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Notes: UMARP + F&G September 17, 2012 Present… Val Connor David Osti Ramona Swenson…ENTRIX…organizer Kelly Fritsch DFG Shakora Azimi Galen Asst exec Director: Delta Conservancy Anke Heidi Steve Science Program Focus on Ecosystem Restoration Goals of Restoration Will implementation of the biological opinions result in environmental changes that affect populations of salmonids and Delta smelt? McEwan, Dennis Will the ERP and related programs increase the area of restored habitat in the Delta? Of specific types of habitat? Program by program? Targets are different f? Unifying opportunity for UMARP. (Regional) Acreage of restoration? What is the “condition” of each type of habitat? Change in the food web? Outcome that integrates many inputs. Many sources of change. What attributes of restoration can feed into those things. Nutrients made available by habitat; turbidity, flows, predation, changes other conditions that will influence food web ERP goals: Five..Delta plan If we see change can aspects of that be attributed to ecosystem restoration? Regional Scale Where How much How did you maintain it Populations across types of habitat Conceptual Models Tidal marsh model…. Contiguous habitat blocks, Related to a flood way, Larger check off conceptual framework for each type of habitat. Scale: Many smaller projects (550) to yield regional change. Assessment requires larger scale landscape assessment in conceptual model. Scale down for actual project. Scale up for monitoring. Project scale. Monitors implementation…money, do what promised, etc. Different types of habitat: Each type of habitat has its own conceptual model. Tidal habitat most relevant for Delta Monitor, assess, report at regional scale. Sum knowledge from several of these to synthesis for this type of restoration efforts. Are there data that track where restoration is at? How relate to entire system? Focus on tidal marsh habitat Pull together data from multiple projects Next steps: Question: How will tidal habitat restoration change important regional ecosystems attributes (and processes)? Identify what we most expect to change? What should we monitor to understand the causes of these changes? Goals: Tie together outcomes of these various restoration projects. Ultimately will get at: What is the contribution of ecosystem restoration to changes in the Delta? Type of habitat: Shallow Tidal Habitats . Scale: Data that pull together multiple restoration projects Unify: Data reporting across projects; data from multiple agencies We are interested in indicators of the broad contribution of these different habitat to regional ecosystem…don’t get lost in differences among these projects. Annual trends in native and non-native species residents? Which fish Progress toward occurrence of and use of restored habitats of this type. (Area) Contribution to anadromous or migratory species? Conditionof habitat: measures other than fish communities; habitat; e.g. Delta smelt food? Processes: hydrologic regime, tidal regime; energy transfers? Connectivity: landscape corridors? Physical and chemical processes? Flood plain? Innundation regime? Projects to integrate across Cache slough: Liberty Island (research data and agency monitoring; iep around island; seines and nets around islands…); inside island is FWS and research; Breach III): Little Holland Track Prospect Dutch slough Contrast to Suisun Marsh; Franks Tract, Mildreds, Yolo Ranch Project Previous work: CALFED Science workshop on Ecosystem Restoration. 10 pp. Good group of people. Do we know enough to do and what should we be doing. Indicators we can sum across restoration projects. What should we measure is what we want to ask of speakers. Must be doable or being done. See rules as laid out in UMARP 2 pager. IEP, BREACH, Workshop: Interview…understand where this is at? Who: Experts …Nick Aumen; What works. Facilitate dialogue. …Issues and concepts of indicators …Bill Dennison …Greg Golet …Dennis McEwan (FRPA) …Stuart Siegel …Carson Jeffres (UC Davis) …Ted Sommer ….Lenny Grimaldo …Larry Brown …Chris Enright …Si Simenstad …Denise Reed …Peggy Lehman ..Leo Winternitz. Sam sends email with UMARP and UMAP lite to Val. .