Adults:
Upper Salmon - 5,000
Pahsimeroi - 3,000
Lake Creek - 100
Lemhi - 2,000
Middle Salmon-Panther - 3,000
Opal Lake - 5,000
Middle Fork Salmon - 5,000
Middle Salmon-Chamberlain - 2,000
South Fork Salmon - 5,000
Little-Lower Salmon - 2,000 | Bull Trout |
| 10A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards (e.g., TMDLs) and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | All aquatic focal species |
| 11A: Reduce concentrations of non-organic chemicals to levels consistent with IDEQ beneficial use criteria | Bull Trout |
| 12A: Rehabilitate connectivity where it will benefit native fish populations, with an emphasis on bull trout. | Bull Trout |
| 12B. Implement fish screening in tributaries after dewatering and passage issues are resolved | All aquatic focal species |
| 13A: Mimic the shape and timing of the natural hydrograph in the mainstem Salmon (from the East Fork confluence to the headwaters) | All aquatic focal species |
| 14A: Reduce potential losses of fishes that enter screened irrigation complexes | All aquatic focal species |
| 15A: Reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | All aquatic focal species |
| 16A: In Upper Mainstem reaches where stream temperatures have been defined a high priority limiting factor (i.e., from the 12-mile section to the headwaters), rehabilitate instream temperatures to levels that support designated beneficial use criteria | All aquatic focal species |
| 17A: Improve pool:riffle ratios to properly functioning conditions | All aquatic focal species |
| 17B: Improve bank stability to properly functioning conditions | All aquatic focal species |
| 17C: Improve floodplain connectivity and access to side channel habitat to help offset losses of pool habitat | All anadromous focal species |
| 18A: Rehabilitate water quality in affected reaches to conditions suitable to support designated beneficial use criteria | All anadromous focal species |
| 18B: Reconnect the mainstem Yankee Fork with adjoining floodplain | All anadromous focal species |
| 19A: In the next 10 years, reduce and prevent impacts of brook trout x bull trout interaction | Bull Trout |
| 1A: Increase the number of naturally spawning adults to achieve recovery goals in Table 6 within 24 years (timeline is consistent with the NPCC’s Fish and Wildlife Program). This should amount to 3% for fall chinook (minimum) as measured at Lower Granite Dam and in the tributaries. | Fall Chinook |
| 1A: Increase the number of naturally spawning adults to achieve recovery goals in Table 6 within 24 years (timeline is consistent with the NPCC’s Fish and Wildlife Program). This should amount to 4% for sockeye (minimum)as measured at Lower Granite Dam and in the tributaries. | Sockeye |
| 1A: Increase the number of naturally spawning adults to achieve recovery goals in Table 6 within 24 years (timeline is consistent with the NPCC’s Fish and Wildlife Program). This should amount to 4% for steelhead (minimum) as measured at Lower Granite Dam and in the tributaries. | Steelhead |
| 1A: Increase the number of naturally spawning adults to achieve recovery goals in Table 6 within 24 years (timeline is consistent with the NPCC’s Fish and Wildlife Program). This should amount to 4–6% SAR for spring-summer chinook, as measured at Lower Granite Dam and in the tributaries. | Spring/Summer Chinook |
| 1B: Achieve goals defined in Table 6 for the Salmon subbasin through the application of artificial propagation programs. Inimize short- and long-term genetic, ecological, and life history effects on wild populations. **This is a placeholder.. Eric to bring in these from SOTR. | All anadromous focal species |
| 2,000 spawning natural adults | Sockeye |
| 2,100-2,500 spawning natural adults | Fall Chinook |
| 20A:Where stream temperatures have been defined a high priority limiting factor, rehabilitate to levels that support current IDEQ designated beneficial use criteria | All aquatic focal species |
| 21A: Improve bank stability to properly functioning conditions | All aquatic focal species |
| 22A: Reduce grazing related sedimentation in Herd Creek to levels that are suitable for spawning and rearing | All aquatic focal species |
| 23A: Where stream temperatures have been defined a high priority limiting factor, rehabilitate to levels that support current IDEQ designated beneficial use criteria | All aquatic focal species |
| 24A: Stabilize 10,000 feet of streambank in Herd Creek focusing on areas where the stream exhibits excessive width:depth ratios | All aquatic focal species |
| 25A: Improve connectivity and access to habitat currently blocked by manmade barriers | All aquatic focal species |
| 26A: Rehabilitate or mimic natural hydrographs of tributaries to the Upper Salmon River (from Pahsimeroi to headwaters) | All aquatic focal species |
| 27A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | All aquatic focal species |
| 28A: Within the next ten years (by 2014) improve connectivity of at least half of all tributaries that are currently considered to be disconnected from the mainstem Salmon (upstream of the Yankee Fork) due to water diversions | All aquatic focal species |
| 29A: Mimic or rehabilitate the natural hydrographs of streams in the Pahsimeroi watershed | All aquatic focal species |
| 29B: Reconnect mainstem tributaries and modify diversion structures as needed to provide for chinook and steelhead migration | All aquatic focal species |
| 2A: By 4th field HUC, carry out focused activities designed to improve our understanding and definition of small populations, while protecting the genetic integrity of wild populations that are below historical levels. | All anadromous focal species |
| 3,000 natural adults with no fewer than 2,500 distributed in the mainstem | Fall Chinook |
| 30A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | All anadromous focal species |
| 30B: Starting in the lower reaches of the mainstem, or where there are overlapping areas of occupied Chinook and steelhead habitat, rehabilitate and enhance riparian vegetation to levels that are within the historic range of natural variability | All anadromous focal species |
| 31A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | Chinook |
| 31A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | Steelhead |
| 31B: Starting in the lower reaches of the mainstem, or where there are overlapping areas of occupied Chinook and steelhead habitat, rehabilitate and enhance riparian vegetation (in areas not already fenced) to levels that are within the historic range of natural variability. | Chinook |
| 32A: Reconnect mainstem tributaries and modify diversion structures as needed to provide for chinook and steelhead migration | All anadromous focal species |
| 33A: Mimic or rehabilitate the natural hydrographs of streams in the Pahsimeroi watershed | All anadromous focal species |
| 33B: Reconnect mainstem tributaries and modify diversion structures as needed to provide for chinook and steelhead migration | All anadromous focal species |
| 34A: Starting in critical habitat areas, reduce instream sedimentation to levels meeting applicable water quality standards and measures, with an established upward trend in the number of stream miles meeting such criterion by 2019 | All anadromous focal species |
| 34B: Rehabilitate and enhance riparian vegetation along Pahsimeroi tributaries to levels that are within the historic range of natural variability | All anadromous focal species |
| 35A: Rehabilitate natural hydrographs in key anadromous and resident tributaries to ensure adequate base flows are available in lower, mainstem reaches (i.e., mouth to Agency Creek) | All aquatic focal species |
| 35B: Provided there is adequate funding, personnel, and landowner participation, reconnect a minimum of one tributary very three years that are currently defined as partially or seasonally inaccessible to anadromous and/or resident focal species | All aquatic focal species |
| 35C: Improve irrigation efficiency below diversion L-7 | All aquatic focal species |
| 36,400 spawning natural adults | Spring/Summer Chinook |
| 36A: Improve riparian function and natural hydrologic processes | All aquatic focal species |
| 37A: Maintain and enhance the riparian corridor along the upper 10 miles of the Hayden Creek-to-Leadore reach | All aquatic focal species |
| 38A: Establish riparian vegetation along critical areas in Big Springs Creek to provide cover and reduce stream temperatures | All aquatic focal species |
| 38B: Reduce the sediment levels within spawning gravels | All aquatic focal species |
| 39A: Improve migration at water diversions in Hayden Creek | All aquatic focal species |
| 39B: Improve conveyance in Hayden Creek diversions to improve bank stability, decrease fish stranding, and shorten overall ditch lengths. | All aquatic focal species |
| 3A: Address data gaps necessary to measure freshwater survival | All anadromous focal species |
| 3B: Compare freshwater conditions between populations to more accurately define habitat rehabilitation needs. | All anadromous focal species |
| 3C: Address data gaps necessary to measure progress towards recovery and delisting | All anadromous focal species |
| 40A: Reconnect mainstem tributaries and modify diversion structures as needed to provide for anadromous and resident migration | All aquatic focal species |
| 41A: Rehabilitate natural hydrographs in key anadromous and resident tributaries to ensure for adequate base flows, channel-maintaining peak flows, and normal flow timing. | All aquatic focal species |
| 41B: Improve connectivity and access to habitat currently blocked by manmade barriers. | All aquatic focal species |
| 42A: In stream reaches occurring in the Middle Salmon–Chamberlain Watershed, and specifically those occurring west of Wind River (including Meadow Creek), rehabilitate instream temperatures to levels that support designated beneficial use criteria | All aquatic focal species |
| 43A: Revegetate tributary reaches in areas not dominated by rip-rap or road beds and improve bank stability along the mainstem | All aquatic focal species |
| 44A: Decrease or extirpate brook trout populations in the watershed | Cutthroat Trout |
| 45A: Improve riparian function to increase LWD recruitment | All aquatic focal species |
| 46A: Promote landscape management activities that minimize the threat of chronic sediment inputs | All aquatic focal species |
| 47A: Using riparian area revegetation actions, stabilize 25 MILES of streambank along the mainstem Little Salmon River | All aquatic focal species |
| 48A: Decrease or extirpate brook trout populations in the watershed | Bull Trout |
| 49A: Improve riparian condition to decrease stream temperatures | All aquatic focal species |
| 49B: Increase the number of pieces of LWD in reaches currently deficient, to volumes consistent with PFC ratings | All aquatic focal species |
| 49C: Reduce floodplain/channel encroachment (e.g., roads, development, etc.) | All aquatic focal species |
| 4A: Determine predation-associated mortality rates on juvenile focal species, and if significant, prescribe appropriate management actions | All anadromous focal species |
| 4B: Reduce and prevent impacts of brook trout x bull trout hybridization. In the next 10 years, establish the degree of bull x brook trout hybridization and determine the potential to diminish future brook x bull trout hybridization | Bull Trout |
| 4C: Assess the effects of competition between introduced species and native anadromous and resident salmonids | All aquatic focal species |
| 50A: Conserve wetland resources and assess wetland habitat conditions. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 50B: Restore historic wetlands to proper functioning condition. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 51A: Conserve riparian habitats. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 51B: Restore 50% of degraded riparian areas to proper functioning condition by 2019. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 52A: Conserve and maintain mature/old growth “open” stands of ponderosa pine and Douglas fir forest habitats (warm/dry habitats). | All terrestrial focal species |
| 52B: Manage for mature/old growth “open” stands of ponderosa pine and Douglas-fir in warm/dry- ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, and grand fir habitat groups within historic range of variability (HRV) by vegetation response units (VRU) | All terrestrial focal species |
| 53A: Conserve ecological integrity of shrub-steppe habitat. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 53B: Restore ecological integrity and increase stand density and diversity for 5% of degraded shrub-steppe habitat by 2019. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 54A: Conserve ecological integrity of remaining native grassland remnants. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 55B: Restore ecological integrity of aspen habitat | All terrestrial focal species |
| 56A: Prevent the introduction of exotic invasive plant species into native habitats to conserve quality, quantity, and iversity of native plant communities providing habitat to native wildlife species. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 56B: Reduce the extent and density of established exotic invasive plant species. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 57A: Restore ecological integrity in upland grasslands, riparian areas, and forest habitats. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 57B: Reduce impacts of livestock interactions with vulnerable terrestrial species populations. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 57C: Eliminate Domestic Sheep and goat grazing in areas likely to transmit disease to bighorn sheep. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 58A: Minimize the negative impact of current and future development on native terrestrial species and their habitats in the subbasin. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 59A: Reduce the impact of the transportation system and motorized access on wildlife and fish populations and habitats. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 5A: Increase understanding of existing and historic composition, recent population trends, habitat conditions and trends, and limiting factors of the terrestrial species of the Salmon subbasin. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 60A: Restore and conserve ecosystem integrity across the landscape through restoration of natural processes, using methods including prescribed fire, wildfire use for resource benefit (WFURB), and mechanical methods (thinning and harvest). | All terrestrial focal species |
| 61A: Restore forest ecological integrity, including structure, function, and composition. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 62A: Restore natural nutrient input cycles and mitigate for damages to aquatic and terrestrial populations due to the loss of these nutrients. | All species |
| 63A: In the upper portion of the Salmon subbasin, minimize negative impacts on and maximize benefits to local communities while maximizing benefits to fish and wildlife and users of those resources. | All species |
| 64A: In the lower portion of the Salmon subbasin, minimize negative impacts on and maximize benefits to local communities while maximizing benefits to fish and wildlife and users of those resources. | All species |
| 65A: Protect and foster both Indian and non-Indian cultural uses of natural resources in the Salmon subbasin. | All species |
| 66A: In the upper portion of the Salmon subbasin, use the Upper Salmon Basin Watershed Project to coordinate implementation of habitat strategies to maximize efficiencies in implementation. In the lower portion of the Salmon subbasin, develop a group to guide implementation of this plan and to coordinate recommendations with comanagers for funding, implementation, and other management activities. | All species |
| 67A: Streamline funding and permitting processes to reduce the burden associated with implementing projects. Simplify the process. | All species |
| 6A: Sustain viable populations of terrestrial species. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 6B: Evaluate and quantify terrestrial losses associated with continued operation and secondary impacts of Lower Snake River Projects. | All terrestrial focal species |
| 7A: Spatially assess the impacts of carcass-related nutrient reductions on the aquatic and terrestrial biota. If appropriate, prescribe management actions to offset impacts | All species |
| 8A: Increase the number of pieces of LWD in reaches currently deficient, to volumes consistent with PFC ratings (Appendix F) | All aquatic focal species |
| 9A: By 2010, complete stream reach-specific designations (and maintenance) of streamflows that are adequate for life history stages of focal species and that are sufficient for providing channel maintenance. | All aquatic focal species |
| 9B: Improve pool:riffle ratios to properly functioning conditions | All aquatic focal species |
| 9C: Improve bank stability to properly functioning conditions | All aquatic focal species |
| 9D: Where stream temperatures have been defined a high priority limiting factor, rehabilitate to levels that support urrent IDEQ designated beneficial use criteria | All aquatic focal species |
| Bear Valley Creek - 750 natural adults, Big Creek - 1,000 natural adults, Chamberlain Creek - 750 natural adults, Loon Creek - 500 natural adults, Marsh Creek - 500 natural adults, Secesh Creek - 750 natural adults, South Fork Mainstem - 1,000 natural adults, Lemhi River - 2,000 natural adults, Salmon River Lower Mainstem - 2,000 natural adults, Salmon River Upper Mainstem - 1,000 natural adults. No recommendations for Camas Creek, Lower Middle Fork, North Fork, Pahsimeroi River, Valley Creek, and Yankee Fork populations. | Spring/Summer Chinook |
| Greater than 21,600 spawning natural adults (includes A-and B– run) | Summer Steelhead |
| Secesh River = 500 natural adults, Chamberlain Creek, Upper Mainstem, and South Fork populations = 1000 natural adults, Middle Fork Upper Mainstem = 1,500 natural adults. No recommendation for Middle Fork Lower, East Fork, Lemhi River, Little Salmon River, North Fork, Pahsimeroi River, and Panther Creek populations. | Summer Steelhead |
