BPA Fish and Wildlife FY 1998 Proposal

Section 1. Summary
Section 2. Goals
Section 3. Background
Section 4. Purpose and methods
Section 5. Planned activities
Section 6. Outcomes, monitoring and evaluation
Section 7. Relationships
Section 8. Costs and FTE

see CBFWA and BPA funding recommendations

Section 1. Summary

Title of project
Wildlife Plan Monitoring & Evaluation

BPA project number   9706400

Short description
Develop a plan to monitor progress on wildlife mitigation ina consistent way across the region.

Business name of agency, institution or organization requesting funding
TBD. This project is intended to provide standardized monitoring and evaluation techeniques for wildlife mitigation efforts. It will likely be developed through the use of contractors.

Proposal contact person or principal investigator

Section 2. Goals

General
Adaptive management (research or M&E)

Section 3. Background

Stream area affected

History
NA

Biological results achieved
NA

Project reports and papers
NA

Adaptive management implications
This project will provide the data and analysis necessary to make regional decisions regarding the soundness of the biological objectives of the wildlife mitigation program. This will serve as the foundation for the adaptive management approach.

Section 4. Purpose and methods

Specific measureable objectives
This project will provide a standardized technique for monitoring and evaluating the wildlife portion of the Fish and Wildlife Program. It will contribute to standardizing of the monitoring and evaluating the terrestrial components of watershed projects.

Critical uncertainties
NA

Biological need
NA

Hypothesis to be tested
NA

Alternative approaches
NA

Justification for planning
NA

Methods
This project is aimed at developing a baisn-wide monitoring and evaluation process for wildlife mitigation under the Council's Fish and Wildlife Program. The basic outline is described in the Draft Wildlife Plan (Appendix G) of the 1995 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.

Section 5. Planned activities

Constraints or factors that may cause schedule or budget changes
Lack of funding.

Section 6. Outcomes, monitoring and evaluation

SUMMARY OF EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Expected performance of target population or quality change in land area affected
NA

Present utilization and convservation potential of target population or area
NA

Assumed historic status of utilization and conservation potential
NA

Long term expected utilization and conservation potential for target population or habitat
NA

Contribution toward long-term goal
NA

Indirect biological or environmental changes
NA

Physical products
NA

Environmental attributes affected by the project
NA

Changes assumed or expected for affected environmental attributes
NA

Measure of attribute changes
NA

Assessment of effects on project outcomes of critical uncertainty
NA

Information products
NA

Coordination outcomes
NA

Provisions to monitor population status or habitat quality
NA

Data analysis and evaluation
NA

Information feed back to management decisions
NA

Critical uncertainties affecting project's outcomes
NA

Evaluation
If method is developed, accepted and adopted then project will be successful.

Incorporating new information regarding uncertainties
NA

Increasing public awareness of F&W activities
NA

Section 7. Relationships

Opportunities for cooperation
This project will lead to standardized techniques that will be used by all project implementors. Because of this it is likely that there will be sharing of such things as computer software and hardware and some measuring devices.

Section 8. Costs and FTE

Other non-financial supporters
NA

NA NA