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| A | 212078 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance for 2021-2022 Activities | Provide BPA Environmental Compliance Lead with information to support NEPA, ESA, CWA, and NHPA compliance associated with proposed activities for 2021-2022. Coordinate and work with partners and BPA staff to ensure all work elements and developing projects have appropriate NEPA/ESA clearance and applicable permits.
Permitting will be completed for the Catherine Creek State Park project upon approval from Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Upper Grande Ronde-Bowman permitting will be completed and submitted. Catherine Creek-Hall Ranch will focus on CR documentation and compliance. Coordination will occur with regulators: NMFS, USFWS, ODSL, COE, WRD, ODEQ, BPA, and counties. | $65,931 | 12.44% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| B | 212091 | 175 | Produce Design | Oversee and Administer Design Contracts for Program Projects | Catherine Creek Hall Ranch: This restoration action was identified collaboratively during the development of the Catherine Creek Atlas. It is within high priority, Tier 1 Subwatershed CCC3B2. Hall Ranch, located on Catherine Creek, provides important spawning and rearing habitat for ESA listed spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead. Catherine Creek has been cut off from 26 acres of historic floodplain by construction of Highway 203. The engineered project design will include moving Highway 203, and increasing the quantity, quality, and complexity of salmonid spawning and rearing habitat on the Hall Ranch. Staff will oversee the design development for Highway 203 relocation and habitat restoration, including implementation ready engineered stamped designs, construction cost estimates, and basis of design reports.
Green Valley Diversion: The Green Valley Diversion is located on the Wallowa River between Enterprise and Joseph Oregon. Currently the side channel that the diversion is on is a barrier and there is potential for the side channel that provides passage to become a barrier. Upon receiving TA funding ODFW will hire a consultant and over see project design including implementation ready engineered stamped designs, construction cost estimates, and basis of design reports.
ODFW staff are the Project lead on each of these projects, and have formed and organized design teams for each project. Staff will ensure goals and objectives for each project are identified and met with project designs. Staff will coordinate with BPA EC and COTR to ensure HIP III RRT review is completed for each project at each design stage. Staff will communicate frequently with landowners as projects move through the design process. This includes calls, in-person meetings, and on-site visits. This will help ensure landowner support for developed projects and ensure projects meet both resource and landowner needs.
Travel to design meetings and project tours and site visits will occur. | $57,252 | 10.81% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| C | 212081 | 100 | Construction Management | Oversee and Administer Construction of Wallowa-McDaniel Fish Habitat Restoration Project | Staff will oversee contractor's construction of the Wallowa-McDaniel Fish Habitat Restoration Project. Construction funding has been procured from GRMW, ODOT, and McNary Mitigation Fund to: excavate/enhance/install 3 side channels, alcoves, floodplain, 108 wood habitat structures, and riparian vegetation. | $52,258 | 9.86% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| D | 212082 | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant Riparian Vegetation on Wallowa River-McDaniel project | Riparian vegetation representative of native successional spp. will be planted in the project area. exact numbers and spp. will be determined when final plan set is produced. Upland acreage and riparian acreage will total approximately 6.2 acres. Species to be planted may include Black Cottonwood, Coyote Willow, Red-osier Dogwood, Black Hawthorne, Mock Orange, Nine Bark, Alder, Rose, and Snow Berry. Native riparian and upland grass seed mix will also be applied to disturbed areas. | $5,164 | 0.97% | 07/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| E | 212079 | 100 | Construction Management | Oversee and Administer Construction of Catherine Creek State Park Fish Habitat Restoration Project | Staff will develop a bid package, advertise for construction contract, award construction contract, and oversee contractor's construction of the Catherine Creek State Park Fish Habitat Restoration Project. Construction funding has been procured from GRMW to: excavate 1,300’ of side channel along a historical channel scar that had been abandoned by a channel avulsion at the site; construct a high flow swale that is connected to the main channel and which will provide additional conveyance and complexity during high flow events and provide additional discharge to the existing alcove enabling periodic sediment flushing and alcove maintenance; selectively excavate the existing alcove to ensure connectivity during low flows; install apex large wood jams, bank margin habitat cover wood, and hillslope wood in the mainstem and side channel; place large boulders to increase habitat complexity; construct two gravel bars; create and enhance deep pools; plant riparian vegetation; and to provide education and outreach to park visitors using signage. | $10,000 | 1.89% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| F | 212080 | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Plant Riparian Vegetation on Catherine Creek State Park project | Riparian vegetation representative of native successional spp. will be planted in the project area. exact numbers and spp. will be determined upon plant purchase. Upland acreage will total approximately 1.48 acres and riparian acreage will total approximately 1.82 acres. Species to be planted may include Black Cottonwood, Coyote Willow, Red-osier Dogwood, Black Hawthorne, Mock Orange, Nine Bark, Alder, Rose, and Snow Berry. Native riparian and upland grass seed mix will also be applied to disturbed areas. | $5,064 | 0.96% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| G | 213332 | 100 | Construction Management | Oversee and Administer Construction of Bowman Off-site Water Development. | Oversee implementation of an NRCS designed off-site watering system on the Bowman Project. Majority of work should be completed before this contract begins but components may need to be constructed in Spring 2021. | $9,211 | 1.74% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| H | 212083 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Maintain Vegetation on Projects with ODFW Agreements | Staff will maintain vegetation on projects with ODFW agreements to ensure native species survival and natural successional composition meet project objectives. The intent is to improve plant survival utiizing approved methods such as supplemental planting, plant caging and invasive weed spraying.
Level of effort will depend on accessibility, types of noxious weeds present, and browsing impacts on planted sites. Actions are most often needed with newer projects.
Staff will conduct annual visual inspections and identify maintenance needed based on plant survival, plant vigor, rate of growth, intensity of wildlife browse, and the presence of noxious weeds.
Location of fencing and cages/copses will be documented. Fencing and cages/copses will be monitored and moved to new locations when vegetation is above browse height. Fencing and cages/copses will only be constructed within projects with conservation easements or agreements.
Staff will apply (or contract application as funding allows) herbicides approved in the HIP BiOp to control noxious weeds. Noxious weed control will occur to reduce competition with, and displacement of, native vegetation. All properties will be visually inspected on a annual basis and chemical treatments will be applied, as needed, between May and September. Chemicals will be applied by spot spraying or ATV-mounted boom spraying. Broadcast treatments will only be used on a limited basis. Herbicide products and application methods follow all state and federal regulatory standards.
862.48 riparian and upland acres and 19.17 miles of stream habitat will be inspected and treated as necessary along Birch and East Birch creeks on the Joliff, Benson, Weinke, Luke , Hoeft, Hamby, Whitney, and Low properties in the Umatilla basin and on the Wallowa-Baker Project and UGR-Bowman Project in the Grande Ronde basin.
Inspecting vegetation and taking necessary corrective action will be conducted concurrently with maintenance of instream structures and fences, and monitoring for livestock trespass.
Travel to multiple sites will occur concurrently to minimize travel cost and time. | $24,945 | 4.71% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| I | 212084 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Maintain Reconstructed Stream Channels and Instream Structures | Staff will inspect stream channels and instream structures where prior instream work was conducted by ODFW to ensure that individual structures or reconstructed channels are functional and meeting project objectives. Also, to ensure channel morphological characteristics (e.g. width, depth, sinuosity, substrate) are within the ranges of natural variability characteristic of the site, based on reference reach data, where applicable.
Staff will also ensure channel bed and bank stability fluctuates within the realm of naturally occurring dynamic equilibrium for a given stream system.
Staff will ensure mitigation sites including developed wetlands are functioning and meeting mitigation requirements.
Maintenance will be conducted on a case by case basis, but might include repair of damages resulting from failure of a critical instream structural component. Because maintenance activities would generally be in-water and would require permitting, actual in-stream work would occur the following fiscal year. Additional funding would have to be secured for instream maintenance activities. This action acknowledges that past practices and applications as well as those in the future may not function as intended and thus corrective action is necessary.
Travel to each site will occur to coincide with other program activities to minimize travel costs and time. | $5,011 | 0.95% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| J | 212085 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Maintain Fences and Exclude Livestock on Projects with ODFW Agreements | Staff will inspect and maintain projects with an ODFW easement or agreement to ensure that projects are performing as intended and meet the standards set forth in landowner agreements. This includes maintaining and replacing fencing, water developments, and off-site water developments.
Staff shall maintain and manage current riparian exclosures with ODFW easements or agreements so that native plants are disease free with growth and vigor typical for the project site, infestation of weeds is kept low (<10%) and survival of plantings high (>50%).
Maintenance is required to ensure fence integrity and to protect riparian areas from unintended grazing. Depending on maintenance needs, additional funding may need to be secured. Fence maintenance is included in our written agreements with landowners. Inspections of all project areas are made in spring and fall. Following these inspections, major fence repairs are completed. Stream cross fences and/or water gap cross fences may be installed or removed during these inspections, or at any time during the year to meet landowner needs and to ensure maximum riparian recovery within the projects.
Routine maintenance and inspection of 32.76 miles of project fences will occur in 2021, including approximately: 7.34 miles in the upper Grande Ronde River basin; 5 miles in the North Fork John Day basin; 12.27 miles in the Joseph Creek and Wallowa River basin; and 8.07 miles in the Umatilla Basin.
Routine maintenance includes removing fallen trees, repairing and tightening wires, and repairing or replacing structures. These projects protect 2,218 acres of riparian habitat. Forty-nine stream cross fences and 31 water gap gates will be inspected and maintained in the spring and fall. Maintenance of stream cross fences includes removal of these structures in the fall to prevent damage from icing and high flows, and installation and repair in the spring after flows subside.
Maintenance of water gaps consists of installation and removal and ensuring that all entry gates, escape gates, and fence structures are functioning properly. Water gap structures, gates, and cross fences will be rebuilt if damaged beyond repair.
Inspections for trespass cattle will be conducted every 10-14 days in the summer. All trespassing livestock will be removed.
18 off-site water developments will be routinely inspected and maintained. Each water development will be activated every spring and winterized every fall.
All equipment necessary for project maintenance will be maintained and repaired by staff. Some items may require that major repairs be performed by a local expert.
Travel will occur daily to maintain program fences. Program activities will occur to minimize travel cost and time. | $159,910 | 30.18% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| K | 212087 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Document Representative Restoration Project Changes Over Time Using Photo Points | Staff will conduct photo point documentation of changes at ODFW restoration sites. Due to a large number of photo points on many projects, a three-year rotating panel was established. Representative photographs will be taken at each photo point. Printed copies of the original photo point photographs are taken into the field to ensure correct image duplication. Photographs will be uploaded, inspected, labeled, and filed in the appropriate database. All images are backed up on a separate hard drive. Photo point documentation will be summarized in the Annual Report. Travel to multiple photo point locations will occur on the same day to minimize travel costs. | $10,369 | 1.96% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| L | 212088 | 122 | Provide Technical Review and Recommendation | Participation in BPA's Catherine Creek, Upper Grande Ronde, and Wallowa Atlas Process | Staff will participate in BPA's Catherine Creek, Upper Grande Ronde, and Wallowa Atlas process as a member of the Science Technical Advisory Committee, STAC subgroup, and the Implementation Team. Staff will assist with prioritizing the location and type of work needed to address the key factors that limit the productivity, abundance, distribution, and sustainability of ESA listed spring/summer Chinook salmon, summer steelhead, and bull trout. Staff shall evaluate the available empirical data on fish use, periodicity, and limiting factors to define biologically significant reaches (BSR) and recommend restoration action types (from a biological perspective) that would address the identified limiting factors
Staff will also work with basin partners to identify project opportunities and assign each priority opportunity an Opportunity Lead. When staff are the Opportunity lead, they shall work with the Implementation Team and be responsible for developing each qualifying high priority opportunity into a prospectus and ultimately a project proposal (See WE N, Identify and Select Projects).
Staff will attend monthly Atlas meetings and an annual State of the Science meeting in La Grande, to improve implementation and adaptive management of the Atlas.
Staff will present program accomplishments at the annual State of Science meeting and in other forums as requested.
Staff will review and comment on collaborator's prospectuses and proposals and make recommendations on funding. This implementation approach will focus opportunity development on the highest value restoration projects through a cycle of identification, prioritization, and refinement of restoration opportunities.
Staff will participate in spring and fall solicitations including site visits for projects proposed for funding and IT meetings for reviewing and commenting on technical assistance and restoration funding proposals. Staff will submit written comments and funding recommendations for all submitted funding proposals.
Travel will occur to monthly meetings and to project site visits on a case by case basis. | $22,509 | 4.25% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| M | 212089 | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Identify and Assess Potential Projects in the Grande Ronde and Umatilla Basins | Staff will work with landowners and Grande Ronde and Umatilla Basin partners to identify, develop, assess, and prioritize potential fish habitat projects in the Grand Ronde and Umatilla basins.
Staff will work with willing landowners and basin partners to identify projects, collect all relevant information and data and, where there is landowner support, begin developing and assessing project concepts. Frequent communication, including travel and in-person meetings, will occur with landowners to move project ideas to a project concept. Staff will meet with landowners as needed to discuss the Program, potential fish habitat projects on their property, benefits to them of potential projects, and to develop easements and/or agreements.
Staff will work with basin partners and develop each qualifying, high priority opportunity into a prospectus and/or a project proposal for BPA, OWEB, and other external design and restoration funding sources. Staff will submit design and restoration funding proposals during spring and fall solicitations and as other opportunities arise.
With the current workload and decrease in project personnel in 2021, pursuit of new projects will be limited to establishing/maintaining relationships for future projects. | $5,021 | 0.95% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| N | 212090 | 191 | Watershed Coordination | Coordinate Project Activities with Regional Partners | Staff will coordinate with Grande Ronde and Umatilla Basin partners to design and implement fish habitat restoration projects and coordinate other efforts in the basins.
Coordination involves a wide variety of activities including land owner contact in high priority restoration areas, providing input on project designs, maintenance, and monitoring, and working with employees of various funding sources.
In addition to participating in BPA’s Catherine Creek, Upper Grande Ronde, and Wallowa Atlas process, staff will regularly coordinate and work with BPA, CTUIR, Union SWCD, Umatilla SWCD, Umatilla Basin Watershed Council, NRCS, USBR, GRMW, USFS, USFWS, NMFS, ODOT, ODF, ODSL, COE, SHPO, ODEQ, and ODFW District, Screen Shop, Passage, and ODFW Headquarter staff (e.g. phone, e-mail, field and office meetings, formal public meetings).
Staff will attend monthly UGR Implementation Team and UGR Focused Investment Program meetings organized by the GRMW.
Staff will attend GRMW Board Meetings to update the Board on program activities and to support funding proposals.
Staff will coordinate basin activities with other ODFW programs and employees, including: district fish biologists, fish research biologists, hatchery staff, fish passage biologists, fish passage and screens engineers, screen shop employees, Fish Division and Directors Office employees and managers, Watershed Coordinators, and the East Region Manager.
Staff will coordinate with BPA contractors and ODFW fish research biologists regarding establishing monitoring sites at projects.
Travel to in-person meetings will occur. | $37,500 | 7.08% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| O | 212092 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Manage and Administer Grande Ronde and Umatilla Fish Habitat Program and Projects | Includes all project management and administrative work related to the contract. Conduct Program and project staff oversight, project management, and administrative tasks including, but not limited to: Statement of Work development and implementation, program and project budgeting, invoice submittals, cost share estimates, equipment tagging, and property inventories.
Travel will occur, with possible overnight stays associated with ODFW meetings and training requirements. | $51,650 | 9.75% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
| P | 212093 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Annual Report - January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2021 | The progress report summarizes project goals, 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.
Progress reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the ''formatting guidelines'' link at the Technical Reports and Publications page: https://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments. | $7,228 | 1.36% | | 02/28/2022 |
| Q | 212077 | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Quarterly Status Reports | ODFW 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. | $770 | 0.15% | 07/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
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