Our new Biological Assessment is out - Klamath Basin Crisis

Klamath Project Operations Biological Assessment
Endangered Suckers: Environmental Baseline for Suckers
• Funding of Yurok Tribes Fisheries Monitoring Efforts
• Funding of Escapement data upon sun setting of Task Force
• Funding of Green Sturgeon Monitoring
• Funding of Lamprey Monitoring
• Funding for InterTribal Fish and Water Commission
• Funding of TMDL Model Review for Lost River
• Funding for Collier Map Model
Additionally, in a May 18, 2007 new release, Reclamation’s Klamath Basin Area
Office (KBAO), in partnership with other Federal and State agencies (California
and Oregon), participated in a basin-wide technical review process to evaluate and
rank a total of 16 proposals submitted under the Fiscal Year 2007 solicitation.
Reclamation was able to increase the available funding from the original
solicitation total of $650,000 to a total of over $1.6 million and, therefore, was
able to award grants to fund 13 proposals in FY 2007 The proposals were sought
to (1) restore the Klamath River ecosystem; (2) help enhance populations of
threatened coho salmon and endangered shortnose and Lost River suckers; and
(3) further the fulfillment of the Federal government’s tribal trust responsibilities
as they relate to the natural resources in the Klamath River watershed. The
projects funded in FY 2007 represent a variety of restoration, scientific research,
and planning approaches, with project grants varying from $48K to $366K.
The projects funded in FY 2007 were: Shackleford Creek Diversion
Improvement (Siskiyou County RCD); Bluff Creek Habitat Protection – Road
Decommission (Karuk Tribe); Lower Klamath River – Upslope Erosion Control
(Yurok Tribe Watershed Restoration Dept.); Keno Reservoir Treatment Wetlands
Feasibility, Phase II (Rabe Consulting); Whites Gulch Migration Barrier Removal
Project (Trinity County Planning Dept.); Plan, Coordinate, Manage Restoration
Projects in the Shasta Valley (Shasta Valley RCD); Baseline Habitat and Habitat
Usage: Salmonids of the Shasta River (Center for Watershed Sciences -
University of California at Davis); Cotton Creek Fish Passage Improvement
(Resource Management); Water Quality Sampling/Monitoring below IGD (Yurok
Tribe Environmental Program); Hotelling Gulch Stream Modification Feasibility
(Salmon River Restoration Council); Red Cap/Camp Creek Fisheries Monitoring
(Mid-Klamath Watershed Council); Fluvial Geomorphology and Vegetation
Monitoring – Sprague River (Klamath Tribes); Salmon River Temperature
Dynamics (Salmon River Restoration Council).
In Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008, Reclamation budgeted $4.8 million for CIP and
Endangered Species recovery activities to be expended within the CIP.
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