This agreement is a cooperative effort to perform restoration and engineering services on national forest system lands in chelan county

Chelan County, Washington, received a $770,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded on September 2, 2025, under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 10.691) program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Region 6 – Pacific Northwest Region. The agreement, which extends through March 31, 2029, funds restoration and engineering services on National Forest System lands in Chelan County. The county's Natural Resource Department will execute mechanized and conventional noncommercial thinning and fuels treatment activities, implement alluvial water storage improvements, enhance or replace aquatic organism passages, replace culverts, and conduct road maintenance across the project area.

Under the Good Neighbor Authority program, the Forest Service authorizes states, counties, and federally recognized Indian tribes to conduct land management and restoration projects on federal lands through negotiated cooperative agreements designed to increase the pace and scale of restoration efforts. This award reflects the Forest Service's collaborative approach to forest and watershed health, with Chelan County leveraging its established expertise in salmon and steelhead habitat restoration and ecosystem management across the Upper Columbia River Basin to achieve regional forest and watershed priorities.

Activities include mechanized and conventional noncommercial thinning and fuels treatment, alluvial water storage, improve and/or replace aquatic organism passages, culvert replacements and road maintenance.