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would include developing a study plan for the feasibility plan and cost sharing agreement where the negotiations could be completed for cooperative efforts. E. Oregon Youth Conservation Corps Mr. Adams said Title III money had been going toward educational projects. He said the county commissioners had been encouraging to be creative in granting the money. In response to a question from Ms. Dougan regarding whether his own organization had written any grants for programs that it thought was needed, Mr. Adams said he had not yet done that yet. f. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service • Coyote Creek National Wildlife Refuge Status Report Ms. Schuler said the service had hired Steve Smith. She said his focus would be rare types of habitat such as oak savannah, in addition to rare or endangered species. Ms. Schuler said the refuge study proposal to take back to Washington DC. was almost completed and would be done by March. VII. WETLAND COORDINATOR REPORT • Updated Strategic Acquisition Map and Plan Ms. Gordon noted that the BLM acquisition boundary had been added to the map. • United Front Lobbying Ms. Gordon highlighted the draft list of natural resource ideas. • Corps Waterways Study Update Ms. Gordon indicated that Mr. Hayes had already covered this item. • Metropolitan Parks and Open Space (Rivers to Ridges) Mr. Gordon said the vision and strategies were now being shown to interested parties. He said he would bring more information back to the spring meeting. • Meeting with NRCS on Wetland Reserve Program Mr. Gordon said there had been a meeting with Rick Barney of the Natural Resource Conservation Service to discuss the possibility of using the Wetland Reserve program (WRP) in west Eugene. • West Eugene Parkway Update Mr. Gordon said there was no recent news. • Wetheads Charter MINUTES— Wetland Executive Team December 20, 2002 Page 6