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Who We Are What We Do
Photo by Ken Bevis, WDFW
Board Membership and Mission
The Board consists of representatives of 22 local
governments including Benton, Kittitas Yakima
Counties, the Yakama Nation, and 18 cities in the
Yakima Basin. The mission of the Board is to
restore sustainable and harvestable populations
of salmon, steelhead, bull trout and other
at-risk fish and wildlife species through the
collaborative, economically sensitive efforts,
combined resources, and wise resource management
of the Yakima River Basin.
Coordinating Project Funding
The State Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB)
distributes money to fish habitat improvement
projects throughout Washington. The Yakima Basin
Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board acts as the Lead
Entity for the Yakima Basin. Lead Entities
solicit projects from their geographic areas,
conduct local technical and community reviews of
all proposals, and present the best of them to
the SRFB for approval. We also work with the SRFB
and project sponsors to track Yakima Basin SRFB
projects after they are funded. The Board also
provides local review for the National Fish
Wildlife Foundations Community Salmon Fund and
Bonneville Power Administrations Fish Wildlife
Program.
Strategic Planning
The Yakima Basin Fish Wildlife Recovery Board
works with technical experts and local
stakeholders to develop plans that guide fish
wildlife restoration efforts. The Board worked
with the Northwest Power and Conservation Council
to develop the 2005 Yakima Subbasin Plan. We are
now completing the Yakima Subbasin Salmon
Recovery Plan, which focuses on what needs to be
done to recover steelhead and bull trout in the
Yakima Basin so that they can be removed from
federal Endangered Species Act list. We are
working with NOAA fisheries to ensure that the
locally-developed Salmon Recovery Plan is
integrated into the federal Mid-Columbia
Steelhead Recovery Plan.
Monitoring Progress
Outreach Education
Are we getting done the habitat restoration we
need to? Is that actually increasing fish
numbers? To answer these questions the Board
works with partners to coordinate monitoring and
evaluation efforts.
The Board provides local community members with
information on fish and wildlife issues and
promotes discussion of key natural resource
issues. We also strive to highlight the
excellent work being done by diverse partners in
our basin.
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