Journal
FISHERIES
Volume 41, Issue 2, Pages 92-103Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/03632415.2015.1127805
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- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Integrated Status and Effectiveness Monitoring Program - Bonneville Power Administration Environment Fish and Wildlife [2003-017]
- Washington Recreation and Conservation Office
- Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
- California Fisheries Restoration Grant Program
- Salmon Recovery Funding Board
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Across the Pacific Northwest, at least 17 intensively monitored watershed projects have been implemented to test the effectiveness of a broad range of stream restoration actions for increasing the freshwater production of salmon and steelhead and to better understand fish-habitat relationships. We assess the scope and status of these projects and report on challenges implementing them. We suggest that all intensively monitored watersheds should contain key elements based on sound experimental design concepts and be implemented within an adaptive management framework to maximize learning. The most significant challenges reported by groups were (1) improving coordination between funders, restoration groups, and researchers so that restoration and monitoring actions occur based on the project design and (2) maintaining consistent funding to conduct annual monitoring and evaluation of data. However, we conclude that despite these challenges, the intensively monitored watershed approach is the most reliable means of assessing the efficacy of watershed-scale restoration.
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