Tracking Salmon Recovery in Oregon: a Website to Deliver Statewide Data for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

Like many state agencies, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has struggled to keep pace with rapidly expanding needs for data collection and reporting.  The State of the Salmon, a non-governmental program that works across state and national boundaries, recognized that they could support their own need for broad-scale data availability by helping agencies to build tools for data management and dissemination.  This public-private partnership has produced a website for reporting on the recovery status of listed salmonids in Oregon.  We will introduce and demonstrate the website in this presentation.  The site delivers summary information on viability criteria, serves up detailed graphs and assessments of the status of populations and larger geographic regions, and provides the opportunity to download the raw data underlying the viability criteria, as well as many more datasets.  By streamlining data delivery, this structure promises to save time both for projects that collect data and those within and outside of the agency that report on the data.  It also provides a vehicle to bring together diverse projects from different parts of the state under a consistent framework, and to provide tools for data management and dissemination to projects that would not have the resources to create them for themselves.