Useful Links
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Regional Data Centers
- Columbia River Dart - Data Access in Real Time
- PTAGIS - The Columbia Basin PIT (Passive Integrated Transponder) Tag Information System.
- StreamNet - Fish Data for the Northwest
- Interactive Biodiversity Information System - On-line application to retrieve wildlife-habitat and species information for the Columbia River Basin that occurs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and portions of Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming.
- Regional Mark Processing Center (RMIS coded wire tag database, International Archive of Thermally Marked Otoliths, Catch and Effort Database).
- US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) - Adult fish ladder counts at Columbia and Snake river dams.
Columbia Basin Organizations and Information
- Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority (CBFWA)- Coordinating and promoting effective protection and restoration of fish, wildlife and their habitat in the Columbia River Basin.
- Columbia Basin Weekly Fish and Wildlife News Bulletin - The Columbia Basin Bulletin provides news and information about salmon and steelhead recovery, hydropower and other fish and wildlife news about the Columbia River, Snake River, and Northwest.
- Columbia Basin Research, School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science.
- Columbia Bird Research - Data on Bird Predation Project.
- Federal Caucus (SalmonRecovery.gov) - Fish and Wildlife Recovery in the Columbia Basin.
- Inter-Organizational Resource Information Coordinating Council (IRICC) - Information network to support ecosystem management in support of the Northwest Forest Plan, the Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Federally Reserved Rights, and other applicable direction pursuant to ecosystem management in Northern California, Oregon, and Washington.
- Lower Columbia River Estuary Program
- Northwest Power and Conservation Council - This organization was created by Congress to give the citizens of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington a stronger voice in determining the future of key resources common to all four states -- namely, the electricity generated at and fish and wildlife affected by the Columbia River Basin hydropower dams.
- Pacific Fisheries Management Council - The Pacific Council is one of eight regional fishery management councils established under the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 and the Sustainable Fisheries Act of 1996 (now called the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act).
- Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission - PSMFC is one of three interstate commissions dedicated to resolving fishery issues. Representing California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.
- Technical Management Team - (TMT), an inter-agency technical group responsible for making recommendations on dam and reservoir operations.
Conservation Organizations
- Columbia Riverkeeper - an organization dedicated to the protect of the Columbia River and all life dependent upon it.
- Columbia and Snake Rivers Campaign - Returning Salmon by Restoring Rivers
- EarthJustice "Because the earth needs a good lawyer" - Founded in 1971 as Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
- Salmon Nation - designed to assist watershed groups and their partners with their organizational and technical capacity
- Idaho Rivers United
- Native Fish Society
- Pacific Rivers Council - There mission is to protect and restore rivers, their watersheds, and native aquatic species.
- Redfish Bluefish
- Trout Unlimited - conservation organization for protecting North America's coldwater.&
- Wild Olympic Salmon - Port Hadlock, Washington group is concerned with the protection of the native fish. Browse a newsletter archive.
- Friends of the Cowlitz - Supporting fish restoration in the Cowlitz River basin.
Environmental Resources
- Center for watershed protection
- MSNBC - Environmental News
- Eco-Portal - The Environmental Sustainability Portal
Fisheries Resources and Organizations
- Biological Opinion 2004
- Biological Opinion 2004 Implementation
- North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission - was established by Canada, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the United States to promote the conservation of anadromous stocks in the North Pacific Ocean
- The Development of Regional Priorities for Salmon Restoration in the Coastal Watersheds of the Pacific Northwest (Cascadia)
- The Oregon Estuary Plan Book
- Pacific Marine Conservation Council - We represent fishing communities and concerned citizens dedicated to sustaining healthy and diverse marine ecosystems on the West Coast.
- Pacific Salmon Commission (Canada-US) - Established by treaty between Canada and the United States in 1985 for the conservation, rational management, and optimum production of Pacific Salmon.
- The Salmon Page - dedicated to all things salmon.
- Sea Grant of Oregon
- Sea Grant of Oregon (Restoration) - Archive of Quarterly Newsletter About Salmon, Coastal Watersheds and People. Last newsletter dated October, 2003.
Tribal Agencies
- Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission (CRITFC) - Yakama, Umatilla, Warm Springs, Nez Perce.
- Technical Reports and Research
- Wy-Kan-Ush-Mi -Wa-Kish-Wit - The Columbia River Anadromous Fish Plan of the Nez Perce, Umatilla, Warm Springs, and Yakama tribes.
- Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission - Serving the Treaty Indian Tribes in Western Washington.
- Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
- Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
- Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation of Oregon
- Confederated Salish, Kootenai and Pend d'Oreille Tribal Nations
- Nez Perce Tribe
- Spokane Tribe of Indians
- Yakama Indian Nation
- Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project
Academic Sites
Idaho
- University of Idaho
- Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit
- The Adult Anadromous Fish Radiotelemetry Project - radiotelemetry
data and data summaries. A collaboration between NOAA Fisheries and the University of Idaho's Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit- Salmonid and Freshwater Fish Research Laboratory at Hagerman, Idaho
Oregon
- Oregon State University
- A snapshot of Salmon in Oregon
- Center for Salmon Disease Research
- Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
- Sea Grant of Oregon - Restoration is a quarterly publication of Oregon Sea Grant, a marine research, education and extension program based at Oregon State University.
- University of Oregon
Washington
- University of Washington
- School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science, Columbia Basin Research
- Center for Quantitative Science in Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife (CQS)
- Columbia River Dart - Data Access in Real Time
- CRiSP (Columbia River Salmon Passage Models)
- SURPH (SURvival under Proportional Hazards) - an analytical tool for estimating survival using release-recapture data as a function of environmental and experimental effects.
- Washington State University
- Washington Water Research Center - SWWRC is a joint agency of Washington State. University and the University of Washington, with input from other state research universities through a Joint Scientific Committee (JSC).
Geospatial Data Clearinghouses
- CommEn Space - The Community and Environment Spatial Analysis Center
- EPA - Environmental Data Library
- ESRI Gateway to Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- Land Cover Characterization Program Seamless National Land
Cover Dataset (NLCD) using satellite imagery for the conterminous United
States.- MetaData and WWW Mapping Home Page - Information on GIS and GIS metadata
- Federal Standards for Delineation of Hydrologic Unit Boundaries - Federal Geographic Data Committee
- USDA - National Cartography and Geospatial Center
- USGS - Geographic Names Information System - national mapping information.
- Washington State Geospatial Clearinghouse which includes the Pacific Salmon Information Network (PSIN) identified salmon recovery information resources.
Mathematical Biological Survival Models
- CRiSP (Columbia River Salmon Passage Models)
- Program MARK - provides parameter estimates from marked animals when they are re-encountered at a later time.
- SURPH (SURvival under Proportional Hazards) - an analytical tool for estimating survival using release-recapture data as a function of environmental and experimental effects.
National Biological MetaData
- National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)
- Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC) Clearinghouse
River Data
- USGS - WaterWatch -- Current water resources conditions (Map of real-time streamflow compared to historical streamflow for the day of the year (United States)
- USGS Real-Time Streamflow Data
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