Andrew Hill

Latah Soil and Water Conservation District

This document summarizes the work products that ISEMP and CHaMP produced. Much of this work was done in collaboration with State and Tribal fishery and habitat agency staff and other BPA FWP projects. All of the work was done to support specific tributary habitat monitoring and evaluation objectives under the 2008 Biological Opinion for listed salm...

KEY FINDINGS & RECOMMENDED RESTORATION STRATEGIES Background This report is part two of an assessment and planning process begun in 2016. The goal of the two reports was to determine the condition of streams, fish use, and factors limiting fish production (Part 1), and develop a framework for prioritizing restoration and develop a series of conce...

KEY FINDINGS & RECOMMENDED RESTORATION STRATEGIES Background We present a watershed assessment of four watersheds in the Asotin County Assessment Area (hereafter the study area): Alpowa Creek, Asotin Creek, Couse Creek, and Tenmile Creek. The Salmon Recovery Funding Board funded the assessment and the Asotin County Conservation District administere...

This combined report for Bonneville Power Administra-tion (BPA) Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP; BPA Project 2003-017) and the Columbia Habitat Monitoring Program (CHaMP; BPA Project 2011-006) covers Calendar Year (CY) 2014. Here we give an update on ISEMP’s progress and lessons learned as we work toward the end of the...

In 2013 the Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (Bonneville Power Administration Project 2003-017; ISEMP) made significant progress in translating data and analytical results into clear and useful formats at scales that will help restoration practitioners plan effective habitat improvements. Given that it is impossible to continu...

Research into, and monitoring of, listed spring Chinook and steelhead and their habitat under the Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program (ISEMP) advanced the science and knowledge of fish and habitat relation-ships over the course of 2012. In one of the few instances in the field of effectiveness monitoring, ISEMP demonstrated that...

The Integrated Status and Effectiveness Project (ISEMP) was created nearly 10 years ago to systematically answer questions such as “what is the best way to measure stream habitat?” and “what is the best way to measure salmonid populations?”. These questions are related to the management that underpins the proposed tributary habitat-based, off -site...

Aerial photography has been used for decades to evaluate changes in the landscape; however the low resolution of these photos limits their use in documenting changes in stream morphology relevant to fishes. More recently high resolution digital photography and different platforms such as blimps and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been demonstr...