Dude, Trust Me!
I was here first.
Target Reply: Blue Mountain Tribe.
Also: Diverse ecosystem, oak prairies, any of the native species
My land, your rules
Target reply: What are conservation easements?
Also: Property lease.
I'm valued at $20/hr., but I never see a penny of it.
Target reply: What is a volunteer?
Also: in-kind contribution, intern, citizen scientist.
Baseline
Target reply: What are pre-restoration conditions?
Also: pre-injury conditions, conditions "but for the spill"
Burn baby burn
Target reply: What is a tool to managing forests, oak prairie, and invasive cordgrass?
Also: Weed control tool, tribal knowledge practices, fire dependent systems, catastophic scenario in absence of managed application.
We have 9000 Frequent Flier Miles.
Target reply: What are Migratory Birds?
Also: monarch butterflies.
My get out of jail free card.
Target reply: Candidate Conservation Agreement (with Assurance)
Also: Safe Harbor Agreement
Smart irrigate, and no one gets irate.
Target reply: What are Big Blue Ag and Happy Cow Cattle Ranch?
Also:Water rights, agricultural producers, people who divert for irrigation.
Vegetation Transects
Target reply: What is a method to assess vegetation species diversity and recovery?
Also: Method for assessing post-restoration plant community recovery
Get yer LWD and BDA's here.
Target reply: What are tools for in-stream restoration?
Also: Woody debris and beaver dam structures, instream flow modifiers, big woody debris.
Don't mess with me, I pollinate.
Target reply: What is the big blue monarch butterfly?
Also: big blue monarch butterfly, purple-crested tree babbler, big blue bumble bee, or any of the indiginous pollinators.
Tool for playing well in the sandbox
Target reply: What is a Cooperative Agreement?
Also: MOU, MOA, or other partnership agreement.
Teach "tradition" to manage properly
Target reply: What is the Tribal TEK program?
Citizen scientists
Target reply: What are local community participants that engage in monitoring and assessment?
Also: Component of public outreach/engagement, monitoring tool, unpaid science support.
Got Water?
Target reply: What is leasing or purchasing water rights to increase flows?
Also: anything associated with water rights management, riparian restoration, instream flow improvements, or water flow measurements.
Another accident, here I come!
Target reply: Who are the NRDAR Trustees?
Also: any specifically identified trustee, discharge (OPA) or release (CERCLA) responder.
Blue-lipped salmon, Purple-crested tree babbler, big-blue monarch butterfly have this in common
Target answer: What is listing under the Endangered Species Act?
Also: Indigenous natitve species in the BB watershed, species of special concern in the BB watershed, or trust resources.
Come for the doughnuts, stay for the info. #betterbigblue
Target reply: What is a Town Hall Informational Meeting?
Also: anything related to education and outreach.
Water Balance Assessment
Target reply: What is a tool to assess water supply and predict contributors to water shortages?
Also: Hydrologic study, analysis to inform wetland restoration alternatives.
Walk this way to the new dock on the bay
Target reply: What are improved recreational opportunities?
Also: public fishing access, recreational use, trails, compensation for recreational use losses.
I swim, I mate, I die.
Target answer: What are salmonids?
Also: any specifically identified indigenous fish - blue-lipped salmon, blue trout, steelhead, candlefish.
"Hey agency, you can't do that until I comment!"
Target reply: What is a basic tenet of NEPA?
Also: Basic tenet of NRDA or anything with administrative law, or public comment period.
Trustees, Landowners, Community Organizations, and other partners make up this body.
Target reply: What is the Big Blue Restoration Workgroup?
Also: Cooperative group, stakeholders, partners, the local community
Performance metrics
Target reply: What are measured variables to determine success of a project?
Also: Monitoring contract requirements, analyses to inform corrective actions or adaptive management.
Doing nothing, restoration outside the basin, leveling the levee, or arming the river with riprap.
Target reply: What are rejected restoration alternatives?
Also: alternatives that suck, alternatives of lesser value, alternatives providing fewer benefits, needed elements of a NRDA or NEPA alternatives analysis.