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Unlimited, Long Live the Kings, The Quinault Indian Nation, 

 Washington Sea Grant and Weyerhaeuser Corporation. 



Our membership includes all of these folks mentioned plus envi- 

 ronmental organizations, economic development interests and orga- 

 nized labor, and we have had a great deal of help this year from 

 the IWA folks. 



This coalition has met the challenge of the consensual decision- 

 making and interdisciplinary team building and we have been lead- 

 ing the way in developing new methods of managing our natural 

 resources to meet the changing values of the public. 



Our need to address fisheries is urgent. I do not need to belabor 

 this. I am speaking to people who are well aware of that. In compli- 

 ance with this act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife has conducted a com- 

 prehensive habitat survey documenting all existing and correctable 

 degradations. The data is collected, the survey has been assimilated 

 and available to those planning restoration efforts and we are 

 ready to go to work. 



Initial implementation funding provided for the 1993 fiscal year 

 has been allocated to 14 restoration efforts throughout the water- 

 shed. These range from artificial spawning channels for coho and 

 chum salmon to be built by a local sportsmen's club to a major 

 stream blockage removal effort conducted by the Washington De- 

 partment of Fisheries; to the creation of overwintering ponds on 

 private properties that will provide warmer water, better feed and 

 cover, while protecting young salmon from rapid mainstream flows. 



The majority of these projects will be conducted by private citi- 

 zens, grass roots citizens, who have committed their land and their 

 time to benefit the resource. Over half of Washington's land, in- 

 cluding much of the most valuable fish and wildlife habitat, is pri- 

 vately owned land. How these lands are managed has profound ef- 

 fects on the species that live there, making landowner support and 

 cooperation critical to fish and wildlife management enhancement 

 efforts. 



The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has done a tremendous job 

 during the study portion of the restoration act and now it is time 

 to begin these efforts, but we must develop partnerships between 

 all the stakeholders in the river basin. Through mutual trust, these 

 local landowners, grass root citizens can team together to share 

 funding, knowledge and expertise for common goals. 



The value of these restoration efforts can be measured by the 

 number of salmon that will be protected and produced, by the nu- 

 merous jobs that will be provided for displaced timber workers and 

 others who are severely impacted in timber communities, by the 

 quality of our environment they will perpetuate, and by many 

 other tangible and significant factors; but I ask you to consider the 

 greatest factor — the sense of stewardship that is born in the citi- 

 zens in the communities who will undertake this priceless work 

 through their own initiative, sweat and reshaping of their reality 

 and their priorities as they plot their own destinies. 



I would also like to comment the Washington Trollers Associa- 

 tion, in the statement prepared by Geoff Lebon of the Washington 

 Trollers Association, brings up many of the projects that I have 

 mentioned and the extensive work of the Washington Trollers As- 

 sociation and their concentrated efforts for native coho in the wa- 



