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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 2007-092-00 - Restore Selway River Watershed
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    BiOpFY10AUG-2007-092-00Proposal Version 1Existing ProjectISRP - Pending First Review2007-092-00Protect and Restore Selway River WatershedThe Selway and Middle Fork Clearwater Rivers Subbasin Assessment completed in 2001 (USDA, 2001) identified that past mining, grazing, agriculture, timber harvest and road construction activities have changed stream/riparian processes and altered the habitat regime in the lower Selway watershed. The goal of this project is to restore habitat function and stream processes in the Selway River watershed to provide quality habitat for anadromous and resident fish species. The Nez Perce Tribe, in close partnership with the Nez Perce National Forest, proposes to address the primary factors limiting abundance and productivity of ESA listed steelhead in the Selway River. Addressing steelhead limiting factors in the Selway River watershed will contribute to the population specific commitments of Bonneville Power Administration, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Action Agencies) under the 2008 Federal Columbia River Power System Biological Opinion (FCRPS BiOp). These actions would also improve habitat used by other aquatic species that use stream systems in the watershed such as spring Chinook salmon, westslope cutthroat trout, and bull trout. Major factors that limit the conservation value and habitat function include physical migration barriers, excess sediments in gravel, altered channel morphology, and high summer temperatures. Loss of the riparian corridor within O'Hara Creek, a major tributary to the Selway River, has increased water temperatures. These limiting factors are identified in the Selway and Middle Fork Clearwater Rivers Subbasin Assessment (USDA, 2001), the Clearwater Subbasin Plan (Ecovista, 2003), and the ICTRT Selway River Steelhead Population Viability Assessment (NOAA, 2009). Changes in channel morphology have led to reduced amount of suitable spawning and overwintering habitat. Restoration in this watershed needs to focus on restoring stream/riparian processes, which have been altered by land use, thereby changing sediment regimes in the watershed. The sediment regime restoration will focus on reducing sedimentation from the existing road and trail systems through replacing and upgrading failed stream crossings. Initial efforts in the first three year funding cycle will focus on replacing migration barriers adding to available habitat, reducing road densities to address excessive sedimentation, and restoring the riparian corridor to reduce stream temperatures and in the long term provide increased stream complexity through LWD. Project monitoring will include implementation and compliance of restoration actions completed to ensure they are done successfully and benefits continue into the future and, and potential habitat status and trend. The SF Clearwater River Snake River Steelhead population is currently being proposed for Habitat Status and Trend monitoring by the Nez Perce Tribe DFRM Watershed Division under project number 2002-068-00 in close collaboration with ISEMP and the new Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP). This M&E effort will result in systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat condition and correlated with biological response indicators to evaluate habitat management strategies and facilitate adaptive management of current and future restoration projects. All of these activities will be conducted within the framework of an on-going, successful partnership with the Nez Perce National Forest. The proposed actions above are directly linked to the limiting factors and priorities (passage, sediment, and temperature) outlined in both the Selway and Middle Fork Clearwater Rivers Subbasin Assessment (USDA, 2001) and the Clearwater Subbasin Plan (Ecovista, 2003). Restoration of aquatic habitat and restoring fish runs are culturally important to the Nez Perce Tribe and follows the NPT Department of Fisheries Resource Management (DFRM) Watershed Division ridge top to ridge top watershed restoration philosophy.Katherine Fisher (Inactive)08/04/201011/01/2010Katherine Fisher (Inactive)Nez Perce TribeHabitatNoneProposals for New FCRPS BiOp work (FY10-August)Proposals for New FCRPS BiOp Work (FY10-August)BiOp
    GEOREV-2007-092-00Proposal Version 1Existing ProjectPending BPA Response2007-092-00Restore Selway River WatershedThe Restore Selway River Watershed project directly addresses Habitat Strategy 1, protect and improve tributary habitat based on biological needs and prioritized actions, identified in the 2008 Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) Biological Opinion (BiOp). RPA 35 of the 2008 FCRPS 2008 BiOp calls for implementation of tributary habitat projects in 2010-2018 to achieve a <1% habitat quality improvement for the Selway River Steelhead population. Limiting factors for the Selway River Steelhead population were recently updated during the FCPRS BiOp Expert Panel process using NOAA’s newly developed standardized terminology. The expert panel included staff from the NPT DFRM Watershed Division, NPCNF,NOAA and Idaho Fish and Game and used the best data and assessments available, along with the professional opinion when data was not available. The results of this exercise identified the following as limiting factors: anthropogenic barriers, riparian condition (riparian vegetation), increased sediment quantity, and temperature. The Tribe proposes to address the primary factors limiting to increase abundance and productivity of the focal species. The Tribe and CNPNFs have prioritized restoration projects to address these limiting factors based on the Clearwater Subbasin Plan, the Selway and Middle fork Clearwater Rivers Subbasin Assessment, current watershed surveys, and the 2012 FCRPS BIOP Expert Panel process. Objectives of this proposal include: OBJ-1: Increase anadromous fish productivity and production, and life stage specific survival through habitat improvement OBJ-2: Reduce instream sedimentation to <20% cobble embeddedness OBJ-3: Reduce the number of fish barriers so that zero barriers exist within the watershed OBJ-4: Reduce the impact of the transportation system to a target density of 1.0 mi/mi² OBJ-5: Protect and restore riparian habitats to achieve a 75% riparian vegetation Deliverables that will be accomplished through the implementation of habitat improvement projects that address limiting factors include: 1. Four road decommissioning for a total of 48 miles of existing roads 2. One Aquatic Organism Passage barrier replaced opening up 2.5 miles of habitat 3. Improve 144 miles of existing roads 4. Complete inventory and assessments of road/stream crossings 5. Monitoring 6. Project Management Monitoring of restoration efforts is a key component to determining the success of each project as well as feeding the adaptive management response loop to ensure the most successful techniques are being used during implementation. Implementation and compliance monitoring will occur on each project. Action effectiveness monitoring will be applied to projects through the “Action Effectiveness Monitoring of Tributary Habitat Improvement: a programmatic approach for the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program” (Roni et al. 2013). An important goal of this project is the timely reporting of science-based data. The Nez Perce Tribe Department of Fisheries Resource Management (DFRM) now has the equipment infrastructure necessary to ensure that this will be achieved. DFRM annual reports, metadata, and performance measure data will be available on the new DFRM website at http://www.nptfisheries.org. Appropriate components of program data and results will also be provided to StreamNet, Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) Regional Stream Temperature Database and Model, and the Nez Perce Tribe Watershed Division’s geospatial, web-accessible database at http://imsland.nezperce.org/DFRMWatershed/nexviewer_flex.html.Marcie Carter12/26/201211/26/2013Marcie CarterNez Perce TribeHabitatNone2013 Geographic Category Review2013 Geographic ReviewBiOp