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| | A | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Complete and/or initiate Environmental Permitting for Project Activities | Benefits to salmonids will be achieved through restoration and rehabilitation of the whole floodplain system. Targeting of present and specific limiting factors such as temperature will achieve immediate benefits to salmon. Long term benefits will be realized through a focus on restoring fluvial and habitat-forming processes, floodplain, groundwater, and hyporheic connectivity, riparian and wetland plant communities, and instream complexity and diversity commensurate with the reach’s natural potential. These habitat-forming processes are driven by the natural episodic disturbance regime that historically occurred prior to direct and in-direct human modifications. Intermittent disturbances, such as floods, sediment delivery, wood accumulations, beaver activity, and associated channel dynamics foster and maintain a spatial mosaic and diverse range of aquatic and terrestrial habitats within a healthy riverine corridor.
Write and submit Biological Assessments/HIP3 BO documentation and coordinate with BPA NEPA staff to initiate/complete formal and informal consultations with USFWS and NOAA Fisheries. Write and submit permits required by various regulating agencies (Division of State Lands, US Army Corp of Engineers, Department of Environmental Quality, Oregon Department of Forestry). Coordinate archaeological evaluations, including surveys. | | |
| | B | 30 | Realign, Connect, and/or Create Channel | Construct main channel and side channels activate swale networks | This restoration action was identified collaboratively during the development of the Upper Grande Ronde Atlas within a high priority Tier 2 Subwatershed UGR11.
Address Limiting Factor: Peripheral and Transitional Habitats-Side Channel, Wetland, and Floodplain Conditions
This task includes construction of approximately 2 miles of new channel, including main Grande Ronde River channel segments and side channels. Construction includes new channels as well as reconnecting historic channels which will help address core habitat limiting factors of peripheral and transitional habitats-side channel, wetland, and floodplain conditions.
One of the main objectives of this project is to reestablish an island-braided planform. Evidence suggests that a multi-threaded channel was common historically within this reach. Historically, dominant channels would likely come and go through channel swapping forced by natural processes of large wood, ice-jams, and beaver activity. The existing planform resides between a straight channel and a meandering channel. It is an objective for this design to move the planform towards a stable multi-thread pattern with relatively narrow, deep channel(s) between vegetated islands. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Freshwater Mussels, Lamprey, Pacific (Entosphenus tridentata), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) |
| | C | 29 | Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity | Construct main channel, side channels, and floodplain features | This restoration action was identified collaboratively during the development of the Upper Grande Ronde Atlas within a high priority Tier 2 Subwatershed UGR11.
The restoration plan includes promoting an island braided channel and floodplain system through channel, floodplain, and large pool construction, development of riparian and wetland habitat, and promoting groundwater and hyporheic functions that moderate and improve water quality. A fundamental premise is that self-sustaining, high quality, and diverse habitat provides habitat suitability for all life stages of target fishery resources.
This task includes installation and construction of large wood structures to provide habitat complexity, diversity and stability. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Middle Columbia River DPS (Threatened) | Lamprey, Pacific (Entosphenus tridentata), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) |
| | D | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant native trees, shrubs, and grasses on the Longley Meadows Project | This restoration action was identified collaboratively during the development of the Upper Grande Ronde Atlas within a high priority Tier 2 Subwatershed UGR11.
Address Limiting Factor: Riparian Condition/Large Wood Recruitment.
Facilitate development of a diversity of native plant communities and seral stages that contribute to floodplain process and function. In conjunction with natural channel and floodplain objectives, a combination of riparian/wetland habitat protection, planting and seeding, and natural recruitment will result in increased tree, shrub, and herbaceous plant communities that are resilient and self-sustaining, contributing to shade, structure, terrestrial food web, stream bank stability, and future large wood recruitment.
Conduct planting and seeding within project area to facilitate vegetation recovery and development of riparian zone. Multiple treatment planned include bio-engineering streambanks, native seeding, and manual planting of containerized native shrubs and trees. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) |
| | E | 40 | Install Fence | Install fences on the Longley Meadows Project | This restoration action was identified collaboratively during the development of the Upper Grande Ronde Atlas within a high priority Tier 2 Subwatershed UGR11.
Install riparian fences within the project area to exclude livestock. Several USFS grazing allotments border the project area. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Spring ESU (Endangered), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Freshwater Mussels, Lamprey, Pacific (Entosphenus tridentata), Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Interior Redband (O. mykiss gairdnerii) |
| | F | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project Contract Administration | Project administration involves managing the project budget, invoices and cost share to GRMW. | | |
| | G | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Longley Meadows Completion Report | Summarize the project goal, objectives, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning for future improvement. Were the project designs implemented as planned? Were the desired results achieved? Include before and after pictures.
Utilize habitat reporting template. BPA-required format guidance can be found at the following link: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocumentshttp://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. | | |
| | H | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Quarterly Status Reports | CTUIR shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces on a quarterly basis. 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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