FY 2000 proposal 199401002
Contents
Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary
Reviews and Recommendations
Additional documents
Title | Type |
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199401002 Narrative | Narrative |
199401002 Sponsor Response to the ISRP | Response |
Section 1. Administrative
Proposal title | Flathead River Native Species Project (MFWP Sub-proposal) |
Proposal ID | 199401002 |
Organization | Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) |
Proposal contact person or principal investigator | |
Name | Brian Marotz, Rick Malta |
Mailing address | 490 N. Meridian Rd. Kalispell, MT 59901 |
Phone / email | 4067514546 / marotz@digisys.net |
Manager authorizing this project | |
Review cycle | FY 2000 |
Province / Subbasin | Mountain Columbia / Flathead |
Short description | Protect and enhance native fish by managing the effects of regulated flow and temperature below Hungry Horse Dam on species interactions in the Flathead River. Evaluate effects of thermal control using selective withdrawal. Model macro- and micro-habita |
Target species | Bull Trout, Westslope Cutthroat Trout, Mountain Whitefish |
Project location
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Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)
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Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:
Reviewing agency | Action # | BiOp Agency | Description |
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Section 2. Past accomplishments
Year | Accomplishment |
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1995 | Completed cooperative culvert improvement project on Margaret Creek, a direct tributary of Hungry Horse Reservoir. |
1995 | Completed cooperative sediment source surveys in drainages along Hungry Horse Reservoir containing bull trout spawning and rearing tributaries. |
1995 | Completed pilot food habits study examining predation of native salmonids by lake trout and northern squawfish in the Flathead River. |
1996 | Completed cooperative culvert improvement project on Murray Creek, a direct tributary of Hungry Horse Reservoir. |
1996 | Completed cooperative culvert improvement project on Riverside Creek, a direct tributary of Hungry Horse Reservoir. |
1996 | Completed cooperative baseline data collection of bull trout spawning habitat quality and utilization in reservoir and backcountry tributaries of the South Fork Flathead River. |
1997 | Completed cooperative culvert improvement project on Harris Creek, a direct tributary of Hungry Horse Reservoir. |
1997 | Completed cooperative culvert improvement project on Felix Creek, a direct tributary of Hungry Horse Reservoir. |
1998 | Completed development of radio-telemetry monitoring system for the Flathead River. |
1998 | Completed construction of Crossover Creek Wetlands Project in cooperation with project 9101903. |
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Project ID | Title | Description |
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9648701 | Focus Watershed Coordination-Flathead Basin (BPA) | Serves as liaison between agencies on focus watershed projects. |
3874700 | StreamNet Geographical Information Services Unit (BPA) | Provides GIS and GPS support for design, modification, and archive of watershed maps resulting from projects 9401002, 9502500, and 9101903. |
9101904 | Hungry Horse Mitigation - Non-native Fish Removal and Hatchery Production ( | |
9101901 | Hungry Horse Mitigation - Flathead Lake Monitoring & Habitat Enhancement (C | |
9502500 | Flathead River Instream Flow (IFIM) Project (MFWP) | |
9101903 | Hungry Horse Dam Mitigation - Watershed Restoration & Monitoring (MFWP) | |
20554 | Hungry Horse Dam Fisheries Mitigation (MFWP) | |
9401002 | Flathead River Native Species Project (MFWP) |
Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2000 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
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Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase
Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase
Task-based budget
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Outyear objectives-based budget
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Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase
Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase
Task-based budget
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Outyear objectives-based budget
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Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase
Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Task-based budget
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Outyear objectives-based budget
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Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Section 8. Estimated budget summary
Itemized budget
Item | Note | FY 2000 cost |
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Personnel | 4.0 FTE | $95,157 |
Fringe | $31,213 | |
Supplies | Field sampling, radio-telemetry, monitoring, gasoline, lab supplies. | $13,570 |
Operating | Communications, rent, equipment repair and maintenance. | $35,224 |
Capital | Radio-transmitters (75), one data logging receiver and associated equipment. | $28,125 |
Travel | Mileage (13,750 miles @ .31/mile); per diem (40 nights @ $12/day, 45 days @ $23/day, 315 employee da | $9,558 |
Indirect | Overhead 17 %. Minus equipment | $38,802 |
Other | Graduate student research stipend and radio-telemetry equipment. | $12,000 |
Subcontractor | Food habits analysis: 400 stomachs @ $8.50 ea. | $3,400 |
$267,049 |
Total estimated budget
Total FY 2000 cost | $267,049 |
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds | $0 |
Total FY 2000 budget request | $267,049 |
FY 2000 forecast from 1999 | $0 |
% change from forecast | 0.0% |
Cost sharing
Organization | Item or service provided | Amount | Cash or in-kind |
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MFWP Management Staff | Annual watershed fish and habitat monitoring. | $3,000 | unknown |
Other budget explanation
Schedule Constraints: Achievement of stated objectives on schedule is dependent upon the subcontracting processes, permitting processes, unanticipated BPA schedule and timeline changes and major weather events. Project schedule changes are the norm rather than the exception due to many variables beyond our control making prioritization of tasks an adaptive process. Some objectives proceed more quickly than anticipated and others more slowly. We must proceed on many projects simultaneously to assure a continuous series of completed tasks. It is anticipated this project will proceed on schedule.
Reviews and recommendations
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.
Comment:
Recommendation: Fund (low priority). Review next year for a better description of hypotheses and experimental design. Project should be included in a general site review of all sub-basin projects.Comments: This project is a component of the Hungry Horse Fisheries Mitigation umbrella (20554), the specific goals of which are "to quantify the influence of regulated flow and temperature on fish in the Flathead River". It deals primarily with the effects of Hungry Horse reservoir operation on flow and temperature in the Flathead River downstream (more focused than last year). The main activities appear to be primarily radio tracking and population surveys. No hypotheses or science questions are articulated. The project has been ongoing since 1994, and is projected to continue until 2002, at levels in excess of $250k/yr. This proposal is a reworking of a project once directed at mitigating the effects of excessive drawdowns of Hungry Horse Reservoir. It is more research than implementation and management, especially in FY2000.
This is a fairly well prepared proposal, one that is well integrated with the umbrella. It is in the midrange of quality of proposals reviewed. It cites relevant FWP measures, ESA listings, NMFS hydro operations, plus many specific Hungry Horse/Flathead plans and summaries. There is a tailwater emphasis now, related to changes in flow, temperature, and habitats for bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, and mountain whitefish. The proposal relates the work to the umbrella and two other projects. The past accomplishments are good, reflecting previous emphasis on Hungry Horse tributary habitat improvement. Objectives and tasks are good, if pretty detailed. Schedule and costs are reasonable (the budget seems cheap for the work). There is a small amount of cost sharing officially, but the project is integrated with other projects. The narrative is generally good, making use of the umbrella. Technically, there is little in the way of a clear hypothesis-testing scheme and a need to distinguish between occupied and preferred habitats. This is related to the concepts of realized niche vs. fundamental niche of G.E. Hutchinson.
There is an urgent need for review of this project in consideration of the overall objectives of the Flathead mitigation and restoration effort. All projects under this umbrella are urgently in need of a comprehensive review, which could best be conducted by a review committee convened specifically for this purpose (see also review of other projects under this umbrella).
The reviewers raised several specific points, with the observation that this proposal forms the basis for the IFIM-driven integrated rule curves: Past successes of this proposal were in mitigation work on defective stream culverts and a little pilot work on radio tagging of lake trout. There is no mention of work on northern pike in the review of achievements, but there is on the northern squawfish. Is this work on the northern pikeminnow (aka northern squawfish?). Objective 3: How will monitoring native fish distributions measure interaction strength among species? This does not follow necessarily and the logic is not presented in the methods section. The presence of overlap does not necessarily suggest competition nor does complete habitat segregation. These may suggest something about predator-prey encounter rates. How will the dietary habits of species by location be integrated with the radio-tagging data? Objective 5: How will overlap in spawning sites indicate the level of hybridization between rainbows and cutthroats? Would DNA probes or microsatellites of captured juveniles near those spawning grounds give better information? Likewise, the logic is not presented in the methods section. It is unclear when the proposers are going to put the IFIM model together. Will it really take until 2003 to complete the job? The radio-tagging data will give interesting HIS curves provided that signals are sampled often enough to correspond with changes in flows in the rivers; weekly samples may or may not be often enough. Microhabitat locations are ephemeral. Some effort should be made to follow a subset of each species through a 24h cycle to adequately capture typical time/energy budgets. The objectives are good, but the design of the monitoring was too sketchy to determine potential success or failure. Coordinated use of new geographically specified information techniques is up to date.
This work is central to the program and the idea is good, but description of hypotheses and a better experimental design are needed. Plans have been made to submit manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals.
Comment:
Comment:
Screening Criteria: yesTechnical Criteria: yes
Programmatic Criteria: yes
Milestone Criteria: no-Until further deliberation
Technically Sound? Yes
Aug 20, 1999
Comment:
How does the current proposal relate to past accomplishments? The past accomplishments show restoration work but current proposal is all monitoring and research.Comment:
[Decision made in 9-22-99 Council Meeting]