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Independent Scientific Review Panel
Retrospective Report 1997 - 2005
August 31, 2005 | document ISRP 2005-14
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- Executive Summary only (160k PDF)
- Appendix: The Evolution of Scientific
Review in the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program (700k PDF)
- Presentation to Council (2.8m PDF)
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Important Update of Research,
Monitoring, and Evaluation Section of the Retrospective Report: Study
Designs for Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Dec 12, 2005 correction
In the report's appendix, page 105, the second sentence of following
statement is deleted: "Many dams that block salmon from historical
habitat in tributaries are non-Federal projects such as the Hells
Canyon complex in the Snake River. The Fish and Wildlife Program does
not have mitigation responsibility for those projects." The Power Act
directs the Council to call for recommendations and adopt a program
"to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife, including
related spawning grounds and habitat, affected by the development and
operation of any hydroelectric project on the Columbia River and its
tributaries." See 4(h)(2), emphasis added. That the program is to
mitigate for the effects of any hydro facility -- non-federal as well
as federal -- is further established by the corresponding obligation
of the federal agencies toward the program in Section 4(h)(11)(A):
"The Administrator and other Federal agencies responsible for
managing, operating, or regulating Federal or non-Federal
hydroelectric facilities located on the Columbia River or its
tributaries shall . . . (ii) exercise such responsibilities, taking
into account at each relevant stage of decisionmaking processes to the
fullest extent practicable, the program adopted by the Council under
this subsection. . . . "
This report satisfies a provision of the 1996 Amendment to the 1980
Northwest Power Act, which charges the Independent Scientific Review Panel
(ISRP) to provide a retrospective report of the results of prior-year
expenditures to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. The scope of
past ISRP reviews has for the most part been limited to specific projects.
With this report the ISRP enlarges the perspective and evaluates the
cumulative effect of our reviews on program accountability, project
effectiveness, and scientific soundness. The ISRP hopes that this report
sets the stage for successive retrospective reviews that examine
measurable benefits to fish and wildlife and provide biological
information for the Council's evaluation of Fish and Wildlife Program
expenditures and effectiveness.
This report has two major sections. The first section discusses the
ISRP review process from 1997 through 2005 and its results. The second
section covers major programmatic themes including, in order: research,
monitoring and evaluation (RM&E); habitat and passage in the mainstem
Columbia River (including white sturgeon, lamprey and exotic species);
tributary habitat; wildlife; artificial production; and the ocean and
estuary. The report also includes an appendix that describes the
development of the peer review process in greater detail than the main
report.
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