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BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet Habitat Conservation – Public Notice February 2011

Conservancy will own and manage the land. A conservation Proposal to purchase land easement will be placed on the property to permanently along the protect the land for conservation values. BPA would have Fact Sheet rights of enforcement to the easement. would protect fish habitat Land management: The Methow Conservancy in Okanogan County will lead the development of a baseline assessment and management plan to guide the protection of the land and Location: Winthrop, Okanogan County, Wash. enhancement of the riparian habitat for fish. The management plan will be updated periodically to account 1 Acres: for changes on the property and consider the best Fact Sheet available science. Partners: The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and the Methow Conservancy For more information

Purpose: The Bonneville Power Administration is Bonneville Power Administration: proposing to fund the purchase of land in the Methow Jay Marcotte, project manager, 800-622-4519 or River watershed in north-central to protect 503-230-3943, [email protected] fish habitat. This property was chosen to ensure the ongoingFact success of existing riparianSheet protection projects in Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Cedarosa area. The Methow Conservancy already has the Yakama Nation: conservation easements on 20 nearby properties. The Brandon Rogers, tribal biologist, 509-949-4109, Methow River watershed is important for fish conservation [email protected] because it supports populations of Upper Columbia spring The Methow Conservancy: chinook salmon, Upper Columbia steelhead, and Jeanne White, conservation project manager, bull trout, which are all listed as threatened 1-509-996-2870, [email protected] or endangeredFact under the Endangered Sheet Species Act. The habitat protected by this project would also support other species of native fish and wildlife. BPA Fish and Wildlife Program

Funding this acquisition fulfills commitments in the historic BPA’s fish and wildlife program protects and preserves 2008 Columbia Basin Fish Accords. They build on NOAA valuable fish and wildlife habitat throughout the Fisheries’ plans for recovering salmon and steelhead runs Northwest. Since its inception in 1980, the program has listed under the ESA and on the Northwest Power and set aside more than 550,000 acres of land benefiting Conservation Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and hundreds of species. The program protects habitat Wildlife Program. The purchase is expected to be finalized from development either through outright purchase of in March 2011. land or by purchasing conservation easements on privately owned property. BPA works in partnership Type of action: BPA would work with the Yakama with conservation groups, local tribes and state fish Nation to fund the Methow Conservancy’s acquisition of and wildlife management agencies. the parcel. When the transaction is complete, the Methow Cedarosa Phase I Completion Okanogan County, Washington

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Bonneville Power Administration DOE/BP-4270 • February 2011