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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 1998-016-00 - Escapement and Productivity of Spring Chinook and Steelhead
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    RMECAT-1998-016-00Proposal Version 1Existing ProjectPending BPA Response1998-016-00Escapement and Productivity of Spring Chinook and SteelheadPlease Note: Information provided in this "proposal" is for context purposes. It does not necessarily contain the detail of our actual proposals for the RM&E categorical review since it was approved during the fast-track process. The John Day River subbasin supports one of the last remaining intact wild populations of spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead in the Columbia River Basin. These populations, however, remain depressed relative to historic levels. Numerous habitat protection and rehabilitation projects to improve salmonid freshwater production and survival have been implemented in the basin and are in need of effectiveness monitoring. While much of our monitoring efforts outlined here will not specifically measure the effectiveness of any particular project, they will provide much needed background (status and trend) information for developing context for project-specific effectiveness monitoring efforts. To meet the data needs as index stocks, to assess the long-term effectiveness of habitat projects, and to differentiate freshwater and ocean survival, sufficient annual estimates of spawner escapement, age structure, smolt abundance, SAR, and egg-to-smolt survival are needed. Columbia Basin managers have identified the John Day subbasin populations as index populations for assessing the effects of alternative future management actions on salmon stocks in the Columbia River Basin. A coordinated approach to the monitoring and evaluation of status and trends in anadromous and resident salmonid populations and their habitats is needed to support restoration efforts in the Columbia Plateau. This project will focus on the Steelhead and juvenile Chinook component of this need. Currently, independent research projects and some monitoring activities are conducted by various state and federal agencies, tribes, and to some extent by watershed councils or landowners, but there is no overall framework for coordination of efforts or for interpretation and synthesis of results. This project extends the structure and methods employed by the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds Monitoring Program to the John Day subbasin of the Columbia Plateau. This approach, successfully implemented in Oregon's coastal watersheds, applies a rigorous, Tier-2 sampling design to answer key monitoring questions, provides integration of sampling efforts, and has greatly improved coordination among state, federal, and tribal governments, along with local watershed groups. This project is high priority based on the high level of emphasis the NWPPC Fish and Wildlife Program, Subbasin Summaries, NMFS, and the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds have placed on monitoring and evaluation to provide the real-time data to guide restoration and adaptive management in the region. The ISRP, in their guidance on monitoring, strongly recommended that the region move away from index surveys and embrace probabilistic sampling for most population and habitat monitoring. The objectives of these projects can only be met with Tier 2-level monitoring using probabilistic selection of survey sites with limited replication". The sampling approach outlined in this study fulfills these requirements. By implementing the program we will address many of the goals for Tier 1 monitoring, such as defining areas currently used by adult steelhead for spawning habitats and summer rearing habitats for juvenile O. mykiss and spring chinook (adult/juvenile salmonid monitoring). The BiOp describes Tier 2 goals as defining population growth rates (adult monitoring), detecting changes in those growth rates or relative abundance in a reasonable time (adult/juvenile monitoring), estimating juvenile abundance and survival rates (juvenile/smolt monitoring), and identifying stage-specific survival (adult-to-smolt, smolt-to-adult) and environmental attributes (habitat monitoring). This project provides much needed Tier-2 monitoring for the two anadromous focal species in the John Day basin. Integration with on-going monitoring is accomplished in the following manner. In annual reporting, we use data from on-going projects to develop a more complete picture of status and trends in resources and life stage-specific survival. To accomplish these tasks, we work with co-managers and other interested publics to establish a monitoring oversight committee for the region that is tasked with coordinating and integrating on-going efforts into a comprehensive reporting system of regional resources. This work is integrated with the current RM&E effort for the John Day River basin and is considered long-term status and trend monitoring. Our efforts provide nearly all of the salmonid status and trend monitoring, and some of the effectiveness monitoring for the restoration actions within the subbasin. Coordination occurs through periodic meetings. This project provides information as directed under two measures of the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. This project was developed in direct response to the recommendations and needs of regional modeling efforts, the Independent Scientific Review Panel (ISRP), the Fish and Wildlife Program, and the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority Multi-Year Implementation Plan.Jason Karnezis05/27/201007/08/2011Jason KarnezisOregon Department of Fish and WildlifeProgrammaticNoneRME / AP Category ReviewRM&E Cat. Review - RM&EBiOp