Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund

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1 Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Project Progress Report Format For FYs Send progress reports by by April 30, 2007 to the following address: Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission 729 N.E. Oregon Suite 200 Portland, Oregon ATTN: Laura Gephart (503) View the PCSRF website address ( and go under the Definitions category for more Data Definitions details.

2 Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund General Instructions for Project Progress Reports for PCSRF FY Funding Progress reports are due by April 30, 2007 for all ongoing and completed PCSRF projects for FYs The required progress report information will be entered by Hilary Forrest (CRITFC Database Programmer) into the PCSRF Maintenance Portal at the NOAA Fisheries Website and verified by Laura Gephart, and then hard copies of the reports will be complied and submitted to NOAA Fisheries. Please read the following before completing the FY progress reports: Managers please make sure all appropriate project managers get the progress report form. It is important to be consistent when completing progress reports and thoroughly address metrics data for each work site. The metrics are the measurement of progress. A progress report must be submitted for each project even if there is no activity. If a project is terminated and new project(s) created, a report still has to be completed for the terminated project with an explanation in the narrative. The General information must be completed for each report and the portions based on the single PCSRF objective of each project; Watershed Subbasin Planning and Assessment, Salmon habitat Protection & Restoration, Salmon Enhancement, Salmon Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Outreach and Education, or Program Administration. It is important to accurately address the performance measures/metrics based on the PCSRF objective for every project. Use the Project Progress Summary to detail the progress for this reporting period and explanation of non-activity on the project. The reporting format is consistent with the proposal and database formats. Project managers are encouraged to submit any pictures, reports, maps, newspaper articles, etc. to best showcase their projects. The completed and ongoing reports are edited, compiled and bound for use in education and outreach efforts. Please call Laura Gephart (Watershed Programs Coordinator) at (503) if you have any questions.

3 Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Project Progress Report for December 2006 April 2007 Project Title: Upper Columbia Project Development Coordinator I Project Number: Fiscal Year: 2004 Project Type: Program Administration Project status (ongoing or completed): Ongoing Proposed End Date (indicate if project will be completed earlier than): 6/30/2007 HUC #: METHOW. WASHINGTON UPPER COLUMBIA-ENTIAT. WASHINGTON WENATCHEE. WASHINGTON. Geographic Area Name/Watershed: Methow subbasin Entiat subbasin Wenatchee subbasin Geospatial reference/location/gps Point: Project Manager Lee Carlson, Fisheries Biologist Yakama Nation, FRMP P.O. Box 151 Toppenish, WA (509) ext 6308; lcarlson@yakama.com Bob Rose, Fisheries Biologist Yakama Nation, FRMP P.O. Box 151 Toppenish, WA (509) ; brose@yakama.com PCSRF Funding Amount: $81,000 Have there been any budget modifications from original project budget (yes or no; if yes then attach new budget): The total project amount is $81,000.

4 A budget modification was done on March 20, A Fish Tech III position was created in the Methow Basin for work associated with Hancock Springs restoration; $9,986 was moved from this budget to pay for that position. The remaining money in this budget was transferred to a single line item, Professional Services so that FRMP can hire a qualified professional for project development in the Mid- Columbia. Table I. Budget modification to the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) project. PCSRF Budget- Budget Modification Line Item Code Line Item Approved budget Increase/(decrease) Proposed budget Wages $43,113 (43,113) $ Fringe Benefits $9485 (9,485) $ Professional Services $0 59,730 $59, Supplies $800 (800) $ Sensitive equipment $2,834 (2,834) $ Operating supplies $388 (388) $ Cellular phone $1,120 (1,120) $ Rental vehicle $8,720 (8,720) $ Travel expenses $12,870 (1,586) $11, Indirect cost@18.89% $12,870 (1.586) $11,284 Total $81,000 $(9,986) $71,014 Table II. The total amount expended and remaining. Line Item Code Total PCSRF Budget Line Item Appropriations (Revised) Expenditures SubTotal Professional Services $59,730 $46,730 $13,000 Contract EcoAIM, Inc $49,682 $36,870 Contract (w/add-on) EES Consulting, Inc $9991 $9, Indirect cost@18.89% $11,284 $7,938 $3,346 Totals $71,014 $54,668 $16,346 The total amount currently left in the professional services contracts is $13,000. Partners and Cost Share (include a list of partners and cost share totals - no acronyms): None

5 Project Products (Explain how the project results have been or will be disseminated. Include two copies of any results (reports, technical documents, etc.), with this final report. Title pages of Publication should have sufficient information (author, title, key words, etc.), to facilitate cataloguing or information sharing.): EES has provided a CD-ROM with GIS data and two GIS projects. Attached: Attachment 1: draft EES Summary Report.pdf Indicate any significant changes/obstacles to this project workplan: The original contract with EcoAIM specified seven tasks, as follows; Task 1: Develop a project proposal to fund a Project Developer position. Task 2: GIS Framework: Develop a project proposal to hire a GIS / Data Management specialist to develop a long-term and comprehensive spatial and relational data structure to track progress in salmon recovery efforts. Task 3: Habitat Capacities: Develop project proposal to evaluate steelhead and chinook habitat in the Methow and Wenatchee subbasins for use in future EDT-like model runs. Task 4: Acclimation Site Inventory: Develop a project proposal to inventory potential hatchery fish acclimation sites in the Upper Columbia. Task 5: Kelt Reconditioning: Develop a project proposal to create a kelt reconditioning program in the Upper Columbia. Task 6: Lower Peshastin Creek Protection and Restoration: Develop a project proposal for land purchases or easements as well as placement of in-channel rock and/or wood structures in Peshastin Creek Task 7: Hancock Riparian: Coordinate with John Jorgensen to determine riparian vegetation needs at the Hancock Springs site and possibly other sites in the Methow subbasin. However, time and priority constraints caused us to reevaluate the needed work and modify the contract. EcoAIM s deliverables were changed to: 1. A PCSRF application for the Project Developer position (Task 1) has been completed. 2. A SRFB application and a Tributary Fund application have been completed for the Hancock Springs Restoration Project (Task 7). 3. Complete a general application for the GIS Framework program (Task 2). 4. Complete a general application for the Acclimation Sites Inventory (Task 4). 5. Partial or complete proposals may be created for Tasks 3, 5 and 6, or other priority projects specified by Yakama Nation staff, as funding allows. Project Progress Summary (Include project photos) (reporting period: December 2006 April 2007, enter text up to 4000 characters here): All of the EES Consultants tasks are complete. EcoAIM, Inc. has completed items 1 and 2 on the new list of deliverables. Since December 2006 EcoAIM has focused on deliverable #3. Work is progressing well. The need for Deliverable #4 has lessened, in that the work is being developed by another agency. We will probably modify the EcoAIM contract again.

6 Attachment 1 Draft Report XXXXXXXXXXX EES Consulting, Inc. / Yakama Nation Fisheries May 9, 2007 Developed by John Monahan, EES, Inc. in consultation with Bob Rose, Yakama Nation Fisheries. Project Summary. This project consisted of a simple and experimental approach to coordinate various resource personal representing fish and land managers within the Wenatchee subbasin and to use GIS to help identify and gain consensus as to where restoration actions should be implemented. Because the approach was experimental, several contract elements have been slightly modified to accommodate suggestions from resource personnel that helped in the development and final products of this effort. Approximately four coordination meetings were facilitated by the Yakama Nation Fisheries representative (Bob Rose) and John Monahan (EES Consulting). The first two meetings focused upon gaining agreement to the overall project objectives and products. The latter two meetings focused upon development of the GIS products. We began the effort with a focus on Peshastin Creek, and later expanded the effort to Nason Creek and the upper Wenatchee River. The primary objective was to develop a simple GIS product and associated 1-page brochure which could be distributed to various landowners within a specific watershed that would inform them of river and riparian restoration opportunities available on and surrounding their property. A secondary objective was to develop a coordinated data base that would be capable of displaying GIS information at multiple scales (broad and general to specific and very high resolution). This second objective was problematic due to time constraints for the level of funding allocated to this project. Identification of key limiting factors for salmonids and current resources from which this is documented. Identification of Key Limiting Factors was developed during the NPCC 2004 Subbasin Plans and the 2006 Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan. Limiting Factors for the three focus watersheds are listed below: Peshastin Creek Nason Creek Upper Wenatchee River In-channel Characteristics Ecologic Community In-channel Characteristics Passage / Entrainment In-channel Characteristics Passage /Entrainment Water Quantity Flow Passage / Entrainment Water Quality - Temperature Water Quality - Temperature In-channel Characteristics Ecologic Community Maps of area indicating where limiting factors primarily exist and indicating causal agents. All GIS products were made available by GIS Consulting under the guidance and direction of the workgroup. Maps were to cover the HUC 5 /6 watershed scale, and be relatively simple and useful for the layperson. Various examples of GIS products were developed, each with mixed results. For

7 the purposes of this contract and project, maps provided were primarily developed as examples, recognizing fully that additional work would need to be accomplished (field surveys and photo interpretation). Below is a list of all files provided by EES Consulting. Associated with these files are ARC-GIS projects that include multiple shp files that can be used at the discretion of the workgroup, thus allowing a high level of customization for each watershed, project types and / or geographic scale that information would be provided.

8 Maps of general or specific landownership with overlay of where appropriate actions can be implemented to resolve limiting factors. The following images represent some of the working / draft products that were made available to the workgroup by EES and YN staff. Again, these products are primarily provided to find consensus what type of information we would want to approach landowners with to best describe restoration opportunities within their property boundaries. Although not yet developed, we fully anticipate using much higher resolution imagery to more narrowly focus on specific parcels or stream reaches.

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11 List of appropriate actions and associated appropriate funding sources. Actions have been identified for each of the three focal watersheds. These actions come primarily from the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan Implementation Schedule. Since the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board is in the process of funding coordination, the workgroup decided that coordination and identification of funding should be deferred until a later time. Nason Creek Peshastin Creek Upper Wenatchee River Add nutrients using hatchery carcasses and/or carcass analogs Detailed lower river restoration evaluation and action plan in Nason Culvert Replacement Develop side-channel habitat (from CMZ). Campground and Road Management: Evaluate campground relationship to effects on river/floodplain function. Large wood structures Focus riparian plantings in floodplain areas, residential developments and sidechannel developments Increase pools quality and quantity Move Highway 207 where adjacent to Nason Creek. (CMZ) Restore In-channel condition Restore Passage Evaluate mining effects to riparian and stream channel structure Evaluate National Forests road effects to riparian and stream channel structure (USFS) Increase irrigation delivery and on-site efficiencies Install Pool forming In-Channel Structures Install stream structures to increase thalwag depth (duplicate to in-channel). Remove old earth dikes, canary reed grass, reestablish channel's) and native vegetation. Replace culverts at Skinny Creek Restore passage within Beaver Creek prioritized Riparian plantings for bank stabilization River Road Modification / Relocation Side/Off channel reconnections and restoration UPA Nason Creek Oxbow Reconnection Project Add nutrients using hatchery carcasses and/or carcass analogs Irrigation Efficiency and passage Culvert Replacement Develop side-channel habitat (from CMZ). Remove old earth dikes, canary reed grass, reestablish channel's) and native vegetation. Replace culverts at Skinny Creek Restore passage within Beaver Creek prioritized Riparian plantings for bank stabilization River Road Modification / Relocation Statements of agency support. Statements of agency support were not acquired for this project. The Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board is in the beginning stages of developing Implementation Teams Recommended strategy for Phase 2-3 including but not limited to identification of early implementation actions and those requiring greater complexity and time to design, strategy for public contact and materials for presentation. The workgroup agreed that Phase 2 of this project would focus on the development of a series of brochures, one for each watershed within the Wenatchee Subbasin, that would convey the interest identified by various recovery planning efforts and identify the opportunities for landowners to be involved. An example of this brochure was developed and is illustrated below.

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14 Phase 3 of the Project would be the development of a database sufficient with enough detail of stream and riparian characteristics that resource managers can track and illustrate project development at very high geographic resolution. Because LIDAR and new, high resolution ortho images were to be procured over the near future, it was decided this work would not commence until these basic products were available and GIS data clipped and included into the various watershed GIS ARC Project provided by EES Consulting. In addition to this work, Yakama Nation Fisheries in coordination with the Upper Columbia Regional Technical Team has refined the Upper Columbia Biologic Strategy such that relatively site specific restoration and enhancement projects have been prioritized at the watershed scale. This work, alongside of the GIS products discussed above now puts the Wenatchee subbasin in a good position to develop restoration strategies in a coordinated manner with both resource agencies and land owners. End of report.