This FY 2015 contract continues the time series of project-scale action effectiveness monitoring of Upper Columbia habitat actions that were added to the project in previous years, as well as continued monitoring of MBACI sites added in 2014 as part of BPA's larger Action Effectiveness Monitoring (AEM) program.  previously monitored as part of the project .  This effort began during the 2011 monitoring field season focused on Instream Habitat and Floodplain Restoration Projects using the Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board's Monitoring Effectiveness of Floodplain Enhancement Projects v.1 and Monitoring Effects of Instream Habitat Projects v1.0 protocols.  These protocols set sampling schedules with visits during years 0, 1, 3, 5, and 10 for instream habitat projects, and 0, 1, 2, and 5 for floodplain enhancement projects. Consistent with these sampling schedules, monitoring this year includes instream structure and floodplain enhancement projects that were implemented and and previously monitored in 2011, 2012, and 2013.  In the context of the AEM program, these projects are on-going case studies. Monitoring is planned in FY 2015 at the following sites:

Monitoring is planned in FY 2015 at the following sites:

Projects implemented in 2013 receiving their first post-implementation visit (Year 1 field sampling):
•             White River Large Wood Atonement - Instream Habitat (photogrammetry)
•             Pharr Rd - Floodplain Enhancement (pending completion)

Projects that were implemented in 2011 or 2012 receiving their second post-implementation visit (Year 3 field sampling):
•             Goodfellow

Projects being monitored as part of the AEM program for baseline monitoring
•             Stormy 3- Bremer Levee
•             Silver Side Channel
•             Upper White Pine- Chelan County (potential site)
•             Signal Peak – Yakama Nation (potential site)
•             Cottonwood Flats/ Greys Reach (pending site access)
•             Similkameen (potential site)


This is the fifth year of the Upper Columbia Project-scale Action Effectiveness Monitoring Project.  During the previous four years of the project, monitoring was conducted at:

04-LWR-2010-10 Boat Launch - 2011, 2012, 2013


01-LMO-2012-2 - Pharr Road - 2011


02-LCH-2011-1 - Chewuch RM 10 Side Channel - 2011, 2012, 2013


04-LWR-2010-13 - Pioneer Side Channel - 2012, 2013, 2014

02-LCH-2011-1 - Chewuch RM 10 Mainstem - 2011, 2012, 2014

02-LCH-2011-2 - Eightmile Ranch - 2011, 2012

04-LWR-2011-002 - Goodfellow - 2011, 2013

04-WHI-2011-1 - White River - 2012

Stormy Reach A (ENT00001-2C15) - 2014

Stormy 3-Bremer Levee (ENT0001-2C10) - 2014

Silver Side Channel (AEM001-SilverSideChannel) - 2014


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.