OWEB Effectiveness Monitoring Program

Key Components

Effectiveness Monitoring Workshop

Development of definitions

Effectiveness Monitoring of:

Livestock Exclusion Projects

Juniper Removal Projects

Irrigation Efficiency Projects

OWEB Effectiveness Monitoring Workshop

April 18 & 19, 2006

Early Recommendations:1. Coordinate with Washington’s reach scale effectiveness

monitoring

2. The need for a statistical “help” center

3. Consistency among monitoring protocols and or key parameters

4. The ability to roll-up data

Next Steps:

1. OWEB has implemented Riparian Livestock Exclusion Effectiveness Monitoring using Washington’s protocols

2. Investigate the creation of a statistical center.

3. OWEB is working to track OWEB funded monitoring around the state through a monitoring database

4. OWEB is highlighting specific completed monitoring grants online

5. Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team will make available a summary document of the workshop

6. IMST will publish the recommended framework for OWEB

OWEB Effectiveness Monitoring Workshop

April 18 & 19, 2006

Effectiveness Monitoring of Livestock Exclusion Projects

Contract Awarded to Tetra Tech EC June 2006 to monitor 4 OWEB funded projects at 6 sites around the state

Pre-implementation Monitoring will occur June 2006

Projects will be implemented before June 2007

Post-implementation monitoring will occur in Spring 2007

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Effectiveness Monitoring of Juniper Removal Projects

Photo Courtesy of Aaron Holmes

Completed juniper removal effectiveness monitoring of 7 projects in Crook and Wheeler counties.

Possible expansion to Lake, Klamath, and Grant counties

Using results to develop priorities and guide future funding decisions

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5 Recommendations based on Juniper Monitoring

1. Conduct a Juniper Management Workshop2. Draft and distribute guidelines for Juniper

Project site selection and implementation.3. Establish a protocol for pre-treatment data

collection.4. Expand monitoring effort to additional counties.5. Continue to support Juniper removal research.

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Grant and Lake Co. Possible Juniper Monitoring Projects

Effectiveness Monitoring of Irrigation Efficiency Projects

Results will be used to develop funding objectives, guidance for grantees, and help guide future funding decisions

Project Types Include: Irrigation system upgrades, push-up dam removal, catchment pond creation and others.

Photos Courtesy of Walla Walla Watershed Council

Distribution Recently Funded OWEB Irrigation Efficiency Projects

An administrative focused assessment to determine if the terms and conditions of a

restoration contract were met and to determine if the project is in compliance with

any rules or regulations.

Monitoring to determine if a restoration project was

implemented as planned.

Monitoring to determine if restoration actions has the desired

effect on physical processes or habitat.

Compliance

(short-term)

Implementation (medium-term)

Effectiveness (long-term)

OWEB Restoration Grant Monitoring

All OWEB funded projects. A sub-set of all OWEB projects. A sub-set of all OWEB projects.

Collected through compliance monitoring reports and project

administration.

Partially collected through OWRI, Exhibits C & D reporting additional data collection still TBD.

Collected through specific effectiveness monitoring by-way-of

monitoring grants or other sources.

Definition

How OWEB collects

Monitoring Intensity

How and Why OWEB uses

To confirm that all OWEB funded projects are in compliance with OWEB

grant requirements and applicable rules and laws.

To ensure that OWEB funded projects are implemented as planned, document lessons

learned, research needs, and to provide longer term tracking of

certain restoration action.

To measure the effectiveness of OWEB funded projects at meeting

restoration objectives and to determine if the restoration actions

had their desired effects on physical and biological processes.

Example One compliance monitoring report submitted to OWEB within 60 days of

project completion with a photo of completed project.

Restoration reporting form and Exhibits C & D submitted at

appropriate time with restoration activity quantified and mapped. Additionally a sub-set of projects could be verified with site visits.

Projects of a specific type will be chosen for evaluation using a BACI design to

determine if the restoration actions had the desired effects on physical

processes or habitat. Also a sub-set of all OWEB funded projects will be

randomly chosen for effectiveness evaluation.

Compliance Monitoring Example

Step 1: Grant AwardedExample: Large Wood Placement Project

Step 2: Project CompletedExample: Large Wood Placed in Stream

Step 3: Project Completion report submitted within 60 days • Information that project was in compliance with all OWEB grant requirements.

• Match was met, completed on time.

• Information that project was in compliance with any permits or BMP’s.• All permits for wood placement were acquired and followed.

• A picture of the completed project.

Implementation Monitoring Example

Steps 1-3: Same as Compliance Monitoring

Step 4: OWRI Restoration Reporting Form Turned In (Implementation Monitoring Begins)

• Map of where LWD was placed.

• Restoration activity quantified: # and dimensions of log structures placed, stream characteristics where they were placed, method of placement.

Step 5: Additional Implementation Monitoring• Random selection of projects to evaluate if the project was implemented as planned, including project location verification, before and after photo points, field verification of restoration treatment.

Effectiveness Monitoring Example

Steps 1-5: Same as Implementation Monitoring

Step 6: Effectiveness Monitoring

Project Scale Effectiveness Monitoring

Evaluate the effectiveness of certain types of restoration projects that OWEB funds. Current project types under evaluation include Juniper Removal, Irrigation Efficiency, Livestock Exclusion.

Watershed Scale Effectiveness Monitoring

Such as IMW’s used to evaluate whether restoration activities had the desired effects on physical processes or habitat. LWD placement increased residual pool volume and use by fish.