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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Maintain Existing Permits and Submit Annual ESA Permit Reports | Comply with ESA regulations and maintain activity permits. Complete annual permit reports summarizing research activities, number of fish handled and observed mortalities if any.
Umatilla HGMP BiOp 2010/06511, no expiration date
Walla Walla HGMP BiOp
Grand Ronde HGMP BiOP
* Bull trout - Permit TE-844468-11 issued to CTUIR signed 4/30/2016, expires 4/29/2019. | | |
| | B | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project and Contract Management for Biomonitoring Project | Project and contract management for biomonitoring project | | |
| | C | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct Habitat Monitoring for Restoration Project Action Effectiveness Assessment | This project will conduct standardized habitat surveys using the CHaMP and AEM methods combined into a comprehensive CTUIR Biomonitoring protocol (1955) to support project level habitat action effectiveness assessments for CTUIR restoration actions at selected control and treatment sites.
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 is adopting 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 at CTUIR habitat restoration and control sites in the Umatilla, Walla Walla, John Day, Grande Ronde and Tucannon River Basins. CTUIR will cooperate and coordinate sampling efforts with the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW), Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) for the monitoring of the summer steelhead and spring Chinook populations in the CTUIR co-management areas. 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.
Because CTUIR CHaMP sites are for the evaluation of habitat projects, a generalized random tessellation stratified (GRTS) survey design will not be used to randomly select monitoring sites. The sampling approach will still depend upon compiling and processing GIS layers. The Contractor (South Fork Research) will work with the CTUIR personnel in assimilating, managing, and processing GIS data to support sampling design needs in advance of the field season and implement the site selection protocol within the control, treatment and before-after reaches.
Four to Six CTUIR employees will participate in the 10 day training course for the CHaMP protocol and be competent in the use of the necessary field equipment and familiar with the concepts and terms of the CHaMP habitat monitoring protocol (Bouwes et al 2010). This training workshop will be run by CHaMP and offered in early June and will be comprised of:
1) Two days of laboratory training that includes the policy and ecological motivations underlying the CHaMP protocol and program; GIS training for the processing of total station-based topographical surveys; data logger download skills; and crew-level data management and quality assurance.
2) Five days of in-field training for field crew leaders and technicians using the CHaMP protocol. Crews will be trained to measure habitat and record data with data loggers.
3) Three days of in-field supervised practice where field crews will conduct CHaMP surveys under the supervision of qualified trainers at actual stream sample sites.
CTUIR will implement and complete a habitat survey using the full CTUIR Biomonitoring protocol (1955) including methods congruent with BPA's CHAMP and AEM programs.
Measurements include:
• Water quality
• Water temperature
• Water Chemistry
• Stream discharge
• Canopy cover
• Riparian structure
• Bank morphology
• Substrate composition
• Large woody debris
• Channel morphology
• Fish cover
• Particle size distribution and embeddedness
• Subsurface fines
• Solar input
• Drift Invertebrates | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Other Anadromous |
| | D | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct Chinook and Steelhead Redd Surveys at Biomonitoring Sites | Count and GPS reference salmon and steelhead redds and carcasses in treatment and control reaches.
Redd surveys conducted by other projects (CTUIR, ODFW, and WDFW) will be utilized to prevent duplication of effort. Current and historical redd data available from collaborating agencies at treatment and control sites will be obtained.
Adult abundance and distribution will be estimated based on redd counts conducted in the treatment and control reaches. The entire length of the treatment and control reaches will be surveyed. Live fish and carcasses will also be documented to corroborate redd identification. Redd and carcass sampling methodology is documented in protocol 1955 and is congruent with regional methodology.
Sampling will occur annually, commencing at the onset of the spawning season and continue approximately every 10–14 days until spawning is complete.
Steelhead: mid-February to mid-May if flows permit
Spring Chinook: July through September.
Data derived from redd count surveys include:
1. Spatial spawning distribution
2. Temporal spawning distribution | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Other Anadromous |
| | E | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Conduct Juvenile Abundance Snorkel Surveys at Biomonitoring Sites | Snorkel surveyors attend a yearly training that is coordinated through BPA’s AEM program. Methodology is discussed and calibration of surveyors across all projects in correctly documenting fork lengths underwater takes place. Juvenile snorkel surveys are conducted for the entirety of each treatment and control site. Species, size class (10mm accuracy), habitat unit, and instream structure usage are recorded for each fish throughout the reach (Crawford 2011).
Data derived from snorkel surveys include:
1. Juvenile fish density and abundance (fish/m2)
2. Life history diversity within a site
3. Fish use of available habitat structures pre and post treatment
Required Conditions for Snorkeling
During low stream flows and when flow conditions are similar to those recorded during the habitat survey.
When visibility is equal to or greater than 1.5 m (as measured by minimum distance that a plastic fish cut-out with parr marks can be discerned).
Between late morning and early afternoon (i.e., 1000-1600 hrs) when the sun is directly overhead, or during cloudy or overcast conditions if reaches have significant cover.
When both stream banks can be observed by a single observer, one snorkeler will be sufficient. When the stream is larger, two snorkelers are required. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Other Anadromous |
| | F | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | Conduct Juvenile Salmonid PIT Tagging in Meacham Creek Restoration Projects | Use electrofishing and snorkel seining methods to capture and PIT tag juvenile salmonids in order to estimate salmonid productivity, survival, site fidelity, migration timing, growth, and distribution at paired control and treatment sites in the Meacham Creek Habitat Enhancement Project areas. | Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Mid-Columbia River Spring ESU |
| | G | 160 | Create/Manage/Maintain Database | Manage Biomonitoring, AEM and CHaMP Data (CTUIR, Sitka, SF Research) | Collate biomonitoring and CHaMP data within appropriate databases and spreadsheets and continue to work with the Tribal Information Technology Office and CHaMP monitoring.org to develop and expand centralized database capacity to further enhance data management, analysis, and reporting.
Maintain and populate databases, summarize findings, and make data available on the intranet and internet.
The following tasks completed by subcontractor: South Fork Research
• Site loading for <25 sites plus design development/documentation review by a statistician.
Includes design documentation delivered for loading to champmonitoring.org
• GIS support for CHaMP post processing tools
• Data Quality Assurance - QA review and support of <25 sites
The following tasks completed by subcontractor: Sitka Technologies
• Data uploading application support.
• Data hosting | | |
| | H | 159 | Transfer/Consolidate Regionally Standardized Data | Deliver Habitat Data to www.champmonitoring.org and www.aemonitoring.org | CTUIR will submit full habitat metric datasets for each monitoring site according to CHaMP data management protocols. CHaMP data management strategy is a regionally coordinated monitoring approach that has multiple groups collecting data such that the data is accessible and available for use by all groups within and outside the program. CTUIR will use the online data systems, www.CHaMPmonitoring.org and www.aemonitoring.org for loading field data and long-term data storage. | Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) - All Populations, Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | I | 162 | Analyze/Interpret Data | Analysis of Biomonitoring and CHaMP Habitat Data | Analyze and interpret data from habitat surveys, macroinvertebrate sampling, spawning surveys and juvenile surveys.
Redd abundance is calculated using the number of observed redds in a year by site length.
Drift invertebrates are sampled at all treatment and control site locations in accordance with CHaMP methodology (Bouwes et al. 2011). Drift biomass density and species assemblages are produced for each site.
A composite sample of benthic macroinvertebrates are accrued for each treatment and control site using a method derived from the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) targeted riffle sampling protocol (Peck 2006). Standard lab analysis and index values are derived for each benthic sample including; biomass, taxa richness, Hilsenhoff Biotic Index (HBI) (Hilsenhoff 1988), and Oregon PREDictive (PREDATOR) model results (Hubler 2008).
The data derived from juvenile salmonid marking and recapture events includes:
1. Juvenile fish density and abundance (fish/m2)
2. Life history diversity within a site
3. Growth and size
4. Migratory timing
5. Survival
Population estimates are calculated utilizing the Chapman modification of the Lincoln-Peterson Index calculation (Seber 1982).
Nc^^=(M+1)(C+1)/(R+1)-1
Variance of N^ is estimated as:
var Nc^^=(M+1)(C+1)(M-R)(C-R)/(?(R+1?^2)(R+2))
Approximate 95% confidence interval is estimated for each unit’s population.
Nc^ ± 1.965 * [var (Nc^ )]0.5
Nc =population size estimate, Chapman modification
M=marked individuals released
C=count of animals captured
R=marked animals recaptured
Fidelity of marked fish to their habitat unit and site is assessed utilizing PIT tagged fish.
PIT tagged fish are analyzed for any bias of movement among habitat units between mark and recapture events. If results are found to be insignificant then it is presumed that assumptions for the Peterson Mark-Recapture calculation are met and compensations are not made.
Analysis of CHaMP/AEM habitat data within and between the paired treatment and control sites, and the before and after sites. Examine habitat metrics related to limiting factors in restoration sites compared to controls.
In-Channel Characteristics: Primary Channel Length, Secondary Channel Length, Bankfull Width, Bankfull Depth, Bankfull Cross-Sectional Area, Width/Depth, Ration (Wbkf/Dbkf), Gradient, Sinuosity (Lc/Lv), Braided-Channel Ratio, River Complexity Index, Pool Frequency or Spacing, Pool-to-Turbulent Area Ratio, Residual Pool (Depth, Volume, Area), Relative Habitat Type Abundance/Volume/Area/%, LWD Counts Bankfull and Wetted (#, Frequency, and Volume), Fish Cover Composition, Area and Volume of New Habitats Created, Gradient
Sediment: Substrate Composition (% fines, % different types, D16, D50, D84), % Pool Tail Fines, Erosion, Aggradation, Deposition, Substrate <2mm and <6mm, Average Embeddedness
Riparian: Estimated Riparian Cover by Type, Species Diversity/Composition, Growth, % Woody Cover, % Shade Floodplain Average Floodprone Width, Channel Migration Rate, Constraining Features
Water Quality: 7day Average Daily Maximum, Conductivity, Alkalinity
Current analysis of projects is ongoing and preliminary because the majority of projects are in their pre-implementation phase. Two projects are currently post implementation but relatively few years of post-project data has been collected. Restoration objectives are documented for each restoration project and limiting factors are identified along with associated metrics to evaluate each project’s goals and long term effectiveness. These identified metrics will be used in the analysis of each individual project and used to compare restoration actions across projects. Current analysis includes a comparison of the mean of pre-implemented projects to their controls using a paired t-test with a significance level of 0.05.
Future analysis will be using ANOVA to evaluate sites before and after treatment and between and among treatments in terms of fish abundance and habitat quality metrics. The general null-hypothesis is that there will be no significant differences between fish abundance and habitat quality metrics between and among treatment and control sites before and after restoration actions. The general null hypothesis will be tested to evaluate responses of habitat and fish to habitat enhancement actions in contrast to control sites. The probability of a Type I error will be set at 10% (a=0.1) and a Type II error at 20% (ß=0.8).
A major assumption to our habitat action effectiveness monitoring and evaluation strategy is that the normal variation and noise from nuisance variables will not mask the signal from the treatments. The large variation in annual flows, water temperatures, adult returns, redds abundance, and juvenile production summarized for the period of record (Contor et al. 2015) suggest that signal strength will need to be substantial between control and treatment sites to be detected. The use of a control reach will increase the power to detect an impact and help to mitigate the effects of annual variation (Roni 2005). | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Other Anadromous |
| | J | 189 | Coordination-Columbia Basinwide | Participate in UMMEOC, AOP and Regional Coordination Processes | Participate in the Umatilla Basin Management, Monitoring and Evaluation Oversight Committee (UMMEOC) and Umatilla Basin Annual Operations Planning,(AOP) and regional coordination processes associated with restoration monitoring efforts. | | |
| | K | 202 | Produce BiOp RPA Report | BiOp RPA Report for CY 2016 | Projects that have claimed that they support one or more RM&E RPAs (i.e., RPAs 50-73) under the FCRPS BiOp are required to report their results. To facilitate the summary of these results across the entire Columbia River Basin, and to provide more clarity as to the format required under the BiOp, these reports are required to be completed online. If desired, the required information can be prepared in MS Word, and pasted into Taurus. For more guidance see https://www.cbfish.org/Content/tutorials/Reporting_Guidance_BiOp_2013.pdf. | | |
| | L | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Final CY16 Annual Report (for the period 1/1/2016 - 12/31/2016) | The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses (for research), completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole.
RM&E Technical Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the "RME Technical Reporting" link at: http://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. | | |
| | M | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Submit Draft CY17 Annual Report (for the period 1/1/2017 - 12/31/2017 | The BPA standardized due date for FINAL annual reports that cover each calendar year, is March 15th, for the previous calendar year. Therefore, the FINAL annual report covering CY2017 will be due in the next contract. However, the DRAFT annual report for CY176 will be due within this contract period -- by 1/15/18.
The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses (for research), completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole.
RM&E Technical Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the "RME Technical Reporting" link at: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. | | |
| | N | 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. | | |
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