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Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009

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White Bluffs boat launch temporarily closing

By the Herald staff

The Wahluke area of the Hanford Reach National Monument, including the popular White Bluffs boat launch and Wahluke Ponds, is expected to close to public access Friday for up to two weeks, officials with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

The temporary closure will allow crews to aerially apply herbicide to control cheatgrass and other non-native annual plants before replanting native shrubs, wildflowers and grasses as part of the rehabilitation of over 78,000 acres that burned in wildfires during the summers of 2007 and 2008.

Restoration work has been ongoing since November 2007, with more than 1.55 million native upland and riparian shrubs planted and more than 50,000 acres treated for invasive weeds to date.



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