<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_21190156">http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_21190156</a><div><br></div><div><table id="cpf-viewbox-wrapper" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="font-family: Times; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div id="cpf-viewbox-content" style="width: 708px; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: white; border-right-width: 9px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-width: 9px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><div id="cpf-printOut" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.25; font-family: 'Palatino,Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif'; display: block; background-color: white; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 15px; "><div id="cpf-printOut-header" style="border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(202, 202, 202); font-weight: normal; padding-top: 8px; padding-right: 4px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 4px; display: block; margin-bottom: 12px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="center"><div class="cpf-deletable cpf-printOut-header-title" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 18px; ">Hoopa Tribe granted funds for fish passage project</div><div class="cpf-deletable cpf-printOut-header-byline" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; ">The Times-Standard Eureka Times Standard</div><div class="cpf-deletable cpf-printOut-header-dateline" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; ">Posted:</div></td><td align="right" valign="bottom"><div class="cpf-deletable cpf-printOut-header-domain">Times-Standard.com</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="cpf-printOut-body"><span class="cpf-printOut-body-content">The Hoopa Valley Tribe is slated to receive a $110,000 national grant for a project that'll remove a barrier on Hostler Creek that currently inhibits fish passage.</span><p class="cpf-printOut-body-content">American Rivers -- an organization that works to protect and restore the nation's rivers and streams -- and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Restoration Center have partnered this year to provide financial and technical assistance to six projects throughout the nation, according to a press release.</p><p class="cpf-printOut-body-content">One of the projects involves removing the Hostler Creek fish barrier, which prohibits juvenile and adult coho and Chinook salmon, as well as steelhead, from migrating upstream to high-quality habitat. According to the release, removal of the barrier is anticipated to allow fish access to more than three times the existing habitat in the creek.</p><p class="cpf-printOut-body-content">For more information about the grants, visit www.americanrivers.org.</p></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><td valign="bottom"><div id="cpf-viewbox-sharebar" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: white; border-top-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-width: 9px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-width: 9px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-width: 9px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-bottom-left-radius: 8px; border-bottom-right-radius: 8px; "><table class="cpf-viewbox-sharebar-buttons" border="0" style="position: relative; top: 9px; height: 24px; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline-block; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 8px; "><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div></div></body></html>