Environment

Cascade Forest Conservancy

This program brings under-served middle and high school students on exciting stewardship trips in the Cascades. In 2020, we aim to lead 15 field days with 9 schools and community organizations, serving at least 220 students.

On one- or two-day outings, students in our program learn about forest ecology, take part in restoration projects, and collect information that is used for real forest and wildlife management efforts of Cascade Forest Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service.

Deschutes River Conservancy

This proposal supports the work of the Deschutes River Conservancy (DRC) throughout the Deschutes Basin. The DRC accomplishes its mission to restore streamflow and improve water quality in the Deschutes Basin through innovative, consensus-based problem solving.

Deschutes River Conservancy

The Collaborative will accelerate implementation of water supply projects to meet river and community water needs. This grant will support the staff capacity to coordinate, facilitate and provide technical support to the Collaborative.  The immediate goal is to develop a Framework Plan that will allow the group to address immediate barriers to implementation like policy and funding issues.

Farmers Conservation Alliance

The proposed activities will help to save billions of gallons of water per year, reduce energy use for 1,349 landowners across 13,704 acres, and restore streamflow to 227 miles of the Deschutes River and its tributaries.  Grant funds will be used for project management, coordination with stakeholders, measurement, evaluation and reporting on the environmental, agricultural, and economic benefits of the large-scale projects Farmers Conservation Alliance (FCA) is undertaking in the watershed.

Friends of the Columbia Gorge

Friends’ protects, preserves, and conserves the 293,000 acres of the Columbia
River Gorge National Scenic Area. We connect thousands to the Gorge through public education, land stewardship, and recreational opportunities.

Midcoast Watersheds Council

We work on Oregon’s central coast. Our education work focuses on high school students, including in rural school districts, tribal students, and the public. Our restoration work is with landowners in priority areas.

North Clackamas Urban Watersheds Council

We will restore habitat at the Boardman Creek /Willamette confluence, a critical stopover for all salmon and steelhead migrating through the Willamette Basin. We will create logjams, rearing habitat, natural pool function, and cold-water refuge.

North Fork John Day Watershed Council

This grant directly supports health and function of 2,600² mile of the North and Middle Fork John Day River watersheds and the rural communities within, through restoration, monitoring, literacy and stewardship services.

Oregon Environmental Council

This project benefits low-income residents in the Umatilla River basin (Oregon’s “bread basket”) who face serious water contamination, and local economic development efforts that currently lack reliable water resources.

As part of a broader effort to build bridges of understanding and collaboration between urban and rural Oregon around environmental concerns, OEC’s Rural Partnership Initiative is working with local stakeholders to address serious water quality and OEC will be developing a science-based strategy to improve water quality and water supply and related pilot projects in specific locations within the Umatilla basin. The lessons learned in this project will also help improve other state agency programs to restore water quality and supply in at least four other areas that state officials have designated for particular attention due to water quality or water supply issues.

Oregon Environmental Council

This grant will allow a core group of farmers, environmentalists, utilities and state agency officials to convene to identify shared goals for improving water quality and managing water supply, develop a shared understanding of the science, and build relationships for overcoming conflict in preparation for bringing the current situation of serious water resource challenges and strategies to address them to a broader audience of community stakeholders in early 2016.

Oregon Wildlife Foundation

Funds from this request will help establish the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund; a funding mechanism for conservation that doesn’t rely exclusively on hunting and fishing fees. This is part of a matching grant for $1 million public funds.  The Soliciting director that this grant be made in memory of Bob Toman.

Pacific Rivers Council

Informing the public debate regarding the potential negative effects from reductions in river protections, building support for addressing restoration needs and funding, and establishing permanent protection for rivers in our most treasured watersheds.  These efforts serve all Oregonians who either derive their drinking water from many of Oregon’s most iconic watersheds, or who value these rivers for the immeasurable benefits they provide.

Pacific Rivers

Funding will support development of the land management standards, a market analysis, and outreach and coordination with tribes, the Forest Stewardship Council and other forest management groups to create a Salmon-Safe Timber Certification program.

Our goal is to expand sustainable forest management practices by creating a green label for wood products that appeal to landowners, builders, manufacturers, retailers and consumers.

Selway-Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation

The Youth Wilderness Program will serve 200 ID and MT teens in 2024 & 2025. Through experiential learning, youth will explore local Wilderness Areas. This is a new program, as no programs currently exist to immerse youth in Wilderness in this region.

The Freshwater Trust

Funding will support 1) Conservation of significant streamflow in eastern Oregon via partnerships with agricultural landowners and 2) Feasibility study to identify new conservation opportunities in the Catherine Creek watershed.