Property Stewardship within Entiat Sub-basin

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Reclamation has performed Tributary and Reach Assessments of the Middle Entiat Assessment Unit of the Entiat River. These Assessments form the basis of habitat improvement projects under development in the Entiat River, located in the Entiat Sub-basin. Several of those projects are located on, or accessed through, private property owned and managed for conservation by the Chelan Douglas Land Trust (CDLT). Understanding that these lands are open to public use and that access for staging of materials and construction of the project must be tightly managed, that there will be a loss of use by the Land Trust during the two-year construction period, that these conservation lands will experience significant physical disturbances associated with the construction of habitat projects; thereby requiring monitoring of vegetation removal and replacement, that long term weed control will be required, and that significant monitoring and stewardship of the rehabilitated lands post-construction will be needed to ensure they recover their conservation values, Reclamation seeks the assistance of the CDLT to monitor and conduct post-construction stewardship on CDLT lands .

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