Project Effectiveness Monitoring
PNAMP is focused on addressing the need to understand the effectiveness of watershed health and salmon recovery investments in terms of their stated outcomes. PNAMP works to coordinate initiatives begun by various state, federal, and tribal organizations in their efforts to monitor whether restoration and management actions ongoing in the Pacific Northwest are effective in restoring watershed health and their associated salmonid populations. The attention has been focused on effectiveness of habitat actions funded by the Northwest Power and Conservation Council through Bonneville Power Administration in the Columbia River and the associated pilot watersheds, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) restoration actions, Washington Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) restoration actions and the restoration actions and effectiveness strategy of the California Department of Fish and Game for northern California. An important component has been the initial development and coordination of reporting metrics for entities receiving Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Funds, and those receiving Bonneville Power Administration funding. The intent has been to avoid duplication of efforts, coordinating monitoring designs and protocols, and improving efficiency of data collection and accessibility to enable local information to be rolled-up for reports to Congress and state Legislatures on progress made.
Participants have met to work on specific tasks related to this topic, including an inventory of effectiveness programs in the region; determination of how to assess the quality of effectiveness monitoring programs; content development for the monitoring glossary. A small group is also focused on Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMWs) in the region and are continuing work to update the characterization of all IMWs in the region and look at what they address and what the gaps are.