View 2008 FCRPS BiOp Progress Report summary and related documents.

The 73 actions in the 2008 FCRPS BiOp encompass a wide range of on-the-ground actions to help endangered salmon and steelhead. Throughout the Columbia Basin, tribes, states, local watershed groups and many others are working together to restore degraded habitat, open up passage for fish and get more water into streams. Hatcheries are being improved and carefully managed to help protect wild fish. Many of the projects in the Columbia Basin Fish Accords are part of the BiOp implementation as well.

This page also has links to information on a sampling of the many projects that are underway. The federal caucus will add new information regularly.

• Actions on the Pahsimeroi open up passage routes for returning salmon: Long-term agreements for irrigation changes have re-opened 10 miles of high-quality, spring-fed creek habitat on this tributary of the Salmon River.
• Willow Grove Acquisition permanently protects wetland habitat: Adjacent to the Columbia River just below Longview, WA, the Willow Grove property includes critical intertidal wetlands that are habitat to migrating and juvenile salmonids, including Chinook, chum, coho, steelhead and sea-run cutthroat trout.
• Lostine water transaction helps boost spring chinook returns: Increasing flows to the Lostine River opened passage for salmon and spawning habitat. Last year, 2,018 endangered spring Chinook salmon returned to the river, the highest number since the Nez Perce Tribe began monitoring in 1997.