Wildlife Protection, Mitigation, and Enhancement Plan, Palisades Project: Final Report.

• Main Author: Meuleman, G. Allyn
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 13 HYDRO ENERGY; WILD ANIMALS; HABITAT; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PLANNING; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY SOURCES; POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; Canada; Pacific; Palisades; The Palisades; Canada Goose; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6530537; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6530537; https://doi.org/10.2172/6530537

Under direction of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 and the subsequent Northwest Power Planning Council's Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, projects have been developed in Idaho and Wyoming to mitigate the losses of wildlife habitat and annual production due to the development and operation of the Palisades Project. A modified Habitat Evaluation Procedure (HEP) was used to assess the benefits of the preferred mitigation plan to wildlife. The interagency work group used the target species Habitat Units (HU's) lost with inundation of the reservoir area as a guideline during the mitigation planning process, while considering needs of wildlife in eastern Idaho and western Wyoming. A total of 37,068 HU's were estimated to be lost as a result of the inundation of the Palisades Reservoir area. Through a series of protection/enhancement projects, the preferred mitigation plan will provide benefits of an estimated 37,066 HU's. Target species to be benefited by this mitigation plan include bald eagle, mule deer, elk, mallard, Canada goose, mink, yellow warbler, black-capped chickadee, ruffed grouse, and peregrine falcon.