797-1781 Metro grants benefit fish, wildlife and people Metro Executive Officer Mike Burton announced recipients of the 1998 Habitat Restoration and Environmental Education Grants during his State of the Region address today at City Club of Portland. Funded projects will involve thousands of people in exploring and improving greenspaces. They're very effective in getting people outdoors and directly involved in understanding, improving and protecting their metropolitan natural areas.
People become very aware of how important greenspaces are to the region's livability.
The 1998 projects range from restoring streamside vegetation, enhancing wetlands, naturescaping school yards, learning to be a wildlife steward, environmental monitoring in addition to building frog bogs, butterfly and hummingbird gardens. Activities will benefit fish and wildlife living along Rock Creek, Beaver Creek, Salmon River, Lewis River, Beaverton Creek, Fanno Creek and many schoolyards and backyards throughout the metropolitan region. The grants are made possible by federal funds from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Metro Regional Parks and Greenspaces Department serves to conduct the grants program, and since 1991 has funded 73 restoration projects and 88 education projects in the Portland- Vancouver metropolitan region. Metro, the regional government, serves 1.3 million people who live in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties and the 24 cities in the Portland metropolitan area.