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Recovery Plans

Recovery plans identify the various threats to Endangered Species Act (ESA) listed salmon and steelhead in each watershed, as well as actions, measures and strategies to address them and restore populations to healthy and harvestable levels. Recovery goals and actions from these plans continue to guide our work in the lower Columbia. These plans also provide the framework for monitoring and adaptively managing “all H” impacts.

Listed Species

Listing Date

Lower Columbia River Steelhead

Threatened status effective May 18, 1998

Lower Columbia River Chinook Salmon

Threatened status effective May 24, 1999

Columbia River Chum Salmon

Threatened status effective May 24, 1999

Lower Columbia River Coho Salmon

Threatened status effective June 28, 2005

Washington Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery and Fish & Wildlife Subbasin Plan: Volume I, Regional Chapters
Washington Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery and Fish & Wildlife Subbasin Plan: Volume 2, Subbasin Chapters
Washington Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery and Fish & Wildlife Subbasin Plan: Volume 3, Appendices and Technical Framework
Recovery Plans and Monitoring Guidance
  • The Research, Monitoring & Evaluation Program for Lower Columbia Salmon & Steelhead was developed to identifies key information to assess watershed and salmon recovery in the lower Columbia River region across All-H impact reduction efforts.

  • National Marine Fisheries Service’s Endangered Species Act recovery plan for the four ESA-listed lower Columbia River salmon species and one Middle Columbia River steelhead species in the White Salmon River.

  • National Marine Fisheries Service’s Endangered Species Act recovery plan for the four ESA-listed salmon and steelhead species in the Oregon and Washington State lower Columbia River regions. This domain plan includes information from the lower Columbia River subbasin planning effort for salmon and steelhead in Washington State tributaries.

  • National Marine Fisheries Service’s Columbia River Estuary module incorporates information from recovery planning efforts for Columbia River basin salmon and steelhead and identifies estuary recovery actions.

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