Small Grant Program for Riparian Planting. As part of the CWMP, the District annually funds a small grants program to assist shoreline property owners who plant cottonwoods and other appropriate shoreline vegetation and habitat enhancements, which will continue for the next 10 years (and on throughout the term of the Project license). Unlike the erosion prevention grant program described in Section 5.1.2.1, this Riparian Planting grant program is open to any landowner regardless of the erosion potential of that property. The grant program was introduced in the summer 2010 issue of the District’s Watershed News, which is distributed in a billing. Reminders will be included in the newsletter. As with the previously discussed riparian enhancement measures, providing for mature woody vegetation including cottonwood and large coniferous stands on or near the shoreline will slow snow melt events, reduce peak local air temperatures, and provide direct shading to the affected nearshore area of tributary shorelines, the mainstem, and creek mouths.
