Monitoring Watershed Restoration Effectiveness

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Monitoring Watershed Restoration Effectiveness

• Nez Perce Tribe
• DFRM-Watershed Division
• Rebecca A. Lloyd, Project Leader

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Focus of Monitoring Efforts

• Respond to Regional Directives
• NOAA-Fisheries Biological Opinion 2000
• ISRP Direction
• Respond to Subbasin and Department Data Gaps
• Subbasin Plan
• Need to understand current condition and future
  condition of stream condition

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Objectives

• Assess condition of project area watersheds
• Evaluate project success, guide future
  restoration efforts, and develop adaptive
  management strategies
• Participate in regional database development

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Integrated Approach

• Level 1 Technique Effectiveness/Implementation
• Already in place with every project
• Level 2 Baseline Data Collection
• Focus on stream condition
• Extensive Scale
• Level 3 Watershed Restoration Effectiveness
• Research level
• Intensive Scale

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Database
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Accomplishments

• Secured 1st BPA Contract for Conditional Funding
• Contracted statistical design for plan
• ISRP, NOAA Fisheries, and Northwest Power
  Planning Conservation Council Recommended
  Implementing Plan

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Current Status

• BPA offered conditional funding to work further
  on monitoring plan design prior to implementation
• Awaiting internal coordination

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Conclusions

• Effectiveness Monitoring Remains an Important
  Priority for all our Project
• Will Provide Critical Data for Future Restoration
  Efforts Across Columbia Basin
• Inter-agency and Intra-agency Coordination
  Required for Success