Key resources and documents for the Healthy Eldorado Landscape Partnership.
Explore ResourcesThe Watershed Outcomes Bank concept was originally pursued by HELP Partnership as a framework to collectively secure more funding for conservation and restoration treatments across HELP’s Caldor-Cosumnes Focal Area.2 Building on and expanding this intent, the charter is meant to improve regional resilience by integrating activities from the forested headwaters of the Eldorado National Forest through the South Fork American, Cosumnes, and Mokelumne Rivers, and into to the agriculture-rich Central Valley. As the HELP members move to implement the WOB in the Sierra to Sea project area, they have recognized the need for a document that outlines the characteristics of the bank.
Leverages public funds with private through quantified investment returns.
The bank aggregates funding and project prioritization across the landscape.
Indicators well established with funders
Longer-term landscape success indicators.
HELP is pursuing a data-driven approach implemented through a Watershed Outcomes Bank. The Bank approach helps to build up a larger pool of funding, identify and cultivate an inventory of high-priority and funding-/permit-ready projects, secure large-scale project financing, and ensure that project work aligns with and can be related back to regional scale objectives. Partners identified 18 metrics to attract funders and measure success across the HELP landscape. Please click the link below to see details and the methodology used to develop the metrics.
View MetricsThe Healthy Eldorado Landscape Partnership formed in 2021 to create a portfolio of shovel-ready projects across the entire Eldorado National Forest and develop a sustainable funding mechanism beyond grants and core USFS funding to implement those projects with forest partners. From a core group of five agency, nonprofit, and consulting partners, the collaborative has grown into a multi-agency and partner effort garnering more than $20 million for dozens of projects.
HELP creation in 2021 with public and private partners.
First meeting and HELP strategy created in 2022.
To date the partnership has secured > $20 million.