Overall Goals Achieved: Under Phase 3 of PTIR, local restoration crews protected and restored forest, riverine, floodplain, riparian, wetland, pasture/shrubland, and estuarine habitats by preventing and controlling 27 invasive species on 11,000 infested acres in eight watersheds and three counties on the north, west, and southwest Olympic Peninsula. In addition to protecting resilient watersheds, the economic resiliency of local communities was (is) an equally important goal, achieved by hiring local staff through the biennium, training in a variety of disciplines and methods to implement the fieldwork, data management, mapping, and coordination required to respond to thousands of acres of invasive plants affecting habitats, ecosystems, and resources for a wide range of partners, resource managers, and landowners. The project also provided education and support services to numerous agencies, municipalities, coastal tribes, and many landowners and citizens. We achieved integration in a number of programs and projects needing attention to invasive plant prevention and management – including restoration and habitat enhancement projects, culvert inventories and road management on federal, state, county, tribal, city, and private land, and contributed to invasives project development by tribes, noxious weed boards, conservation districts, and state agencies. Priority species supported All native plant, animal, fish, amphibian, and insect species were supported – and in particular, species prioritized for recreation, tribal and commercial fishing, and ecosystem biodiversity – Chinook, Coho, Steelhead, and Sockeye – as well as Pacific lamprey, cutthroat trout, and all others in aquatic habitats. Of priority mammals, elk and deer are important for local subsistence food resources – and this project protects native browse species for these animals. Elk are understory engineers – pruning back their native forage species – salmonberry, elderberry, Indian plum, and others - avoiding the toxic tansy ragwort, foxglove, and St. John’s-wort, and the inedible reed canarygrass, knotweed, Scotch broom, and non-native blackberry, which leaves them to spread unimpeded. Jobs and Training: To achieve the goals of integrating and expanding capacity for area land managers, and increasing skills and jobs in local communities, over Phase 3, 10KYI retained, or hired and trained, 36 crew leads and restoration technicians. There are 23 crew members working in October 2021. Field training was also provided to the Hoh Tribe’s Natural Resources crew for work on the Hoh reservation, and a Quinault Indian Nation crew, hired and trained to work on exploding toxic tansy ragwort on the lower Queets River on the Quinault reservation, and reed canarygrass, knotweed, non-native blackberry, and Scotch broom in the village, harvest units, river floodplain and estuary. In 2020 and 2021, training was provided to new staff hires at 10KYI, DNR’s Olympic Correctional Camp (OCC) staff and crews, Quileute Tribe staff and crews, and restoration project sponsors in WRIA 20. In partnership with WSU and Grays Harbor County Noxious Weed program coordinator, we coordinated a WSDA applicators’ license class and test session conducted by a WSU instructor to provide certification for our staff and interested coastal tribes, agencies, organizations and companies. During the pandemic lockdown in 2020, we remotely trained four new staff members including a project coordinator, 2 crew leads, and a restoration tech advancing to a crew lead position, and developed a natural resources webinar series for the entire staff (See Appendix B – Continuing Education PDFs in PRISM Final Report Attachments). Staff also participated in the virtual 3-day Washington State Weed Conference and the two-day Scotch Broom Symposium, with crew leads receiving WSDA license credits. Our GIS staff and project coordination team provided remote training and planning sessions to partners including Grays Harbor NWB, TNC, WSDOT, the Quileute Tribe and Quinault Nation staff via GIS and Microsoft Team Meetings to share tools and coordinate upcoming fieldwork in the Sol Duc, Quillayute, Bogachiel, Hoh, Goodman, Quinault, and Humptulips watersheds. The dashboards and other GIS tools continue to be used for project planning and reporting, especially by 10KYI. Education and Outreach: The PTIR Project was presented at statewide meetings and symposia including: • The Regional Fisheries Enhancement Program annual retreat in 2019 at ONRC in Forks • WSU Stream Stewards class in 2019 at ONRC in Forks • The Washington Salmon Coalition annual meeting in 2020 at Coast Salmon Foundation in Aberdeen • The Washington Scotch Broom Symposium in 2020 - virtual • The WA State Salmon Recovery Conference in 2021 - virtual Numerous presentations and updates were given on the Olympic Peninsula to planning groups, agency and tribal staff, and residents: • The Olympic Weed Working Group Fall 2019 meeting (1) • Clallam and Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners meetings (4) • Hoh Tribe Natural Resources staff meetings (2) • Hoh Tribe Council meeting (1) • Quinault Nation Natural Resource/Invasives staff meeting (1) • Quileute Tribe Natural Resource/Invasives staff meeting (2) • WSDOT Region staff meetings (2) • Olympic DNR All Hands meeting (1) • Olympic DNR Forest Health staff meeting (and field tour with us) • Grays Harbor College Forestry program in 2021 (1 - virtual) • Quarterly updates to the North Pacific Coast Lead Entity (NPCLE) (5) • North Pacific Coast Marine Resources Committee meetings (2) • North Olympic Development Council meeting (1 - virtual) • Middle Hoh Resiliency Plan meetings (Jefferson County, sponsor) (6) • Olympic Forest Collaborative (2) • 50+ conversations at sites, by email or phone, or at the office with citizens and landowners– some walk in with a branch of a suspected ‘bad’ plant for identification - to whom we provided recommendations and offered control services and further training to promote prevention. A recent representative update to NPCLE can be viewed in Prism Final Report Attachments (see 10KYI NPCLE Update 2021). All other presentations are available upon request. We completed an update of the 10KYI Reed Canarygrass Prevention and Control Protocol (see in PRISM Attachments),distributed to many, and posted on the 10KYI website. Scotch broom, tansy ragwort, and herb Robert Prevention and Control Protocols are under construction and will be completed in winter of 2021/2022. In all years, the detailed GIS data was reviewed, compiled into databases, maps, presentations with photos, and included in reports provided to partners and landowners and RCO as requested - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or annually - to landowners and partners. The GIS-based maps of each 'worksite', i.e. watershed's GPS data for the entire project period are uploaded in PRISM Final Report Attachments, showing the points where different species were treated, and the number of sites and acres, by species, year, and watershed. The data behind each point contains information for each point - which might be a single plant or a half acre of a species, the site location, ownership, type (road, various habitats, mine, etc.) and details about the plants' phenology, size, substrate, proximity to surface water, and treatment type. Additional detail from these datasets (acres, river miles, road miles, new species prevented, and species treated) are presented in Appendix A: 2019-2021 Prevention and Control Summary, in PRISM Final Report Attachments. What isn't included there are the numbers of seeds and propagules represented by each plant per growing cycle - which can be as high as 10,000 per year for Scotch broom, viable for 30-80 years, to 200,000 for a tansy ragwort plant, viable for 20 years. Partnerships and Collaborations: PTIR crews provided surveys, prevention and control of multiple invasive species to the cities of Forks and Ocean Shores, UW Olympic Natural Resources Center, WADNR, WSDOT, WA Parks, ONF, ONP, the Quileute Tribe, Hoh Tribe, and Quinault Indian Nation, Clallam, Jefferson, and Grays Harbor counties, non-profit organizations Trout Unlimited, Coast Salmon Partnership, Wild Salmon Center, The Nature Conservancy, and Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition, private companies Pacific Forest Management, Fruit Growers, and Brittlind, private landowners and restoration project sponsors for invasive species on hundreds of project locations and sites throughout the project area. The agreement with WADNR camp crew for Scotch broom control on State-owned natural area preserves, roadsides and gravel mines was expanded. A collaboration was developed between the Clallam Conservation District and 10KYI to achieve invasive plant education and control on private pasturelands. An agreement for two Washington Conservation Corps crews (Port Angeles and Elma) was finalized to provide additional support for Scotch broom control in north Clallam and west Grays Harbor counties. Further collaborations were expanded with ONF, the Quileute Tribe, Hoh Tribe, City of Forks, the three county weed boards (Clallam and Grays Harbor) or environmental departments (Jefferson), and WSDOT to target treatments and timing.