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Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s (OWEB) monitoring grants assist the agency in meeting its responsibility to: 1) provide support for cooperative monitoring activities, 2) describe the results of restoration investments, and 3) report on progress of the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds.
The 2025-2027 board-adopted spending plan breaks funding down into categories that align with OWEB’s grant programs. Funding for monitoring grants in the spending plan includes Open Solicitation, Quantifying Conservation Outputs and Outcomes, and Focused Investment Partnership (FIP) Effectiveness Monitoring, which equals $6.1 million and 4.65% of the grant funds in the spending plan.
Monitoring grants are also funded in the individual FIP awards and that is incorporated into the FIP line items of the spending plan. In addition, monitoring activities are funded in Strategic Implementation Area grants, which are included in the Engagement section of the spending plan.
Finally, effectiveness monitoring activities are funded in the Middle Fork John Day River Intensively Monitored Watershed that is incorporated into the Other Legislative/External Partner Allocated section of the spending plan.
This presentation will focus on monitoring investments that are included in the Monitoring section of the spending plan and how that information is applied to inform future eligible acquisition and restoration activities.