Abstract
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) have completed the Flathead River Subbasin Plan in cooperation with the Northwest Power Planning Council. This plan uses existing information to establish goals for protecting and restoring fish and wildlife populations and their habitats in the Flathead River Basin.
The Northwest Power Planning Council was created in 1980 by Congress to give the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington a voice in how the region plans for its energy needs, while at the same time mitigating the effects of the hydropower system on fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Each year the Council reviews proposals for on-the-ground projects and research to implement the program. The Council's 2000 Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program outlines a new review and selection process, one that emphasizes the development of local sub-basin plans to guide project funding. Sub-basin plans are intended to be a blueprint for recovery efforts, and to guide the review, selection and funding of projects to carry out the Council's program.
The Flathead River Sub-basin Plans has been developed in an open public process that includes the participation of a wide range of state, federal and tribal governments, local managers, landowners, local governments, and other stakeholders.
The Flathead River Sub-basin Plan:
- identifies the goals for fish, wildlife and habitat;
- defines the objectives that measure progress toward those goals;
- establishes the strategies to meet those objectives; and
- incorporates much of the existing information related to fish and wildlife activities in a sub-basin in a
- single document.
Start Date
1-4-2005 10:20 AM
End Date
1-4-2005 10:40 AM
Document Type
Presentation
Flathead River Basin Plan for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council
The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) have completed the Flathead River Subbasin Plan in cooperation with the Northwest Power Planning Council. This plan uses existing information to establish goals for protecting and restoring fish and wildlife populations and their habitats in the Flathead River Basin.
The Northwest Power Planning Council was created in 1980 by Congress to give the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington a voice in how the region plans for its energy needs, while at the same time mitigating the effects of the hydropower system on fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. Each year the Council reviews proposals for on-the-ground projects and research to implement the program. The Council's 2000 Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program outlines a new review and selection process, one that emphasizes the development of local sub-basin plans to guide project funding. Sub-basin plans are intended to be a blueprint for recovery efforts, and to guide the review, selection and funding of projects to carry out the Council's program.
The Flathead River Sub-basin Plans has been developed in an open public process that includes the participation of a wide range of state, federal and tribal governments, local managers, landowners, local governments, and other stakeholders.
The Flathead River Sub-basin Plan:
- identifies the goals for fish, wildlife and habitat;
- defines the objectives that measure progress toward those goals;
- establishes the strategies to meet those objectives; and
- incorporates much of the existing information related to fish and wildlife activities in a sub-basin in a
- single document.