Useful Links - Government Agencies

Federal

Miscellaneous

• Bureau of Reclamation: Pacific Northwest Region
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
• NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) - A comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research.
• US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
• USDA - Integrated Taxonomic Information System - An on-line list of biological names focusing on the biota of North America.
• USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service - Provides data on water quality.

EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

• Look up information on specific watersheds (also known as CU's or Cataloging Units) or information on watersheds by state
• Water Issues in Region 10 (Pacific Northwest)
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Data Warehouse
• Lower Columbia River Estuary Program
• Willamette River Basin
• Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual: Good explanation of stream quality parameters.

DOE - US Dept. of Energy

• Hydropower Program
• National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA] home page.
• Bonneville Power Administration - Environment, Fish and Wildlife home page.
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Battelle has operated Pacific Northwest for DOE and its predecessors since 1965.

US Dept. of Commerce - NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

• NOAA Homepage
• 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
• Marine Protected Sites - a repository for information on marine protected areas.
• National Marine Fisheries Service (Northwest Regional Office).
  • Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey
  • The Endangered Species Act - Status Reviews and listing information.
• NOAA Server - Access to Distributed NOAA data and Access.
• Northwest Fisheries Science Center
  • Fish Ecology Division
  • Cumulative Risk Initiative Intranet
• Northwest River Forecast Center

USACE - US Army Corps of Engineers

• Query COE for project data: flow, fish count,temperature, elevation, and generator data (data available varies by project).Type project name and hit "submit."
• Dissolved Gas Monitoring Stations
• Columbia River Basin - Dams and Salmon
• US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - Northwestern Division
• USACE - North Pacific Region - Water Management Division
  • Technical Management Team - (TMT), an inter-agency technical group responsible for making recommendations on dam and reservoir operations.
• USACE - Walla Walla District
  • Dissolved Gas Abatement Study (DGAS)
• USACE - Portland District
  • Dissolved Gas Abatement
• USACE - North Pacific Region - Water Management Division
  • Technical Management Team - (TMT), an inter-agency technical group responsible for making recommendations on dam and reservoir operations.

USFW - US Fish and Wildlife

• USFW - Pacific Region
  • Bull Trout
• Fish Passage Decision Support System - provides barrier information such as location, type, size, name of the owner, passage capability, fish species affected and local habitat information, and includes all barriers that prevent or inhibit fish or other aquatic species from reaching historic habitat or spawning grounds.
• Lower Columbia River Fish Health Center - The primary purposes of the Center are to inspect hatchery fish for pathogens, diagnose disease, recommend remedial treatments to improve fish health management at the hatchery and monitor the health of wild fish.
• Columbia River Fisheries Program Office.
• National Fish Hatcheries - for all of U.S.
• Columbia River Gorge National Fish Hatcheries
  • Carson National Fish - National Fish Hatchery -  at the confluence of Tyee Creek and the Wind River, 14 miles north of the Columbia River, about 60 miles east of Vancouver, Washington.
  • Little White Salmon - National Fish Hatchery - is located 12.5 miles east of Stevenson, Washington, on State Highway 14.
  • Spring Creek - National Fish Hatchery - is located 4 miles west of the Hood River/White Salmon bridge on State Highway 14.
  • Willard - National Fish Hatchery - is located five miles north of Highway 14 up the west end of the Cook-Underwood Road on the Little White Salmon River.

USGS - US Geological Service 

• USGS
  • Idaho
  • Montana
  • Oregon
  • Washington
• Biological Resources
• Columbia Environmental Research Center
• Geographic Information Systems - General information on GIS.
• Land Cover Characterization Program - Seamless National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) using satellite imagery for the conterminous United States.
• Water Resources of the United States.
• Water Resources Data
• National Hydrography Dataset
• Geographic Names Information System - national mapping information.
• Western Ecological Research Center
• Western Fisheries Research Center - Fish Populations

State

• Recommendations of the Governors of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington for the Protection and Restoration of Fish in the Columbia River Basin

Idaho

• Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game
  • List of Hatcheries

Montana

• Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

Oregon

• ODFW - Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
  • Field Offices
    • Marine Program - ODFW's Marine Program in Newport
    • South Willamette Watershed District - ODFW Offices in Corvallis, Salem and Springfield.
  • Aquatic Inventories Project - The project assesses aquatic habitat, conducts fish presence/absence surveys, monitors fish populations, establishes salmonid watershed prioritization, monitors habitat restoration projects, and reconstructs historical salmonid life history.
  • Corvallis Research Lab - research and monitoring projects from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
  • Fishing Information
  • Visitors' Guide to Wildlife Areas & Hatcheries
  • Oregon's Coastal Salmon and Trout
  • Willamette Falls Fishway Adult Counts
• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)
  • Walla Walla Basin
• Ocean Salmon Management Program
• Oregon Spatial Data Library
• The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds - Restoring and protecting Oregon's watersheds through locally-driven, voluntary, cooperative efforts.
• Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board - OWEB's programs support Oregon's efforts to restore salmon runs, improve water quality, and strengthen ecosystems that are critical to healthy watersheds and sustainable communities.
• Oregon Dept. of  Environmental Quality, Water Quality Program

Washington

• WDFW - Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
  • Fishing and Shellfishing
  • Fishing in Southwest Washington - Creel Survey
  • List of Hatcheries
  • Hatchery Escapement Reports
  • Salmon Recovery
• Washington State Salmon Recovery
• WSDOT Fish Passage

Provincial

• British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air
• British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Fisheries
• British Columbia Ministry of Sustainable Management
• BC Hydro

County

• Douglas County Public Utility District - Wells Dam
• Chelan County Public Utility District - Rock Island and Rocky Reach Dams
• Grant County Public Utility District - Priest Rapids Dam
• Lower Columbia River Watershed Council
• Lower Nehalem River Watershed Council
• Upper Nehalem River Watershed Council
• Scappoose Bay Watershed Council

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