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Title

  • Main Title Grande Ronde Basin Fish Habitat Enhancement Project, Annual Report 2002-2003.

Creator

  • Author: McGowan, Vance
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Department of Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization

Publisher

  • Name: United States. Bonneville Power Administration.
    Place of Publication: Portland, Oregon
    Additional Info: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Portland, OR (United States)

Date

  • Creation: 2003-08-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: On July 1, 1984 the Bonneville Power Administration and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife entered into an agreement to initiate fish habitat enhancement work in the Joseph Creek subbasin of the Grande Ronde River Basin in northeast Oregon. In July of 1985 the Upper and Middle Grande Ronde River, and Catherine Creek subbasins were included in the intergovernmental contract, and on March 1, 1996 the Wallowa River subbasin was added. The primary goal of 'The Grande Ronde Basin Fish Habitat Enhancement Project' is to create, protect, and restore riparian and instream habitat for anadromous salmonids, thereby maximizing opportunities for natural fish production within the basin. This project provided for implementation of Program Measure 703 (C)(1), Action Item 4.2 of the Northwest Power Planning Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (NPPC, 1987), and continues to be implemented as offsite mitigation for mainstem fishery losses caused by the Columbia River hydro-electric system. All work conducted by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is on private lands and therefore requires that considerable time be spent developing rapport with landowners to gain acceptance of, and continued cooperation with this program throughout 10-15 year lease periods. This project calls for passive regeneration of habitat, using riparian exclosure fencing as the primary method to restore degraded streams to a normative condition. Active remediation techniques using plantings, off-site water developments, site-specific instream structures, or whole channel alterations are also utilized where applicable. Individual projects contribute to and complement ecosystem and basin-wide watershed restoration efforts that are underway by state, federal, and tribal agencies, and local watershed councils. Work undertaken during 2002 included: (1) Implementing 1 new fencing project in the Wallowa subbasin that will protect an additional 0.95 miles of stream and 22.9 acres of habitat; (2) Conducting instream work activities in 3 streams to enhance habitat and/or restore natural channel dimensions, patterns or profiles; (3) Planting 31,733 plants along 3.7 stream miles, (4) Establishing 71 new photopoints and retaking 254 existing photopoint pictures; (5) Monitoring stream temperatures at 12 locations on 6 streams; (6) Completing riparian fence, water gap and other maintenance on 100.5 miles of project fences. Since initiation of the project in 1984 over 68.7 miles of anadromous fish bearing streams and 1,933 acres of habitat have been protected, enhanced and maintained.
  • Physical Description: 63 pages

Subject

  • Keyword: Bonneville Power Administration
  • Keyword: Dimensions
  • Keyword: Columbia River
  • Keyword: Maintenance
  • Keyword: Bearings
  • Keyword: Habitat
  • Keyword: Regeneration
  • Keyword: Watersheds
  • Keyword: Rivers
  • Keyword: Columbia River Basin
  • Keyword: Mitigation
  • Keyword: Implementation
  • Keyword: Ecosystems
  • STI Subject Categories: 13 Hydro Energy
  • Keyword: Leases
  • Keyword: Streams
  • Keyword: Monitoring

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: DOE/BP-00004338-1
  • Grant Number: 4338
  • DOI: 10.2172/962969
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 962969
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc934134
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