EPA grants $2 million to tribes for Puget Sound projects
A number of news outlets reported on this week’s announcement of $2 million in EPA grants to tribes in support of the Puget Sound Partnership.
More than a century ago, Native American tribes watched settlers dam, dike and straighten the area’s streams and rivers.
Today the federal EPA gave those same tribes millions of dollars to undo some of those changes.
During a ceremony at a 140-acre site near the Upper Skagit Indian Reservation near Sedro-Woolley, the EPA handed over $2 million to 19 tribes to fund several restoration projects. The money will be used at that site to remove dikes and other obstacles from Hansen Creek, a major tributary of the Skagit River.