Benton
County
$175,000
Kennewick
Parks & Recreation Department
$175,000
Columbia
Park Regional Youth Skate & Bike Park
Located
in the heart of the Tri-Cities, Columbia Park will be renovated to create
a place for kids to skateboard, in-line skate, ride mountain bikes,
and play basketball. The city
will turn an old concrete tennis court into the new skate and bike area,
complete with evening lighting. The
newly renovated area will keep kids part of other family activities
in the park. The Tri-Cities has one small skate park in
Kennewick that is over used. This proposal will design for, and has
room to accommodate, all 'wheeled' users.
Kennwick will contribute $175,000 in funding and donations. (04-1202D-FY06)
Chelan
County
$198,500
City
of Wenatchee
$198,500
Rotary
Park Expansion
The
City of Wenatchee and the Wenatchee, North Wenatchee, and Sunrise Rotary
clubs will use this grant to build a picnic shelter, playground, interactive
water feature, amphitheater and basketball court in Wenatchee's Rotary
Park. Rotary Park is a new city venue that is being
developed as a service project by the local Rotary clubs. Wenatchee will contribute $205,000 in labor
and donated cash, equipment, labor and materials. (04-1269D-FY06)
Clark
County $3,762,974
Vancouver
Parks & Recreation Department
$294,828
Mount
Vista Park
Residents
of Mount Vista will soon get a 4-acre park, thanks in part to this grant,
which will be used to purchase the property.
The residents live in a rapidly developing area near the Washington
State University-Vancouver campus and Mount Vista Park will provide
the only recreation opportunities in the area.
The land slopes gradually, offering extensive views of the Cascade
Mountains, Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams.
Mature Douglas fir, cedar, maple and alder trees grace the property.
Future improvements will include a perimeter trail, open play
meadow, picnic tables and children's play equipment.
Vancouver will contribute $294,828. (04-1341A-FY06)
Clark
County Parks Department
$500,000
Hockinson
Meadows
This
grant will help purchase and take the first step in developing a 120-acre
community park and sports complex at the northeast corner of Vancouver's
urban growth boundary. The county's
Sports Fields Master Plan identifies an immediate need for 23 youth
baseball, 10 soccer and 8 softball fields.
This grant will help provide a complex of multi-purpose athletic
fields that will accommodate 15 youth baseball/softball, 10 youth soccer
and 3 adult soccer fields. Other
improvements will include picnic tables, a shelter, play equipment and
trails. Clark County will contribute $4,980,754.
(04-1417C-FY06)
Vancouver
Parks & Recreation Department
$300,173
Lakeshore
Park
The
City of Vancouver will be able to create a neighborhood park by using
this grant to help purchase a little more than five acres in a heavily
developed residential area in west Vancouver known as Lakeshore. The neighborhood is fully developed, and the
project site provides the only opportunity for a neighborhood park. The park, which is a flat open meadow, will
serve about 4,000 people. Future
improvements will include multi-use sports fields, walking trails, children's
play equipment, picnic tables and a sports court. Vancouver will contribute $300,173. (04-1332A-FY06)
Vancouver
Parks & Recreation Department
$191,527
East
Mill Plain
The
City of Vancouver will use this grant to help develop a 2-acre neighborhood
park in a densely populated residential neighborhood of east Vancouver. There are no other parks or public open spaces
within the area, which serves about 3,500 residents. The park, which will have a skate park, basketball
court, picnic tables, children's play equipment, benches and walking
paths, also will be home to the city’s East Precinct Police Station. Vancouver will contribute $191,527. (04-1408D-FY06)
Clark
County Parks Department
$121,764
Pacific
Community Park
Clark
County will use this grant to develop a 50-acre community park in the
heavily developed residential areas of east Vancouver.
The area includes eight neighborhoods and is home to more than
30,000 people. Pacific Community
Park, the only community park in the area, will be equipped with a skate
park, basketball court, children's play equipment, benches, picnic tables
and two shelters, more than 2 miles of trails, landscaping and support
facilities. Clark County will contribute $4.5 million.
(04-1406D-FY06)
Department
of Natural Resources
$1,333,762
Washougal
Oaks Natural Resource Conservation Area, Natural Area Preserve
The
Department of Natural Resources will use this grant to buy 142.5 acres
east of Washougal at the western edge of the Columbia River Gorge as
part of a larger project to help protect the largest high-quality native
oak woodland remaining in western Washington.
This woodland is of major conservation concern due to historic
losses and ongoing degradation. In
addition, a fish-bearing stream inside a steep forested ravine runs
through the heart of the site. The
site supports two state sensitive plant species and two rare or threatened
animal species: Slender-billed Nuthatch and Lower Columbia steelhead. The land will be designated as a combination of Natural Resource
Conservation Area and Natural Area Preserve, which will complement existing
conservation work within the area by department’s partners: the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service’s Steigerwald National Wildlife Refuge, the
U.S. Forest Service’s Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area and
the Columbia Land Trust. These
acquisitions are the second phase of a multi-phased project with the
long-term objective of protecting the oak woodland and associated species from future residential development, other incompatible uses and
exotic plant species. (04-1278A-FY06)
Clark
County Parks Department
$1,020,920
Whipple
Creek
This
project involves the acquisition of 40 acres of shoreline, wetlands
and forests on Whipple Creek, 4.5 miles north of Vancouver. The project site includes 3,000 feet of creek frontage and a diversity
of state-designated priority habitats. The Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified this site as
one of the five most important urban forests in the greater Vancouver
area because of its habitat diversity and quality.
The land supports a variety of migrant birds, pileated woodpeckers,
hawks, owls, deer, beaver and raccoons.
Whipple Creek supports coho salmon, which are a candidate for
listing under the federal Endangered Species Act; steelhead, which are
threatened with extinction; and resident cutthroat trout.
Located 1.5 miles east of the 280-acre Whipple Creek Regional
Park and Nature Preserve, the land is threatened with development. The owner has applied to build 77 residential
units there. Clark County will
contribute $1,020,920. (04-1409A-FY06)
Douglas
County $3,015,810
Department
of Fish & Wildlife
$2,472,120
Sharp-tailed
Grouse 2004
Sustaining
and increasing the population of sharp-tailed grouse in northern Douglas
County, one of three small populations remaining in Washington, is the
goal of this grant. The Washington
Department of Fish and Wildlife will use the grant to buy 4,900 acres
of shrub steppe, which adjoins the department’s West Foster Creek Wildlife
Area and provides a connection to the nearby Central Ferry Canyon Wildlife
Area and Colville Indian Reservation, both of which have active sharp-tailed
grouse leks. This project will result in the long-term protection
and enhancement of occupied and historic sharp-tailed grouse habitat
and will greatly increase the links between critical habitat components
on and off the department’s wildlife areas.
(04-1289A-FY06)
Department
of Natural Resources
$543,690
Dyer
Haystacks and Two Steppe Natural Area Preserves
This
project seeks to protect 3,110 acres of good examples of eastern Washington's
original bunchgrass grassland at two sites in Douglas County: Dyer Haystacks
and Two Steppe natural area preserves.
These sites include representatives of the unique geology of
Washington. Dyer Haystacks is
a jumble of glacial erratic boulders and Two Steppe includes a cliff
along Moses Coulee. Lands proposed for acquisition provide habitat
for state sensitive plant species and federal and state listed species:
sharptail grouse and sage grouse (federal species of concern and state
threatened with extinction); and sage sparrow, sage thrasher and golden
eagle (state candidate species). This
project is coordinated with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s
efforts to restore habitat for the listed species in Douglas County,
and will provide native habitat and a baseline for restoration and management
monitoring. The Nature Conservancy is a partner in this
project. (04-1329A-FY06)
Franklin
County $329,660
City
of Connell
$329,660
Pioneer
Park Expansion
The
City of Connell will use this grant to purchase additional property
to expand Pioneer Park to develop two new softball fields and to enhance
use of the existing swimming pool.
The grant will not only help purchase the land but will help
pay for the removal of a street and construction of two softball fields,
parking, bleachers, pathways and expanded pool facilities including
a larger slide and a splash area for smaller children.
This expansion of Pioneer Park addresses the city's need for
more ball fields. Connell will contribute $338,840 in donated equipment, labor and
materials. (04-1355C-FY06)
Grant
County $342,318
City
of Moses Lake
$342,318
Heron
Trail Phase 1 Boardwalk
With
this grant, Moses Lake will build part of Heron Trail, a 1.2-mile nature
trail that will serve as a connector between parks and key locations
throughout the city. The trail
will be a combination of asphalt and boardwalk segments over wetlands. The hub for Heron Trail is McCosh Park, which is the most active
waterfront park in Moses Lake. Located
in the downtown area, the park is home to the Moses Lake Aquatic Center
and contains an amphitheater, basketball and tennis courts, a playground,
restrooms and the old Swedberg pool house.
Within the park, Heron Trail will follow the northern shoreline
of Pelican Horn and connect to the Japanese Gardens, Frontier Middle
School, downtown shopping and restaurants, neighborhoods and other trail
heads. The boardwalk will include a viewing platform. Partners in this project include Vision 2020,
the Trail Planning Team, Lioness, Rotary, Audubon Society and the Association
of Realtors. Moses Lake will
contribute $342,319 in funding and donated cash, labor and materials.
(04-1446C-FY06)
Grays
Harbor County $246,330
Department
of Natural Resources
$246,330
Carlisle
Bog Natural Area Preserve
Eighty
acres will be purchased with this grant for inclusion in the Carlisle
Bog Natural Area Preserve. The
overall wetland system at Carlisle Bog is very large and diverse. The preserve contains high quality examples
of a freshwater wetland, sphagnum bog, permanent ponds, two globally
imperiled wetland plant communities and high quality representatives
of six additional wetland plant communities.
In addition, the land contains one state sensitive plant and
animal species. The wetlands are connected to other wetlands
already managed by the department and are critical to maintaining the
land's hydrology and water quality.
In addition, protecting the wetland at Carlisle Bog is important
because similar wetlands have been lost or degraded.
This acquisition will complete the preserve as adopted by the
Natural Heritage Advisory Council.
(04-1378A-FY06)
Island
County $2,117,152
Washington
State Parks and Recreation Commmission
$1,103,125
Deception
Pass Sunrise Resort Phase 2
Deception Pass State Park,
the most-visited state park in Washington, will use this grant to purchase
land for new administrative offices and complete the acquisition of
Sunrise Resort. Acquisition
of the resort will allow State Parks to move administrative operations
from their present location, which has historic, scenic and recreational
qualities better used for visitors.
(04-1234A-FY06)
Port
of South Whidbey Island
$576,177
Clinton
Beach
Responding
to the critical need of this island’s “only town without public access
to Puget Sound," the Port District of South Whidbey Island recently
acquired 0.63 acres with 180 feet of sandy, no-bank, waterfront for
creation of Clinton Beach park. The
port will use this grant to develop the park, which is near the port's
existing fishing pier, dock and parking.
Clinton Beach will feature a sandy beach, a small parking area,
restrooms, a small boat dock, viewpoint, picnic areas, information kiosks,
landscaping and interpretive signs. The port will contribute $576,178 in funding
and donated labor.
(04-1205C-FY06)
Department
of Natural Resources
$437,850
Golden
Paintbrush Preserve
This
project will allow permanent protection and management of 33 acres on
Whidbey Island that are integral to the recovery of the golden paintbrush,
a plant listed as threatened with extinction by the federal government
and as endangered by the state. The
land is on the west side of Whidbey Island and supports one of only
11 populations of golden paintbrush remaining in the world.
The recovery plan for golden paintbrush specifies that the protection
of all existing populations is critical to the recovery of the species. The owner of this site has divided the property
into five waterfront view lots with the intention to sell them for homes.
If not acquired now, one of the largest properties available
for recovery of golden paintbrush will be permanently lost.
This is a collaborative project between the department and the
Whidbey Camano Land Trust, which have raised $1.5 million in federal
funding. The site will be jointly owned by the two groups and managed specifically
to benefit the golden paintbrush population.
(04-1362A-FY06)
King County $4,926,592
Seattle
Parks & Recreation Department
$300,000
Myrtle
Edwards Park Olympic Sculpture Park Expansion
A
2-acre City of Seattle right-of-way and parking lot are poised to become
the new entrance to Myrtle Edwards Park and the waterfront connection
to the proposed Olympic Sculpture Park. This city waterfront property--now
asphalt and parking meters--will create an anchor for new recreation
in downtown Seattle, just 3 blocks from the Seattle Center.
The grant will help pay for a 700-foot extension of both a pedestrian
boardwalk and a bicycle trail that currently end abruptly in the parking
lot. Work also will include landscaping with native
plants, adding signs, lights, park furniture and a water fountain, and
vastly improving access to the water--all accessible for people with
disabilities. A grassy berm
for seating and informal gathering at the water's edge will provide
a seamless connector between popular Myrtle Edwards Park, which hosts
400,000 visitors a year, and the new sculpture park.
In 2000, the city council appropriated $2 million for improvements
to this waterfront parcel. Also, the Seattle Arts Commission is donating
more than $1.6 million for development of this park. Seattle will contribute $3,124,055 in donations
and funding from a voter-approved levy. (04-1207D-FY06)
Kent
Parks, Recreation & Community Service
$75,000
East
Hill Skatepark Expansion
The
expansion of the Kent East Hill Skatepark is the result of a unique
partnership between the City of Kent and the owners of an adjacent assisted-living
housing complex. The partnership
is allowing the city to expand by 1 acre its 2-acre skate park to create
a multi-generational community park.
The new, expanded park will reach across generational borders
and be used by the entire Kent community, seniors living in the facility
and their families. The grant will help the City add climbing rocks,
a walking trail, raised gardens, lawn bowling, bocce ball, a gazebo
and additional benches and picnic tables.
Kent will contribute $75,000 in funding and donated land. (04-1419C-FY06)
Burien
Parks & Recreation
$421,350
Rhododendron
Park Acquisition
A
new neighborhood park will become a reality with this grant, which will
buy the 6-acre Beckstrom Rhododendron Nursery property in an underserved
area of Burien. The nursery
property is a rare opportunity to provide a new park in a neighborhood
that currently has no park resources of any kind.
The gently sloping, undeveloped land is nestled in the heart
of an established neighborhood. The
concept for the park includes a playground, sport court, picnic area,
play meadow, walking paths, stream access, a natural area and parking.
Burien will contribute $421,350. (04-1279A-FY06)
Des
Moines Parks & Recreation Department
$177,071
Steven
J Underwood Ballfield Lighting
The
City of Des Moines will add lighting to a competition-level softball
field and build a restroom at the newly opened Steven J. Underwood Memorial
Park. Maximizing field use by adding lights is critical
because Des Moines has 60 percent fewer sports fields per capita than
the surrounding cities of Federal Way, SeaTac and Kent. Restrooms to
replace the use of sani-cans will improve spectator comfort. Having lighting to compensate for cloud cover and shortened daylight
in the fall and winter will enhance game safety and lessen the need
for local teams to search for practice and game fields away from home. Each phase of the park's development has had
a broad base of support from the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation’s
Youth Athletic Facility grants, Community Development Block grants,
King County REET and Youth Sports Facility grants, South Highline Little
Leagues, Des Moines Midway Soccer Club, Des Moines Legacy Foundation,
Des Moines Police and Fire Fighters Guilds, Starbucks Coffee Company
and Des Moines Rotary Club. Des Moines will contribute $177,954 in funding
and donated labor and materials. (04-1391D-FY06)
Seattle
Parks & Recreation Department
$245,000
Ercolini
Park Acquisition
The
City of Seattle will use this grant to complete the purchase of a little
more than half an acre in West Seattle for a neighborhood park. The land is flat and lies west of the West
Seattle Junction Hub Urban Village.
Its purchase and development will address the needs of the increasing
population within this urban village, which has no usable open space
within easy walking distance. This
property will complete an action item in the city's Pro Parks Levy approved
by citizens. Seattle will contribute $610,000 from a voter-approved levy.
(04-1060A-FY06)
Washington
State Parks and Recreation Commmission
$1,400,000
Kanaskat-Palmer
Campground Expansion
Camping sites at Kanaskat-Palmer State Park in King County will be developed
with the help of this grant. The
popular campground will expand by 50 to 60 sites, most of which will
include electrical hookups and be large enough to accommodate modern
recreational vehicles. Some
sites may be set aside for use by tent campers.
A restroom with showers will be built in the center of the campground
loop. Although the campground is not on the water,
campers have access to more than 2 miles of shoreline on the Green River. (04-1240D-FY06)
Washington
State Parks and Recreation Commmission
$475,000
Green
River Gorge 2005-07 Acquisitions
This grant will allow State Parks to purchase 158 acres of land in the
Green River Gorge, which was established as a conservation area by the
Legislature in 1969. The Legislature
directed purchase of a 12-mile strip of land that incorporates the visual
basins of the Green River from the Kummer Bridge to Palmer. With this grant, State Parks will purchase
the Kanaskat-Palmer/Jellum Connection, which lies between the Green
River and land managed by the state Department of Natural Resources. It provides a connection at the plateau level
between the development at Kanaskat-Palmer and State Park ownership
at Jellum, 2 miles west. It
also links with private land, currently targeted for acquisition by
the county and nongovernment organizations.
(04-1268A-FY06)
Redmond
Parks & Recreation Department
$181,525
Bear
Creek Trail—The Missing Link
Redmond
will use this grant to buy a .81-acre parcel and a trail easement, completing a 1.6-mile portion of the Bear Creek
Trail corridor. This segment
and others constitute the Bear & Evans Creek Trail & Greenway,
which is a 9-mile trail being acquired and developed in phases. The overall project connects to other Redmond and King County trails
and will create loops in and around the city. Redmond will contribute $181,525 in conservation futures. (04-1241A-FY06)
Shoreline
Parks & Recreation Department
$1,215,000
Interurban
Trail—North Central Segment
The
Interurban Trail is a multi-jurisdictional recreational trail that provides
a vital north-south link in the regional Puget Sound trail system. The Shoreline portion of the trail is 3 miles
long and extends from Shoreline’s boundary with Seattle on North 145th
Street, north to the Snohomish County line.
With this grant, Shoreline will design and construct the final
0.85-mile section of the north central segment (N 175th to N 192nd). Work will include landscaping, installing historical
interpretative signs and building neighborhood connections. The Shoreline Interurban Trail runs through
an area of significant residential population (about 5,000 people per
square mile), and will connect people to services, other modes of transportation,
employment and housing. It will
fill a great safety need for bicyclists and others seeking a recreational
trail. Shoreline will contribute $1,215,000 in funding
and money from two other grants. (04-1211D-FY06)
Seattle
Parks & Recreation Department
$190,042
South
Lake Union Park Development Phase 1
Seattle
will use this grant to develop 1.2 acres into a major waterfront park
with access to Lake Union. Work
will include improving the loading dock, waterfront walkway and landscaping. The park is an important phase of an 11-acre
regional park that will compliment the Maritime Heritage Center, which
preserves and displays boating and the water-related history of the
region. The park provides outdoor
spaces for large community gatherings as well as waterfront access for
workers, visitors and residents of the South Lake Union Park neighborhood. Seattle will contribute $316,737 from a voter-approved
levy. (04-1208D-FY06)
Bellevue
Parks & Community Service
$246,604
Meydenbauer
Bay Waterfront Acquisition
With
this grant, Bellevue will be able to buy the two remaining waterfront
parcels between Meydenbauer Beach Park and the city-owned marina. Bellevue is bound on the west by Lake Washington
and on the east by Lake Sammamish.
However, because of urban development, topography and the almost
continuous private ownership of the shoreline, the public has limited
visual and physical access to these lakes.
Of the more than 11 miles of shoreline along the two lakes, less
than 10 percent is in public ownership.
Acquisition of the two remaining parcels adds .5 acre and 146
linear feet of waterfront to the city's holdings and substantially completes
the Lake Washington acquisition plan envisioned in the mid-1970s.
These two properties are critical to the city's long-range vision
for this area - a waterfront park that extends from Meydenbauer Beach
Park to the marina, and a connection from that park to downtown Bellevue's
commercial and residential areas and the Downtown Park.
Bellevue will contribute $6.1 million in cash and conservation
futures funds. (04-1353A-FY06)
Kitsap
County $5,288,213
Bremerton
Parks & Recreation Department
$140,000
Bremerton
Skatepark
This
grant will help renovate and expand an old skate park built on a basketball
court. The skate park, which
was the only one in Bremerton from 1996 to 2002, was created from mostly
handmade, wooden, modular, equipment that deteriorated, became unsafe
and had to be removed. The new
skate park will feature street elements and will be about 10,000 square
feet in size with an adjoining restroom.
The new park is centrally located in the existing Eastpark.
The current Bremerton Parks & Recreation Comprehensive Plan
states that additional neighborhood parks are needed, and one of the
most requested is a skate park. For
the past two years, Bremerton Skateboarders and Supporters United have
been instrumental in acquiring about $150,080 in matching funds from
a design and construction company, skate clubs and the Bremerton Central
Lions Charitable Foundation. Bremerton will contribute $150,080 in donations
and a federal grant. (04-1298D-FY06)
Kitsap
County Parks and Recreation
$500,000
North
Kitsap Heritage Park
In
its 2000 Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan, Kitsap County documented
significant deficiencies in virtually all elements of park and open
space facilities in the county. The
plan called for the county to provide large, regional Heritage Parks,
which are a minimum of 300 acres and would remain largely undeveloped
to provide for passive recreation and preservation of environmentally
sensitive areas. This grant will allow the county to purchase 426.11 acres for a Heritage
Park. The site is in the major
population centers of Poulsbo, Bainbridge Island, Kingston and Indianola. Kitsap County will contribute $1,414,835 in
conservation futures. (04-1456A-FY06)
Kitsap
County Parks and Recreation
$582,099
Hansville
Greenway Phase 2
Kitsap
County will use this grant to buy 225 acres, tieing it to the 175-acre
Hansville Greenway and its 4 miles of trails to Hood Canal, Puget Sound
and Point No Point Park. The
Hansville Community has been working proactively to preserve its special
places and to create a system of trails that provide access to those
places. This purchase provides for 5 miles of trails
and contains 22 acres of wetlands and 2 miles of streams. These are the last acres required to complete
the greenway, and are under the ownership of a landowner who plans to
develop the area. The landowner
has indicated a willingness to donate about 9,000 feet of trail easement
as part of this acquisition. The
Hansville Community has worked with the Trust for Public Lands to secure
an option on this property on the county's behalf.
Kitsap County will contribute $582,099 in conservation futures
funds and donated land.
(04-1458A-FY06)
Bainbridge
Island Park District
$89,331
Blakely
Harbor Project Phase 1
Blakely
Harbor Park is a popular destination for boaters, kayakers, beach enthusiasts,
walkers and about 3,000 students annually participating in Puget Sound's
regional environmental learning seminars at IslandWood located adjacent
to this park. This grant will
provide two restrooms, storage, parking, historical and environmental
interpretation, trails and a bridge.
This work will connect the two areas of the park.
Currently, park visitors must leave the park and re-enter to
experience both the uplands and saltwater areas.
The site also will be tied to an adjoining cultural site now
being purchased. Site development
has received endorsement from IslandWood, a non-profit environmental
learning center dedicated to elementary students, Washington Water Trails
and the Bainbridge Island Land Trust.
The park district will contribute $91,132 in donated cash, equipment,
labor and materials. (04-1424D-FY06)
Department
of Natural Resources
$2,669,703
Stavis
Natural Resource Conservation Area/Kitsap Forest Natural Area Preserve
The
Department of Natural Resources will use this grant to buy 568 acres
near Bremerton in Kitsap County. The
acreage is part of a much larger managed forest that contains a rare
forest community and a variety of high quality wildlife habitats. More than 98 percent of similar forests greater than 100 years old
in the Puget Trough ecoregion have been lost. The land is one of the most important landscapes for biodiversity
conservation in the Puget Trough and is highly threatened by development. Stavis Creek, which runs through the property,
is one of the best remaining Hood Canal salmon spawning habitats and
is a designated recovery area for Hood Canal summer chum, which are
threatened with extinction. High-quality
freshwater wetlands on the land form the headwaters of Stavis Creek
and have habitat for cavity-nesting ducks.
The site also hosts an active bald eagle nest, a small great
blue heron rookery, breeding mountain quail, Chinook salmon, cougar
and black bear. This project greatly enhances the long-term
viability and quality of wildlife habitat in a still-intact functional
landscape that is threatened with urban fragmentation. (04-1281A-FY06)
Kitsap
County Parks and Recreation
$755,902
Central
Kitsap Greenway
This
grant will allow Kitsap County to buy about 340 acres, the last link
of a wildlife corridor. The
land, just outside Bremerton's city limits, will tie together about
15,000 acres of managed open space lands and will preserve prime spawning
beds on Wildcat Creek, a primary tributary of Chico Creek.
Chico Creek is the most productive salmon stream in Kitsap County,
producing as many salmon as all the other streams combined. The purchases will provide links for wildlife
corridors between the large blocks of protected open space along Big
Beef Creek, Green Mountain, Gold Mountain and the Bremerton watershed
area. Animals benefiting include
bobcats, bats, squirrels, otters, band-tailed pigeons, pileated woodpeckers,
furous hummingbirds, willow flycatchers, downey woodpeckers, Wilson's
warblers, gold-crowned kinglets, salamanders, toads, snakes and pond
turtles. The Seattle Mountaineers and the Great Peninsula
Conservancy are donating $600,000 toward this purchase. Kitsap County will contribute, $155,903 in donations and conservation futures funds. (04-1457A-FY06)
Bainbridge
Island Park District
$551,178
Gazzam
Phase 2
Bainbridge
Island Park District will use this grant to buy 113 acres, expanding
Gazzam to 431 acres. This purchase
will provide the public with access to Port Orchard Bay and increase
the protection of the wildlife corridor and wetlands.
The land contains forests dominated by Douglas fir, western red
cedar, western hemlock, red alder and big-leaf maple.
The land protects priority species such as purple martin, bald
eagle, pileated woodpecker and numerous song birds and migrant birds. The area is home to Chinook, chum and pink
salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout, sandlance and surf smelt. This project is supported by the Suquamish
Tribe, The Bainbridge Island Land Trust, Trout Unlimited, the Kitsap
County Audubon Society and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The park district will contribute at least
$1.6 million from voter-approved bonds and donations. (04-1418A-FY06)
Klickitat
County $1,454,565
Department
of Natural Resources
$1,454,565
Trout
Lake Wetlands Natural Area Preserve
The
Department of Natural Resources will use this grant to buy about 300
acres that provides extremely critical habitat for a variety of endangered,
threatened and candidate species, including bald eagles and Sandhill
cranes. The area is mostly wetlands and contains the
most viable of only six known Washington populations of the Oregon Spotted
Frog, a state endangered and federal candidate species. This wetland system is part of the Pacific
Flyway in Klickitat County, and supports a large number of migratory
birds. The land also is important
wintering habitat for black-tailed deer, and is part of an essential
corridor for a large elk herd. A
variety of other wildlife use the area.
One of the two largest populations of the pale blue-eyed grass
(federal candidate species) and the largest population of the rare Pulsifers
monkey-flower known to occur in the state are found here. (04-1395A-FY06)
Lincoln
County $640,390
City
of Creston
$84,669
Creston
Multi-Sport Complex
The
Town of Creston will use this grant to build two tennis courts, a multi-purpose
court and a 9,000-square-foot skate park complete with a mini half pipe,
grind rails and bank ramps. Ranked
as the highest priority by residents of Creston and the Creston School
District, this project will allow the City to build tennis courts for
use by the Wilbur/Creston tennis team, which currently use courts in
Wilbur, 8 miles away, that are in severe need of repair.
The multi-purpose court would serve the Creston School District
Area. The skate park will be the only one in Lincoln
County. The nearest ones are
about 50 miles away. Creston
will contribute $84,897 in funding, equipment, labor, another grant
and donations of cash, equipment, labor and land. (04-1359C-FY06)
Department
of Fish & Wildlife
$555,721
Reardan's
Audubon Lake
Reardan's
Audubon Lake in Lincoln County is 277 acres of wetlands, ponds, grasslands,
and channeled scablands supporting more than 200 species of birds and
other wildlife. The site includes
13 species and 4 bird communities of special concern status and 5 habitat
types or elements of special concern for the Department of Fish and
Wildlife. It is the headwaters of Crab Creek, a Columbia
River tributary, and Deep Creek, a Spokane River tributary. It is an
Audubon Important Bird Area nominee.
Listed in many birding guides, the site is planned for inclusion
in the Northeast Washington Birding Trail.
The grant will be used to purchase and develop this unique ecosystem
and wildlife-viewing site. The
property, just outside Reardan was on the market for housing subdivision
development until the Inland Northwest Land Trust and Spokane Audubon
Society secured an option to purchase by spring 2006.
The Trust and Audubon, along with Ducks Unlimited, Reardan and
the Reardan Chamber of Commerce are committed to cooperatively preserving
and developing this site. This project helps develop wildlife viewing
sites near small rural communities that can reap the economic benefits
of new visitors. (04-1285C-FY06)
Mason
County $1,307,460
Department
of Natural Resources
$1,307,460
Ink
Blot and Shumocher Creek Natural Area Preserves
The
Department of Natural Resources will use this grant to buy, manage and
protect wetlands and adjacent uplands within two state natural area
preserves: Ink Blot and Shumocher Creek.
Both preserves are inear Hood Canal and the Skokomish Valley.
These preserves contain three imperiled wetland and bog ecosystems
and seven very rare or high quality wetland plant communities. One of the plant communities found in the Shumocher
Creek Preserve, the Sitka alder/skunk cabbage - water parsley community
is only found in the Puget Trough ecoregion and is critically imperiled
globally. The grant will help
buy 177.5 acres from willing sellers at both sites.
(04-1416A-FY06)
Okanogan
County $5,865,571
City
of Oroville
$30,380
Oroville's
Eastlake Ball fields
The
City of Oroville has needed additional ball fields for the past 15 years;
however, affordable property has been scarce.
The city acquired 12 acres and has leveled the property and installed
irrigation, two backstops and bases.
This grant will add an additional backstop, portable pitching
mounds, fencing, parking, player benches, bleachers, water service and
a trail around the park’s edge, essentially making the fields playable. Oroville will contribute $30,380 in funding,
equipment, labor and donated labor.
(04-1174D-FY06)
Town
of Tonasket
$129,000
Tonasket
B3 Skate and Bike Park
The
Town of Tonasket will use this grant to build a 10,000-square-foot skate
park and an adjacent 50,000-square-foot dirt bicycle track in Chief
Tonasket Park. The skate park
will provide both street and freeform skate boarding, for all levels
of expertise, and facilities for inline skating as well.
The features will consist of a series of concrete bowls, pipes,
ledges, spines, jump boxes, ramps, banks, steps, rails, walls and grinding
rails. The mountain biking track will have about 1,000
feet of straight runs and mounds designed in a series of curves and
banks. Volunteers will do most
of the construction under the guidance of the American Bicycle Association. Work will include adding fencing, a starting
gate, a small building for storage and ticket sales, a water system,
a paved staging area, an area for support vehicles and bleachers for
spectators. Tonasket will contribute $129,000 in donated
funding, equipment, labor and materials. (04-1137D-FY06)
Washington
State Parks and Recreation Commmission
$1,300,000
Pearrygin
Lake Shoreline Acquisition
Preserving the serenity of Pearrygin Lake State Park is the goal of this
grant. State Parks will buy
84.1 acres adjacent to the southwest shoreline of Pearrygin Lake, preventing
establishment of a subdivision and preserving the scenic landscape. Pearrygin Lake State Park is a 584-acre camping park in the Methow
Valley in Okanogan County. The park features expansive green lawns leading
to 7,500 feet of waterfront on Pearrygin Lake. (04-1198A-FY06)
Okanogan
County Public Works
$688,666
Similkameen
Connector Trail Phase 1
The
Similkameen Connector Trail begins in the historic mining town of Nighthawk,
runs parallel to the Similkameen River, through a tunnel past the historic
1907 Enloe Dam, over a bridge and into Oroville.
With this grant, Okanogan County will acquire 18 properties,
either through easements or purchase, develop a 7-mile section of the
trail, and construct a trail head at Nighthawk.
This is the first step in development of this trail. The Similkameen Connector Trail is a non-motorized
trail on an abandoned railroad track and it offers spectacular views
of the river and the Cascade Range in the Pasayten Wilderness. The trail will serve as a connector to the
Pacific Northwest Trail system and the extensive trail system within
Okanogan County. Partners in
this project include the Pacific Northwest Trail Association, private
clubs and other interest groups. Okanogan
County will contribute $688,670 in equipment, labor and materials and
donated land, labor and materials. (04-1441C-FY06)
Department
of Fish & Wildlife
$2,839,200
Methow
Watershed Phase 4
With
a goal of protecting the habitats necessary to maintain all of the ecological
processes of the watershed and to sustain maximum biological diversity,
the Department of Fish and Wildlife will purchase 2,560 acres of the
largest privately-owned, contiguous block of shrub-steppe habitat remaining
in the watershed, along with 4 miles of land along Beaver Creek and
2 miles along the Methow River in Okanogan County.
The land is a critical area for sharp-tailed grouse, spring Chinook
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