BPA Project Number:  1994-017-00
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Performance/Budget Period: October 1, 2004 through September 30, 2005
BPA Project Title: Holistic Restoration of Critical Habitat in the Pahsimeroi, East Fork and Upper Salmon Watersheds

Custer Soil and Water Conservation District
Ted O'Neal, Chairman
P. O. Box 305
Challis, Idaho  83226


Rick Philps, Contract Officer
P. O. Box 305
Challis, Idaho  83226


Karma Bragg, Project Manager
P. O. Box 305
Challis, Idaho  83226
cswcd@custertel.net
Phone: 208-879-4428
Fax: 208-879-5903

The project scope is to implement high priority action items to maintain, enhance and restore fish habitat and fish passage in the priority stream segments of the Upper Salmon Basin area within the administrative boundaries of the Custer Soil and Water Conservation District.

Implementation of measures funded under this plan will achieve the objective of the Northwest Power Planning Council's Strategy for Salmon Recovery, the National Marine Fisheries Service Salmon Recovery Plan in terms of stabilizing and improving habitat for anadromous fish and the "Four Governors Salmon Recovery Recommendations for Salmon Recovery". Migratory and habitat connectivity across the watershed's valley bottom areas is of high importance to ecologically-based restoration efforts because the tributary sub-watersheds tend to be dominated by federal lands and often provide habitat strongholds for native species of fish and wildlife.

Key habitat limitations in the watershed's bottomland areas include migration problems/ blockages and streambed sedimentation. Addressing these limitations may offer an opportunity to enhance the watershed's anadromous salmonids and will clearly benefit other native species of salmonids, other fish, and wildlife.  The primary opportunity for addressing these problems in the Pahsimeroi, East Fork and Upper Salmon watersheds is through the CSWCD and their collaborative efforts on non-federal land.