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Tillamook - Nestucca Watershed Function

County: Tillamook

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: Aquatic habitat - Aquatic habitat for fish and other organisms

Project Description
The Goal in the Nestucca, Neskowin, Sand Lake and Tillamook Bay Watersheds is to strategically combine multiple partner resources to improve fish passage and habitat in the Nestucca, Neskown and Sandlake Watershed Council (NNSLWC)  and Tillamook Bay Watershed Councils (TBW) areas of operation by focusing efforts on high priority projects. The Nestucca and Tillamook Bay Watersheds have previously been recognized as a priority for restoration funding by the Salmon Super Highway (SSH) partnership.  The SSH is made up of a partnership of Federal, State, Non-Government Entities, Watershed Councils, private individuals and others who continue to support the effort through funding, completion of projects on their own lands, technical support of (SSH) projects or just supporting the work that is being completed by others.  Practices offered in this strategy will compliment SSH and its partners goals to restore and protect major ecological functions by removing risk factors and restoring damaged habitat-forming processes in the watershed.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Fish Passage (396)
  • Streambank and Shoreline Protection (580)
  • Access Road (560)
  • Stream Habitat Improvement and Management (395)
  • Channel Stabilization (584)
  • Open Channel (582)
  • Obstruction Removal (500)
  • Fence (382)
  • Access Control (472)
  • Pipeline (516)
  • Watering Facility (614)
  • Tree/Shrub Site Preparation (490)
  • Tree/Shrub Establishment (612)
  • Pumping Plant (533)
  • Brush Management (314)
  • Conservation Cover (327)
  • Upland Wildlife Habitat Management (645)
  • Restoration and Management of Declining Habitats (643)
  • Stream Crossing (578)
  • Animal Trails and Walkways (575)
  • Structure for Water Control (587)
  • Structures for Wildlife (649)
  • Riparian Forest Buffer (391)

Project Partners

  • Nestucca-Neskowin, Sandlake Watershed Council
  • ODFW
  • USFWS
  • USFS
  • TU
  • DEQ
  • ODA
  • BLM
  • OWEB
  • Tillamook CSWCD
  • Tillamook County Creamery Association
  • Tillamook Estuary Partnership
  • Salmon Super Highway
  • Tillamook Bay Watershed Council
  • Private landowners
  • NRCS Oregon


Local EQIP Ranking Questions
NRCS uses these questions to evaluate eligible applications for this project and to prioritize applications for potential funding. State and national ranking questions also apply. See more information on the EQIP program page.

Screening Questions

  1. Culvert/Bridge crossing or road obliteration is planned and there is multiple partner support who will secure NEPA documentation and any required permits.
  2. Has the applicant had a contract cancelled or terminated within the last 2  years (exceptions: unavailability of product needed to implement practice or error/delays caused by NRCS)?
  3. Does the applicant currently have a contract that isn’t on schedule due to landowner inactivity?

Ranking Questions

  1. Project will address a water quality degradation factor as identified in a TMDL.
  2. Practice will address habitat modifications specific to ESA listed Salmonids.
  3. Practices will address goals of SSH i.e. multi species of concern and ecological processes in the watershed.  With areas of interest such as riparian restoration, fish passage, wetlands or forest roads.
  4. Culvert/Bridge projects are ranked med or high in current TEP/BLM prioritization, or if not ranked, then rank med/high when TEP/BLM prioritization criteria are applied.