BLM OR-WA Warner Basin Fish Passage, Screening, and Watershed Restoration | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The BLM OR-WA Warner Basin Fish Passage, Screening, and Watershed Restoration opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L16AS00222) is a discretionary funding announcement from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, offered through a cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.231 (Natural Resources). It was created on June 27, 2016, with an original closing date of August 26, 2016. The program anticipated making one award, with a maximum funding amount (award ceiling) of $67,000. Eligibility was broadly open (unrestricted), meaning a wide range of applicant types could apply, subject to any additional eligibility notes included in the full announcement.

The grant focuses on the Warner Basin in eastern Oregon, where water is scarce and streams serve a dual purpose: they are essential to local irrigation for ranching and agriculture, and they also provide spawning, rearing, and migratory habitat for native fish species. The habitat value is especially important for the federally listed (Threatened) Warner sucker and the Warner Basin redband trout, which is identified as both federally and state sensitive, along with other native fishes. The lower portions of the basin contain the most productive agricultural lands and also include stream reaches that are critical migration corridors for fish moving from the Warner Lakes upstream to higher-quality spawning and rearing areas.

A central problem the funding aims to address is the presence of more than 10 irrigation diversions in the lower basin that have been identified as fish passage barriers and that lack fish screens on associated irrigation ditches. These diversion structures prevent larger fish that rear in the Warner Lakes from reaching prime spawning grounds in the upper basin, including areas on lands administered by the Lakeview BLM. In addition to blocking upstream movement, unscreened ditches pose a major risk to downstream-migrating fish, which can be pulled (entrained) into irrigation canals and later become stranded and die when irrigation deliveries stop in the fall.

The work described is positioned within an existing collaborative framework known as the Warner Basin Aquatic Habitat Partnership (WBAHP). This partnership includes the Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council, the Lakeview Soil and Water Conservation District, BLM, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Forest Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The partnership’s broader mission is to restore the physical and biological conditions needed for effective fish passage and connectivity across the watershed. The opportunity builds on prior years of completed fish passage and screening projects in the basin, indicating that this funding is meant to continue and strengthen an ongoing basin-wide restoration strategy rather than start from scratch.

The stated objectives for this program include restoring the conditions necessary for successful fish passage and habitat connectivity for the Warner sucker, redband trout, and other native fish throughout the Warner Basin watershed. In practical terms, that typically involves actions like improving or replacing diversion structures to allow fish to move upstream and downstream, adding or upgrading fish screens to prevent fish from entering irrigation ditches, and implementing related watershed restoration measures that improve stream function and habitat quality. Another major deliverable is the development of a Strategic Action and Conceptual Design Plan. That planning effort is intended to guide project prioritization across the basin and identify the key limiting factors affecting fish passage and aquatic habitat, helping partners decide which barriers or reaches to tackle first and how to design solutions that are both biologically effective and workable in an irrigated agricultural landscape.

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