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Acronyms for the Columbia Basin (and a little beyond) with links to information on the Web

If we're missing any or need to change any, please let us know, 503-736-3581 or email (fishlib@critfc.org) . For daily updates, please visit the CBFWA list. This is not an exact duplication of the CBFWA Listing.

A-C D-G H-J K-M N-P Q-S T-V W-Z

A-C

4SOS	For the Sake of the Salmon
ABNC	Allan Brooks Nature Center
ACCD	Asotin County Conservation District
ACT	Analytical Coordinated Team
ADFG	Alaska Dept of Fish and Game
AFC	Anadromous Fish Committee
AFM	Anadromous Fish Managers (Now Anadromous Fish Committee)
AFS	American Fisheries Society
All-H	Habitat, Harvest, Hatcheries, & Hydrosystems
ANS	Association of Northwest Steelheaders
AP Portland	Associated Press Portland
AP Seattle	Associated Press Seattle
APR	Artificial Production Review and APR Summary Group
APRE	Artificial production review and evaluation
AR	American Rivers
ATA	Alaska Trollers Association
Battelle	Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
BBN	Bayesian Belief Network : Introduction
BCE	British Columbia Environment
BCLSS	BC Lake Stewardship Society
Beak	Beak Consultants, Inc (Bought out by Jones & Stokes)
Benewah SWCD	Benewah Soil & Water Conservation District
BES	Bureau of Environmental Services, Portland
BIA	Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S.)
Biomark	Biomark, Inc
BiOp	Biological Opinion
BLM	Bureau of Land Management (U.S.)
BMLT	Blue Moutain Land Trust (SE Washington & NE Oregon)
BMP	Best management practice
BOD	Biochemical oxygen demand
Bonner SWCD	Bonner Soil & Water Conservation District
BOR	Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.)
Boundary SCD	Boundary Soil Conservation District
BPA	Bonneville Power Administration
BPC	Business Practices Committee
BPC Database	BPC Database subcommittee
BPI	Balaton Power, Inc
BPT	Burns Paiute Tribe
Bqi	BioQuest International Consulting Ltd
BRAT	Biological Risk Assessment Team
BRLT	Bitter Root Land Trust (Montana)
CAP	Collaborative analytical process
CART	Classification and regression tree : Introduction
CBC	Chewuch Basin Council
CBCIS	Columbia Basin Cooperative Information System
CBFR,LLC	Columbia Basin Fishing Restoration, LLC
CBFWA	Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority
CBFWF	Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Foundation
CBI	Clearwater BioStudies, Inc
CBR	Columbia Basin Research (University of Washington)
CBT	Columbia Basin Trust (British Columbia)
CCC	Cowiche Canyon Conservancy (Washington)
CCCD	Chelan County Conservation District (Washington)
CCD	Columbia County Conservation District (Washington)
CCRH	Center for Columbia River History
CCRIFC	Canadian Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fisheries Commission
CCT	Colville Confederated Tribes
Cd'AT	Coeur d'Alene Tribe
CDFG	California Dept of Fish and Game
CDLT	Chelan-Douglas Land Trust (Washington)
CEC	Columbia Environmental Consulting, Ltd.
CEDA	Clearwater Economic Development Association
CERCLA	Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act (Superfund)
cfs	cubic feet per second
CKFRP	Columbia Kootenay Fisheries Renewal Partnership
Clearwater BAG	Clearwater Basin Advisory Group
CLSS	Christina Lake Stewardship Society (British Columbia)
CMIAE	Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology
COE	Corps of Engineers, see also USACE (links to Northwest Division)
COK	City of Kelowna (B.C.)
COTR	Contract Officer's Technical Representative
Cowlitz PUD	Cowlitz Public Utility District (Washington)
CPP	Currently Permitted Program
CPRC&D	Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development, Inc.
CPRCEDD	Columbia-Pacific Resource Conservation & Economic Development District
CPUD	Chelan County Public Utility District (Washington)
CRA	Columbia River Alliance (position statement on Cyberlearn)
CRB	Columbia River Basin
CRBF	Columbia River Basin Forum
CRI	Cumulative Risk Initiative
CRITFC	Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
CRWMG	Columbia River Water Management Group
CSKT	Confederated Salish, Kootenai & Pend d'Oreille Tribal Nations
CSMEP	Collaborative Systemwide Monitoring & Evaluation Group
CSS	Comparative Survival Study
CTCR	Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
CTUIR	Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
CTWSRO ; CTWS	Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
Custer SWCD	Custer Soil & Water Conservation District (Idaho)
CWA	Clean Water Act
CWU	Central Washington University

D-G

DART	Data Access in Real Time (University of Washington)
DBLT	Deschutes Basin Land Trust (Oregon)
DCWC	Deschutes County Watershed Council
DEF	Data exchange format
DFO	Dept of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)
DNF	Deschutes-Ochoco National Forest; Crooked River National Grassland
DO	Dissolved oxygen
DOE	U.S. Dept. of Energy
DOI	U.S. Dept of the Interior
DPUD	Douglas County Public Utility District (Washington)
DSF	David Suzuki Foundation
DSI	Direct Service Industries
EA	Environment Canada
EBAEC	EBA Engineering Consultants Ltd.
ECI	Environmental Consultants, Inc
ecovista	Ecovista
EDSI	EnvironData Systems, Inc
EDT	Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment
EPA	Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) also USEPA
ERO	ERO Resources Corp
ESA	Eco Social Analyst
ESA	Endangered Species Act
Essa	ESSA Technologies Ltd.
ESU	Evolutionarily Significant Unit
EWU	Eastern Washington University
FBC	Friend's of Brant Creek
FC	Federal Caucus
FCCD	Foster Creek Conservation District (Douglas County, WA)
FCRPS	Federal Columbia River Power System
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FERC	Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FIBC	FishInfo BC
FLT	Flathead Land Trust (Montana)
FOE	Friends of the Earth
FORREX	Forest Research Extension Partnership (Was: SIFERP)
FPAC	Fish Passage Advisory Committee
FPC	Fish Passage Center
FPCB	Fish Passage Center Board
fphr	fish passage and habitat restoration
FPI	Food Producers of Idaho
FRBC	Fisheries Renewal BC (Closed Down)
Friends WSR	Friends of the White Salmon River
FSOC	Fish Screening Oversight Committee
FSOCWS	FSOC Workshop
Fullerton C	Fullerton College
FVLT	Five Valleys Land Trust (Montana)
FWEE	Foundation for Water & Energy Education
FY	Fiscal Year
FY03	Sponsors--FY 2003
GAO	General Accounting Office (U.S.)
Garfield CC	Garfield County Commissioners (Oregon, Washington)
GEC	Geostream Environmental Consulting
Gem CC	Gem County Commissioners (Idaho, Washington)
Gilliam CC	Gilliam County Commissioners (Oregon)
Gilliam SWCD	Gilliam Soil & Water Conservation District
GIS	Geographic Information Systems
GLT	Greenbelt Land Trust (Oregon)
GMU	Geographic Management Unit
GPUD	Grant County Public Utility District (Washington)
Grant SWCD	Grant Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
Greenway	Yakima Greenway Foundation
GRMI	Global Resources Management, Inc.
GRMW	Grande Ronde Model Watershed
GSRO	Governor's Salmon Recovery Office (Oregon)
GSRO	Governor's Salmon Recovery Office (Washington)
GVLT	Gallatin Valley Land Trust (Montana)
GWEB	Governor's Watershed Enhancement Board (Oregon)
GYC	Greater Yellowstone Coalition

H-J

Harza	Harza Northwest
HCP	Habitat Conservation Plan
Hells	Hells Canyon Alliance
Henrys Fk Fnd	Henry's Fork Foundation
HEP	Habitat Evaluation Procedures
herrera	Herrera Environmental Consultants, Inc.
HGMP	Hatchery and Genetic Management Plan
HRVRC	Hood River Valley Residents' Committee
HUC	Hydrologic Unit Code
IAC	Intergovernmental Advisory Committee
IAC	Inter-Agency Committee for Outdoor Recreation
IACI	Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry
ICBEMP	Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
ICC	Idaho County Commission (Idaho)
ICL	Idaho Conservation League
ICNU	Industrial Customers of Northwest Utilities
ID	State of Idaho
ID DEQ	Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality
ID Legislature	Idaho Legislature
ID OSC	Idaho Office of Species Conservation
Idaho State	Idaho State University
IDFG	Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game
IDHW	Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
IDOA	Idaho Dept. of Agriculture
IDPR	Idaho Dept. of Parks and Recreation
IDWR	Idaho Dept. of Water Resources
IEAB	Independent Economic Analysis Board
IFIA	Intermountain Forest Industries Association
IFIM	Instream flow incremental methodology
IFPL	Idaho Foundation for Parks & Lands
IFR	Institute for Fisheries Resources
IHOT	Integrated Hatchery Operations Team
IHP	Innovations in Harvest & Production Workshop
IPC	Idaho Power Company
IPSFC	International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission
IRICC	Inter-organizational Resource Information Coordinating Council
IRU	Idaho Rivers United
ISAB	Independent Scientific Advisory Board
ISCC	Idaho Soil Conservation Commission
ISRP	Independent Scientific Review Panel
ISSU	Idaho Steelhead & Salmon Unlimited
IT	Implementation Team
IWF	Idaho Wildlife Federation
IWRRI	Idaho Water Resources Research Institute
Jefferson CC	Jefferson County Commission (Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
Jefferson CCrs	Jefferson County Commissioners (Idaho, Oregon, Washington)
Jefferson SWCD	Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District
Jerome CC	Jerome County Commissioners (Idaho)
JHLT	Jackson Hole Land Trust (Wyoming)

K-M

KCWP	Kittitas County Water Purveyors
KSU	Kansas State University
KT	Kalispel Tribe
KTI	Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
Latah SWCD	Latah Soil & Water Conservation District (Idaho)
LCES	Lake Country Environmental Society
LCFRB	Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board
LCREP	Lower Columbia River Estuary Partnership (Program)
Lemhi SWCD	Lemhi (& Custer) Soil & Water Conservation Districts (Idaho)
LP	Louisiana Pacific Corporation
LRDA	Lake Roosevelt Development Association
LSCD	Lewis Soil Conservation District
LSRCP	Lower Snake River Compensation Plan
LTTV	Land Trust of the Treasure Valley (Idaho)
Marion SWCD	Marion Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
MBR	Member (CBFWA)
MC	Methow Conservancy (Washington)
MELP	Ministry Environment Land & Parks (B.C.) (Now: Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management & Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection)
MESL	MacDonald Environmental Sciences Ltd
MFWP	Montana Dept. of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
MMG	Members Management Group
Monument SWCD	Monument Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
MRSC	Municipal Research & Services Center
MRT	McKenzie River Trust
MRT	Methow River Trust (SEE ALSO: Methow Conservancy)
MSCG	Mountain Snake Coordination Group
MSRM	Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management (B.C.)
Mstem	Mainstem Amendment Task Force
MWLAP	Ministry of Water, Land & Air Protection (B.C.)

N-P

NACD	National Association of Conservation Districts
NALMS	North American Lake Management Society
NARCDC	National Association of Resource Conservation & Development Councils
NAS	National Audubon Society
NCAC	Northwest Conservation Act Coalition
NCASI	National Council for Air and Stream Improvement
NCEP	National Centers for Environmental Prediction
NCLC	North Coast Land Conservancy
NEDC	Northwest Environmental Defense Center
NEEC	Northwest Energy Efficiency Council
NEOH	Northeast Oregon Hatchery
NEPA	National Environmental Policy Act
NEW	Northwest Environment Watch
NFS	Native Fish Society
NHA, NWHA	Northwest Hydroelectric Association
NIU	Northwest Irrigation Utilities
NMFS	National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA Fisheries	NOAA Fisheries (was: NMFS)
NPAFC	North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission
NPCC	Northwest Power and Conservation Council (was: NPPC)
NPDES	National pollutant discharge elimination system
NPFMC	North Pacific Fishery Management Council
NPMP	Northern Pikeminnow Management Program
NPPA	Northwest Pulp & Paper Association
NPPC	Northwest Power Planning Council (now: NPCC)
NPS	National Park Service
NPSWCD	Nez Perce Soil & Water Conservation District
NPT	Nez Perce Tribe
NRCS	Natural Resources Conservation Service
NRDC	Natural Resources Defense Council
NSIA	Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association
NVEPA	Nevada Div. of Environmental Protection
NWEA	Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
NWEC	Northwest Energy Coalition
NWFSC	Northwest Fisheries Science Center
NWI	National Wetlands Inventory
NWIFC	Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
NWPPA	Northwest Public Power Association
NWPPC	Northwest Power Planning Council
NWS	National Weather Service
OACD	Oregon Association of Conservation Districts
OCD	Okanogan Conservation District (Washington)
ODF	Oregon Dept. of Forestry
ODFW	Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
ODLC&D	Oregon Dept. of Land Conservation & Development
ODOT	Oregon Dept. of Transportation
OFGC	Oceola Fish and Game Club
OGI	Oregon Graduate Institute
OHSU	Oregon Health Sciences University
OLWQS	Osoyoos Lake Water Quality Society (British Columbia)
ONFC	Okanagan Nation Fisheries Commission
ONRC	Oregon Natural Resources Council
OR	State of Oregon
OR DEQ	Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
OSC	Office of Species Conservation (Idaho)
OSP	Oregon State Police
OSU	Oregon State University
OT	Oregon Trout
OWEB	Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board
OWRD	Oregon Water Resources Dept.
OWT	Oregon Water Trust
Pacificorp	Pacific Power in Oregon
PALT	Payette Land Trust (Idaho)
PATH	Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses
PBI	Pacific Biodiversity Institute
PCBs	Polychlorinated biphenyls
PCFFA	Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
PDX	City of Portland
PFMC	Pacific Fishery Management Council
PFRCC	Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (Canada)
PGE	Portland General Electric
PLT	Palouse Land Trust (Idaho)
PNGC Power	Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative
PNWA	Pacific Northwest Waterways Association
PPC	Public Power Council
PPLT	Prickly Pear Land Trust (Montana)
PPWG	Plan for the Plan Work Group
PRG	Provincial Review Group
PS	Planning subcommittee
PSC	Pacific Salmon Commission
PSEFS	Pacific Salmon Endowment Fund Society
PSF	Pacific Salmon Foundation
PSMFC	Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
PSU	Portland State University
PUD	Public Utility District
PWI	Pacific Watershed Institute

Q-S

QA/QC	Quality assurance/Quality control
RAAC	Regional Assessment Advisory Committee
RC&D	Resource Conservation & Development
RCRA	Resource Conservation & Recovery Act
RDCO	Regional District of Central Okanagan
RDMC	Regional Data Management Committee
RDOS	Regional District of Okanogan-Similkameen
RFC	Resident Fish Committee
RFM	Resident Fish Managers (now Resident Fish Committee)
RIEC	Regional Interagency Executive Committee
RM&E	Regional Monitoring & Evaluation
RMEF	Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
RM	River mile
RMI	Rocky Mountain Institute
RNP	Renewable Northwest Project
RRP	Red River Project (Lower Red River Meadow Restoration Project)
RUSLE	Revised universal soil loss equation
RVWS	Rose Valley Watershed Stewards
SAT	Subbasin Assessment Team (Template)
SBPG	Ad hoc Subbasin Planning Group
SBT	Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Fort Hall
SCS	Soil Conservation Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (Now: Natural Resources Conservation Service)
SCT	System Configuration Team
SEG	Strategic Effectiveness Group, LLC
SFF	Sustainable Fisheries Foundation
sho-pai	Shoshone Paiute Tribe
SIFERP	Southern Interior Forest Extension Research Partnership (Now: FORREX)
SILT	Southern Idaho Land Trust
SIWA	Sauvie Island Wildlife Area
SMID	Selah Moxee Irrigation District
SMP	Smolt Monitoring Program
SNFC	Shuswap Nation Fisheries Commission
SOLC	Southern Oregon Land Conservancy
SOS	Save Our Wild Salmon
SP	Stewardship Partners
SPC	S.P. Cramer & Associates, Inc.
SPT	Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of Duck Valley Reservation
SRFB	Salmon Recovery Funding Board
SRP	Similkameen River Project
SRSRP	Salmon Recovery Science Review Panel
SRT	Subbasin Review Team
SSI	Sawtooth Society, Inc. (Idaho)
SSWC	Sherman County Soil & Water Conservation District
STI	Spokane Tribe of Indians
StreamNet	StreamNet
SUNY	State University of New York
SW BAG	Southwest Basin Advisory Group
SWAM	Salmon Watershed Analysis Model
SWCD	Santiam Water Control District
SWCD	Soil & Water Conservation District (Program)
SWID RC&D	Southwest Idaho Resource Conservation & Development Council

T-V

TAC	Technical Advisory Committee
TBFC	Thompson Basin Fisheries Council
te	Analytical Coordinated Team
template	BPC Template Subcommittee
TGG	Transboundary Gas Group
TIA	Total impervious area
TMDL	Total Maximum Daily Load
TMT	Technical Management Team (USACE)
TNC	The Nature Conservancy
TOAST	Technical Outreach and Assistance Team
TPL	Trust for Public Land
TRLC	Three Rivers Land Conservancy (Oregon)
TRLT	Teton Regional Land Trust (Idaho)
TRT	Technical Recovery Team (NMFS)
Tryon Creek RMP	Tryon Creek Resource Management Partnership
TSS	Total suspended solids
TSWQC	Tri-State Water Quality Council (ID, MT, WA)
TU	Trout Unlimited
UCD	Underwood Conservation District
UCG	Upper Columbia Group
UCUT	Upper Columbia United Tribes
UCWD	Umatilla County Weed
UI	University of Idaho
Uppr Col RFEG	Upper Columbia Regional Fisheries Enhancement Group
US House	United States House of Representatives
US Senate	United States Senate
USACE	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (also COE)
USBR	Bureau of Reclamation (U.S.) (also BOR)
USCG	United States Coast Guard
USDA	United States Dept. of Agriculture
USDI	United States Dept. of the Interior
USDOC	United States Dept. of Commerce
USEPA	United States Environmental Protection Agency
USFS	United States Forest Service
USFWS	United States Fish and Wildlife Service
USGS	United States Geological Survey
UW	University of Washington
VMILT	Vashon-Maury Island Land Trust
VSP	Viable Salmonid Populations

W-Z

WA	State of Washington
WA Co SWCD	Washington County Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
WAM	Watershed analysis and management
Wasco SWCD	Wasco County Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
WC	Wildlife Committee
WCHRC&D	West Central Highlands Resource Conservation & Development
WDE	Washington Dept. of Ecology
WDFW	Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
WDNR	Washington Dept. of Natural Resources
WDOT	Washington Dept. of Transportation (also WSDOT)
WEPP	Water erosion prediction procedure
Wetlands (TWC)	The Wetlands Conservancy
WFPB	Washington Forest Practices Board
WHA	White Horse Associates, Inc.
WM	Wildlife Managers (now Wildlife Committee)
WNRC	Western Natural Resources Center
WQT	Water Quality Team (USACE)
WRCD	Wy'East Resource Conservation and Development (Oregon)
WRDA	Water Resources Development Act - 1999
WRIA	Water Resource Inventory Area (Washington)
WRLT	Wood River Land Trust (Idaho)
WSJ	Wall Street Journal
WSRO	Washington Salmon Recovery Office
WSU	Washington State University
WT	Washington Trout
WVRD	Wallowa Valley Ranger District (Wallowa-Whitman Nat'l Forest)
WWO	WaterWatch of Oregon
Yamhill SWCD	Yamill County Soil & Water Conservation District (Oregon)
YBC	Yamhill Basin Council
YN	Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation