The Big Three:
The Big Three:

• • BPA Fish & Wildlife Program
  • Reclamation’s YRBWEP Program
  • SRFB (NOAA PCSRF & State)

Additional Sources:

• • USFWS, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, Private Foundations, USDA, and many more

Bureau of Reclamation program to fund:

• Bureau of Reclamation program to fund:
• • Floodplain land acquisition & restoration (almost 2000 acres to date)

• • Irrigation system improvements & water rights purchases that free up water for instream use (25 kaf & Wapatox right to date; another 50+ kaf in progress)

• • Support of key tributary efforts

(Toppenish, Coiwche, Taneum Creeks, Cle Elum passage)

• ~8.5 million annual budget

Satus, Toppenish & Ahtanum watersheds

• Satus, Toppenish & Ahtanum watersheds
• • Long history of upland and instream projects
• Reservation Wetlands/Riparian Restoration
• • Over 21,000 acres protected
  • Water right acquisition from 1,500 acres
  • Ongoing restoration on protected lands

Tom Elliot, Yakama Nation, on Toppenish Creek/Marion Drain groundwater interactions

•  YKFP Off-reservation Habitat Program
• • 1,300 acres protected, tributary passage & habitat projects

John Marvin, Yakama Nation, YKFP Habitat Projects, 3:40 Thurs Scott Nicolai, Yakama Nation, Large Wood in Taneum Creek, 10:40 Thurs

Conservation Districts

• Conservation Districts
• • YTAHP panel, 1 to 2:20 pm Thurs
  • Rachel Little & Denise Buck on Conservation District Environmental Education Programs, 3:20 on Thurs

• Irrigation Districts
• County and City Governments
• • Joel Freudenthal on Yakima County surface water programs, 11:40 Thurs

Mid-Columbia RFEG

• Mid-Columbia RFEG
• Kittitas Conservation Trust
• • Holds easements/properties in upper basin
  • Projects on Upper Valley tributaries

David Gerth, Kittitas Conservation Trust on Swauk Creek projects, 4 pm Weds

Consortium of CDs, YN, WDFW, Nonprofits

• Consortium of CDs, YN, WDFW, Nonprofits
• Administered by the RC & D
• Accomplishments, 2003 to 2008
• • Screened 87 cfs of irrigation water
  • Put 4.5 cfs to instream use
  • Opened up 45 miles of blocked habitat
  • Planted over 8,000 riparian plants
  • Installed 26 rock wiers and 66 wood structures

YTAHP panel, 1 to 2:20 pm Thurs

Non-profit water trusts:

• Non-profit water trusts:
• • Jason McCormick of Washington Water Trust, Role of winter flow acquisitions, 11 am Thurs

• • Lisa Pelly of Washington Rivers Conservancy, Manastash Creek Flow Restoration, 2:20 Thurs

• YRBWEP & Dept of Ecology Programs
• Columbia Basin Water Transaction Program

Land Trusts

• • Cascade Land Conservancy (Jill Arango, on Wilson Creek work, 2:40 on Thurs)

• • Tapteal Creenway Association in the Tri-Cities
  • Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Expanding Floodplain Programs

• Need to coordinate complex acquisition and restoration proposals at a reach level
• Need for significant funding
• High risk of missed opportunities
• Development of future scenarios for floodplains with local policy makers

Panel on Floodplain management, 11 am Weds

Adjustments to Bureau operations (Roza, Tieton winter flows, etc) and ESA coverage

• Adjustments to Bureau operations (Roza, Tieton winter flows, etc) and ESA coverage
• Passage at Storage Dams
• Addressing water supply issues?
• • Irrigation system improvements
  • New storage/water transfer?
  • Groundwater management

John Vaccaro, USGS on climate change impacts on water supply and agriculture, 8:20 Thurs Matt Ely, USGS on groundwater in the Yakima Basin, 9:20 Thurs Tom Ring, Yakama Nation on Black Rock, 10:20 Thurs

TMDL for sediment & DDT a success story

• TMDL for sediment & DDT a success story
• Upcoming Temperature/Nutrient TMDL
• Passage constraint for summer-run fish

• • Scott Ladd, Yakama Nation, Water Quality in Lower Yakima Tribs/Drains, 11:20 Thurs

Interactions between anadromous and resident forms of O. mykiss

• Interactions between anadromous and resident forms of O. mykiss
• Relationship between mainstem flow, temperature, floodplain conditions & fish production
• Rates of re-colonization of unused habitat
• Identification of role of key habitat factors in limiting fish production

Tanya Lamb, CWU on nutrient limitation in Swauk Creek, 4:20 Weds

Anthony Novack, WDFW

• Anthony Novack, WDFW

Elk-agriculture interactions, 2:40 Weds

• Stan Sovern, USFS

Spotted owl demography, 3:20 Weds

• Kevin White, WSU

Cougar prey use, 3:40 Weds