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Project 2008-301-00 - Habitat Restoration Planning/Design/Implementation within boundaries of Warm Springs Reservation, lower Deschutes River, Oregon
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Biop Fish Accord
    		 
    GEOREV-2008-301-00Proposal Version 1Existing ProjectPending BPA Response2008-301-00Habitat Restoration Planning/Design/Implementation within boundaries of Warm Springs Reservation, lower Deschutes River, OregonThe Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon (CTWSRO) will develop and execute the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation Habitat Restoration Program (CTWSHRP). The primary goal of this Program will focus on projects aimed at improving aquatic habitat using active and passive restoration techniques directed at factors limiting salmonid production. Projects will occur on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation and target four limiting factors including habitat complexity and quantity, fine sediment, water temperature and altered hydrology. These limiting factors were derived from regional planning and recovery documents that detailed necessary restoration actions on the Reservation and were linked with biological monitoring and production data collected by Tribal Fisheries staff. The primary goal of the CTWSRO, Habitat Restoration Program (CTWSHRP) is to protect, manage, and restore aquatic habitats in Reservation watersheds. The CTWSHRP defines protect, manage and restore as: 1. Protect existing high-quality habitats that have functioning ecological processes; 2. Manage future land use through an integrated planning process to promote ecological integrity and sustainability; and 3. Restore watersheds and habitats using a prioritized approach based on limiting factors analysis; A strategic approach will be used to ensure projects have immediate physical qualitative and quantitative benefit with a long-term positive quantifiable biological response. Habitat improvements will acknowledge the diversity and dynamic nature of each stream at a variety of spatial (e.g., watershed, reach) and temporal (e.g., annual, seasonal) scales. The potential habitat capacity of each stream will be evaluated, and persistent anthropogenic activities within watersheds will be identified, as well as potential solutions to alleviate and/or reduce these factors, followed by monitoring physical and biological responses (Ebersole et al. 1997). This strategy is supported by the Deschutes River Subbasin Plan (NWPCC 2003), Mid Columbia Steelhead Recovery Plan (MCSRP; Carmichael et al. 2008) and CTWSRO Integrated Resource Management Plans (IRMP; CTWSRO 1992a; CTWSRO 1992b). Projects will be evaluated for merit by coupling ideas from Ebersole et al. (1997) and Beechie et al. (2008) into a modified decision framework that relates to regional planning, tribal, and recovery documents. Instream and watershed restoration projects are important in this portion of the Deschutes Basin for several reasons. The 660,000 acre Warm Springs Indian Reservation provides critical habitat for wild populations of spring Chinook salmon, Mid-Columbia summer steelhead, bull trout, redband trout, Pacific lamprey, and a variety of other native non-salmonid species. Protection, maintenance, and sustainability of these populations is important to Tribal culture and future harvest opportunities for subsistence and ceremonial uses. This work will also allow future generations of Tribal members to exercise their federally recognized treaty rights (defined in the Treaty of 1855) to harvest wild salmon and steelhead at all usual and accustomed stations within there ancestral homeland. This work is also important because it helps to fulfill the trust responsibility of the federal government to the Warms Springs Tribe of harvestable fish populations in perpetuity. This project is also the only BPA funded habitat program in the westside of the lower Deschutes subbasin to provide habitat mitigation credits under the current Biological Opinion for the continued operation the federal hydro power system on the Columbia River. All of the projects implemented under the CTWSHRP will focus on the Tribes goal of sustaining harvestable levels of fish for many generations. The Reservation watersheds of the Warm Springs River and Shitike Creek comprise the entire westside Deschutes sub-population unit for mid-Columbia summer steelhead which are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. This population unit has a 95% chance of extinction based on current abundance, productivity, and spacial structure characteristics presented in the Mid Columbia Summer Steelhead Recovery Plan (Carmichael et al. 2008). Projects implemented through the CTWSHRP will address high priority actions listed in this Recovery Plan while incorporating benefits for culturally significant species such as spring Chinook salmon, Pacific Lamprey, bull trout and redband trout. In addition the new regulatory license agreement for the Pelton-Round Butte Hydroelectric Complex on the Deschutes River (~river mile 100) requires the co-owners to reintroduce salmon and steelhead into the upper Deschutes Basin. This reintroduction effort will create the potential to further reduce the extinction risk of westside Deschutes River sub-population of summer steelhead by increasing the spacial structure of the sub-population while providing addition spring Chinook production from the upper Deschutes Basin. The populations downstream of the hydro complex on the Reservation will provide the genetic donor stock for rebuilding the populations upstream. The downstream populations must be healthy enough to provide this donor stock. Habitat enhancements within the Reservation watersheds will improve the productivity, spacial structure, and abundance of these fish stocks increasing their viability and use as donor stock. The CTWSHRP will accomplish this work through the use of funding from the recent Memorandum of Agreement between the Tribes and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) matched with funding from the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, the Pelton-Round Butte Fund, and other competitive sources. Additionally, the program will have access to restoration funding received through the American Transport Inc. 1999 gasoline spill settlement fund. It is anticipated that over the next ten years (2008-2017) the funds used for planning permitting, design and implementation of projects will exceed $6 million dollars. Through the Accord period (2008-2017) active restoration projects will occur in three distinct locations on the Reservation. Active in stream and floodplain restoration will occur Mill Creek at the old Potter's Mill Pond site, the Warm Springs River (river mile 29-39) a stronghold for wild spring chinook spawning in the Deschutes basin, the Beaver Creek watershed, and it's sub watersheds of Coyote and Quartz Creek to control delivery of fine sediments to critical habitats. Projects will be planned by Tribal staff from the Fish Habitat Program, designed by the NRCS or other technical assistance providers, and implemented by both Tribal and non-tribal contractors. All projects will pass through the Tribe’s Integrated Resource Management Planning process and complete the required Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation. Physical monitoring protocols will be implemented to track the effectiveness of constructed habitat features. These protocols will be implemented to determine whether or not habitat features are preforming as intended. Biological monitoring will be implemented by the Tribes RM+E program to track spawner abundance, basin level production, and juvenile rearing densities. This project has also been selected as a pilot to implement BPA's new Action Effectiveness Monitoring protocols on all planned restoration actions.Scott Turo (Inactive)12/17/201211/26/2013Scott Turo (Inactive)Confederated Tribes of Warm SpringsHabitatNone2013 Geographic Category Review2013 Geographic ReviewBiOp, Fish Accord