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BPA Contracts 59682 & 53025. The Tyee Ranch project will involve riparian plantings, installation of engineered log jams and other large woody debris (LWD) structures, and an excavated re-connection to floodplain and abandoned side channels. The intent of the project is to provide year-round off-channel fish habitat as well as increase mainstem channel habitat complexity.
BPA Contracts 53025 & 59682. This contract covers the Tyee Ranch Habitat Restoration proposal located between river mile 22 and 23 of the Entiat River. The work being proposed under this contract is one of three restoration projects proposed for a reach-based approach to habitat restoration in the Entiat Watershed being monitored as an Intensively Monitored Watershed (IMW). Restoration projects are also being proposed by the Yakama Nations on property to the north, river mile 25- 26 (Brennigan Creek) project and by the Chelan County Natural Resources Department to the south between river mile 19-20 (Dillwater). The intent of the IMW approach is to construct reach based, large scale projects in a single calendar year and then monitor those projects and their effects for the following two years. A second round of reach scale projects will occur in 2014 in the lower Entiat and the final round will occur in 2017 in the middle river area. The purpose of this contract is to purchase and install riparian and floodplain vegetation, install livestock exclusion fencing and construction of a livestock watering facility. These are the final elements necessary to complete the Tyee Ranch Floodplain Enhancement and Complexity salmon habitat restoration project. The restoration project was originally scheduled for construction during the summer and fall of 2011, with planting, fencing and watering facility to be finished in the spring and summer of 2012. Due to high flows during the work window of 2011, construction was delayed until 2012.