CHaMP is designed as a Columbia River basin-wide habitat status and trends monitoring program built around a single protocol with a programmatic approach to data collection and management (RM&E Workgroup 2010). CHaMP will result in the collection and analysis of systematic habitat status and trends information that will be used to assess basin-wide habitat conditions. When coupled with biological response indicators, this status and trends information will be used to evaluate habitat management strategies. This program will be integrated with ongoing Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Program (PNAMP) recovery planning efforts and will be part of the collaborative process across Columbia Basin fish management agencies and tribes and other state and federal agencies that are monitoring anadromous salmonids and/or their habitat. The implementation of CHaMP will characterize stream responses to watershed restoration and/or management actions in at least one population within each steelhead and spring Chinook Major Population Group (MPG) which have, or will have, “fish-in” and “fish-out” monitoring (identified in RPA 50.6), thereby meeting the requirements of RPA 56.3, RPA 57, and RPA 3. CHaMP was designed to deliver trends in habitat indicators and requires that monitoring occurs for three cycles of a sampling panel (see section 1.6), at least 9 years.

The target populations are the Upper Grande Ronde Chinook, Catherine Creek Chinook, and Upper Grande Ronde Steelhead.  Three study designs were generated to meet the sampling needs of each population. 

2011 Design Notes: 

ChaMP’s  Grande Ronde habitat monitoring program covers three distinct spatial domains, coordinating CHaMP, ODFW, and CRITFC habitat monitoring goals and interests.  CRITFC coordinated the sampling for the Upper Grande Ronde’s and Catherine Creek Chinook spawning and rearing habitat. The sampling domain for ODFW  (also CHaMP) covers the steelhead spawning and rearing domain, part of which overlaps the Chinook spawning area in both Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek.   

2011 Design summary:

Survey designs were created for each of the three major domains: Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek chinook spawning and rearing domains and steelhead alone domain (i.e., the portion of the Grande Ronde steelhead domain that did not overlap with the Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek domains).

Design Strata:

Upper Grande Ronde Steelhead Domain: Valley Class (Source/Transport/Depositional) + Ownership (public/private)

Upper Grande Ronde Chinook and Catherine Creek: No stratification

Legacy sites:

Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek Designs:  CRTFC surveyed the Upper Grande Ronde during 2010 using a GRTS design and a frame that CRTFC developed.  These legacy sites were transferred to the 1:100 scale network used to develop the CBW master sample. Fifteen sites were targeted each year in each domain, 10 annual and 5 each year on a three year rotation. As we discussed the Upper Grande Ronde portion of the study, the target frame was reduced significantly because there were substantial private lands preventing sampling access.  

Steelhead only domain: The target steelhead only domain was extended to cover 1-6th order wadeable, perennial streams.  The standard CHaMP rotating panel design was adopted (15 annual sites, 10 rotating panel sites on a three year cycle).

Detailed Design Notes File: CRITFC.ODFW design goals.docx contains the discussion about developing both 2011 and 2012 designs.

GRTS Master Sample Input file: GrandeRonde_MS_20110505.txt; GrandeRondeChinook_MS_20110517.txt

GRTS Legacy Input file: GrandeRonde_Legacy_20110505.txt

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R code: finadd.str.pnl.r, GrandeRonde. Design.5.18.2011.r

Output file: GrandeRonde.CRTFC.Design.5.18.2011.csv; GrandeRonde.ODFW.Design.5.5.2011.csv​

Design Documentation Files:

GrandeRondeDesignDocs2011.zip