upper toppenish watershed restoration project (9803300) yakama nation division of natural resources
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Upper Toppenish Watershed Restoration Project
(9803300)
Yakama Nation
Division of Natural Resources
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Yakama Reservation BPA Projects
199206200 Yakama Nation Wetlands and Riparian Restoration
199603501 Satus Watershed Restoration
199705300 Toppenish-Simcoe Instream Flow Restoration and Assessment
199803300 Restore Upper Toppenish Watershed
199901300 Ahtanum Creek Watershed Assessment
Yakama Reservation BPA Projects
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Goals
1. Moderate flow regime
2. Foster vegetative recovery
3. Improve habitat for fish and wildlife
4. Improve land management
5. Monitor and evaluate results, apply adaptive management
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Factors Limiting Fisheries Productivity
• Flow regime
• Climate
• Passage and habitat problems downstream of project area
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Watershed Assessment Recommendations
• Improve grazing management
• Transportation system design & maintenance
• Prescribed burning
• Beaver habitat enhancement
• Headwater meadow restoration
• Riparian & floodplain revegetation
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Planned Restoration Activities
• Restore channelized, diked stream reaches to historic channels
• Revegetate riparian areas and floodplains
• Aggrade channelized stream reaches
• Improve grazing management
• Restore headwater meadows
• Reduce sediment inputs from roads
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Restore channelized reaches
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Revegetate riparian areas & floodplains
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Restore headwater meadows
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Reduce sediment inputs from roads
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Past Accomplishments
• Reestablishing fish passage
• Channel rehabilitation
• Floodplain road relocation
• Grazing management
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Reestablishing fish passage
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Channel rehabilitation
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Grazing Management
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•Spawning ground surveys•Riparian Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) assessment•Photo points at treatment locations
Monitoring & Evaluation
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Partnerships
• FEMA
• Yakama Nation Transportation Program
• Toppenish-Simcoe Instream Flow Restoration Project
• Yakama Nation Lower Valley Wetlands/Riparian Restoration
• Yakama Nation Flood Management Project