Country Life Special Section • Wednesday, September 14, 2016
South Fork in special planning project
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The Nooksack River South Fork flows through a variety of terrain. (Courtesy photo)
Meeting for all interested in Van Zandt Community Hall Sept. 27 By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com
DEMING — A new planning effort is happening for the Nooksack River South Fork. It’s called the Community Watershed Conservation Plan Project. It’s meant to bring together landowners, tribes, agencies and community members for an open dialogue about how to conserve agriculture, forestry, fisheries and recreation in the South Fork Nooksack River watershed, while protecting and restoring water resources, states an explanatory webpage at Kulshan Services LLC. (http://kulshanservices.com/ sfnr.html). “Together, we are thinking strategically about how to protect our local economy and environment,” according to Kulshan Services, a public outreach contractor. This effort is also in the context of “impaired” water quality in the South Fork, not
meeting state and federal standards, said Oliver Grah, water resource program manager for the Nooksack Indian Tribe. Grah has been involved on these issues for five years, and he said a group of South Fork stakeholders has been at work laying the groundwork for a conservation plan for the past year and a half. A public meeting is set for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 27, in the Van Zandt Community Hall, 4106 Valley Highway (State Route 9) south of Deming. “Everyone from everywhere is invited,” Grah said. “But we’re trying to focus on the residents’ needs and interests in the watershed itself.” The Nooksack tribe has contributed a good share of the funding to get this project going, he added. Grah himself is heavily involved in salmon habitat restoration for the tribe. Challenges in the South Fork of the Nooksack River especially are high stream temperature and too much fine sediment, and impacts of climate change can already be seen as well, he said. The goal is to have a final plan by March 2017. When
Ivy Skar, 6, her sister and mother, of Bellingham, get acquainted with Guernsey cows at MyShan Dairy north of Lynden during the Whatcom County Farm Tour on Saturday. Another stop was BelleWood Acres apple farm, which offered wagon rides. (Calvin Bratt and Ashley Hiruko/Lynden Tribune)
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