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Open Solicitation Grant Program Spring 2018 Grant Offering

Oregon’s Unique Approach to Watershed Restoration

Open Solicitation Demand

Grant Type Spending Plan Target # Requests Requested Amount Restoration $8,000,000 57 $11,286,388 Technical Assistance $1,000,000 30 $1,574,445 Stakeholder Engagement $175,000 11 $573,374 Totals

$9,175,000 98 $13,434,207

Grant Process

Award Recommen

• dation

Ranking Evaluation Eligibility

Salmon Plate Projects

Application # Title Amount Dedicated

219-1001 North Creek Aquatic Organism Passage Restoration $200,000 219-2007 Seestrom Tidelands Restoration $200,000 Total $400,000

Sage-grouse Projects

Application # Title OWEB Request

219-4009 Crooked River Watershed Sage Grouse Conservation III $66,577 219-5006 Getting Will-o-wee in the RCPP $120,775 219-5010 Rock Creek Upland Restoration Project $176,908 219-5016 Area 23 $55,476 Total $419,736

Total Sage-grouse projects since April 2015 $6,929,355

Staff Recommendations

REGION Restoration Technical Assistance Stakeholder Engagement TOTAL Region 1 North Coast

$831,908 $120,901 $42,312

$995,121

Region 2 South Coast

$1,977,078 $132,462 $169,792

$2,279,332

Region 3 Willamette Basin

$861,849 $141,151 $125,588

$1,128,588

Region 4 Central Oregon

$1,295,477 $158,715 $0

$1,454,192

Region 5 Eastern Oregon

$1,280,382 $60,275 $78,710

$1,419,367

Region 6 Mid-Columbia

$1,725,101 $178,052 $46,734

$1,949,887

TOTALS

$7,971,795 $1,034,812 $463,136

$9,469,743

Recommended May 2018 Open Solicitation Grant Proposals

40 Restoration 14 Technical Assistance 6 Stakeholder Engagement

Statewide Restoration Metrics

• Wetlands
• 6 acres restored
• Upland/Water Quality
• 13,638 acres restored
• 12 miles of cross fencing

installed

• 40 water/spring

developments

• Estuaries
• 3 water control

structures removed or modified

• 270 acres reconnected
• Fish Passage
• 58 stream miles opened
• 13 barriers removed or

corrected

• Riparian
• 291 acres restored
• 16 miles of streams exclusion

fenced

• Instream
• 14 miles of instream

enhancement

• 387 instream habitat structures
• 5.5 cfs protected instream flow

Statewide Technical Assistance Metrics

• Stream miles assessed
• 132 miles
• Acres assessed
• 322,318 acres
• Plans developed
• 8 plans
• Design sets developed
• 6 plans

Statewide Stakeholder Engagement Metrics

• Within a specified geography:
• Assembles agencies and partners
• Engages targeted landowners
• Facilitates planning meetings
• Identifies issues
• Identifies restoration actions
• Identifies expected ecological outcome

Stakeholder Engagement

Evaluation Criteria OAR 695-015-0070

Projects whose primary purpose is education are NOT ELIGIBLE Shows qualifications & experience Expected outcomes of resulting restoration

• r acquisitions include

protecting or restoring fish or wildlife habitat, watershed function, and or water quality

• r quantity

Evidence base linking engagement to eligible project types Resulting restoration or acquisition projects, or program will lead to timely development

• f eligible projects

Timeliness Technical Soundness Cost Effectiveness Stakeholders Applicant

Sweet Spot: Likelihood For Success

Applicants engage with appropriate stakeholders in the appropriate geography Likely effectiveness of multidirectional communication among the applicant & stakeholder

“Stakeholder Engagement Project” means a project whose purpose is to communicate and engage with landowners, organizations and the community about the need for, feasibility, and benefit of a specific eligible restoration or acquisitions project or program that leads to development of eligible projects within an identified geography.

Pine Creek

Region 5 Stakeholder Engagement

219-5023 Pine Creek, Bull trout critical habitat

• Engage property owners of

15 diversions.

• Opportunities:
• Consolidate POD’s
• Pipe existing canals
• Improve fish passage
• Deliverables:
• Assessment on each

diversion

• Project prioritization

Completed fish passage in Pine Creek

After – fish bypass After - intake Before

Region 3 - Stakeholder Engagement 219-3012: Monroe Dam Alternative Selection

Region 3 - Stakeholder Engagement Fish Passage Alternatives, in order of best outcome for fisheries

Region 3 Stakeholder Engagement

Who is involved in the decision?

Region 3 - Stakeholder Engagement

Restoration Technical Assistance

Evaluation Criteria OAR 695-010-0060

Applicant’s track record reflects good project management Engages appropriate partners Applicant has capacity for long-term stewardship & maintenance Specific action within prioritized geography in a watershed restoration plan Addresses watershed function & ecosystem processes Considers likely impacts to site & adjacent properties Treats causes rather than symptoms Identifies & evaluates possible alternatives Watershed benefits adequately quantified Clearly defined & appropriate methods described Clearly states objectives & describes how they will be met Project ready to implement Fits within context

• f past & future

restoration Public awareness leading to restoration

• pportunities

Past projects completed as proposed

Proposal Clarity Technical Soundness Watershed Context Cost Effectiveness Capacity of Applicant

Budget = proposed watershed benefit Budget has reasonable direct costs & rates

Sweet Spot: Likelihood For Success

Region 4 – Technical Assistance 219-4011 Deschutes River Riparian Enhancement 1,600 foot design footprint

Overview of Project Area

Challenges = built environment, high public use, highly variable hydrograph

User created access but sedges and shrubs still persist

Technical Assistance – Region 4

Fences do a great job at protecting vegetation, keeping people and animals out

Region 6 – Technical Assistance

Awarded April 2017

217-6062 - South Fork John Day Coordinated Resource Management Planning

Recommended Technical Assistance Grants

219-6010

Wind Creek Restoration Assessment

219-6011

Tex Creek Riparian Design

219-6012

South Fork Cooperative Data Collection Grant SWCD

Dayville Grazing Association and Landowners

South Fork John Day Watershed Council 2018 OWEB Projects

219-6010

Wind Creek Restoration Assessment

219-6012

South Fork Cooperative Data Collection

219-6011

Tex Creek Riparian Design

219-6010 Wind Creek Restoration Assessment

 Stream and upland inventory and assessment along 15 miles of critical habitat  Cultural Resource Survey on 500 acres for future juniper removal  Work done on first-time landowner, Ochoco National Forest, and BLM lands  Deliverables include prioritized Restoration Action Plan for aquatic and upland habitat

219-6011 Tex Creek Riparian Design

 Third highest priority barrier identified in the South Fork John Day Passage Barrier

Inventory (grant # 216-6031)

 Designs and analysis will facilitate a restoration project that will open up over 4 miles

• f critical steelhead habitat

 Complements completed exclusion fencing along Tex Creek (grant #216-6057)

ODFW Phillip W. Schneider Wildlife Area property

219-6012 South Fork Cooperative Data Collection

 Data collection and analysis on stream, upland and groundwater dependent ecosystems  Water samples collected for chemical analysis  Outreach to aid in more landscape-scale restoration across federal, state and private land

boundaries

Restoration Evaluation Criteria

OAR 695-010-0060

Applicant’s track record reflects good project management Engages appropriate partners Applicant has capacity for long-term stewardship & maintenance Specific action within prioritized geography in a watershed restoration plan Addresses watershed function & ecosystem processes Considers likely impacts to site & adjacent properties Treats causes rather than symptoms Identifies & evaluates possible alternatives Watershed benefits adequately quantified Clearly defined & appropriate methods described Clearly states objectives & describes how they will be met Project ready to implement Fits within context

• f past & future

restoration Public awareness leading to restoration

• pportunities

Past projects completed as proposed

Proposal Clarity Technical Soundness Watershed Context Cost Effectiveness Capacity of Applicant

Budget = proposed watershed benefit Budget has reasonable direct costs & rates

Sweet Spot: Likelihood For Success

Region 1 - Restoration

OWEB Amount Requested: $370,174 Total Project Amount: $1,084,724

North Creek: a long and storied history

1961 1983

North Creek Plans

Fish Passage today: designing for AOP and achieving Technical Soundness Capacity of applicant and proposal

• clarity. Demonstrating partnerships

and project readiness

Region 2 – Restoration

219-2007 Seestrom Tidelands Restoration

OWEB Amount Requested: $808,600 Total Project Amount: $2,802,293

Seestrom Site Photos