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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

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


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