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Contract Number:

95175

Contract Title:

1998-019-00 EXP WIND RIVER WATERSHED- UCD

Contract Start Date:

7/1/2024

Contract End Date:

6/30/2025

WE ID:

29. Increase Aquatic and/or Floodplain Complexity

Work Element Usage Report

Title:

F: 29 - Little Wind River, Phase V, Habitat Enhancement Project Implementation

Description:

Aquatic and floodplain complexity will be enhanced through the addition of approximately 30 unanchored logs, providing large woody debris in the stream as well as approximately 20 scour pools as a result. This work spans over 7 individual work sites, comprising approximately 0.35 miles of enhanced stream habitat, along a 1.45 mile reach of Little Wind River.

This project reach along the Little Wind River, moving upstream of previous phases, is about 1.45 miles in length, and is difficult to access with machinery due to steep valley slopes. There are several trees perched along the reach that can be activated and dropped into the stream. This and other directional felling of large wood can be done with a hand crew using mechanical and gas-powered tools (e.g. chainsaw). We plan to hire the Mt. Adams Resource Stewards crew, a local non-profit who already has this capability.

UCD is in process of ensuring environmental compliance is complete. In coordination with USFS-Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, this project is being reviewed under the ARBO programmatic and will go to implementation in summer/fall 2024.

Little Wind River hosts steelhead and Coho (due to being the only major tributary downstream of Shipherd Falls). In the habitat assessment performed as part of the 2017 LCFRB Wind River Habitat Strategy, the reach that encompasses the project area was rated as either fair or poor for Pools, Large Wood, Off-Channel Habitat, and Fine Sediment. This project will address all of these limiting factors. By activating large wood instream, habitat complexity will increase, sediment and spawning gravels can be retained, pools will scour, and off-channel or side-channel habitat will be activated.

The phase 5 project reach encompasses three priority project reaches identified in the Habitat Strategy (LCFRB), Pipeline (L1), Berge Confluence (L2) and Dillon (L3) Projects. These projects were ranked #1 and #6 in the High Priority category, and moving upstream, #14 in the High/Medium category (page 28 of the Strategy report).

WE Agreement Type:

Contracted

Deliverable Specification:

We anticipate felling and activating approximately 30 unanchored logs, providing large woody debris in the stream as well as approximately 20 scour pools as a result. This work spans over 7 individual work sites, comprising approximately 0.35 miles of enhanced stream habitat, along a 1.45 mile reach of Little Wind River.

WSE Effective Budget:

$14,913

% of Total WSE Effective Budget:

18.19%

WSE Start:

07/01/2024

WSE End:

01/15/2025

WSE Completion:

09/06/2024

WSE Progress:

Concluded

WSE ID Continued From:

[Unassigned]

WSE ID Continued To:

[Unassigned]

Finite or Recurring:

Finite

Budget History

SOWRevision	Planned	Updated	Contractor Comments (optional)	BPA Comments (optional)
Work Element Budget (Current Performance Period)	$25,913	$14,913	We had anticipated higher contractor costs, including potential cultural resources review.
2. CCR-52450 (07/01/2024 - 06/30/2025)	$25,913	$14,913	We had anticipated higher contractor costs, including potential cultural resources review.

Milestones

4 Milestones

Sort	Type	Title	Start	End	Status	Modified By	Modified Date
A	EC	Environmental compliance requirements complete	7/1/2024	9/30/2024	Concluded	Allan Whiting	4/18/2024 3:10:16 PM
		Description: On-the-ground work associated with this work element cannot proceed until this milestone is complete. Milestone is complete when final documentation is received from BPA environmental compliance staff.
B	Implement	Implement approved habitat design	7/15/2024	10/31/2024	Concluded	Allan Whiting	5/14/2024 3:11:28 PM
		Description: Implement habitat actions in accordance with approved plan set. Milestone dates include staging and site cleanup and all in-water work will be conducted during the approved in-water work window or extension. If an extension is granted it shall be uploaded to the contract documents and e-mailed to the COR and EC lead.
C	Final metrics	Provide final metrics	10/1/2024	1/15/2025	Active	Allan Whiting	5/14/2024 3:11:28 PM
		Description: Verify implemented work is consistent with planned metrics and update final metrics in cbfish.
D	DELIV	Habitat design implemented at Little Wind River, Phase 5		12/31/2024	Concluded	Allan Whiting	5/22/2024 12:05:31 PM
		Description: We anticipate felling and activating approximately 30 unanchored logs, providing large woody debris in the stream as well as approximately 20 scour pools as a result. This work spans over 7 individual work sites, comprising approximately 0.35 miles of enhanced stream habitat, along a 1.45 mile reach of Little Wind River.

Metrics

Implementation Metrics

Metric	Planned	Actual	Contractor Comments	Measures	HLIs
1387. # of miles of stream with improved complexity	0.35	0.50	We went a little longer/farther.	miles of stream with improved complexity	Habitat Miles
1389. Start latitude of treated stream reach	45.732200	45.732200
1390. End latitude of treated stream reach	45.746610	45.744550	We went a little longer/farther.
1391. Start longitude of treated stream reach	-121.783100	-121.783100
1392. End longitude of treated stream reach	-121.771300	-121.777090	We went a little longer/farther.
1582. # of unanchored individual log structures (not logjams) installed for only complexity	30	28	this includes conifers trees, snags and logs larger than 10" DBH	structures installed
1748. # of pools created for only complexity	20	28	About 28 conifer trees, snag, or logs were dropped into the stream and activated	pools created

Location

Work Site ID	Latitude	Longitude	State	County	Province	Subbasin
114639	45.731746	-121.771244	Washington	Skamania	Columbia Gorge	Wind

Focal Species

Primary Focal Species:

Chinook (O. tshawytscha) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened); Coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) - Lower Columbia River ESU (Threatened); Steelhead (O. mykiss) - Lower Columbia River DPS (Threatened)

Secondary Focal Species:

None

Environmental Compliance

None

RM&E Metadata

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Implementation Metrics