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| | A | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in CBFish. Reports shall be completed monthly, quarterly, or as negotiated with the BPA COR. In each report, when the work reaches a terminal status, additional data (actual metrics, updated budgets, final locations, etc.) may be required upon submitting the report to the BPA COR. | | |
| | B | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Routine contract actions | Routine administration of contract to include: development of SOW, line-item budget, identification and input of cost share, project inventory, invoicing, status and annual reports, accruals if needed. | | |
| | C | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Annual Report for the period January 1, 2024 Through December 31, 2024 (Work performed under Contract 93960) | The progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, hypotheses, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or level of effort for contract implementation, including any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole.
The date range for this work element is January 1, 2024 Through December 31, 2024, the performance period for contract 93960. Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. | | |
| | D | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Produce Environmental Compliance Documents for projects | Provide various environmental compliance documents and permit applications for planned management actions. May include maps, design drawings, survey reports, permit applications, ESA documents as may be needed for each project. | | |
| | E | 26 | Investigate Trespass | Investigate Trespass on Easement Property | The conservation easement for the Bankson (formerly Stark) property, the purchase of which was funded by BPA, specifies that the conservation values of the property will be maintained in perpetuity.
The property's Conservation Values include the following: anadromous fish and their habitat, including the riparian and upland habitats that affect instream habitat; resident fish and wildlife and their habitats; historical and cultural resources; and water quantity and quality including temperature, sediment load, and flow levels.
The District understands that the Easement limits use of the Bankson property to activities that are not expressly prohibited by the easement.
The District and BPA have the right, but not the obligation, to enforce any and all terms of this Easement. The easement entails 182 acres with approximately 65 acres excluded from any use. The District conducts annual inspections of the Bankson property for compliance with terms of the easement. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | |
| | F | 99 | Outreach and Education | Provide Outreach and Education for Habitat Projects | Conduct workshops and public meetings to provide education and outreach to local students, landowners and stakeholders in the Custer SWCD service area to provide awareness of conservation efforts and programs available that the District is able to offer to area landowners.
The Custer SWCD also publishes an annual report that is provided to county and local stakeholders annually. The report includes progress on BPA-funded projects and solicits public comment on the plan and projects each year. | | |
| | G | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Identify and develop habitat projects collaboratively with local partners | Project selection will be determined by restoration/protection objectives of interested funding agencies and their individual program guidelines. The identification, prioritization, and selection of projects is completed collaboratively with local partners, using an evidence-based (data-based) prioritization approach as the guiding framework. This includes but is not limited to the MRA, IRA, prioritization maps, NOAA recovery plan, and the USBWP technical ranking through the SHIPPUS and Habitat Goals and Priorities).
Projects are prioritized based on empirical data that show where focal species and life stages are present and would benefit from targeted actions.
Tech team rankings and BPA meetings and tours will assist in prioritization of projects.
Project and site selection may be limited by landowner willingness and parcel accessibility. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Upper Columbia River Summer/Fall ESU, Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened) |
| | H | 175 | Produce Design | Produce Design for in-stream complexity project for Pole Creek Phase III in the Upper Stanley Basin. | The Pole Creek project in the Upper Stanley Basin consists of three Phases, each of which includes varying degrees of channel re-meandering, large wood placement, construction of engineered riffles and other structures, and extensive planting, primarily willows. The three Phases refer to stream reaches, starting at the lower end and working upstream.
Phase I was completed in 2024.
Phase II has been designed to 80% and is entering the final stages of HIP review and design. Implementation of Phase II is planned for the FY 2025 contract period.
Phase III, which involves working around some historic irrigation infrastructure (power, pipe), has been designed to 30%, and design for Phase III will be finalized under this contract and submitted by March 15, 2025. Implementation of Phase III in FY 2025 will be dependent on funding from the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund.
Phase II and III (depending on PCSRF funding) designs will be implemented under Work Element I:29. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened) |
| | I | 29 | Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity | Create in-stream complexity in Pole Creek at the lower reach as Phase II and III. | Note: Phase II of the Pole Creek project will be implemented in FY 2025 with BPA funds under this Work Element. If PCSRF funds are secured in the current round of funding, Phase III will also be implemented in FY 2025.
Placement of natural materials in the water or on the floodplain to create habitat features or improve channel morphology. Actions include placement of large woody debris (LWD), constructed riffle features and reconnect old meanders that were removed or impacted by the old irrigation system that crossed Pole Creek in numerous locations. Installation of biologs and willow clumps will be included in the project, along with native seed and vegetation. The goal of these actions is to restore Pole Creek to near-historic conditions.
Complexity structures are typically used in stream reaches with limited natural habitat features. The project will raise water tables, restore natural stream processes, establish riparian vegetation which is currently absent while making the riparian area and stream channel more resilient to high flows. This is expected to provide increased spawning and rearing habitat for ESA species within lower Pole Creek as well as passage to their headwater spawning habitat.
Design for this work element has been developed under work element H-175. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened) |
| | J | 175 | Produce Design | Produce final design for restoration project work on Warm Springs | This work element focuses on completion of the design for Phases I and II of implementation work being completed under Work Element K. 85.
This will include:
1. Removal of the downstream, failing culvert
2. Design of the two new bridge crossings and associated road (about 1,200 LF)
3. Removal of the second culvert and associated road (about 1,000 LF)
The conservation easement allows landowner passage over Warm Springs to harvest hay. The culvert has nearly collapsed and is a fish barrier at all life stages and is backing up water in Warm Springs Creek and Stark Spring. Following removal of the large, downstream culvert, the landowners will need access to their hayfields, and two pre-fabricated steel bridges will be installed to provide that landowner access that simultaneously improves fish passage.
The design will include hydrologic modeling to determine best options to allow recently-formed wetland habitat to be self-sustaining after culvert removal.
By the end of the current FY 2024 contract (93960), the Engineer will have submitted designs from 30% to 60% (depending on timeline for review), advance design for culvert #2 removal to 60%, determine all permitting requirements for the project based on 60% designs, and assist in evaluating the upstream-most culvert as a potential fish passage barrier.
IDFG and NOAA have long stated that the 12-Mile reach is important for rearing and overwintering including Warm Springs with the target species - Chinook, rainbow/steelhead, juveniles - for rearing and overwintering. The project was ranked at the August 2022 Tech Team and was ranked a 65 (high).
Funds from PCSRF will be available through 2026 to assist with design, engineering and implementation. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened), Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Snake River DPS (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened), Trout, Rainbow (Oncorhynchus mykiss) |
| | K | 85 | Remove/Breach Fish Passage Barrier | Remove two culverts on Warm Springs and install two bridges as replacement crossings. | The conservation easement allows landowner passage over Warm Springs to harvest hay within the easement area. The lowest downstream culvert on Warm Springs/Stark Spring has nearly collapsed and is a fish barrier at all life stages and is backing up water in Warm Springs/Stark Spring and Creek. The design process (Work Element J. 175) will include hydrologic modeling to determine best options for sustaining the newly-formed wetland after culvert removal.
Custer SWCD will work with BPA and the landowner to install two new bridge crossings over the two existing channels of Warm Springs and Stark Spring to enable landowner access to their hayfields, the lower access road having been removed as part of this action. Construction will be partially funded by the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund once a plan has been approved by BPA. Funds from PCSRF will be available through 2026.
Phase I, planned for Spring 2025, will be the removal of the large downstream culvert that has blocked fish passage for decades.
Phase II, planned for Fall 2025, will include:
1. Installation of two pre-fabricated steel bridges for crossing Warm Springs and Stark Spring
2. Construction of about 1,200 LF of new unimproved road to serve the new bridge crossings
3. Removal of a culvert and about 1,000 LF of associated access road to improve passage in Warm Springs
4. Removal of invasive weeds in an uncropped upland area of the easement area by working with Custer County Weed Control (Work Element L. 199).
5. An evaluation of a third culvert (most upstream on Stark Springs) will be done by local/IDFG fish biologists to inform whether the landowner will be asked to remove it.
Phase III (planned for 2026 - not in this contract) will include:
1. Installation of a pipe to bring the overflow from the Challis Irrigation Canal across Warm Springs/Stark Spring to reduce the flow of sediment-laidened, warm canal water into Stark Spring. The alignment for this pipeline is within the Conservation Easement area
2. Plant native vegetation in uncropped area where weeds have been treated to improve native wetland vegetation. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened) | |
| | L | 199 | Remove Vegetation | Work with Custer County Weed Department to remove weeds within portions of the Bankson easement area | Weed treatments will focus on an uncropped upland portion of the Bankson (Warm Springs) conservation easement that has become infested with invasive species and may be a source of weed seed spread to adjacent properties. Canada Thistle and other invasive weeds are impacting the growth of native upland, mesic and wetland plants.
Vegetation removal will be completed in coordination with Custer County Weed Department, and a treatment plan will be developed collaboratively with them. | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Spring/Summer ESU (Threatened) | |
| | M | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Pole Creek Planting | Planting at the Pole Creek project area will include:
- Native grass seeding
- Installation of 42 10-foot willow clump bank structures
- Installation of 100 live willow stakes
- Installation of bio logs | Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Snake River Fall ESU (Threatened) | Trout, Bull (S. confluentus) (Threatened) |
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