<font size="2"><font size="4"><b>StreamBank—Speeding the Pace of
Restoration</b></font></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div>
<p><font size="2">Brownbag Lunch</font><font size="2"><br>Wednesday, April
28<br>Noon to 1 pm<br>Portland Building Auditorium (2nd Floor)<br>1120 SW
Fifth<br>Portland, OR 97204<br><br>Alan Horton, Managing Director of The
Freshwater Trust, will describe StreamBank, a new path for accelerating the pace
and expanding the scale of on-the-ground restoration work. StreamBank is a new
web-based platform that enables landowners and restoration professionals to
efficiently permit and fund a restoration project.<br><br>Developed by The
Freshwater Trust, StreamBank streamlines the process for funding and permitting
restoration projects. The result—conservation efforts that formerly could take
years to complete, can now take just months.<br><br>Working with landowners,
local restoration professionals initiate a restoration project by logging on to
the web site and completing a series of project-specified screen flows (think
Turbo Tax® for restoration). StreamBank:<br></font></p><ul><li><font size="2">automatically populates
required forms, saving users significant time and benefitting regulatory
agencies with electronic delivery of forms and required documents, reducing
errors and processing time;</font></li><li><font size="2">uses Google Maps and GIS technology to
connect landowners with local restoration professionals, identify local species
and recommended conservation strategies, and match projects with potential
funders;</font></li><li><font size="2">applies a science-based prioritization system to projects to
ensure maximum ecological benefits;</font></li><li><font size="2">matches project information to
agency and private funder criteria; and,</font></li><li><font size="2">generates a budget and RFPs
for local contractors and fills out the appropriate forms for
permitting.</font></li></ul><p><font size="2"><br>More information on The Freshwater Trust and StreamBank can
be found by clicking here <a href="http://www.thefreshwatertrust.org/conservation/streambank/streambank-solution" target="_blank">http://www.thefreshwatertrust.org/conservation/streambank/streambank-solution</a><br><br>This
special brown-bag is sponsored by the City of Portland’s Office of Healthy
Working Rivers <a href="http://www.portlandonline.com/river" target="_blank">http://www.portlandonline.com/river</a> and is
in addition to the regularly scheduled River-In-Focus brownbag slated for
Tuesday, April 20th).<br><br>For more information, please call
503-823-0275</font><br></p></div></div>