Yakima Basin HABITAT RESTORATION PROJECTS

BEFORE: Siphon caused a fish passage barrier AFTER: The cement siphon was replaced with during periods of low-flow on Cowiche Creek large polyethylene pipe buried below the streambed funded by Washington’s Salmon Recovery Funding Board & National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

1999-2019

Recovering Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout in the Yakima Basin

Biologists estimate that before 1850, between 500,000 and a million salmon and steelhead returned to the Yakima Basin each year. In the 1900s, sockeye, summer Chinook and coho were extirpated. Spring and fall Chinook and steelhead all dropped below 500-1000 fish by the early 1990s. This spurred significant efforts to improve habitats and develop conservation-oriented hatcheries.

In the last 15 years, populations have begun to rebound. Total runs have ranged from 5,000 to 40,000 per year and coho, sockeye, and summer Chinook are being successfully reintroduced. While the picture is promising, much work remains to be done. Steelhead and bull trout are listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) and other species are still well below their potential.

Habitat projects that improve conditions for salmon, steelhead and bull trout in the Yakima Basin are an essential part of efforts to delist steelhead and bull trout and rebuild all stocks to levels that support recreational and tribal fisheries in the Yakima Basin. The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board is proud to work with state, federal and local partners to make these projects possible.

1 Who are we?

The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board includes representatives of 22 local governments including Benton, Kittitas & Yakima Counties, the Yakama Nation and 18 Yakima Basin cities.

The Board:

• Coordinates funding for fish and wildlife restoration projects in the Yakima Basin • Develops strategic plans to guide fish and wildlife recovery efforts in the Yakima Basin • Supports efforts to implement priorities identified in its strategic plans • Evaluates progress towards the goals out in its strategic plans

Our mission: The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board's (YBFWRB) mission is to restore sustainable and harvestable populations of salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and other at-risk fish and wildlife species through collaborative, economically sound efforts that bring together diverse resources to promote wise resource management of the Yakima River Basin.

2 Who do we work with?

Private landowners, non-profit organizations, local governments and state and federal agencies all come together to implement cooperative projects to enhance fish habitat. The Board is proud to be able to support their efforts. Two major partnerships have developed to further fisheries recovery.

The Yakima/Klickitat Fisheries Project (YKFP) brings together the Yakama Nation and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop hatchery and habitat programs to restore salmon and steelhead runs in the basin. Key partners in salmon, steelhead and bull

trout recovery work in the Basin include: The Yakima Tributary Access and Habitat Local landowners throughout the basin Program (YTAHP) brings together the The Yakama Nation Washington Department of Fish & WA Departments of Fish and Wildlife & Ecology NOAA Fisheries Wildlife, Conservation Districts, the US Fish & Wildlife Service Yakama Nation, and non-profit US Bureau of Reclamation organizations to implement fish passage WA Resource Conservation & Development Council and habitat restoration projects in Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Benton, Kittitas and Yakima Counties Yakima Basin tributaries. Local Conservation Districts Local Non-profit Conservation Organizations Both YKFP and YTHAP are funded by the Bonneville Power Administration.

Our partners work on many different projects using a range of funding sources. This booklet focuses on the projects funded by Washington’s Salmon Recovery Funding Board, which is administered by the state’s Recreation and Conservation Office. For more information contact:

Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board 1200 Chesterly Dr., Ste 280, Yakima, WA 98902 509-453-4104 ● [email protected] ● www.ybfwrb.org

3 Salmon Recovery Funding Board

Each year the Washington Salmon Recovery Funding What is the SRFB? Board (SRFB) distributes money to on-the-ground fish habitat improvement projects throughout the The Washington State Legislature State’s Recreation and Conservation Office. This created the Salmon Recovery Funding funding is a mix of state funds appropriated by the Board in 1999. The Board is made up of 5 citizens, appointed directly by the Washington legislature and federal contributions Governor, and 5 representatives of from the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund major state natural resource agencies. (PCSRF). It sets the policies for the SRFB grant program and approves the funding recommendations made by the states The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board acts 25 lead entities. as the Lead Entity for the Yakima Basin. Under our contract with the SRFB, we solicit proposals for SRFB What is a Lead Entity? funding in the Yakima Basin, conduct local technical and community reviews of the proposals, and Lead entities are local, watershed- present the best of them to the SRFB for approval. based organizations that perform an Since 1999, the Yakima Basin Lead Entity has had 117 essential role in salmon recovery in Washington State. Each Lead Entity local projects approved for over $23.5 million dollars operates differently but the structure of SRFB funding. We also work with the SRFB and is always includes a committee of project sponsors to track the progress of funded local, technical experts (TAG) that projects in the Yakima Basin. This booklet gives a evaluates the scientific efficacy of brief overview of each SRFB project that has been each project and a citizen committee funded in the Yakima Basin. (CC) that evaluates the socio- economic factors of salmon recovery projects. This locally-driven, collaborative model ensures that funded projects are biologically sound and have strong community support.

Community Salmon Fund Projects The Community Salmon Fund was a partnership between the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and the SRFB. It funded smaller projects that emphasized community involvement in fish habitat restoration projects. In 2005-10, 15 projects from the basin were funded for a total of $536,269. These projects are included in this publication in their own section after Yakima Basin Lead Entity TAG and CC on a 2019 site tour. the SRFB project descriptions.

4 Other Sources of Funding

SRFB funding is one of many sources of salmon recovery funding. Almost all SRFB projects receive match funding from other sources. Typical match sources include local landowners, the Department of Ecology, the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA). In addition, projects funded by SRFB are often implemented by staff funded by YTAHP, YKFP, local governments and other partners. Projects that are developed and vetted through the intensive SRFB review process are often then funded by other sources. This coordination and leveraging across diverse funding sources helps us ensure that public funding for salmon recovery is used in an effective and efficient manner.

Some of the major sources of funding for salmon recovery in the Yakima Basin are:

The Bonneville Power Administration funds projects in the Yakima Basin to offset the impact of Columbia River dams on fish and wildlife. BPA supports Yakima /Klickitat Fisheries Program, the YTHAP program, and fish screen maintenance by the BOR and WDFW. Many SRFB projects rely on BPA cost-sharing. BPA funding is guided by the Yakima Subbasin Plan drafted by the Recovery Board and the Northwest Power & Conservation Council’s Fish & Wildlife Program.

The federal Bureau of Reclamation runs the Yakima River Project to supply water to farmers and others in the Yakima Basin. The Bureau’s Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Program (YRBWEP) implements projects that benefit fish by improving irrigation systems, increasing instream flows and protecting and enhancing important habitat. YRBWEP has been a key player in fish recovery since 1994.

Washington State’s Department of Ecology funds water quality improvement projects that are often integrated with salmon habitat restoration projects using a mix of state and federal funds. In recent years, Ecology’s Office of the Columbia River has funded large-scale habitat protection and restoration projects as part of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan, which is an innovative partnership that has brought together irrigators, local governments, environmentalists and many more to solve the basin’s water supply and conservation challenges.

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Community Salmon C1 Fund Projects Satus Creek Salmon Recovery 101 Funding Board Projects UV84 Wenas Creek TietonUV 113River UV19 0 5 10 20 Miles )"C11 UV75 14 Naches River N.F. Cowiche Creek UV UV8 49 UV 6 53 UV Yakima River 34 UV UVUV18 UV71 UV2 87 13 1 UV UV 7 UV UV54 UV29 UV67 UV UV26 66 UV62 UV 97 58 28 C5 UV UVUV )" 61 9 32UV UV S.F. Cowiche Creek UV UV77 C7 70 Yakima 5 )"UV Wide Hollow Creek UV Basin UV17 UV10 UV63 UV72 92 UV UV115 51 UV83 UV UV4 UV52 16 UV11 UV101 UV Ahtanum Creek 6 Project SRFB# Primary Sponsor Project Name Matching SRFB Cost Total Cost Status # 99-1712 Stormwater Management 1 99-1712 City of Selah $3,000 $95,000 $98,000 Completed Plan 99-1752 Taylor Ditch Assessment & 2 99-1752 Yakama Nation $6,681 $35,571 $42,252 Completed Restoration Kittitas County 00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower 3 00-1003 $179,356 $108,266 $287,622 Completed Conservation District Wilson Creek Yakima Greenway 4 00-1004 00-1004 Union Gap Reach Acquisition $10,243 $58,047 $68,290 Completed Foundation Yakima County Parks & 5 00-1015 00-1015 West Valley Community Park $9,107 $22,098 $31,205 Completed Rec 00-1703 Sprayfield Riparian 6 00-1703 Tree Top Inc $41,500 $92,300 $133,800 Completed Enhancement 00-1710 Yakima & Naches Tributaries 7 00-1710 WDFW $93,397 $32,112 $125,509 Completed Rootwad North Yakima 00-1711 Buchanan Ranch Restoration 8 00-1711 $63,252 $215,065 $278,317 Completed Conservation District Project 9 00-1713 Yakima County 00-1713 Floodplain Mining Study $243,165 $40,020 $283,185 Completed Yakima Valley Restitution 00-1714 Yakima Corrections Riparian 10 00-1714 $304,421 $139,509 $443,930 Completed Center Enhancement Team North Yakima 11 01-1238 01-1238 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screens $100,000 $142,179 $242,179 Completed Conservation District Northwest Service 12 01-1254 01-1254 Lmuma Restoration $27,221 $31,903 $59,124 Completed Academy North Yakima 01-1256 Cowiche Creek Barrier 13 01-1256 $21,045 $51,867 $72,912 Completed Conservation District Removal 01-1269 Naches River Water 14 01-1269 City of Yakima $1,534,357 $300,000 $1,834,357 Completed Treatment Plant Screen Kittitas County 15 02-1494 02-1494 Coleman Creek Fish Access $31,564 $101,774 $133,338 Completed Conservation District North Yakima 02-1527 Diversion 14 Fish Screen – 16 02-1527 $48,524 $218,900 $267,424 Completed Conservation District Ahtanum Creek Yakima County 02-1612 Riparian Enhancement Team 17 02-1612 $329,351 $159,141 $488,492 Completed Corrections Phase 2 Cowiche Canyon 02-1614 Snow Mountain Ranch 18 02-1614 $120,000 $670,000 $790,000 Completed Conservancy Acquisition & Barrier Removal 02-1617 Lower Naches Critical Habitat 19 02-1617 Yakama Nation $514 $114,593 $115,107 Completed Protection Kittitas County 02-1656 Dry/Cabin Creek Fish Passage 20 02-1656 $62,631 $126,873 $189,504 Completed Conservation District & Screening Kittitas County 04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek 21 04-1675 $75,944 $216,220 $292,164 Completed Conservation District Fish Passage Kittitas County 04-1676 YTAHP Wilson Creek Riparian 22 04-1676 $7,652 $18,378 $26,030 Completed Conservation District Restoration 04-1680 Holmes Floodplain Property 23 04-1680 Yakama Nation $22,346 $123,000 $145,346 Completed Protection Kittitas Conservation 06-2141 Cle Elum River Instream 24 06-2141 $178,600 $320,120 $498,720 Completed Trust Habitat Kittitas Conservation 06-2143 Upper Yakima Protection – 25 06-2143 $11,957 $29,463 $41,420 Completed Trust Hundley Kittitas County 06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal 26 06-2156 $395,484 $386,177 $781,661 Completed Conservation District & Screening Kittitas County 06-2160 Currier Creek – EWC Siphon 27 06-2160 $444,174 $255,050 $699,224 Completed Conservation District & Screen Yakima County Flood 06-2193 Naches River Floodplain 28 06-2193 $25,000 $141,175 $166,175 Completed Control Zone District Acquisition

7 North Yakima 06-2200 Schneider Habitat Project 29 06-2200 $60,299 $112,701 $173,000 Completed Conservation District Cowiche Creek Mid Columbia Regional 07-2020 Reecer Creek Floodplain 30 07-2020 Fisheries Enhancement $467,017 $385,982 $852,999 Completed Restoration Project Group Benton Conservation 07-1566 Lower Yakima River 31 07-1566 $45,554 $36,426 $81,980 Completed District Assessment Cowiche Canyon 07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection 32 07-1598 $207,819 $272,292 $480,111 Completed Conservancy and Restoration Cascade Land 33 07-1578 07-1578 Big Creek Property Protection $65,000 $355,000 $420,000 Completed Conservancy (Forterra) North Yakima 07-1572 North Yakima County Fish 34 07-1572 $56,809 $28,757 $85,566 Completed Conservation District Screening North Yakima 07-1567 North Fork Ahtanum Gauging 35 07-1567 $28,083 $146,607 $174,690 Completed Conservation District Station Fish Passage Kittitas County 07-1517 Indian Creek and Jack Creek 36 07-1517 $413,899 $351,448 $765,347 Completed Conservation District Culvert Replacement Kittitas Conservation 37 07-1551 07-1551 Taneum Creek Fish Passage $440,000 $276,814 $716,814 Completed Trust Benton Conservation 07-1899 Lower Yakima River 38 07-1899 $13,124 $54,676 $67,800 Completed District Restoration Mid Columbia Regional 08-1939 Jack Creek Restoration 39 08-1939 Fisheries Enhancement $11,679 $58,319 $69,998 Completed Design Group Mid Columbia Regional 08-1947 Swauk & Iron Creek 40 08-1947 Fisheries Enhancement $11,939 $63,274 $75,213 Completed Restoration Design Group Yakima County Public 08-1948 Upper Wapato Reach 41 08-1948 $100,000 $123,000 $223,000 Completed Service Restoration Kittitas County 08-1949 Coleman Creek Irrigation 42 08-1949 $58,608 $62,902 $121,510 Completed Conservation District Redesign Kittitas County 08-1952 Manastash Creek Diversion 43 08-1952 $930,000 $599,408 $1,529,408 Completed Conservation District Consolidation 44 08-1965 WDFW 08-1965 Wapato Reach Assessment $2,150 $12,181 $14,331 Completed Mid Columbia Regional 45 08-2001 Fisheries Enhancement 08-2001 Large Wood Replenishment $21,700 $110,025 $131,725 Completed Group Benton Conservation 09-1527 Lower Yakima River Fish 46 09-1527 $32,368 $115,362 $147,730 Completed District Screening North Yakima 09-1590 Matson Barrier Removal and 47 09-1590 $40,000 $201,702 $241,702 Completed Conservation District Trust Water Project Kittitas County 48 09-1612 09-1612 Teanaway 3M Ditch Project $57,970 $328,500 $386,470 Completed Conservation District Yakima County Public 09-1772 Eschbach Park Levee Setback 49 09-1772 $0 $122,608 $122,608 Completed Services & Restoration Design 50 10-1595 WDFW 10-1595 Yakima Beaver Project $39,643 $185,357 $225,000 Completed North Yakima 10-1753 LaSalle High School Riparian 51 10-1753 $23,703 $123,929 $147,632 Completed Conservation District Enhancement North Yakima 10-1764 Herke Fish Screening - 52 10-1764 $69,944 $170,123 $240,067 Completed Conservation District Ahtanum Creek Yakima County Public 10-1765 Eschbach Park Levee Setback 53 10-1765 $96,145 $284,424 $380,569 Completed Services & Restoration Mid Columbia Regional 10-1785 Yakima River Delta Habitat 54 10-1785 Fisheries Enhancement $22,852 $127,375 $150,227 Completed Assessment Group

8 Mid Columbia Regional 10-1786 Jack Creek Channel & 55 10-1786 Fisheries Enhancement $35,000 $170,000 $205,000 Completed Floodplain Restoration Group Kittitas County 10-1838 Manastash Creek Reach 56 10-1838 $20,538 $112,959 $133,497 Completed Conservation District Assessment Kittitas County 10-1847 Teanaway - Red Bridge Road 57 10-1847 $43,037 $243,877 $286,914 Completed Conservation District Project Yakima County Public 10-1909 Lower Cowiche Riparian 58 10-1909 $71,444 $143,160 $214,604 Completed Services Easement 11-1373 Rattlesnake Creek Side 59 11-1373 Robert Inouye $6,800 $37,733 $44,533 Completed Channel Restoration Kittitas Conservation 11-1564 Cle Elum River PH-2 Instream 60 11-1564 $0 $172,000 $172,000 Completed Trust Habitat Design Mid Columbia Fisheries 11-1320 Lower Cowiche Creek 61 11-1320 $32,462 $183,953 $216,415 Completed Enhancement Group Restoration, Phase 2 Yakima County Public 11-1600 L Cowiche Creek Restoration 62 11-1600 $0 $105,000 $105,000 Completed Services Design 11-1565 City of Yakima Floodplain 63 11-1565 City of Yakima $209,258 $375,400 $584,658 Completed Ecosystem Restoration Mid Columbia Fisheries 11-1321 Teanaway Forks Large Wood 64 11-1321 $0 $80,500 $80,500 Completed Enhancement Group Trapping Kittitas County 11-1525 Coleman Cr - Ellensburg 65 11-1525 $317,336 $482,480 $799,816 Completed Conservation District Water Company Project North Yakima 12-1328 CCWUA Barrier Removal and 66 11-1328 $350,007 $574,600 $924,607 Completed Conservation District Trust Water Yakima County Public 12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' 67 12-1327 $40,000 $223,400 $263,400 Completed Services Acquisition and Restoration Kittitas County Public 12-1358 Yakima River Assessment 68 12-1358 $22,198 $95,330 $117,528 Completed Works Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop Kittitas Conservation 12-1306 Gold Creek Habitat 69 12-1306 $17,250 $167,250 $184,500 Completed Trust Assessment + Conceptual Design Yakima County Public 12-1317 Yakima River Gap to Gap 70 12-1317 $4,760 $24,666 $29,426 Completed Services Habitat Enhancement Yakima-Tieton Irrigation 12-1350 YTID Tieton to Cowiche 71 12-1350 $75,000 $25,000 $100,000 Completed District Delivery Assessment 12-1307 Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem 72 12-1307 City of Yakima $88,768 $209,600 $298,368 Completed ph2 Mid Columbia Regional 13-1312 Little Rattlesnake Creek Road 73 13-1312 Fisheries Enhancement $0 $660,000 $660,000 Completed Decommissioning Group Kittitas County Flood 13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry 74 13-1315 $62,250 $354,000 $416,250 Completed Control Zone District Creek Assessment North Yakima 13-1320 Floodplain Restoration with 75 13-1320 $10,038 $56,881 $66,919 Completed Conservation District Beaver Dam Analogs Mid-Columbia Fisheries 13-1557 Bateman Island Causeway 76 13-1557 $5,580 $307,073 $312,653 Completed Enhancement Group Conceptual Design

Mid-Columbia Fisheries 13-1309 Lower Cowiche Floodplain 77 13-1309 $47,801 $202,675 $250,476 Completed Enhancement Group Reconnection, Ph 3 Kittitas County 13-1322 Ellensburg Water Co ‐ 78 13-1322 $0 $250,025 $250,025 Completed Conservation District Coleman Creek Intersection Kittitas County 14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish 79 14-1215 $28,745 $140,120 $168,865 Completed Conservation District Passage Projects

9 Mid-Columbia Fisheries 14-1203 Yakima Basin Stewardship 80 14-1203 $36,855 $208,810 $245,665 Completed Enhancement Group Project Kittitas Conservation 14-1214 Upper Yakima River 81 14-1214 $0 $133,260 $133,260 Completed Trust Restoration Mid-Columbia Fisheries 14-1238 South Fork Oak Creek Habitat 82 14-1238 $25,620 $144,551 $170,171 Completed Enhancement Group Enhancement North Yakima 14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration 83 14-1222 $0 $119,133 $119,133 Completed Conservation District Survey and Design North Yakima 14-1217 Naches River Side Channel 84 14-1217 $0 $61,184 $61,184 Completed Conservation District Preliminary Design Mid-Columbia Fisheries 14-1204 Reducing Road Density in the 85 14-1204 $12,030 $60,339 $72,369 Completed Enhancement Group Naches Watershed Badger Mountain 14-1348 Badger Mtn ID Riverstation 86 14-1348 $42,544 $133,766 $176,310 Completed Irrigation District Screens Mid-Columbia Fisheries 15-1144 SF Cowiche Floodplain 87 15-1144 $15,000 $84,314 $99,314 Completed Enhancement Group Restoration Kittitas Conservation 15-1153 Gold Creek Instream Habitat 88 15-1153 $0 $197,891 $197,891 Completed Trust Design Mid-Columbia Fisheries 15-1350 Yakima RM 153 Side Channel 89 15-1350 $0 $116,000 $116,000 Completed Enhancement Group Connection Design 15-1147 Yakima River Floodplain 90 15-1147 Trout Unlimited $3,900 $143,701 $147,601 Completed Assessment and Final Design Kittitas Conservation 15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic 91 15-1247 $37,980 $214,920 $252,900 Completed Trust Habitat Restoration North Yakima 15-1141 Ahtanum Creek Riparian 92 15-1141 $35,448 $200,668 $236,116 Active Conservation District Enhancement Kittitas County 15-1151 Parke Creek - Caribou Creek 93 15-1151 $19,020 $107,713 $126,733 Completed Conservation District Fish Screening 16-1606 Swauk Creek Permanent Flow 94 16-1606 Washington Water Trust $71,463 $247,850 $319,313 Completed Restoration Mid-Columbia Fisheries 16-1749 NF Manastash Creek 95 16-1749 $62,005 $204,495 $266,500 Active Enhancement Group Floodplain Restoration 16-1760 Upper Yakima Tributary Flow 96 16-1760 Trout Unlimited $43,340 $245,593 $288,933 Completed Restoration North Yakima 16-1753 Restoring Fish Passage on 97 16-1753 $39,237 $222,341 $261,578 Completed Conservation District Cowiche Creek Mid-Columbia Fisheries 98 17-1169 17-1169 Crow and Quartz Creek LWR $17,150 $96,694 $113,844 Active Enhancement Board

Mid-Columbia Fisheries 17-1177 North Fork Teanaway Large 99 17-1177 $73,450 $394,000 $467,450 Active Enhancement Group Wood Trapping

Mid-Columbia Fisheries 17-1239 Swauk Cr Floodplain 100 17-1239 $15,000 $85,000 $100,000 Active Enhancement Group Reconnection North Yakima 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen 101 17-1224 $45,000 $228,000 $273,000 Active Conservation District and Habitat Enhancement Mid-Columbia Fisheries 102 17-1173 17-1173 Yakima Basin Stewardship $38,940 $219,101 $258,041 Active Enhancement Group

10 Mid-Columbia Fisheries 17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at 103 17-1179 $61,618 $164,018 $225,636 Active Enhancement Group Bull Canal Diversion

Mid-Columbia Fisheries 18-1711 Teanaway Community Forest 104 18-1711 $46,600 $200,000 $246,400 Active Enhancement Group Floodplain Restoration 18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four 105 18-1709 Yakama Nation $54,888 $293,488 $238,600 Approved Tributaries Kittitas County 18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and 106 18-1648 $483,111 $396,811 $879,922 Active Conservation District Passage 18-1624 Ensign Ranch -- Big Creek 107 18-1624 Washington Water Trust $8,436 $47,758 $56,194 Active Flow Enhancement Design 108 18-1710 Yakama Nation Taneum Fish Passage at RM 1.8 $20,000 $91,000 $111,000 Approved Mid-Columbia Fisheries 18-1650 Ahtanum Restoration of 109 18-1650 $46,163 $122,858 $169,021 Active Enhancement Group Recreation Impacts

Mid-Columbia Fisheries 18-1651 Mainstem Teanaway 110 18-1651 $13,500 $75,802 $89,302 Active Enhancement Group Restoration Design at RM 8 Kittitas County 111 19-1427 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek $60,464 $168,691 $229,155 Approved Conservation District 19-1424 Tjossem Ditch -- Improving 112 19-1424 Trout Unlimited $49,000 $249,774 $298,774 Approved Salmonid Survival 19-1447 Tieton River Restoration 113 19-1447 Yakama Nation $0 $90,000 $90,000 Approved Design Site #4 Mid-Columbia Fisheries 19-1524 Upper Yakima River 114 19-1524 $36,431 $199,764 $236,195 Approved Enhancement Group Cottonwood Assessment 19-1446 Ahtanum Village Restoration 115 19-1446 Yakama Nation $0 $120,00 $120,000 Approved Design Mid-Columbia Fisheries 116 19-1430 19-1430 Spoon Full Side Channels $60,000 $338,295 $398,295 Approved Enhancement Group Kittitas Conservation 117 19-1502 19-1502 Hanson Ponds Project $0 $187,418 $187,418 Approved Trust Kittitas Conservation 04-1672 NF Teanaway River 21 04-1672 $80,000 $380,000 $460,000 Incomplete Trust Floodplain Phase 1 Kittitas Conservation 04-1679 Upper Yakima River Easton 24 04-1679 $53,000 $123,400 $176,400 Incomplete Trust Reach 26 04-1691 WDFW 04-1691 SF Cowiche Creek Protection $27,000 $146,985 $173,985 Incomplete 05-1571 Easton Reach Habitat 27 05-1571 Yakama Nation $306,500 $528,985 $835,485 Incomplete Protection Phase 2 Kittitas Conservation 05-1572 NF Teanaway Floodplain 28 05-1572 $83,000 $461,740 $544,740 Incomplete Trust Phase II Kittitas Conservation 05-1573 Currier Creek Passage & 29 05-1573 $10,920 $28,786 $39,706 Incomplete Trust Riparian Restoration Cascade Land 45 08-1476 08-1476 Wade Road Farm $19,000 $100,000 $119,000 Incomplete Conservancy North Yakima 09-1577 CCWUA Barrier Removal and 54 09-1557 $73,260 $413,133 $486,393 Incomplete Conservation District Trust Water Project Kittitas Conservation 65 10-1841 10-1841 Currier Creek Restoration $57,633 $326,590 $384,223 Incomplete Trust Kittitas County Flood 13-1347 Wise Manastash Creek 88 13-1347 $23,061 $130,680 $153,741 Incomplete Control Zone District Acquisition & Restoration Kittitas County Flood 14-1196 Manastash Creek Acquisition 91 14-1196 $41,522 $235,286 $276,808 Incomplete Control Zone District & Restoration 2 Totals $11,544,152 $23,722,261 $35,276,437

11 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

19-1502 Hanson Ponds Project #117 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $187,418 SRFB Cost: $187,418 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Cle Elum County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho, Rainbow Kittitas Conservation Trust (KCT) will use grant funding to assess potential and develop preliminary designs to enhance 81.7 acres and 2.34 miles of salmonid habitat. The project area is located at Hanson Ponds and the adjacent Yakima River in Kittitas County, south of Cle Elum. The project aims to increase the quality of main-stem and off-channel habitat for rearing salmonids. KCT will assess limiting factors and develop preliminary designs to improve function and habitat values. KCT wil alsol work with partners to develop an outreach plan to engage the community in salmon recovery at this popular recreational area.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

19-1430 Spoon Full Side Channels #116 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $398,595 SRFB Cost: $60,300 Cost-share: $338,295 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Northwest of Thorp County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho This rearing habitat enhancement project will provide 3,220 feet of groundwater dominated off-channel habitat for juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Yakima River northwest of Thorp, WA, near River Mile 166. Natural and artificial constrictions limit off- channel habitat availability in this reach of the river, and regulated flows make off- channel habitat critically important for young fish. Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCF) monitored groundwater elevations in the project area for more than a year and worked with an engineer and the landowner to prioritize two relic side channels to deepen and connect with the river. MCF will enhance habitat in the side channels through wood additions and planting along the disturbed banks.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

12 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

19-1446 Ahtanum Village Restoration Design #115 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $120,000 SRFB Cost: $120,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Union Gap County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout The Ahtanum Village proposal is a design-only request to restore stream and floodplain habitat along 0.83 miles of Ahtanum Creek in the City of Union Gap, Yakima County, WA. The Yakama Nation propose to complete final designs for a project that will increase aquatic complexity and floodplain function for Chinook, coho, lamprey and ESA listed Mid-Columbia steelhead and bull trout. The Yakama Nation acquired the 54 acres and 93 acre/feet of surface water rights in 2017. The acquisition of land avoided certain urban development in an area desperately in need of improved habitat for ESA listed species.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

19-1524 Upper Yakima River Cottonwood Assessment #114 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $236,195 SRFB Cost: $199,764 Cost-share: $36,431 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Upper Basin County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout, Rainbow Riparian forests form the foundation of lowland floodplain and channel systems. They provide shade, nutrient input, and large wood critical to maintaining channel morphology and habitat complexity for salmonids. The goal of this assessment is to understand the threat of riparian forest loss caused by river regulation and floodplain land use and identify forest restoration opportunities. Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancemet Group (MCF) proposes to assess riparian forest extent and condition on the Yakima River from the Teanaway River confluence (RM 176) to the Yakima Canyon entrance (RM 146). MCF will use results to create reach-wide and site-specific recommendations.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

13 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

19-1447 Tieton River Restoration Design Site #4 #113 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $90,000 SRFB Cost: $90,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approver Location: Oak Creek Wildlife Area County: Yakima Stream: Tieton River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout The Yakama Nation will develop a design to restore instream and floodplain habitat along 0.55 mile of the Tieton River within the WDFW's Oak Creek Wildlife Area. The Yakama Nation proposes to complete final designs for a project that will increase spawning and rearing habitat for ESA listed steelhead in the Tieton River. The objectives for increasing spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead in the Tieton River are to: increase overall channel length by reconnecting side channels and floodplain areas, increase/retain spawning sized gravels in the mainstem and off-channel areas, increase/retain the supply of functional large wood in the mainstem and off-channel areas, and restore/enhance riparian and floodplain vegetation.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

19-1424 Tjossem Ditch--Improving Salmonid Survival #112 Sponsor: Trout Unlimited Total Cost: $298,774 SRFB Cost: $249,774 Cost-share: $49,000 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout Unlimited (TU) proposes a restoration project to improve salmonid survival in the Yakima River. TU will work with local partners to eliminate surface water withdrawal and juvenile salmonid mortality associated with the Tjossem Ditch by replacing the Yakima River point of diversion with on-demand water delivery systems. The Ditch causes entrainment and mortality of ESA-listed steelhead and unlisted fish because the aging fish screen lacks an evident fish-bypass and is about 1 mile down-ditch from the head gate. Conditions and fish mortality likely worsen when the Ditch loses connection with the river and the fish become stranded in the Ditch. The completion of this project will retire surface water diversions, closing the headgate and the Ditch.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

14 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek #111 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $229,155 SRFB Cost: $168,691 Cost-share: $60,464 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Northeast of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Swauk Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout, Rainbow KCCD will consolidate two gravity irrigation diversions with non-compliant fish screens on Swauk Creek, northeast of Ellensburg, to a single, existing point of diversion. The two diversions are currently barriers to fish passage. The consolidated diversion will include instream rock structures to provide fish passage while allowing for diversion of water. A portion of the irrigation conveyance channel will be piped to reduce evaporation and infiltration and increase efficiency. Water savings will be placed in the Trust Water Rights program to benefit instream flow. Cottonwood will also be planted and fenced in strategic locations on the grazed land downstream of the point of diversion to provide shade and future woody debris.

Progress: Project has been approved by the SRFB and is awaiting contracting.

18-1651 Mainstem Teanaway Restoration Design at RM 8 #110 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $89,302 SRFB Cost: $75,802 Cost-share: $13,500 Year Began: 2019 Status: Active Location: Northeast of Cle Elum County: Kittitas Stream: Teanaway River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, Bull Trout, and Rainbow Trout This planning project will develop conceptual designs to activate a historic side channel to the Teanaway River, install large wood on the main channel, and restore floodplain function of two tributaries in and along 0.5 miles of the mainstem Teanaway River, a tributary to the Yakima River in Kittitas Co. The project includes nearby landowner outreach, alternative development, flood modeling, benefits and risk evaluation, and restoration alternative selection. The project benefits ESA-listed Mid-Columbia steelhead, spring Chinook, bull trout, and resident trout. The project area is primarily a WDFW property at river mile 8 acquired for conservation in 2017.

Progress: Steering committee has been recruited, design criteria developed, and the hydraulic model has been refined using survey data.

15 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

18-1650 Ahtanum Creek Restoration of Recreation Impacts #109 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $169,021 SRFB Cost: $122,858 Cost-share: $46,163 Year Began: 2019 Status: Active Location: Ahtanum State Forest County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho, and Bull Trout The Ahtanum watershed is a popular destination for recreationists; overuse of camping areas and illegal off-road (ORV) activity directly impacts spawning salmonids, damages sensitive riparian areas and increases the delivery of sediment to Ahtanum Creek and its tributaries. Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCF) propose restoration projects on South Fork, Middle Fork, and North Fork Ahtanum Creek to reduce recreation impacts on core bull trout spawning areas and improve watershed health. Actions will include: de-compacting and removing user built road, planting native vegetation, installing signage, installing wood and boulder to focus recreation activities away from sensitive areas, and gravel the dispersed campground.

Progress: DAHP and Yakama Nation have reviewed cultural resource report and agreed project would not have impact to cultural resources.

18-1710 Taneum Fish Passage at RM 1.8 #108 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $111,000 SRFB Cost: $91,000 Cost-share: $20,000 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Northwest of Thorp County: Kittitas Stream: Taneum Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Coho, Rainbow Trout Yakama Nation proposes to restore fish passage and habitat quality and improve floodplain connectivity to 1400 ft of Taneum Creek by placing woody material instream and by excavating pilot channels. The project is located on the LT Murray Wildlife Area at RM 1.8 on the mainstem of Taneum Creek near Thorp, WA. This site has suffered from a history of channel clearing and straightening that eliminated natural riparian vegetation degraded channel habitat. The current channel has a headcut with a vertical drop that is a complete barrier to juvenile salmonids and a likely barrier to adult coho. Wood placement will trap bedload to raise the channel bed, eliminating the headcut and improving floodplain connectivity.

Progress: Yakama Nation is working through contracting with RCO.

16 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

18-1624 Ensign Ranch -- Big Creek Flow Enhancement Design #107 Sponsor: Washington Water Trust Total Cost: $56,194 SRFB Cost: $47,758 Cost-share: $8,436 Year Began: 2019 Status: Active Location: South of Easton County: Kittitas Stream: Big Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, Bull Trout, Coho Washington Water Trust will complete a feasibility and alternatives analysis and a conceptual design to guide future removal of a surface water diversion from Big Creek. The second phase of a multi-phase effort initiated by Yakama Nation Fisheries and WDFW, this project proposes to improve passage and habitat conditions by removing the landowner's surface water diversion at Big Creek stream mile .7 and replace it with wells. This will add up to 1.7 cfs to the lowest mile of Big Creek, addressing low summer flows and high temperatures that limit juvenile rearing as well as eliminate an outdated surface water diversion which poses a risk for entrainment/impingement of juvenile and spawning steelhead as well as ESA-listed bull trout.

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18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and Passage #106 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $879,922 SRFB Cost: $396,811 Cost-share: $483,111 Year Began: 2019 Status: Active Location: Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Cooke Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Coho, and Rainbow Trout This project is located in the lower 1.3 miles of Cooke Creek southeast of Ellensburg. It addresses two irrigation diversion dams that are barriers to upstream fish passage and are not properly screened to prevent fish from entering the irrigation systems. The proposed project will construct a new diversion structure at the upper site, with a proper fish screen and concrete fishway for upstream passage. The lower diversion structure will be removed. Riparian vegetation will be established along approximately 0.4 stream miles. Cooke Creek is a tributary to the Wilson/Cherry Creek system and the project site is 3.5 stream miles from the Yakima River. There are no barriers to fish passage below the project site.

Progress: Designs have been finalized and all permits acquired. The lower diversion structure has been removed and the streambed restored. Construction of the irrigation diversion with the fish screen and fishway, as well as the pipeline installation, is ongoing.

17 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four Tributaries #105 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $293,488 SRFB Cost: $238,600 Cost-share: $54,888 Year Began: 2020 Status: Approved Location: Multiple County: Kittitas and Yakima Stream: SF Cowiche, NF Manastash, Taneum, and Swau Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook, Rainbow Trout, and Coho The Yakama Nation propose to implement restoration of stream/floodplain interaction by placing abundant pieces of large and small woody material in alluvial floodplain reaches in SF Cowiche, NF Manastash, Taneum and Swauk Creek watersheds. The overall goal is to re-aggrade streams to reconnect them with broad, formerly-wet meadow systems on public lands. This project replicates techniques used in similar stream reaches, which have been shown to profoundly increase stream/floodplain habitat functions, including side channel formation, riparian habitat recovery, pool formation, promoting in-channel complexity and spawning gravel retention.

Progress: Project was approved for funding with a condition placed to come back with additional information prior to implementation. Yakama Nation will be transferring sponsorship to Mid-Columbia Fisheries.

18-1711 Teanaway Community Forest Floodplain Restoration #104 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $246,400 SRFB Cost: $200,000 Cost-share: $46,400 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Teanaway Community Forest County: Kittitas Stream: Teanaway River and Indian Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, and Coho Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCF) proposes to restore Teanaway River complexity by placing up to 1,000 pieces of wood at strategic locations along 12 miles in the NF, MF and WF of the river. In addition, the MCF will re-contour over 5000 feet of artificial ditch networks in Indian Creek to reduce artificial drainage and will hand place bundles of wood slash throughout the Indian Creek floodplain to improve the function of a previous large wood placement project. The project site lies within the state-owned Teanaway Community Forest, which was purchased in 2013 as an element of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan. Restored streams will retain spawning substrate and floodwaters will inundate broad, formerly-wet meadows.

Progress: In August of 2019 a helicopter placed more than 1,000 pieces of wood and 1,400 cubic yards of slash in 1.5 miles of the North Fork Teanaway River. Additional wood was staged for ground-based work along the river.

18 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at Bull Canal Diversion #103 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $192,968 SRFB Cost: $164,018 Cost-share: $28,950 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout MCFEG will remove gated culverts within the side channel at this project site and replace with a bridge or culvert to improve conveyance/reduce sediment deposition, regrade accumulated material downstream of the gated culverts, regrade a 200-ft length at the side channel outlet that currently is a partial barrier for juvenile fish, and construct wood structures on the left bank of the Yakima River.

Progress: Bids for the project have come in higher than expected. MCF is working with a steering committee to determine next steps and will consider scaling-down the project.

17-1173 Yakima Basin Stewardship #102 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $258,041 SRFB Cost: $219,101 Cost-share: $38,940 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Multiple sites County: Kittitas Stream: Wilson, Jack, Oak Creeks and Cle Elum and Yaki Species Benefited: Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout MCFEG will complete stewardship activities for 7 sites. These will include weed control, fencing, and planting on 67.5 acres along 4 stream miles of Reecer, Cowiche, Wilson, and Oak Creeks and Cle Elum and Yakima Rivers. MCFEG will also complete maintenance of 3.5 miles of fencing along 2 miles of Jack Creek.

Progress: Stewardship is ongoing.

19 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement #101 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $273,000 SRFB Cost: $228,000 Cost-share: $45,000 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: West of Union Gap County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Bull Trout, Rainbow Trout NYCD will install several large wood, rock habitat, and floodplain roughness features. This project will also remove a small section of a remnant dike and install WDFW/NMFS compliant fish screen, fish bypass, and headgate. Stream regrading and grade controls will maintain flow into the diversion, eliminating the need for the irrigator to access the creek to build push-up diversion structures in the stream every year. The project will increase fish habitat complexity, improve floodplain function, and provide protection from entrainment for coho salmon, bull trout, and ESA listed steelhead.

Progress: To allow access to the project site, a bridge must be replaced to safely allow transportation of heavy machinery. To compensate, the project has been split into two phases, with phase 1 encompassing the installation of the fish screen and some irrigation impprovement elements. Phase 2 will include all floodplain and instream improvement treatments. Phase 1 was completed in 2018.

17-1239 Swauk Cr Floodplain Reconnection #100 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $100,000 SRFB Cost: $85,000 Cost-share: $15,000 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Northwest of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Swauk Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout MCFEG will work with WSDOT and USFS to improve floodplain connection and instream habitat. Primary objectives will be to install large wood structures, place individual large wood pieces In Swauk Creek/along floodplain, remove or lower railroad and road berms, plant native herbaceous plants, plant hardwoods in a narrow riparian corridor by stream, and change the inlet elevation of culverts in a meadow west of the project. The project is expected to result in improved spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead, resident Rainbow, and Cutthroat trout.

Progress: Wood placement was completed in concert with WSDOT's culvert replacement project.

20 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

17-1177 North Fork Teanaway Large Wood Trapping #99 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $467,450 SRFB Cost: $394,000 Cost-share: $73,450 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Within Teanaway Community Forest County: Kittitas Stream: North Fork Teanaway Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout The primary goal of this project is to complete final designs and construct structures to snag and retain large wood along a 3 mile stretch of the North Fork Teanaway River. These structures will be designed to increase floodplain inundation, increase pool frequency, capture gravels to cover exposed bedrock, and provide cover for fish. This project benefits Mid-Columbia steelhead and spring Chinook.

Progress: Permit-level designs for 10 large wood trapping structures have been developed. Additional funding has been secured through the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan to cover unexpected construction costs.

17-1169 Crow and Quartz Creek LWR #98 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Board Total Cost: $113,844 SRFB Cost: $96,694 Cost-share: $17,150 Year Began: 2018 Status: Active Location: Northwest of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Crow Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout MCFEG and Naches Ranger District will place 250-300 trees into tributary streams of the Little Naches. Adding large wood to the stream systems is expected to increase pool frequency and floodplain connection, and to trap spawning gravels. Wood placement will improve both spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead and Chinook.

Progress: NEPA has been delayed but the USFS remains supportive of the project, implementation is expected in summer of 2020. Yakama Nation Fisheries archaeologist has submitted their report on their cultural resource surveys to USFS and is awaiting a response.

21 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

16-1753 Restoring Fish Passage on Cowiche Creek #97 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $253,375 SRFB Cost: $215,369 Cost-share: $38,006 Year Began: 2017 Status: Complete Location: Northwest of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Rainbow Trout The primary goal of this project was to modify the Naches Cowiche Canal Association siphon, which currently acts as a fish passage barrier at low flows. NYCD will replace the concrete siphon, modify streambed, and complete on-farm irrigation infrastructure changes with two landowners. The modified streambed is expected to allow for improved flood flows, sediment transport, and passage for steelhead, Coho, and juvenile Chinook salmon.

Progress: Final design has been completed, all permits applied for, and cultural resources survey completed. An additional $10,000 SRFB funds was approved in August, 2017 due to higher construction costs than anticipated. The project was completed 04/30/2019.

16-1760 Upper Yakima Tributary Flow Restoration #96 Sponsor: Trout Unlimited Total Cost: $283,839 SRFB Cost: $241,263 Cost-share: $42,576 Year Began: 2017 Status: Complete Location: Southeast of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Spring/Summer Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow T Trout Unlimited and Kittitas Reclamation District lined approximately 1,652' of KRD's existing irrigation canal to limit water leaks.This will generate approximately 260 acre- feet/year in water savings that will then be released through metered turnouts from the canal to Manastash, Taneum, Big, and/or Little creeks during low-flow periods. Putting more water in the streams will improve fish habitat and access to high quality habitat during low-flow periods.

Progress: TU received a scope change to the project that added Tucker, Spex Arth, and Tillman Creeks to the list of tributaries that may receive the water for instream flow benefits. The project was completed 06/01/2019.

22 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

16-1749 NF Manastash Creek Floodplain Restoration #95 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $266,500 SRFB Cost: $204,495 Cost-share: $62,005 Year Began: 2017 Status: Active Location: West of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Manastash Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout MCF and Yakama Nation will complete a restoration project on Manastash Creek, which includes installing tree root wads and large logs via helicopters along 4 miles of creek owned by WDFW. These large wood structures will create places for fish to rest, feed, and hide from predators. It was also slow the water, reducing erosion and allowing small rocks to settle for spawning habitat and adding habitat complexity.

Progress: In October, 2018 2,066 full length trees were placed into 7.5 miles of North Fork Manastash Creek. Yakama Nation and MCF biologists directed the placement of logs and logs with rootwads into locations previously identified by survey.

16-1606 Swauk Creek Permanent Flow Restoration #94 Sponsor: Washington Water Trust Total Cost: $318,430 SRFB Cost: $247,165 Cost-share: $71,265 Year Began: 2017 Status: Complete Location: Liberty to Cle Elum County: Kittitas Stream: Swauk Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout WWT has acquired a senior water right on First Creek, this will add 1.71 cfs and 448.5 acre-feet/year of permanent instream flow to the lower 3.9 miles of First Creek and lower 7.5 miles of Swauk Creek.

Progress: Draft and final Reports of Examination securing the protection of the water rights instream have been completed. Place of use maps for water rights were created and detailed to ensured that the wate rrights purchased weere irrigating discreet acreages an in the full quantities claimed in the water rights documentation. WWT was able to show proof of beneficial use for 448.5 acre-feet of water, the full amount projected in application materials. Project was completed 04/30/2018.

23 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

15-1151 Parke Creek - Caribou Creek Fish Screening #93 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $200,722 SRFB Cost: $107,713 Cost-share: $93,009 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: Southeast of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Parke Creek/Caribou Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Rainbow The primary goal of this project was to relocate a Parke Creek diversion water right to Cherry Creek and consolidate and convert two Caribou Creek gravity diversions to a single new screened pumped diversion. These actions removed fish passage barriers and ensured all of the diversions have proper fish screens.

Progress: Project was completed 06/30/2018.

15-1141 Ahtanum Creek Riparian Enhancement #92 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $236,116 SRFB Cost: $200,668 Cost-share: $35,448 Year Began: 2016 Status: Active Location: West of Union Gap County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout NYCD will restore, enhance, and protect more than 25 acres of riparian habitat along 7,200 acres of Ahtanum Creek. Fencing, off channel water facilities, and livestock management will be implemented to reduce impacts along 6,500 acres of riparian habitat. Weed species will be treated at 6,300 trees, shrubs, and grasses will be planted.

Progress: Riparian plants and fabric mulch have been installed and a hi-tensile electrified livestock fencing installed for the north side of Ahtanum Creek. Herbaceous weed control and supplemental watering of vegetation will continue to ensure success. Stewardship to the existing plants throughout the project area was applied by controlling competing weeds and other vegetation. Replacement plans were installed in fall, 2019.

24 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration #91 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $252,900 SRFB Cost: $214,920 Cost-share: $37,980 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: William Creek near Blewett Pass County: Kittitas Stream: Williams Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat, and Rainbow Trout The Kittitas Conservation Trust designed and implemented culvert replacements that restore fish passage at two road crossing at Cougar Gulch, developed a preliminary design to restore fish passage at a Lions Gulch culvert, developed final designs to to restore fish passage at Williams Creek culvert, and completed NEPA reviews to allow future implementation of designs.

Progress: Scope amendment was approved in August, 2017 which removed implementation of road decommissioning and wood installation and changed completion of passage over 4 barriers to designs and completion of NEPA processes. Significant outreach efforts have been undertaken by KCT. Project was completed 12/31/2019.

15-1147 Yakima River Floodplain Assessment and Final Design #90 Sponsor: Trout Unlimited Total Cost: $151,718 SRFB Cost: $146,846 Cost-share: $4,872 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Spring/Summer Chinook, Steelhead, Cutthroat, Bull Trout, Kokanee The primary goal of this project is develop a restoration strategy to improve fish habitat and reduce flood risk in an impaired reach of the Yakima River. This will be accomplished in two phases: phase one will complete a comprehensive habitat assessment, restoration planning, and alternative evaluation. Phase two will select an alternative, finalize design, and complete permitting for the project.

Progress: Preliminary design plans, specifications, and estimates were completed in August, 2017. The project was completed 05/31/2018.

25 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

15-1350 Yakima RM 153 Side Channel Connection Design #89 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $116,000 SRFB Cost: $116,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: West Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Cutthroat, Rainbow Trout This project produced final designs for a restoration action that reduces the need for annual maintenance of a rock structure installed in the Yakima River to divert water to a side-channel, reduces fish stranding and mortality in the side channel and Wilson Creek, increases availability of Yakima River water for Bull Canal Ditch Company, and increases availability of off-channel habitat.

Progress: A scope amendement was approve June, 2017 downscoping from final to preliminary designs and addition of design of bank structures to the left bank of the Yakima River. The project was completed 08/09/2017.

15-1153 Gold Creek Instream Habitat Design #88 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $197,891 SRFB Cost: $197,891 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: Gold Creek near Snoqualmie Pass County: Kittitas Stream: Gold Creek Species Benefited: Bull Trout, Cutthroat, Kokanee This project produced preliminary designs documents, that implement recommendations in the Gold Creek Habitat Assesment and Conceptual Design. These design documents will focus on instream habitat restoration in lower Gold Creek, which supports a threatened population of Bull Trout.

Progress: $12,186 additional SRFB funds were approved in January 2017. Designs have been finalized and focus on instream restoration actions that will narrow and stabilize stream banks, restore adjacent floodplains, increase stream flow complexity and wood loading, encourage regeneration of riparian forests, increase quantity of pools with cover, and decrease the duration and extent of seasonal dewatering.

26 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

15-1144 SF Cowiche Floodplain Restoration #87 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $99,314 SRFB Cost: $84,314 Cost-share: $15,000 Year Began: 2016 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Bull Trout, Cutthroat The project installed wood structures along two miles of stream to restore in-channel complexity, reverse channel incision, and re-engage the creek with its floodplain.This project will provide benefits to fish and wildlife by increasing minimum stream flows, restoring the density and species composition of riparian vegetation, increasing the availability of pool habitat and cool water refugia during periods of high temperature and providing suitable habitat for beaver re-colonization.

Progress: A total of 31 structures, comprised of 1,400 logs total, were installed. Project was completed 11/30/2018.

14-1348 Badger Mtn ID Riverstation Screens #86 Sponsor: Badger Mountain Irrigation District Total Cost: $176,310 SRFB Cost: $133,766 Cost-share: $42,544 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: West Richland County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Juvinile Chinook Badger Mountain Irrigation District (BMID) installed six new, belt-driven fish exclusion screens at BMID’s existing water diversion intake from the lower Yakima River. The screens will replace five 38-year old screens that are nearing the end of their service life and one screen that is now absent. Upgrading the screens allows for consistent running time and better debris clearing of the screens, ensuring that juvenile chinook and other salmon and steelhead are not sucked into the irrigation pumps. The Badger Mountain Irrigation District will contribute $59,150 in cash and donated labor.

Progress: BMID installed six new, belt-driven fish exclusion screens at BMID's existing water diversion intake from the Yakima River.

27 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

14-1204 Reducing Road Density in the Naches Watershed #85 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $72,369 SRFB Cost: $60,339 Cost-share: $12,030 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: West of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Nile Creek and lower Rattlesnake Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead and bull trout The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group used this grant to help the Naches Ranger District decommission 4.72 miles of already closed national forest road in the Nile Creek and lower Rattlesnake Creek watersheds. As part of the decommissioning process MCF removed a perched culvert that block passage to 3 miles of Orr Creek. Forest roads at high densities alter stream systems, resulting in increased peak flows. The roads often are a source of chronic sediment input and can block large tree branches, logs and root wads from moving at stream crossings. This project benefits steelhead and bull trout, both of which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act.

Progress: Project is largely complete and under budget. Cost reduction was approved in September of 2017. Project was completed 12/30/2018.

14-1217 Naches River Side Channel Preliminary Design #84 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $61,184 SRFB Cost: $61,184 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: West of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: Steelhead, bull trout, Chinook, coho The North Yakima Conservation District used this grant to develop an assessment and preliminary design for a groundwater-fed side-channel in the Naches River floodplain, approximately 2.5 miles upstream from the town of Naches. Side channel habitat in this reach of the Naches River will improve habitat conditions for mid-Columbia steelhead and bull trout, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon, lamprey, and other fish species by providing refuge from the varying water levels that occur in the fall due to the flip-flop flow regime. The assessment focused on using the entire 50 acres of property along a half-mile of the Naches River to achieve the maximum possible benefit to fish. Work included site assessments, groundwater level investigation, hydraulic modeling, preliminary designs, and a preliminary design report.

Progress: Assessment identified favorable groundwater conditions to support the creation of off-channel habitat at the project-site. A chosen alternative was developed into a preliminary level design.

28 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration Survey and Design #83 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $119,133 SRFB Cost: $119,133 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: West of Union Gap County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, bull trout, Chinook and coho The North Yakima Conservation District used this grant to develop a preliminary design for a steam and floodplain restoration project in Ahtanum Creek, west of Union Gap. In this part of Ahtanum Creek, the banks don’t have enough plants and trees, the floodplain doesn’t function well, the channel is incised, and the bank is eroding, all of which translate into poor fish habitat. Limiting factors and restoration actions will be identified and prioritized to guide design inputs. The conservation district designed a project that encompasses about 1.5 miles of stream and more than 25 acres of floodplain. Ahtanum Creek is used by steelhead and bull trout, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon, lamprey, and other fish species.

Progress: Preliminary designs were completed and Yakama Nation has secured funding to finalize designs. Project was completed under budget. The proposed project has since been implemented.

14-1238 South Fork Oak Creek Habitat Enhancement #82 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $170,171 SRFB Cost: $144,551 Cost-share: $25,620 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: West of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Oak Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCFEG) used this grant to improve steelhead habitat in the north and south forks of Oak Creek. Oak Creek is a tributary to the Tieton River, west of Yakima. The fisheries enhancement group removed portions of a decommissioned road next to South Fork Oak Creek, allowing the creek to reconnect to the floodplain. This project also reduced the amount of sediment entering the creek, placed about 300 tree root wads and large logs to slow the water and create places for fish to rest and hide from predators, and planted native trees and shrubs along the creek banks. MCFEG also evaluated habitat potential in North Fork Oak Creek to assess the value of future proposals for habitat reconnection in the North Fork. Oak Creek is used by middle Columbia River steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act. The Mid- Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group will contribute $23,600 in cash and donations of labor.

Progress: An additional $11,461 in SRFB funds was approved in September, 2017. Permitting has been completed and knapweed sprayed in preparation for ground- disturbing work. Work was completed 12/30/2018.

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14-1214 Upper Yakima River Restoration #81 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $133,260 SRFB Cost: $133,260 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: Easton reach of the Yakima River County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, bull trout, Chinook and coho Kittitas Conservation Trust used this grant to develop final designs for restoration elements that will expand and enhance spawning and rearing habitat in a half-mile reach of the Yakima River about 7 river miles upstream of the confluence with the Cle Elum River. The project produced designs for large wood structures to be placed along the river’s edge to slow it and create places for fish to rest, forage and hide from predators. The Yakima River has a critical shortage of rearing habitat for small juvenile fish. The upper Yakima River is used by middle Columbia River steelhead and bull trout, which are both listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon and other native species. The land is protected forever from future development by a land preservation agreement covering 438 acres on both banks of 1.3 miles of the Yakima River.

Progress: Designs have been completed, which will add 2,500 feet of perennially accessible side channel, place 62 large wood structures, create 60 instream pools, and incorporate a 75' vegetated riparian buffer.

14-1203 Yakima Basin Stewardship Project #80 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $245,665 SRFB Cost: $208,810 Cost-share: $36,855 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: Various Yakima River mainstem and tributary locations County: Kittitas and Yakima Stream: Yakima, Cowiche, Reecer, Swauk Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, coho, rainbow and cutthroat The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group used this grant to protect previous Yakima Basin restoration investments by maintaining plants at eight restoration sites on the Yakima River and its tributaries. The arid conditions and intense weed competition mean that some sites needed more than 2 years of maintenance to establish robust, native plant communities. Work included weed control, mulching, removal of weed fabric, repairing fences, and selective planting and watering. At Reecer Creek, work included placement of tree root wads and large logs in the creek to increase the types of habitat found there. The Yakima River is used by steelhead and bull trout, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon, and resident rainbow, and cutthroat. The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group contributed $32,442 from a federal grant and donations of labor.

Progress: Additional $25,000 SRFB funds were approved in March, 2016. Scope changes were approved to sites 1 and 4 and the Swauk Creek site was removed from the project scope at the landowner's request. Installation of additional large wood in the new channel at Reecer Creek (related to SRFB# 07-2020) was removed from the scope after a technical working group confirmed it was no longer warranted. Additional

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14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish Passage Projects #79 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $168,865 SRFB Cost: $140,120 Cost-share: $28,745 Year Began: 2015 Status: Complete Location: Ellensburg, WA. County: Kittitas Stream: Naneum and Coleman Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook and coho The Kittitas County Conservation District will use this grant to install fish screens and correct fish passage barriers on irrigation diversions on Naneum and Coleman Creeks, near Ellensburg. Both diversions are currently the most downstream barrier on their respective streams and addressing these diversions is part of an incremental effort to continue to provide safe fish passage in the watershed. The creeks are used by mid- Columbia River summer steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as by Chinook and coho salmon. The Kittitas County Conservation District will contribute $28,745 from a federal grant.

Progress: $217,528 additional funds were added via the 2015 SRFB grant round. The original project scope included installation of a fish screen, sprinkler irrigation system, and fish passage barrier correction at the Coleman Creek site. Construction was removed from the scope of work because of challenges related to the landowner constructing a solar facility on their property.

13-1322 Ellensburg Water Co ‐ Coleman Creek Intersection #78 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $250,025 SRFB Cost: $250,025 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2014 Status: Complete Location: East of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Coleman Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead and Chinook The Kittitas County Conservation District used this grant to pay for part of a larger project to build a siphon at the Ellensburg Water Company and Coleman Creek intersection east of Ellensburg, in Kittitas County. The SRFB funding replaced the water company’s diversion with a structure that includes a fish screen and fishway for passage. The larger project also installed a siphon that carries canal water under the creek, eliminating a passage barrier where the canal now crosses the creek. The project is one in a series designed to provide safe fish passage in the lower 5 miles of Coleman Creek for mid-Columbia River summer steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as for Chinook salmon.

Progress: Construction was completed as of July, 2016.

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13-1309 Lower Cowiche Floodplain Reconnection, Ph 3 #77 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $250,476 SRFB Cost: $202,675 Cost-share: $47,801 Year Began: 2014 Status: Active Location: West of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Steelhead, Chinook, coho and rainbow Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCFEG) planned to use this grant to reconnect Cowiche Creek to its floodplain by removing 600 feet of railroad berm and reshaping the bank. MCFEG removed cement in the creek and floodplain, and planted 900 feet of creek bank and 1 acre of floodplain. Cowiche Creek is used by steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon, and rainbow trout. MCFEG will contribute $47,801 from a combination of in-kind and volunteer support, and cash assistance for mobilization from the USFWS.

Progress: A scope and cost amendment was approved in April, 2017 to eliminate from the scope of work removal of 600 feet of railroad berm. SRFB cost was reduced to reflect change in scope of work. Concrete removal has been completed as of Fall, 2017 and planting is ongoing.

13-1557 Bateman Island Causeway Conceptual Design #76 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $312,653 SRFB Cost: $307,073 Cost-share: $5,580 Year Began: 2014 Status: Complete Location: Confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, bull trout, Chinook, coho The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group (MCF) used this grant to identify alternatives for breaching the Bateman Island causeway, an earthen structure connecting the island to the City of Richland at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers, in Benton County. The presence of the causeway has altered river flow and water quality conditions. Flow modeling indicated that migratory conditions of salmon species would improve if the causeway were breached. The project identified alternatives that allow flow along the south side of the Island while accommodating recreational and emergency access. It also identified and worked to address the concerns of local stakeholders. Alternative development will consider: Mobilization of sediment deposited to the west of the causeway, bank scour, reduction of rearing habitat for non-native species, protection of marina resources, and relative project costs.

Progress: A preferred alternative has not been finalized. However, MCF will continue to support fisheries co-managers and regulatory agencies as they work with stakeholder and partners to select a preferred alternative.MCF will provide technical support and outreach materials related to past work and will continue to pursue funding to support ongoing temperature monitoring. SRFB funds were closed June, 2016. Project

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13-1320 Floodplain Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogs #75 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $66,919 SRFB Cost: $56,881 Cost-share: $10,038 Year Began: 2014 Status: Complete Location: Selah, WA County: Yakima Stream: Wenas Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook & coho North Yakima Conservation District used this grant to simulate beaver dams by installing biodegradable wooden structures across the floodplain and channel of lower Wenas Creek, in Yakima County. The biodegradable structures are intended to act like beaver dams, which create ponds, slow the stream, and cause sediment to build up, reconnecting the stream with its floodplain. The structures were installed on three properties on Wenas Creek. These three properties encompass more than 1 mile of Wenas Creek and 22 floodplain acres. Wenas Creek is used by steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon, and resident trout. The North Yakima Conservation District will contribute $10,043 from a state grant.

Progress: NYCD installed 19 Beaver Dam Analongs along lower Wenas Creek in Selah, WA.

13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry Creek Assessment #74 Sponsor: Kittitas County Flood Control Zone District Total Cost: $416,250 SRFB Cost: $354,000 Cost-share: $62,250 Year Began: 2013 Status: Complete Location: Naneum, Wilson and Cherry Creek watersheds, north and east of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Naneum, Wilson and Cherry Creeks Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook salmon This project assessed conditions in the Naneum, Wilson and Cherry Creek watersheds as part of developing of long-term management plans that addresses floods, infrastructure, fish habitat needs. The assessment fostered communication with stakeholders, including landowners, agencies, irrigation districts, local governments and non-profit organizations. Deliverables included an inventory of the streams and their tributaries for fish screens, passage barriers, irrigation control structures, and habitat suitability. Water rights and points of diversion were mapped. This assessment is a critical first step toward determining what is needed to restore fish passage into the Upper Naneum watershed, and building consensus on priority salmon recovery actions in these Upper Yakima tributaries. This project is expected to benefit steelhead trout and Chinook salmon.

Progress: Project completed in 2017.

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13-1312 Little Rattlesnake Creek Road Decommissioning #73 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $660,000 SRFB Cost: $660,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2013 Status: Complete Location: Little Rattlesnake Creek, West of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Little Rattlesnake Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, bull trout The USFS as part of this project decommissioned approximately 5 miles of Forest Service Road (FSR) 1501 from its beginning at FSR 1500 to its junction with FSR 1503 near the National Forest boundary. Little Rattlesnake Creek is a tributary to Rattlesnake Creek in the Naches River drainage in Yakima County, WA. It hosts steelhead and bull trout, as well as resident rainbow and cutthroat trout. The presence of FSR 1501 immediately adjacent to Little Rattlesnake Creek has reduced overhead canopy (and stream shading), degraded floodplain function, interrupted hydrologic processes, and is likely to have affected water temperature over time. Obliterating the first 5 miles of FSR1501 increased woody debris recruitment, allow for the development of complex habitat, reduce sediment input to the stream, and may allow for the reduction of peak water temperatures.

Progress: Project completed as of June, 2019.

12-1307 Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem ph2 #72 Sponsor: City of Yakima Total Cost: $298,368 SRFB Cost: $209,600 Cost-share: $88,768 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Mainstem Yakima River, Gap to Gap Reach, Viola Avenue County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Coho, spring Chinook, Rainbow, Cutthroat, Pacific Lamprey This project was the second phase of a floodplain and off-channel habitat restoration project along river mile 109 of the Yakima River in Yakima, WA. The project enhanced the connectivity of floodplain habitat by removing approximately 2000 feet of armored/unmaintained revetment. A portion of the Yakima Greenway trail that ran on top of the revetment was relocated outside of the 100 year floodplain. This project will lead to improved floodplain habitat on property owned by the City, the Greenway, Yakama Nation and Washington Department of Transportation. The project benefits steelhead, Coho and chinook salmon, lamprey, and resident fish. It will also have benefits for birders, walkers, joggers, and other users of the greenway path.

Progress: 2,000 feet of armored/unmaintained levees were removed to allow for more natural and unrestricted movement of fish, water, and substrate. This project was the second phase of a multi-phase project.

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12-1350 YTID Tieton to Cowiche Delivery Assessment #71 Sponsor: Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District Total Cost: $100,000 SRFB Cost: $25,000 Cost-share: $75,000 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Creek Basin and Tieton River Basin County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout The Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District (YTID) completed a feasibility study to evaluate how to upgrade and/or replace the 100 plus year old main canal. This grant was used to study how YTID could wheel water from the Tieton River Basin to the Cowiche Creek Basin to improve stream flow for ESA listed steelhead, salmon and resident trout in Cowiche Creek. The stream flow improvement would occur because YTID would deliver water to the creek users in the South Fork and Main Stem of Cowiche Creek above Weikel using water from the Tieton River instead of water from Cowiche Creek. The water normally diverted by adjudicated water right holders from Cowiche Creek would then be left in stream for fishery benefits. The study assessed options for delivering water to adjudicated water right holders on the South Fork and Main Stem of Cowiche Creek, and evaluate how any changes to the main canal could provide capacity for water deliveries to Cowiche Creek. This type of water exchange would have no impact on Total Water Supply Available.

Progress: The assessment is completed, has been released to project partners, and YTID is working toward long-term implementation.

12-1317 Yakima River Gap to Gap Habitat Enhancement #70 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $29,426 SRFB Cost: $24,666 Cost-share: $4,760 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Mainstem Yakima River, Gap to Gap Reach County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Coho, spring Chinook, Rainbow, Cutthroat, Pacific Lamprey Yakima County reconnected existing side channels and develop new side channels through a point bar complex in the Yakima River. The project will enhance habitat and flood conveyance through this reach and will facilitate natural channel forming processes and habitat enhancement. This location was identified in the Yakima Basin Steelhead Recovery Plan and others as critical habitat for salmonids in the Yakima Basin. The project also removed toe rock from a recently modified levee upstream of the Terrace Heights Bridge near Hartford Road. Side channel forming processes were initiated near the Washington State Park Property and the Yakima Greenway. All properties have existing flood control easements that will be exercised to allow the project to move forward. This project is expected to benefit Chinook and coho salmon, steelhead, and bulltrout.

Progress: At Hartford Road, the County removed 170' of toe rock from a recently modified levee and excavated 185' long starter channel to direct high flows onto the propery, which was not originally included by its importance became evident during construction.

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12-1306 Gold Creek Habitat Assessment + Conceptual Design #69 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $184,500 SRFB Cost: $167,250 Cost-share: $17,250 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Snoqualmie Pass in northern Kittitas County County: Kittitas Stream: Gold Creek Species Benefited: Gold Creek Bull Trout Kittitas Conservation Trust (KCT) assessed salmonid habitat in the Gold Creek watershed and produced conceptual designs for habitat restoration projects. Gold Creek supports an isolated population of ESA-listed bull trout. This assessment investigated issues that negatively affect bull trout in Gold Creek such as seasonal dewatering, spatial constraints and habitat degradation, and design restoration actions that employ natural processes to reduce these impacts. The Gold Creek Bull Trout population is designated as a high priority Action population in the Yakima Bull Trout Action Plan. Conceptual engineering plans for restoration actions were derived from this comprehensive hydrological, geomorphic and biological habitat assessment.

Progress: KCT collected data in 2013 & 2014 with a focus on late season low flow periods when dewatering is a problem. Results were presented at the 2014 Yakima Basin Science & Management Conference. Project Sponsor hosted a TWG in December 2014 and March 2015 presenting the preliminary restoration concepts leading to an alternatives analysis.

12-1358 Yakima River Assessment Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop #68 Sponsor: Kittitas County Public Works Total Cost: $117,528 SRFB Cost: $95,330 Cost-share: $22,198 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Mainstem Yakima River South of Ellensburg County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Spring Chinook and Coho The Yakima River Assessment- Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop project identified and prioritized habitat restoration actions for salmonid species in the Yakima River south of Ellensburg. The assessment identified priority locations for improvements in riverine and floodplain habitat that significantly increase the quantity, diversity, and productivity of habitats over a range of flows. Target species included steelhead, Spring Chinook and Coho.

Progress: The final report and companion technical memos summarize existing conditions in the project reach; explain the selection criteria and methodology used to identify and prioritize projects; identify and prioritize potential projects; and develop conceptual designs and cost estimates for priority projects. Cost increase was approved in 2013.

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12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' Acquisition and Restoration #67 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $263,400 SRFB Cost: $223,400 Cost-share: $40,000 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Lower Naches River near the City of Yakima County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout The purpose of the Ramblers Property Acquisition and Restoration Project is to allow the Naches River to reoccupy old side channels by removal of man-made constrictions and related sediment accumulations upstream of Nelson Dam in Yakima, WA. This project is a component of a larger floodplain restoration project planned for the Naches River. The project proposed purchase a total of 4 parcels, including 2 residences, placing an additional 32.07 acres of floodplain property integral for an upcoming levee reconfiguration project into public ownership. In addition, the project proposed removing 950 feet of private levee, established pilot channels through areas of sediment accumulations, and removed 2700 cubic yards of material from the floodway. This project will benefit Chinook and coho salmon, as well as ESA listed steelhead and bulltrout.

Progress: Yakima County acquired 2 parcels that comprise the island upstream of Nelson Dam and constructed 2 new channels. Agreement with the landowner could not be reached to acquire two additional parcels and remove 950 feet of levee.

12-1328 CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water #66 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $924,607 SRFB Cost: $574,600 Cost-share: $350,007 Year Began: 2012 Status: Complete Location: Along Cowiche Creek near Weikel and Zimmerman Roads County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Spring Chinook, Coho, Bull Trout This project increased flows in Cowiche Creek, provided fish passage and addressed screening needs at the two Cowiche Creek Water Users (CCWUA) gravity diversions. The project site is located 5 miles northwest of the city of Yakima, WA. This project eliminated the need to use the two Cowiche Creek diversions by creating a new 7.9 cfs water right on the Tieton River at the same point of diversion as the Yakima Tieton Irrigation District (YTID). An agreement between the CCWUA, YTID, and Reclamation was created, in which YTID uses its current pipeline infrastructure to transport the CCWUA water right to their existing place of use where a new pressurized pipeline taps into YTID's mainline to deliver water. The CCWUA 7.9 cfs Cowiche Creek water right was acquired by the Washington Water Project of Trout Unlimited and placed into trust down to the Naches River to improve instream flow in Cowiche Creek. This will benefit Mid-Columbia steelhead, coho salmon and Chinook salmon.

Progress: NYCD hosted a celebration on the Lust Property in 2014. The event attracted many attendees and highlighted the decade of coordination/negotiation with partners and willing landowners needed to make the project possible.

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11-1525 Coleman Cr - Ellensburg Water Company Project #65 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $799,816 SRFB Cost: $482,480 Cost-share: $317,336 Year Began: 2011 Status: Completed Location: Ferguson Rd., Ellensburg, WA. County: Kittitas Stream: Coleman Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, steelhead The Coleman Creek - Ellensburg Water Company Project constructed a siphon at the Ellensburg Water Company and Coleman Creek intersection and replaced their existing upstream diversion with a structure that includes a fish screen and fishway for passage. This project is one in a series designed to provide safe fish passage in the lower five miles of Coleman Creek. Projects have already been completed to provide passage into the first two miles, as well as providing fish screens to protect fish from entrainment and gaining Trust Water for instream flow through irrigation efficiency improvements. This project will improve fish access for Spring Chinook and summer steelhead.

Progress: This project was completed in the 2016 construction season.

11-1321 Teanaway Forks Large Wood Trapping #64 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $80,500 SRFB Cost: $80,500 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Tenaway Rd., Cle Elum, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Teanaway River Species Benefited: Chinook, steelhead, bull trout Streams with legacies of splash damming, timber harvest, and large wood removal lack the key large wood pieces that would otherwise act to trap smaller pieces. This project designed large wood trapping structures to function as key pieces at meander bends and at slope breaks within the rivers. In conjunction with this effort, the project sponsor conducted public scoping and education on the role of large wood in fish habitat. This project designed habitat improvements for spring Chinook, steelhead, resident rainbow and cutthroat trout.

Progress: This project developed preliminary designs (30% design drawings) for eight large wood trapping structures that would increase pool frequency, retain spawning gravels, provide overhead cover, and increase floodplain connectivity in one reach of the West Fork Teanaway River and two reaches of the North Fork Teanaway River in Kittitas County.

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11-1565 City of Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem Restoration #63 Sponsor: City of Yakima Total Cost: $584,658 SRFB Cost: $375,400 Cost-share: $209,258 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Mainstem Yakima River, Gap to Gap Reach, Viola Avenue County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Coho, spring Chinook, Rainbow, Cutthroat, Pacific Lamprey This project is a floodplain and off-channel habitat restoration project along river mile 109 of the Yakima River that reshaped a shallow gravel-pit pond in the floodplain, restored the pond’s outlet to the Yakima River and enhanced subsurface flow on the site and downstream. This required excavating the floodplain, re-establishing native vegetation, and replacing a 40 foot culvert with a structure that allows for unrestricted movement of fish, water and substrate. This project is the first phase of a two phase city project (see12-1307 for the next step). The project benefits steelhead, Coho and chinook salmon, lamprey, and resident fish.

Progress: This project was completed in the 2014 construction season.

11-1600 L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design #62 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $105,000 SRFB Cost: $105,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Powerhouse Rd., Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Yakima County Public Services used this SRFB Grant to complete a final design of a stream relocation and levee removal project on Lower Cowiche Creek at its confluence with the Naches River. Yakima County and the City of Yakima are continuing plans to relocate the existing Naches River Fruitvale Diversion and related structures upstream to the Nelson Dam location. This action will reduce the need for the existing Cowiche Creek/Fruitvale Canal levee system, which redirects Cowiche Creek onto an unnatural floodplain. This project produced a design for future setback of these dikes and relocation of Cowiche Creek to a more natural alignment. Yakima County is currently working with the landowner on Phase 1 of the project to create a conservation easement through the historical floodplain to accommodate this stream relocation project. Phase 1 was funded in 2010 (10-1909), Phase 3 will be Project Construction.

Progress: Design is complete.

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11-1320 Lower Cowiche Creek Restoration, Phase 2 #61 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $216,415 SRFB Cost: $183,953 Cost-share: $32,462 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Canyon Rd., Yakima, WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group used this grant to improve floodplain habitat on Cowiche Creek. Cowiche Creek is impaired by elevated water temperatures, high nutrient loads, and removal of native vegetation in many areas. The creek is constrained by dikes, and the banks have been artificially reinforced by concrete and other non-native materials. Mid-Columbia Fisheries set back a 500-foot-long dike, removed concrete from the channel and banks along another 500 feet, reshaped and replanted the creek banks, placed wood to create more diverse habitat in the creek, and reconnected floodplains and wetlands. The group also worked with other landowners in the reach to identify two more properties where restoration could occur in the future.

Progress: Scope and cost amendement was approved in April, 2017 to eliminate from project scope: removal of railraod grade, removal of concrete embankment/bank armor, constuction of 3 porous weirs/setback dike/pilot overflow channel, planting behind railroad grade, and fencing/gating. Added to the project scope: riparian planting adjacent to City of Yakima property, removal/disposal of debris along 5.4 acres, additional 1 acre of planting. SRFB cost is reduced by $109,476. Project was completed June, 2018.

11-1564 Cle Elum River PH-2 Instream Habitat Design #60 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $172,000 SRFB Cost: $172,000 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Morel Road, Ronald, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Cle Elum River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead, sockeye, bull trout This planning and design project produced engineering designs, exhibits and construction notes for eight large engineered log jams proposed for construction in the lower Cle Elum River. Project deliverables included concept design and evaluation, preliminary project design (30%, permit level plans and specifications) and final project design (construction level exhibits and bid documents). Site reconnaissance and extensive topographical surveys of the project reach, including LiDAR imaging have been conducted along with hydraulic modeling and geomorphic assessment and analyses. Stakeholder presentations, permit support, and regulatory agency review are completed. The designed engineered log jams (ELJ) are proposed for between river mile 7.0 and 5.0, approximately 1 mile downstream from the Lake Cle Elum Dam. The primary purposes of the ELJ’s is to restore instream habitat complexity, direct mainstem flows into side channel rearing habitat, and optimize freshwater habitat quality and availability in a flow regulated tributary to the Upper Yakima River.

Progress: Instream structure plans and specifications are complete and the completed designs were implemented using non-SRFB funding sources in the fall of 2014.

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11-1373 Rattlesnake Creek Side Channel Restoration #59 Sponsor: Robert Inouye Total Cost: $44,533 SRFB Cost: $37,733 Cost-share: $6,800 Year Began: 2011 Status: Complete Location: Nile Road, Naches, WA County: Yakima Stream: Rattlesnake Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The project improved fish access and habitat in a ¾ mile long side channel which runs parallel to Rattlesnake Creek northwest of Naches, Washington. The side channel was functioning but with limitations: fish could not enter at the top end due to irrigation ditch screening, and the entire side channel would freeze up when the irrigation ditch went dry in mid-winter. The project was completed in 2012, with major excavation and installation work accomplished during the August fish window. By September over 200 yards of new headworks and channel were in operation, completely separating the side channel from the irrigation ditch and screen. The new system connects directly to Rattlesnake Creek, allowing fish to freely enter and leave from either end.

Progress: The new side channel segment came in under budget, including 500 willow stakes installed along the new banks, a couple riparian acres seeded to mixed dryland grasses, two new foot bridges and two improved fords. The Department of Ecology recently issued the permanent water permit, guaranteeing a steady inflow for the side channel’s thousands of juvenile steelhead, coho and Chinook salmon. The project suffered significant storm damage in high flows in 2016.

10-1909 Lower Cowiche Riparian Easement #58 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $214,604 SRFB Cost: $143,160 Cost-share: $71,444 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Clover Lane, Yakima, WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Yakima County used this SRFB Grant to pursue a conservation/riparian easement near the mouth of Cowiche Creek. This property was identified in previous studies as critical for plans to return Cowiche Creek to a less confined floodplain. The landowner prefers to keep the land in agriculture and negotiated a Conservation/riparian easement for the future restored location of lower Cowiche Creek. This land is under heavy pressure for development and annexation into the City of Yakima and is one of the few remaining privately owned parcels in the Lower Naches River riparian zone. Design of subsequent restoration is being developed under Project 69.

Progress: Project was completed during te 2016 construction season.

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10-1847 Teanaway - Red Bridge Road Project #57 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $286,914 SRFB Cost: $243,877 Cost-share: $43,037 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Red Bridge Rd County: Kittitas Stream: North Fork Teanaway River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project involved correction of a fish passage barrier on the mainstem Teanaway River that blocked fish passage into the majority of the Teanaway watershed. The barrier was formed as a result of damage created during the January 2009 flood event. A head cut dropped the elevation of the Teanaway River to a point that forced water right holders to create rock and gravel dams to direct water into their pump station. This project constructed five channel spanning rock weirs to stabilize the streambed and return the river to an elevation that allows water to flow to the pump station. The project benefits summer steelhead, spring chinook and bull trout who migrate into the Teanaway River to spawn and rear.

Progress: Project was completed during the 2013 construction season.

10-1838 Manastash Creek Reach Assessment #56 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $133,497 SRFB Cost: $112,959 Cost-share: $20,538 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Hanson Rd., Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Manastash Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project identified, quantified and prioritized salmon habitat restoration projects in the lower 6 miles of the Manastash Creek watershed. With fish passage into the watershed nearly restored, the next logical step is instream and riparian habitat improvements. Major flood events in 2011 created interest among of local landowners and agencies, creating the opportunity to inventory and assess restoration projects that address habitat complexity, floodplain connectivity, riparian habitat, water quantity and water quality. This assessment was used to guide future project development. It was crafted so that it meets the requirements for the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project (YRBWEP) for a tributary plan, which opens up additional funding avenues for future projects. This project will benefit Spring Chinook salmon and summer steelhead.

Progress: Project sponsors worked with stakeholders and partners to put together an assessment of the lower 13 miles of Manastash Creek and create a blueprint for future projects.

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10-1786 Jack Creek Channel & Floodplain Restoration #55 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $205,000 SRFB Cost: $170,000 Cost-share: $35,000 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Teanaway Rd., Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Jack Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project restored streambank condition, floodplain function, spawning and rearing habitat in the lowest two miles of Jack Creek, a tributary to the North Fork Teanaway River. The project installed nearly a mile of barbed wire fence to exclude cattle from the right bank of Jack Creek, sloped back eroding stream banks at three locations, rerouted a USFS road, and installed large wood to prevent the stream from avulsing into the abandoned road bed. In the lower reach of the stream, a decade-old sediment plug was excavated to allow the stream to utilize an abandoned channel. Large wood was placed throughout the lower reach to enhance floodplain and channel roughness. Signs were posted to warn snowmobilers of the changes in the area.

Progress: Nearly 2,000 potted riparian plants were installed, mulched, and irrigated on a biweekly basis from June until September. Central Washington University interns monitored plant survivability, water quality, and cover class. A total of 3.5 mile of fence was installed, protecting 42.5 acres of riparian wetland meadow. WCC crews installed over 1900 live stakes. Snowmobile safety signs, flagging, and snow poles were installed along the new fence and a educational/Interpretive sign was installed.

10-1785 Yakima River Delta Habitat Assessment #54 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $150,227 SRFB Cost: $127,375 Cost-share: $22,852 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Yakima River Delta Habitat Assessment project assessed habitat and non-habitat factors influencing the success of salmon at the confluence of the Yakima and Columbia Rivers. Past work suggested that river temperature limits salmon species success in the area. This project conducted in-depth studies of temperature interactions between Yakima and Columbia Rivers, looked at how the landforms in the delta influence sediment and hydrology, and considered how fish move through the area in relation to predator dynamics. The project investigated the social and political feasibility of making the causeway between Richland and Bateman Island more permeable. The area is used by ESA listed middle Columbia River steelhead.

Progress: Completed bathymetric survey and installed data loggers to collect WQ data for two years. Modeled best options for breaching the causeway. Project partners met with the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Richland Parks and Recreation Commission, and the Yakima Delta Technical Advisory Group. The project results were presented at the 2013 Yakima Basin Science & Management Symposium.

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10-1765 Eschbach Park Levee Setback & Restoration #53 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $380,569 SRFB Cost: $284,424 Cost-share: $96,145 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: 4811 South Naches Rd. County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project removed the Eschbach Park Levee and relocated portions of the levee landward 800' from its original location in order to protect the Yakima Valley Canal head-works and fish screens. This project reconnects 100 acres of active floodplain habitat to the Naches River and also reconnects 2 side channels cut off by the 1974 levee construction. Relocation of the levee allows the Naches River to re-occupy its historic channel downstream within an area of excellent riparian habitat. The downstream floodplain and former side channels improved by the project are now owned by Yakima County, WDFW, and the Yakama Nation. The goal after project completion is to reconnect 2.1 miles of the Naches River to its former floodplain, with a net gain of approximately 240 acres in restored hydrology and habitat.

Progress: This project was implemented in 2014. The completed project provides fish access to over 37 acres of high quality, mature riparian habitat to the Naches River and reconnects two side channels that had been cut off by the original levee construction in 1974. Project was highlighted in NOAA's PACSRF report to Congress!

10-1764 Herke Fish Screening - Ahtanum Creek #52 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $240,067 SRFB Cost: $170,123 Cost-share: $69,944 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Ahtanum Road, Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: North Fork Ahtanum Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project consolidates two unscreened gravity diversions into one, and designed, fabricated and installed a compliant fish screen and water meter. Screening of these gravity diversions will decrease fish entrainment in this high priority stream for restoration of ESA listed Middle Columbia steelhead and bulltrout. The consolidated diversion is equipped with a modular rotary drum screen provided by the WDFW Yakima Construction Shop. A head gate and grade control structures were also engineered and installed.

Progress: Project is complete. The project sponsor continues to monitor the project and is working with the landowner to ensure precise operation of the measurement flume.

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10-1753 LaSalle High School Riparian Enhancement #51 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $147,632 SRFB Cost: $123,929 Cost-share: $23,703 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: 3000 Lightning Way, Union Gap, WA County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project restored approximately 16 acres on the left bank of Ahtanum Creek. Previous land use practices involved cultivation up to the edge of the creek to maximize crop yield, which left the floodplain mostly devoid of riparian vegetation. Restoration included intensive weed control techniques and chemical testing of the soil to determine appropriate species to plant. The site was reseeded; planted with rooted materials and stems (pots and bareroot) and followed with watering. Additional planting and site maintenance continued for 3 years in order to achieve the desired level of survivability. This project increases the functionality of the floodplain and the quality of salmonid habitat. It also enhanced the environmental education curriculum being taught at La Salle High School, as students were able to learn about the importance of restoration while watching activities happen on the ground. This project also complemented salmon restoration efforts conducted by the Yakama Nation.

Progress: The project is complete, except for supplemental planting and weeding. An updated stewardship plan was submitted to RCO in December 2012. Project Sponsor will continue maintenance through June of 2015.

10-1595 Yakima Beaver Project #50 Sponsor: WDFW Total Cost: $225,000 SRFB Cost: $185,357 Cost-share: $39,643 Year Began: 2010 Status: Complete Location: Upper Yakima Basin County: Kittitas Stream: Various Upper Yakima tributaries Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The WA Dept of Fish & Wildlife initiated this program to capture and relocate beavers from urban and agricultural areas in the Yakima Basin, where they are currently being lethally removed, and strategically re-establish them in priority upper Yakima River tributaries to improve fish habitat and restore riparian function, water quality and stream flows. The USGS reports that the upper Yakima hydrograph has shifted ~3-4 weeks earlier over the past 30 years, likely as a result of climate change. Restoring beavers in the upper watersheds will help counter this trend and provide better late season flows for fish passage, as well as improve fish habitat and water quality.

Progress: In partnership with Mid-Columbia FEG (MCFEG) and CWU, 130 bevers were released in 6 watersheds (Swauk, Teanaway, Manastash, Taneum, and Umtaneum), successfully establishing 12 beaver colonies (out of 34 attempted). The MCFEG partnership has been an efficient way to operate the project due to the flexibility of adding or subtracting staff as project needs require. CWU interns assisted WDFW/MCFEG in the trapping and relocation of the beavers. The sponsor received McNary Mitigation Funds to extend the project work.

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09-1772 Eschbach Park Levee Setback & Restoration Design #49 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Services Total Cost: $122,608 SRFB Cost: $122,608 Cost-share: $0 Year Began: 2009 Status: Complete Location: Eschbach Park, Naches, WA County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project completed designs for relocating the Eschbach Park Levee 800 to 1100 feet inland. The current location of this levee and adjacent levee systems that protect the City of Yakima Water Treatment Plant, the Gleed ditch intake and State Route 12 have degraded river and floodplain function through this 2+ mile reach. Relocation of the levee will allow the Naches River to 1) re-occupy its historic channel downstream through 41 acres of excellent floodplain and riparian habitat, and 2) reconnect 2 side channels that were cut off when the levee was constructed in 1974. The setback levee is necessary to protect the park and the Yakima Valley Canal head-works and fish screens from floods. The ultimate goal of this project was to improve hydrologic function across 2.1 miles of the Naches River and approximately 240 acres of its floodplain.

Progress: Levee setback and restoration deign was completed in 2012. The design was implemented in 2014 (SRFB Project # 10-1765).

09-1612 Teanaway 3M Ditch Project #48 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $386,470 SRFB Cost: $328,500 Cost-share: $57,970 Year Began: 2009 Status: Complete Location: Teanaway Rd. County: Kittitas Stream: Teanaway Creek Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho The Teanaway River provides important habitat for steelhead, spring Chinook and bull trout. The 3-M Ditch was the largest remaining gravity-fed irrigation ditch on the Teanaway River. The 3M Ditch intake on the Teanaway River included a gravel push- up dam that significantly interfered with fish passage during summer and fall low flows. Low flows below the diversion impacted both passage and temperature. This project improved irrigation efficiency, moved diversions downstream, allowed for the abandonment of the old ditch and diversion, thereby leaving more water instream. Individual irrigators are also working with the Washington Water Trust to enroll additional saved water in the Trust Water Rights Program.

Progress: The Kittitas Conservation District decommissioned the 3M Ditch, a gravity irrigation diversion the Teanaway River, by helping 6 landowners convert to alternative irrigation supplies. The goal of the project was to provide fish passage and improved instream flow to the Teanaway River during the irrigation season.

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09-1590 Matson Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project #47 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $241,702 SRFB Cost: $201,702 Cost-share: $40,000 Year Began: 2009 Status: Complete Location: Nile Road County: Yakima Stream: Nile Creek Species Benefited: coho, steelhead This project removed the only significant diversion on Nile Creek, removed a partial fish passage barrier, and eliminated the possibility of fish entering the existing irrigation system. The point of diversion was moved to a pumping station outfitted with a compliant fish screen and water meter on the neighboring Naches River, where water is then pumped to the landowner’s cherry orchard. This allows 3.75 cfs of Nile Creek water to remain instream down to the confluence with the Naches River, significantly improving fish passage and rearing conditions in Nile Creek, a productive steelhead stream with a large forested watershed.

Progress: Diversion removal, pumping station, and pipeline was completed in 2012. The forbearance and temporary change of diversion are in place.

09-1527 Lower Yakima River Fish Screening #46 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $147,730 SRFB Cost: $115,362 Cost-share: $32,368 Year Began: 2009 Status: Complete Location: Lower Yakima River within the confines of Benton County County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The lower Yakima River is a critical migration corridor for coho, spring and fall chinook, and federally listed steelhead. It also provides valuable spawning habitat for fall chinook. Installing new fish screens and replacing older non-compliant fish screens reduces juvenile entrapment and mortality. This grant installed six National Marine Fisheries Service compliant screens in the Lower Yakima River and promoted landowner awareness about the importance of fish screens for juvenile salmonid survival.

Progress: The Benton Conservation District, with funding from RCO, cost-shared on the installation of six National Marine Fisheries Service compliant screens on the lower Yakima River between 2010 and 2012. This grant funded installation of new screens for landowners who were placed on the waiting list in when the 2007 grant funding was being implemented (see #44).

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08-2001 Large Wood Replenishment #45 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $131,725 SRFB Cost: $110,025 Cost-share: $21,700 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: Yakima Basin County: Yakima and Kittitas Stream: Various tributaries in the Yakima Basin Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group used this grant to place large woody debris in high-priority areas in the Yakima basin. This created more pools, better spawning areas, cooler water, better connection to the floodplain and increased mixing of surface water and groundwater. The wood used in this project was harvested from adjacent forests, providing the additional benefit of decreasing fire potential and making riverside trees less susceptible to insect damage. Project sites are on land managed by the USDA Forest Service.

Progress: The project placed 225 trees in 5 miles of stream during the summer of 2013. MCFEG notes the result of instream wood reconnecting floodplain meadows was immediate & exciting. The project worked with larger diameter trees than usual.

08-1965 Wapato Reach Assessment #44 Sponsor: WDFW Total Cost: $14,331 SRFB Cost: $12,181 Cost-share: $2,150 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: Left bank Mainstem Yakima from Union Gap to the Satus Creek confluence . County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and Yakama Nation used this grant to identify opportunities to protect and restore habitat along the Yakima River in the Wapato Reach. Restoration opportunities identified include removing dikes and foreign material that limit floodplain function, enhancing side channels and restoring streamside plants. The project also assessed priorities for habitat protection via acquisitions, conservation easements and cooperative agreements. A local technical advisory group reviewed and prioritized all restoration actions identified in this assessment.

Progress: Sponsorship of the assessment changed from WDFW to the Yakama Nation. This grant for the Wapato Reach Assessment was closed and a new project, number 10-1925 Wapato Reach Assessment 2 created with the identical scope of work. The Yakama Nation worked with partners to complete the Assessment in 2012; copies are available on the YBFWRB website.

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08-1952 Manastash Creek Diversion Consolidation #43 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $1,529,408 SRFB Cost: $599,408 Cost-share: $930,000 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: Manastash Road, Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Manastash Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Kittitas County Conservation District used this grant to build a pipeline to consolidate four diversions on Manastash Creek into one. This project installed a 1.6 mile pipeline system that will deliver irrigation water from the enlarged Manastash Water Ditch Association diversion to the Hatfield, Reed and Anderson ditches. The pipeline eliminates the need to build fish screens and fish passage facilities at the Hatfield Ditch, Reed Ditch and Anderson diversions. The diversion structures and headgates at Hatfield, Reed and Anderson will be removed, completing the Manastash Creek Restoration Project, which has been addressing unscreened surface water diversions and fish passage barriers on the creek. The Kittitas County Conservation District contributed $1,622,392 from federal, state and other grants.

Progress: The Kittitas County Conservation District completed work to address two unscreened diversions at the Hatfield Ditch and Red Ditch diversions on lower Manastash Creek. The completed work is part of a series of sub-projects being conducted as part of the overall "Manastash Creek Restoration Project."

08-1949 Coleman Creek Irrigation Redesign #42 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $121,510 SRFB Cost: $62,902 Cost-share: $58,608 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: N. Ferguson Rd., Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Coleman Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Kittitas County Conservation District used this grant to design solutions for five fish passage barriers on Coleman Creek. Coleman Creek currently passes under the Ellensburg Water Company Canal in a small pipe. EWC diverts their water upstream at a full channel spanning structure that blocks fish passage and does not have a fish screen. Three other diversions also block fish passage. The project produced bid ready designs and specifications for a siphon to fully separate the Ellensburg Water Company Canal from Coleman Creek and for a passable structure and fish screen for the water company diversion. The project also created recommendations for providing water to the lower diversions that eliminate the need for fish screens.

Progress: Designs are complete. Construction funding was allocated under SRFB grant # 11-1525 Coleman Creek - Ellensburg Water Company Project.

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08-1948 Upper Wapato Reach Restoration #41 Sponsor: Yakima County Public Service Total Cost: $223,000 SRFB Cost: $123,000 Cost-share: $100,000 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: WDFW's Sunnyside Wildlife Area just upstream of the Donald/Wapato Bridge County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, coho The project restored a section of floodplain on the Upper Wapato Reach of the Yakima River. The County removed existing waste concrete armor and abandoned levee systems to improve the area available for flood storage and function and allow the development of side channel habitats on lands already managed for conservation purposes. The project also revegetated areas with native species that are currently dominated by invasives to improve upland habitats, reduce the source areas for invasive plants in this reach, and revegetate a bank that is eroding at a high rate due to lack of vegetation.

Progress: The County installed 400 plants along the eroding bank in the upper end in 2010. The waste concrete was removed from the WDFW lands in 2011 using county crews and equipment. The County removed the remainder of the armor from the island in the river in 2012 and also knocked down the levee on the WDFW land and completed a fall planting at both locations.

08-1947 Swauk & Iron Creek Restoration Design #40 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $75,213 SRFB Cost: $63,274 Cost-share: $11,939 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: The first mile of Iron Creek above its mouth, and RM 17.3 to 18.8 of Swauk Cre County: Kittitas Stream: Swauk and Iron Creeks Species Benefited: Chinook, steelhead This project identified restoration alternatives for a 1.5-mile reach of Swauk Creek and a 1-mile reach of Iron Creek. Swauk Creek and its tributaries provide spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead and Chinook salmon. The alternatives were designed to enhance groundwater storage, increase in-stream habitat complexity, and improve the condition of riparian habitat within the constraints of the existing road and highway system.

Progress: The design phase of this project was completed in March, 2011, with the final drafts of feasibility reports from Interfluve, Inc. The reports identify options for improving fish habitat and passage, enhancing wetland conditions, and increasing water retention, which would improve downstream baseflows. Implementation of one restoration alternative, large wood replenishment, is being funded through SRFB project 08-2001. Additional restoration alternatives are larger in scope, and depend on coordination with future changes to Highway 97. The feasibility reports have been shared with WA State Department of Transportation.

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08-1939 Jack Creek Restoration Design #39 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $69,998 SRFB Cost: $58,319 Cost-share: $11,679 Year Began: 2008 Status: Complete Location: Teanaway Road, Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Jack Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, steelhead The Mid-Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group used this grant to design a restoration project for about 2 miles of Jack Creek, a tributary to the North Fork Teanaway River. The U.S. Forest Service and the Kittitas County Conservation District are working on several projects in the immediate area. This created an opportunity to design a comprehensive stream restoration project. The creek had been degraded by grazing, logging, and road and railroad construction. The restoration project focused on restoring the stream banks and channel and reconnecting it with its floodplain.

Progress: The design phase of this project was completed in March, 2011, with the final draft of a feasibility report from Interfluve, Inc. The report identifies options for increasing shade, decreasing sediment input from streambanks, and enhancing channel and floodplain complexity. Project implementation has been partially funded through a 2010 SRFB grant (#10-1786), and was largely completed in the fall of 2012.

07-1899 Lower Yakima River Restoration #38 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $67,800 SRFB Cost: $54,676 Cost-share: $13,124 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Lower Yakima Basin, within boundaries of Benton County County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This restoration proposal used information from the Lower Yakima River Assessment, 07-1566 to identify and implement 10 small diversion screening projects and 5 riparian enhancement projects. The Benton Conservation District (BCD) inventoried irrigation diversions along the lower Yakima River in 2008 and determined there are approximately 70 private intakes on the Yakima River. Many of these intakes have outdated or non-existent fish screens. BCD installed a total of 10 new fish friendly screens for property owners along the lower Yakima River in August of 2009. The new fish screens ranged in size from 65 gpm to 1,000 gpm and replaced older or non- existent screens that were out of compliance with Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife and National Marine Fisheries Service. The new screens will allow irrigators to draw water from the river efficiently while not harming juvenile fish.

Progress: This project was completed in 2009 with additional support from the BCD's Riparian Buffer and Fencing Project (CSF 07-9). The Lower Yakima Fish Screening Project (09-1527) continues the screening work started by this project.

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07-1551 Taneum Creek Fish Passage #37 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $716,814 SRFB Cost: $276,814 Cost-share: $440,000 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Taneum Rd Thorp WA County: Kittitas Stream: Taneum Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project replaced two ineffective and outdated fish passage structures in lower Taneum Creek with roughened channels that provide full upstream and downstream passage into 30 stream miles of tributary habitat. Co-managers have designated the Taneum Creek watershed as a high priority tributary to the Yakima River for recovery of salmon and steelhead. The Kittitas Conservation Trust partnered with the Bureau of Reclamation, USFWS, Yakima Tributary Access & Habitat Program, WA Dept. of Fish & Wildlife, Bruton Water Users, Taneum Canal Co., and the Yakama Nation on a comprehensive analysis of fish passage alternatives for lower Taneum Creek.

Progress: The Bruton Diversion Dam was removed in November 2009 & replaced by a 330 foot constructed channel that mimics natural stream conditions. Taneum Creek fish population monitoring by WDFW upstream of the former barrier reveals that habitat is now occupied by Chinook and coho. The Taneum Canal Co. diversion dam was removed in November 2010 and the TCC headworks infrastructure was modified and streamlined. The newly constructed fish passage channel allows all aquatic species to migrate upstream and downstream during all Taneum Creek flow scenarios.

07-1517 Indian Creek and Jack Creek Culvert Replacement #36 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $765,347 SRFB Cost: $351,448 Cost-share: $413,899 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Teanaway Rd, Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Indian and Jack Creeks Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead The Indian Creek and Jack Creek Culvert Replacement project replaced two culverts that were full barriers to upstream fish migration on tributaries to the North Fork Teanaway River. This provides access to nearly 9 miles of habitat for steelhead, spring Chinook, coho, and bull trout. Both culverts were 72” in diameter with significant drops at the outfalls, no streambed material, and a slope of more than 1%. They were replaced with bottomless arch culvert that have a natural stream bed under the road. Both are consistent with WDFW fish passage criteria. Project partners include Kittitas County, US Forest Service, and the Kittitas Conservation Trust (KCT).

Progress: Project is complete.

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07-1567 North Fork Ahtanum Gauging Station Fish Passage #35 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $174,690 SRFB Cost: $146,607 Cost-share: $28,083 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: North Fork Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: NF Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: bull trout, coho, steelhead Ahtanum Creek is a stronghold for bull trout, cutthroat and steelhead in the Yakima Basin. A large concrete weir had been built in the creek in the 1930s in order to measure stream flows, but over the decades the stream eroded under the structure. By the 2007, the structure was about to collapse, no longer gave accurate stream flow measurements, and had become an obstacle to fish moving upstream. The NYCD District worked together with the landowners and local stakeholders to remove the weir and build a new stream channel that would allow both fish passage and stream flow measurement. Over 700 cubic yards of various-sized rock were brought in to reconstruct the streambed and over 30 Ponderosa pine rootwads were used to construct log cribs to prevent erosion. The removal of the weir and construction of the new channel means that fish have unimpeded passage into 17 miles of high-quality habitat above the site. New flow monitoring equipment was installed that allows for real- time access to data on flow in North Fork Ahtanum Creek.

Progress: Project is complete.

07-1572 North Yakima County Fish Screening #34 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $85,566 SRFB Cost: $28,757 Cost-share: $56,809 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Mill Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project installed a fish screen and meter on one of the remaining unscreened gravity diversions on Cowiche Creek (river mile 12.1). A modular rotary wiper fish screen, constructed by the WDFW Yakima Screen Shop, was retrofitted into an existing conduit that delivers water to irrigators and the headgate was restored to provide reliable control of water entering the screen. Screening of this gravity diversion will eliminate entrainment of fish into the irrigation system and aid in steelhead restoration efforts in Cowiche Creek.

Progress: The sponsor installed the screen, meter, and restored the headgate in 2010.

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07-1578 Big Creek Property Protection #33 Sponsor: Cascade Land Conservancy (Forterra) Total Cost: $420,000 SRFB Cost: $355,000 Cost-share: $65,000 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Nelson Siding Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Big Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project acquired a half-mile segment of Big Creek, a relatively pristine tributary of the Upper Yakima River. The SRFB grant was intended to purchase the 200 ft. stream corridor (approximately 25 acres of the 142.75 acre parcel); other funds were secured to protect the high quality upland spotted owl habitat on the remainder of the parcel. The property abuts the Wenatchee National Forest on one side, and proposed development on the other. Steelhead are the priority beneficiary of this project, although it also benefits Chinook and coho.

Progress: The parcel was purchased at well under the estimated price. The entire transaction was funded by a combination of Federal Section 6 Grant funds, a WWRP grant, and a landowner donation. The sponsor successfully negotiated the purchase of an additional 40 acre riparian parcel adjacent to the original lot with the remaining SRFB funds.

07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection and Restoration #32 Sponsor: Cowiche Canyon Conservancy Total Cost: $480,111 SRFB Cost: $272,292 Cost-share: $207,819 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Canyon Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project to acquired and restored four parcels comprising about 23 acres of floodplain along Cowiche Creek, two of which have water rights. The goal was to eliminate future development threats that would further degrade riparian and floodplain habitats. Restoration actions included dike removal, riparian planting, septic tank removal, and instream flow enhancements (12 acre feet to be placed in trust). These properties are part of a new trail system that is a vital link in the proposed William O'Douglas Trail, which will run from downtown Yakima to Mt. Rainier.

Progress: By partnering with the City of Yakima, the project was able to purchase five properties, including an additional 4.8 acre parcel of land contiguous to the four originally proposed. The project was completed in 2010.

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07-1566 Lower Yakima River Assessment #31 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $81,980 SRFB Cost: $36,426 Cost-share: $45,554 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Lower Yakima Basin, within boundaries of Benton County County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project was a comprehensive inventory of the riparian restoration, fish screening, and aquatic habitat needs of the lower Yakima River basin. The Benton Conservation District (BCD) convened a Lower Yakima River Technical Advisory Group (LYRTAG) and compiled a comprehensive inventory of restoration opportunities. The project prioritized potential projects based on technical, financial and political feasibility and anticipated benefit to salmon and people. The BCD collected extensive temperature data to develop thermal profiles of the river from Prosser to its confluence with the Columbia River. These identified several cooler water influents between Prosser and Richland. The assessment also determined that the Bateman Island causeway may be negatively influencing water quality in the Yakima Delta. It identified areas of degraded shoreline along the lower Yakima River suited for restoration and protection, including lower river island side-channels, floodplains and off-channel habitats within Benton City, West Richland and Richland.

Progress: Copies of the Lower Yakima River final assessment report are available from the WA State PRISM website, YBFWRB, and the BCD.

07-2020 Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project #30 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $852,999 SRFB Cost: $385,982 Cost-share: $467,017 Year Began: 2007 Status: Complete Location: Dolarway Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Reecer Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The objectives of this project were to improve the floodplain of Reecer Creek near its confluence with the Yakima River. The project has: 1) relocated 3,700 ft of diked/channelized creek onto its recontoured floodplain; 2) created a new channel 6,000 ft long with meanders and side channels; 3) revegetated the floodplain with appropriate riparian and floodplain vegetation. The project has created and improved habitat for resident and salmonid fish, including Chinook, coho, and steelhead.

Progress: Construction on the Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration project began in October of 2010. The Suver levee, which had constrained 4,000 feet of Ellensburg’s Reecer Creek for nearly a century, was removed. A setback levee was constructed on the eastern edge of the city-owned property. A new, meandering channel was excavated through the floodplain. Reecer Creek now has access to 58 acres of floodplain habitat, and the floodplain was very active during flooding in 2011 and 2012. More than 10,000 plants were installed in the restoration area in the fall of 2011, and were watered throughout the summer of 2012.

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06-2200 Schneider Habitat Project Cowiche Creek #29 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $173,000 SRFB Cost: $112,701 Cost-share: $60,299 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: 910 Weikel Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: coho, steelhead The North Yakima Conservation District worked with a landowner on Cowiche Creek to restore 1300 feet of stream. New fences exclude livestock from the riparian area. Rootwads and log vanes were installed to improve and stabilize sloughing streambanks, promote establishment of vegetation, reduce sedimentation, form pools, and increase habitat diversity and structure. Native vegetation was planted to provide future woody debris, shade the creek, and improve the riparian structure. This project is a partnership with the Yakima Tributary Access & Habitat Program (YTAHP). It adjoins, and was completed in conjunction with CSF 06-5, the Green/Wilkinson Habitat Project.

Progress: The project is complete, with ongoing maintenance occurring as needed.

06-2193 Naches River Floodplain Acquisition #28 Sponsor: Yakima County Flood Control Zone District Total Cost: $166,175 SRFB Cost: $141,175 Cost-share: $25,000 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: North of 16 Ave Exit, Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Lower Naches Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project acquired three properties totaling 60 acres along the lower Naches River. The goal was to protect valuable floodplain and river channel habitat. The acquisitions adjoin other lands owned by the County, the Department of Transportation, and the City of Yakima, and made it possible to proceed with planned projects to restore fish habitat and reduce flood hazards across all these properties. Project partners include Yakima Countywide Flood Control Zone District, the City of Yakima & WA Department of Transportation.

Progress: The County acquired the two larger properties, but did not acquire the 7 acre parcel.

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06-2160 Currier Creek – EWC Siphon & Screen #27 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $699,224 SRFB Cost: $255,050 Cost-share: $444,174 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: Reecer Creek Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Currier Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project installed a siphon that passes the main canal of the Ellensburg Water Company underneath Currier Creek and added a fish screen to an irrigation diversion on Currier Creek. The project removed a 120 year old fish passage barrier on the creek; prevents fish from entering the canal; restored the creek channel and riparian vegetation along Currier Creek; added a fish screen and flow meter to the creek diversion; prevents canal sediment from entering the creek; and allows for the safe herbicide treatment of the canal. Project partners include the Ellensburg Water Company, Kittitas County Water Purveyors, Pat Monk, SCWRC&D, the Yakama Nation, and the KCT.

Progress: The siphon, fish screen and fish ladder were completed in early 2008. The riparian planting was established in 2008 and maintained in 2009 through YTAHP. The siphon leaked, allowing an uncontrolled connection between the Ellensburg Water Company Canal and Currier Creek. In the fall of 2008 and winter of 2009, the siphon was excavated again and concrete bands were poured over each of the joints of the siphon. The siphon was successfully sealed and the project is now complete.

06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal & Screening #26 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $781,661 SRFB Cost: $386,177 Cost-share: $395,484 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: No 6 Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Cherry Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This restoration project added fish screens to four surface water diversions and removed two fish passage barriers to allow access to 1.98 miles of rearing habitat for anadromous fish. This project was the first step toward the larger goal of restoring access and improving habitat conditions in the Cherry Creek watershed. Project partners included YTAHP (BPA), Department of Ecology, WDFW, NOAA Fisheries, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and a Washington Conservation Corps Crew.

Progress: Initial construction was completed in the spring of 2011. Modifications and additions to the project have continued through 2012 and are expected in 2013, as the fish screen facility continues to experience operational difficulties. These continuing efforts are funded by YTAHP. In 2012, spawning coho salmon were observed in Cooke Creek above the passage barriers that were corrected as part of this project.

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06-2143 Upper Yakima Protection – Hundley #25 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $41,420 SRFB Cost: $29,463 Cost-share: $11,957 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: Hundley Rd Cle Elum WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead The Hundley property is 431 contiguous acres of riparian forests, ponds, wetlands and shorelines that is bisected by the mainstem Yakima River for 1.3 river miles. There are also two tributary streams that flow through the property and into the Yakima River. The principals of the Hundley Family Limited Partnership, granted a conservation easement on their property on November 24 after five years of discussions and negotiations with the Kittitas Conservation Trust, Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Yakama Nation. The Hundley reach of the Yakima River is premier spawning habitat for Spring Chinook salmon with some of the highest densities of redds in the upper Yakima River. The property is also crucial for protecting terrestrial wildlife migration routes that include crossings of the Yakima River within north-south corridors. Landscape scale habitat connectivity is vital for ecosystem health and natural biodiversity for species like cougar, deer and elk.

Progress: Purchase of the conservation easement was successful in late 2010.

06-2141 Cle Elum River Instream Habitat #24 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $498,720 SRFB Cost: $320,120 Cost-share: $178,600 Year Began: 2006 Status: Complete Location: Morel Rd Ronald WA County: Kittitas Stream: Cle Elum River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project funded the design and installation of engineered log jams in the lower Cle Elum River. The construction of Cle Elum Dam in 1933 and the ensuing flow regulation significantly reduced the extent and complexity of salmon rearing habitat in the lower Cle Elum River. Several meanders were cut off, and side channels were subject to extreme variations in flow, reducing vital off-channel rearing habitat. These strategically placed log jams reactivate side channels and meanders. Project costs were reduced because Suncadia Resorts donated whole trees with rootwads.

Progress: The project was completed in November 2009 when two large engineered log jams were constructed about one mile downstream of the Cle Elum Dam. This restored perennial flow into the 1.8 mile Domerie side channel. The project provided important lower velocity habitats for juvenile Chinook and steelhead when summer irrigation deliveries result in unnaturally high flows in the Cle Elum River. The project also reduces risks of stranding when mainstem flow drops later in the irrigation season. Post construction monitoring demonstrates increased use of the side channel habitat (new redds and more salmon carcasses) and reduced water temperatures.

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04-1680 Holmes Floodplain Property Protection #23 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $145,346 SRFB Cost: $123,000 Cost-share: $22,346 Year Began: 2004 Status: Complete Location: Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River side channel Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project funded acquisition of the 37 acre Holmes property, which includes a 2,400- foot side channel of the Yakima River. This side channel provides excellent rearing habitat for juvenile salmon and steelhead, and has been heavily used for spawning by coho salmon (over 50 redds were found here in 2006). This and other side channels to the upper Yakima provide key habitat for juvenile salmonids during periods when high flows associated with irrigation deliveries to the lower basin make much of the mainstem Yakima less hospitable for juvenile salmonids. Project partners included the Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group, and Bonneville Power Administration.

Progress: The property has been purchased, and riparian restoration efforts are ongoing with support from the Community Salmon Fund and Ellensburg-area volunteers. The property is also being used for educational programs, and the ponds are being used by the Yakama Nation as release sites for hatchery coho.

04-1676 YTAHP Wilson Creek Riparian Restoration #22 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $26,030 SRFB Cost: $18,378 Cost-share: $7,652 Year Began: 2004 Status: Complete Location: Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Wilson Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The SRFB, BPA, Yakama Nation, Kittitas County Conservation District (KCCD), and WDFW have invested heavily in fish passage on the lower 8+ miles of Wilson Creek. Native woody riparian vegetation is found on less than 10% of the lower 8-miles of Wilson Creek. Now that passage has been restored to this reach, riparian improvements are a priority. This project revegetated 2,300 feet of Wilson Creek near the City of Ellensburg Waste Water Treatment Plant that were previously dominated by reed canary grass. The shrubs and trees will provide shading, leaf litter, and future woody debris to the stream. This is a cooperative effort between the KCCD, the City of Ellensburg, the Yakama Nation, and the US Bureau of Reclamation.

Progress: This project was completed June 30, 2009. This project was designed as an educational project for landowners and natural resource managers. It serves as an example to local agricultural producers that, with the Kittitas County Conservation District's help, they can rehabilitate the riparian areas on their lands.

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04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek Fish Passage #21 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $292,164 SRFB Cost: $216,220 Cost-share: $75,944 Year Began: 2004 Status: Complete Location: Rhinehart River Front Park Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Reecer Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This restoration project proposed to remove two gravity-fed diversion structures and screen two unscreened diversions in order to prevent fish entrainment and allow access to 2+ miles of habitat. The lower end of this and other Ellensburg-area tributaries can provide key habitat for juvenile salmonids during periods when high flows associated with irrigation deliveries to the lower basin make much of the mainstem Yakima less hospitable for juvenile salmonids. Project partners included the Washington Conservation Commission, YTAHP (funded by BPA), the Yakama Nation & the City of Ellensburg.

Progress: The upper diversion was converted to a pump station and the barrier removed in June 2009. Six thousand linear feet of pipe were installed to deliver water from the pump station to the irrigators. There was some delay in removing the lower diversion as the water right holder initially requested screening and passage assistance but subsequently sold the water right. The lower diversion was removed in October 2010 by the City of Ellensburg (a project partner). Coho redds were located in the reach between the two diversions in 2006, 2008, 2009, & 2010.

02-1656 Dry/Cabin Creek Fish Passage & Screening #20 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $189,504 SRFB Cost: $126,873 Cost-share: $62,631 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: Hwy 10 Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Dry/Cabin Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This restoration project replaced two unscreened ditches on Dry and Cabin Creeks (just West of Ellensburg) with a screened pump diversion. A small dam at one of the original diversion sites was removed, and increased irrigation efficiencies associated with changing from flood to circle pivot irrigation for 75 acres of pasture allowed for increased stream flows while improving agricultural production (irrigation demand went from 8 and 14 cfs before to less than 2 cfs after the project). A portion of the riparian area was planted with native trees and shrubs. The project opened access to 1.2 miles of rearing habitat for juvenile spring Chinook and rainbow trout. Project partners include YTAHP, USDA NRCS, the Washington Conservation Commission, and BPA.

Progress: This project is complete and functioning as designed.

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02-1617 Lower Naches Critical Habitat Protection #19 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $115,107 SRFB Cost: $114,593 Cost-share: $514 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: North of Naches WA County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project acquired 62 acres in two parcels to protect off-channel rearing habitat along a priority reach of the Naches River. This reach is a critical rearing area for juvenile steelhead, Chinook, coho, and bull trout. One of the properties abuts an additional 111 acres of protected land. The attendant floodplain is relatively unconfined, and groundwater upwelling is significant. This project protects key areas from development, and provides habitat strongholds for the future. Project partners included the Bonneville Power Administration, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Yakima County Planning Department, and the WDFW.

Progress: The two properties have been acquired and are now in a protected status.

02-1614 Snow Mountain Ranch Acquisition & Barrier Removal #18 Sponsor: Cowiche Canyon Conservancy Total Cost: $790,000 SRFB Cost: $670,000 Cost-share: $120,000 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Mill Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: SF Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project was part of a larger effort to protect open space and fish and wildlife habitat on the entire 1,800 acre Snow Mountain Ranch. SRFB funding was used to acquire the 312 acres of bottomland and riparian areas along the South Fork of Cowiche Creek. BPA wildlife mitigation funding was used to purchase the upland sage steppe areas. Irrigation rights from the ranch's hayfields were placed in trust to increase instream flows. An old irrigation dam was removed, opening access to the upper Cowiche Basin to steelhead and coho. The project funded riparian plantings along a re-activated side channel and replacement of a defunct access bridge. Project partners included the WDFW, YTAHP (funded through the Bonneville Power Administration), and the Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group.

Progress: This acquisition and restoration project is complete; some restoration work in both upland and riparian areas is ongoing using other funding sources and volunteer labor.

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02-1612 Riparian Enhancement Team Phase 2 #17 Sponsor: Yakima County Corrections Total Cost: $488,492 SRFB Cost: $159,141 Cost-share: $329,351 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: Riparian sites throughout Yakima County County: Yakima Stream: Yakima & Naches Rivers Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead The Yakima County Department of Corrections provided tools, transportation, and labor for riparian restoration work in Yakima County. Inmate crews provided dependable, low cost, year-round labor to establish and maintain riparian plantings. Projects were located on the Yakima and Naches Rivers, as well as Cowiche, Wide Hollow, Wenas, and Ahtanum Creeks. The grant continued work that began under SRFB project #00-1714. Project partners include C & H Hardware, Ben Meadows, Tree Top Inc., the NYCD greenhouse, County Surface Water Management staff and the Yakama Nation.

Progress: This project completed work at 27 sites. Crews planted more than 20,000 trees; subsequent survival rates have been excellent.

02-1527 Diversion 14 Fish Screen – Ahtanum Creek #16 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $267,424 SRFB Cost: $218,900 Cost-share: $48,524 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: Rutherford Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: bull trout, coho, steelhead This project replaced one of the last unscreened gravity diversion remaining on Ahtanum Creek with a newly engineered fish screen and diversion. This prevents fish from entering – and potentially dying in – the canal. Ahtanum Creek supports steelhead, bull trout, and coho salmon. The diversion is part of the Ahtanum Irrigation District, 11 miles upstream from the confluence with the Yakima River at Union Gap and three miles downstream of the Wapato Irrigation Project’s screened diversion. This project complements the ongoing efforts to remove barriers, increase summer streamflows, and improve riparian conditions along Ahtanum Creek. Project partners include YTAHP (funded through the Bonneville Power Administration) and Ahtanum Irrigation District.

Progress: The project is complete. This project also established a three-acre riparian buffer zone between the creek and the screen.

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02-1494 Coleman Creek Fish Access #15 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $133,338 SRFB Cost: $101,774 Cost-share: $31,564 Year Began: 2002 Status: Complete Location: No. 6 Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Coleman Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Coleman Creek is a tributary to Wilson Creek just east of Ellensburg. The project site is ~3.3 miles upstream from the Yakima River on river mile 0.6 of Coleman Creek. The diversion structure was the first of many that blocked access to miles of habitat in Coleman Creek. Major tasks included the installation of a fish screen and passage structures, removal of a perched culvert that blocked fish passage, and installation of control structures that separate the creek and canal and a 60’ bridge. Three hundred and fifty trees and shrubs were planted, along with numerous willow and cottonwood cuttings. The streambed and banks were reshaped and protected with erosion control fabric. Large woody debris and rock structures were installed to improve channel complexity. Project partners include YTAHP, the Washington Conservation Commission and the WDFW.

Progress: This project is complete and functioning as designed. The next barrier at river mile 1.6 was subsequently removed, and YTAHP electrofishing surveys in 2010 confirmed the presence of juvenile Chinook in the lower 2 miles of Coleman Creek.

01-1269 Naches River Water Treatment Plant Screen #14 Sponsor: City of Yakima Total Cost: $1,834,357 SRFB Cost: $300,000 Cost-share: $1,534,357 Year Began: 2001 Status: Complete Location: 6 miles W of Yakima on Hwy 12 County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead The City of Yakima water treatment plant draws water from the Naches River near Gleed. The original diversion facilities for the treatment plant were constructed in the late 1960’s and did not meet current fish screen criteria. This project funded part of the costs of installing a modern fish screening system. This provided immediate protection to fish that may have been harmed by the previous screen system. In addition, instream flow was enhanced, general water quality was improved, and the impact to fish from the previous maintenance requirements was eliminated. Project partners included BPA, Yakima County, WDFW, PacifiCorp, and Northwest Hydraulic Consultants.

Progress: Project completed as proposed.

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01-1256 Cowiche Creek Barrier Removal #13 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $72,912 SRFB Cost: $51,867 Cost-share: $21,045 Year Began: 2001 Status: Complete Location: Cowiche Mill Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek & SF Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project proposed to remove two fish passage barriers on Cowiche Creek. The upper diversion was removed in 2006. Grade control structures were engineered and installed to maintain the diversion in a manner that allows for full fish passage. This allows anadromous fish essentially unimpeded access into the upper South Fork Cowiche watershed for the first time in approximately a century. Project partners included the WDFW, and YTAHP.

Progress: The upper diversion has been removed. The lower diversion will be removed using different funding when the complementary project, Cowiche Creek Water User Association Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project is complete and provides an alternate water supply for the irrigators. Note the above mentioned project was funded in 2012 under PRISM Project #12-1328.

01-1254 Lmuma Restoration #12 Sponsor: Northwest Service Academy Total Cost: $59,124 SRFB Cost: $31,903 Cost-share: $27,221 Year Began: 2001 Status: Complete Location: Eaton Ranch Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Lmuma Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project focused on Lmuma Creek just above its confluence with the Yakima River in the canyon between Selah and Ellensburg. A barbed wire fence was built to exclude cattle from two miles of Lmuma Creek, and a temporary electric fence was installed along one mile of the Yakima River. Noxious weeds were removed, riparian areas were planted with native vegetation, and rootwads were placed in strategic locations in the stream. Lmuma Creek provides some of the best opportunities for off-channel rearing habitat in the Yakima River Canyon, and this project is leading to significant improvements in the stream conditions. Project partners included the WDFW, the Mid- Columbia RFEG, and the landowner.

Progress: Project is complete.

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01-1238 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screens #11 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $242,179 SRFB Cost: $142,179 Cost-share: $100,000 Year Began: 2001 Status: Complete Location: Ahtanum Rd, Yakima, WA County: Yakima Stream: Ahtanum Creek Species Benefited: bull trout, coho, steelhead This restoration project installed fish screens on eight previously unscreened irrigation diversions on upper Ahtanum Creek and established over 1200 feet of side channel habitat. These uppermost diversions posed the greatest threat to anadromous and resident fish in the creek. This project allowed fish to safely access approximately ten miles of upper Ahtanum Creek habitat, which supports steelhead and bull trout, and potentially, coho salmon. This project complements the ongoing efforts to remove barriers, increase summer streamflows, and improve riparian conditions along Ahtanum Creek. Project partners included the WDFW, Yakima Screen Shop, and the Ahtanum Irrigation District.

Progress: This project is complete.

00-1714 Yakima Corrections Riparian Enhancement Team #10 Sponsor: Yakima Valley Restitution Center Total Cost: $443,930 SRFB Cost: $139,509 Cost-share: $304,421 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Parks & Restoration Sites in Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Yakima and Naches Rivers Species Benefited: bull trout, coho, Chinook, steelhead This project provided a supervised crew of offenders to implement streamside restoration at a variety of private and publicly owned sites in Yakima County. Successful riparian restoration requires labor to suppress weeds that would otherwise out-compete desirable native plants. Diverse native plants were sown and maintained for three years. Each site was revisited once per month throughout the growing season to prevent the re-introduction of exotic, highly-competitive, weedy species.

Progress: Planting was done at over a dozen sites, with 7800+ trees and 2500+ bushes planted with a high survival rate. GPS location was used to identify each site. The sites were maintained, (watering, weeding, mulching and protective fencing), to give each site its maximum potential for success.

65 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

00-1713 Floodplain Mining Study #9 Sponsor: Yakima County Total Cost: $283,185 SRFB Cost: $40,020 Cost-share: $243,165 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Within Yakima River Floodplain County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Yakima River has one of the most heavily mined floodplains in the state. Floodplain gravel mining affects hydrology, geomorphology, hyporheic zone function, water temperature, floodplain and river ecology, and likeliness of successful reclamation. Evaluating proposals for new floodplain mines in an area with endangered fish species requires understanding the impacts of floodplain mining. Project participants reviewed existing literature on floodplain mining and conducted research into the effects of gravel pits on river temperature, geomorphology, sediment transport, and fish assemblages. The study was a cooperative effort between Yakima County, the Department of Ecology, WDFW, Department of Natural Resources, and the Yakama Nation.

Progress: The study is complete and contains analysis of the existing gravel pits in the basin and recommendations for the future management of existing gravel pits and for siting of new gravel mining operations. Photo: East Selah, mining activity in 1947 (Washington Department of Transportation photo).

00-1711 Buchanan Ranch Restoration Project #8 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $278,317 SRFB Cost: $215,065 Cost-share: $63,252 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Buchanan Rd Selah WA County: Yakima Stream: Wenas Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project restored instream and riparian habitat of lower Wenas Creek, from the confluence with the Yakima River to over two miles upstream. The associated floodplain (100 acres) had been drained by downcutting and channel instability. Riparian and instream function was restored through revegetation efforts and two fish passage barriers were corrected and removed. Because the stream was no longer accessible to livestock, the fencing bordering the stream was removed, along with over 100 cubic yards of other debris. In addition, forty acres of water was trusted for instream flow through the Bureau of Reclamation.

Progress: The riparian restoration plan has been fully implemented.

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00-1710 Yakima & Naches Tributaries Rootwad #7 Sponsor: WDFW Total Cost: $125,509 SRFB Cost: $32,112 Cost-share: $93,397 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Multiple sites within Yakima County County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek and Naches River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project identified six sites on the Yakima River, Wide Hollow Creek, Cowiche Creek, Buckskin Slough, the Naches River, and an unnamed tributary of the Naches River that needed rootwad placement. Large woody debris (LWD) was placed in order to create habitat complexity for rearing fish. Rootwads were received from Washington DOT, Yakima County, and a private source. The funding for this project was used for transportation and placement of the rootwads.

Progress: This project is now complete.

00-1703 Sprayfield Riparian Enhancement #6 Sponsor: Tree Top Inc Total Cost: $133,800 SRFB Cost: $92,300 Cost-share: $41,500 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Harrison Rd., Selah WA County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Tree Top’s fruit processing operations in Selah require maintaining fields where treated water used in fruit processing is sprayed. These fields are located along 8,500 feet of the Yakima River, and include one of the basin’s main heron rookeries. The river banks were unstable and poorly vegetated. As part of this project, livestock were removed from the site, 3 J-hooks were constructed to redirect river energy away from the bank, earth embankments were removed, riverbanks were sloped back, and riparian vegetation was planted. This project reduced soil erosion, stabilized river banks, increased shading of the river, provided a buffer of native vegetation between the spray field and the river, and allowed flood flows to spread more evenly over the property.

Progress: This project was completed in 2003 except for ongoing maintenance of the tree plantings. Both planted and native riparian vegetation are growing well. The bank stabilization work has successfully survived normal high flows and should be able to withstand a major flood without significant damage. Permanent fencing has been installed by the landowner in order to prevent cattle access.

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00-1015 West Valley Community Park #5 Sponsor: Yakima County Parks & Rec Total Cost: $31,205 SRFB Cost: $22,098 Cost-share: $9,107 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: 80th Ave Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Wide Hollow Species Benefited: coho, steelhead This restoration project improved degraded habitat on ¾ of a mile of Wide Hollow Creek in West Valley Community Park, just west of the city of Yakima. Before the project, the site had a ten to twenty foot homogenous riparian strip of pacific giant willow and a non-functional floodplain. The project involved extensive riparian plantings, removal of a dike, and construction of an overflow channel. Restoration activities provided stream shading, litter fall, bank and soil stability, off channel habitat, cool water recharge, and an outdoor classroom for students and the community.

Progress: This project is complete and created a 1/8-mile side channel, and also provided for revegetation of the streamside. Over seventy yards of dike was also removed. The revegetation is robust and doing well.

00-1004 Union Gap Reach Acquisition #4 Sponsor: Yakima Greenway Foundation Total Cost: $68,290 SRFB Cost: $58,047 Cost-share: $10,243 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Union Gap WA County: Yakima Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Loss of floodplain habitat since the 19th century has been a major factor limiting survival of juvenile fish in the Yakima River. This acquisition project purchased 40 acres of high quality, riparian and floodplain habitat and associated water rights in a key reach of the Yakima River. This purchase extended an existing 100 acre acquisition that adjoined to the south; creating the 140 acre Jim Whiteside Natural Area. The reach contains extensive floodplain habitat and critical rearing and over- wintering sites for juvenile salmon and steelhead.

Progress: The acquisition is complete and the property has been incorporated into the Yakima Greenway. The Yakima River has braided across all 140 acres, changing course during each high water event.

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00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower Wilson Creek #3 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $287,622 SRFB Cost: $108,266 Cost-share: $179,356 Year Began: 2000 Status: Complete Location: Thrall Rd Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Lower Wilson Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project is located on Wilson Creek, just south of the town of Ellensburg. Two irrigation diversion structures and four unscreened irrigation diversion points were consolidated and screened to prevent fish entrainment. This increased accessible spawning and rearing habitat in Wilson Creek by five miles, and provides valuable rearing habitat for juvenile salmonids moving in from the mainstem Yakima River. The riparian zone in the project area was previously dominated by weedy species. The project included installing fencing and planting riparian vegetation. Matching project funds were provided by the Department of Ecology Irrigation Efficiencies Program and the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service.

Progress: This project was initiated by the Yakama Nation (YN) which transferred the contract to the KCCD in 2002. Increased irrigation efficiency resulted in 4.03 cfs of saved irrigation water, which has been trusted for 10 years. Remaining funds were used to install a livestock bridge. The family continue to work with the KCCD on additional habitat improvement projects.

99-1752 Taylor Ditch Assessment & Restoration #2 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $42,252 SRFB Cost: $35,571 Cost-share: $6,681 Year Began: 1999 Status: Complete Location: Golf Course Loop Rd Selah WA County: Yakima Stream: Taylor Ditch Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Taylor Ditch runs approximately five miles from its diversion out of the Yakima River above Selah to where it returns to Selah Creek and the Yakima River just below Selah. Fish are screened out of the ditch at the top end. This project explored the possibility of removing the fish screen, screening individual diversions out of the ditch, and maintaining the ditch so that it can be used by fish as a side channel to the Yakima River. As part of this project, Yakama Nation staff monitored water quality, established contact with landowners, discussed habitat issues and identified existing habitat limitations and opportunities for restoration.

Progress: Project completed as planned.

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99-1712 Stormwater Management Plan #1 Sponsor: City of Selah Total Cost: $98,000 SRFB Cost: $95,000 Cost-share: $3,000 Year Began: 1999 Status: Complete Location: City of Selah WA County: Yakima Stream: Selah Ditch Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project funded a planning effort by the City of Selah that focused on improving water quality in Selah Ditch, developing a long-term plan to improve/maintain water quality as development occurs in the watershed, developing design criteria for future expansion of the storm water collection system, identifying best management practices for improving water quality, and amending development regulations to include policies consistent with water quality goals.

Progress: The management plan was completed, and has undergone some revisions based on changing DOE standards.

70 Incomplete Projects

The following are projects for which SRFB dollars were awarded, but which were not completed. The unspent funds were returned to the SRFB at the close of the 5 year funding period.

71 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

14-1196 Manastash Creek Acquisition & Restoration 2 #91 Sponsor: Kittitas County Flood Control Zone District Total Cost: $276,808 SRFB Cost: $235,286 Cost-share: $41,522 Year Began: 2015 Status: Incomplete Location: Ellensburg, WA. County: Kittitas Stream: Manastash Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, and coho The Kittitas County Public Works Department planned to use grant to buy and restore nearly 2 acres of floodplain on Manastash Creek, just below the Brown Road Bridge and upstream of the delta at the Yakima River, in Kittitas County. The purchase would have prevented development, allowed the removal of the existing structures and berms, and allowed future restoration of the creek. The County planned to buy voluntary land preservation agreements for up to 17 acres of the Manastash Creek delta at the Yakima River and along the Manastash Creek corridor from Brown Road to the delta. Manastash Creek is used by middle Columbia River steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as by Chinook and coho salmon and rainbow and cutthroat trout. Kittitas County planned to contribute $41,522 in staff labor and donations of labor and property interest.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowners, following property appraisals and appraisal reviews. The funding provided for this project was returned to the SRFB.

13-1347 Wise Manastash Creek Acquisition & Restoration #88 Sponsor: Kittitas County Flood Control Zone District Total Cost: $153,741 SRFB Cost: $130,680 Cost-share: $23,061 Year Began: 2014 Status: Active Location: Ellensburg, WA. County: Kittitas Stream: Manastash Creek Species Benefited: Steelhead, Chinook, coho, rainbow and cutthroat The Kittitas County Public Works Department will use this grant to buy nearly 2 acres of floodplain on Manastash Creek, just below the Brown Road Bridge and upstream of the delta at the Yakima River, in Kittitas County. The purchase will prevent future development and allow the removal of the existing structures and berms, and future restoration of the creek. Manastash Creek is used by mid-Columbia River steelhead, which are listed as threatened with extinction under the federal Endangered Species Act, as well as Chinook and coho salmon and rainbow and cutthroat trout.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowners, following property appraisals and appraisal reviews. The funding provided for this project was returned to the SRFB.

72 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

10-1841 Currier Creek Restoration #65 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $384,223 SRFB Cost: $326,590 Cost-share: $57,633 Year Began: 2010 Status: Incomplete Location: Currier Creek near Iron Horse Trail County: Kittitas Stream: Currier Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Currier Creek was modified and adapted to convey water for irrigated agriculture. Sections were artificially straightened and confined resulting in channel incision and floodplain disconnection. Proposed habitat restorations are designed to re-activate natural channel forming processes that contribute to ecosystem health and durability. Stream realignment in the upper reach of the 0.95 mile project will add sinuosity and hydrologic complexity. New meanders would add pool habitat, increase the reach from 620 to 850 feet and restore complex geometry. Instream grade controls using engineered logjams restore natural pool-riffle relationships. Revegetation includes removing invasive species, planting native trees and shrubs on 17 acres and periodic monitoring and stewardship of the project area.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowner, and the project was not completed. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

09-1577 CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project #54 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $486,393 SRFB Cost: $413,133 Cost-share: $73,260 Year Began: 2009 Status: Incomplete Location: Pioneer Rd, Cowiche, WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Cowiche Creek Water Users Association Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project proposed to remove two existing diversions from Cowiche Creek. This would leave up to 7 cfs of additional water instream and eliminate the risk of fish entering the ditches. A new pressurized irrigation pipeline would provide the irrigators with water delivered by the Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District (YTID) from the Tieton River. The water historically diverted from Cowiche Creek would remain permanently protected to the mouth of the creek as an in-stream flow under the State of Washington’s Trust Water Program. Two monitoring stations would be constructed in Cowiche Creek to measure streamflows and insure that trusted water from the project is permanently protected.

Progress: The 2009 project was delayed and funds were returned to the State. Negotiations with project partners continued, resulting in a successful project proposal in 2012 (Project #12-1328, CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water).

73 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

08-1476 Wade Road Farm #45 Sponsor: Cascade Land Conservancy Total Cost: $119,000 SRFB Cost: $100,000 Cost-share: $19,000 Year Began: 2008 Status: Incomplete Location: Wade Rd, Thorp, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, steelhead The sponsor proposed securing a conservation easement for approximately 1/2 - 3/4 of a mile of high quality riparian land along the mainstem Yakima River. The owners of Wade Road Farm (42 acres organic farmland and 13 acres riparian forest) expressed interest in ensuring long term protection of their property.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowner, and the project was not completed. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

05-1573 Currier Creek Passage & Riparian Restoration #29 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $39,706 SRFB Cost: $28,786 Cost-share: $10,920 Year Began: 2005 Status: Incomplete Location: University Way Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Currier Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project proposed to remove two fish passage barriers from Currier and Reecer Creeks, tributaries of the Yakima River located just west of Ellensburg. Removing the Pott and Pautzke diversion barriers opens up 1.7 miles of rearing habitat for steelhead, spring Chinook, and coho. A conservation easement was proposed to protect a riparian corridor of 75 feet along both banks for a total of 9.7 acres, which will provide the opportunity for floodplain restoration. Instream flows will be improved with water that is saved by piping irrigation water to agricultural fields previously supplied by open ditches. Project partners include the Kittitas County Conservation District, American Rivers, the Yakama Nation & the Yakima Tributary Access & Habitat Program.

Progress: This project was closed out in February 2011. Passage into Currier Creek from the Yakima River was facilitated by the removal of seven barriers. The habitat restoration portion of this project will be accomplished in 2011-2012 under a newly authorized SRFB Project, 10-1841.

74 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

05-1572 NF Teanaway Floodplain Phase II #28 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $544,740 SRFB Cost: $461,740 Cost-share: $83,000 Year Began: 2005 Status: Incomplete Location: N Fork Teanaway Rd Cle Elum WA County: Kittitas Stream: NF Teanaway River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project was Phase II of an ongoing effort to secure a conservation easement along the floodplain of the North Fork Teanaway River in northern Kittitas County. The entire project site includes 5.83 miles of the North Fork Teanaway and 354 acres of floodplain, riparian forest, and meadow habitat. This naturally flowing mountain stream supports all life stages of bull trout, steelhead, spring Chinook, and coho salmon. This Phase II grant included funding for an easement on the middle two miles and 100 acres of floodplain habitat between Dickey Creek and Jack Creek. It continues to the north of Phase I (SRFB project 04-1672).

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowner, and the acquisition was unsuccessful. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

05-1571 Easton Reach Habitat Protection Phase 2 #27 Sponsor: Yakama Nation Total Cost: $835,485 SRFB Cost: $528,985 Cost-share: $306,500 Year Began: 2005 Status: Incomplete Location: River Shadows Rd Easton WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project intended to acquire and protect 163.57 acres of pristine floodplain habitat near the town of Easton. The property contains over two miles of braided stream habitat, multiple spring brooks, and two tributary confluences, the largest logjam on the Yakima River, a complex and mature riparian community, and a highly dynamic channel migration zone. The property provides high quality spawning and rearing habitat for Chinook, steelhead, and coho, and bull trout use it for rearing and foraging. Recent redd and carcass distribution surveys revealed that the property boasts the highest density of spring Chinook redds in the upper Yakima River. The adjoining area is under intense development pressure and the property is a desirable site for subdivision and residential construction. Project partners include Trust for Public Land, WDFW, Kittitas Conservation Trust, Cascade Land Conservancy, and Kittitas County.

Progress: The project proponents were not able to reach a workable agreement with the landowner. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

75 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

04-1691 SF Cowiche Creek Protection #26 Sponsor: WDFW Total Cost: $173,985 SRFB Cost: $146,985 Cost-share: $27,000 Year Began: 2004 Status: Incomplete Location: Cowiche Mill Rd Yakima WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: coho, steelhead This grant would have funded acquisition of an easement that protects four miles of stream and riparian habitat, the stream's channel migration zones, and floodplain functions along the South Fork of Cowiche Creek and Reynolds Creeks. The area provides valuable spawning and rearing habitat for steelhead. Utilization of this habitat is expected to increase significantly now that all significant fish passage barriers in lower Cowiche Creek have been removed.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowner, and the grant contract expired. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

04-1679 Upper Yakima River Easton Reach #24 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $176,400 SRFB Cost: $123,400 Cost-share: $53,000 Year Began: 2004 Status: Incomplete Location: Main Stem Yakima RM 187 County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This proposed acquisition included a 23.49 acre parcel in the Easton Reach of the upper Yakima River. The mature riparian forest is in a naturally functioning floodplain that supports high priority habitat along .40 miles of stream bank. This project protects habitat in a gateway reach where ~50% of the Yakima Basin spring Chinook migrate into the Upper Yakima River System.

Progress: The landowner died during negotiations, and the sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the heirs. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

76 SRFB Funded Projects in the Yakima Basin

04-1672 NF Teanaway River Floodplain Phase 1 #21 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $460,000 SRFB Cost: $380,000 Cost-share: $80,000 Year Began: 2004 Status: Incomplete Location: Teanaway Rd Cle Elum WA County: Kittitas Stream: NF Teanaway River Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This project was Phase I of an effort to secure a conservation easement along the floodplain of the North Fork Teanaway River. The project provided funds for the purchase of a conservation easement that would protect the southernmost 96 acres of the riparian area. The entire site includes 5.83 miles of the North Fork Teanaway and 354 acres of floodplain, riparian forest, and meadow habitat. This area is part of a 45,000 acre tract of forestland sold by Boise-Cascade to a new owner who plans to subdivide the property. The riparian area habitat values are threatened by the proposed development. Partners include BPA and the WDFW.

Progress: The sponsor was unable to reach an agreement with the landowner, and the project was not completed. Funds were returned to the SRFB.

77 Community Salmon Fund Projects

The Community Salmon Fund was a partnership between the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation and the SRFB. It funded smaller projects that emphasized community involvement in fish habitat restoration projects. In 2005-010, 15 projects from the basin were funded for a total of $536,269. These projects are outlined in the following pages.

78 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF10-15 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River II #C15 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $66,540 SRFB Cost: $39,140 Cost-share: $27,400 Year Began: 2010 Status: Completed Location: Benton City, WA County: Benton Stream: Yakima Mainstem Species Benefited: Chinook Benton Conservation District (BCD) used this grant funding to continue a citizen’s based program, “Studying Water stargrass Invasion and Mitigation (SWIM).” BCD led a concentrated effort to remove almost 100 tons of water stargrass and restore 65,340 square feet of salmon spawning gravel habitat in the Yakima River. BCD now requests support to conduct maintenance of the original restoration site, extend habitat restoration into an additional 120,000 square feet and teach students about salmon habitat restoration through “Salmon in the Classroom” program.

Progress: Project is complete.

CSF10-14 Bull Trout Task Force #C14 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $80,009 SRFB Cost: $46,089 Cost-share: $33,920 Year Began: 2010 Status: Completed Location: Upper Yakima Basin County: Kittitas and Yakima Stream: Upper Yakima and Naches and tribs Species Benefited: bull trout The Yakima Basin Bull Trout Task Force (BTTF) directly addressee conservation needs for bull trout, one of two ESA-listed fish species in the Yakima basin. The primary duties of the BTTF was to remove recreation dams blocking bull trout from accessing upstream spawning areas, to educate the public via sign posting, presentations and creel surveys, and to help with bull trout population monitoring. Through intensive contact with the public on the importance of bull trout recovery, and by working in conjunction with local outdoor recreation groups, the BTTF provided community members with the tools to become stewards of the habitat on which these fish depend. The BTTF was comprised of two Student Conservation Association (SCA) volunteers who will be involved in a variety of bull trout recovery tasks from May-Oct of 2011. Two Washington Conservation Corps (WCC) crews also worked in conjunction with the SCA volunteers. The WCC crew provided a labor force of 7 additional people for recreation dam removal, evaluating fish passage and posting signs. Members of the Yakima Fly Fishing and Kittitas Field and Stream clubs also volunteered to join the BTTF in public outreach efforts.

Progress: This project is complete; however, the BTTF has continured with the help of other funding sources.

79 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF10-13 A Path to Restoration: Planting & Education Along Trails #C13 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Region Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $92,960 SRFB Cost: $44,750 Cost-share: $48,210 Year Began: 2010 Status: Completed Location: Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Reecer Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group used this funding to maintain a new 24 acre floodplain long Reecer Creek and plant native grasses in 28 acres of the upland area. This project provided a multi-faceted approach to community involvement by utilizing volunteers in planting, providing public information on educational kiosks, and inviting local K-12 schools and Central Washington University to participate in stewardship events and field trips. Project partners included the South Central Washington Resource Conservation & Development Council, Kittitas Environmental Education Network, Cascade Land Conservancy, and Central Washington University.

Progress: Project is complete.

CSF09-12 Salmon in our Backyards: Urban Stream Stewardship #C12 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $41,820 SRFB Cost: $27,860 Cost-share: $13,960 Year Began: 2009 Status: Completed Location: Multiple sites in the Yakima Basin County: Yakima, Kittitas Stream: Multiple tributaries in the Yakima Basin Species Benefited: bull trout, Chinook, coho, steelhead This program was inspired by the successful Creating Urban Riparian Buffers (CURB) program in Walla Walla County, and was coordinated with similar efforts by the Benton County Conservation District. The project: 1) Provided 2000 streamside landowners with a “Salmon-Friendly Practices” brochure with information on riparian buffer establishment, low-water landscaping, and water quality protection, 2) Worked with at least three landowners to install urban riparian buffers (4500 sq feet riparian function restored), 3) Engaged 500 elementary-aged students, their teachers, and their parents in salmon recovery efforts through the adoption of a recovery site along the Yakima or Naches River (5000 sq feet riparian function restored), and 4) Maintained previously- installed riparian plantings along the Yakima River, Lmuma Creek, and Naches River.

Progress: This project generated three riparian planting templates for streamside landowners, installed two demonstration backyard buffers, and created an educational brochure for the Yakima basin. Nearly 500 students were engaged in stewardship and learning activities. Video footage of salmon in the Upper Yakima basin was posted on the Mid-Columbia Fisheries website. The project sparked immediate interest in riparian landowners, and two backyard buffers were planned for the folllowing year.

80 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF09-11 Cowiche Creek Restoration #C11 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $97,854 SRFB Cost: $65,214 Cost-share: $32,640 Year Began: 2009 Status: Completed Location: Cowiche Canyon, Yakima, WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project removed 1,400 feet of dike, controlled invasive weeds, planted more than six acres of floodplain, and removed rip rap, concrete, and large appliances. The project was a partnership between the Mid Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group, the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, US Fish and Wildlife Service and the North Yakima Conservation District. Community volunteers and school children participated in restoration activities on the site. This reach of Cowiche Creek supports spawning and rearing of coho and steelhead.

Progress: 160 feet of old railroad berm and an additional 350 feet of small berms, rip- rap, and debris were removed. The bank was resloped to allow the creek to access its floodplain. Funding from other sources supported the removal of an old house and associated outbuildings, and extensive revegetation in the riparian area.

CSF09-10 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River #C10 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $44,236 SRFB Cost: $16,412 Cost-share: $27,824 Year Began: 2009 Status: Completed Location: Mulitple sites County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook The Benton Conservation District (BCD) requested grant funding for a citizen’s based program, “Studying Water stargrass Invasion and Mitigation (SWIM)”. “SWIM” will help citizens of Benton County become active participants in water stargrass removal and monitoring. Through “SWIM”, the BCD will reach out to the citizens of Benton County to: a) promote community awareness of the impacts water stargrass has on migrating salmon and salmon habitat, b) organize participation in water stargrass harvesting work- parties and c) organize community monitoring projects. Water stargrass removal will focus on locations that will benefit our local salmon populations (e.g. spawning habitats, side channels, etc.). This project builds upon previous research conducted with funding provided by the Community Salmon Fund (CSF06-4) that found that hand pulling was a simple and viable method for water stargrass removal.

Progress: Volunteers and staff cleared water stargass off of 1.5 acres of the Yakima riverbed during the summer of 2010. Over 30 volunteers donated over 500 hours of time to harvest the water stargrass. Staff and volunteers monitored the project site to document fish use by adult salmon spawners in October and November 2010. Staff and volunteers observed three redds within the project site in October 2010.

81 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF07-9 Riparian Buffer and Fencing Project #C09 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $85,236 SRFB Cost: $56,824 Cost-share: $28,412 Year Began: 2009 Status: Completed Location: Multiple sites County: Benton Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Benton Conservation District (BCD) used this funding to help initiate a citizen awareness program - “People Helping Improve Salmon Habitat (PHISH)” to educate private landowners about riparian stewardship. The project created awareness of riparian buffers and the benefits of livestock fencing and develop landowner partnerships for restoration projects. The BCD worked with private landowners to re- vegetate 2,000 linear feet of riparian habitat and install livestock fences on 4 properties.Tangible benefits of the restoration projects include improved habitat diversity and water quality, erosion control, potential recruitment of large-woody debris, and increased floodplain functionality.

Progress: The Benton Conservation District installed 1,654 linear feet of riparian habitat along the lower Yakima River in Benton County in 2010. The District worked with 5 landowners to develop the riparian planting plans. In addition, 7,900 linear feet of fencing was also installed to exclude cattle from the Yakima River. The project is now complete.

CSF07-8 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration #C08 Sponsor: Mid Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $75,062 SRFB Cost: $49,980 Cost-share: $25,082 Year Began: 2007 Status: Completed Location: Multiple sites County: Benton, Yakima, an Stream: Yakima River, Coleman Creek, Cowiche Creek, Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Yakima Basin Restoration Program completed plantings at seven priority sites in the Yakima Basin, identified additional sites for future planting, and built support for the USDA CREP program with the hope that CREP's success protecting riparian areas in other agricultural regions could be duplicated in the Yakima Basin. This project had several partners, including over 120 community volunteers and two school groups. Native tree, shrub, and grass species were planted along the mainstem Yakima River (near Easton and near Richland), Middle Fork Teanaway River, Swauk Creek, Coleman Creek, Lmuma Creek, Naches River, and Cowiche Creek. The restored riparian areas will provide shade, sediment retention, and wildlife habitat along the streams and rivers.

Progress: Mid-Columbia Fisheries worked with partner organizations and volunteers to restore riparian plant communities at nine sites in the Yakima Basin. In 2008, the Kittitas County Conservation District (KCCD) brought the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) to Kittitas County. Mid-Columbia Fisheries is working with the KCCD to implement CREP projects along Yakima River tributaries.

82 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF07-7 Naches River Off-Channel Habitat Restoration Project #C07 Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group Total Cost: $45,030 SRFB Cost: $30,000 Cost-share: $15,030 Year Began: 2007 Status: Completed Location: Naches County: Yakima Stream: Naches River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project was originally intended to aid in the restoration of Spring Creek, a tributary to Wide Hollow Creek near its confluence with the Yakima River. Funds were transferred to a project on the Naches River.

Progress: Despite agreement from the landowner and all local regulatory agencies, the permitting burden became prohibitive. NFWF supported the transfer of the grant funds to a project with similar goals. The new project - the Naches River Off-Channel Habitat Restoration project – is located on the Naches River downstream of the town of Naches. It created rearing habitat along a new 900 foot long channel, using water from the lowest portion of an irrigation return ditch. The new channel includes large wood and was planted with native trees and shrubs in the fall of 2009. Coho spawning was observed in the new channel immediately after construction.

CSF06-6 Holmes Property Salmon in the Classroom & Riparian Restoration #C06 Sponsor: Kittitas Conservation Trust Total Cost: $32,385 SRFB Cost: $18,180 Cost-share: $14,205 Year Began: 2006 Status: Completed Location: Ellensburg, WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho This grant supported riparian habitat restoration, instream habitat enhancement and educational events for local school kids. Washed and sized gravels were added to expand the quantity of salmon spawning habitat. The riparian zone and adjoining uplands on the Holmes property were revegetated with native plants. Tons of old metal debris were recycled. Fourth and fifth graders from the Ellensburg School District spent three days in 2008 and 2009 at the site for the outdoor portion of the “Salmon in the Classroom” program. They planted trees and released salmon fry they had raised in aquariums in their classrooms.This project continued work started under CSF Project 05-2; the original purchase of the property was funded by SRFB Project 04-1680.

Progress: The project was implemented in 2008, and coho salmon have spawned throughout the restored side-channel.

83 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF06-5 Green/Wilkinson Habitat Project on Cowiche Creek #C05 Sponsor: North Yakima Conservation District Total Cost: $45,910 SRFB Cost: $30,000 Cost-share: $15,910 Year Began: 2006 Status: Completed Location: Weikel Rd, Yakima, WA County: Yakima Stream: Cowiche Creek Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead The Green/Wilkinson Habitat Restoration Project on Cowiche Creek project restored approximately 700 feet of high priority salmonid instream habitat. Rootwads and log vanes were added in order to stabilize and repair severely sloughing streambanks, reduce sedimentation, form pools, and increase habitat diversity by improving instream structure. Streambanks were revegetated and fencing was installed to protect the riparian area and improve livestock management. The project is immediately adjacent to, and was completed in conjunction with, SRFB Project 06-2200.

Progress: The project is complete, and site maintenance is ongoing.

CSF06-4 Crowding Aquatic Plant Reduction Project #C04 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $40,500 SRFB Cost: $21,820 Cost-share: $18,680 Year Began: 2006 Status: Completed Location: Benton City, WA County: Benton Stream: Lower Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook Water star-grass is a native plant that behaves like an invasive non-native, with serious detrimental impacts to the lower Yakima River ecosystem. Both WDFW and the Yakima Subbasin Plan report that this vegetation is smothering fall chinook spawning habitats in the lower 40 miles of the Yakima River. The Yakima River Eutrophication Study has documented water quality changes caused by the water star-grass. Plant biomass can be sufficient to reduce flow rate without a reduction in water volume, and alter dissolved oxygen, pH, and temperature. Large areas of the lower Yakima River experience water quality extremes that meet or exceed lethal thresholds for salmonids. The Crowding Aquatic Plant Reduction Project (CARP) conducted trials of mechanical methods to reduce water star-grass. These methods will be evaluated for practicality, treatment longevity, and improvements in salmon habitat. Benton Conservation District disseminated information to the community and local agencies.

Progress: Project is complete, and ongoing work to evaluate and control water stargrass is being funded with new grants.

84 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF05-3 Lyle and Lmuma Creek Restoration #C03 Sponsor: Kittitas County Conservation District Total Cost: $130,695 SRFB Cost: $45,000 Cost-share: $85,695 Year Began: 2005 Status: Completed Location: Ellensburg and the Yakima Canyon County: Kittitas Stream: Lyle and Lmuma Creeks Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead Kittitas County Conservation District (KCCD) improved irrigation systems and revegetated riparian areas on Lmuma and Lyle Creeks in the Upper Yakima River watershed. At both project sites, unscreened irrigation diversions were eliminated to allow safe access for salmonids and other resident fish species. On Lmuma Creek, the only surface water diversion on the creek was eliminated by reconfiguring the irrigation system to withdraw all irrigation water from the Yakima River. The Lmuma Creek project included the installation of fencing to protect riparian vegetation and the establishment of more than 1,800 native trees, shrubs and grasses using both volunteer and contracted labor. The projects were featured in KCCD newsletters which are published quarterly with a circulation of 6,500; they were also featured in KCCD’s display, which appeared at the Kittitas County Fair (60,000 attendees) and grower meetings.

Progress: The project is complete.

CSF05-2 Holmes Property - Riparian & Side Channel Restoration #C02 Sponsor: Yakama Nation - Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Program Total Cost: $43,021 SRFB Cost: $22,900 Cost-share: $20,121 Year Began: 2005 Status: Completed Location: Ellensburg WA County: Kittitas Stream: Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho This project enhanced and restored a 3000 foot side channel of the Yakima River and adjacent floodplain by planting native vegetation, decommissioning and re-vegetating old farm roads, and involving the public in riparian restoration activities. Due to the unnaturally high summer irrigation delivery flows in this reach of the mainstem Yakima, side channels like this provide critical habitat for juvenile salmonids.

Progress: Planned restoration activities on the Holmes property are complete.

85 Community Salmon Fund Projects in the Yakima Basin

CSF05-1 Horn Rapids County Park Riparian Restoration #C01 Sponsor: Benton Conservation District Total Cost: $73,174 SRFB Cost: $22,100 Cost-share: $51,074 Year Began: 2005 Status: Completed Location: Horn Rapids Park County: Benton Stream: Lower Yakima River Species Benefited: Chinook, coho, steelhead This project funded tree planting in 20,000 square feet of riparian area along the lower Yakima River. Prior to planting, the fields were cleared of invasive and noxious weeds. Following planting, fence tree guards were installed around 300 existing trees. Horn Rapids Park receives 9,000 visitors annually, who directly benefit from the interpretive signage included in this project.

Progress: Project is complete.

86 Index

RESTORATION PROJECTS:

# Riparian & Instream Habitat Improvement: 116 19-1430 Spoon Full Side Channels 111 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek 109 18-1650 Ahtanum Restoration of Recreation Impacts 105 18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four Tributaries 104 18-1711 Teanaway Community Forest Floodplain Reconnection 103 17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at Bull Canal Diversion 102 17-1173 Yakima Basin Stewardship 109 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement 100 17-1239 Swauk Cr Floodplain Reconnection 99 17-1177 North Fork Teanaway Large Wood Trapping 98 17-1169 Crow and Quartz Creek LWR 96 16-1760 Upper Yakima Tributary Flow Restoration 95 16-1749 NF Manastash Creek Floodplain Restoration 94 16-1606 Swauk Creek – Permanent Flow Restoration 92 15-1141 Ahtanum Creek Riparian Enhancement 2015 87 15-1144 SF Cowiche Floodplain Restoration 85 14-1204 Reducing Road Density in the Naches Watershed 84 14-1217 Naches River Side Channel Assessment 83 14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration Survey & Design 82 14-1238 South Fork Oak Creek Habitat Enhancement 77 13-1309 Lower Cowiche Floodplain Reconnection, Ph 3 75 13-1320 Floodplain Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogs 73 13-1312 Little Rattlesnake Creek Road Decommissioning 72 12-1307 Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem ph2 70 12-1317 Yakima River Gap to Gap Habitat Enhancement 67 12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' Acquisition and Restoration 63 11-1565 City of Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem Restoration 61 11-1320 Lower Cowiche Creek Restoration, Phase 2 59 11-1373 Rattlesnake Creek Side Channel Restoration 55 10-1786 Jack Creek Channel & Floodplain Restoration 53 10-1765 Eschbach Park Levee Setback & Restoration 51 10-1753 LaSalle High School Riparian Enhancement 50 10-1595 Yakima Beaver Project 48 09-1612 Teanaway – 3M Ditch 47 09-1590 Matson Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project 45 08-2001 Large Wood Replenishment 43 08-1952 Manastash Creek Diversion Consolidation 41 08-1948 Upper Wapato Reach Restoration 38 07-1899 Lower Yakima River Restoration 32 07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection and Restoration 30 07-1519/1520 Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project 29 06-2200 Schneider Habitat Project Cowiche Creek 24 06-2141 Cle Elum River Instream Habitat 22 04-1676 YTAHP Wilson Creek Riparian Restoration 17 02-1612 Riparian Enhancement Team Phase II 12 01-1254 Lmuma Restoration 10 00-1714 Yakima Corrections Riparian Enhancement Team

87 8 00-1711 Buchanan Ranch Restoration Project 7 00-1710 Yakima & Naches Tributaries Rootwad 6 00-1703 Sprayfield Riparian Enhancement 5 00-1015 West Valley Community Park 2 99-1752 Taylor Ditch Assessment & Restoration C15 Bull Trout Task Force C14 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River C13 A Path to Education: Planting and Education Along Trails C12 Salmon in our Backyards: Promoting Urban Stream Stewardship C11 Cowiche Creek Restoration C10 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River C09 Riparian Buffer and Fencing Project C08 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C07 Naches River Off Channel Habitat Restoration Project C06 Holmes Property – Salmon in the Classroom & Riparian Restoration C05 Green, Wilkinson Habitat Project on Cowiche Creek C04 Crowding Aquatic Plant Reduction Project C03 Lyle and Lmuma Creek Restoration C02 Holmes Property – Riparian & Side Channel Restoration C01 Horn Rapids County Park Riparian Restoration

# Fish Passage/ Barrier Removal: 112 19-1424 Tjossem Ditch—Improving Salmonid Survival 111 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek 108 18-1710 Taneum Fish Passage at RM 1.8 106 18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and Passage 103 17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at Bull Canal Diversion 101 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement 97 16-1753 Restoring Fish Passage on Cowiche Creek 93 15-1151 Parke Creek-Caribou Creek Fish Screening 91 15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration 79 14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish Passage Projects 78 13-1322 Ellensburg Water Co – Coleman Creek Intersection 74 13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry Creek Assessment 66 12-1328 CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water 65 11-1525 Coleman Cr - Ellensburg Water Company Project 57 10-1847 Teanaway – Red Bridge Road Project 56 10-1838 Manastash Creek Barrier Removal 37 07-1551 Taneum Creek Fish Passage 35 07-1567 North Fork Ahtanum Gauging Station Fish Passage 36 07-1517 Indian Creek and Jack Creek Culvert Replacement 27 06-2160 Currier Creek – EWC Siphon & Screen 26 06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal & Screening 21 04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek Fish Passage 18 02-1614 Snow Mountain Ranch Acquisition & Barrier Removal 15 02-1494 Coleman Creek Fish Access 13 01-1256 Cowiche Creek Barrier Removal 3 00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower Wilson Creek

# Fish Screening: 111 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek 106 18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and Passage

88 101 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement 93 15-1151 Parke Creek-Caribou Creek Fish Screening 86 14-1348 Badger Mountain ID Riverstation Screens 79 14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish Passage Projects 52 10-1764 Herke Fish Screening – Ahtanum Creek 46 09-1527 Lower Yakima River Fish Screening 38 07-1899 Lower Yakima River Restoration 34 07-1572 North Yakima County Fish Screening 27 06-2160 Currier Creek – EWC Siphon & Screen 26 06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal & Screening 21 04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek Fish Passage 20 02-1656 Dry/Cabin Creek Fish Passage & Screening 16 02-1527 Diversion 14 Fish Screen - Ahtanum Creek 14 01-1269 Naches River Water Treatment Plant Screen 11 01-1238 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screens 3 00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower Wilson Creek

# Acquisition Projects: 94 16-1606 Swauk Creek – Permanent Flow Restoration 84 12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' Acquisition and Restoration 58 10-1909 Lower Cowiche Creek Riparian Easement 33 07-1578 Big Creek Property Protection 32 07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection and Restoration 28 06-2193 Naches River Floodplain Acquisition 25 06-2143 Upper Yakima Protection - Hundley 23 04-1680 Holmes Floodplain Property Protection 19 02-1617 Lower Naches Critical Habitat Protection 18 02-1614 Snow Mountain Ranch Acquisition & Barrier Removal 4 00-1004 Union Gap Reach Acquisition

# Planning Projects: 117 19-1502 Hanson Ponds Project 115 19-1446 Ahtanum Village Restoration Design 114 19-1524 Upper Yakima River Cottonwood Assessment 111 19-1447 Tieton River Restoration Design Site #4 110 18-1651 Mainstem Teanaway Restoration Design at RM 8 107 18-1624 Ensign Ranch—Big Creek Flow Enhancement Design 91 15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration 90 15-1147 Yakima River Floodplain Assessment & Final Design 89 15-1350 Yakima RM153 Side Channel Connection Design 88 15-1153 Gold Creek Instream Habitat Design 84 14-1217 Naches River Side Channel Assessment 83 14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration Survey and Design 81 14-1214 Upper Yakima River Restoration 76 13-1557 Bateman Island Causeway Conceptual Design 74 13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry Creek Assessment 71 12-1350 YTID Tieton to Cowiche Delivery Assessment 69 12-1306 Gold Creek Habitat Assessment + Conceptual Design 68 12-1358 Yakima River Assessment Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop 64 11-1321 Teanaway Forks Large Wood Trapping 62 11-1600 L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design 60 11-1564 Cle Elum River PH-2 Instream Habitat Design

89 54 10-1785 Yakima River Delta Habitat Assessment 53 09-1772 Eschbach Park Levee Setback and Restoration Design 44 08-1965 Wapato Reach Assessment 42 08-1949 Coleman Creek Irrigation Redesign 40 08-1947 Swauk & Iron Creek Restoration Design 39 08-1939 Jack Creek Restoration Design 31 07-1566 Lower Yakima River Assessment 9 00-1713 Floodplain Mining Study 1 99-1712 Stormwater Management Plan

90 Location Index

# Benton County: 86 14-1348 Badger Mtn ID Riverstation Screens 76 13-1557 Bateman Island Causeway Conceptual Design 54 10-1785 Yakima River Delta Habitat Assessment 46 09-1527 Lower Yakima River Fish Screening 38 07-1899 Lower Yakima River Restoration 38 07-1566 Lower Yakima River Assessment C14 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River II C10 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River C9 Riparian Buffer and Fencing Project C8 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C4 Crowding Aquatic Plant Reduction Project C1 Horn Rapids County Park Riparian Restoration

# Yakima County: 115 19-1446 Ahtanum Village Restoration Design 113 19-1447 Tieton River Restoration Design Site #4 109 18-1650 Ahtanum Restoration of Recreation Impacts 105 18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four Tributaries 101 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement 98 17-1169 Crow and Quartz Creek LWR 97 16-1753 Restoring Fish Passage on Cowiche Creek 92 15-1141 Ahtanum Creek Riparian Enhancement 2015 87 15-1144 SF Cowiche Floodplain Restoration 85 14-1204 Reducing Road Density in the Naches Watershed 84 14-1217 Naches River Side Channel Assessment 83 14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration Survey and Design 82 14-1238 South Fork Oak Creek Habitat Enhancement 80 14-1203 Yakima Basin Stewardship Project 77 13-1309 Lower Cowiche Floodplain Reconnection, Ph 3 75 13-1320 Floodplain Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogs 73 13-1312 Little Rattlesnake Creek Road Decommissioning 72 12-1307 Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem ph2 71 12-1350 YTID Tieton to Cowiche Delivery Assessment 70 12-1317 Yakima River Gap to Gap Habitat Enhancement 67 12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' Acquisition and Restoration 66 12-1328 CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water 63 11-1565 City of Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem Restoration 62 11-1600 L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design 61 11-1320 Lower Cowiche Creek Restoration, Phase 2 59 11-1373 Rattlesnake Creek Side Channel Restoration 58 10-1909 Lower Cowiche Creek Riparian Easement 53 10-1765 Eschbach Park Levee Setback and Restoration 52 10-1764 Herke Fish Screening – Ahtanum Creek 51 10-1753 LaSalle High School Riparian Enhancement 49 09-1772 Eschbach Park Levee Setback and Restoration Design 47 09-1590 Matson Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project 44 08-1965 Wapato Reach Assessment 41 08-1948 Upper Wapato Reach Restoration 32 07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection and Restoration

91 35 07-1567 North Fork Ahtanum Gauging Station Fish Passage 34 07-1572 North Yakima County Fish Screening 29 06-2200 Schneider Habitat Project Cowiche Creek 28 06-2193 Naches River Floodplain Acquisition 19 02-1617 Lower Naches Critical Habitat Protection 18 02-1614 Snow Mountain Ranch Acquisition & Barrier Removal 17 02-1612 Riparian Enhancement Team Phase II 16 02-1527 Diversion 14 Fish Screen - Ahtanum Creek 14 01-1269 Naches River Water Treatment Plant Screen 13 01-1256 Cowiche Creek Barrier Removal 11 01-1238 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screens 10 00-1714 Yakima Corrections Riparian Enhancement Team 9 00-1713 Floodplain Mining Study 8 00-1711 Buchanan Ranch Restoration Project 7 00-1710 Yakima & Naches Tributaries Rootwad 6 00-1703 Sprayfield Riparian Enhancement 5 00-1015 West Valley Community Park 4 00-1004 Union Gap Reach Acquisition 2 99-1752 Taylor Ditch Assessment & Restoration 1 99-1712 Stormwater Management Plan C15 Bull Trout Task Force C13 A Path to Restoration: Planting and Education Along Trails C12 Salmon in our Backyards: Promoting Urban Stream Stewardship C11 Cowiche Creek Restoration C8 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C7 Spring Creek Restoration C5 Green, Wilkinson Habitat Project on Cowiche Creek

# Kittitas County: 117 19-1502 Hanson Ponds Project 116 19-1430 Spoon Full Side Channels 114 19-1524 Upper Yakima River Cottonwood Assessment 112 19-1424 Tjossem Ditch—Improving Salmonid Survival 111 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek 110 18-1651 Mainstem Teanaway Restoration Design at RM 8 108 18-1710 Taneum Fish Passage at RM 1.8 107 18-624 Ensign Ranch—Big Creek Flow Enhancement Design 106 18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and Passage 105 18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four Tributaries 104 18-1711 Teanaway Community Forest Floodplain Restoration 103 17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at Bull Canal Diversion 102 17-1173 Yakima Basin Stewardship 100 17-1239 Swauk Cr Floodplain Reconnection 99 17-1177 North Fork Teanaway Large Wood Trapping 96 16-1760 Upper Yakima Tributary Flow Restoration 95 16-1749 NF Manastash Creek Floodplain Restoration 93 15-1151 Parke Creek-Caribou Creek Fish Screening 91 15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration 90 15-1147 Yakima River Floodplain Assessment & Final Design 89 15-1350 Yakima RM153 Side Channel Connection Design 88 15-1153 Gold Creek Instream Habitat Design 81 14-1214 Upper Yakima River Restoration

92 80 14-1203 Yakima Basin Stewardship Project 79 14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish Passage Projects 78 13-1322 Ellensburg Water Co – Coleman Creek Intersection 74 13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry Creek Assessment 69 12-1306 Gold Creek Habitat Assessment + Conceptual Design 68 12-1358 Yakima River Assessment Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop 65 11-1525 Coleman Cr - Ellensburg Water Company Project 64 11-1321 Teanaway Forks Large Wood Trapping 60 11-1564 Cle Elum River PH-2 Instream Habitat Design 57 10-1847 Teanaway – Red Bridge Road Project 56 10-1838 Manastash Creek Barrier Removal 55 10-1786 Jack Creek Channel & Floodplain Restoration 50 10-1595 Yakima Beaver Project 48 09-1612 Teanaway – 3M Ditch 45 08-2001 Large Wood Replenishment 43 08-1952 Manastash Creek Diversion Consolidation 42 08-1949 Coleman Creek Irrigation Redesign 40 08-1947 Swauk & Iron Creek Restoration Design 39 08-1939 Jack Creek Restoration Design 33 07-1578 Big Creek Property Protection 37 07-1551 Taneum Creek Fish Passage 30 07-1519 Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project 36 07-1517 Indian Creek and Jack Creek Culvert Replacement 27 06-2160 Currier Creek – EWC Siphon & Screen 26 06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal & Screening 25 06-2143 Upper Yakima Protection - Hundley 24 06-2141 Cle Elum River Instream Habitat 23 04-1680 Holmes Floodplain Property Protection 22 04-1676 YTAHP Wilson Creek Riparian Restoration 21 04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek Fish Passage 20 02-1656 Dry/Cabin Creek Fish Passage & Screening 15 02-1494 Coleman Creek Fish Access 12 01-1254 Lmuma Restoration 3 00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower Wilson Creek C15 Bull Trout Task Force C13 A Path to Restoration: Planting and Education Along Trails C12 Salmon in our Backyards: Promoting Urban Stream Stewardship C8 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C6 Holmes Property – Salmon in the Classroom & Riparian Restoration C3 Lyle and Lmuma Creek Restoration C2 Holmes Property – Riparian & Side Channel Restoration

93 Sponsor Index

# Badger Mountain Irrigation District 86 14-1348 Badger Mtn ID Riverstation Screens

# Benton Conservation District: 46 09-1527 Lower Yakima River Fish Screening 30 07-1566 Lower Yakima River Assessment 38 07-1899 Lower Yakima River Restoration C14 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River II C10 Community Harvesting of Water Stargrass in Yakima River C9 Riparian Buffer and Fencing Project C8 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C4 Crowding Aquatic Plant Reduction Project C1 Horn Rapids County Park Riparian Restoration

# Cowiche Canyon Conservancy 32 07-1598 Cowiche Creek Protection and Restoration 18 02-1614 Snow Mtn. Ranch Acquisition & Barrier Removal

# Forterra (formerly Cascade Land Conservancy) 33 07-1578 Big Creek Property Protection

# Kittitas Conservation Trust 117 19-1502 Hanson Ponds Project 91 15-1247 Williams Creek Aquatic Habitat Restoration 88 15-1153 Gold Creek Instream Habitat Design 81 14-1214 Upper Yakima River Restoration 69 12-1306 Gold Creek Habitat Assessment + Conceptual Design 60 11-1564 Cle Elum River PH-2 Instream Habitat Design 37 07-1551 Taneum Creek Fish Passage 25 06-2143 Upper Yakima Protection Hundley 24 06-2141 Cle Elum River Instream Habitat C6 Holmes Property – Salmon in the Classroom & Riparian Restoration

# Kittitas County Conservation District 111 19-1427 The Ranch on Swauk Creek 106 18-1648 Cooke Creek Screening and Passage 93 15-1151 Parke Creek-Caribou Creek Fish Screening 79 14-1215 Coleman-Naneum Fish Passage Projects 78 13-1322 Ellensburg Water Co ‐ Coleman Creek Intersection 65 11-1525 Coleman Cr - Ellensburg Water Company Project 57 10-1847 Teanaway – Red Bridge Road Project 56 10-1838 Manastash Creek Barrier Removal 48 09-1612 Teanaway – 3M Ditch 43 08-1952 Manastash Creek Diversion Consolidation 42 08-1949 Coleman Creek Irrigation Redesign 36 07-1517 Indian Creek and Jack Creek Culvert Replacement 27 06-2160 Currier Creek - EWC Siphon & Screen 36 06-2156 Cherry Creek Barrier Removal & Screen 22 04-1676 YTAHP Wilson Creek Riparian Restoration

94 21 04-1675 YTAHP Lower Reecer Creek Fish Passage 20 02-1656 Dry/Cabin Creek Fish Passage & Screen 15 02-1494 Coleman Creek Fish Access 3 00-1003 Reestablish Access to Lower Wilson Creek C3 Lyle and Lmuma Creek Restoration

# Kittitas County Flood Control Zone District 74 13-1315 Naneum, Wilson, and Cherry Creek Assessment 68 12-1358 Yakima River Assessment Hansen Pits to Ringer Loop

# Mid-Columbia Fisheries Enhancement Group 116 19-1430 Spoon Full Side Channels 114 19-1524 Upper Yakima River Cottonwood Assessment 110 18-1651 Mainstem Teanaway Restoration Design at RM 8 109 18-1650 Ahtanum Restoration of Recreation Impacts 104 18-1711 Teanaway Community Forest Floodplain Restoration 103 17-1179 Yakima River Side Channel at Bull Canal Diversion 102 17-1173 Yakima Basin Stewardship 100 17-1239 Swauk Cr Floodplain Reconnection 99 17-1177 North Fork Teanaway Large Wood Trapping 98 17-1169 Crow and Quartz Creek LWR 95 16-1749 NF Manastash Creek Floodplain Restoration 89 15-1350 Yakima RM153 Side Channel Connection Design 87 15-1144 SF Cowiche Floodplain Restoration 85 14-1204 Reducing Road Density in the Naches Watershed 82 14-1238 South Fork Oak Creek Habitat Enhancement 80 14-1203 Yakima Basin Stewardship Project 77 13-1309 Lower Cowiche Floodplain Reconnection, Ph 3 76 13-1557 Bateman Island Causeway Conceptual Design 73 13-1312 Little Rattlesnake Creek Road Decommissioning 64 11-1321 Teanaway Forks Large Wood Trapping 61 11-1320 Lower Cowiche Creek Restoration, Phase 2 55 10-1786 Jack Creek Channel & Floodplain Restoration 54 10-1785 Yakima River Delta Habitat Assessment 45 08-2001 Large Wood Replenishment 40 08-1947 Swauk & Iron Creek Restoration Design 39 08-1939 Jack Creek Restoration Design 36 07-2020 Reecer Creek Floodplain Restoration Project C15 Bull Trout Task Force C13 A Path to Restoration: Planting and Education Along Trails C12 Salmon in our Backyards: Promoting Urban Stream Stewardship C11 Cowiche Creek Restoration C08 Yakima Basin Riparian Restoration C07 Spring Creek Restoration

# NW Service Academy 12 01-1254 Lmuma Restoration

# North Yakima Conservation District 101 17-1224 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screen and Habitat Enhancement 97 16-1753 Restoring Fish Passage on Cowiche Creek 92 15-1141 Ahtanum Creek Riparian Enhancement 2015

95 84 14-1217 Naches River Side Channel Assessment 83 14-1222 Ahtanum Creek Restoration Survey and Design 75 13-1320 Floodplain Restoration with Beaver Dam Analogs 66 12-1328 CCWUA Barrier Removal and Trust Water 52 10-1764 Herke Fish Screening – Ahtanum Creek 51 10-1753 LaSalle High School Riparian Enhancement 47 09-1590 Matson Barrier Removal and Trust Water Project 34 07-1572 North Yakima County Fish Screening 35 07-1567 North Fork Ahtanum Gauging Station Fish Passage 29 06-2200 Schneider Habitat Project - Cowiche Creek 16 02-1527 Diversion 14 Fish Screen – Ahtanum Creek 13 01-1256 Cowiche Creek Barrier Removal 11 01-1238 Ahtanum Creek Fish Screens 8 00-1711 Buchanan Ranch Restoration Project C5 Green, Wilkinson Habitat Project on Cowiche Creek

# Robert Inouye 59 11-1373 Rattlesnake Creek Side Channel Restoration

# Selah, City of 1 99-1712 Stormwater Management Plan

# Tree Top, Inc 6 00-1703 Sprayfield Riparian Enhancement

# Trout Unlimited 112 19-1424 Tjossem Ditch—Improving Salmonid Survival 96 16-1760 Upper Yakima Tributary Flow Restoration 90 15-1147 Yakima River Floodplain Assessment and Final Design

# Washington Water Trust 107 18-1624 Ensign Ranch—Big Creek Flow Enhancement Design 102 16-1606 Swauk Creek Permanent Flow Restoration

# WDFW 50 10-1595 Yakima Beaver Project 26 04-1691 SF Cowiche Creek Protection 7 00-1710 Yakima & Naches Tributaries Rootwad

# Yakama Nation 115 19-1446 Ahtanum Village Restoration Design 113 19-1447 Tieton River Restoration Design Site #4 108 18-1710 Taneum Fish Passage at RM 1.8 105 18-1709 Wood Replenishment in Four Tributaries 50 08-1965 Wapato Reach Assessment 23 04-1680 Holmes Floodplain Property Protection 19 02-1617 Lower Naches Critical Habitat Protection 2 99-1752 Taylor Ditch Assessment & Restoration C2 Holmes Property – Riparian & Side Channel Restoration

# Yakima, City of 72 12-1307 Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem ph2

96 63 11-1565 City of Yakima Floodplain Ecosystem Restoration 14 01-1269 Naches River Water Treatment Plant Screen

# Yakima County Public Services 70 12-1317 Yakima River Gap to Gap Habitat Enhancement 67 12-1327 Naches River Ramblers' Acquisition and Restoration 62 11-1600 L Cowiche Creek Restoration Design 58 10-1909 Lower Cowiche Riparian Easement 53 10-1765 Eschbach Park Levee Setback & Restoration 49 09-1772 Eschbach Park Levee Setback and Restoration Design 41 08-1948 Upper Wapato Reach Restoration 28 06-2193 Naches River Floodplain Acquisition 9 00-1713 Floodplain Mining Study

# Yakima County Corrections 17 02-1612 Riparian Enhancement Team Phase II 10 00-1714 Yakima Corrections Riparian Enhancement Team

# Yakima County Parks & Recreation 5 00-1015 West Valley Community Park

# Yakima Greenway Foundation 4 00-1004 Union Gap Reach Acquisition

# Yakima-Tieton Irrigation District 71 12-1350 YTID Tieton to Cowiche Delivery Assessment

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