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Article: Wetland Preservation Projects Move Puget Sound Recovery Forward
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- February 23, 2009
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The Washington state Department of Ecology issued the following news release:
The Puget Sound recovery effort is getting a boost from $3.1 million in federal grants to the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology). The grants will help local partners return more than 350 acres of critical and increasingly rare estuarine and connected fresh water wetland habitat in Mason, Pierce, Thurston and Whatcom counties to natural conditions.
Obtaining, restoring and preserving critical habitat areas are a high priority for Ecology - and a cornerstone of the Puget Sound Partnership's Action Agenda to recover and protect the Sound.
Ecology Director Jay Manning said about 70 percent of the land near the ...