ISRP Workshop: RME Categorical Review

Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP)

&Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program

(CHaMP)February 10, 2011

On behalf of:Bonneville Power Administration

Projects #2003-017 & #2011-006

ISEMP Objectives and Contribution

•BiOPs for FCRPS (2000, 2004, 2008) and recovery plans for listed salmonids have required the development of a research, monitoring, and evaluation (RME) program for the Columbia River Basin.

•ISEMP was created to develop protocols and new technologies, novel indicators, sample designs, analytical tools, data management, communication tools and skills, and restoration experiments to support the RME program.

•ISEMP contributions to ongoing decision-making: PIT tag detection technology, juvenile survival and growth estimation procedures, 3 Intensively Monitored Watersheds, basin-wide data management system development, data analysis tools development, and habitat monitoring protocol and program.

Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP)

IMWs and Adaptive Management: Examples

•Entiat IMW results have helped the Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Board revise, and make more efficient, the schedule for all habitat restoration projects in the Upper Columbia region. Preliminary results from the Entiat IMW suggested that implementation of projects would have more measurable effects, and would realize other cost savings, if implementation occurred in pulses. •The primary habitat action in the Lemhi is the reconnection of hydraulically disconnected tributaries, 5 of which will be connected in before 2014. The choice of which restoration actions will be taken next (reconnect more watersheds?, which one?, other approach?) will depend on output from ISEMP’s Lemhi IMW.

Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP)

More IMW/ Adaptive Management Examples

• ISEMP’s PIT tagging program, as shown by recent results in the Salmon Subbasin, is providing, for the first time ever, true estimates of juvenile abundance, survival, and growth as well as escapement estimates for Chinook and steelhead, with known and statistically verifiable estimates of uncertainty. These fundamental changes in estimating freshwater productivity will vastly improve adaptive management.• Extrapolating information for habitat adaptive management from high-intensity ground-based habitat surveys (conducted in a total of 8-12 km of habitat per watershed) to whole subbasins will require the coverage of lower-intensity aerial efforts such as green LiDAR. CHaMP is designed to provide the mechanism for this extrapolation.

Program Relationships

Program Relationships

Salmon Subbasin

John Day Subbasin

Wenatchee/Entiat Subbasin

Salmon

Program Relationships

Salmon

John Day

Wen/Ent

LemhiIMW

Bridge Cr.

IMW

EntiatIMW

Program Relationships

Salmon

John Day

Wen/Ent

LemhiIMW

Bridge Cr.

IMW

EntiatIMW

CHaMP

Created in response to:• Anadromous Salmonid Monitoring Strategy (ASMS) which intends to

meet the monitoring and adaptive management needs of the NPCC’s Columbia River Basin Fish & Wildlife Program, ESA Recovery Plans, the FCRPS (BiOp), and federal, state, and tribal fish and wildlife programs in a cost-effective manner.

• The goal of the ASMS is to provide an efficient and effective monitoring strategy that integrates viable salmonid population (VSP) criteria, habitat effectiveness, and hatchery effectiveness across multiple programs and geographic scales.

Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program(CHaMP)

CHaMP Development and Coordination Team

CHaMP Program Coordinator: Mike WardCHaMP/ISEMP Principal Investigator: Chris JordanISEMP Subbasin Coordinators: Nick Bouwes, Pamela Nelle, Chris Beasley, Jody WhiteCHaMP/ISEMP Data Management: Steve Rentmeester and Sitka Technology GroupCHaMP/ISEMP Sample Design and Statistical Analysis: Carol Volk, Phil Larsen, Brice SemmensCHaMP/ISEMP Field Leaders: Jeremy Moberg, Boyd Bouwes, Nick Weber, Meagan Polino, Stephen Bennett

CHaMP CollaboratorsFunding and Supporting Agencies:•Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) •Integrated Status & Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP)•NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) •Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)

Field Collaborators:•Colville Confederated Tribes •Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission•Nez Perce Tribe•Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife•Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife•U.S. Geological Survey•Yakama Nation

CHaMP Objectives•To assess the quantity and quality of stream habitat for salmonids in wadeable, perennial streams below natural impassible barriers within Technical Recovery Team population boundaries. •To generate standardized status and trend data for salmonid habitat in watersheds of the Columbia River Basin with large juvenile survival gaps.•To provide information for inferences regarding habitat quality and quantity at the fish population level; information that will be used in conjunction with salmonid growth, survival, abundance and productivity to estimate fish-habitat relationships across the Columbia River Basin.•The CHaMP protocol is fish-centric, i.e., measuring habitat relevant to salmonids of interest under the BiOp, and emphasizes channel-unit scale measurements that are more relevant to fish biology.

Other’s Objectives•EMAP: designed to produce unbiased estimates of the ecological condition of surface waters across a large geographic areas.•AREMP: designed to assess the condition of aquatic, riparian, and upslope ecosystems under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Forest Plan.•PIBO: designed to determine whether a suite of biological and physical attributes, processes, and functions of upland, riparian, and aquatic systems are being degraded, maintained, or restored, particularly in reference to livestock grazing and other federal land management practices.

Development of Habitat Protocol•Evaluated metrics and indicators that would support CHaMP objectives.•Metric and Indicator Inclusion Rule Set:

•Information Content: documented relationship to salmonid productivity, including survival and growth.•2) Data Form: statistical robust data quality; data that is repeatable, detects heterogeneity, and has adequate properties for modeling/statistics.•3) Feasibility: generated by field tools or software that are readily implementable as of the time field testing in fall 2010; three-person-day field survey at 80-90 percent of all sites.

CHaMP Indicator List•Average Alkalinity•Average Conductivity•Average pH•Growth Potential•Percent Below Summer T° Threshold •Percent Above Winter T° Threshold•Velocity Heterogeneity•Embeddedness of Fast-water Cobble•Pool Frequency•Channel Complexity•Channel Score

•Residual Pool Volume•Subsurface Fines•Total Drift Biomass•Bank Angle•LWD Volume•Fish Cover•Channel Unit Volume•Channel Unit Complexity•Riffle Particle Size •Riparian Structure•Solar Input

CHaMP Indicator List•Average Alkalinity•Average Conductivity•Average pH•Growth Potential•Percent Below Summer T° Threshold •Percent Above Winter T° Threshold•Velocity Heterogeneity•Embeddedness of Fast-water Cobble•Pool Frequency•Channel Complexity•Channel Score

•Residual Pool Volume•Subsurface Fines•Total Drift Biomass•Bank Angle•LWD Volume•Fish Cover•Channel Unit Volume•Channel Unit Complexity•Riffle Particle Size •Riparian Structure•Solar Input

Digital Elevation Models: A sample you can take back to the lab.

Program Development

•January 2010: Initial Direction/ASMS Workshop•April 2010: Recommended Protocol Approach•June 2010: CHaMP Program outlined in RME Cat. Review proposals•July – Oct 2010: Field development and testing•Winter ‘10/’11: Program structuring, sample design prep., data system development, analysis tool development•February 2011: ISRP Review

Program Development: Next Steps

• Feb/March/April 2011: ISRP/Council Decision Making•April/May 2011: Contracting/Hiring/Landowner contacts/Sample Design/Reconnaissance•June 2011: Field training•July – Sept. 2011: Start field sampling•Mid-October 2011: QA/QC data input complete•Mid-November 2011: Draft Annual Report with analysis through indicators•Mid-December 2011: Final Annual Report