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Summary

2020 Resident Fish and Sturgeon Project Review - NPCC Programmatic Issue #2
Name: Project Prioritization, Objectives and Adaptive Management
Description: ISRP Programmatic comments C&E). The Program envisions an adaptive management approach that includes identifying the highest priority projects and actions, quantifying the expected objectives of those actions, evaluating outcomes from projects, and adjusting implementation as needed. In this review, the ISRP noted the need for development of strategic approaches for prioritizing or weighting protection of high-quality habitats versus restoration of degraded habitats. The ISRP also noted that many projects still lack a developed adaptive management plan or approach.
The Council continues to explore ways to support development of project quantitative objectives and implementation of an adaptive management approach. In the 2013 Research, Monitoring and Evaluation and Artificial Production Project Review, 2019 Mainstem and Program Support Project Review, and in this review Council staff have been working with partners to develop and refine guidance for objectives development for sponsors to use in completing the project review proposal form. Staff also streamlined the objectives section of the proposal form. For this review, Council staff and the ISRP held several workshops with project sponsors to help develop quantitative, measurable objectives for specific projects.
Staff will continue to refine the instructions for those proposal sections based on user feedback/experience and ISRP comments. Staff and Bonneville agree that sponsors should have measurable, task-based or biologically based objectives to measure progress in meeting management objectives.
Recommendation: 1. Council should continue to refine the proposal form to reflect feedback from project sponsors and the ISRP on project objectives.
2. Council should work with Bonneville to improve connections between the proposal form objectives and the final contract scope of work.
3. Council should work with the ISRP to hold webinars for interested project sponsors on developing objectives and an adaptive management plan.