Pacific Northwest Drought Management and Energy Availability: Oversight Field Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, First Session, May 19, 2001, in Tacoma, Washington, Volume 4 |
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Page 33 - ... treaty-protected fish resources. The CRITFC's primary mission is to provide coordination and technical assistance to the member tribes to ensure that outstanding treaty fishing rights issues are resolved in a way that guarantees the continuation and restoration of our tribal fisheries into perpetuity. The tribes...
Page 33 - Basin salmon restoration that documents threats to fisheries, identifies hypotheses based upon adaptive management principles for addressing these threats, and provides specific recommendations and practices that must be adopted by natural resource managers to meet their treaty obligations and restore the resource. The tribes...
Page 3 - STATEMENT OF HON. PETER A. DeFAZIO, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON Mr. DEFAZIO. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Page 33 - Commission (CRITFC) was formed by resolution of the Nez Perce. Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama Tribes for the purpose of coordinating fishery management policy and providing technical expertise essential for the protection of the tribes...
Page 90 - Mr. Chairman, members of the subcommittee, thank you very much for this opportunity to testify.
Page 40 - Council conducts long-range electric energy planning and analysis, and also prepares a program to protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife of the Columbia River Basin that have been affected by hydropower dams.
Page 38 - Tribe, June 9, 1855, 12 Stat. 945; Treaty with the Nez Perce Tribe, June 11, 1855, 12 Stat. 957. 2 The Bonneville Power Administrations 2001 Action Plan project solicitation is limited to actions that have already received necessary state and Federal permitting and can be implemented "on the ground...
Page 33 - ... must be acted upon in these areas: o Allocation of the conservation burden The tribes have identified the need to insure that the burden of conserving these salmon stocks is allocated fairly across those land and water uses responsible for their decline. Consistent with this need, the Commission has identified changes that hatchery programs, forestry, hydroelectric development; irrigation , mining and other development activities must make in their operations to ensure the recovery of salmon...
Page 89 - REFERENCES AND NOTES Anderson, JJ 2000. Decadal climate cycles and declining Columbia River salmon. In Sustainable Fisheries Management: Pacific Salmon. Edited by E. Knudsen et. CRI "A standardized quantitative analysis of risks faced by salmonids in the Columbia River Basin
Page 37 - ... egg-to-smolt survival, total smolt production, and production per spawning pair in salmon-bearing watersheds. Physical monitoring needs in all salmon-bearing watersheds include measuring substrate sediment loads, large woody debris, pool frequency, and volume, bank stability, and water temperature. preaches that integrate biological and physical monitoring with land management actions that protect and restore salmon habitat. The tribes plan calls for an expedited program of watershed restoration...