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CRR Grants for Habitat Projects

The Cowlitz Restoration and Recovery (CRR) Fund provides funding for habitat protection and restoration projects that support the recovery of Endangered Species Act-listed salmon and steelhead populations originating in the upper Cowlitz River basin.

Tacoma Power partners with the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board (LCFRB) to administer habitat grant rounds.

Funding Priorities

Funding is available for on-the-ground habitat projects and activities that lead to future restoration projects.

CRR habitat project priorities are ranked as follows:

  1. Upper Cowlitz and/or Cispus spring Chinook salmon
  2. Upper Cowlitz and/or Cispus winter steelhead and coho salmon
  3. Tilton salmon and steelhead populations and/or upper Cowlitz fall Chinook salmon
Find application forms, requirements and grant-round information

Funding Awarded

Cispus Floodplain Reconnection Project

Sponsor: Cowlitz Indian Tribe
CRR award: $362,200 | Total project cost: $362,200
Status: Completed

Developed preliminary designs to improve floodplain connectivity and habitat-forming processes near Randle.

Upper Cowlitz Culvert Inventory

Sponsor: Lewis Conservation District
CRR award: $134,820 | Total project cost: $134,820
Status: Underway

Identifies and prioritizes fish-passage barriers in the Tilton and upper Cowlitz basins and develops preliminary designs for priority projects.

Creating Habitat on the Cispus Tributaries

Sponsor: Cascade Forest Conservancy
CRR award: $138,355 | Total project cost: $838,387
Status: Near completion

Improves habitat in Camp Creek and develops designs for additional restoration work in Cispus River tributaries.

Kiona Creek Restoration Design

Sponsor: Lewis County PUD
CRR award: $70,071 | Total project cost: $140,141
Status: Complete

Developed a construction-ready restoration design to improve riparian and stream habitat in lower Kiona Creek.

Cispus-Yellowjacket Creek Phase IV Restoration Project

Sponsor: Cowlitz Indian Tribe
CRR award: $2,457,184 | Total project cost: $3,469,260
Status: Underway

Constructs engineered logjams in the Cispus River to improve spawning and rearing habitat for spring Chinook, coho and steelhead.

Restoration of Crystal and Woods Creeks

Sponsor: Cascade Forest Conservancy
CRR award: $168,098 | Total project cost: $213,372
Status: Underway

Restores Cispus River tributary habitat using instream structures, native plantings and invasive-species removal.

Riparian and Channel Enhancements of Hall Creek

Sponsor: Cascade Forest Conservancy
CRR award: $61,048 | Total project cost: $85,549
Status: Underway

Supports design and restoration work to improve spawning, rearing and overwintering salmon habitat along Hall Creek.

Silver Creek Restoration Opportunity Identification

Sponsor: Cascade Forest Conservancy
CRR award: $233,474 | Total project cost: $233,474
Status: Underway

Identifies and prioritizes restoration opportunities along lower Silver Creek and develops a conceptual design for a preferred project.

Cispus-Yellowjacket Phase V Design

Sponsor: Cowlitz Indian Tribe
CRR award: $345,077 | Total project cost: $345,077

Develops preliminary designs to improve floodplain connectivity and instream habitat along 1.2 miles of Yellowjacket Creek.

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Melora Shelton