OpportunityTitle: Establishing aquatic monitoring programs for large-scale restoration projects
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This is a notice of intent to award this agreement to the Wilderness Society under the Fish and Wildlife Land Conservation Cooperatives. See attached competition and selection process document.
Description: This synopsis is the full announcement. Objective #1: Pilot and adapt the Forest Service Pacfish Infish Biological Opinion (PIBO Effectiveness Monitoring Program to determine the number of sampling sites required to establish relationships between road systems and current stream and watershed conditions across the landscape. Objective #2: Pilot and adapt the Geomorphic Road Analysis and Inventory Package (GRAIP; http://www.fs.fed.us/GRAIP/index.shtml) to facilitate effective monitoring of the effects of road-related restoration projects at both site and watershed scales. GRAIP is a package of intensive sampling protocols and models designed to parameterize and evaluate the production and delivery of fine sediment from forest roads. The process also identifies areas at high risk to shallow landslides, gully initiation and stream crossings at high risk of failure and flow diversion. Objective #3: Identify streams that have been most severely impacted by climate change to date within the Crown of the Continent by correlating streamflow and temperature analyses from 1950-2008 with distributions of threatened and endangered native trout species. The proposed analyses will focus on a subset of the Great Northern Landscape study area in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho, with more intensive analyses across the Crown of the Continent (within the United States).
GrantorContactEmailDescription: E-Mail
GrantorContactText: Andrea Meyer &lt;br/&gt;Grants Management Specialist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 303-236-5412