Initiative/Partnership / Working Lands for Wildlife (Interagency Partnership with USFW) / National Water Quality Initiative (Interagency Partnership with EPA) / Puget Sound Salmon Recovery Partnership / Pacific Salmon Habitat Improvement Partnership
Status / Did not participate in 2012 because existing funding for sage grouse and declining numbers of applicants. / 2012 selected 3 contiguous watersheds in Palouse (north, middle, and south fork). Sign up period currently open. / Partnership was based on partner-reviewed proposal developed in 2010, limited to EQIP based on national availability of funds. May be subsumed by PSHIP in 2013. / New – little guidance has been provided. May subsume the PSSRP in 2013. At present, must identify 4 salmon watersheds
Request from STAC / Input on species for 2014, Must be national or state T&E / Watersheds for 2013 / Future watersheds may be based on successful project proposals. / Input on Watersheds
Input on Practices
Year of Funding / 2013 / 2013 / -- / 2014
Parameters:
· Scope / National / National / Puget Sound / Regional – 5 States
· Funding / Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program / 5% set aside from state allocation of EQIP for FY 12 / State budget request, currently limited to EQIP / State budget requests, funding sources unknown
· Geography / Counties where species habitat occurs / Watersheds (12-HUC) currently limited to 1-3 contiguous per state / Puget Sound wide
(6-HUC = 171100) general EQIP sign-up, project proposal sign-up / Watersheds (8-HUC)
Limited to 4 per state
· Limitations / Species specific
(currently only Sage Grouse)* / Practice specific
303d listed streams
Must contain a water quality monitoring component / Practice specific and directly related to salmon / Practice specific and directly related to salmon
· Timeline for STAC input / Prepare for 2013 budget cycle (July 2012) / Prepare for 2013 budget cycle (July 2012) / See PSHIP / Prepare for 2014 budget cycle (July 2013)
* Species proposed for Washington for 2013: Salmon (accepted), Pacific Brant (Goose), Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (Bird), Bull Trout (Fish), Columbia Spotted Frog
Methods the STAC can recommend to the STC:
· Existing SRA and TRA
· National criteria for watershed prioritization
· LWG packages
· STAC review
· Rapid Watershed Assessment
· Federal and State Priorities
· Salmon Recovery Plans
· STAC-developed selection criteria
· Combination of above
· Others