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Establish clear, biological goals, implementation priorities, and measurable results. We 

 believe we can effectively work with the Council and others to accomplish these 

 objectives. The development of a 10-year fish and wildlife implementation plan will 

 aid us greatly in reaching these objectives. 



Bonneville's 10-year fish and wildlife implementation plan will provide the Agency and the 

 region the opportunity to identify priorities for fijnding, describe the results we expect 

 fi-om our investments, and move forward with monitoring and evaluation activities. The 

 10-year plan will rely on guidance found in the Council's 1993 Columbia River Basin Fish 

 and Wildlife Program. Additionally, we envision the 10-year plan as a critical element in 

 Bonneville's Competitiveness Project and to our overall efforts at restoring salmon The 

 plan will serve as Bonneville's business plan for the fish and wildlife program. 



Emphasize evaluation as well as monitoring as called for in adaptive management 

 Adaptive management is a technique that treats the management of programs as 

 experiments and relies on monitoring and evaluation to give feedback on a recurring 

 basis to managers. We must perform a better job of evaluation in order to determine 

 what works and what does not, and to improve effectiveness of future actions 



Determine how the Fisheries Service Recovery Plan will mesh with the Council's 

 1993 Program, including the Strategy for Salmon: We support the development of a 

 biologically sound, comprehensive plan for the recovery of listed species The 

 Recovery Team has been diligently working on such a plan to save Snake River 

 Sockeye and Chinook. We look forward to issuance of the recovery plan, and how it 

 can mesh with the Council's Program. 



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