Proposed Lower Columbia River Recovery Plan for Salmon & Steelhead

Working with its Federal, state, tribal, and local partners, NOAA Fisheries published a proposed recovery plan for lower Columbia River salmon and steelhead in May 2012. The proposed plan provides a road map to recover four salmon and steelhead species that spawn and rear in the lower Columbia River or its tributaries in Oregon and Washington. The Proposed Lower Columbia Recovery Plan is based on three locally developed plans, each of which covers a different portion of the species’ range: The Oregon Lower Columbia Conservation and Recovery Plan for Salmon and Steelhead prepared by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (2010), NOAA Fisheries' ESA Salmon Recovery Plan for the White Salmon River Subbasin (2011), and the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board's Washington Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery and Fish & Wildlife Subbasin Plan (2010). Two additional documents informed the development of this plan, The Columbia River Estuary ESA Recovery Plan Module for Salmon & Steelhead, and the Recovery Plan Module: Mainstem Columbia River Hydropower Projects. These two documents were prepared by NOAA Fisheries. The documents are available below.

Executive Summary 1.4MB

Proposed Recovery Plan for Lower Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead 14.7MB

Appendix A: Oregon Management Unit Plan

Appendix B: Washington Management Unit Plan

Appendix C: White Salmon Management Unit Plan 6MB

Appendix D: Estuary Recovery Plan Module 7.1MB

Appendix E: Columbia River Hydro Module 606kb

Appendix F: Ecological Interactions White Paper 497kb

Appendix G: Habitat Concerns Data Dictionary 157kb

Appendix H1: Limiting Factors Crosswalk & Methodology 175kb

Appendix H2: Limiting Factors Crosswalk & Methodology - Spreadsheets 554kb

• Part 1 Crosswalk Intro 175kb
• Part 2 Crosswalk Table 554kb