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Fish and Wildlife

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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The Fish and Wildlife Program

2025-26 Amendment Process 2014/2020 Program Program Tracker: Resources, Tools, Maps Project Reviews and Recommendations Costs Reports

Independent Review Groups

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  • Informal Hatchery Workgroup
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Adaptive Management Anadromous Fish Mitigation Blocked Areas Fish Screens Hatcheries & Artificial Production Invasive and Non-Native Species Lamprey Predation: Sea lions, pike, birds Protected Areas Research Plan Resident Fish Program Tracker: Resources, Tools, Maps Sockeye Sturgeon
Power Planning

The Council develops a plan, updated every five years, to assure the Pacific Northwest of an adequate, efficient, economical, and reliable power supply.

Power Planning Overview

The Northwest Power Plan

9th Northwest Power Plan The 2021 Northwest Power Plan 2021 Plan Supporting Materials 2021 Plan Mid-term Assessment Planning Process and Past Power Plans

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Climate and Weather Conservation Resources Demand Forecast Demand Response Fuels Generating Resources Resource Adequacy System Analysis Regional Technical Forum (RTF) RTF Policy

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AUG 2025
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26
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System Analysis and Resource Adequacy Combined Advisory Committees
SEP 2025
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09 - 10
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SEP 2025
TUE
16
9:00 am—3:30 pm
RTF Meeting
SEP 2025
THU
18
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RTF Policy Advisory Committee
SEP 2025
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23 - 24
Council Work Session
SEP 2025
MON
29
1:00 pm—5:00 pm
Regional Coordination Forum (RCF) - Adaptive Management Work Session
OCT 2025
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01
9:00 am—3:30 pm
System Analysis and Resource Adequacy Combined Advisory Committees
OCT 2025
TUE THU
14 - 16
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OCT 2025
TUE
21
9:00 am—4:00 pm
RTF Meeting
OCT 2025
TUE WED
28 - 29
Council Work Session on F&W Amendments
NOV 2025
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05
9:00 am—12:00 pm
System Analysis Advisory Committee
NOV 2025
THU
13
9:00 am—1:00 pm
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NOV 2025
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18 - 19
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DEC 2025
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Council Work Session on F&W Amendments
DEC 2025
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09
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DEC 2025
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16
9:00 am—11:00 am
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19
9:00 am—10:00 am
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JAN 2026
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13
9:00 am—6:00 pm
Council Meeting
4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program
JAN 2026
WED
21
9:00 am—4:00 pm
RTF Meeting
JAN 2026
WED
28
9:00 am—12:00 pm
Conservation Resources Advisory Committee
JAN 2026
THU
29
9:00 am—4:00 pm
System Analysis Advisory Committee
4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Kalispell)
4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Lewiston)
FEB 2026
TUE
03
4:30 pm—6:30 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Spokane)
FEB 2026
WED
04
4:30 pm—6:30 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Yakima)
FEB 2026
TUE
10
Council Meeting
FEB 2026
THU
12
4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Boise)
4:00 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Bend)
FEB 2026
TUE
17
4:30 pm—6:30 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (Seattle)
FEB 2026
WED
18
9:00 am—12:25 pm
RTF Meeting
FEB 2026
TUE
24
3:30 pm—6:00 pm
Public hearing on Draft 2026 Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program
FEB 2026
THU
26
1:30 pm—3:00 pm
Conservation Resources Advisory Committee
MAR 2026
FRI
06
9:30 am—12:00 pm
Demand Response Advisory Committee
MAR 2026
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10 - 11
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MAR 2026
TUE
17
9:00 am—4:00 pm
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MAR 2026
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23
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Public Affairs Committee Meeting
MAR 2026
TUE
24
10:30 am—12:00 pm
Conservation Resources Advisory Committee
APR 2026
TUE THU
14 - 16
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APR 2026
TUE
21
9:00 am—4:00 pm
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APR 2026
WED
22
9:00 am—4:00 pm
System Analysis Advisory Committee
APR 2026
THU
23
9:00 am—3:15 pm
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APR 2026
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27
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MAY 2026
TUE THU
12 - 14
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MAY 2026
TUE
19
9:00 am—4:00 pm
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JUN 2026
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TUE WED
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14 - 15
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21
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AUG 2026
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11 - 12
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09 - 10
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TUE WED
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OCT 2026
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OCT 2026
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20
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10
9:00 am—1:00 pm
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NOV 2026
TUE WED
17 - 18
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DEC 2026
TUE
08
9:00 am—4:00 pm
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DEC 2026
TUE WED
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  1. WEBPAGE
    Mar 16, 2022

    Power Act: 839b. Establishing the Council (USC numbered)

    its organization, practices, and procedures, and make available to the public its annual work program budget... at the time the President submits his annual budget to Congress.... Such payments shall be included by the Administrator in his annual budgets submitted to Congress pursuant... organization, the Administrator after Dec. 5 1980, shall promptly prepare and propose an amended annual budget...
  2. WEBPAGE
    Mar 16, 2022

    Power Act: 839b(h). Fish and wildlife (USC numbered)

    Any amounts included in such budget for the construction of capital facilities with an estimated life... be funded through that portion of Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) annual fish and wildlife budget... its recommendations to the Council for projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget... with the Panel, shall review projects proposed to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget... Upon completion of the review of projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget,...
  3. WEBPAGE
    Mar 16, 2022

    Power Act: 839d. Conservation and resource acquisition (USC numbered)

    B), 94 Stat. 2719.] 839d(c)(4)(C). note the proposal in the Administrator's annual or supplementary budget... implement any such proposal until ninety days after the date on which such proposal has been noted in such budget... Administrator shall make no obligation for the acquisition of such resource until it is included in the annual budgets... 2721.] 839d(h)(6)(B). include the cost of such credit in the Administrator's annual or amended budget... funds shall continue to be exempt from sequestration pursuant to section 255(g)(1) of the Balanced Budget...
  4. WEBPAGE
    Mar 24, 2022

    Power Act: 4. Establishing the Council (Council number formatted)

    its organization, practices, and procedures, and make available to the public its annual work program budget... at the time the President submits his annual budget to Congress.... Such payments shall be included by the Administrator in his annual budgets submitted to Congress pursuant... organization, the Administrator after Dec. 5 1980, shall promptly prepare and propose an amended annual budget...
  5. WEBPAGE
    Mar 24, 2022

    Power Act: 4(h). Fish and Wildlife

    Any amounts included in such budget for the construction of capital facilities with an estimated life... be funded through that portion of Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) annual fish and wildlife budget... its recommendations to the Council for projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget... with the Panel, shall review projects proposed to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget... Upon completion of the review of projects to be funded through BPA's annual fish and wildlife budget,...
  6. WEBPAGE
    Mar 24, 2022

    Power Act: 6. Conservation and Resource Acquisition (Council number formatted)

    4)(B), 94 Stat. 2719.] 6(c)(4)(C). note the proposal in the Administrator's annual or supplementary budget... implement any such proposal until ninety days after the date on which such proposal has been noted in such budget... Administrator shall make no obligation for the acquisition of such resource until it is included in the annual budgets... Stat. 2721.] 6(h)(6)(B). include the cost of such credit in the Administrator's annual or amended budget... funds shall continue to be exempt from sequestration pursuant to section 255(g)(1) of the Balanced Budget...
  7. WEBPAGE
    Jun 06, 2022

    Fourth Power Plan — Chapter 5: Forecasts and Resource Trends

    Congress has recently implemented a budget limitation on Bonneville's expenditures for salmon restoration... This could provide an adequate budget to maintain current river operations.... Water budget operation: This scenario assumes river operations as they were in 1991.... Case Water Budget Drawdown Proposal Tribal Proposal Energy Impacts (average megawatts) +500 -1,300 -3,000...
  8. WEBPAGE
    Jun 06, 2022

    Fourth Power Plan — Chapter 7: The Role of the Bonneville Power Administration

    general-purpose government entity (e.g., a state or municipal government), shortfalls are managed by shifting budget...
  9. WEBPAGE
    Sep 06, 2022

    Regional Technical Forum Manager Job Announcement

    provide management support for the body, assist with the development and implementation of the RTF budget... administrative assistants that support various process and operational functions of the RTF Manage and track budget...
  10. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Summary of Recommendations

    Bonneville should work with the Council on budgeting and evaluation of energy efficiency achievements...
  11. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Lower Columbia River Fishery Development Program

    Fully half of the budget for the program went to hatcheries in the 1950s, nearly 80 percent by the 1980s...
  12. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Hells Canyon

    The same year, the Secretary of the Interior sent a studies program and budget to the Federal Power Commission...
  13. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Fish passage at dams

    The Corps’ original budget for fishways at the dam was $640,000....
  14. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System

    adequate funding for fish and wildlife recovery, and the Review participants recommended that multi-year budgets...
  15. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Columbia River Treaty

    country to rely on the Treaty’s planned operations and benefits for purposes of managing their long-range budgets...
  16. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Bonneville Power Administration: Electricity

    Department of Energy, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and Congress, which reviews Bonneville’s budget...
  17. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    II_Legal_and_social_context

    meet its obligations, estimates of the reasonable cost for these activities (expenditure and capital budget... The Council works with Bonneville and others to develop budgets, implementation plans, and project recommendations...
  18. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    8_mainstem

    management Improvements in hydrodynamic modeling, mapping and investigations into sediment transport and budgets...
  19. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    8_public_engagement

    engagement as part of an evaluation of program success within the limits of the Council’s Public Affairs budget...
  20. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    II_investment_strategy

    Bonneville’s existing budget commitments limit its flexibility for funding new work, constrain expansion... rather than from Bonneville’s fish and wildlife budget to implement the program.... The Council believes that final determination of a yearly direct program budget should occur no later... ; so the budget is expected to be a rolling three-year spending plan, developed by Bonneville, that will... Funding should also be sought in general overhead budgets including Bonneville’s overhead for its Fish...
  21. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    C_independent_scientific_economic_review

    the ISRP to review the fish and wildlife projects, programs, or measures included in federal agency budgets...
  22. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    B_program_coordination

    activities must develop a work plan detailing the coordination elements, objectives, deliverables, and budget...
  23. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Energy Efficiency Targets

    The Council understands that although Bonneville produces an annual budget, it forecasts its revenues... For the first two years of the 2021 Power Plan, the Council assumes that Bonneville has budgeted appropriately... For the remaining years of the 2021 Plan, Bonneville should work with the Council to ensure that a budget...
  24. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    Recommendations on a Mainstem Plan for the Fish and Wildlife Program

    and Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) power emergency, as well as closing the state's biennial budget...
  25. WEBPAGE
    Mar 02, 2022

    2019 Northern Pike

    with the STOI’s funding request of May 31, 2017 to the Council and Bonneville Power Administration’s Budget...
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