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| A | 241796 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance for 2024-2025 Restoration Activities | Provide BPA Environmental Compliance Lead with information to support NEPA, ESA, CWA, and NHPA compliance associated with proposed activities for 2024-2025. Coordinate and work with partners and BPA staff to ensure all work elements and developing projects have appropriate NEPA/ESA clearance and applicable permits.
Catherine Creek-Hall Ranch as a priority, staff will focus on Sec 106 compliance. Coordination will occur with regulators: NMFS, USFWS, ODSL, COE, WRD, ODEQ, BPA, and counties. | $57,648 | 13.08% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| B | 241797 | 175 | Produce Design | Oversee and Administer Design Contracts for Program Projects | During this contract period GRUFH will oversee the following:
Catherine Creek Hall Ranch: As the priority, staff will continue to 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.
There is a potential opportunity on Bear Creek, Wallowa County. The reach is Tier 1. There is a possibility to begin a design for this project within the contract period.
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 IV 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. | $58,623 | 13.30% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| C | 241799 | 100 | Construction Management | Oversee and Administer Construction of USFS-Little Fly Creek Meadow Restoration Project. | USFS has asked GRUFH to assist in the implementation of their Little Fly Creek Meadow Restoration Project due to their limited capacity. USFS will be completing all other aspects (design, permitting, funding) of the project
Staff will oversee contractor's construction of the USFS-Little Fly Creek Meadow Restoration Project. Contractor TBD. | $79,339 | 18.00% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| D | 241800 | 198 | Maintain Vegetation | Maintain Vegetation on Projects with ODFW Agreements | Staff will maintain vegetation using contractors on projects with ODFW agreements to ensure native species survival and natural successional composition meet project objectives. The intent is to improve plant survival utilizing approved methods such as supplemental planting, plant caging and invasive weed spraying as needed.
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. These actions will potentially be funding dependent.
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 may contract application (as funding allows) of 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.
Projects include Wallowa-Baker, Wallowa-McDaniel, Crow Creek/WF Pine Creek-Krebs, UGR-Bowman Project, Fly Creek-Smith, and Ladd Creek-LMWA in the Grande Ronde basin and E. Birch-Luke in the Umatilla 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. | $28,727 | 6.52% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| E | 241801 | 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.
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. | $11,454 | 2.60% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| F | 241802 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Maintain Fences and Exclude Livestock on Projects with ODFW Agreements | Staff will inspect and contract maintenance of 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.
Contractors 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 13 miles of project fences will occur in 2024, including approximately: 5.59 miles in the upper Grande Ronde River basin; 5.35 miles in the Joseph Creek and Wallowa River basin; and 2.06 miles in the Umatilla Basin.
Routine maintenance includes removing fallen trees, repairing and tightening wires, and repairing or replacing structures. These projects protect 683.34 acres of riparian habitat. Fifteen stream cross fences and 12 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.
Seven 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. | $39,117 | 8.87% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| G | 241803 | 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 H, 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. | $41,506 | 9.42% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| H | 241804 | 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.
A project on Bear Creek, Wallowa Co. within the Tier 1 reach is a project that will probably be developed during this contract period. | $16,269 | 3.69% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| I | 241805 | 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. | $46,527 | 10.55% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| J | 241806 | 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. | $46,506 | 10.55% | 03/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
| K | 241807 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | Annual Report - January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 | 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
Date range for the annual report is January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023. 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. | $11,962 | 2.71% | | 07/31/2024 |
| L | 241795 | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Quarterly Status Reports | ODFW shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in CBFish 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 COR. | $3,146 | 0.71% | 07/01/2024 | 02/28/2025 |
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