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Watershed Monitoring


PNAMP's Watershed Monitoring group was the genesis of PNAMP, forming as a result of monitoring practitioners' willingness to collaborate to examine how physical habitat attributes measured.  The emphasis has been on improving abilty to share data and to identify best measurement techniques for physical habitat to make the best use of limited resources available for monitoring. Standardizing attribute protocols or creating crosswalks between protocols will allow agencies to answer their own management questions, as well as share data to help other agencies answer their respective questions. The group has evolved to using small workgroups to pursue areas of interest. Currently the focus is on: 1) a comparison of instream habitat assessment monitoring protocols (PNAMP Protocol Comparison Project - see Habitat Methods page) and 2) discussion of the development of status and trend monitoring survey design based on the master sample concept (Integrated Status & Trends Monitoring Project).   Also, with the help of NOAA Fisheries, PNAMP has brought experts together to help improve the state of the knowledge and consistency of Intrinsic Potential (IP) analyses and methodologies in the Pacific Northwest and California for salmon and resident salmonids.