IN THIS LESSON:

You need the capital.

Does scant restoration funding really hold back expanding the scale and pace of riverscape restoration? Process-based riverscape restoration projects can have sizable price tags and can take years to implement, but that certainly doesn't make them unique. Are there characteristics of process-based riverscape restoration project design and implementation that generate conflicts with the current model of restoration project evaluation, selection, and funding? This section features a live panel of state funding agency partners to share their experience with soliciting and sponsoring process-based habitat restoration actions.

0:00 Introduction with Chris Jordan
featuring our Part 11 Guide, Meta Loftsgaarden, Forest Supervisor of Mt Hood National Forest

2:20 Panel: The structure of salmon habitat programs and funding
moderated by: Randi Shaw, Stewardship Director with The Nature Conservancy
featuring:
Courtney Shaff, Monitoring and Reporting Program Manager for the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board; Marc Duboiski, Salmon Grants Team Manager for the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board; Abbie Gongloff, Grant Program Manager for the Idaho Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund; and Tim Chorey, Coordinator for the California Fisheries Restoration Grant Program

Where are the deep pockets that can't not afford process-based riverscape restoration? Listen to a panel discussion with Courtney Shaff, Mark Duboiski, Abbie Gongloff, and Tim Chorey, moderated by Randi Shaw - state leaders for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund organizations as they discuss the challenges of evaluating and funding proposed restoration actions across salmon country.