Glossary

Very much in progress!--CM 7/1/2024

See PDF pg 222 of YBTAP for extra acronyms ALSO an actual glossary of fish terminology!!!

Organizations/Groups

YBFWRB: Yakima Basin Fish & Wildlife Recovery Board

TAG: Technical Advisory Group

CC: Citizen Committee

LE: Lead Entity (There are 25 across WA. Ours includes the TAG, the CC, the LE Coordinator, and a grant administrator—the YBFWRB Board of Directors)

BTWG: Bull Trout Working Group

SRFB: Salmon Recovery Funding Board (who runs the annual grant round for all LE’s across the state)

RCO: Recreation & Conservation Office (Lead Entities are contracted through this office. Elizabeth Butler works for RCO as our regional grant manager)

GSRO: Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office (partners with RCO)

BPA: Bonneville Power Administration (federal hydropower marketing administration within the Dept of Energy; a source of grant funds)

BOR: Bureau of Reclamation (water management agency in the Western US; a source of grant funds)

PCSRF: Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (a source of grant funding; established by Congress to reverse the decline of West Coast salmon)

NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (their fisheries dept helps fund our SRFB grants via the PCSRF)

USFWS: United States Fish & Wildlife Service

WDFW: Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

WRCD: Washington Resource Conservation & Development council

NPCC: Northwest Power & Conservation Council (created following the 1980 Northwest Power Act to “inform and advance a regional vision for power and fish & wildlife in the Columbia Basin”)

Sponsors:

CD: Conservation District

KCT: Kittitas Conservation Trust

MCF(EG): Mid-Columbia Fisheries (Enhancement Group)

TU: Trout Unlimited

YN: Yakama Nation

Legislation/Plans:

ESA: Endangered Species Act

YBIP: Yakima Basin Integrated Plan

YSBP: Yakima Sub-Basin Plan

BTAP: Bull Trout Action Plan

YSRP: Yakima Steelhead Recovery Plan

YTAHP: Yakima Tributary Access & Habitat Program

YKFP: Yakima Klickitat Fisheries Project

YRBWEP: Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement Project (a study done by the BOR)

Grant Round:

RFP: Request for Proposal (to solicit grant applications)

PRISM: Performance and Registration Information Systems Management (nobody really refers to it as anything other than the acronym)

POC: Project of Concern (a rating the SRFB review panel can give projects following site tours; means the project is at high risk of not being approved to be considered by its Lead Entity for funding)

NMI: Needs More Information (a rating the SRFB review panel can give projects following site tours; might mean the project passes easily by supplying the requested additional information, or might not)

CCA: Climate Commitment Act (legislation passed in WA in 2023)

Technical Terms:

SARM: Salmon Recovery Model

WRIA: Water Resource Inventory Area (fancy term for a sub-watershed; we have WA WRIA’s 37, 38, and 39)

CFS: Cubic Feet per Second

OHWM: Ordinary High Water Mark

ELJ: Engineered Log Jam

LWD: Large Wood Debris

Thalweg: the center of the mainstem of a river/the main flow path of a river

APE: Area of Potential Effects

FMO: Feeding, migrating, overwintering

Rootwads

Rock barbs

Riprap

Foraging Migration Overwinter (FMO)

Wasting/mass wasting??

Technical Resources:

FPDSI: Fish Passage & Diversion Screening Inventory

SWIFD: State Wide Integrated Fish Distribution database—will tell you which fish live where

DART: Data Access & Retrieval Tool; UW’s database that includes tons of data on fish in the Columbia basin

Miscellaneous:

Gap-to-Gap: The 10-mile stretch between Selah Gap and Union Gap