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April 1999 Web Sightings
Web Sightings - ESA/Salmon Issue
April 1999
State Information:
- The Governors
Salmon Recovery Office has had a recent face-lift and has been greatly
enhanced. Here you will find the state's draft strategy plan, Extinction
Is Not an Option - A Statewide Strategy to Recover Salmon, and information
on funding, legislation, and who is on the Salmon Team.
- The Department of Ecology has several
sites relating to the ESA issue: Shorelands
& Wetlands, Watershed
Planning and Water
Resources.
- The Department of Fish and Wildlife's Land
and Habitat section contains the priority habitat documents as well as
information on habitat restoration grants.
- The Department of Transportation's TransAid's Environmental Sectionand Environmental Affairs Office are adding ESA information to their sites relating to affected public works and transportation projects.
Local Information:
- See King County's Endangered
Species Act: Salmon Conservation and Recovery and Snohomish County's Restoring
Wild Salmon.
- King County set up a Tri-County Salmon
Information Center with the objective "to help everyone in the Puget Sound
Region find answers to their questions, whether their concern is how the ESA
listings could affect them, how they can help recover the salmon, or anything
else about salmon."
- Four local governments have posted copies of "early action plans" that were filed with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS): Pierce County's Endangered Species Response, Seattle's Early Action Proposal, Snohomish County's ESA Salmon Conservation Early Action program and Bellevue's Proposed Early Action Plan to Save Salmon. Whatcom County has published its Comprehensive Water Resources Plan that contains information about salmon restoration.

