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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 2001-033-00 - Hangman Creek Fish & Wildlife Restoration

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	Proposal Number	Proposal Version	Type	State	Project	Title	Description	Creator	Percent Complete	Proposal Budget Limit	Create Date	Last Updated	Primary Contact	Proponent	Purpose	Emphasis	Solicitation	Portfolio	Biop Fish Accord
		Proposal Version 1	Existing Project	Pending BPA Response				Gerald Green


	RESCAT-2001-033-00	Proposal Version 1	Existing Project	Pending BPA Response	2001-033-00	Hangman Creek Wildlife Restoration	This Hangman Creek Wildlife Restoration Project (BPA #2001-033-00) was initially submitted to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council in the 2000 Rolling Provincial Review. The Project was submitted with the partner project 2001-032-00, Implement Fisheries Enhancement on the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation: Hangman Watershed. Both these projects were accepted and funded through that initial review. The Projects were contracted in August of 2001. Project #2001-032-00 was designed and implemented to provide a native fishery to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe by restoring the native redband trout populations to streams throughout the Hangman Watershed in Idaho (the Project Area). However, the condition of instream habitats for fish are inextricably linked to the management of the lands through which the streams flow. While 2001-032-00 focused on the fish and streams habitats, it could not address the larger landscape issues limiting the productivity of instream habitats. This Project (#2001-033-00) was submitted in conjunction with #2001-032-00 to address landscape level processes that degrade the instream fish habitats. This Project focuses on increasing baseflows within the Project Area. Low baseflows can best be addressed by restoring the processes, primarily floodplain processes that facilitate the persistence of floodplain storage through periods of baseflow. Floodplain restoration cannot proceed without the legal right of access, so one of the primary tools this Project uses is management rights acquisition through fee title purchase, the establishment of conservation easements, leases (CRP or CCRP), and landowner agreements. A major success for this Project was the 2005 acquisition of 1,195 acres surrounding the confluence of Sheep Creek and Hangman Creek within the Coeur d'Alene Reservation. This property provides dual benefits as it appropriately credits against the HU ledger of wildlife habitat lost during the construction and inundation associated with Albeni Falls Dam. Once restored, this property will also provide crucial habitat for native redband trout as substitution for anadromous fish resourses lost by the Coeur d'Alene Tribe during the establishment of the Federal Columbia River Hydropower System. During this project proposal period, the Coeur d'Alene Tribe proposes to continue pursuing access to other priority habitats. The methods that have proven successful in the past will be continuously pursued as will conservation easements, a process that has not proven successsful, but that holds the potential to open additional priority habitats to restoration efforts. Changes in land ownership may provide opportunities to pursue conservation easements and CRP partnerships. Habitat restoration will continue within lands currently managed by the Project and restoration will be initiated on any habitats that will be accessed through new agreements. Habitat restoration proceeds from landscape alterations designed to decommision the artificial drainage networks within the floodplains encompassed by target properties, and through native vegetation restoration as is described in the Idaho/Washington Palouse Prairie Restoration SAFE Proposal (2007). In following the SAFE proposed process, native grasses are established first to minimize noxious weed intrusions and once native grasses are firmly established, native forbs, shrubs and trees are planted. The objectives of this project are to increase the duration of shallow groundwater through the dry season and to increase baseflows in Project Area streams. Restoration of the processes that develop native floodplain functions and habitats will be accomplished through strategies that partner with beaver to achieve Project objectives. Habitat restoration will, at least initially, favor species that provide beaver with the food and materials they need to establish dams within the entrenched channels of the Project Area. Additionally, dams will be reinforced to ensure their persistance through periods of high flows. The activities proposed within this NPCC project submittal process will address Spokane Subbasin Terrestrial Objectives 1A10 and 1A11 (both Priority 1 Objectives), and Aquatic Objectives 2A3 (Second Priority) and 2B1 (First Priority). These activities are also completely consistent with the 2009 Program Amendment sections covering Wildife Mitigation, Resident Fish Substitution, and those that stress that wildife "mitigation projects should be integrated with the fish mitigation projects as much as possible (Section II, D, 6).	Gerald Green			10/14/2011	02/26/2014	Gerald Green	Coeur D'Alene Tribe	Habitat	None	Resident Fish, Regional Coordination, and Data Management Category Review	Resident Fish, Regional Coordination, and Data Management Categorical Review