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Updates
Next Board
Meeting
The next meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery
Board will be held at 4:30 pm on June 23rd, at the Board’s
offices at 1110 W Lincoln in Yakima.
AGENDA
2009 SRFB
Grant Round
June 24, 2009: Sponsor presentations to TAG/CC
July 9-10, 2009: SRFB State Review Panel Site Tours
For further information on the SRFB process,
click on the “SRFB Grant” link in the blue column to the left.
If you have any questions
regarding this process, contact Angie at abegosh@ybfwrb.org
or 509-453-4104.
Board
and NOAA Fisheries receive Public Comment on the Yakima Steelhead
Recovery Plan
On September 24th, 2008, NOAA
Fisheries released the Middle Columbia River Steelhead Recovery plan,
which acts as the Endangered Species Act-mandated recovery plan for
steelhead in southern Washington and north central Oregon. This
non-regulatory plan sets objective goals for steelhead populations and
outlines the actions that will need to be taken to achieve those goals.
The NOAA plan incorporates the Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery
Board’s locally-drafted Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan as the guide for
recovery actions in the Yakima Basin.
The combined plans were open for public comment for 90 days. We are currently working with NOAA to
compile and respond to comments made on the Yakima Basin portion of the
Plan. For more information, go to the Recovery
Planning Page
Booklet
describes all SRFB Projects in the Yakima Basin, 1999 to 2007
We’ve completed a booklet that
describes all of the 44 fish habitat restoration projects in the Yakima
Basin that have received funding from the Washington State Salmon
Recovery Funding Board from its inception in 1999 to the last Board
meeting in December 2007. If you’d
like to learn more about habitat restoration projects in our basin, it’s
a great reference. Click here to
download your copy:
SRFB
Projects from 1999 to Present
Examples of successful projects include
providing fish passage and screening at small irrigation diversions,
planting riparian areas, acquiring and protecting land with high priority
fish habitat, restoring natural stream channel functions, and promoting
fish-friendly agricultural practices, and much more. Applications must go through a rigorous
review run by the Board and meet all state requirements for the SRFB
program. For more information
about the program, visit www.ybfwrb.org/SRFB.html
New
Program makes Endangered Species Act approvals easier for SRFB funded
projects
Thanks to the Governor’s
Salmon Recovery Office, the process of completing Endangered Species Act reviews
for SRFB-funded projects that affect Mid-Columbia Steelhead will get much
easier. A one page certification
that a project is intended to improve fish habitat, has gone through the
local and state-level SRFB technical review process and implements an
action described in the Yakima Subbasin Salmon Recovery Plan will be all
that is needed to receive ESA approvals.
This new process will reduce the time and effort invested by both
project proponents and NOAA in getting good fisheries improvement projects
on the ground. For a more detailed
overview of the program, see www.governor.wa.gov/gsro/ ; for more information
about the specifics of how this process can apply to projects already
underway in the Yakima Basin, please contact us directly.
Yakima Basin
Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board Created
On April 5th, 2006, the
Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board was created. The mission of the Board is to restore sustainable
and harvestable populations of salmon, steelhead, bull trout and other
at-risk fish and wildlife species through the collaborative, economically
sensitive efforts, combined resources, and wise resource management of
the Yakima River Basin. The Board is made up of representatives of local
governments that have signed an inter-local agreement (see sidebar for
list):
Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife
Recovery Board By-Laws
Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife
Recovery Board Interlocal Agreement
The Board is currently supported by
funding from the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife and the
State of Washington Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office. The Board is working to:
1) Refine existing
fish and wildlife plans.
2) Conduct future planning efforts.
3) Promote effective and efficient implementation of
actions identified in these plans.
4) Help coordinate basin research, monitoring, and
evaluation efforts.
5) Conduct outreach and education programs.
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Yakima
Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board
The Board consists of
representatives of the Yakama Nation and local governments in the
Yakima River basin. The Mission of the Board is to:
Restore sustainable and harvestable
populations of salmon, steelhead, bull trout and other at-risk fish and
wildlife species through the collaborative, economically sensitive efforts,
combined resources, and wise resource management of the Yakima River
Basin.
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