PUGET SOUND ACQUISITION AND RESTORATION (PSAR) FUND

Type

Funding

Organization

Puget Sound Partnership

Description

Most recent deadline: April 10, 2024. The Puget Sound Acquisition and Restoration (PSAR) fund supports projects that recover salmon and protect and recover salmon habitat in Puget Sound. The state legislature appropriates money for PSAR every 2 years in the Capital Budget. PSAR is co-managed by the Puget Sound Partnership and the Recreation and Conservation Office. Local entities identify and propose PSAR projects. The Salmon Recovery Funding Board prioritizes projects for funding. The PSAR program helps implement regionally significant habitat protection and restoration priorities that advance salmon recovery. Projects should address a high priority need identified in a recovery plan and that benefits Treaty rights populations.

Funding Amount

Large Capital projects exceeding $1M in costs or exceeding what a given watershed receives in a PSAR regular round allocation are eligible to apply. Top projects will be submitted as a regional package of projects for the 2025-2027 biennium state budget.

Matching Funds

No match required

Geography

Puget Sound

Eligibility

Tribe, Local, Federal, State, Nonprofit, Higher Ed,

Website

https://www.psp.wa.gov/PSAR.php

Contact Information

Marlies Wierenga at marlies.wierenga@psp.wa.gov

Status/Type

Grant

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.