Yakima Basin Key References

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The Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board hosts a reference library on Zotero. The reference library is focused on the Yakima Basin and is a great resource for finding references or literature.

We have put together a short list of key references for the Yakima River Basin.


Historical and General References

  • Water Powers of the Cascade Range, Part III. Yakima River Basin Washington by Parker, G. and F. Storey in 1916[1]. This report assesses the potential for hydropower development in the Yakima Basin, information from stream flow records, river plans and profiles, reservoir surveys, and field reconnaissance. See PDF

  • The 1945 District Court of Eastern Washington Consent Decree. See PDF

  • A 1950 report on stream surveys in the Columbia River and Yakima River Basin by Bryant and Parkhurst[2]. This report includes information from1930's and 1940's stream surveys of the Yakima Basin. Also has information on dams, irrigation canals, fish screens, stream flows, fish runs, and fish distribution. See PDF

  • Yakima Basin River Mile Index 1964[3]. See PDF

  • In 1990, Cuffney et al. with the USGS conducted an ecological survey of fish communities, water quality conditions, invertebrates, and algal communities at 25 sites in the Yakima River Basin[4]. See PDF

  • The impacts of irrigation development on anadromous fish in the Yakima Basin by Bob Tuck as his Master's Thesis in 1995[5]. This document provides a good background on irrigation development in the Yakima River Basin. See PDF

  • The Bureau of Reclamation assessment of fish passage at all storage dams of the Yakima Project in 2003 and revised in 2005[6]. This document provides detailed information on the storage dams, facilities, operations, and fish passage considerations. See PDF


The Reaches Project

  • The reaches project: ecological and geomorphic studies supporting normative flows in the Yakima River Basin, Washington by Stanford et al. 2002[7]. The purpose of this research was to determine the ecology of major floodplain reaches of the Yakima River: Cle Elum, Kittitas, Naches, Union Gap and Wapato. See PDF

  • Review and Synthesis of River Ecological Studies in the Yakima River, Washington, with Emphasis on Flow and Salmon Habitat Interactions by Snyder and Stanford in 2001[8]. This report provides a good summary of the scientific information about the ecology of the Yakima River ecosystem, particularly in the context of salmonid restoration. See PDF


Yakima River Adjudication

  • The General Adjudication of the Yakima River: Tributaries for the Twenty-First Century and a Changing Climate by Sid Ottem in 2008[9]. See PDF


The Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project

  • Report on Biologically Based Flows for the Yakima River Basin by the System Operations Advisory Committee in 1999[10]. The purpose of this report is to provide Congress and the Secretary of the Interior with a review of factors affecting anadromous fish resources in the Yakima River and recommend processes and procedures required to determine biologically based flows for increasing the abundance of salmon and steelhead. See PDF

  • The Bureau of Reclamation developed an Interim Comprehensive Basin Operating Plan for the Yakima Project in 2002[11]. This document provides a framework within which the Bureau of Reclamation operates the Yakima Project. It presents a historical context of the project and its current operation, describes its legal  and institutional aspects, articulates the impacts of project operations on the natural resources of  the basin, analyzes various operational alternatives, and recommends strategies and operational changes that will address the goals of Title XII. See PDF

  • In 2011, HDR Engineering, Inc and Anchor QEA completed the Yakima River Basin study: modeling of reliability and flows technical memorandum[12]. This technical memorandum describes the surface and groundwater resources of the Yakima River Basin, water development history for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima Project, and Yakima Project facilities and operations, including effects on flows and fisheries. See PDF

  • The Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan: Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Washington State Department of Ecology in 2012[13]. The Integrated Plan identifies a comprehensive approach to water resources and ecosystem restoration improvements in the Yakima River basin. The Integrated Plan includes seven elements: reservoir fish passage, structural and operational changes to existing facilities, surface water storage, groundwater storage, habitat/watershed protection and enhancement, enhanced water conservation, and market reallocation. See PDF

  • The Yakima Basin Integrated Plan: Habitat 10-year Plan for 2023-2033[14]. See PDF


Salmon, Steelhead, and Bull Trout

  • In 2001, The Washington State Conservation Commission produced the salmonid habitat limiting factors report for the Yakima River Watershed, Water Resource Inventory Areas 37-39[15]. See PDF

  • The 2004 Yakima Subbasin Plan produced by the Yakima Subbasin Fish and Wildlife Planning Board[16]. The subbasin plan lays out objectives and strategies for restoration of fish and wildlife habitat and populations in the Yakima Basin. See PDF

  • The 2009 Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan[17]. The Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board developed this plan to guide steelhead recovery efforts in the Yakima Basin. See PDF

  • The 2011 Viable Salmonid Population Section for the Yakima Steelhead Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan[18]. This document is a supplement to the Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan that identifies specific research, monitoring and evaluation (RM&E) actions that address the uncertainties identified in the recovery plan. See PDF

  • Yakima Basin Bull Trout Action Plan 2012[19].The Yakima Bull Trout Action Plan (YBTAP) is a locally developed summary of information on bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) populations in the Yakima Basin. It includes information on population status, trend and distribution, habitat, a detailed analysis of threats by life stage for each population, and specific monitoring and restoration actions that address those threats. See PDF

  • The Yakima Bull Trout Action Plan 2017 Update[20]. An update to the 2012 Bull Trout Action Plan that incorporates new information on population status, trend and distribution, habitat, a detailed analysis of threats by life stage for each population, and specific monitoring and restoration actions that address those threats. See PDF

Citations

  1. ↑ Parker, G., and F. Storey. 1916. Water Powers of the Cascade Range, Part III. Yakima River Basin Washington. U.S. Geological Survey, Water Supply Paper 369.
  2. ↑ Bryant, F. G., and Z. E. Parkhurst. 1950. Survey of the Columbia River and its tributaries: 4. Area III - Washington stream from the Klickitat and Snake Rivers to Grand Coulee Dam, with notes on the Columbia and its tributaries above Grand Coulee Dam. Page 108. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Special Scientific Report - Fisheries 57.
  3. ↑ Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee. 1964. River Mile Index Yakima River.
  4. ↑ Cuffney, T. F., M. R. Meador, S. D. Porter, and M. E. Gurtz. 1997. Distribution of fish, benthic invertebrate, and algal communities in relation to physical and chemical conditions, Yakima River Basin, WA, 1990. Page 94. U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 96–4280.
  5. ↑ Tuck, R. L. 1995. The impacts of irrigation development on anadromous fish in the Yakima Basin. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.
  6. ↑ USBR. 2003. Phase 1 Assessment Report Storage Dam Fish Passage Study Yakima Project, Washington. U.S Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Series PN-YDFP-001.
  7. ↑ Stanford, J., E. Snyder, M. Lorang, D. Whited, P. Matson, and J. Chaffin. 2002. The reaches project: ecological and geomorphic studies supporting normative flows in the Yakima River Basin, Washington. Page 152. Bonneville Power Administration, DOE/BP-00005854-1, Portland, OR.
  8. ↑ Snyder, E. B., and J. A. Stanford. 2001. Review and Synthesis of River Ecological Studies in the Yakima River, Washington, with Emphasis on Flow and Salmon Habitat Interactions. Flathead Lake Biological Station, University of Montana, Polson, MT.
  9. ↑ Ottem, S. P. 2008. The General Adjudication of the Yakima River: Tributaries for the Twenty-First Century and a Changing Climate. Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 23(2):275–256.
  10. ↑ Tuck, R., J. Thomas, J. Easterbrooks, and P. Monk. 1999. Report on biologically based flows for the Yakima River Basin. The System Operations Advisory Committee.
  11. ↑ Bureau of Reclamation. 2002. Interim Comprehensive Basin Operating Plan for the Yakima Project.
  12. ↑ HDR Engineering, Inc and Anchor QEA. 2011. Yakima River Basin study: modeling of reliability and flows technical memorandum. Page 48. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 08CA10677A ID/IQ, Task 6.
  13. ↑ Ecology, D. of. 2012. Yakima River Basin Integrated Water Resource Management Plan: Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Washington State Department of Ecology, Yakima, WA.
  14. ↑ Yakima Basin Integrated Plan Habitat Subcommittee. 2022. Yakima Basin Integrated Plan: Habitat 10-year Plan for 2023-2033.
  15. ↑ Haring, D. 2001. Habitat limiting factors Yakima River Watershed, Water Resource Inventory Areas 37-39 : Final Report. Page 364. Washington State Conservation Commission.
  16. ↑ Yakima Subbasin Fish and Wildlife Planning Board. 2004. Yakima Subbasin Plan.
  17. ↑ Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board. 2009. Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan.
  18. ↑ Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board. 2011, May. Final Draft: VSP Section Yakima Steelhead Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
  19. ↑ Reiss, K. Y., J. Thomas, E. Anderson, and J. Cummins. 2012. Yakima Basin Bull Trout Action Plan. Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board.
  20. ↑ Yakima Basin Fish and Wildlife Recovery Board. 2017. Yakima Bull Trout Action Plan 2017 Action Update.
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