Resources
Small Habitat Restoration Program (SHRP)

This page provides links to on-line resources with information you can use if you are considering a restoration project or if you want to learn more about habitat restoration.

Small Habitat Restoration Program Annual Reports

• 2010
• 2009
• 2007
• 2005
• 2004
• 2003
• 2002

Lake Stewardship Program: designed to help citizens monitor, protect, manage, and improve the many small lakes in King County. Includes:

Technical Assistance
Aquatic Plant Management

Forestry Services and Information provides education, technical assistance, and economic incentives aimed toward retaining and providing stewardship of the forest resources of King County.

Noxious Weed Control Program supports landowners by preventing new noxious weed infestations through education, early detection of possible infestations and by providing education on weed identification, weed ecology, and control methods.

Agriculture Services and Information information on the county's Agriculture Program, Farmland Preservation Program, Livestock Program, Transfer of Development Credits Program and WSU Cooperative Extension.

Wild Places in City Spaces provides funds to volunteer organizations, community groups and government agencies for reforestation and habitat restoration projects within the urban growth area of King County.

Small Change for a Big Difference Grant Program provides small grants to support salmon and/or watershed education, enhancement, protection and restoration efforts in King County.

Additional resources

Northwest Native Plant Landscape Guide: information on how to identify, propogate, and landscape with native plants. Includes a native plant list builder to bring to your nursery.

Puget Sound Rain Gardens (external link)
Rain gardens filter pollution from stormwater and support unusual native plants, and WSU has set a goal for register 12,000 rain gardens in the Puget Sound basin:

• Wet, shady native plant list
• Wet, part shade native plant list
• Wet, sunny native plant list

Washington Conservation Corps (external link): a job training and service program that performs environmental restoration projects for state, federal and local agencies throughout the state of Washington.

Salmon Web (external link): a non-profit group providing tools that support education, communication and ecological science focusing on salmon habitat.

The Forest Stewardship Program (external link): of the WA State Department of Natural Resources.

Horses for Clean Water (external link): this program, run by horse owners, provides information on ways to manage manure, pasture management, wildlife enhancement on horse places and landscaping farms with native plants.

For more information about the Small Habitat Restoration Program, please contact Mason Bowles, senior ecologist, Water and Land Resources Division Ecological Restoration and Engineering Services Unit.