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Description: The Kalispel Natural Resource Department (KNRD) Fisheries Program has a management goal of maintaining healthy subsistence and sport fisheries. The fisheries mission of providing a maintainable fishery that produces as much harvestable biomass as in the past. This will be accomplished by restoring sustainable, naturally producing populations of native fish to support tribal and non-tribal harvest. Restoring cultural and economic practices that protect biological integrity and genetic diversity of the habitat will also be critical.
Description: The Kalispel Natural Resources Department's (KNRD) Cultural Resources Management (CRM) program conducts annual monitoring of approximately 25 to 30 historic properties along the Pend Oreille River. These sites are located on Public Utility District (PUD) Number 1 managed lands, Forest Serice (FS) lands, Washignton Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) lands, and Kalispel Tribe of Indians (KTI) lands. These are located within the Box Canyon project reservoir and the Area of Potential Effect (APE). Historic properties are accessed by vehicle, by foot, and by boat during low river flows. The historic properties are visually inspected throughout tight transect intervals (5 to 10 meter intervals on beaches) depending on visibility. Shoreline surfaces and escarpments are examined through this pedestrian survey to assess landform stability and site condition, record intact features, and note change. Photographs are taken with referenced aspect and a Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) point so they can be used in followed years from the same location and aspect. UTMs are also taken at two points to demonstrate site lengths or bounds observed on the beach, escarpment, or to show where the inventory took place for future reference and comparison. This enables CRM staff to update location information, dimension changes, and note observations on an annual basis.
Description: The Kalispel Natural Resources Department's (KNRD) Cultural Resources Management (CRM) program has conducted multiple Cultural Resources Inventories (CRIs) within northeastern Washington and northern Idaho. These CRIs investigate a particular Area of Investigation (AOI) or Area of Potential Effect (APE) to identify cultural resources and historic properties that may be affected by projects or activities within that area as part of the National Historic Preservation Act's (NHPA) Section 106 (16 U.S.C. 470f or 54 U.S.C. 306108) requirements. This is the assessment of the effect of an undertaking on historic properties. CRIs use a variety of methods to accomplish this goal, such as comprehensive literature reviews, systematic pedestrian surveys, auger core testing, excavation, magnetometry, electrical resistance, and ground penetrating radar. Many of the CRIs are surveys for projects or undertakings that require Section 106 compliance, such as property aqcuisitions with defined operations and management plans, timber harvest or forest health projects, and construction or ground disturbing activities. CRIs attempt to identify historic properties within the bounds of the APE, produce a report of review and recommendations to the lead agency who provides the documentation to the appropriate State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in order to avoid or mitigate for the historic properties, which can then be communicated to project managers. For additional information on the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as Amended: http://www.achp.gov/nhpa.htmlFor additional information on Section 106 Compliance from applicable states: http://www.dahp.wa.gov/section-106 http://history.idaho.gov/project-review