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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service 



Although the Forest Service hae jurisdiction over only a email portion of 

 Chehalis Basin forest lands, it has an aggressive program of fish habitat 

 management and recreational fishery development. Within the Chehalis Basin, 

 the Olympic National Forest is divided into two Ranger Districts. The upper 

 Humptulips watershed is in the Quinault Ranger District while the upper Satsop 

 and Wynoochee watersheds are in the Hood Canal District. The Foreet Service 

 is responsible for integrated management in these areas. Management means 

 designing timber harvest to minimize ecosystem damage, mitigating for 

 unavoidable damage, and restoring the effects of past degradation. In working 

 toward these goals, the Forest Service has recently begun to assess resource 

 conditions throughout rivers originating on National Forest land, even if the 

 greater portion of a particular stream, and the runs of anadromous fish it 

 supports, lies outside Forest boundaries. 



U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Soil Conservation Service and Related Agencies 



The Soil Conservation Service is responsible for improving agricultural 

 practices through technical support. Local offices assist Conservation 

 Districts in practically every county of each state. Local offices of the 

 Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service administer financial 

 support to farmers. 



The Conservation Districts can support individual farmers in riparian habitat 

 restoration including stream fencing and revegetation programs, improved 

 grazing practices, agricultural waste management, and improved irrigation 

 practices. Recently, the Conservation Districts have become active in public 

 outreach and planning to improve water quality and urban runoff management. 

 (Individual Districts are described under local governments.) 



U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 



EPA '8 Region Ten headquarters is in Seattle. EPA contributes to habitat 

 protection and improvement through its regulatory functions, grants to state 

 (WDOE) and local groups, and design of citizen monitoring programs. 



Regulatory Functions 



EPA is directly responsible for NPDES permits on federal lands and Indian 

 reservations; EPA delegates this authority to WDOE on state and private lands 

 (Bev Poaton, EPA, pars. comm. ) . EPA supports WDOE in routine testing of pulp 

 mill waste and provided extra technical and financial assistance during the 

 1987-1990 amolt survival study as reported by Schroder and Fresh (1992). 



In addition, the agency has recently been assigned the task of coastal zone 

 management planning nationwide (EPA 1991). This mandates states to require 

 very specific pollution control measures in whatever coastal areas they 



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