Grant Opportunity: Healthy Watersheds through Healthy Forests

There's a grant opportunity from the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities called Healthy Watersheds through Healthy Forests. The goal is to link water consumers with water producers in a long-term mutually beneficial relationship - in short to "monetize water as an ecosystem service." Two or three grants will be given in the eastern U.S. in private-ownership dominated forested watersheds that serve as drinking water sources.

Downstream Strategies is interested in working with a local water utility and other partners to develop a proposal and to implement a project, should we find a watershed that fits the program. The ideal watershed would be largely forested, mostly in private ownership, and a source water area for a water utility.

See http://www.usendowment.org/pendingrfps.html for more information.

If you are interested in discussing a potential collaboration, or if you could suggest a water utility or watershed that seems like a good fit, please contact Evan:

Evan Hansen, President
Downstream Strategies
219 Wall Street
Morgantown, WV 26505
304.292.2450
www.downstreamstrategies.com