McKenzie River Watershed Council Links to Resources

Partner Organizations:

Bureau of Land Management
Message from the director, breaking news, state-by-state overview, and more
http://www.blm.gov/

Eugene Water & Electric Board
News and services: http://www.eweb.org

HMT Technology Corporation
What's New, Products, Employment, Financial and Contact Information: http://www.hmtt.com/index.html

City of Eugene, Oregon
Special events, news, public notices, city leadership, community resources, etc.: http://www.ci.eugene.or.us/

City of Springfield, Oregon
Information, recreation, shopping, lodging, dining and events: http://www.el.com/To/Springfield/

Lane County, Oregon
Information from the Lane County Convention and Visitors Association: http://www.PlanetEugene.com

Springfield Utility Board
Information on the Super Good Cents Program, Appliance Efficiency Program, residential weatherization and more: http://www.subutil.com

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Information, news and organizational structure: http://www.usace.army.mil/
McKenzie Guides Association
http://www.mckenzieguides.com

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
Information on recreation, education, regulation, news, publications and more: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/

Willamette National Forest
Located in the Western Cascades in Oregon, with two ranger stations in the McKenzie Watershed: http://www.fs.fed.us/recreation/forest_descr/or/r6_willamette.html

Weyerhaeuser
Weyerhaeuser Home Page. Information about Weyerhaeuser and online businesses: http://www.weyerhaeuser.com
Natural Resource Agencies and Organizations:

Cougar Reservoir-Bull Trout Study

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/odfwhtml/springfield/cougar_project.html

Cascade Center for Ecosystem Management
Involved in developing beneficial methods of managing forests; focus on meeting social goals consistent with ecosystem productivity and diversity: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/novell/fsdb/mosaic/lter/intro/cacenter.htm

EcoShare
Interagency Clearinghouse of Ecological Information
http://www.reo.gov/ecoshare/

Environmental Protection Agency
Citizen information, volunteer monitoring program, watershed and water issues: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/Citizen.html

Office of Water
A direct link to watershed information, nonpoint source NewsNotes, TMDL, and water issues by region: http://www.epa.gov/owow

National Marine Fisheries Service
NMFS provides services and products to support domestic and international fisheries management operations, fisheries development, trade and industry assistance activities, enforcement, protected species and habitat conservation operations: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov

Oregon Department of Forestry
News releases, job announcements, agency information, calendar of events and more: http://salem10nt.odf.state.or.us/homepage.htm

Partnership Handbook
A resource and guidebook for local, community-based groups addressing natural resource, land use, or environmental issues: http://ag.arizona.edu/PARTNERS

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Who we are, current news, conservation partners, public service information, and more: http://www.ncg.nrcs.usda.gov/

Willamette Restoration Initiative (WRI)

: http://www.oregonwri.org
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest
Long-term ecological research; regional perspectives; regional studies in the Pacific Northwest
: http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lterhome.html

Oregon Plan

: http://www.oweb.state.or.us
Ecosystem Management Initiative (EMI)
The Ecosystem Management Initiative (EMI) is a program that seekd to promote sustainable natural resource management through ecosystem-based teaching, research, and outreach. We are based within the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan.
http://www.snre.umich.edu/ecomgt/index.htm

Recreation in the McKenzie:

Mountain bike rides along the Lower McKenzie River
Ride summary, description, map and current conditions: http://www.mbronline.com/mbr_html/or/or_trail/l-mcknze.htm

Mountain bike rides along the Upper McKenzie River
Ride summary, description, map and current conditions: http://www.mbronline.com/mbr_html/or/or_trail/u-mcknze.htm

Oregon Game Fish Records
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife fishing information by region: http://www.dfw.state.or.us/ODFWhtml/RecReports/Fishing.html

River Conditions:

River Hazards
Hazards on rivers across Oregon, including the McKenzie: http://www.peak.org/community/whitewater/Hazards.html

U.S. Geological Survey
Current stream flow conditions in Oregon, hydrograph for the past seven days for individual rivers, and more: http://wwworegon.wr.usgs.gov/

Educational Resources:

Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE)

GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education.: http://www.globe.fsl.noaa.gov/

Conifers of the Pacific Northwest
Interactive site with dichotomous key to the Pacific Northwest Conifers: http://www.orst.edu/instruct/for241

UofO Institute for Sustainable Environment: http://www.gladstone.uoregon.edu/~enviro
Environmental Education on the Internet: http://eelink.umich.edu

Miscellaneous:

McKenzie River Valley Chamber of Commerce
Information and listings of businesses in the McKenzie Watershed area

http://www.el.com/To/The/McKenzieRiverChamberOfCommerce/
Eugene Natural History Society
Dedicated to the enjoyment, conservation, and exploration of natural history, both locally and globally

http://biology.uoregon.edu/enhs/

Bird Notes
A web site designed to gather information on bird distribution throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia.

http://www.birdnotes.com

Weedmapper
WeedMapper is a web-based spatially referenced database of noxious weeds that anyone may query. The database includes locations of noxious weeds throughout Oregon as collected by responsible federal, state, and local agencies.

http://www.weedmapper.org

(503) 986-0202
maribeth.mattson@state.or.us

Salmon License Plate Program

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(2.12 mb)

If you have other ideas or questions regarding plate promotions, contact:
Monte Turner
Oregon Plan Communications Coordinator
(503) 986-0195
monte.turner@state.or.us


How Do Salmon License Plates Help Oregon's Salmon and Watersheds?

Since creation of the salmon license plate, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department has received more than $2.5 million in revenue from plate sales. And, although the legislation that created the salmon plate does not require the department to earmark the money for salmon restoration, OPRD is investing tens of thousands of dollars each year in park projects in each management area to improve salmon habitat. The projects range from efforts to restore salmon-friendly stream flows to increasing public awareness of what is being done, and what needs to be done, to improve salmon runs. Your salmon plate purchases also provide funds used in the OWEB grant program to support projects that remedy road-related impacts to salmon and other fish and wildlife in waterways. Funds Dedication Salmon plate funds granted by OWEB are reserved for road-related improvements addressing specific impacts to native Oregon fish [ORS 805.256(1)(a)]. Past projects have included road improvements to reduce sediment in nearby waterways, replacement of fish-blocking culverts, and bridge construction to allow fish passage.


State Parks Projects Funded by Salmon Plates

A project list provides information about specific state park projects in each area of the state that will be completed during the 2005-2007 budget period using salmon license plate funds. A summary provides an overview of state park projects completed or under way that are funded by salmon license plate purchases.

Watershed Improvements Funded by Salmon Plates

Since the salmon license plate program was created in 1997, funds from purchases have supported a wide variety of road-related projects to improve water quality, fish habitat and fish passage in nearly every region of Oregon. The map below provides project summaries of projects in specific watershed basins.

HELPFUL SOURCES OF FUNDING & OTHER WATERSHED INFORMATION

Directory of Funding Sources for Grassroots River and Watershed Conservation Groups. Provides profiles of private, corporate and federal funding sources for river and watershed groups. Includes name, address, phone number, contact name, deadlines, and a brief description of each source's particular interests. Contains a section on how to write grant proposals and a bibliography of state and local foundation directories. $35. See River Network's web site, http://www.rivernetwork.org/rnpublic.htm

Incentives Programs For Watershed Protection and Restoration, available at For the Sake of the Salmon's web site, http://www.4sos.org/

Funding Sources for Water Quality, available at the Water Quality Information Center at the National Agricultural Library's web site, http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/

Healing the Watershed: a citizen's guide to funding watershed and wild salmon recovery programs. 1994. The Pacific Rivers Council, P.O. Box 10798, Eugene, OR 97440. 1st edition.

Environmental Grantmaking Foundations. 1996. Environmental Data Research Institute, Rochester, NY.

The Foundation Center. Databases may be accessed on the web at http://fdncenter.org/

Guide to Oregon Foundations. 1995. Tri-County Community Council, Portland, OR.

Oregon Foundation DataBook. 1995. C. McPherson and D. Friedrich, eds.

Sponsored Programs Information Network (SPIN). This database can be found on the web at http://spin.infoed.org/

The World's Water

http://www.worldwater.org/links.htm

Reference on native plants

http://www.plantoregon.com

Erosion Control Products

http://www.nagreen.com

Basic info regarding backyard conservation activities

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/backyard/

Fish Passage Barrier Assessment & Prioritization

http://www.wa.gov/wdfw/hab/engineer/fishbarr.htm

Capacity Building

http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/capacity/index.htm

Satellite Images

http://www.terraserver.com
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/