manage waterways and has developed a strategy to do so. "We have four areas we are focusing on for restoration including the Willanche Creek area, Millicoma and South Fork Coos, Upper West Fork of the Millicoma and Bottom Creek. There was a requirement of us to develop specific plans and then Bonneville will give us technical assistance." The Coos Watershed Association is 100 percent grant funded. Most Popular |
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February 3, 2012
- Coos Bay / North Bend, Oregon
