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A Proposal is an application to continue existing work or start new work. While historically the Program solicited for all types of projects at once, starting in fiscal year 2009, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council and BPA are reviewing and soliciting for projects that are similar in nature and intent. These "categorical" reviews started with Wildlife projects and continue with Research, Monitoring, & Evaluation (RME) and Artificial Production (Hatchery) projects.

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Project 1987-100-02 - Umatilla Anadromous Fish Habitat-Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)
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    GEOREV-1987-100-02Proposal Version 1Existing ProjectPending BPA Response1987-100-02Umatilla Anadromous Fish Habitat-Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW)Umatilla Anadromous Fish Habitat Program Executive Summary Considerable degradation of fish habitat quality, channel stability and riparian function, have been documented within the Umatilla Subbasin. These conditions have been linked to prolonged, detrimental, land-use activities including agriculture, forestry, livestock grazing, urbanization and the development of transportation corridors (DeBano et al 2004). Cumulative effects of these anthropogenic activities, in addition to over-harvest and out-of-basin impacts, have diminished the Subbasin’s capacity to maintain self-sustaining populations of anadromous salmonids. Habitat improvement efforts are aimed at protecting and enhancing and/or rehabilitating areas of degraded fish habitat on private lands, using both passive and active restoration treatments. Individual projects contribute to ongoing ecosystem/basin-wide watershed restoration/management efforts by state, federal and tribal agencies. Project efforts are guided by the Umatilla/Willow Subbasin Plan management strategies section pages 5-8,5-9 (DeBano et al 2004), Conservation and Recovery Plan for Oregon Steelhead Populations in the Middle Columbia River Steelhead Distinct Population Segment limiting factors section 8.2.10 (ODFW 2010) and a Five-Year Action Plan for the Development and Maintenance of Habitat Improvement Projects in the Umatilla Subbasin: 2006-2010 (St.Hilaire et al. 2005). All recovery efforts are also consistent with the Umatilla River Basin Total Maximum Daily Load and Water Quality Management Plan, Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds, and Oregon Conservation Strategy. Current habitat restoration work is coordinated with local partners and cooperators with the formation of the Umatilla Restoration Team in 2009; this group meets quarterly to coordinate habitat restoration project activities. Project planning includes the participation of private landowners, state/federal agencies, tribes, stakeholders, and watershed councils. Individual projects are implemented and maintained through long-term leases, cooperative agreements, and easements, signed with private landowners. Projects are aimed at addressing limiting habitat factors for ESA-Listed, Threatened Mid-Columbia Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and spring Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), including high water temperatures, sediment load, key habitat quantity, obstructions, limited flow and habitat diversity (DeBano et al 2004). The Subbasin Plan links the two most prevalent limiting factors (high temperatures and sediment) to: low flow, lack of riparian vegetation, lack of groundwater exchange and channel form; and, upland erosion/runoff, bank erosion and channel down cutting, respectively. Enhanced stream channel and riparian conditions within the Subbasin will also contribute to improved habitat quality for resident redband trout (O. mykiss), fall Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha), Coho salmon (O. kisutch), pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) and numerous wildlife species. Since the inception of the project in 1987, a total of 34 projects have been completed along 25 miles of stream protecting a total of 449 acres of instream and riparian habitat. Past work includes the construction and maintenance of riparian area protection fences, off-channel livestock watering facilities, fish barrier removal, stream bank and channel stabilization, restoring riparian vegetation with native plants and management of noxious weeds, and restoring fish passage and stream connectivity. Project implementation has focused on the Birch Creek watershed and the upper Meacham Creek watershed. Project activities planned for the 2013-2018 period include new project development, securing partnerships and grants, projects implementation, project maintenance and continued monitoring of stream flow and water temperature. Work in 2013 will focus on implementation of the Hamby barrier removal project; this project also includes stream bank and stream channel stabilization and riparian plantings. Project personnel will also maintain 10 active projects, consisting of 17 miles of fence, 177 rock structures and 276 acres of riparian habitat. Effectiveness monitoring directly associated with the Umatilla Anadromous Fish Habitat Project has been directed at two limiting factors in the Birch and Meacham Creek Watersheds; the project is currently monitoring nine permanent sites for temperatures and managing two permanent gaging stations to monitor stream flows. Habitat effectiveness monitoring has long been identified as a major need in the Umatilla Basin; as a result of past ISRP reviews several projects have been implemented/modified to begin addressing those concerns; Evaluating Umatilla Juvenile Salmonid Outmigration (BPA 1989-024-01); Umatilla Basin Natural Production Monitoring and Evaluation (BPA 1990-005-01); and Biomonitoring of Fish Habitat Enhancement (BPA 2009-014-00).Adriana Morales (Inactive)12/12/201211/26/2013Adriana Morales (Inactive)Oregon Department of Fish and WildlifeHabitatNone2013 Geographic Category Review2013 Geographic ReviewBiOp