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Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project Fishery News |
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YKFP's Melvin Sampson Receives Leadership Award at Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum Gala As part of the annual Wy-Kan-Ush-Pum (Spirit of the Salmon) Gala celebrating salmon and Native American art, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission recognizes and honors individuals and organizations that have made outstanding contributions to salmon restoration with the Spirit of the Salmon Awards. At this year's gala on May 12 at the Grosvenor Hotel in Portland, Oregon, Melvin Sampson, policy advisor and project coordinator for the Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project, was conferred a Leadership Award for his years of outstanding work on the YKFP.
"For making progress while surmounting obstacles that would bar the way to one less bold."
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Columbia Land Trust purchases land along Klickitat River from Hancock Timber Resources Group Columbia Land Trust purchased the "old haul road" and five adjoining parcels of land totaling 480 acres: 15 miles of Klickitat River waterfront, 10.7 miles of it riparian and floodplain in some of the most productive salmonid habitat in the lower river. Klickitat Watershed Enhancement Project will partner with Columbia Land Trust in restoring access to ideal floodplain and back channel spawning and rearing habitat, cut off for decades by the haul road, through a Phase II Salmon Recovery Grant. |
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Contact Information:Telephone: 509-369-3270 | FAX: 509-369-3194 | Postal address: P.O. Box 251, 1575 Horseshoe Bend Rd., Klickitat, WA 98628 E-mail:
General Information: info@ykfp.org |