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Environmental Conservation and Restoration Project Implementation Tracking Resource Center

Environmental Conservation and Restoration Management, planning, compliance and reporting: With the need to demonstrate accomplishments toward shared goals and with shrinking financial resources it has become more important to share results and accomplishments across jurisdictions, as well as, move toward more cooperative approaches for programmatic implementation of environmental resource strategies.

It is understood that most organizations have already developed data systems and may not be able to change data structure codes or terminology. However, PNAMP would like to identify opportunities to create tools and to crosswalk information between data systems and common reporting indicators. Agreement on implementation metrics, indicators (aka measures), and tools to allow consistent reporting will facilitate aggregation of information across agency jurisdictions or topics. For example, considerable work in the Pacific Northwest has focused on tools that track the implementation of projects benefiting listed salmon species, with prioritization based on salmonid limiting factors, threats, and viability attributes. However, additional requirements for tracking projects addressing other species like the orca, bull trout, sturgeon, rockfish, abalone, invasive species, or ecosystem processes will likely necessitate the development of additional or compatible implementation metrics.


This page provides an overview of implementation tracking systems related to:
     1. Project/action planning, strategies, prioritization and funding opportunities;
     2. Implementation subject categories, data dictionaries, glossaries, and standard pick-lists (Species names and codes, etc.);
     3. Project tracking and compliance;
     4. Implementation monitoring to support action effectiveness assessments;
     5. High Level Indicators, performance measures and standardized reporting;
     6. Limiting factors and threats;
     7. Development of work plans and work schedules for complex restoration strategies to support adaptive management (e.g. Biological Opinions or ESA recovery plans); and
     8. Data sharing, data transfer and interfaces.
 

Implementation Tracking Resources:

 

Links to existing implementation tracking systems and supporting documentation for those systems (see table below).
For information from the December 2009 workshop hosted by BPA, NOAA, and PNAMP and for more information about specific tasks please see "Workshop Results" and "Workshop Tasks".

 

Existing Environmental Resource Project Tracking Programs 

Agency / Entity Program/Project Web Link Supporting Documentation
NOAA Fisheries NWFSC Pacific Northwest Salmon Habitat Project (PNSHP) http://webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/pnshp  
NOAA Fisheries NWR Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) http://webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/pcsrf Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Phase II Data Definitions
NOAA National Estuaries Restoration Inventory (NERI) https://neri.noaa.gov/neri/  
NOAA/ USFWS Recovery Action Online Reporting (ROAR) http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/TESSWebpageRecovery?sort=1 or http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/ USFWS Recovery Action Online Reporting (ROAR) Data Dictionary
NOAA Permits Authorizations and Permits for Protected Species (APPS) https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov/index.cfm NOAA AAPS Appendix III - Glossary; NOAA AAPS Appendix VII - Take Options
NOAA Permit Consultation Tracking System (PCTS) https://pcts.nmfs.noaa.gov/pcts/  
NOAA Restoration Center Database (RCDB) http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/gis/data/hcr.htm NOAA Restoration Center Database Data Dictionary and Business Rules
NOAA Status and Trend Monitoring dB (STM) http://webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/ims/stm/  
Bonneville Power Administration Pisces http://www.efw.bpa.gov/contractors/usingpisces.aspx Pisces Metric Guidance by Work Element for FY2009
Bonneville Power Administration Taurus http://www.cbfish.org/  
WA Recreation Conservation Office PRoject Information SysteM (PRISM) http://www.rco.wa.gov/rco/prism/prism.htm Washington RCO PRISM Data Dictionary
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Habitat Work Schedule (HWS) http://www.hws.ekosystem.us/    
StreamNet Exchange Format Documentation Hard Copy StreamNet Lookup Codes
Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board Salmon PORT http://www.lowercolumbiasalmonrecovery.org/  
Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Oregon Explorer & Oregon Watershed Restoraton Inventory (OWRI) http://oregonexplorer.info/ or http://www.oregonexplorer.info/AdvancedMappingTool/imf.jsp?site=OREAll Oregon Watershed Restoration Reporting Form (2008); Oregon Watershed Restoration Inventory Instructions for Reporting; Oregon Watershed Restoration Inventory Project Metadata
The Nature Conservancy ConPro http://conpro.tnc.org/ Conservation Effectiveness Data Exchange Standards - DRAFT; A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threat and Actions (Salafsky et al.)
Foundations of Success Miradi https://miradi.org/ A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threat and Actions (Salafsky et al.)
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service HabITs, IPaC, TaILS, COED No Public Access  
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fisheries Information System (FIS) http://www.fws.gov/fisheries/fwco/pdfs/factsheets/FIS.pdf USFWS Fisheries Information System (FIS) Help and Business Rules
Defenders of Wildlife Conservation Registry www.conservationregistry.org/  
WA State Conservation Commission Conservation Practice Data System No Public Access  
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Ecosystem Restoration Business Line Under construction (December 2009)  
Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority Status of the Resource Report http://www.cbfwa.org/sotrver2/default.cfm