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YAKIMA – Kittitas County landowners are encouraged to take advantage of a program to restore vegetation and stabilize stream banks along the Teanaway and other local rivers.
A Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) crew based in Yakima will provide free labor and native trees and shrubs to local landowners interested in restoring riparian areas along creek banks that flow through their property.
"The goal is to help provide cooler, cleaner water in the Teanaway River Basin and to protect fish-spawning and rearing habitat," said Pat Irle, a water quality specialist with the Washington State Department of Ecology.
A WCC team of five corps members and a supervisor will plant native trees and shrubs, stabilize banks and install animal fencing to provide streamside shading and improve water quality. Assistance is available free on a first-come, first-served basis through the spring of 2001.
For more information, or to make a project request, landowners may contact David Chain at the Ellensburg office of the Natural Resource Conservation Service, 607 E. Mountain View, phone: (509) 925-8585; or Pat Irle, Department of Ecology, 15 W. Yakima Ave., Suite 200, Yakima, WA 98902, phone: (509) 454-7864.
Contact: Joye Redfield-Wilder, public information manager, (509) 575-2610
For more information: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/sea/wcc/index.html
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