2016-2017 Annual Report

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2016-2017 Annual Report SIUSLAW SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT Board of Directors Johnny Sundstrom Chair Richard Huff Vice Chair Noland Huntington Secretary/ Treasurer Kevin Carroll Director Ray Kinney Director Bruce Williams Associate Director Siuslaw SWCD District’s Year In Review 1775 Laurel Way #4 This past Fiscal Year (July1, 2016-June 30, ery Fund (PCSRF) dollars to support our Upper 2017) flew by for all of us here at the Siuslaw Fiddle Creek Floodplain and Aquatic Habitat SWCD. Just as the saying goes “time flies when Enhancement. Both of these awards were fruits you are having fun,” the 2016-17 Fiscal Year generated from the District’s extensive involveincluded a lot of hard work and extended ment in the Siuslaw Coho Partnership (SCP), hours, but the rewarding dividends were well whose core entities include the Siuslaw Waterworth the extra labor. The District continued con- shed Council (SWC), the Siuslaw National Forest centrating efforts within our current Focus Area, (SNF), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Fiddle Creek Watershed. We worked and the CTCLUSI. Over the last few years the through the permitting processes to set the stage SCP has worked with the Oregon Watershed for implementing our Fiddle and Billy Moore Enhancement Board (OWEB), the Oregon DeCreeks Riparian Enhancement Phase I, as well as partment of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), the Naour Bear Creek Habitat Enhancement Phase I, tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), the both of which we began treating during the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 2017 In Water Work Period (IWWP). We col- NOAA, and the WSC; to develop a Strategic laborated with the Wild Salmon Center (WSC) Action Plan (SAP) specific to the Siuslaw and and managed to secure National Oceanic and Coastal Lakes Watersheds. The SAP is designed Atmospheric Association (NOAA) funding for our to align federal, state, and local Coho recovery Fiddle Creek Focus Area Restoration Implemen- effort priorities in order to heighten the pace of tation. We also developed and submitted a achieving our mutual restoration goals.