Ducks Unlimited plays big role in restoration projects

Sun., May 7, 2006

Rich Landers Outdoors editor

“I’d like to take credit for everything, but just getting the water back makes an incredible difference for waterfowl,” said Ivan Lines, regional private lands coordinator for Ducks Unlimited.

In the past nine years, DU has participated in restoring at least 3,600 acres of wetlands in North Idaho and about 6,100 acres in Eastern Washington, Lines said.

Lines flew in a light plane last week to survey some of the wetlands restoration projects DU has participated in during the past nine years, and he sounded like a papa coming out of the delivery room holding his first born.

“For some of these projects, this is the first time we’ve seen them brimming with water. It’s just phenomenal.”

Several of the projects getting DU expertise are close to Spokane, including:

•The Slavin Conservation area purchased through the Spokane County Conservation Futures Program

•The 238 acres of the Inland Northwest Land Trust-DU preserve just outside of Cheney.

•A 500-acre wetland project on the Telford area between Davenport and Creston acquired three years ago by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

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