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| OWEB Board to consider funding Lower Columbia coho monitoring | ||
| 05/09/2006 | ||
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06-06
For immediate release
News media contact: Bonnie Ashford, OWEB, 503-986-0181Proposal continues work through June 2007 The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board will consider a proposal to allocate $375,000 to continue a coho salmon monitoring project in the Lower Columbia River at meetings May 16 and 17 in Oregon City. The meetings will be held at the Museum of the Oregon Territory’s Tumwater Room. Both meetings will run from 8 a.m. to noon. For more information, visit the OWEB Web site at www.oregon.gov/OWEB. Click on “OWEB Board” on the left menu or call 503-986-0178. If funds are approved, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will continue the coho monitoring project in the Lower Columbia River (Hood River to Astoria) through June 2007. ODFW will conduct habitat surveys, spawner and juvenile surveys and landscape assessments. The work is similar to analysis conducted recently for an Oregon coastal coho assessment. In addition, board members will discuss a staff recommendation to spend $420,000 to assist in the purchase of 121 acres along Crosel Creek, which drains into Youngs Bay south of Astoria. Dan Heagerty, Portland, and Jane O’Keeffe, Adel, serve as co-chairs of the 17-member Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. Members represent the public at large, tribes, state natural resource agency boards and commissions, the Oregon State University Extension Service, and federal natural resource agencies. The board is supported by a state agency of the same name that provides grants and services to citizen groups, organizations and agencies working to restore healthy streams, lakes and rivers in Oregon. OWEB actions support the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds, created in 1997. Funding comes from the Oregon Lottery as a result of a citizen initiative in 1998, sales of salmon license plates, federal salmon funds and other sources. For more information, visit www.oregon.gov/OWEB or call OWEB in Salem at 503-986-0178. |
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