Snake River Salmon Recovery Board
Lead Entity
Composition
The Snake River Board is the Lead Entity.
Roles
- Maintain a Lead Entity organization and have a coordinator.
- Administer a Lead Entity Committee of representative interests.
- Solicit project applications.
- Create a habitat project list (annually) and maintain habitat work schedule (3yr).
Funding
The Lead Entity Program is funded by the Pacific Coast Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) and Recreation Conservation Office (RCO) State General Fund.
Co-Leads
Composition
Conservation Districts from the four counties. (Walla Walla, Garfield, Asotin and Columbia)
Roles
- Maintain a Lead Entity Committee.
- Work with project sponsors to develop applications.
- Work with Lead Entity/SRSRB to develop annual and 3-year habitat work plan.
- Participate in planning and implementation meetings (PU, SRSR, etc.).
Funding
The Lead Entity/SRSRB provides annual contracts to the four conservation districts to serve the roles listed above.
Lead Entity Committee
Composition
- Managed by Lead Entity through the use of "co-leads" (conservation district from each county).
- Two citizens from each of the four counties.
- One technical member from the CTUIR, WDFW, WDOE and USFS (NRCS, NPT pending).
Roles
- Develop by-laws
- Develop project score cards
- Review project proposals and interact with project sponsors
- Rank projects for consideration by Lead Entity/SRSRB.
Funding
These are volunteer positions.