This contract will fund the Yakama Nation Fisheries Upper Columbia Habitat Restoration Project to seek, design and implement fish habitat restoration projects throughout the Methow, Entiat, and Wenatchee subbasins for the Calendar Year 2022 performance period.  Administrative tasks related to this SOW, such as reporting and inventory management, are provided under BPA Contract 56662 REL 215.

This contract details salmon habitat restoration work being designed or implemented in the Upper Columbia Spring Chinook Salmon and Steelhead recovery area under the guidance of the Upper Columbia Spring Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Recovery Plan and the 2020 Habitat Restoration Prioritization.  Yakama Nation Fisheries uses project and ecological concern prioritizations contained within the 2020 Habitat Restoration Prioritization and within Habitat and Geomorphic Reach Assessments reviewed by the Upper Columbia Regional Technical Team to determine which project action types and locations to pursue.  At the project level, Yakama Nation Fisheries subcontracts with technical consultants to develop salmon habitat restoration actions that best address prioritized ecological concerns limiting salmon and steelhead productivity and abundance.  

Work Element actions in 2022 include:

DESIGN PROJECTS (2022 ENGINEERING AND DESIGN PROJECTS)

Methow Subbasin:
Lower Twisp Assessment Unit - Twisp Horseshoe Phase 3 Side Channel and Newby Narrows Phase 2
Middle Twisp Assessment Unit - Scaffold Camp Side Channel
Methow River-Fawn Creek Assessment Unit - Methow Basin EWD Instream Flow Project
Wolf Creek Assessment Unit - Wolf Creek USFS
Chewuch River-Doe Creek Assessment Unit - Chewuch Old Yeller (USFS Lands)
Chewuch River-Pearrygin Creek Assessment Unit - Chewuch Root Canal

Wenatchee Subbasin:
Lower Nason Creek Assessment Unit - Nason Creek N1 DOT Project and Upper Nason Creek Project (USFS Lands)
Lower Chiwawa River Assessment Unit - Chiwawa Outlet Restoration and Lower Chiwawa USFS
Wenatchee River-Nahahum Canyon Assessment Unit - Lower Wenatchee River Reach 3 Restoration

Entiat Subbasin:
Mad River Assessment Unit - Mad River (USFS) Projects and Mad River Outlet

RESTORATION ACTIONS (2022 CONSTRUCTION ACTIONS)

Methow Subbasin:
Lower Twisp Assessment Unit - Upper Twisp River and Tributaries Project (USFS Lands – Little Bridge Creek) and Twisp Horseshoe Phase 2 Large Wood Structures
Middle Twisp Assessment Unit - Upper Twisp River and Tributaries Project (USFS Lands – War and Mystery)
Methow River-Fawn Creek Assessment Unit - Fawn Creek Large Wood Restoration
Methow River-Alder Creek Assessment Unit - M2 Alder Creek Floodplain Side Channel Restoration

Entiat Subbasin:
Entiat River-Lake Creek Assessment Unit - Entiat Silver Falls Restoration

For all three subbasins, this contract also details a scope of work for continuing to partner with the United States Forest Service to implement salmon recovery actions on USFS managed lands.  Through a cooperative agreement with the USFS, the Yakama Nation provides some cost reimbursement coverage to the USFS for federal staff costs on conducting NEPA and environmental compliance review on Yakama Nation sponsored projects.

Future salmon habitat restoration design and implementation work is contemplated to be added to this contract under upcoming Contract Change Requests.  

*CCR 47408 - Due to FY22 Budget Constraints and results of grant awards to CY22 construction projects this contract was modified to include many Work Elements typically included in the "Staff and Subs" contract (currently REL 265).