LLTK Featured in the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation's "Restoration Narratives"

In 2000, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) launched the Washington State Community Salmon Fund grant program to support local efforts in protecting, enhancing and restoring salmon habitat. The Community Salmon Fund (CSF) is an innovative collaboration with landowners, businesses and community groups committed to local conservation across the State. As it has progressed, the program has grown to include co-funding partnerships with King County, Pierce County and the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board, along with many others.

In the past 6 years, CSF has invested $47 million from NFWF and other partners, awarding 284 grants for community-based salmon recovery efforts. Long Live the Kings was one of the recipients of CSF grants from 2001-2006, and this funding has been critical to our work.

CSF-funded projects have involved the participation of over 20,000 local volunteers; have improved fish passage and habitat on more than 1,000 miles of streams, rivers and marine shorelines; and have restored some 30,000 acres of complex ecosystems.

Restoration Narratives is a story-filled, six-year progress report of the Community Salmon Fund. It captures a sense of the tangible outcomes, and celebrates the successes and ongoing commitments of state and federal agencies, local governments, community groups and individuals.

Long Live the Kings is profiled in the publication, and Executive Director Barbara Cairns contributes a guest essay.