Application materials are being updated for the next deadline. We will have new applications posted as soon as possible, our apologies for any inconvenience.
Application Instructions (Word)
Sections I & II: Applicant & Project Information (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Section III: Specific Restoration Project Activity (Word) (not protected allowing greater flexibility to answer the questions)
Section IV: Restoration Budget (Excel) (will calculate your totals)
Section IV: Restoration Budget (Word) (will not calculate your totals)
Attachment A: Match Funding Form (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Attachment B: Land Use Form (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Attachment C: Public Record Certification (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Attachment D: Proposed Metrics Form (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Evaluation Worksheet for Reviewers (PDF) (includes Riparian section)
Application Checklist (Word) (to ensure application is complete)
Application Inserts
If you are requesting more than $3,500 in OWEB funds for effectiveness monitoring or riparian planting in your restoration application, you must fill out the information below and insert it into your restoration application.
A. Question R16: Effectiveness Monitoring Insert(Optional – see instructions for requirements)
Application Insert Instructions (Word)
Section I: Effectiveness Monitoring Project Information (Word) (protected as a fillable form)
Section II: Effectiveness Monitoring Activity Information (Word) (not protected allowing greater flexibility to answer the questions)
Section III: Effectiveness Monitoring Budget (Excel) (will calculate your totals)
Section III: Effectiveness Monitoring Budget (Word) (will not calculate your totals)
Evaluation Worksheet for Reviewers (PDF) (does not include scoring – just comments section)
Application Checklist (Word) (to ensure the application is complete)
B. Question R17: Riparian Planting Insert(Optional – see instructions for requirements)
Application Insert Instructions (Word)
Section I: Riparian Planting Information (Word) (not protected allowing greater flexibility to answer the questions)
Section II: Riparian Planting Budget (Excel) (will calculate your totals)
Section II: Riparian Planting Budget (Word) (will not calculate your totals)
Evaluation Worksheet (PDF) (questions are included in the Restoration Evaluation Worksheet)
Application Checklist (Word) (to ensure application is complete)
Mapping Guidance
Guidance for creating a project location map, obtaining the 10-digit HUC and lat/long coordinate for your project. (web page)
Restoration Priorities
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.
