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The Partnership recommends exploring a range of approaches to improve communication, coordination, and consolidation of all habitat efforts in the Chehalis Basin. (WMP Recommendation, page 25)
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1. Develop a better communication and coordination structure among the various groups involved in habitat restoration within the Chehalis Basin.[i] Also refer to WMP Supplement, pg IV-114 & 115 for subtasks |
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a. Continue Circulation of Drops of Water |
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b. Website |
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c. Provide more teacher trainings and information about existing resources[ii] |
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d. Establish a coordinator’s position to form partnerships with community members and to use their expertise to create a strong program[iii] |
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e. Provide education on the value of salmon, salmon habitat, and stream ecology through workshops and field studies[iv] |
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f. Offer training in how to use biological assessment as an educational and action tool to determining the health of salmon habitat[v] |
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g. Teach habitat restoration skills to teachers, students, and homeowners[vi] |
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h. Provide teachers, students, and homeowners with a opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned to a habitat restoration project[vii] |
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i. Push to use the environment as integrating context (combine with math, science, and English curriculum) to improve test scores, retention, and participation[viii] |
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j. Inform the public about how they can best protect habitat on their own land[ix] |
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2. Develop a focused habitat restoration/preservation outreach/education effort within the Chehalis Basin |
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a. Develop lists of funding sources. (Directory of Watershed Resources developed by the Environmental Finance Center of Boise State University |
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b. Recommend adequate funding for water resources management (source to be determined; funding to be distributed to those entities involved in water resources management[x] |
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c. The Partnership will be instrumental in the creation of a local organization capable of planning, coordinating, and implementing local habitat restoration efforts in WRIA's 22 and 23. (WMP Action 47, page 25) Also refer to WMP Supplement, pg 114 -115 for subtasks[xi] |
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d. Support coordinated planning efforts to develop and implement a coordinated habitat restoration strategy. This would include the incorporation of other relevant species plans as the plans evolve.[xii] |
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e. Develop a data inventory and monitoring strategy for determining how effective habitat enhancement efforts have been[xiii] |
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f. Identify or create a funding source for small habitat projects[xiv] |
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g. Identify applicable funding sources for habitat protection and restoration projects[xv] |
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h. Establish media relations with press, radio and television. Involve more organizations with environmental education such as stream team, conservations districts, counties, cities, YMCA Earth Corps, WFPA, and state agencies |
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