COLT's weekly land trust news

Monday January 16th, 2017

Oregon Land Trust News  

• Land trust meets $450K Whychus Creek challenge grant
  • Good news from the Deschutes Land Trust
• Forestland on Elk River preserved for public access
  • More from the Wild Rivers Land Trust

Upcoming grants and deadlines  

• January 17th (tomorrow!): Applications to the National Forest Foundation's Matching Awards Program are due
  • Don't worry, there's another round due on June 26th
• March 6th: Applications to NOAA's DARRP Restoration Implementation Grants program are due
  • Funding intends to restore marine and coastal natural resources damaged by hazardous waste, oil spills, and other physical impacts.
• April 21st: Pre-proposals for NRCS's RCPP program are due

• January 17, 2017: NFWF's Five Star and Urban Waters Restoration Grant Program 2017 Request for Proposals are due
• January 20th: Applications for Aquent’s Design for Good are due
  • An interesting opportunity that awards $5,000 to designers to help "elevate the nonprofit of their choice." See here for more details. 
• February 3rd: Applications for NRCS's Conservation Stewardship Program are due
  • See their press release for new changes to the program
• February 5th: Applications for NRCS's Agricultural Conservation Easement Program are due
• February 21st: Presentation proposals due for the Land Trust Alliance's Rally 2017
• February 24th: NAWCA Standard Grant applications are due
• June 12th: Applications for OWEB's Capacity Building TA grants are due
  • Before submitting an application, an organization needs to first consult with OWEB. Please see this page for information

Upcoming webinars, conferences and events

• New webinars from the Land Trust Alliance:
  • January 19th: Easement Monitoring Best Practices
  • January 24th: Land Conservation in a Changing Climate
  • January 25th: Basic Risk Balancing
  • February 15th: Crafting Your Message - Best Storytelling on the Web, with Andy Goodman
• March 14th-16th: The Borrowing Money Boot Camp
  • 2-1/2 day course to learn the art and science of borrowing money to finance land and resource acquisition, conservation, restoration and stewardship projects.

• January 17th, 9am-12pm: Succession Planning Workshop - Orientation to Succession Planning
  • Sponsored by Polk SWCD, Greenbelt Land Trust, Marion SWCD, Luckiamute Watershed Council, and OSU Extension Service
• Thursday January 19th, 1-5pm (Beaverton): Advancing Equity & Inclusion In Our Daily Work (NAO-sponsored workshop)
• January 23rd-25th: OWEB board meeting in Madras
  • The agenda is now available
• January 25th, 12-2pm: Funding Land Conservation in Oregon with RCPP (Webinar)
  • COLT is hosting this free webinar on how RCPP can help fund land conservation in the state
• February 16th and 17th, 2017: Northwest Basin & Range Ecosystem Symposium, in Lakeview
• February 28th, 2017 9am-4pm: Succession Planning Workshop - Full Day
  • A follow-up to the January 17th workshop
  • Sponsored by Polk SWCD, Greenbelt Land Trust, Marion SWCD, Luckiamute Watershed Council, and OSU Extension Service
• April 10-12th, 2017: Northwest Land Camp conference at Menucha conference center.

Conservation job opportunities

• McKenzie River Trust is hiring for a Volunteer Coordinator (Eugene) - deadline is February 10th
• The Nature Conservancy is hiring for a Willamette Basin Steward (Eugene) - deadline is February 3rd
• Pacific Forest Trust is hiring for two new positions:
  • Project Manager: Healthy Watersheds California
  • Foundation Grants Manager

• The Washington Association of Land Trusts (Seattle) is looking for their Outreach and Development Coordinator - deadline is January 17th
• The Nature Conservancy is hiring two positions: 
  • Director of Conservation Science (Portland) - deadline is January 20th
  • Zumwalt Prairie Field Technician (Enterprise) - deadline is February 3
• Pacific Forest Trust is hiring for three positions in their San Francisco office:
  • Director of Development 
  • Forest Conservation Director
  • Development & Communications Associate

Other conservation news and information

• USDA Announces $252 Million Available for Regional Conservation Partnership Program
  • Applications for FY18 RCPP notification is now out
• The Freshwater Trust partners with sixth generation rancher to save 1 billion gallons of water annually
  • Nice story about the Wolfe Farm in NE Oregon
• Obama expands Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, adding 48,000 acres in Southwestern Oregon and Northern California
  • Related: Reactions to expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
• Merkley: Obama Won't Designate Owyhee Canyonlands As A National Monument
• DeFazio, Huffman, Wyden, Merkley Secure Critical 20 Year Mining Ban in Southwestern Oregon, Smith River Watershed
• Jewell lauds Zinke, says Tillerson in for 'a shock'
• Nature and health: Spending more time in nature can boost body and mind
  • From Metro
• Fighting Climate Change and Discovering a Deeper Connection to My Aleut Culture

• House GOP rules change will make it easier to sell off federal land
• A Federal Lawsuit Shows New Trouble Looming for Oregon's Greater Sage Grouse
  • From the Willamette Week
• What We Can Do About Environmental Philanthropy's White Privilege
  • A recent article my MMT's Marcelo Bonta that recently came across our radar
• What on Earth is ‘conservation finance’?
• Earth on the edge: Record breaking 2016 was close to 1.5°C warming