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broaden people’s career
knowledge, but also educate
them in how amazing the
Siuslaw is and what a unique
place this is to be able to
work on restoration proj-
ects.”
Restoration, ultimately, is
a huge focus of SWC.
Tomes and SWC staff tell
the story of salmon in the
Siuslaw, both its historic
highs of 400,000 in the 1800s
and minuscule lows of a
mere 500 in the 1990s.
Using local tribal knowl-
edge and conversing with
landowners, residents and
other stakeholders, the
watershed council is work-
ing with the community to
increase native plant growth,
protect streams and restore
habitat.
“This is what we are doing
today to make the Siuslaw
better, make sure the next
generation will have salmon
and have a resilient forest in
the face of a changing cli-
mate,” Tome said.
A lot of that work is done
through grants. In March,
the SWC and a group of 10
organizations called the
Siuslaw Coho Partnership
received a grant agreement
of $144,000 to fund part-
nership capacity.
“The Siuslaw Coho
Partnership created this
strategic action plan for
coho recovery,” Tome said,
describing the fish as a key-
stone species in restoration
efforts. “We’re all working
together and pooling
resources to restore salmon
habitat.
“This grant is going to
support the capacity of all
our partners to be able to
engage in those planning
efforts.”
Part of the grant will
fund Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion (DEI) training, an
important aspect of non-
profit work. The SWC has
done work on this in the
past, most recently sending
all eight staff members to
the Siuslaw Vision and The
Ford Family Foundation’s
equity training in February.
“We’re going to think
how our work affects our
community, and if we’re
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“We believe that every
child in our area should have
the opportunity to go to our
camps to learn about all
those things,” Tome said.
“We offer a scholarship for
free if they can’t afford it.”
The watershed also began
a new education program in
partnership with Ecology in
Classrooms and Outdoors
(ECO) and Confederated
Tribes of the Coos, Lower
Umpqua
and
Siuslaw
Indians (CTCLUSI).
A grant from The Gray
Family Foundation, located
in Portland, Ore., will pro-
vide three years of funding
for the established education
position.
Earlier this year, SWC
hired area resident Alysia
Downs as the education out-
reach coordinator.
Besides the watershed
camps, she will be working
with the program’s partners
to bring traditional knowl-
edge to ecology education in
local classrooms and take
students on field trips to res-
toration sites in the field.
“With our education
focus, a lot of that is to show
local students careers they
can have in our community,”
Tome said. “It can be hard
knowing what folks do in
this area, so exposing them
to people working in the
field, who are working with
salmon or conservation, can
broaden their horizons of
possibilities.”
He added that when he
was in kindergarten, he
would never have known
that watershed councils
existed, let alone that he
would someday work with
one.
Education won’t just focus
on youth, either. Downs will
also be holding public meet-
ings and leading community
members on tours into the
region’s wooded areas.
“She’s going to get the
public out to see those
things, since they’re deep in
the woods that people never
go to,” Tome said. “It will be
a great way to not only
having proportionate effects
on different demographics
in our community,” Tome
said.
Using numbers from the
U.S. Census 2020 and other
surveys, the council wants to
see who lives in the Siuslaw
and how those community
members get their informa-
tion. Then, the SWC will
work to reach more people
and engage with them in
accessible ways.
Tome has a strong back-
ground in accessibility, writ-
ing his master’s thesis at the
University of Oregon on
environmental justice and
river restoration.
He used geospatial statis-
tics to show that groups tend
to invest restoration dollars
more heavily in white, afflu-
ent communities than they
do in less affluent and more
marginalized communities.
“We’re thinking about
that with our work. Everyone
needs clean water and good
habitat,” Tome said. “DEI is
going to be huge for our
ple experience marginaliza-
tion, referencing age, ethnic-
ity, poverty and even aspects
of rural life.
“There are plenty of folks
in the woods here that don’t
have internet, or don’t have
the access to information
that a lot of other folks have,”
Tome said. “DEI is about
making sure those people
are included.”
There are resources avail-
able, Tome said, such as the
Natural
Resource
Conservation Service, which
has conservation rental pro-
grams which pay rental
money for preserving ripari-
an buffers on properties
within the watershed.
“These people also care
about fishing, or do subsis-
tence living. How could we
be helping with that?” Tome
asked. “If we can’t reach
those people, or we aren’t
reaching those people, then
they don’t know about it.
How do we reach people
we’re not, bring them into
the fold and involve them in
restoration and conservation
work?”
A highly visible resto-
ration is now underway at
Waite Ranch near Cushman.
This 216-acre project has
been in design stages since
2011 and is a partnership
between SWC, McKenzie
River Trust, which owns the
property,
and
the
Confederated Tribes.
“That’s a really cool proj-
ect that the tribes have got-
ten more involved in the last
couple years,” Tome said.
We’re talking about access
for tribal elders at the prop-
erty — to make sure they
can access traditional foods
and materials.”
According
to
the
McKenzie River Trust, the
project seeks to restore the
property to a complex estu-
ary ecosystem that will ben-
efit native fish like coastal
coho and Chinook salmon
and steelhead, and many
other sensitive birds and
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