Location
UMass Amherst
Start Date
29-6-2011 11:20 AM
End Date
29-6-2011 11:40 AM
Description
The Forest System’s Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) program is funded through the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) with HTAP (Highway Trust Funds for Aquatic Passage) funding. The Forest Service’s engineering division oversees this program currently funded at $10 million a year, to retrofit and replace road crossings that are barriers to fish and other aquatic organisms. In 2010, the $10 million HTAP program funded 62 projects that opened more than 270 miles of stream and river to fish passage, and supported important regional barrier assessments, training and monitoring. This presentation will review the accomplishments of the HTAP program, the valuable contribution of partners, and opportunities for this integral funding program to expand AOP across National Forest System lands.
Session C7- Building on the $10 million/year H TAP program for culvert mitigation on national forest system lands
UMass Amherst
The Forest System’s Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) program is funded through the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) with HTAP (Highway Trust Funds for Aquatic Passage) funding. The Forest Service’s engineering division oversees this program currently funded at $10 million a year, to retrofit and replace road crossings that are barriers to fish and other aquatic organisms. In 2010, the $10 million HTAP program funded 62 projects that opened more than 270 miles of stream and river to fish passage, and supported important regional barrier assessments, training and monitoring. This presentation will review the accomplishments of the HTAP program, the valuable contribution of partners, and opportunities for this integral funding program to expand AOP across National Forest System lands.
Comments
Nathaniel Gillespie is Assistant National Fisheries Program Leader for the U.S.D.A Forest Service based in their Washington Office. Prior to joining the Forest Service in 2010, he worked for Trout Unlimited's National Office as a member of the Science Team and as the Eastern Land Conservation Director. He received his M.S. from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources in 2004 and graduated from Williams College in 1997.