Record Details
Coordinated salmon habitat restoration on private lands
ScholarsArchive at Oregon State University
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Coordinated salmon habitat restoration on private lands |
| Names | |
| Date Issued | 2013 (iso8601) |
| Note | This fact sheet series highlights innovative ways that ranchers and family forest owners are prospering from protecting and/or enhancing ecosystem services on their land. Ecosystem services are the benefits people receive from nature like water quality, wildlife habitat, and carbon sequestration. |
| Abstract | Salmon recovery requires restoration of spawning habitat to improve egg-to-smolt survival. Private lands play a crucial role. Funds for restoration are available from both federal appropriations and legal settlements for dam mitigation. Federal agencies responsible for recovery are often limited in their ability to work on private lands however, not only by legal authority, but also by the absence of landowner trust. In the Methow River Valley in north central Washington, an innovative partnership between a federal agency and a local nonprofit is bridging that gap by working together to facilitate and fund salmon habitat restoration on private lands. The partnership merges available funding with local knowledge to deploy funding strategically across the Valley. Landowners benefit from assistance for restoration projects that often increase the value of their properties beyond the small match required for the funding, in addition to increased irrigation efficiencies. |
| Genre | Other |
| Identifier | Coordinated salmon habitat restoration on private lands: Fact sheet two. Payment for ecosystem services fact sheet series. Oregon State University, University of Oregon, and Sustainable Northwest, USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture, Grant #2009-85211-06102-C0405A, Spring 2013. |
