[env-trinity] New U.S.D.A. Initiative Will Target Klamath Salmon

[Tom Stokely]

Does anybody know if this funding will be available in the Trinity River and South Fork Trinity River watersheds?

http://www.eurekareporter.com/Stories/fp-03300401.htm 

New U.S.D.A. Initiative Will Target Klamath Salmon 

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced on Tuesday a $3.5 million new initiative to help restore and 
conserve salmon habitat as part of the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program. 

The fiscal year 2004 funds will be used for the new Salmon Habitat Restoration Initiative, which is available in Alaska, 
California, Maine, Oregon and Washington. 

"This initiative supports the administration's commitment to restoring the health of the Klamath Basin and critical 
salmon habitat in other key areas of the country," Veneman said. "Maintaining healthy watersheds will ensure long-term 
salmon survival." 

The new initiative, administered by USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, will help landowners with projects 
that restore habitat for Pacific and Atlantic salmon. 

Projects may include providing shade along streams, restoring gravel spawning beds, removing barriers to fish passages 
and reducing agricultural runoff. 

WHIP is a voluntary conservation program, reauthorized in the 2002 Farm Bill, which provides technical and financial 
assistance to landowners and others to develop upland, wetland, riparian and aquatic habitat areas on their property. 

The program provides full flexibility to landowners, offering one-year agreements, 5- to 10-year agreements and 15-year 
or longer agreements. 

Since WHIP began in 1998, nearly 14,500 participants have enrolled more than 2.3 million acres into the program. 

Additional information on WHIP and the Salmon Habitat Restoration Initiative is at www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/whip 
or from Martha Joseph, NRCS Watersheds and Wetlands Division, martha.joseph at usda.gov or phone (202) 720-7157. 
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