Request: $75,000
Application Materials

Eastern Oregon’s unprecedented wildfire impacts have created an urgent need for specialized expertise to understand what these fires have done to our landscapes and what successful recovery will require. EcoSource has established native-seed and restoration capacity, but we do not currently have dedicated wildfire ecology expertise to assess burned landscapes, identify restoration priorities, evaluate invasive-species threats, and translate those findings into native plant-material needs. EcoSource is seeking funding for a staff or contract employee, and has identified Trey Wall, an experienced local wildland fire and natural-resources professional, to provide this critical capacity.

Request: $3,030,000
Application Materials

Jefferson SWCD is requesting funding for

- Continued facilitation of the Croplands Working Group, which is working on upgrading irrigation efficiency, identifying alternate cash crops, encouraging cover cropping, and reducing weeds on fallow fields

- Implementing projects recommended by the Working Group

- Inventorying irrigation infrastructure upgrade needs in the portion of NUID around Culver

- Facilitating the NorthCentral Wildfire Resiliency Group until we can get specific funding for a long-term plan

- Seed to replant disturbed ground due to firelines and firefighting staging areas this fall/winter to prevent erosion from winter storms.

Request: $25,000
Application Materials

Immediate seed purchase for nearly 1,300 miles of wildfire suppression dozer lines across Wheeler County from the Rowe Creek Complex, Shingle Fire, and multiple smaller incidents ignited July 15th and still burning as of 08/04/2026. USDA has programs for disaster recovery; however, funding for those programs will not be available for application until the next federal fiscal year (November) and actions won't be funded until spring of 2027.

Request: $74,993
Application Materials

An estimated 11,000 acres of standing winter wheat burned, approximately one seventh of the county's annual crop. New seed will prevent that bare ground filling with weeds that become future fire tinder, and the seed must be planted in October. Landowners will plant with their own equipment and fuel, this request is for the seed to replant, and four broadcast spreaders that attach to a side-by-side to seed steep and rocky ground.