The Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership – Portland OR
Keith was a founding member and served on the Executive Steering Committee of this regional group of state, tribal and federal representatives or five years. The PNAMP focused on integrating fisheries and aquatic monitoring methods to ensure consistency and transparency in science and evaluation. Keith represented the Colville Tribes, the first tribal entity to sign […]
The Salmon Recovery Funding Board – Olympia, WA
Keith assisted the State Board as it organized to distribute funds through the regional boards and develop its allocation criteria. He sat on two technical committees and acted as a subcontractor to develop a benefit/cost model using on-the ground monitoring to determine specific categories of projects that returned the highest biological benefit for fund dollars. […]
The Mid-Columbia Public Utility Districts Cost-Share Planning Partnership – Wenatchee, WA
These direct funding agreements, developed in coordination with the Columbia Basin Accords, FERC relicensing and ESA Habitat Conservation Plans, support the “no net impact” standard for mid-Columbia hydropower projects. Plan actions seek to achieve a combined 91% project survival rate for migrating juvenile and adult salmon and steelhead, improve hatchery practices, and fund substantial tributary […]
Regional Assessment Advisory Committee Member – Northwest Power Planning Council Portland, Oregon
The Regional Assessment Advisory Committee advises the Council and the region on technical aspects of the biological assessment of subbasins under the subbasin planning program. The Committee’s primary function is to advise the Council on how to conduct subbasin assessments that are technically sound, and that are understandable and useful to planners that will participate […]
The Columbia River Basin Accords. Bonneville Power Administration – Portland, Oregon
Keith Wolf provided policy and technical assistance to the Colville Tribes for these Accord negotiations. These partnerships were struck to balance the agencies’ needs to perform their missions of navigation, flood risk management, hydropower production, fish and wildlife mitigation and recreation, water supply and irrigation, in a manner consistent with tribal trust and treaty rights. […]
Biological Resource Assessment and Impact Evaluation. Puget Power. Hood Canal Cable Crossings – San Juan Islands, Washington
Keith Wolf and his staff conducted biological delineation using diver and underwater video surveys of distribution and abundance of eelgrass and shellfish along routes of proposed submerged cable crossings. Keith provided guidance to avoid or minimize impacts and worked to establish appropriate mitigation for unavoidable adverse impacts. Obtained State of Washington, Department of Fish and […]
Weyerhaeuser Corporation – Federal Way, Washington
Keith Wolf and his staff led a review of State of Washington Water Quality Standards and Criteria. The review included Temperature Criteria Washington DEQ, December 2000, Criteria for Protecting Aquatic Life in Washington’s Surface Water Quality Standards: Dissolved Oxygen Washington DEQ, Chapter 173-201A WAC Water Quality Standards for Surface Waters of the State of Washington […]
ESA Comprehensive Assessment and Response Planning – City of Yakima. Yakima, WA
Keith Wolf, working with the City’s legal counsel from Preston, Gates and Ellis, conducted a comprehensive assessment of Endangered Species Act liability issues. Keith led members of the City of Yakima in immediate discussions relative to its programs, policies, operations and activities as they related to possible interactions with the ESA and/or other natural resource […]
ESA Comprehensive Assessment and Response Planning – City of Renton. Renton, Washington
Keith Wolf provided service to the City of Renton’s ESA Task Force and City staff to build positive and proactive responses to ESA. This required extensive knowledge of the regulatory elements and development initiatives, the local biology, habitat ecology, streams, wetlands, hydrology, City programs, policies, and overall watershed processes in the region. This collaborative and […]
Unsteady Flow Modeling and Assessment – Hanford Reach, WA
In conjunction with the staff at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA., staff under Keith Wolf’s direction also conducted a multi-year research study into the contemporary effects of hydroelectric operations on juvenile anadromous and resident fish species in the Hanford Reach. The science group developed statistical and computer modeled results for presentation, peer […]