PROJECT SUMMARIES

1. Big Mountain Wetland Delineation
2. Teton River Restoration and Irrigation Diversion Retrofit
3. Ashley Creek Watershed/Riparian Assessment
4. Lower Swift Creek Restoration
5. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project
6. Watershed Assessment, Whitepine Creek - MT
7. Forest and Environmental Management Plan - MT
8. Monitoring Endangered Species Act (ESA) Fish Species During Road Construction / Reconstruction Implementation-ID

   Client: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highways Administration, Western Federal Lands Highway Division (FHWA)

   In accordance with mitigation measures listed in the Biological Opinions of the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service after formal Section 7(c) consultation, the FHWA contracted with Watershed Consulting from 1999-2002 to provide the services of a fisheries biologist to monitor the effects of construction activities and assure compliance for the following ESA listed species: spring/summer chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and bull trout.

   Presence/absence, including distribution of those ESA listed species and any spawning activity, was monitored through a comprehensive snorkeling effort and redd counts encompassing two streams and a portion of the South Fork of the Salmon River. Weekly reports were distributed to interested agencies including both the USFWS and NMFS, in addition to the Payette National Forest, Idaho Fish and Game, and FHWA offices. Watershed Consulting also prepared a report of findings after two years; Fisheries Investigation Job Completion Report for the Warren-Profile Gap Road #340 Construction / Reconstruction Project, 2001. Other project tasks included madding recommendations on the validity of the in-stream construction window, preparing a briefing package to inform workers about ESA listed species, supervising the turbidity monitoring effort, and making recommendations to the FHWA project engineer on possible ways to improve the mitigation of potential sediment sources from the construction activities.

   Personnel involved:
   Mike Koopal, project management, investigator

   Contact: Mike Helvey, Project Engineer, U.S. Department of Transportation, Vancouver, WA (208)636-3613

9. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project - MT
10. The Petrig Land Stewardship and Watershed Restoration Project.
11. Stream Stability Fluvio-Geomorphic Assessment and Restoration, Clear Creek and Big Creek - MT
12. Stream Channel Rehabilitation - Dunham Creek, MT
13. Channel Dynamics and Stream Stability Assessment and Rehabilitation; Elk Creek(Noxon) - MT
14. Wetland Construction Feasibility Study - Olson Coulee, MT
15. Channel Dynamics Evaluation, and Streambank and County Road Reconstruction Design - St. Regis River, MT
16. Watershed Assessments - ID
17. Fluvio-Geomorphic Fish Habitat Variables Assessment; Rock Creek near Noxon, MT
18. Channel Dynamics and Streambank Stability Evaluation - Yellowstone River and Clark Fork River, MT
19. Geomorphic and Aquatic Habitat Survey on 48 Pristine Reaches
20. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Population and Habitat Evaluation - Nevada
21. Yellowstone Pipeline Proposed Emergency Repair Evaluation - MT
22. Riparian Vegetation Restoration, Clear Creek - MT
23. Biological Evaluations, Clearwater River Drainage - ID
24. Stream Habitat Inventories for Selected Blackfoot Tributaries - MT
25. Streamflow Measurements, NW Montana
26. Assistance to Montana Conservation Districts
27. Monitoring Plan Development and Implementation: St. Clair Creek, Sapphire Mountains, MT
28. Channel Design for Bridge Reconstruction - O'Brien Creek, MT
29. Channel Trends Analysis and Channel Rehabilitation Design - Therriault Creek, MT
30. Self-Cleaning Flat-Plate Fish Screen Design, Manufacture and Installation
31. Design of Channel Fish Bypass Ladders for Irrigation Dams, Douglas Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
32. Alternative Irrigation Diversion Structure and Fish Screen Design and Installation, Salmon Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
33. Large Irrigation Diversion Structure Evaluation and Design, Sun River near Fort Shaw - MT
34. Infiltration Gallery Diversion Design and Installation, Mol Heron Creek near Corwin Springs - MT
35. Evaluation and Geomorphic Stability Analysis of Six Diversion Structures, Teton River upstream of Choteau - MT
36. Evaluation of Czech Republic Geomorphic Stream Classification System - Czech Republic
37. Mineral Property Evaluations - Sierra Madre, Chihuahua and Sinaloa States, Mexico
38. Property Evaluation- Bolivian Altiplano, South America
39. R1/R4 Fisheries Habitat Assessment
40. Development and Implementation of Water Quality Montioring Plan
41. Moose Fire Rehabilition Fisheries Biologist and EA, EIS Preparation
42. Proposed Goat/Squeezer Timber Sale -Fisheries Biologist Preparation of EIS
43. Feasibility Assessment and Design of Spawning Habitat for Rainbow Trout