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Mr. Alverson said that, in addition to mitigation bank funding, a proposal had been submitted to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for funding to do restoration on the City's side of the property. Ms. Macdonald added that the project would benefit other projects paid for by Fish and Wildlife Foundation grants. • BPA Acquisition Update Regarding acquisition, Mr. Alverson said the work with BPA was moving fairly slowly. He noted that appraisals had been completed and expressed a hope that the necessary work could be completed as quickly as possible. Ms. Macdonald said BPA was putting a freeze on all acquisition projects, which was causing concern. She noted that some projects had been submitted for funding several years ago and said The Nature Conservancy would see if it could get that funding at least, since those projects had already been approved. Mr. Alverson said another acquisition item, resulting from City/WET partnership efforts, was a 115 acre parcel southeast of the Willow Creek natural area, that the City had moved ahead to purchase with park bond measure funding. He said the original effort was to try for Forest Legacy program funding, but noted that this had been unsuccessful. He noted that the parcel contained some of the headwaters of Willow Creek. • BLM Oak Habitat Management Workshop Mr. Alverson said BLM was paying the Nature Conservancy to develop management plans for two sites within the west Eugene wetlands area which were upland habitats. He said the sites had been acquired because they either had wetland components or bordered on wetlands. He said the two sites were Oak Hills and See -sil Savannah. He said both sites were in BLM ownership. • Capital Campaign Ms. Macdonald said The Nature Conservancy was in the final year of its capital campaign. She said the funding campaign would help to fill funding gaps in the NAWCA grant as well as some additional work planned. D. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) Rick Hayes said the Corps had wrapped up a Planning Assistance to State (PAS) study involving the Royal Node in the City of Eugene. He said city staff, the private sector, and others had worked hard to make the nodal plan acceptable to all of the contributing agencies to the wetlands plan. Mr. Hayes said the reconnaissance report on the Metropolitan Waterways Restoration Study had been generated, which laid out the issues that surrounded the water resources in the area. He said four locally initiated project concepts had been introduced. He said Eugene, Lane County and Springfield had submitted ideas for a waterway, each of which would be studied jointly. The three local governments also included the Main Stem of the Willamette. Eugene's top priority is Amazon Creek from its headwaters to Fern Ridge and Willow Creek, covering several waterways in the west Eugene wetlands region. He said that during the next three to six months, the remaining components of the reconnaissance MINUTES— Wetland Executive Team December 20, 2002 Page 5