Mosshead

Grant for private landowners

September 21st, 2005

This is a cool idea - half of Washington is privately owned. In a practical sense, that makes habitat restoration more of a community opt-in project than a federally mandated one. So, the state of Washington offers grants of up to $50,000 for habitat restoration to private landowners. Now, of course a lot of those landowners are corporations like Weyerhauser, but I still think it’s a good incentive program.

Smaller grants are available too. I’m going to let our landlord know so we can get some help with the giant buckwheat (noxious Japanese Knotweed) that’s threatening our pond. While we’ve been cutting it down before it goes to seed, we don’t really have the means to properly excavate or poison it.

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