Activity:

Restoration

Restoring, enhancing, improving watershed or stream function and process.

On-Call Rare Plant Surveys and Vegetation Assessments RFP

Yakama Nation Fisheries is seeking proposals from qualified firms specializing in rare plant and native vegetation assessments to award an on-call vegetation survey services contract in support of salmon habitat restoration activities taking place in the Upper Columbia Region (including the Methow, Entiat and Wenatchee Valleys) in Chelan and Okanogan Counties, Washington.  Based upon the proposals received under this solicitation, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation will award a contract to the best quality bidder for the Scope of Work described within this RFP.

On-Call Reach Assessment Services RFP

Yakama Nation Fisheries is seeking proposals from qualified environmental engineering and consulting firms to award a new on-call consultant services contract for habitat and geomorphi

RFP - Mad River River Mile 1.1-4.3 Habitat Restoration Project

***UPDATE FEBRUARY 13, 2024: REVISIONS TO THE PROJECT PLANSET IN THE BID PACKET (Exhibit E Construction Planset_Updated Feb 13 2024.pdf) HAVE BEEN MADE. THE SPECIFIC CHANGES HAVE BEEN NOTED IN THE PDF NOW ATTACHED TO THIS WEBPAGE (Planset Changes after Pre-Bid Meeting.pdf).   BIDS WILL NOW BE DUE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2024. PLEASE DOWNLOAD AND REVIEW THE UPDATED CONSTRUCTION PLANSET AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS WEBPAGE TO DEVELOP YOUR BIDS.***

PRE-BID SITE VISIT - Mad River Mile 1.1-4.3

The Yakama Nation's Upper Columbia Habitat Restoration Project is providing notice to interested construction contractors that we will be offering a pre-bid site visit for an upcoming 

Upper Yakima Bull Trout Restoration and Monitoring Project

What We Know About Upper Yakima Bull Trout Populations: Isolated populations of bull trout living in the Upper Yakima Basin face significant challenges such as blocks to adult migration, degraded instream habitats, and invasive species. Sensitive to warming temperatures, they are also increasingly challenged by a changing climate. As a result, Yakima Basin bull trout populations currently consist of low numbers of adult spawners. Extreme seasonal dewatering presents an additional challenge, resulting in frequent stranding and desiccation of juveniles.

Mel Sampson Coho Facility

Background: During the pre-treaty era, 44,000 to 150,000 coho returned to the Yakima Subbasin annually. By the mid-1980s they were extinct. Habitat loss and overharvest are factors that led to the extinction. The fish’s cultural significance combined with U.S. v. Oregon objectives to restore salmon to upriver areas resulted in the release of hatchery fish (raised outside the subbasin) beginning in the mid-1980s.