The Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced the award of more than $53 million in grants for projects that will protect and restore salmon habitat statewide, including over a million dollars for five projects in Klickitat and Skamania counties.  The largest grant in the region is over $344,000 for the Columbia Land Trust to buy 281 acres and conserve just under two miles of riverbank along the Klickitat River.  The land is north and east of the Glenwood-Goldendale Road between the Klickitat Hatchery and Leidl Park.  The Underwood Conservation District received two grants, one to replace the White Salmon Irrigation District’s headworks that pulls water from Buck Creek and install a fish screen, and the other to do the fourth phase of salmon habitat enhancement on the Wind River.  The Cowlitz Tribe received a grant to create a preliminary design to remove Kwoneesum Dam on Wildboy Creek, and the Mid-Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group received funds to complete a preliminary restoration design of Wind River habitat.