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    The Council works to protect and enhance fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Its Fish & Wildlife Program guides project funding by the Bonneville Power Administration.

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  1. 2017 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Costs Report

    Jul 11, 2018 2018-4
    17th Annual Report to the Northwest Governors

  2. Request for Recommendations to Amend the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

    May 16, 2018 2018-6
    On May 16, 2018, the Council released a letter to the region requesting recommendations on the 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program, thus beginning the program amendment process.

  3. Review of the 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

    Mar 23, 2018 ISAB 2018-3
    The Council requested that the Independent Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) evaluate the scientific merits of the Council’s 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program in time to inform amendments to the Program during 2018

  4. 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

    Aug 23, 2017 2014-12
    The Council's program is the largest regional effort to recover and protect fish and wildlife in the nation.

  5. Research Plan for the Fish and Wildlife Program (Pre-publication version)

    Jun 15, 2017 2017-4
    For 35 years, the Council has supported a diverse range of research to clarify assumptions critical to the strategies and scientific foundation and principles of the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wild

  6. 2016 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Costs Report

    May 10, 2017 2017-2
    Comment on this 16th Annual Report to the Northwest Governors by July 21.

  7. 2015 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Costs Report

    May 12, 2016 2016-4
    Comment on this 15th Annual Report to the Northwest Governors by June 10, 2016.

  8. Critical Uncertainties for the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

    Jan 29, 2016 ISAB/ISRP 2016-1
    This review and identification of critical uncertainties is one step in the Council’s process to update the Program’s research plan.

  9. Long-Term Cost Planning for the Fish and Wildlife Program

    Sep 12, 2015 IEAB 2015-1
    The Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program is a long-term and sustained effort to mitigate the effects of the hydroelectric system development and operation on fish and wildlife. The early yea

  10. 2014 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program Costs Report

    Jun 14, 2015 2015-06
    This is the 14th year the Council has reported to the governors on the cost of implementing the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, which Bonneville funds. The purpose of the r

  11. I. Program measures

    Dec 30, 2014
    The Council’s fish and wildlife program consists of a number of different types of “measures.” The Northwest Power Act (and thus the program, too) uses the term “measures” [see Sections 4(h)

  12. A. Project review process

    Dec 30, 2014
    The 1996 amendments to the Northwest Power Act, which added Section 4(h)(10)(D), directed the Council to oversee, with the assistance of the Independent Scientific Review Panel, a process to review pr

  13. 1. Elements of project review

    Dec 30, 2014
    Recognize differences in project types; for example: projects with long-term funding commitments; shorter-term implementation projects (e.g. habitat); and core program-support projects that focus on b

  14. 2. Step review process

    Dec 30, 2014
    As one element of project review, the Council developed a step review process for review of major investments, including new fish hatchery programs and facilities. Step review allows for review of sci

  15. C. Independent scientific and economic review

    Dec 30, 2014
    Independent scientific review is a critical part of fish and wildlife project implementation, research, and development in the Columbia River Basin. Independent scientific review can help decision-mak

  16. Appendix B. Estimates of hydropower-related losses

    Dec 30, 2014
    From the 1987 Fish and Wildlife Program, see: Compilation of Information on Salmon and Steelhead Losses in the Columbia River Basin and Numerical Estimates of Hydropower-Related Losses

  17. Appendix C. Wildlife mitigation priorities, construction and inundation loss assessments, and dam licensing considerations

    Dec 30, 2014
    1. Mitigation priorities a) Bonneville and wildlife agencies and tribes Ensure that wildlife mitigation projects implemented in fulfillment of this program consider the basinwide implementation prio

  18. Appendix D. Program goals and objectives

    Dec 30, 2014
    Theme One: Protect and Enhance Habitat to Provide a Home for Species Goal: Provide environmental conditions that support ecosystem functions necessary to restore healthy, self-sustaining and harvesta

  19. Appendix E. Council high-level indicators

    Dec 30, 2014
    The Council recognizes that it is only one among many entities invested in mitigating, protecting and enhancing the basin’s species and habitat. The Council defines the program’s responsibility as

  20. Appendix F. Future hydropower electric development and licensing, and protected areas

    Dec 30, 2014
    The overarching sub-strategy and a summary of key provisions are in the main text of the program. Appendix F contains the substantive provisions of this portion of the program, in three parts; (a) fut

  21. Appendix H. Fish Passage Center

    Dec 30, 2014
    The Council has established an oversight board for the Center, with representation from NOAA Fisheries, state fish and wildlife agencies, tribes, the Council, and others to ensure that the functions a

  22. Appendix M. List of subbasin plans and adoption dates

    Dec 30, 2014
    Geographic subbasins in the Columbia River Basin and their adoption dates. See Subbasin Plans page. Subbasin NameYear Plan AdoptedAsotin2004Big White Salmon2004Bitterroot2010Blackfoot2011Boise2005Bru

  23. Appendix S. Responses to recommendations and comments, including findings on recommendations not adopted into the 2014 Fish and Wildlife Program

    Dec 30, 2014
    In this section of the fish and wildlife program (Appendix S), the Council explains its disposition of the program amendment recommendations the Council received at the outset of this program amendmen

  24. B. Fish Propagation Including Hatchery Programs

    Dec 30, 2014
    Strategy Use hatchery programs as tools to help meet the mitigation requirements of the Northwest Power Act. Rationale Hatcheries and other propagation measures are operated for multiple purposes:

  25. I. The Columbia River Basin

    Dec 30, 2014
    The Columbia is one of the great rivers of North America. Beginning at Columbia Lake, British Columbia, the main branch of the river travels over 1,200 miles through fourteen dams before reaching the
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