Habitat Restoration-Foundation of a feast?

What should we do?

How well does it work?

Where should we do it?

Supporting stream habitat restoration through modeling and

data visualization

Ryan Klett1

John Arterburn1

Eric Doyle2

WA-BC AFSBremerton, WA

April, 2019

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CCTKeith KistlerOly ZacherleEdward BerriganBrian MillerJackie RoySonya SchallerMike MillerPast Employees

AcknowledgmentsONAJoe Enns Lindsay GeorgeJamison Squakin

ICFChip McConnahaJon WalkerKarl Dickman

OBMEP Habitat Status and Trend

• Measuring and tracking the quality and quantity of salmon and steelhead habitat …

• Identifying relationships between …population…survival…and habitat quality and quantity conditions.

• Develop useful data summaries and maps to assist Expert Panels and other regional technical bodies in identifying habitat impairments and limiting factors.

Bonneville Power Administration. Columbia Basin Tributary Habitat Improvement: A Framework for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation. 2013

• Framework

• Data Synthesis Platform/Model

• Interface

Population

AssessmentUnit

Reach

Data SynthesisModel Habitat Environment

Species/Habitat Rules

Habitat

Potential

EDT3 Trajectory Generator

VSP Parameters• Habitat Capacity• Pop. Productivity• Equilibrium Abundance• DiversitySurvival (limiting) factors

OBMEP DataHabitat CompTemperature

FlowWood

Substrate

Life HistorySpawner distribution

Run TimingAge

Diversity

Environmental Attributes

Survival Factors

Okanogan 2017

Habitat Scenarios & Prioritization

Okanogan Template

Okanogan 2040

Restoration Protection

VSP Parameters• Δ Habitat Capacity• Δ Pop. Productivity• Δ NEQ• Δ Diversity

VSP Parameters• Habitat Capacity• Pop. Productivity• NEQ• Diversity

VSP Parameters• Habitat Capacity• Pop. Productivity• NEQ• Diversity

VSP Parameters• Habitat Capacity• Pop. Productivity• NEQ• Diversity

VSP Parameters• Habitat Capacity• Pop. Productivity• NEQ• Diversity VSP Parameters

• Δ Habitat Capacity• Δ Pop. Productivity• Δ NEQ• Δ Diversity

Climate Change

Framework Data

Habitat Performance Scenarios & Prioritization

https://ecosystems.azurewebsites.net/reportcards/okanogan/

Next Steps

• Linking Survival Factors with other regional ecological metrics

• Implementation functions

Questions?

• Diagnostic Unit C limiting factors

• Water quantity/ low stream flow

• Withdrawals

• Reach D limiting factors

• Flow

• Population

• Floodplain connectivity

• Summer High Temperature

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Distance Upstream (km)

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