WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND

Olympic national park funding: funds were used to support 14 projects at olympic national park including: (1) engaging tribal youth in co-development of native conservation corps program; (2) makah youth cultural monitoring to ensure archeological sites are documented and protected; (3) middle school science program; (4) funding to hire staff to process the backlog of archives; (5) aviation training for rangers; (6) night sky interpretation; (7) native plant nursery volunteer program; (8) adventures in your big backyard youth program; (9) elk monitoring using wildlife cameras; (10) upper elwha river restoration; (11) wilderness volunteer program; (12) providing housing for interns; (13) terminus glacier memorial artist-in-residence project; and, (14) research efforts to track changes to glaciers. Funding was also provided to restore the popular webcam placed at the hurrican ridge area after a fire destroyed the day lodge and to operate the kalaloch ranger station.