Regional context of project – will connect with state park, pack forest, tacoma power, and restoration work already completed on the Mashel River.
before and after pictures where habitat destroying riprap rock was removed from the bank and replaced with habitat forming engineered log jams.
In terms of federal partners, our federal funding comes from the Department of Interior, specifically through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund. The MRGI project is designed to buffer, complement, and ultimately expand wildlife habitat (especially for spotted owls and marbled murrelets, but for thirteen other species of concern to federal agencies as well) in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Late Successional Reserve and in Mount Rainier National Park. So the project is funded by one federal agency (U.S.F.W.S.) and supports goals of two others (U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Park Service).