Restore sustainable and harvestable populations of salmon, steelhead, bull trout and other at-risk fish and wildlife species through collaborative, economically sound efforts that bring together diverse resources to promote wise management of the Yakima River Basin. The Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board has been supporting efforts to restore habitat for over 20 years in the Yakima Basin.
Check out the sample projects below to learn more about these projects and the important work our partners are doing on-the-ground! The agenda and call.
Check out the sample projects below to learn more about these projects and the important work our partners are doing on-the-ground! The agenda and call.
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Recovery Planning
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The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board (YBFWRB) is built on the belief that working together to develop broadly-supported plans is an essential part of recovering at-risk fish and wildlife species. Clearly lays out what we are trying to accomplish, how we will do it, and how we will track whether or not what we are doing works as anticipated.
Steelhead Recovery Plan
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The federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries to write a recovery plan for all listed species. In Washington State, NOAA Fisheries and the Governor's Salmon Recovery Office (GSRO) committed to working with local partners to develop ESA mandated recovery plans for salmon and steelhead.
Bull Trout Recovery
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Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) are a native fish that spawn in the cold headwaters of the Yakima Basin and migrate extensively up and down the Yakima and Naches Rivers. Local biologists started monitoring the status of the 12 individual populations in the basin in the 1980s. Since then, some some of our populations have declined to dangerously low levels, or in a few cases, disappeared.
Bull Trout Working Group
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The Yakima Bull Trout Working Group (BTWG) is an informal working group that brings partners working on bull trout conservation together approximately every other month. Originally formed to draft the Yakima chapter of the 2002 draft of the USFWS Recovery Plan, the group has become the go-to-place to for all things bull trout.
Bull Trout Action Plan
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The Bull Trout Action Plan (BTAP) was created in 2012. It is a locally-written document that complements the USFWS Bull Trout Recovery Plan by providing detailed population information and proposing specific actions and next steps that will benefit bull trout in the Yakima Basin. The cited references from the 2012 Action Plan are accessible via our Yakima Basin Bull Trout library, using the tag BTAP12.
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