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A | 212668 | 185 | Produce CBFish Status Report | Periodic Status Reports for BPA | The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. 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. | $1,000 | 0.21% | 07/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
B | 212669 | 165 | Produce Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental Compliance Documentation | Environmental compliance to implement habitat assessment and restoration activities. | $10,000 | 2.14% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
C | 212670 | 119 | Manage and Administer Projects | Project Management and Administration | Continually monitor the status and progress of the project ensuring proposed actions can proceed as planned. Hire and train field technicians to implement projects and collect data. Inventory supplies and equipment and purchase needed items. | $40,000 | 8.55% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
D | 212671 | 114 | Identify and Select Projects | Interagency Coordination and Planning for Watershed Restoration and Native Fish Recovery Actions | In 2020, KNRD identified eleven priority watersheds within the Pend Oreille Basin, based on ongoing agency partnerships and planning efforts. These watersheds are shown on the attached graphic entitled "PriorityWSHDs.jpg" All watersheds, with the exception of Upper West Branch Priest River, are either located within mapped bull trout critical habitat (https://www.fws.gov/pacific/bulltrout/FinalCH2010.html) or identified in the 2015 Final Bull Trout Recovery Plan (https://www.fws.gov/pacific/bulltrout/pdf/Final_Bull_Trout_Recovery_Plan_092915.pdf). Upper West Branch Priest River is a priority given ongoing monitoring work related to the Goose Creek Channel Restoration Project. The agency partnerships and planning efforts are described in the attached document entitled "Revised_199500100_KalispelResidentFishProject.docx" and supporting documents. | $50,000 | 10.68% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
E | 212672 | 132 | Produce Progress (Annual) Report | FY' 21/Early FY '22 Progress Report | This non-technical progress report will discuss activities in progress and completed during the FY '21/early FY '22 performance periods. | $2,000 | 0.43% | 12/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
F | 212673 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Maintain Previously-Installed Riparian Fencing | Maintain riparian ex-closures at Whiteman Creek, Fourth of July Creek, and Middle Branch LeClerc Creek when conditions allow in spring/early summer 2021. No new ground disturbance is to occur. | $10,000 | 2.14% | 03/01/2021 | 08/31/2021 |
G | 212676 | 186 | Operate and Maintain Habitat/Passage/Structure | Monitor and Maintain Goose Creek Creek Channel Reconstruction Project | Ongoing monitoring and maintenance associated with the Goose Creek Channel Reconstruction Project completed in Fall 2018. KNRD will evaluate the channel and structures and ensure the restoration methods employed are performing as intended and perform routine access road and dike maintenance and snow removal. No new ground disturbance is planned, any work (if necessary) is to occur within the footprint of previous construction. | $95,000 | 20.30% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
H | 214357 | 141 | Produce Other Reports | USGS Thermal Augmentation Monitoring | The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) identified 15 potential cold-water refuges for adult salmonids in the Pend Oreille River. Five refuges were consistently cooler than the physiological thermal threshold for bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) and westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) during the summer (Mejia et al. 2019, 2020). Of these five sites, the Kalispel Tribe of Indians selected two locations, Indian Creek and Duncan Springs, for implementing thermal enhancement to increase cold-water habitat area, volume, and quality. The remaining three sites are candidates for future enhancement.
The USGS will monitor the Indian Creek and Duncan Springs sites before and after thermal enhancement structures are installed to assess their effects on spatial and temporal variability of water temperature. The physiological threshold for bull trout and westslope cutthroat trout is 16°C; all areas within the confluences with temperatures < 16°C will be considered cold-water refuge habitat. A before-after study design was chosen given the lack of suitable controls in the Box Canyon Reservoir, predictability of project-related improvements, and availability of pre-project data.
To measure cold-water refuge area and volume, USGS will deploy temperature data loggers in a grid by adapting the methods used by Wang et al. (2020). Arrays of temperature data loggers in sampling grids will be deployed in the tributary channel in Indian creek and at confluence areas in Indian Creek and Duncan Springs; dissolved oxygen (DO) will also be measured with a continuously recording DO meter. Thermistors will be placed near the river bottom, and in locations >1 m in depth, data loggers also will be attached to buoys near the water surface to evaluate thermal stratification. Arrays of temperature data loggers will be positioned to measure the spatial extent of cold-water plumes from the incoming tributaries. Additionally, temperatures will be measured along transects with a calibrated fast-response digital thermometer and an immersible stainless steel thermocouple to map thermal patterns upstream of tributary confluences (Torgersen et al. 2012). USGS will monitor these sites from August 1 to September 15 starting in 2021 and ending in 2024.
USGS will monitor three additional sites where cold-water refuge augmentation opportunities are feasible. These locations will be selected from the list described in Mejia et al. (2020) and discussed with Kalispel Tribe biologists. Monitoring will be conducted from August 1 to September 15 starting in 2021 and ending in 2024.
Data will be made available in a yearly USGS data release (see Eagles-Smith et al. 2018 for an example). Results and interpretation of data from 2021 to 2024 will be presented at scientific meetings and documented in a peer-reviewed manuscript and the USGS data release.
References:
Eagles-Smith, C.A., Nelson, S.J., Flanagan-Pritz, C.M., Willacker Jr., J.J., and Klemmer, A., 2018, Total Mercury Concentrations in Dragonfly Larvae from U.S. National Parks (ver. 4.0, October 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TK6NPT.
Mejia, F.H., C.E. Torgersen, and E.K. Berntsen. 2019. Water temperature data from the Pend Oreille River, Washington and Idaho, 2016-2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9U5HJH9.
Mejia F.H., C.E. Torgersen, E.K. Berntsen, J.R. Maroney, J.M. Connor, A.H. Fullerton, J.L. Ebersole, and M.S. Lorang. 2020. Longitudinal, lateral, vertical and temporal thermal heterogeneity in a large impounded river: implications for cold-water refuges. Remote Sensing 12(9), 1386; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12091386
Torgersen, C.E., J.L. Ebersole, and D.M. Keenan. 2012. Primer for identifying cold-water refuges to protect and restore thermal diversity in riverine landscapes; EPA 910-C-12-001; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Seattle, WA, USA; p. 91.
Wang T., S.J. Kelson, G. Greer, S.E. Thompson, S.M. Carlson. 2020. Tributary confluences are dynamic thermal refuges for a juvenile salmonid in a warming river network. River Research and Applications 36: 1076– 1086. https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3634 | $69,087 | 14.76% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |
I | 214747 | 174 | Produce Plan | Produce Watershed Restoration Plans for Ruby and Cedar Creek Watersheds | In 2020, KNRD identified eleven priority watersheds within the Pend Oreille Basin, based on ongoing agency partnerships and planning efforts. These watersheds are shown on the attached graphic entitled "PriorityWSHDs.jpg" All watersheds, with the exception of Upper West Branch Priest River, are either located within mapped bull trout critical habitat (https://www.fws.gov/pacific/bulltrout/FinalCH2010.html) or identified in the 2015 Final Bull Trout Recovery Plan (https://www.fws.gov/pacific/bulltrout/pdf/Final_Bull_Trout_Recovery_Plan_092915.pdf). Upper West Branch Priest River is a priority given ongoing monitoring work related to the Goose Creek Channel Restoration Project. The agency partnerships and planning efforts are described in the attached document entitled "Revised_199500100_KalispelResidentFishProject.docx" and supporting documents. | $190,913 | 40.79% | 03/01/2021 | 02/28/2022 |