The INDEPENDENT February 20. 2002
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SWCD, Watershed Council explain strategies for salmon programs
A joint meeting of the Colum
bia Soil and W ater Conserva
tion District (SWCD) and the
Upper N ehalem W atershed
Council, will be held Thursday,
Feb. 28 at 7:00 p.m., at the
Mist-Birkenfeld Fire Station, to
provide information regarding
programs to assist landowners
in complying with the Oregon
Plan for Salmon and W ater
sheds.
The C olum bia SW CD, in
conjunction with the National
Resources Conservation Ser
vice (NRCS) assists landown
ers with CQnservation programs
designed to protect riparian
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areas, while meeting needs of
farmers, ranchers and other
ow ners of land adjacent to
streams used for spawning by
salmon, steelhead, sea-run
trout or other anadrom ous
species. Participants will re
move land from agricultural
production and then plant that
land to trees and shrubs.
The Conservation Reserve
Enhancem ent
Program
(CREP) is available for lands
bordering streams in cropped
fields or grazed pastures.
Buffer widths range from 35 to
180 feet in width, depending on
the topography and the owner’s
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preference.
Initially, the landowner plants
trees or shrubs in the set-aside
area and fences livestock out of
the streamside zone. CREP will
provide
cost
sharing
in
amounts up to 75 percent of the
cost of the fence and plantings
(cost limits apply), and assist
with developing alternative w a
ter sources for livestock, if nec
essary. Property owners agree
to maintain the practices for 10
to 15 year periods to assure
that the riparian plantings are
well established.
What does this do for the
fish?
Cattle in a stream can dam
age spawning beds by tram
pling the nests of fish eggs and
by polluting the stream with
their waste. Keeping cattle out
of spawning streams allows the
fish to reproduce unhindered.
Preventing cattle waste from
entering the streams keeps nu
trients at levels tolerable to fish.
W hat’s in it for the landown
er?
Landowners will be reim
bursed for 75 percent of the
cost of installing the set-aside
area. There is also a practice
incentive payment of 40 per
cent of the cost of installation
(cost limits apply). A landowner
can potentially be reimbursed
for 115 percent of the cost of in
stalling the fence and establish
ing alternate water sources.
Landowners receive annual
rental payments in the amount
of $66 an acre for pastureland
within the fenced buffer bound
aries. They receive an addition
al 50 percent incentive ($33 an
acre) for buffers planted to
trees and shrubs.
In addition to these pay
ments, the landowner receives
up to $10 an acre for maintain
ing plantings, fences and water
developments. Potential annual
payments add up to $109 per
acre per year of the contract.
There is also a one time in
centive payment for signing up
for the CREP program. This is
calculated by taking $10 an
acre of land in the buffer area
times the contract length. On
10 acres of buffer that is signed
up for 15 years, the incentive
payment is $1,500.
An additional cum ulative
payment is available in some
circumstances. The cumulative
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bonus impact incentive is de
signed to encourage adjoining
landow ners to e n te r larger
stretches of stream into this
program. If landowners join to
gether to apply buffers on at
least 50 percent of a five-mile
segment of river, they all quali
ty for the incentive.
For more information, call
the CSW D/NRCS office at 503-
397-4555, extension 104 or
105, or Maggie Peyton at the
Upper N ehalem W atershed
Council at 503-429-2401.
OLCC okays Nesmith
The Oregon Liquor Control
Commission has appointed a
new agent to the existing store
in Vernonia.
Jay Nesmith of Rainier is the
new agent of the store located
inside Vernonia Hardware at
1026 Bridge Street in Vernonia.
Nesmith owns Vernonia Hard
ware. He has been the tem po
rary agent for five months, re
placing Agent W illiam Fisher,
who retired.
Nesmith is a graduate of
Seaside High School and at
tended Utah Technical and
Clatsop Comm unity colleges.
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