The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board has funded a process to identify restoration priorities at the basin scale. The final report is available as an approach to identifying regional priorities. ( more)
OWEB staff are working with watershed councils and other conservation entities to develop basin priorities. The priorities are intended to be used as guidance by OWEB in the review of grant applications and to help ensure a clear and strategic approach to prioritizing the funding of projects. Click here to see which basin priorities are complete.
Watershed Process and Function
Goal 1 of OWEB’s Strategic Plan is to “Restore and sustain resilient ecosystems through program and project investments that enhance watershed and ecosystem functions and processes and support community needs.”
OWEB’s Restoration grant applications have required applicants to address watershed process and function as part of answering questions, but we have not had an explicit question about process and function. Updated grant applications for the April 2010 grant cycle will include a new question focusing specifically on watershed processes and functions addressed by the proposed project. During the review process for Restoration applications submitted to OWEB in October 2009, reviewers were asked to comment on the process and function addressed by the application. This did not change the evaluation process, but was intended to more clearly articulate process and function during the course of the review. OWEB’s reviewers have always considered process and function in their evaluations.
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