Background
The
Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Project (ISEMP) seeks to design,
implement, test, and evaluate Status and Trends and Effectiveness Monitoring programs for salmon and steelhead populations and habitat.
ISEMP pilot projects are being developed in the following Interior Columbia basins:
John Day |
Salmon |
Wenatchee–Entiat
Monitoring Program Development and Evaluation
In addition to monitoring salmon and steelhead populations and habitat within pilot basins, ISEMP is designed to test the robustness of monitoring protocols, indicator metrics, and sampling designs currently used in monitoring programs. ISEMP plans to develop tools to facilitate effective data analysis, management and communication.
Please visit the Documents and Reports page (via Downloadable Data) for further information regarding overall ISEMP plans and specific projects within pilot basins.
Project Time Line
ISEMP was initiated in 2003 with funding through the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in response to the need for status and trend and effectiveness monitoring called for by the 2000 Biological Opinion (see Documents and Reports for further background information).
In 2004 protocol comparisons and monitoring data collections were initiated in the Wenatchee Basin. Effectiveness monitoring projects (push up dam removal in the South Fork John Day and incision pilot studies in Bridge Creek) began in the John Day Basin in 2004, along with a project to compile all historical monitoring data for the basin. Data collection and compilation efforts continued in 2005, along with planning for monitoring projects in the Salmon Basin. Field work will begin in the Salmon Basin in 2006.
In 2005 the Wenatchee Pilot Basin Project was extended to include effectiveness monitoring in the Entiat River Basin (Washington) with the initiation of the "Bridge to Bridge" project.
Downloadable Data
Visit the Downloadable Data page to download background documents, reports and map products related to ISEMP.
Collaborators
Visit the Collaborators page to search for ISEMP contact information.