This FY 2013 contract continues project-scale action effectiveness monitoring of Upper Columbia habitat projects in the instream structure and floodplain enhancement categories using the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board monitoring protocols for those categories.  This effort began during the 2011 monitoring field season.  Consistent with the sampling schedules in those protocols, monitoring this year includes instream structure and floodplain enhancement projects that were implemented and monitored in 2012, and floodplain enhancement projects that were implemented in 2011, and that were visited under previous contracts.  According to the sampling schedule, instream structure projects implemented in 2011 will be visited again during 2014.  This will be the first year that includes Year 2 visits to habitat sites in the projects.  Project sites this year include:

Year 1  field sampling at:
• White River Large Wood Atonement - Instream Habitat
• Pioneer Side Channel – Floodplain Enhancement
• Goodfellow – Instream Habitat

Year 2 field sampling at:
• Chewuch RM 10 – Floodplain Enhancement
• Boat Launch Off-channel Pond Reconnection – Floodplain Enhancement

This contract, like previous contracts in this project, fills an important gap in project (reach-scale) effectiveness monitoring identified by the Upper Columbia Regional Technical Team and others.  Work under this contract will support (a) the Upper Columbia Adaptive Management Framework, (b) the 2008 FCRPS BiOp, (c) the Tribal MOA Habitat Projects, and (d) the Upper Columbia Habitat Programmatic Project by increasing the number of sites monitored as part of the Washington State Salmon Recovery Board's Reach-scale (Project) Effectiveness Monitoring Program.  This contract increases the number of instream structure and floodplain enhancement projects that receive project effectiveness monitoring.