The purpose of this project is to pursue partnerships and collaborative activities with the ongoing programs associated with Grande Ronde Model Watershed and Snake River Salmon Recovery Board.  This will be accomplished through pursuing habitat enhancement projects in the Grande Ronde & Imnaha subbasins, and the Pine watershed in northeast Oregon and the Tucannon River, Alpowa Creek and Asotin Creek watersheds in southeast Washington.  

This project provides coordination funding for NPT, which would allow for implementation of watershed restoration projects on the ground through outside funding sources.  Therefore, a large portion of the contract will be identifying projects, coordinating with other appropriate entities, seeking funds to implement those selected projects, and the actual implementation of the projects.  

The primary focus of restoration projects during this contract period will be road decommissioning to reduce instream sedimentation, channel reconstruction to improve habitat complexity, riparian planting to reduce stream temperatures, and addressing aquatic organism passage barrieres.  Other project types may occur during this period too, but the majority of the time will be spent implementing these projects and developing these types of projects for the next contract cycle.