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| A | 178815 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | NEPA analysis and documentation | Submit required documents to BPA to ensure NEPA and ESA compliance for all project activities, include those proposed within the Indian, Sheep, and Hangman Creek drainages. | $16,423 | 4.57% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| B | 178816 | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Identify and select new restoration projects in the Hangman watershed | Engage in advanced scoping of restoration projects with private landowners in 4 target areas (Sheep, Indian, Mission Creek, and Hangman upstream of Mission Cr). Make contacts with landowners by mail, phone, or by personal visits in these priority areas in order to obtain signed landowner agreements which lead to restoration projects for 2018 and beyond. Additional priority areas may be identified once the staff working on the companion project (BPA Project #200103300) develop and write management plans for properties purchased downstream on Nehchen Creek. The program manager will take a new role in this WE to aid in the negotiations of contracts and planning of restoration designs. A large proportion of time will be spent on the process of identifying key projects on properties purchased thru settlements with Avista Utilities. | $24,179 | 6.74% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| C | 180305 | 29 | Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity | Activate historical channels on lower Sheep Creek | This WE is a partnership between BPA Projects #200103300 and #200103200. The property is a mitigation property purchased by BPA for the Coeur d' Alene Tribe and managed through BPA Project #200103300. The current proposed project on Sheep Creek will divert stream flow to an engineered channel leading to historical stream channels, thereby greatly increasing stream length, improving stream/floodplain connectivity and elevating ground water tables.
This WE builds on previous efforts by the BPA 200103300 wherein an engineered channel was constructed (but not activated) to connect historic channel locations with the existing incised and straightened channel. Additional work was completed in 2016 to construct a flow choke structure upstream of the proposed channel diversion to meter flood waters onto the floodplain, and install additional LWD structures at the head and toe of the engineered channel for maintenance of channel morphology and stability.
During this contract, the straightened stream alignment will be filled to activate the engineered and historic channels. Both ends of the channel fill will be armored with rock and/or wood to resist scouring and erosion by high flows from Hangman Creek and Sheep Creek. Fill material is already staged on site adjacent to the channel to be filled. This fill material was generated during the process of excavating the engineered channel and through construction of other nearby floodplain features. The rock and wood is also already staged on site. | $19,841 | 5.53% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| D | 178820 | 47 | Plant Vegetation | Riparian enhancement at Hangman Creek, Phase 3: EPA Grant | The entire project k'wne' 'ulchiyark'wmtsut takes place on property purchased thru Avista dam mitigation and purchased for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. It is managed by the CDA Tribe's Wildlife Program, and the Fisheries Program does all the instream and riparian work, while the Wildlife Program works on the uplands.
This work element is associated with the newly activated channel constructed in WE E in a previous contract (CR-72434). The proposed work was initiated as a result of receiving a grant from Western Native Trout Initiative in 2016 to provide rock for an engineered relief channel and provide an early phase of upland and riparian plants.
During the spring of 2018 1,985 live cuttings will be planted including; 150 Drummond willow, 50 sandbar willow, 1085 Pacific willow, and 300 MacKenzie Willow, and 400 Black cottonwood. It is anticipated that anywhere between 600 and 1,000 will be planted using the trenching method. This involves a Mini excavator digging a 8 inch wide trench down to the ground water level and filling in after poles are laid down in the trench.
During the fall of 2018 1,500 5 gallon potted hardwoods will be planted, including 400 Thinleaf alder, 400 Pacific willow, 200 Aspen, 100 Coyote willow, and 400 Black cottonwood. All potted hardwood trees will be done by hand using shovels, with a chance that some will be installed using 12inch auger bit that will be drilled in less than 12" deep using a mini excavator. Separate personal will monitor holes prior to dropping in potted trees to check for artifacts. Cultural Resources Dept of CDAT has determined that such measures do not pose a threat to disturbing cultural artifacts. | $25,094 | 6.99% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| E | 178822 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Maintain vegetation on Hangman Creek, Phases 1-4 | The entire project k'wne' 'ulchiyark'wmtsut takes place on property purchased thru Avista dam mitigation and purchased for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. It is managed by the CDA Tribe's Wildlife Program, and the Fisheries Program does all the instream and riparian work, while the Wildlife Program works on the uplands. This work element would encompass a variety of actions that respond appropriately to pressures from aquatic and terrestrial browsers, flash flooding, and invasive weeds. Protective plant devices and fencing would be installed and repaired as needed for a variety of plants already in place from previous contracts. In some cases, additional vegetation would be planted to replace plantings that did not survive with a lean toward plants that are showing the better survival rates. All plantings will be done by hand using 2- 5 inch auger bits that will be drilled in less than 6" - 24" deep. Cultural Resources Dept of CDAT has determined that such measures do not pose a threat to disturbing cultural artifacts. | $38,000 | 10.58% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| F | 181598 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Maintain vegetation on Hangman Creek, Sweatlodge | This work element would encompass a variety of actions that respond appropriately to pressures from aquatic and terrestrial browsers, flash flooding, and invasive weeds. Protective plant devices and fencing would be installed and repaired as needed for a variety of plants already in place from previous contracts. In some cases, additional vegetation would be planted to replace plantings that did not survive with a lean toward plants that are showing the better survival rates. All plantings will be done by hand using 2- 5 inch auger bits that will be drilled in less than 6" - 24" deep. Cultural Resources Dept of CDAT has determined that such measures do not pose a threat to disturbing cultural artifacts. | $2,948 | 0.82% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| G | 181597 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Maintain vegetation on Sheep Creek | This work element would encompass a variety of actions that respond appropriately to pressures from aquatic and terrestrial browsers, flash flooding, and invasive weeds. Protective plant devices and fencing would be installed and repaired as needed for a variety of plants already in place from previous contracts. In some cases, additional vegetation would be planted to replace plantings that did not survive with a lean toward plants that are showing the better survival rates. All plantings will be done by hand using 2- 5 inch auger bits that will be drilled in less than 6" - 24" deep. Cultural Resources Dept of CDAT has determined that such measures do not pose a threat to disturbing cultural artifacts. | $2,853 | 0.79% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| H | 178823 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Maintain beaver dams in Hangman Creek with hardwood supplementation | No ground disturbance is to occur under this Work Element. In order to keep beaver away from recent riparian plantings, we will provide enough dam building materials to maintain the six active dams built in the restoration area, as well as cuttings provided for food. Aspen will be cut and delivered to dam locations on 3-4 different occasions during the summer and fall of 2018.
The entire project k'wne' 'ulchiyark'wmtsut takes place on property purchased thru Avista dam mitigation and purchased for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe. Land management is performed by the CDA Tribe's Wildlife Program, the Tribe’s Fisheries Program does all the in-stream and riparian work when needed. | $4,550 | 1.27% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| I | 180307 | 55 | Erosion and Sedimentation Control | Treat stream banks on Hangman Creek using bioengineering | rk'wmntsut has several sections of the reach that raw banks need to be treated to decrease erosion and fine sediment in the channel. What is proposed is a bioengineering treatment called encapsulated soil lift, where the channel will be prepared to have boulder placed and embedded into the channel and three layer of soil with willows wrapped in erosion control matting. | $37,300 | 10.39% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| J | 180306 | 40 | Install Fence | Install wildlife exclusion fencing on Hangman Creek | This work element involves installation of 7,900 feet and 50.8 acres of wildlife exclusion fencing using 10 feet fence post and 8 ft tall wire gauge fence designed to keep out a large herd of elk found in the area. The fence will cross or butt up against the mainstem of Hangman Creek, ponds created by restoration, and small intermittent channels entering Phase 3 of k'wne' 'ulchiyark'wmtsut. | $22,250 | 6.20% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| K | 178825 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Sample Redband trout and non-native salmonids using migration traps | Involves the sampling of trout and other fish species using upstream/downstream migration traps at one location in each of Indian and Nehchen creeks. Data will be collected from trout captured in traps from March 1 to June 1. Installation and maintenance of the traps are now part of the Work Element, rather than separated in different work elements. | $28,032 | 7.81% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| L | 178826 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Sample Redband trout in Hangman Creek using electroshocking | Involves the sampling of trout and other fish species using backpack electroshocking equipment in early summer. Fish will be counted, measured for length and weight, inspected for marks such as adipose clips, scanned for PIT tags, and in some instances, implanted with a PIT tag. | $5,700 | 1.59% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| M | 178827 | 158 | Mark/Tag Animals | Uniquely mark redband trout in Upper Hangman | Fish will be tagged using two methods, one from trap sampling (WE K), and summer backpack electroshocking (WE L).
PIT-tag redband trout that are captured in traps located in Nehchen (RM 0.1) and Indian (RM 1.4) creeks. Tagged fish will also receive an adipose clip to evaluate long-term tag retention. PIT-tag redband trout during summer shock surveys in Indian Creek and in reaches of upper Nehchen Creek, and Smith Creek. Completion of this work element conditioned on completion of WEs K and L. | $2,683 | 0.75% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| N | 178828 | 190 | Remove, Exclude and/or Relocate Animals | Remove non-native cutthroat trout from Nehchen Creek | Cuthroat are not native the the Spokane River system and Hangman Creek. Fish from the Coeur d'Alene watershed were transplanted into Hangman Creek in 1990 and mixing with redbands within the Nehchen watershed. We have decided that complete removal is feasible. Summer of 2015 we initiated removal during summer electroshocking and continues with trapping fish in the spawning area. No longer finding large numbers of cutthroat spawners, but still present in 1+ fish during summer electroshocking surveys. We will continue removal methods until no hybrids are found for two successive years.
Non-Native cutthroat trout will be removed from Nehchen Creek and mainstem reaches of Hangman during 2017 as a continuing project. Descriptive data will be collected from sacrificed cutthroat trout that are removed. A migratory studies weir will be installed in March and maintained through May as part of WE K. First pass will be done during normal population sampling in July (WE L), and another pass will be done in August within perennial waters. | $1,700 | 0.47% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| O | 178829 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect water quality and quantity data in Hangman Creek | No ground disturbance is to occur under this Work Element. This element includes all data collection of water quality and quantity, including temperature, discharge, turbidity, dissolved oxygen, pH and conductivity. Turbidity will be analyzed in-house.
Water Quality data will be collected at ten primary sites and fifteen secondary sites. The primary sites are sometimes used for significant high flow events, in addition to the sampling done in June and August. The secondary sites are only sampled in June and August. There will be four sites on the mainstem of Hangman Creek, and at fish-bearing streams Sheep, Mission, Nehchen, Martin and Indian (2 sites), S.F. Hangman, and Smith. There will also be sampling at an additional 15 sites in June and August in the forested areas of the same streams. | $9,418 | 2.62% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| P | 178830 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Monitor water temperature in Hangman Creek | No ground disturbance is to occur under this Work Element. This element includes collection of continuous temperature data at 42 locations.
Data loggers will be deployed from April 15th through November 1st at 37 locations, and June 1st through Nov 1st at 5 locations to represent the mainstem and tributaries of Hangman Creek.
Hourly temperature readings to 0.1 C with an accuracy of 0.02 C covering spawning periods through fall at 42 locations using Hobo Pro temp monitors. Data will be analyzed to document the percent of time that stream temperatures exceed 14 degrees C from May 1st- June 30th, and at 20 degrees C from July 1st - August 31st. Graphical output will show: 1) March - October 7-day running average max/min daily temperatures; 2) hourly air temps synthesized with water temps; and 3) comparison of deep pool versus adjoining riffle temperatures at 3 locations. | $8,314 | 2.32% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
| Q | 181328 | 157 | Collect/Generate/Validate Field and Lab Data | Collect data and maintain fixed PIT tag antennae arrays | No ground disturbance is to occur under this Work Element. This work element describes the field methodologies used to collect the data at stationary PIT-tag antenna arrays where interrogation data are passively logged and stored.
Half-duplex (i.e., HDX) passive integrated transponder (i.e., PIT) technology is being implemented in the upper Hangman Creek watershed to monitor seasonal and life-history movements of fluvial interior redband trout.
Monitoring in-stream movement patterns will provide data on seasonal habitats used (e.g., overwintering), and could aid in evaluating the response to restorative actions implemented to improve the quality of seasonal habitats. Monitoring the propensity of juveniles to move out of natal tributary habitats and into Hangman Creek. Understanding the current spatial distribution of the migratory lifehistory variant may aid in prioritizing future restoration efforts. | $15,909 | 4.43% | 05/01/2018 | 04/30/2019 |
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