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SHRP - Small Habitat Restoration Program 

This page provides links to on-line resources with information you can use if you are considering a restoration project or if you want to learn more about habitat restoration. Use the "Back" button on your browser to return to this page.

Small Habitat Restoration Program Annual Reports


Lake Stewardship Program: designed to help citizens monitor, protect, manage, and improve the many small lakes in King County. Includes:

Technical Assistance
Aquatic Plant Management
Lake Stewardship Newsletter and other lakes resources.

Forestry Topics provides education, technical assistance, and economic incentives aimed toward retaining and providing stewardship of the forest resources of King County.

Noxious Weed Control Program supports landowners by preventing new noxious weed infestations through education, early detection of possible infestations and by providing education on weed identification, weed ecology, and control methods.

Agricultural Topics: information on the county's Agriculture Program, Farmland Preservation Program, Livestock Program, Transfer of Development Credits Program and WSU Cooperative Extension.

Wild Places in City Spaces provides funds to volunteer organizations, community groups and government agencies for reforestation and habitat restoration projects within the urban growth area of King County.

Small Change for a Big Difference Grant Program provides small grants to support salmon and/or watershed education, enhancement, protection and restoration efforts in King County.


Additional Resources

Northwest Native Plant Landscape Guide: information on how to identify, propogate, and landscape with native plants. Includes a native plant list builder to bring to your nursery.

Washington Conservation Corps: a job training and service program that performs environmental restoration projects for state, federal and local agencies throughout the state of Washington.

Salmon Web a non-profit group providing tools that support education, communication and ecological science focusing on salmon habitat.

Restoring the watershed (pdf) a citizen's guide to riparian restoration in western Washington: this 16-page handbook (in adobe acrobat) from the WA State Department of Fish and Wildlife provides hands-on information that could be of use for your restoration project.

The Forest Stewardship Program of the WA State Department of Natural Resources.

Horses for Clean Water: this program, run by horse owners, provides information on ways to manage manure, pasture management, wildlife enhancement on horse places and landscaping farms with native plants.
 

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