Regional Landowner Outreach Program

The CWC has developed an exceptional relationship with the North and South Santiam Watershed Councils and over the last two years has partnered to develop a successful landowner restoration recruitment program and more recently a watershed education program. The landowner recruitment program has and will continue to emphasize riparian buffer restoration in key tributary systems in all three watersheds. The team has secured funding for recruitment in the next biennium, and if all pending grant applications are awarded, over 21 landowners will be recruited for small-medium sized restoration projects (7 in the Calapooia), many of which will be complimented with federal conservation easements. Please refer to Sub-Basin Planning and Restoration for more information.

Because such a considerable amount of funding and human resources have been poured into prioritized basins, the three councils find it necessary to implement effectiveness monitoring in order to demonstrate the efficacy of landowner restoration work to the councils’ members and the general public. The regional partnership is seeking Willamette Basin-specific foundation funding to support an intensive regional monitoring program that will collect baseline and GIS data and will perform on-going field monitoring activities in high priority sub-basins where restoration and conservation efforts have been or will be focused.