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Objectives: 1) complete a baseline assessment for 3 miles of S.F. Salmon River and 1 mile of tributaries, 2) complete instream LWD preliminary designs for up to 3 miles of S.F. Salmon River and up to 1 mile of tributaries, 3) complete permitting package for LWD installations in up to 3 miles of S.F. Salmon River and up to 1 mile of tributaries. Deliverables: 1) baseline assessment technical memorandum, 2) preliminary instream LWD designs, basis of design report, and cost estimate, 3) materials sources, specifications, quantities, and cost estimate, 4) permit package for landowner submission to regulatory agencies
The Quinault Division of Natural Resources and U.S. Forest Service submit this proposal for funding from the Salmon Recovery Funding Board to complete a baseline assessment, preliminary designs, and permit application package for a large wood debris restoration project in South Fork Salmon River (RM 0-RM 3). South Fork Salmon River is tributary of Salmon River in the Queets River Watershed on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula in Grays Harbor County, Washington State. The overall goal of the project is to rehabilitate instream habitat conditions and restore physical and ecological processes that create and maintain complex habitats for all life history stages of salmon and other fish species that utilize South Fork Salmon River. Restoring South Fork Salmon River will help increase the resiliency of Queets River chinook, coho, and steelhead, and other salmon populations to natural variability in the freshwater and marine environments and potential impacts associated with climate change. Primary types of habitat to be restored include in-stream, floodplain, and off-channel habitats. Priority species supported by the project include Queets River chinook, coho, steelhead, cutthroat, native char, and Pacific lamprey. The salmon produced from South Fork Salmon River support subsistence, commercial, and recreational fisheries for both tribal and non-tribal users. Project deliverables include 1) a baseline assessment technical memorandum, 2) preliminary instream LWD designs, basis of design report, and cost estimate; 3) a materials schedule including sources, specifications, quantities, and cost estimate, and 4) a permit application package for landowner(s). The project timeline is from December 2018 to June 2020. Our goal is to propose the construction phase of the project to U.S. Forest Service programs and other federal funding programs within 1 year (or less) of project completion.