Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board

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OWEB Press Releases

10.30.24	Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Awards Over $14 Million in Grants to Support Restoration
04.30.24	OWEB Awards More than $11 Million in Grants and Allocated over $9 Million to FIP Initiatives.
10.31.23	OWEB Board Awards More Than $12 Million in Grants to Support Restoration
10.31.23	OWEB Board Awards $439,900 to the Upper Sandy River Basin Habitat Restoration Project along the Zigzag River. This includes $250,000 of funds from the sale of Salmon License Plates
10.31.23	OWEB Board Awarded $444,178 to the Smith River Basin High Priority Passage Improvements Project. This includes $250,000 of funds from the sale of Salmon License Plates
10.31.23	OWEB Board Awards $252,269 for Post-Fire Recovery and Sage-Grouse Conservation in Lake County
05.02.23	OWEB Board Awards More Than $21 Million in Grants
05.02.23	OWEB Board Awards $4,200,000 for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program Grants
05.02.23	OWEB Board Awards $74, 987 for Land Stewardship and Sage-Grouse Conservation in Crook County
05.02.23	OWEB Board Awards $894,003 for Land Stewardship and Sage-Grouse Conservation in Lake County
05.02.23	OWEB Board Awards $61,322 for Land Stewardship and Sage-Grouse Conservation in Malheur County

News Articles

November 2024

11.21.24	Neal Creek Restoration, Hood River Watershed Group
11.21.24	CTWS Side Channel Reconnection Project, Clackamas River Basin Council
11.19.24	Robbie Lascheck – South Coast Watershed Council Coordinator, People at Noon KCBY 11

October 2024

10.28.24	USDA Invests $1.5 Billion in 92 Partnership Projects, Six Oregon Projects Receive $115 Million to Advance Conservation and Climate-Smart Agriculture as Part of the Biden-Harris Investing in America Agenda, NRCS

September 2024

09.20.24	2024 coho salmon run could break record in Willamette River, Statesman Journal
	Oxbow Conservation Area Tailings Restoration Project, storymap by the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

August 2024

08.31.24	These students are building dams over the summer — with hopes to lure beavers back, OPB
08.22.24	Coos Watershed Association group nears completion of Kentuck Creek project, The Bandon Western World
08.21.24	Oregon and Klamath Basin reel in $35+ million for salmon restoration, KCBY
08.19.24	Weaving Communities Together, video by the Clackamas River Basin Council
08.16.24	Effort to tear down Eastern Oregon dam nears finish line after 40 years, OPB
08.03.24	Removal of dams on the Klamath River nears completion, OPB
08.03.24	Threatened bull trout in the Klamath Basin thriving after 30 years of conservation work, OPB

June 2024

06.23.24	"Putting it back to the way it was:" Nonprofits partner to restore Oregon’s Siuslaw River estuary, OPB.

May 2024

05.30.24	Condon Arts Council honors Gilliam SWCD with steelhead mural, The Times Journal.
05.21.24	Hood River Basin Partnership Award, Columbia Gorge News.
05.00.24	Native Lampreys of Oregon, OFWS.
05.16.24	For Oregon spotted frogs in the Deschutes River, life finds a way, The Bulletin.
05.11.24	Audrey Hatch given Public Service Ambassador Award for Operational Excellence, CHRO
05.08.24	Governor Kotek Appoints New Directors for Oregon Water Resources Department, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Governor Tina Kotek's Press Office.
05.03.24	OWEB awards grant to Crook County SWCD for sage-grouse conservation, Central Oregon News.

April 2024

04.01.24	Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to discuss grant funding today, KDRV News 12.

February 2024

02.01.24	10 Projects Will Support Urban Fish Restoration around Portland, Oregon, NOAA.
January 2024

01.29.24	Oregon commission approves ‘carbon capture’ fund for state’s natural and working lands, OPB
01.25.24	We Planted 600 Trees in a DAY! video of Small Grants Project by Casad Family Farms
01.12.24	Benton SWCD awarded Oak Habitat grant from Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, The Dirt
01.09.24	Ambitious brainstorming results in drought action plan, Madras Pioneer

November 2023

11.02.23	First Klamath River dam removal effort complete, leaving three for next year, Newswatch 12
11.01.23	OWEB - Klamath Lake Forest Health Partnership Post-Fire Tour

October 2023

10.28.23	Community members rejuvenate Lynn Newbry Park in Talent, Newswatch 12
10.26.23	Local Watershed Council Receives Nearly $400k Restoration Grant, Cottage Grove Sentinal
10.24.23	Farm Bill conservation programs allow Oregon family farm to thrive, article in the Land Trust Alliance.
10.22.23	"This place wanted to be a wetland:" how a farmer turned his fields into a wildlife sanctuary, The Guardian
10.20.23	Merkley joins 3 C.O. irrigation districts, nonprofits to break ground on $120 million in canal piping projects, News Channel 21
10.12.23	Kotek appoints longtime deputy at Oregon Department of Agriculture to lead agency, Oregon Capital Chronicle
10.12.23	For CLUSI, a time to recognize resiliency among the tribe and landscape, KLCC

September 2023

09.27.23	FACT SHEET: President Biden Takes Action to Restore Healthy and Abundant Wild Salmon and Steelhead in the Columbia River Basin, The White House
09.27.23	America the Beautiful Challenge, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
09.26.23	Grant applications available for forest restoration, NewsWatch 12
09.25.23	Lake County, Oregon Ducks Unlimited Project Gets $1.3 Million NAWCA Grant for Habitat Work, Ducks Unlimited
09.11.23	Through Siuslaw Estuary Restoration project, a push to enrich habitat for fish and shorebirds, KLCC

August 2023

August	What it takes to take down a dam, podcast by Desiree Tullos, Miranda Bour
08.24.23	Tillamook Bay Watershed Council redesignated, Tillamook Headlight Herald
08.20.23	Biden administration proposes $106 million for Western salmon and steelhead recovery, Florida Phoenix
08.17.23	Salmon habitat restoration on the Oregon Coast expected to benefit from Inflation Reduction Act, KGW News
08.02.23	Lovelace Dam removed to protect wildlife, NewsWatch 12

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