The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) propose ongoing fish habitat protection, restoration and enhancement, maintenance, and monitoring activities under the CTUIR Grande Ronde Subbasin Restoration Project (199608300) to achieve the vision, goals, and objectives established in the Grande Ronde Subbasin Plan (NPCC, 2004) and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council (NPCC) Fish and Wildlife Program (NPPC 2000).  The Project plans, designs, implements, maintains, and monitors habitat protection, enhancement and restoration projects in the Subbasin with a primary goal of protecting high quality habitat and restoring/enhancing degraded habitats to support the recovery of focal species, including Threatened Snake River spring-summer Chinook salmon and summer steelhead.  

In FY 2010, the Project will focus on implementing the Ladd Marsh, Upper Grande Ronde Tailings, McCoy Creek, and Meadow Creek (Habberstad) projects.  Ladd Marsh is being implemented in cooperation with ODFW with the Grande Ronde Project in cooperation with the Wallowa-Whtiman National Forest.  Project development and planning for 2010-2012 project activities will be ongoing with initial site survey and conceptual project planning on several potential project areas in the Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek watersheds.  In addition to these activities, project staff will conduct additional revegetation activities at the McCoy Meadows Restoration Project Area, as well as conduct annual project maintenance and monitoring/evaluation.

A budget of $589,500 is requested to perform watershed restoration-related tasks associated with several project areas.  Funds provided under this contract are utilized to conduct pre-project planning, administration, project maintenance, monitoring and evaluation, as well as developing cost-share proposals to support restoration project implementation from various sources.