Upper Toppenish Watershed Restoration Project

(9803300)

Yakama Nation

Division of Natural Resources

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Yakama Reservation BPA Projects

199206200 Yakama Nation Wetlands and Riparian Restoration

199603501 Satus Watershed Restoration

199705300 Toppenish-Simcoe Instream Flow Restoration and Assessment

199803300 Restore Upper Toppenish Watershed

199901300 Ahtanum Creek Watershed Assessment

Yakama Reservation BPA Projects

Goals

1. Moderate flow regime

2. Foster vegetative recovery

3. Improve habitat for fish and wildlife

4. Improve land management

5. Monitor and evaluate results, apply adaptive management

Factors Limiting Fisheries Productivity

• Flow regime

• Climate

• Passage and habitat problems downstream of project area

Watershed Assessment Recommendations

• Improve grazing management

• Transportation system design & maintenance

• Prescribed burning

• Beaver habitat enhancement

• Headwater meadow restoration

• Riparian & floodplain revegetation

Planned Restoration Activities

• Restore channelized, diked stream reaches to historic channels

• Revegetate riparian areas and floodplains

• Aggrade channelized stream reaches

• Improve grazing management

• Restore headwater meadows

• Reduce sediment inputs from roads

Restore channelized reaches

Revegetate riparian areas & floodplains

Restore headwater meadows

Reduce sediment inputs from roads

Past Accomplishments

• Reestablishing fish passage

• Channel rehabilitation

• Floodplain road relocation

• Grazing management

Reestablishing fish passage

Channel rehabilitation

Grazing Management

•Spawning ground surveys•Riparian Proper Functioning Condition (PFC) assessment•Photo points at treatment locations

Monitoring & Evaluation

Partnerships

• FEMA

• Yakama Nation Transportation Program

• Toppenish-Simcoe Instream Flow Restoration Project

• Yakama Nation Lower Valley Wetlands/Riparian Restoration

• Yakama Nation Flood Management Project