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Top-Ranked
Projects Receive "Big Checks" from Interagency Committee
The Interagency Committee for Outdoor
Recreation would like to applaud applicants who did an outstanding
job and received the highest scores in the statewide competition
for funding. IAC is awarding "big checks" to the top-ranked
projects in the agency's nine grant programs. Here are some
of the winners.
Mountains to Sound Greenway Maintains Trails
Pictured from left to right are:
Karen Daubert, Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation Board Member;
Bill Chapman, President of the Mountains to Sound Greenway Board of Directors;
Doug Schindler, Director of Field Programs for the Greenway;
Sue McLain, Stewardship Committee Chair
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Maintaining Mountains to Sound Greenway Trails
The Mountains to Sound Greenway will use this $59,500 grant from the National Recreational Trails Program (NRTP) to provide materials, tools, staff, and conservation corps time to maintain more than 40 miles of trails in the greenway. The 800 miles of greenway trails are some of the heaviest used trails in the state, serving a population of more than 1.8 million people. Mountains to Sound Greenway will contribute $50,418 in cash, labor, a private grant, and donated labor and materials.
Franklin County Improves Erwen Trust Boat Launch
Pictured from left to right are: Stan Strebel, Pasco Administrative and Community Services Director; Robert Hoffman, Pasco City Councilman; Jeff Parsons, Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation Board Member; Joyce Olsen, Pasco Mayor; Frank Brock, Franklin County Commissioner; Tim Fife, Franklin County Public Works Director; Neva Corkrum, Franklin County Commissioner; Wanda Louder, Franklin County Parks Advisory Board Member; and Bob Scott, Franklin County Parks Advisory Board Member
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Developing
the Boat Launch in Wade Park
Franklin County received a $450,000
grant from the Boating
Facilities Program to realign and develop the
boat launch area at the west end of Wade Park. The
County will build a new boat ramp, courtesy float,
bulkhead, and gangway. Work also will include grading
and paving of the staging area and parking lot, graveling
of the overflow parking area, landscaping, adding
lighting, connecting trails, adding stormwater facilities,
and installing signs. All areas will be accessible
to people with disabilities. Franklin County received
the grant after its project scored the highest of
17 projects requesting more than $5.3 million in funding.
The project will complete the first phase of development.
Franklin County is teaming up with the City of Pasco,
which is providing 50 percent of the $150,000 match.
The City of Pasco will be assuming maintenance upon
completion of the project site. |
Whatcom County Upgrades Shooting
Range
Whatcom County Parks & Recreation Commission
From left to right back row: Del Lowery, Dan Taylor (Chair), Walt Lockwood Jr., Gary Chadwick
Front Row: Nancy Kaye, Robert McKissick, Gordon Rogers, IAC Assistant Director Neil Aaland
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Whatcom County Parks Commission Upgrades Lighting, Target Carrier at Shooting Range
The Whatcom County
Parks Commission received a $50,000 grant from the
Firearms and Archery
Range Recreation Program to replace most of its
13-year-old target carrier system at its public indoor
shooting range, the Plantation Range The new system
will meet the training needs of the 26 law enforcement
agencies that use the range. It will provide a wider
range of training opportunities, increased reliability,
and decreased maintenance. The grant also will replace
the lighting at the range. The county's project ranked
the highest of four projects requesting $200,000 in
funding. Whatcom County is contributing $50,000 in
funding, equipment, labor costs. |
Port of Everett Builds New Marina
Pictured from left to right: Jill McKinnie, district director for Rep. Rick Larsen, Sheila Babb, Sen. Patty Murray's transportation specialist from Seattle; Sally Hintz, the Northwest Washington director for Sen. Maria Cantwell, Laura Johnson, director of the Office of the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation; Phil Bannan, port commission president; Christy Guilion, Murray's Northwest Washington director; Patrick Hogan, special assistant to Rep. Jay Inslee; and Kim Buike, Port of Everett marina director.
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Building the 12th Street Yacht
Basin Guest Moorage
The Port of Everett competed against 33 proposals from
around the nation but came away a winner in the federal
Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program, receiving
a $990,000 grant.
The port will use the grant to build a 36-slip guest moorage dock in the new 12th Street Yacht Basin. The moorage slips consist of a mixture of side-tie moorage as well as 40- and 50-foot slips with finger piers to provide flexible moorage for nontrailerable boats. The guest moorage slips will be in addition to 155 permanent slips in the yacht basin, which currently is under construction.
The new marina is adjacent to the new 65-acre Port Gardner Wharf waterfront redevelopment that will include more than 1.6 million square feet of residential units, restaurants, hotel services, retail shops, offices, a public amphitheater, and a waterfront walkway.
The Boating
Infrastructure Grant (BIG) program provides funding
for recreational boating facilities for big boats
(those 26 feet and larger). Funding for BIG grants
comes from a portion of the federal Aquatic Resources
Trust Fund administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. The Port of Everett competed against 33 proposals
requesting about $15 million in federal funds, of
which, the Port of Everett's project ranked fourth. |
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Port of Wahkiakum County Improves Elochoman Slough Marina
Pictured
from left to right: Jackie Lea, manager of the
Port of Wahkiakum County; Sandra Benbrook, of
Benbrook and Associates, a consulting firm; and
Jim Fox, special assistant with the Interagency
Committee for Outdoor Recreation
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Elochoman
Slough Marina gets update
In a national competition, the Port of Wahkiakum
County successfully won a $197,712 grant from the
Boating Infrastructure
Grant (BIG) program to make improvements to
its Elochoman Slough marina.
The port will use
the grant to increase the number of transient moorage
slips and add water and power hookups to its marina
on Elochoman Slough. The port will renovate Dock
F, reconfiguring slips on several docks, replace
a deteriorating connecting dock, and add utilities
to 24 new slips. Using state-of-the-art moorage
and finger docks, the proposed project will improve
the water quality in the marina by reducing contamination
from older, treated-wood docks and pilings. There
will be at least a 24 percent increase in transient
moorage and most of the new space will accommodate
vessels larger than 26 feet in length. The approach
is a cost-effective way of expanding the marina
within its existing footprint. Additionally, this
approach involves the least disruption to the water
in the marina, the adjoining Elochoman Slough and
the Columbia River.
The BIG program
provides funding for recreational boating facilities
for big boats (those 26 feet and larger). Funding
for the grants comes from a portion of the federal
Aquatic Resources Trust Fund administered by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Washington
State Department of Natural Resources Provides ORV
Education in the Tahuya and Green Mountain State
Forests
Pictured
from left to right: Commissioner of Public Lands
Doug Sutherland and IAC Director Laura Johnson.
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Providing
ORV Education in the Tahuya and Green Mountain State
Forests
The Department of Natural Resources was awarded
a $107,402 grant to continue an established education
and enforcement program in the Tahuya and Green
Mountain state forests.
The grant is from
the Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation's
NOVA program, an
acronym standing for the Nonhighway and Off-Road
Vehicle Activities program, which provides funding
for recreation on backcountry trails and roads.
The Department
of Natural Resources won the grant after competing
statewide and ranking first of 31 applicants competing
in the education and enforcement category of the
NOVA program. Only 12 projects received funding.
The department will use the grant to pay for a fully trained and commissioned Natural Resources Investigator to patrol off-road vehicle trails and trail heads, educate the public about proper trail use and its correlation to the environment and give assistance to lost or injured riders. The investigator will be a commissioned law enforcement officer who will be able to issue warnings and citations to violators. The officer will be assisted by Department's South Puget Sound region staff and volunteers, including an active Forest Watch and Hosting program. The primary focus will be in the Tahuya State Forest in Mason County and the Green Mountain State Forest in Kitsap County, both of which are open all year, and offer 180 miles of multi-use trails, campgrounds and trail heads.
DNR will contribute $49,290 in equipment, labor, materials, and donated labor.
Funding for NOVA
grants comes from the gas tax and off-road vehicle
permits. |
City of
Burien Renovates Seahurst Park
Pictured from left to right: Shakti Hawkins, Mayor Gibb, Karen Daubert
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With 158 acres
of forest and nearly 1 mile of shoreline, Seahurst
Park is one of the largest parks on Puget Sound
between Seattle and Tacoma. Due to its age and the
marine environment, the park facilities are literally
crumbling away. Many features are severely degraded
and no longer usable.
The City will use
the grant to renovate a shoreline trail that links
to the City's trail network, improve beach access
for those of all abilities, provide an accessible
bathroom, upgrade accessible parking stalls and
pathways and renovate the picnic shelter.
Karen Daubert,
IAC board member, and Shakti Hawkins, the King County
Outreach Coordinator for U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell
presented Burien Mayor Noel Gibb with a symbolic
check at the council's Dec. 19, 2005 meeting.
Burien's project
was the top-ranked project competing for Land
and Water Conservation Fund grants, leading
statewide among 18 other projects. The grant is
managed by the IAC and funded by the federal government.
Since beginning in 1965, the Land and Water Conservation
Fund has provided nearly $64 million in grants for
533 projects statewide. |
Olympia
Parks, Arts, and Recreation Department Begins Woodland
Trail Phase I Development
From left, IAC Director Laura Johnson, Olympia Mayor
Mark Foutch, and Washington Wildlife and Recreation
Coalition members Karen Munro and former Governor
Mike Lowry present the symbolic check for IAC's
$300,000 grant to Olympia.
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Olympia
Woodland Trail Phase I Development
A $300,000 grant was awarded to the Olympia Parks,
Arts, and Recreation Department to begin development
of Woodland Trail.
The city will use
the grant to develop 1.8 miles of trail along an
abandoned railroad track through an urban forest
sanctuary created by the scenic Indian Creek ravines.
The grant, which is part of the Washington
Wildlife and Recreation Program, also will help
build a trail head, complete with restroom, shelter,
information kiosk, and bike and vehicle parking.
The city provided
about 72 percent of the project's $1.06 million
cost, including $6,500 in community donations. |
City of Bellingham Acquires Inspiration
Point and Chuckanut Bay
From left, Dr. Grant Deger,
president of the Bellingham City Council, David
Roberts, Department of Natural Resources, and Bill
Chapman, Interagency Committee board member, display
the "big check" awarded to the City of Bellingham.
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Inspiration
Point and Chuckanut Bay Acquisition
The City of Bellingham received $600,000 from the
Aquatic Lands Enhancement
Account to help purchase 12.3 acres in Bellingham's
Chuckanut Bay Greenway.
The parcel has
1,800 feet of marine shore, 3.5 acres of tideland,
and 8.7 acres of upland. With other public land,
the project creates the longest and wildest public
shore in the area and enlarges its existing shore
wildlife preserve.
The IAC-administered
grant was combined with more than $1.2 million in
voter-approved levy funds.
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Port of Camas-Washougal Columbia River
Boat Launch Program
IAC Board Chair Val Ogden (left) presents a “big
check” for $200,000 to Port of Camas-Washougal
Commissioner Rich Gunderson, Executive Director Sheldon
Tyler, and Commissioner Alan Hargrave at a June 27
port commission meeting.
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Columbia River
Boat Launch Program
The Port of Camas-Washougal
received $200,000 from IAC's Boating
Facilities Program to design and submit permit
applications to build an eight-lane boat launch on
the Columbia River.
The Port contributed
$300,0000 to the project, which will replace an existing
four-lane launch that was built in 1973 about 1/8-mile
downstream.
Clark County has
the fifth highest number of registered boats in Washington
but ranks twenty-fifth among counties in number of
launch facilities. When the new launch is completed,
the existing launch will be used to support marina
activities and overflow launching during peak-use
periods.
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Clinton Beach
(no photo)
The Port of South Whidbey Island received a $576,177
grant from the Washington
Wildlife and Recreation Program to help acquire
and develop Clinton Beach park. The new park, located
immediately adjacent to the state ferry dock and the
port's existing fishing pier and dock, was once the
site of a commercial business.
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 matched IAC's contribution to the $1.15 million project, and nearly $15,000 in labor will be donated. |
Bremerton Skate
Park (no photo)
Bremerton Parks and Recreation Department received
a $140,000 Washington
Wildlife and Recreation Program grant to renovate
and expand the skate park at Bremerton's Eastpark.
The skate park was created in 1996 from mostly handmade, wooden, modular, equipment that deteriorated, became unsafe, and had to be removed. The renovated skate park will feature street elements and will be about 10,000 square feet in size with an adjoining restroom.
The IAC grant was matched by $95,000 in Community Development Block Grant
funds and $55,080 in community donations.
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