2015 Gathering for Conservation a Success       

Agency & Partner Updates

• OWEB:  Focused Investment Subcommittee Meeting
• OSU:  Master Naturalist Program Accepting Applications
• ODFW:  2015-2017 Legislatively Adopted Budget Available Online
• LFO:  2015-17 Legislatively Adopted Budget Detailed Analysis
• RiverNetwork:  River Rally 2016
• NAO:  State of the Sector Survey

Grant Opportunities

• OWEB Coastal Wetlands Program (12/15/15)
• Drinking Water Providers Network (12/21/15)
• Grey Family Foundation Environmental Education Program (1/15/16)
• OWRD Project Grants & Loans (aka, Water Supply Development Account (1/19/16)
• OWRD Feasibility Grant Opportunities (2/1/16)

Job Opportunities

• Sustainable Northwest - Two Forest Program Positions
• Anderson Perry & Associates - Multiple Positions
• Powder Basin Watershed Council - Executive Director
• CoosWa - Executive Director
• Marion SWCD - Agricultural Resource Specialist

On the Calendar

• International Forest Hydrology Science Symposium - Dec 10 - World Forestry Center, Portland
• OWEB Focused Investments Subcommittee Meeting - Jan 12&13 - Salem, OR
• 12th Annual Statewide Nonprofit Organization Board Training - Jan 23 - Corvallis, OR
• OWEB Board Meeting - Jan 26 & 27 - McMinnville, OR
• 15th Annual River Restoration Symposium - Feb 2-4 - Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, Washington
• More...

In Other News

• WRI - Willamette River Report Card (overall, B-)
• OregonLive - Willamette is Safe for Swimming, Unless You're a Fish
• Coos Bay World - OWEB Awards $1.26M for East Fork Millicoma Restoration
• OregonLive - Oregon, Feds to Map Cold Water Refuges in Columbia, Willamette Rivers
• National Geographic - 10 Weird Animals from New Chile Reserve, Biggest in Americas
• Albany Democrat-Herald - Teaming Up, Cleaning Up