[env-trinity] Watershed Grants - Eureka Times Standard

[Byron]

Nov 11, 2005 
The Times-Standard 
Eureka Times Standard 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted the Yurok Tribe and
Trinity County $835,000 to protect and restore the Trinity and lower Klamath
rivers. 

The grant is one of 12 in a $9 million package from the Targeted Watersheds
Grant Program. The program aims to get on-the-ground work done following
completed watershed assessments. 

The money will be spent in part on Terwer Creek on the lower Klamath. The
Yurok Tribe will decommission 1.1 miles of road, rehabilitate 18 hillside
areas, stabilize1,000 feet of stream bank and plant 800 trees. 

Other money will go to Trinity County for work on Indian Creek on the
Trinity River to clear vegetation, remove sediment, reshape the river
channel and revegetate areas so more water can be allowed to flow from
Trinity Dam. 

In Hidden Valley on the South Fork Trinity River, the Trinity County
Resource Conservation District will take out 5 miles of roads and remove
sediment. 

The projects are part of ongoing partnerships including the 2000 plan to
restore the Trinity River. Another $3 million is going into the projects
from both public and private sources. 

 

Byron Leydecker, 

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

Consultant, California Trout, Inc.

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 ph

415 383 9562 fx

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://www.fotr.org

http://caltrout.org

 

 

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