| Proposal title | Spokane Tribe of Indians Operations and Maintenance |
| Proposal ID | 199800300 |
| Organization | Spokane Tribe of Indians (STOI) |
| Proposal contact person or principal investigator |
| Name | B.J. Kieffer |
| Mailing address | P.O. Box 100 Wellpinit, Wa. 99040 |
| Phone / email | 5092587055 / bjk@spokanetribe.com |
| Manager authorizing this project | B.J. Kieffer |
| Review cycle | FY 2001 Ongoing |
| Province / Subbasin | Inter-Mountain / Lake Roosevelt |
| Short description | Partial mitigation to protect, mitigate, and enhance wildlife mitigation lands on the Spokane Indian Reservation for construction and inundation losses of wildlife habitat on the Spokane Indian Reservation caused by Grand Coulee Dams,. |
| Target species | |
| Year | Accomplishment |
|---|
| 1993 |
Washington Interim Agreement was completed |
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Spokane Tribe completed Blue Creek Project Phase 1 |
| 1996 |
Spokane Tribe secured funds for Mitigation $1.8 Million for partial mitigation for Grand Coulee Dam |
| 1997 |
Spokane Tribe began purchasing lands for wildlife mitigation |
| 1998 |
Spokane Tribe completed partial mitigation from funds, 1863.5 acres purchased for mitigation. |
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Approximately 900 acres was purchased within the McCoy Lake Watershed. |
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Spokane Tribe entered into Carbon Offset Program (COP) through Upper Columbia RC&D to plant 50 acres of ponderosa pine trees within the McCoy Lake Watershed Management Area, (No cost was attributed to BPA) |
| 1999 |
STOI Wildlife Program completed Habitat Evaluation Procedures (HEP) on the 1863.5 acres and report was submitted to BPA. |
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Habitat Enhancement Plans completed on 1863.5 acres and submitted to BPA. |
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Noxious weed control on 20 acres of land; thistle, knapweed, Dalmation Toadflax. |
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30 acres of agriculture land that was infested with knapweed was planted with native grass seed. |
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Spring (March-May) Planted 10,350 trees and shrubs on 40 acres at 260 stems per acre along McCoy Lake Creek. |
| 2000 |
Spring: gathering cottonwoods shoots on the Spokane Reservation and planting them along McCoy Lake Creek. |
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Using Aspen from areas on the Reservation and transplanting them along McCoy Lake Creek. |
| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
|---|
| 1) Protect wildlife species and habitats |
a) Procure manpower to implement and maintain project |
99+ |
$104,671 |
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b) Maintain project equipment and supplies. |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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c) Road closures of 3 miles of road |
99+ |
$2,500 |
Yes |
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d) Remove trespass livestock |
99+ |
$500 |
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e) Maintain and repair boundary fences on 1863.5 acres. |
99+ |
$4,500 |
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f) Manage 1863.5 acres using HEP data and/or site specific management plans. |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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| 2) Noxious Weed Control |
a) Noxious weed control for acres identified per year as needed/ or required by STOI Natural Resource |
12+ |
$500 |
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b) Report annually on noxious weed control progress |
12+ |
$100 |
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| 3) Maintain Project Lands |
a) Maintain Project lands at least baseline HEP. |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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b) Provide fire protection (working with BIA Fire Management planning) |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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| 4) Coordination |
a) Coordination with Tribal and BIA Natural Resource Staff. |
99+ |
$1,500 |
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b) Coordination with other land managers within the Columbia Basin on mitigation |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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| 5) Management |
a) Using best available scientific information to manage mitigation lands for species and their habitats. |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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b) Using HEP Baseline and Site specific management plans for enhancement on mitigation lands. |
99+ |
$1,500 |
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| 6) Enhancements |
a) Submit and report ground disturbance information to Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO) |
99+ |
$1,500 |
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b) Use Site specific management plans to identify selected habitats for enhancements |
99+ |
$1,000 |
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c) Implement Site Specific Management plans on mitigation lands. |
99+ |
$2,000 |
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d) Begin to work with NRCS and enroll certain habitat types into EQIP and WHIP. |
99+ |
$0 |
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| 7) Communication |
a) Maintain communication with all interested and involved parties. |
99+ |
$1,790 |
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b)Continue with information exchange with all involved parties. |
99+
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$1,900 |
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c) Hold informational meetings for interested parties. |
99+
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$2,000 |
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| 8) Submit Reports |
a) Prepare and submit required reports to Tribal Government, BPA, NWPPC, CBFWA |
99+ |
$1,700 |
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b) Prepare and submit quarterly and annual reports to BPA. |
99+ |
$1,595 |
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c) Prepare and submit for BPA Publication Project Studies. |
99+ |
$1,442 |
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| Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2001 cost | Subcontractor |
|---|
| 1) Monitor and Evaluation |
a) Procure manpower to implement monitoring and evaluation of wildlife habitats and species. |
99+ |
$32,240 |
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b) Conduct HEP on 3-5 year intervals to determine habitat response from enhancement measures. |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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c) Conduct wildlife population surveys. |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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d) Monitor Noxious Weed Control sites and use adaptive management to meet objectives. |
15+ |
$1,937 |
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e) Monitor habitat enhancement and use adaptive management to meet objectives |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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f) Monitor human impacts on mitigation lands. |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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g) Monitor plant propagation from cuts from Spokane Indian Reservation. |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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h) Begin to assess the feasibility of a reintroduction of sharp-tailed grouse back to the Spokane Indian Reservation |
99+ |
$1,937 |
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Through the 1999 and 2000 project selection process, the ISRP made some comments on the lack on monitoring and evaluation on mitigation lands the Spokane Tribe has purchased. The increase to the proposed budget for FY2001 reflect the funding needs of the Spokane Tribal Wildlife Program to implement the Site Specific Management Plans and develop M&E on the mitigation lands. Over the course of the last three years, the Spokane Tribe had requested a small portion of funds for O&M Funding to begin implementation of Habitat Evaluation Procedures and develop the Site Specific Management Plans for mitigation lands to allow us to better identify the actual needs of funding. Upon completion of these two phases of our project, we have identified two major components that need to be addressed. Lack of funding to implement the Site Specific Management Plans, and the need to develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Component to be incorporated into the long term funding needs of the Spokane Tribe.
The Spokane Tribe has added another objective to its Scope of Work for FY 2001 and into the Future. The Wildlife Program will be adding M&E as an objective to monitor all phases of our implementation of our Site Specific Management Plans for Mitigation Parcels. The Spokane Tribe has identified this as an area that also needs to be addressed as we implement the Site Specific Management Plans. This will allow us to better monitor our target enhancement measures and to determine if our objectives for enhancements are being met.
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.