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consideration of the Interior Appropriations bill, I 

 took the lead on an amendment to provide $30 

 million in FY 1994 for watershed restoration 

 activities in Wahsington, Oregon, and northern 

 California. A major benefit to initiating a 

 comprehensive, regionwide watershed restoration 

 program is to allow us to get ahead of the curve 

 in species protection. The implementation of a 

 watershed restoration program will aide in listing 

 prevention because the focus will be on 

 preventing further degradation to existing healthy 

 habitat, and where feasible will allow for slope 

 stabilization and the rehabilitation of streambeds. 



One of the goals that I seek through funding 

 a Regionwide program, is that by working with 

 the Administration and the federal natural 

 resource agencies, the State lands 

 commissioners and state wildlife and fisheries 

 departments, and the local communities, an 



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