ILWACO, Wash. (AP) — Three parcels of land near Ilwaco, Wash., have been acquired to permanently protect riverside habitat for fish and wildlife near the mouth of the Columbia River.
The Columbia Land Trust and the Bonneville Power Administration announced the acquisition of 560 acres this week.
The purchase is designed to protect Oregon’s and Washington’s threatened and endangered juvenile steelhead and salmon populations.
The parcels include 117 acres at the mouth of the Wallicut River, 378 acres at Knappton Cove, across the river from Astoria, Ore., and 65 acres of tidelands, floodplains and uplands at the mouth of the Deep River.
