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Wednesday, August 4, 2004
Tribe receives grant to improve salmon runs
BLYN -- In an effort to improve Dungeness River salmon runs, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe has received one of 14 federal Environmental Protection Agency grants awarded nationwide this week to help protect local watersheds.
The tribe plans to use the $984,000 award to fund several projects aimed at improving water quality and stream flows in the Olympic Peninsula's Dungeness Watershed, including efforts to improve management of septic systems, storm water run off and irrigation systems.
In recent years, poor water quality has forced closure of shellfish harvests in Dungeness Bay, as well as harmed native fish populations. Dungeness chinook and chum salmon, as well as bull trout, remain "threatened" under the federal Endangered Species Act.
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Chairman Ron Allen and Gov. Gary Locke co-sponsored the tribe's application for the grant, which is part of the EPA's Targeted Watersheds Grant Program.
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