State grant extends Lake Stevens salmon habitat plan
LAKE STEVENS — A new state grant will help fund an ongoing project in Lake Stevens to improve salmon habitat and water quality in the city.
On Tuesday, the Lake Stevens City Council voted unanimously to accept the $106,000 grant from the Washington State Department of Commerce. It will fund the next phase of the city’s Plan for Salmonid Basins, which began in January 2025 to protect and restore salmon habitats in the city watershed.
The plan has been funded so far by a Department of Commerce grant totalling $247,339. That money has primarily gone toward collecting land-use, soil, pollution and water-quality data to help develop goals that could be added to the city’s comprehensive plan.
The new grant will help with the next step: analyzing the data and identifying how the goals could be put into action.
Read more at: https://www.heraldnet.com/2026/02/27/state-grant-extends-lake-stevens-salmon-habitat-plan/