2009 FCRPS Progress Report Summary:  Includes pictures and graphics. (32 pages)

RPA Summary:  Lists the 73 Reasonable and Prudent Actions in the BiOp and summarizes accomplishments for each.  (92 pages)

RPA Detail:  A detailed description of actions under each of the RPAs.  (98 pages)

Project Tables:  A list of each of the habitat, hatchery, predation management, and reseach, monitoring and evaluation projects completed in 2008.  (173 pages)

In 2009, surface passage improvements for fish were in place at all federal dams on the Lower Columbia and Snake Rivers for the first time.

The same year, survival of juvenile Snake River steelhead migrating to the ocean reached its highest level in 12 years, a sign the fish are benefiting from improved surface passage. Tests at Little Goose Dam found that 99.4 percent of yearling Chinook, 99.8 percent of steelhead and 95.2 percent of sub-yearling Chinook passed the dam safely. 

The agencies reopened 264 miles of spawning and other salmon and steelhead habitat that had been blocked by impassible culverts, diversions or other obstacles. Since 2005 the agencies have restored access to a total of 845 miles of habitat.

Water transactions and irrigation efficiencies restored 190 cubic feet per second of flow to salmon and steelhead streams that otherwise dwindle or run dry at the same time fish are returning to spawn. This is an amount roughly equal to the average amount of water consumed by Seattle and surrounding cities.

Some habitat restoration case studies from 2009:

• Grande Ronde River channel restored for fish habitat: In the summer of 2009, approximately 50,000 yards of mine tailings were removed from 2.5 miles of the Upper Grande Ronde River in Northeast Oregon – an important habitat for ESA-listed Snake River spring/summer chinook, steelhead and bull trout.
• Salmon migrated upstream into the Taneum Creek watershed for the first time in more than a century today when crews put the finishing touches on a project to remove an irrigation diversion dam on the creek. See a video on the Taneum Creek restoration
• 6 Ranch River Restoration: Crews freed nearly a mile of Northeastern Oregon's Wallowa River from a straightened channel to a new course that once again resembles a natural river and resurrects prime spawning habitat.
• Hemlock Dam removal project: The aging Hemlock Dam no longer provides power or irrigation and is the number one limiting factor to the survival of listed Lower Columbia River steelhead in the Wind River Subbasin. Removing the dam will restore natural river conditions to Trout Creek, which once produced a disproportionately large share of the wild steelhead in this subbasin.  

Many of the projects in the Columbia Basin Fish Accords are part of the BiOp implementation as well.