Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment in the Columbia Cascade Province

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Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment in the
Columbia Cascade Province

• Project Goal
• The Columbia Cascade Province
• will have an implementation strategy
• that is consistent with the vision, scientific
  principles,
• biological objectives, and schedules
• of the Northwest Power Planning Commission
• Fish and Wildlife Program
• and the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board.
• This plan will be developed by local governments
• and stakeholder entities, consistent and in
  parallel
• with State 2514 planning processes.

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This presentation will cover

• Who-What-When-Where-Why
• Tasks and timelines
• Process for cost estimates
• Value of EDT to local processes
• Value of EDT to Provincial Planning
• Concluding Remarks
• Questions

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EDT in the Columbia Cascade Province

• Who
• Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
• Yakama Nation
• What
• Provide the analytical foundation required to
  substantially
• complete the aquatic assessment and management
  components
• of subbasin plans in the Columbia Cascade
  Province.
• Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment (EDT)
  methodology
• will be used to provide the
• framework for describing existing habitat
  conditions
• and providing
• rational towards future management decisions. 

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EDT in the Columbia Cascade Province

• Where
• Okanogan, Methow, Entiat and Wenatchee
  Sub-basins
• When
• Begin Diagnosis October 2002
• Conclude Diagnosis September 2003
• Begin Treatment October 2003
• Conclude Treatment Summer 2004
• Why
• The Technical Guide for Subbasin Planners
  (NWPPC 2001) identifies an approach to subbasin
  planning that builds upon the coarse scale EDT
  analysis conducted by the NWPPC to develop
  working hypotheses on the condition and processes
  affecting a subbasin ecosystem, and to evaluate
  alternative management strategies.
• Much information about habitat conditions is
  available for each of the sub-basins BUT no
  consistent and contiguous database exists across
  the larger geographic area, and over time.

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Proposed EDT Process Timeline2003
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Proposed EDT Process Timeline 2004
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Proposed EDT Process Timeline 2005
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Proposed EDT ProcessBudget Summary Approach
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EDT in the Entiat Sub-basin Value of EDT to
local processes

• Level 2 Attributes discussed and illustrated for
  each stream reach
• Attribute Definition
• Importance and Role
• Rating Definitions

Channel Confinement
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EDT in the Entiat Sub-basinValue of EDT to local
processes
Significant Level 2 Attributes contributing to
mortality illustrated for each stream reach.
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EDT in the Entiat Sub-basin Value of EDT to
local processes

• Example 1 Tables showing significant
  attribute definition and attribute ratings for
  historic and current conditions.
• Example 2 Side by side tables of Level 2
  Physical Attribute Ratings and resulting Level 3
  Attributes (factors towards mortality) by stream
  reach.
• Excellent tool for professional and
  non-professionals to see how stream reach
  attributes are viewed by expert understanding.
• Excellent tool to see how physical attributes
  cumulatively affect salmonid mortality by reach
  and by life history stage.
• Any component of tool can be challenged and
  modified if better information is available.
• All information generated, reviewed and oked
  ON-THE-GROUND resulting in high comfort level
  in database.

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Value of EDT to Provincial Planning

• Systematic, logical and trackable.
• Provides one location for the best available
  science (at Provincial level and at Sub-basin
  level) to be stored and evaluated.
• Provides accountability in how information is
  interpreted and used in decision making.
• Process provides excellent forum for information
  exchange between professionals and other
  stakeholders.
• Process provides common framework for resource
  managers and decision makers to better understand
  potential effects of management actions.
• Provides excellent base from which monitoring
  programs can be derived and evaluation of
  progress over long time-periods can be
  implemented.

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Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment in the
Columbia Cascade Province

• Conclusions

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Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment in the
Columbia Cascade Province

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