MetaData for Population Health Goals and Assessment Methods for Steelhead in the Klamath Mountains Province Report Number: OPSW-ODFW-2002-08
Population Health Goals and Assessment Methods for Steelhead in the Klamath Mountains Province Report Number: OPSW-ODFW-2002-08
Identification Information
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Citation
- Originator: Satterthwaite, T.D.
- Publish Date: November 2002
- Online Link:
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Contact Information
- Agency: Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
- Name: Cedric Cooney
- Job Position: Natural Resources Data and Systems Manager
- Telephone: 503-947-6094
- E-Mail Address: cedric.x.cooney@odfw.oregon.gov
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Description
- Abstract: On March 13, 1998, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
announced that steelhead in the Klamath Mountain Province (KMP) of
southern Oregon and northern California would be protected by special
conservation plans designed in cooperation with the states of Oregon
and California. The steelhead supplement to the Oregon Plan for
Salmon and Watersheds (OPSW) is intended to maintain wild steelhead
populations in Oregon at sustainable and productive levels that will
provide substantial environmental, cultural, and economic benefits.
Similarly, a Memorandum of Agreement between NMFS and the California
Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) established the terms and
conditions for the improved conservation and management of steelhead
on the northern coast of California.
Section ODFWIA1S of the OPSW commits the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) to work with NMFS to establish “Population
Health Goals” for wild steelhead in Oregon. Section 7 of the
Memorandum of Agreement between NMFS and CDFG requires that a
monitoring program be developed in order to assess the health of
steelhead on the north coast of California. The purpose of this
document is to propose population health goals for wild steelhead
populations in the Oregon portion of the KMP and to propose a
monitoring program designed to characterize the status of KMP
steelhead in relation to population health goals. Potential or
ongoing monitoring activities conducted by private parties or
government agencies are not discussed unless directly relevant to
monitoring proposed for KMP steelhead.
The State of Oregon is in the process of developing a program to
monitor the status of salmonid populations, and their habitats, along
the coast of Oregon (ODFW 1998). Many elements of this program will
be useful for monitoring the status of steelhead in the KMP.
Integration of the two monitoring programs should result in a more
effective use of public funds and also should ensure that data is
gathered and stored so as to be available for wide-spread use.
ODFW considered a number of measures that have been used to
describe the status, or health, of animal populations. Six goals were
eventually chosen because they appeared to be the most appropriate and
practical means by which to judge whether wild steelhead populations
in the KMP attain sustainable and productive levels as called for in
the OPSW. Health goals may be modified in the future as additional
information, assessment criteria, or monitoring technology, becomes
available.
ODFW believes that monitoring will result in improved assessment
and management of steelhead resources. However, ODFW also believes
that monitoring results need to be interpreted with care. Attainment
of all of the proposed goals should indicate that the populations are
generally healthy. Similarly, failure to attain any of the goals
should raise immediate concern about the status of the populations.
However, should some goals be attained, while others are not, the
status of the resource will likely remain open to interpretation.
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- Geographic Extent: Klamath Mountain Province
- Status: Final
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- Format: PDF File
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