Oregon Administrative Rules
Chapter 695 - OREGON WATERSHED ENHANCEMENT BOARD
Division 25 - MONITORING GRANTS
Section 695-025-0090 - Definitions

(1) "Adaptive management/adaptively manage" means a systematic process for continually improving by learning from ongoing experience. The process is commonly depicted as an iterative cycle of planning, implementing, monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting.

(2) "Delegated to the Director" means the grant funds that the Board has authorized to the Director to award and enter into appropriate agreements.

(3) "Limiting factors" means physical, biological, or chemical conditions that reduce population of a species.

(4) "Monitoring question" means the question(s) that the applicant aims to answer by implementing the project as proposed in the application.

(5) "Professionally accepted" means methodologies or techniques that have been vetted by experts in the field in which the applicant is seeking monitoring funds.

(6) "Publicly available" means any member of the public can easily and reasonably access information.

(7) "Technical Review Team" means a team of designated personnel with relevant knowledge, including indigenous knowledge, convened to evaluate grant applications, which includes established regional review teams as described in OAR 695-005-0020(4).

(8) "Watershed processes" means the physical and chemical interactions that form and maintain the landscape at the scale of a drainage basin. They can be broken down into specific functions and characteristics, including: soil processes and erosion, nutrient cycling, pollution transport, riparian habitat and stream buffers, stream morphology and channel characteristics, hydrology, and water quality.