Alaska Receives $1.6 Million to Conserve Wetlands

$1 million is set to go to the upper Knik Arm and $600,000 will go to the Goose Bay estuary.

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by Megan Mazurek

Story Created: Jan 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM AKDT

Story Updated: Jan 4, 2012 at 9:08 PM AKDT

More than $20 million in grants from the federal government are going to conserve wetlands across the U.S. and Alaska will seeing 1.6 million of it.
$1 million is set to go to the upper Knik Arm and $600,000 will go to the Goose Bay estuary.
These 2 projects are designed to protect coastal wetlands located in the western Knik Arm region of Upper Cook Inlet.
If the goose bay is approved it will gain 4 parcels comprised of 350 acres in the Matsu Bureau's Goose Creek watershed.
Approval of the upper Knik Arm project will protect about 3,100 acres of coastal wetlands.
State officials say private land owners willing to sell their land to create these federal grants is important for Alaska. Over the past 10 years, projects along the Knik Arm coastline have received federal and private grants to conserve over 600 acres coastal wetlands.

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