[ODFW-News] Siletz resident to lead Access and Habitat Board

[ODFW News]

For Immediate Release Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2005
 
Siletz resident to lead Access and Habitat Board
Commission approves 16 angling and fish habitat projects
 
TILLAMOOK - The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission recently approved
Siletz resident and forester Tally Patton as chair of the Access and
Habitat Board, which reviews and recommends funding for projects
statewide to improve hunter access and wildlife habitat.
 
Patton currently serves as the landowner representative on the
seven-member board. During her 24-year forestry career she has worked
for private timber companies and the Oregon Department of Forestry. She
has many years of experience working with private landowners and
federal, state and local agencies. She also has worked on animal damage
issues for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and served on
myriad local task forces. She was instrumental in the development and
coordination of the Willamette Private Lands Law Enforcement Project,
the largest project ever funded by the A&H Program.
 
The Commission, during its regular monthly meeting in Tillamook Sept. 9,
also approved funding for seven projects that enhance hunter access or
improve wildlife habitat, including: 
* $60,000 toward a $163,000 project to hire an upland game bird habitat
biologist for northern Malheur County in partnership with Pheasants
Forever;
* $41,650 to provide 10 years of open hunting access on 1,646 acres on
private land in Harney County near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge;
* $100,500 to provide 10 years of open hunting access on 4,395 acres on
private land in Harney County;
* $20,000 toward a $165,153 project to remove invasive, nonnative
medusahead rye in Harney County;
* $106,900 toward a $308,044 project to hire a technician to help manage
the Sled Springs Management Demonstration Area and provide wildlife
forage seed for the area;
* $34,000 toward a $38,400 project to help alleviate wildlife damage,
improve wildlife habitat and provide private land hunting access on 400
acres of elk and deer winter range in Baker County; and
* Add $2,400 to a previously adopted provide in Harney County for hunter
access.
 
The A&H Program is funded by a surcharge on hunting licenses. 
 
Commission approves 16 grants for angling and fish habitat improvements

During its regular monthly meeting Sept. 9, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife
Commission approved nearly $1 million in funding for 16 projects that
restore or enhance fisheries or fish habitat.
 
The Commission is the policy-making body for fish and wildlife issues in
Oregon. The seven-member panel meets monthly in Salem and other areas
throughout the state. 
 
The following funding requests were approved as part of the fish
Restoration and Enhancement Program: 

* $466,500 for a new pollution abatement pond for Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife's Butte Falls Hatchery in southwest Oregon;
* $27,485 toward a $43,930 project to survey anglers participating in
the wild coho fishery in Siltcoos and Tahkenitch lakes this fall to
determine if harvest quotas have been met;
* $35,279 toward a $73,008 project to restore a dam and water intake for
the Indian Creek Hatchery in southwest Oregon that is operated by Curry
Anadromous Fishermen;
* $167,217 toward a $206,187 project to construct an indoor juvenile
rearing facility to improve fish health and build a storage building for
hatchery equipment at ODFW's Trask Hatchery near Tillamook;
* $15,000 toward a $35,604 project to survey wild winter steelhead
anglers on the Umpqua River to evaluate harvest;
* $45,854 toward a $55,254 project to survey anglers participating in
the trout fishery on Crane Prairie Reservoir in central Oregon and
monitor wild trout populations in the upper Deschutes River using
Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) tags;
* $60,106 toward a $400,600 project to improve fish passage by replacing
culverts with bridges in Alder Creek in northwest Oregon. 
* $12,046 toward a $23,626 project to continue an effort to remove
non-native vegetation and establish native plants on 4.2 acres next to
the Necanicum River;
* $30,193 toward a $233,983 project to create 1.2 miles of forested
riparian buffer along the Willamette River and a 3,000-foot slough;
* $8,143 toward a $77,993 project to expand a fishing line recycling
program, adding 50 sites located throughout Oregon;
* $10,457 toward a $12,392 project to conduct spawning surveys in Curry
County;
* $51,475 toward a $151,350 project to study steelhead migrating to
spawning grounds in the Coquille Basin;
* $7,946 toward a $9,646 project to teach low income children in
Portland to fish as part of an after school program;
* $5,840 toward an $11,863 project to stabilize stream banks and improve
fish habitat in the La Pine Recreation Area; and
* $2,200 toward a $6,600 project to improve an access road to Thief
Valley Reservoir, the site of a popular fishery. 
* $49,971 toward a $89,061 project to improve spawning habitat in Spring
Creek in central Oregon. 
 
The Restoration and Enhancement Program is funded by a surcharge on
fishing licenses and commercial poundage fees. Funds raised by the
program are distributed through grants to governmental agencies and
non-profit organizations for fish restoration and enhancement projects
throughout Oregon. For more information on the Fish Restoration and
Enhancement Program, visit www.dfw.state.or.us/fish/RE or contact acting
program coordinator Laura Tesler at 503-947-6259.

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