Washington state forest plan deems watershed as a priority
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Department of Natural Resources has made public its forest action plan for the year and identified the Skagit River watershed as a priority.
The department manages, protects and preserves millions of acres of forestland across the state.
The five-year plan sets the stage for public land managers and private property owners to continue collaboration on how to keep forests healthy, The Skagit Valley Herald reported.
“It’s pretty clear that if we’re going to accomplish some of the big goals we have for forest health and salmon and orca recovery and wildfire resiliency, we have to work across ownership boundaries,” lead plan author Andrew Spaeth said. “No single forest owner in the state is going to be able to" tackle that work alone.
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