Restoration Grants - Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
Restoration Grants support Tribes, watershed groups, nonprofits, and local institutions in restoring habitat and watershed functions to protect native fish and wildlife and improve water quality or streamflow.
Funder: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
Due Dates: February 1, 2027, at 5 pm PT (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: No maximum request; 25% match required
Summary: Supports restoration that protects native fish and wildlife habitat and watershed functions to improve water quality or streamflow.
Key Information: State and federal agencies may partner with eligible applicants but cannot apply directly.
Description
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) offers Restoration Grants for projects providing public benefit by protecting or restoring native fish and wildlife habitat, ecosystem function, and natural watershed functions. The program supports voluntary watershed restoration, including work benefiting the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds. Grants are offered each summer and winter.
Eligible work spans instream, riparian, upland, wetland, and estuarine habitats. Examples include fish passage improvements, channel and floodplain reconnection, flow protection, riparian revegetation, invasive plant control, prairie restoration, forest health, and prescribed or cultural burns. Projects may also improve road drainage, restore tidal channels, upgrade tide gates and culverts, remove hydrologic barriers, or protect habitat from livestock. Review priorities include ecological success, watershed benefits, applicant capacity, and costs relative to anticipated benefits.
