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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance (Fast Track) | Ensure necessary documents are provided to BPA's Environmental Compliance group in sufficient time to allow for a compliance letter to be written prior to any ground-disturbing work. Coordinate with appropriate agencies regarding any permits that may be required. | | |
| | B | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR. | | |
| | C | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | 17.13 Project Management | Manage the project. Also covers administrative work in support of on-the-ground efforts and in support of BPA's programmatic requirements such as metric reporting, financial reporting (e.g., accruals), and development of an SOW package (includes draft SOW, budget, spending plan, and property inventory). | | |
| | D | 189 | Coordination-Columbia Basinwide | 17.1 ISEMP Wenatchee/Entiat/Methow Coordination | Terraqua will represent the interests of the ISEMP at meetings of the RTT, the Entiat Watershed Planning Unit, and will coordinate electronically and in-person with the following entities that may be involved in this Program: RTT, EWPU, U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Methow River Salmon Restoration Council, Chelan PUD, Yakama Nation, NOAA-Fisheries, BPA, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Chelan County, Cascadia Conservation District, the mid-Columbia PUD's HCP Hatchery Committee, and other parties as necessary.
Terraqua will coordinate ISEMP contractors to help ensure that contractors SOWs and deliverables meet ISEMP needs and that contractor budgets stay within the overall ISEMP budget and other available funds. Terraqua will also coordinate the analysis and reporting of ISEMP products with Quantitative Consultants, NOAA, and other program analysts. | | |
| | E | 189 | Coordination-Columbia Basinwide | 17.4 ISEMP Pilot Subbasin Coordination | Implementation of the ISEMP Project among the three pilot subbasins, particularly in the area of data management, analysis, reporting, and dissemination of information to other users in the Columbia Basin and states of OR, ID, and WA, requires close coordination of numerous entities who are participating in the Project. Terraqua will represent the interests of the Project at meetings of the pilot subbasin coordinators and will coordinate electronically and in-person with these coordinators and other entities that are developing data management systems, analysis, reporting, and document/conference preparation materials related to Project #2003-017-00.
Terraqua will also assist in an advisory capacity with the development and implementation of the Action Effectiveness Monitoring program (AEM, outlined in the document, “Action Effectiveness Monitoring of Tributary Habitat Improvement: a Programmatic Approach for the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program” (Roni et al., 2013)) initiated by BPA to examine the results of habitat actions on a site scale. The goal is to produce timely and useful information about the benefits of habitat restoration and better manage the costs of research and monitoring so funds can be redirected to habitat actions known to benefit fish. AEM aims to standardize metrics and reporting for existing monitoring, adopt a programmatic approach that improves the efficiency of monitoring new habitat actions, and develop a programmatic approach to assess the effectiveness of completed projects. | | |
| | F | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | 17.2a Annual FCRPS RM&E/Lessons Learned report covering the period January 2014 to Dec 2014. | This work element will provide for Terraqua to coordinate, compile, and submit material from its ISEMP partners and synthesize it into a report which will synthesize ongoing results and findings from work conducted by ISEMP across the three subbasins as an annual RME/Lessons Learned report of work conducted for the calendar year.
Since its inception in 2003, reporting for Project #2003-017 has been accomplished through reports prepared by
individual contractors, an annual program-wide (project-wide) capstone report that collates the reports from each ISEMP pilot subbasin and the data management team, or through BiOp reporting. Also, in 2006 ISEMP produced the first Three-Year Review document, which provided a retrospective of the work that had occurred over the three years since ISEMP's inception through 2006. http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/documents.cfm). In 2011 BPA managers (and other entities) expressed the need to have a lessons learned/synthesis report covering the entire period of the program. This synthesis report reviewed the relevant F&W Program management questions and RPAs that ISEMP was initiated to help answer.
ISEMP will update the lessons learned report to cover new results or advances. Since this report is dependent upon collaborative work with other ISEMP contractors, Terraqua can only ensure that the deadlines outlined in the milestones are met if products pertaining to those deadlines are delivered on time. | | |
| | G | 141 | Produce Other Reports | 17.2b Annual BiOp RPA report covering the period January 2014 to Dec 2014. | By March 1st each year electronically submit a Final Annual RPA report of work conducted for the calendar year for upload into Taurus for FCRPS BiOp or as appendix to annual report for other BiOps for upload in Pisces and notify your BPA COTR and RMESupport@bpa.gov that the report is complete. | | |
| | H | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | 17.2c Lessons Learned Update for FY2013 | This work element will provide for Terraqua to coordinate, compile, and submit material from its ISEMP partners and synthesize it into a report for work conducted by ISEMP across the three subbasins in FY13.
Since its inception in 2003, reporting for Project #2003-017 has been accomplished through reports prepared by
individual contractors, an annual program-wide (project-wide) capstone report that collates the reports from each ISEMP pilot subbasin and the data management team, or through BiOp reporting. Also, in 2006 ISEMP produced the first Three-Year Review document, which provided a retrospective of the work that had occurred over the three years since ISEMP's inception through 2006. http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/documents.cfm). In 2011 BPA managers (and other entities) expressed the need to have a lessons learned/synthesis report covering the entire period of the program. This synthesis report reviewed the relevant F&W Program management questions and RPAs that ISEMP was initiated to help answer and has been updated annually since. | | |
| | I | 174 | Produce Plan | 17.3 Strategy Updates | Terraqua originally developed a strategy for the implementation of ISEMP in the Entiat River subbasin in FY06, which was then updated to reflect the implementation of the Intensively Monitored Watershed in FY10. This strategy was developed as a working document with the understanding that as developments in the science of monitoring progress the strategy would need to be updated to reflect new understandings and approaches. Sufficient progress has been made on the design and implementation of effectiveness monitoring under the Entiat IMW that it is now necessary to document those changes in an update to the strategy. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | J | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | 17.7 Entiat IMW - Effectiveness - Habitat Monitoring | Terraqua will assist in the implementation of project effectiveness monitoring in the Entiat River under ISEMP. This work will include: monitoring of habitat/channel/riparian/macroinvertebrate conditions using the CHaMP habitat protocols at up to thirty eight (38) restoration project control and treatment sites, and coordination of the monitoring work conducted by USFWS, CCD, and Terraqua; and data synthesis, analysis, and storage. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | K | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | 17.8 Entiat IMW Chinook and steelhead sampling | Terraqua will assist the USFWS in the implementation of project effectiveness monitoring in the Entiat River under ISEMP's Entiat Intensively Monitored Watershed program. This work will include: monitoring fish abundance, survival, and growth by capturing/sampling/tagging fish using ISEMP fish capture protocols during the summer of 2014 and winter of 2015. Environmental compliance, field coordination, data entry, and storage will be performed by USFWS.
Fish capture will be conducted utilizing backpack electrofishing or seining techniques dependent upon site conditions (i.e., flow, water depth, turbidity, conductivity, habitat types, etc.). At a minimum, all spring Chinook and steelhead captured will be anesthetized, checked for the presence of a passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag and have length and weight measurements recorded prior to being revived and released at the point of capture. Any spring Chinook and steelhead not previously PIT tagged will be tagged with either a 12 mm or 8.5 mm tag dependent upon their size (fork-length).
In the field all fish sampling data will be entered into a location and time specific program file and stored. The project leader will conduct quality assurance and quality control activities and upload PIT tag codes and accompanying biological information (e.g., length, weight, and life history stage) for sampled fish into regional databases (i.e., PTAGIS) and the ISEMP status and effectiveness monitoring database. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | L | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | 17.9 Fish Habitat Status and Trend Monitoring in two subbasins | This work element describes work carried out under the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP, Project 2011-006-00) that is funded in part by ISEMP (Project 2003-017-00).
In support of habitat restoration, rehabilitation and conservation action performance assessments and adaptive management requirements of the 2008 FCRPS Biological Opinion (BiOp), the Bonneville Power Administration is working with NOAA and other regional fish management agencies to monitor status and trends of fish habitat for each major population group (MPG) in the Pacific Northwest identified through the Endangered Species Act (ESA). BPA has adopted a standardized fish habitat monitoring protocol, the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP), for the Columbia River Basin monitoring programs.
CHaMP is a Columbia River basin-wide habitat status and trends monitoring program built around a single habitat monitoring protocol with a program-wide approach to data collection and management. CHaMP will capture habitat features that drive fish population biology and will result in systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat condition and correlated with biological response indicators to evaluate habitat management strategies.
BPA is implementing CHaMP in at least one population within each steelhead and Chinook MPG which has, or will have, fish in-fish out monitoring. The goal of this work element is to implement CHaMP in the Wenatchee, Entiat and Methow watersheds. The data from this project will be used to evaluate the quantity and quality of tributary fish habitat available to salmonids across the Columbia River basin. When combined with parallel fish monitoring metrics from related projects, these data will also be used assess the impact of habitat management actions on fish population processes. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | M | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | 17.10 UC Entiat River Chinook and steelhead sampling (outside IMW) | This work element supports a fish sampling strategy for the Entiat River subbasin that focuses on remote PIT tagging of juvenile spring Chinook salmon and steelhead at up to 18 annual and rotating panel GRTS sites outside the boundaries of the IMW, selected for fish habitat sampling under the CHaMP program. Sites will be prioritized for fish sampling under this work element by the contribution of data to fish-habitat relationship development and parameterization of the watershed production model. Tag data will contribute to encounter histories developed through WE17.8, bolstering subbasin survival estimates and providing a basis for comparison of mainstem vs. tributary metrics. The sampling approach is a slightly modified continuation of S&T PIT tagging work conducted in the Entiat River since 2011.
Fish will be collected at each site using backpack electrofishers through a single pass design. All spring Chinook and steelhead captured will be anesthetized, measured (FL), weighed and checked for PIT tag presence. All unmarked fish >55mm FL in good condition will be tagged with a 12mm (>65mm FL) or 9mm (55-65mm FL) 134.2 kHz FDX PIT tag.
Site density/abundance will be estimated using ratio estimators developed with mark-recapture and multipass depletion sampling in 2011-13. Tag data will be uploaded to PTAGIS, and encounter histories combined with IMW tags at an appropriate spatial scale to assess survival and movement patterns. Recaptures observed at each site will provide growth data between sample events. All data will contribute to parameterization of the ISEMP watershed production model. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | N | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | 17.11 UC Wenatchee River Chinook and steelhead sampling | This work element supports a fish sampling strategy for the Wenatchee River subbasin that focuses on PIT tag mark-recapture-resight of ESA-listed spring Chinook and steelhead in the Little Wenatchee River, a major spawning area of the Wenatchee River subbasin to further elucidate key ecological metrics that may be better measures of habitat quality, action effectiveness, and population health for spring Chinook and steelhead parr. This work element is largely driven by the need to develop life cycle models for spring Chinook and steelhead as part of the AMIP process, driven by the Comprehensive Analysis of the Federal Columbia River Power System and Mainstem Effects of Upper Snake and Other Tributary Actions (“the BiOp;” NMFS 2008) call for life cycle models to estimate habitat quality and freshwater survival for anadromous salmonids (Action Agencies 2007).
This is a single year effort, with fish sampling occurring July 2014- March 2015. It is motivated by a need to validate design assumptions for a collaborative study proposal being developed by ISEMP and WDFW for 2015-18, and to derive key data metrics needed to inform the Upper Columbia Spring Chinook life cycle model development as well as fish-habitat relationships required by the ISEMP Watershed Production Model, while maintaining consistent habitat signals for status and trend monitoring. Priority information objectives include:
• Describe tributary habitat use and fidelity for juvenile rearing
• Derive life-stage specific juvenile survival rates for a single brood year cohort
• Model juvenile growth rates with habitat and food availability
• Describe migration rates and fine- and broad-scale movement patterns
• Determine residence time (rearing) variability at multiple spatial scales
• Describe and quantify varying life history strategies
• Estimate subpopulation parr / pre-smolt abundance and use this to validate an NREI model for carrying capacity
• Use findings to test previous GRTS-based abundance estimates and develop a novel methodology framework for future research.
In addition to these considerations, lessons learned from monitoring spring Chinook parr under the current study design suggest there may be better alternatives for monitoring that life stage of that particular species. The spatial (random sites using a stratification based on habitat variability across the subbasin) and temporal (one visit per season during summer low flow) framework of the current summer parr monitoring program results in subbasin-scale estimates of parr with large confidence intervals. There are also inherent assumptions associated with the available capture methods, either snorkeling or mark-recapture, which may not be met and could affect the final population estimate. More concentrated tagging efforts that derive precise estimates of survival at a finer spatial scale are seen as a preferred alternative to discrete site-level abundance estimation spread thinly through a larger spatial scale. This work element will provide new life history information to inform protocol development for 2015 onwards, while continuing development of fish-habitat relationships and parameterization of the watershed production model. It addresses the disadvantages associated with site-based abundance estimation by covering the entire spawning and natal rearing range of an important subpopulation, thereby allowing abundance estimation at this finer spatial scale, while contributing a broader understanding of movement patterns within this range that will facilitate development of future site-based methodologies.
The Interior Columbia Technical Recovery Team (ICTRT) has identified five major spawning areas for spring Chinook in the Wenatchee River subbasin: Chiwawa River, Nason Creek, White River, upper Wenatchee River, and Little Wenatchee River. Of these, the subpopulation from the Little Wenatchee major spawning area is the most poorly represented, with very little research or monitoring effort currently employed. This represents a logical opportunity for ISEMP to complete its high priority program objectives in 2014, while also contributing data to gaps identified by WDFW collaborators as their highest priority needs.
A spatially and temporally comprehensive tagging effort will be implemented through a ~10km reach of the Little Wenatchee watershed. Tagging effort will be implemented following a Jolly-Seber open mark-recapture design, with sampling events conducted by a single crew over 4-5 day periods in late July, late September, October, November, February and early March. Sampling events are timed to avoid peak spawning periods for spring Chinook (early August to mid-September) and summer steelhead (March to mid-July), as well as typical high flow conditions (May-July) and river ice (December- February), and will be completed opportunistically when conditions are most ideal for each target month. Winter sampling will be conducted at night and summer sampling will be conducted during daylight hours to maximize capture efficiency. Fish will be sampled through a ~10km reach in an upstream direction from the LWN PIT tag interrogation array to the confluence with Rainy Creek, which has been identified as the upper extent of spring Chinook anadromy (www.streamnet.org).
Fish will be captured using a combination of techniques, such as backpack electrofishing, seining, snorkel herding, snorkel dipnetting (winter) and baited traps. Capture effort will target Chinook salmon and will be concentrated in areas of high abundance to maximize tagging efficiency, with effort values accurately recorded for all capture methods to allow stratification by CPUE to correct for disproportionate allocation of effort between sampling events (eg. electrofishing cannot be used in winter). Steelhead may be captured opportunistically and will be included in subsequent methods but effort will not be directed to steelhead. All tag releases will be georeferenced within a maximum 250 meter reach to minimize bias in mark and recapture probabilities and allow site/habitat fidelity and fine-scale movements to be described. All healthy juvenile Chinook and steelhead >55mm will be tagged using a 9mm or 12.5mm, 134.2 kHz FDX PIT tag. Tag encounter histories will be tracked using www.ptagis.org. Genetic tissue samples will be taken from a subsample of tagged Chinook if needed by managers, and scale samples will be taken from a subsample of steelhead in order to improve the accuracy of survival estimates.
In addition to fish data, crews will collect macroinvertebrate drift samples during each sampling event, following CHaMP protocols. This information will be used to parameterize seasonal NREI models and determine how carrying capacity changes seasonally within typical Chinook rearing habitat, as well as contributing new information on winter growth limitations currently correlated only with water temperatures.
Leveraged Data
Under the 2011-2013 GRTS frame, ISEMP and CHaMP have sampled a total of four rotating panel sites within the Little Wenatchee River. Two of these are located within the extent of Chinook anadromy and are therefore within the proposed sampling reach. One of these is currently scheduled for revisit by CHaMP in 2014.
In order to provide the best data for fish-habitat relationships, habitat sampling using the CHaMP protocol will be coupled with continuous habitat surveys through the extent of the ~10km sampling reach, in addition to the ~10% spatial coverage already in place through the existing CHaMP rotating panel sites. Data necessary for validation of seasonal NREI models will be collected at up to 10 CHaMP habitat sampling sites in the study area and the allocation of this sampling effort will be informed by continuous habitat sampling of the entire reach. Coupling the NREI data with the proposed intense fish sampling is key for development of CHaMP fish/habitat relationships, especially for Chinook salmon and for extrapolating site-based habitat data to larger spatial scales. This work is covered under a separate contract #65060, Project 2011-006.
WDFW has operated an in-stream passive PIT tag interrogation array at rkm4 of the Little Wenatchee River since 2009. It is operational year-round, and will identify tagged fish emigrating from the river. It will also act as the lower boundary of the sampling reach. An extensive network of in-stream arrays within the mainstem Wenatchee River and FCRPS will contribute additional detections for estimating survival rates. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | O | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | 17.12 Upper Columbia Data Analysis Preparation and Reporting | This work element supports the preparation of data collected in the Upper Columbia to present for analysis both at a local level and at an ISEMP pilot subbasin scale and the subsequent reporting of that analysis to local collaborators and regional cooperators and interested parties. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Upper Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | |
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