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Contract 18175: 2002 073 00 WALLOWA COUNTY CULVERT INVENTORY

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	Sort Order	WE ID	Work Element Name	Title	Description	Primary Focal Species	Secondary Focal Species


	A	119	Manage and Administer Projects	Administration of Crews	The Project Leader will be hired using guidelines set forth in the Nez Perce Tribal Human Resources Manual. After the crews are hired, they will attend a training on the specific protocols that will be utilized. All necessary supplies to conduct the survey will be secured prior to the beginning of the field season. These supplies will include, but are not limited to, a self-level, tripod, stadia rod, tapes, GPS unit, digital camera, laptop computer and other field gear. As the season progresses, or items break, other items will be purchased as needed.
	B	157	Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data	Identify remaining stream/road crossings on all non-federally owned land for survey	All maps that identify the road and culvert locations remaining to be surveyed will be gathered for field crew use. These maps will be obtained from Region 6 Forest Service, county agencies, the NPT land services department and produced using ArcMap. The field forms will be consistent with last season's data collection. As part of the protocol for conducting the inventory, a GPS waypoint will be taken and recorded. This allows for an accurate means of locating and identifying culverts in the future and will facilitate the creation of a stream crossing layer in GIS.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)	Lamprey, Pacific (Entosphenus tridentata), Other Resident, Whitefish, Mountain (Prosopium williamsoni)
	C	115	Produce Inventory or Assessment	Conduct stream crossing inventories and assessments	A two-person crew will survey each culvert. They will survey each culvert using the previously identified protocol. Approximate time estimates to survey each culvert is two hours. Data from Wallowa County's Integrated Road Information System shows 1,128 culverts needing surveyed (Wallowa County, 2001). Coordinate a regional database for culvert conditions and replacement priorities; data will be entered directly into the database to limit the errors that result from transferring data from field forms into the database. The regional database is being coordinated through a variety of state and federal agencies. In the event that more than one crew is required to accomplish these surveys and to insure high quality surveys, the project leader may periodically go out and re-survey culverts at random. This way the crew doesn't know which surveys are going to be inspected, therefore encouraging quality performance at each site. Also, these inspections allow for opportunity to fix problems with the survey crew's methods in a systematic manner. Forest Service managers have found this quality control very effective in obtaining accurate and precise data. Four pictures are taken at each culvert: two from the center of the road, with one looking upstream and one looking downstream, one picture from upstream of culvert inlet looking downstream, and one fromdownstream of culvert outlet looking upstream. The latter two photos will be taken from a point on the ground that shows the inlet and outlet as clearly as possible. Organized forms and pictures make future work with data much more convenient and effective. Upon request, project leader may present project goals, objectives, and current progress to all interested parties.
	D	162	Analyze/Interpret Data	Prioritize barrier crossing sites for replacement	After the sites have been assessed to determine fish passage, they will be prioritized for replacement consideration using a methodology that was developed in Idaho. This methodology will be adapted to be more compatible with local issues. It utilizes items such as (but not limited to): the life history stage impacted; the miles of habitat that is currently blocked; whether the structure is the first barrier that is encountered within a system (anadromous salmonid emphasis); and, a pair-wise comparison of multiple replacement sites.	Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened)	Other Resident, Whitefish, Mountain (Prosopium williamsoni)
	E	132	Produce Progress (Annual) Report	Write FY04 Annual Report for the project	Write FY04 annual progress report for the project.
	F	118	Coordination	Project Coordination and Development	Attend intra- & inter-governmental meetings to coordinate project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting to maximize efficiencies between projects and programs. Write grants to apply for monies to design and replace structures.
	G	185	Produce CBFish Status Report	Produce Status Reports on progress of the Project	Prepare quarterly reports to track project progress. Prepare quarterly progress reports against each milestone, indicating whether the milestone is green, yellow, or red. Reports will be submitted electronically until Pisces is available, at which time reports will be filed on-line via Pisces.