Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding

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• Conservation Using Acquisition
• Agriculture
• Stormwater
• Vegetation and Revegetation
• Salmon Recovery
• Governments
• Flood Hazard Management
• Forestry
• Watershed Planning
• Water Management
• Land Cover and Development
• Restoration
• Transportation Networks
• The Law
• Conservation Using Regulation
• Biota
• Climate

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• The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound provides a peer reviewed version of the wiki
• PRISM Project Search
• Washington Coastal Atlas
• UW River History Project

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On this wiki, Puget Sound Ecosystem Funding is a network of federal, state and local programs, which allocate primarily state and federal tax and bond resources to a variety of Efforts. Funding is usually associated with a planning system--for example, funding for salmon is largely driven by Salmon Recovery Planning. Efforts that meet the most important needs of the right plan, and meet other criteria generally get funds. Most Federal funding systems work on an annual basis. Most State funding systems are organized on a biennial cycle driven by the Washington State Capital Budget.

One of the best ways to understand how ecological work happens in Puget Sound is to understand the mechanics of the funding system. The quantity of resources allocated to different needs describes a status quo values system measurable in dollars. Local Jurisdictions vary widely in their allocation of public resources to ecological work. Observing how local government funding is organized around ecosystem work provides a useful gauge of local effort.

Notes on The Puget Sound Funding System

• The Align - Grant Coordination Workgroup was created in 2015 by Ecology and RCO following initial meetings of the Coordinated Investment effort to support coordination of funding in Washington State.

Funding Programs

On the wiki, funding programs are described and analyzed using effort pages, and are organized by the origin of funds (see Strata of Government). Insiders frequently identify programs by acronym, and so the colloquial acronym is included in the page name. Common usage may be non-phonetic (for example, PSAR is commonly pronounced 'Pee-Sar'). More then one workgroup may be involved in program administration, funding varies from year to year, more than one webpage may describe the program, each program may reference or consider several planning efforts, and the precise objectives of the program may not be apparent on the website, and require evaluation of the RFP, which may change. Understanding the dynamics of this network of programs requires experience.

Federal Funding Programs Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Puget Sound National Estuary Program (NEP) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) Community-based Restoration Program (CRP) Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE) National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) Wetland Reserve Program Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP)

State Funding Programs

Local Funding Programs Conservation Futures Storm and Surface Water Drainage Utilities Real Estate Excise Tax for Conservation King County Flood Control District Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CWM) King County Agricultural Drainage Assistance Program (ADAP) King County Farm Preservation Program (FPP)

Other Pages Concerned With Funding

• The Estuary and Salmon Restoration Program
• File:Grants and loan funding matrix.xlsx
• Align Grant Coordination Workgroup
• File:Cereghino 2015 grant administrative streamlining.pdf
• File:Williamson 2020 streamline grant budgets washington.pdf
• Storm and Surface Water Drainage Utilities
• Real Estate Excise Tax for Conservation
• Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB)
• File:Cereghino 2021 climate resilience capital funding.pdf
• Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021
• File:Wild Salmon Center 2022 infrastructure funding for salmon.pdf
• Stormwater Strategic Initiative Lead
• File:Cereghino 2022 funding system improvement to leadership council.pdf
• Resources Legacy Fund
• National Forest Foundation
• File:RCO et al 2023 Align grant coordination MOU.pdf
• File:Kilmer et al 2023 federal grants news.pdf
• File:SRFB 2019 large project barriers.pdf
• File:Cereghino 2019 DRAFT project description problem focus group.pdf
• File:MC2 2018 lead entity lean study.pdf
• File:Ryan-Penula et al 2017 LIO plan summary analysis.pdf
• File:Cereghino 2009 conservation marketplace concept.pdf
• File:Blackmore 2009 obstacles to salmon recovery projects.pdf
• File:Sahandy & Daily 2014 watershed proviso recommendations.pdf
• File:Cereghino 2015 coordinated investment concept.pdf
• File:Cereghino 2015 accelerating estuary restoration.pdf
• File:Canty 2015 NEP riparian easement advisory.pdf