STREAMNET NEWS

A Newsletter from StreamNet
A Fish Data Delivery Project for the Pacific Northwest
Issue #6 - March 24, 2006

Welcome to the sixth StreamNet News!

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Table of Contents

1. New StreamNet Vision Statement and Strategic Plan Available
2. New Search Function at StreamNet
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1. NEW STREAMNET VISION STATEMENT AND STRATEGIC PLAN AVAILABLE
StreamNet recently completed a vision statement describing the role of
StreamNet in the region, along with a series of goals and objectives
forming a brief strategic plan. The plan is intended to stimulate
discussion about the products and services StreamNet should provide.
The document describes:

• StreamNet's mission;
• our vision for the future;
• project values;
• the data-sharing environment of the region;
• data management principles and approaches;
• project goals and objectives;
• our constituents;
• the services we provide.

The vision statement and strategic plan are meant to be living
documents, and we encourage feedback from all interested parties. If
you would like to review the document and perhaps provide feedback,
you can download it at http://www.streamnet.org under "What's New at
StreamNet."

2. NEW SEARCH FUNCTION AT STREAMNET
On January 18 we implemented a new search function for the StreamNet
web site. The new search function uses Google's technology and it
should provide much improved results compared to our old search
function. If you use the search function, we would like to hear
feedback. Did it work perfectly? Not at all? Somewhere in between?
Our intention is to make the file archives available at StreamNet much
more accessible. (This search function is for finding web pages and
other files; the on-line data query system remains the same.)

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Edited by Michael Banach

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ABOUT THE STREAMNET PROJECT: StreamNet is a cooperative,
multi-agency effort among the Columbia River Basin's state,
tribal and federal fisheries agencies, the Northwest Power and
Conservation Council (NPCC), the Bonneville Power Administration,
and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission to compile
fish-related data. We compile and make available on our web site
information intended to be useful to fisheries managers and
researchers, land managers, planners, and others. We acquire,
regionally standardize, and georeference data from multiple
sources on a number of topics, including fish distribution,
fish abundance trends, hatchery releases and returns, harvest
levels, migration barriers, hatcheries, and dams. We provide a
catalog of photographs relevant to fish species and facilities in
the region. We also archive and provide stand-alone "independent
data sets" created by other entities. We maintain the official
list of stream reaches the NPCC has recommended be protected from
dam construction, and we are the official keepers of the Pacific
Northwest's 1:100,000 scale GIS streams layer. We provide
pre-made maps and let you make maps interactively from data in
the StreamNet database to meet your needs. We continually work
to update these resources, so new information becomes available
several times each year. We also provide customized data-related
services for participants in the NPCC's Fish and Wildlife
Program. When significant changes are made at StreamNet (new
data or new ways to display them), we will email another short
StreamNet News to those on the mailing list.

You can learn more about StreamNet at
http://www.streamnet.org/about-sn.html. We exist in order to
bring useful information to people such as you, and we welcome
your questions, feedback, and suggestions. We also hope you
will inform your colleagues about the resources available at
StreamNet (http://www.streamnet.org).

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