Appendix I

Monitoring Appendix I: Oregon CSRI Monitoring Plan: Scoping Session Record

Contents

Summary of Scoping Session Process and Major Accomplishments

1.0 Participant List

2.0 Scoping Session I. December 18, 1996

2.1 Letter of Announcement
2.2 Synthesis #1
2.3 Agenda
2.4 Trust
2.5 Hopes
2.6 Strategy Questions
2.7 Monitoring Questions

3.0 Scoping Session II. January 22, 1997

3.1 Memorandum
3.2 Agenda
3.3 Minutes
3.4 Monitoring Questions Organized under Tasks
3.5 Table of Efforts and Questions Related to Tasks
3.6 Table of Newly Identified Efforts and Additional Needs

Summary of Scoping Sessioins and Major Accomplishments

From November 1996 until January 1997, a series of scoping sessions and planning meetings were held to involve stakeholders and other interested parties in determining the common direction of the Coastal Salmon Restoration Initiative (CSRI) Monitoring Plan. Representatives from state and federal agencies, watershed councils, private interest groups, tribes, universities, and others participated in each of two scoping sessions. These groups formed the Monitoring Plan Advisory Team. Their active participation, feedback, and contribution revealed an active commitment to an evolutionary process of refining and improving the state-wide Monitoring Plan. This process continues to date. Interest in the objectives, purpose, and logistics of the Monitoring Plan was keen and many excellent suggestions, ideas, and courses of action have been incorporated into the Monitoring Plan as a result of these scoping session forums.

Major accomplishments of the first Scoping Session (SSI) were:

The identification of specific monitoring, research, and assessment questions that pertain to the health and recovery of coho salmon.

An open and revealing discussion of trust between state, private, and federal participants.

A cross section of agency personnel from the Advisory Team left SSI with the task of integrating the identified questions into the Monitoring Proposal, gathering information on current efforts, and identifying information gaps.

Major accomplishments of the second Scoping Session II (SSII) were:

• The identification of existing efforts that specifically related to each of the Monitoring Plan Tasks in addition to known state, private, and federal agency efforts.

• The formation of protocol work groups to integrate the Factors of Decline with topics and questions identified by the Monitoring Plan and to develop monitoring methodologies for these areas of focus.

Key factors of success accomplished by the Scoping Sessions were:

• Increased communication about, participation within, and acceptance of the Monitoring Plan by groups who will be required to actively participate in the monitoring process.

• Synergsim added to the Monitoring Plan by gathering coh