# Presentation: 863239

## ISEMP Program Elements Examples from Wenatchee/Entiat 

- 1)  Coordination of monitoring, actions, and assessment
- 2a-b)  Indicators and protocols: populations/habitat for status and trends
- 2c) Indicators and protocols: watershed-scale effectiveness

## Coordination Wenatchee/Entiat:Somebody’s gotta do it!

- BPA basin-scale monitoring will die without it
- Among pilot projects and program elements
- Among a growing list of at least 15 cooperators and funders
- Between contractors, crews, individuals, egos
- Development of protocols, field manuals, training
- Will provide BPA with coordination tools and tested strategies
- Only 5 percent of budget

## Principal FundersBonneville Power AdministrationNOAA-Fisheries

- _Cooperators_**U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service****U. S. Forest Service – Wenatchee/Okanogan National Forest****U. S. Forest Service – Wenatchee Forestry Science Lab ****University of Alaska – Fairbanks ****Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ****Washington Department of Ecology****Yakama Nation **
**Chelan County Public Utility District**
**Chelan County Conservation District****Pacific Biodiversity Institute****BioAnalysts, Inc.****Terraqua, Inc.**
_**Technical Oversight**_
**Upper Columbia Regional Technical Team**

## Deliverables: Coordination Tools and Strategies

- Upper Columbia Monitoring Strategy
- Wenatchee and Entiat Implementation Strategies
- Field manuals
- Decision tracking tool
- Data entry templates, data storage/retrieval and dissemination templates

## Decision Tracking Tool

-  On-line access
-  Sort/search by topics, threads, event, current operating procedure
-  Linked documentation

## Indicators and Protocols

*Reasons to monitor*

## Recovery Plan Metricsin Upper Columbia ESU

- Increase the abundance of spring Chinook and steelhead spawners to levels considered viable.
- Increase the productivity (spawner:spawner ratios and smolts/redds) of spring Chinook and steelhead to levels that result in low risk of extinction.
- Restore the distribution of spring Chinook and steelhead to previously occupied areas.

## ISEMP Wenatchee/Entiat Conceptual Model

## ISEMP Wenatchee/EntiatConceptual Model

## Slide 10

## It is likely that not all indicators are necessary!Which indicators are important to monitor?Which indicators can we best measure?Which are most cost effective?

- Steelhead redd counts at index reaches *versus *probabilistic sampling of redds
- Juvenile abundance by modified EMAP *vs.* smolt trapping estimates *vs.* PIT tag survival estimates
- Bug composition *vs.* bug transport
- Continuous water quality variables *vs.* monthly nutrient sampling
- Substrate size *vs.* embeddedness *vs.* fines

## Which scales are most important?

- _	__Space__	__	__	__	__	__Time_
- 	Basin					Decadal
- 	Subbasin				Sub-decadal
- 	Watershed				Annual
- 	Reach					Seasonal
- 	Site/Project				Monthly
- 	Transect/Plot				Weekly
- 	Individual/Microhabitat		Diurnal
- 						Hourly

## Indicator Monitoring:Progress 2004 through 2006

- Expanded steelhead redd census at index reaches for 3 yrs and probabilistic estimates at 75 random sites in 3 yrs
- Chinook redd counts funded by cooperators
- Expanded smolt trapping at 4 watershed sites and 1 subbasin site for 3 yrs (some sites funded by cooperators)
- Juvenile abundance estimates: 150 site-visits in 3 yrs
- Macroinvertebrates: composition at 150 site-visits at 100 sites in 3 yrs; transport at 60 headwaters sites in 3 yrs
- Habitat quality/channel condition/riparian condition at 150 site-visits at 100 sites in 3 yrs

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## Slide 15

## Indicator Monitoring:Progress 2004 - 2006 continued

- Continuous water quality measurements and monthly nutrient sampling at 5 smolt trapping sites for 3 yrs
- Habitat access assessment funded by cooperators
- Flows and hydrology at nearly 20 stations funded by cooperators
- Landscape classification and watershed condition GIS project completed for Wenatchee and expanded to Upper Columbia by cooperators
- Participation in PNAMP protocol comparison study
- Pilot effectiveness monitoring of fish abundance and habitat in Entiat River Bridge-to-Bridge study

## Slide 17

## Entiat Watershed Effectiveness Monitoring

- Goals: Will restoration actions bring us to recovery?  Will FCRPS BiOp metrics be reached?
- Coordinate action implementation with monitoring.
- Monitor within framework that tests hypothesized effects and covariates.

## Entiat Effectiveness MonitoringWhy monitor in the Entiat?

- A place where watershed-scale actions will occur soon, where monitoring can be built into project implementation, and where confounding factors are few.
- Strong support from local planning groups and agency cooperators, coordination overlap with Wenatchee.
- Wenatchee is a neighboring subbasin where monitoring elements can serve as controls.

## Entiat Watershed Effectiveness Monitoring

*Discuss conceptual models and monitoring activities with handouts*

## Conceptual Study Design for B2B Effectiveness Monitoring 

- Conceptual Study Design for B2B Effectiveness Monitoring

## Slide 22

## ISEMP: Perfecting monitoring, so you don’t have to.