Open Solicitation Grant Program Spring 2018 Grant Offering Oregon’s Unique Approach to Watershed Restoration
Open Solicitation Demand Grant Type Spending Plan # Requests Requested Target 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 Recommen Eligibility Evaluation Ranking Award -dation
Salmon Plate Projects Application # Title Amount Dedicated 219-1001 North Creek Aquatic Organism $200,000 Passage Restoration 219-2007 Seestrom Tidelands Restoration $200,000 Total $400,000
Sage-grouse Projects Application # Title OWEB Request 219-4009 Crooked River Watershed Sage $66,577 Grouse Conservation III 219-5006 Getting Will-o-wee in the RCPP $120,775 219-5010 Rock Creek Upland Restoration $176,908 Project 219-5016 Area 23 $55,476 Total $419,736 Total Sage-grouse projects $6,929,355 since April 2015
Staff Recommendations REGION Restoration Technical Stakeholder TOTAL Assistance Engagement Region 1 $995,121 $831,908 $120,901 $42,312 North Coast Region 2 $2,279,332 $1,977,078 $132,462 $169,792 South Coast Region 3 $1,128,588 $861,849 $141,151 $125,588 Willamette Basin Region 4 $1,454,192 $1,295,477 $158,715 $0 Central Oregon Region 5 $1,419,367 $1,280,382 $60,275 $78,710 Eastern Oregon Region 6 $1,949,887 $1,725,101 $178,052 $46,734 Mid-Columbia $9,469,743 TOTALS $7,971,795 $1,034,812 $463,136
Recommended May 2018 Open Solicitation Grant Proposals 40 Restoration 14 Technical Assistance 6 Stakeholder Engagement
Statewide Restoration Metrics Fish Passage Wetlands o 58 stream miles opened o 6 acres restored Upland/Water Quality o 13 barriers removed or corrected o 13,638 acres restored Riparian o 12 miles of cross fencing o 291 acres restored installed o 16 miles of streams exclusion o 40 water/spring fenced developments Instream Estuaries o 3 water control o 14 miles of instream enhancement structures removed or modified o 387 instream habitat structures o 270 acres reconnected o 5.5 cfs protected instream flow
Statewide Technical Assistance Metrics Stream miles assessed o 132 miles Acres assessed o 322,318 acres Plans developed o 8 plans Design sets developed o 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 Resulting restoration or Projects whose primary purpose is education OAR 695-015-0070 acquisition projects, or program are NOT ELIGIBLE will lead to timely development of eligible projects Applicants engage with Timeliness appropriate Expected outcomes of stakeholders in the resulting restoration appropriate geography Technical or acquisitions include protecting or restoring Stakeholders Soundness Likely effectiveness of fish or wildlife habitat, multidirectional watershed function, communication among and or water quality Sweet Spot: the applicant & or quantity stakeholder Likelihood Evidence base linking For Success engagement to eligible project types Shows qualifications Cost & experience Applicant Effectiveness “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.
Region 5 Pine Creek 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 Before After - intake After – fish bypass
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 Project ready to implement Clearly states objectives & OAR 695-010-0060 describes how they will be met Clearly defined & appropriate methods described Treats causes rather than Proposal symptoms Clarity Budget = proposed watershed benefit Identifies & Cost evaluates possible Technical alternatives Effectiveness Budget has reasonable Soundness direct costs & rates Watershed benefits adequately Sweet Spot: Engages appropriate quantified Likelihood partners For Success Considers likely Applicant has impacts to site & capacity for long-term adjacent properties stewardship & Capacity of Watershed maintenance Applicant Context Public awareness Past projects leading to restoration completed as opportunities proposed Applicant’s track Addresses watershed Specific action within Fits within context record reflects good function & ecosystem prioritized geography in a of past & future project management processes watershed restoration plan restoration
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 Dayville Grazing Association and Grant SWCD Landowners Recommended Technical Assistance Grants 219-6010 Wind Creek Restoration Assessment 219-6011 Tex Creek Riparian Design 219-6012 South Fork Cooperative Data Collection
South Fork John Day Watershed Council 2018 OWEB Projects 219-6012 219-6010 South Fork Cooperative Data Collection Wind Creek Restoration Assessment 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 ODFW Phillip W. Schneider Wildlife Area property 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 of critical steelhead habitat Complements completed exclusion fencing along Tex Creek (grant #216-6057)
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 Project ready to implement Clearly states objectives & describes how they will be met Clearly defined & appropriate methods described Treats causes rather than Proposal symptoms Clarity Budget = proposed watershed benefit Identifies & Cost evaluates possible Technical Effectiveness alternatives Budget has reasonable Soundness direct costs & rates Watershed benefits adequately Sweet Spot: Engages appropriate quantified Likelihood partners For Success Considers likely Applicant has impacts to site & capacity for long-term adjacent properties stewardship & Capacity of Watershed maintenance Applicant Context Public awareness Past projects leading to restoration completed as opportunities proposed Applicant’s track Addresses watershed Specific action within Fits within context record reflects good function & ecosystem prioritized geography in a of past & future project management processes watershed restoration plan restoration
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
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