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funding status of this project Lacamas Prairie Natural Area 2008
- Funded in 2009 The Washington Department of Natural Resources
will use this grant to buy 225 acres of Willamette Valley wet
prairie northeast of Vancouver, the only wet prairie of that
size and quality in Washington. The land supports the second
largest of 20 known populations of Bradshaw's Lomatium, a
globally critically imperiled, federally-listed endangered plant
species. It also contains habitat for five state sensitive plant
species and the rare slender-billed white breasted nuthatch.
This purchase is the second of a multi-phased and multi-agency
effort to protect a larger area of wet prairie and oak woodland.
Other partners in the effort include the Columbia Land Trust,
Washington Nature Conservancy, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
and Clark County. This project was the top ranked project of
eight competing for f