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Other Watershed Resources
Watershed Initiatives has edited a number of technical documents for the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB). Here you will find the Oregon Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Guide, the Water Quality Monitoring Technical Guide Book, the Oregon Riparian Assessment Framework, and other watershed resources.
Oregon Aquatic Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Guide
The guide was developed to provide public guidance on restoration and enhancement measures that could provide a benefit for aquatic ecosystem recovery. The guide consists of five sections: An overview of Restoration Activities, Activity Guidelines, Overview of Agency Regulatory Functions and Sources of Assistance, Grants and Assistance, and Monitoring and Reporting. The Restoration and Enhancement Guide provides standards for some restoration activities that are required to be met when using state funds for aquatic habitat restoration. (May 1999)
Water Quality Monitoring Technical Guide Book
The guide was developed to provide guidance on designing monitoring strategies and to provide standard water quality monitoring protocols. The Guide Book has the following chapters: Background, Monitoring Strategy and Plan, Selecting Sites, Data Quality, Data Storage and Analysis. Protocols have been developed for; Stream Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Conductivity, Nitrogen and Phosphorus, Turbidity, Stream Macroinvertebrates, Pesticides and Toxins. Additional chapters will be developed and added to the Guide Book.
Oregon Riparian Assessment Framework
The purpose of this document is two-fold: to provide guidance for 1) assessing riparian conditions, functions, processes, and management or project actions; and 2) tracking changes in riparian characteristics over time. This document is designed to complement the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board’s Water Quality Monitoring Technical Guide Book (OWEB 1999). Many of the broader monitoring concepts presented in the Water Quality Monitoring Technical Guide Book apply to riparian assessment and monitoring.
Watershed Improvement Priorities
OWEB contracted with Watershed Initiatives to develop a framework for prioritizing watershed improvement projects. The agency wanted guidance when making funding decisions for habitat and watershed restoration proposals (see Case Studies). The framework categorizes project types by the effect they will have on aquatic ecosystem function and identifies project types that have the greatest enhancement benefit at the local basin scale. Project evaluation is based on watershed assessments and local knowledge of conditions and human communities and is designed to yield repeatable results. The framework also helps identify basin and watershed scale improvement priorities.
Oregon Sea Grant's Restoration Newsletter
Paul Hoobyar, principal at Wateshed Initiatives, edited Restoration Newsletter for Oregon's Sea Grant. Restoration Newsletter: A quarterly newsletter about salmon, coastal watersheds and people in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
More information:
Oregon's plan for coho & watershed recovery.
News Clip Service on salmon, watershed, and community based issues. |
