[env-trinity] EPA Watershed Nomination Grant Award Pic

[Josh Allen]

This picture was taken Wednesday, December 7th at the Northcoast Inn in
Arcata at the award ceremony held by the US EPA for the Watershed
Nomination Grant Award that the Yurok Tribe, Trinity County, & the
Trinity County Resource Conservation District were successful in
applying for this year. 

 

Those who received the check on behalf of their organization are shown
in order of appearance from left to right: 

*       Howard McConnell; Yurok Tribal Chairman 

*       Howard Freeman; Trinity County Board of Supervisors Chairman 

*       Maria Rea; EPA Region 9 Water Division Senior Environmental
Policy Advisor

*       Colleen O'Sullivan; Trinity County Resource Conservation
District Board Member

 

The following links have information about the Watershed Nomination
Grant Award: 

 

*         National Map with all of the awards (interactive): 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/ 

*         2005 Fact Sheet: 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/2005factsheet.html 

*         Project Summaries: 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/2005projsumm.html 

*         2005 Proposals: 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/2005proposals.html 

*         Trinity/Lower Klamath Rivers Proposal by the Yuroks, Trinity
County, & TCRCD: 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/2005proposals/05trinity.pdf


 

 

The following article, which was printed in the Time-Standard & the
Trinity Journal, explains the objectives of the Watershed Grant:

News Article: Nov 11, 2005 
The 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. 

 

 

 

 

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