CX-033340: Wind River Watershed Steelhead Monitoring Project

BPA proposes to continue funding the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to conduct long term monitoring activities for the purpose of collecting status and trend information for Endangered Species Act (ESA) Threatened Lower Columbia steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). The specific activities necessary to achieve this purpose would be operating an adult trap at Shipherd Falls fish ladder, conduct adult passive integrated transponder (PIT) tagging, conduct snorkel or angling and spawning ground surveys, operate juvenile rotary screw traps at four locations within the Wind River basin, and conduct juvenile PIT tagging.