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The Riparian Plant Propagation Program (RPPP) Grant Application for fiscal year 2024 is now open and accepting submissions. Please review the recently adopted programmatic guidelines.
This round of funding is open to Washington conservation districts to support:
- The procurement of native trees and shrubs,
- The creation, improvement, and expansion of a holding facility, and
- Maintenance of plants at existing holding facilities.
The award funding selection process for the creation of new holding sites will be guided by the following factors:
- Geographic necessity (map of current holding sites).
- Experience in plant cultivation.
- Long-term capacity to maintain plant cultivation for restoration projects.
The deadline for application submittals for the first review is Monday, August 14, 2023 at 5 p.m. Additional rounds of reviews will occur monthly, with the exception of repairs, which will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. New guideline updates now allow for repairs to existing holding sites. In the case where emergency repairs need to be made, you may apply outside of the normal review process.
All deliverables must be received, and all installation work completed no later than June 30, 2024.
For any questions regarding the application, please contact B’Elanna Rhodehamel, RPPP manager.
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Guidelines give direction as to what projects RPPP can fund.
After seeking and incorporating feedback from conservation districts, updates were proposed to SCC commissioners at the July 20 meeting and approved.
Edits to the guidelines included adding the following activities to eligible project types: staff time associated with developing and coordinating an RPPP project, utilities that pertain solely to an existing RPPP holding site, and unanticipated maintenance repairs costs.
SCC is in the process of evaluating bids from nurseries interested in participating in a contract to grow and supply native trees and shrubs for riparian restoration projects.
The project timeline will begin in August 2023, with deliverables due by June 30, 2025. Contracts may be extended by 2 additional one-year terms for plants that need a longer propagation time frame.
Stay tuned for an online annual “plant needs” form, in which conservation districts and other restoration groups will have the opportunity to provide information on plant species and quantity anticipated to be needed for restoration projects by the end of the grow period.
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