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Tapash Sustainable Forest Collaborative2 was officially formed in 2007 <br />through a Memorandum of Understanding between major landowners in the <br />eastern Cascades of south-central Washington State, including the USFS, <br />Yakama Nation, DNR, WDFW, and TNC. The Tapash collaborative provides a <br />framework for cooperation and coordination between Tapash partners to <br />restore ecosystems' resistance and resilience to climate change across 3 <br />million acres in the eastern Cascades of south-central Washington State. ln <br />the fall of 2014, the Tapash Collaborative launched the Manastash-Taneum <br />Resilient Landscape Restoration Project as a flagship effort to demonstrate <br />cross-ownership, integrated terrestrial and aquatic landscape scale ecosystem <br />restoration. The USFS, WDFW, DNR, and TNC all have significant ownership <br />within the Manastash-Taneum project area, comprising nearly 80,000 acres. <br />These subwatersheds were selected by the Tapash Collaborative because they <br />contain a variety of significant aquatic and terrestrial resources and <br />conservation values in addition to the diverse land ownership. These <br />conservation values include, but are not limited to, habitat for federally listed <br />steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss; NMFS 2008; YBFWRB 2009), bulltrout <br />(Salvelinus confluentus; USFWS 2015), and northern spotted owl (Sfrx <br />occidentolis courina; USFWS 2011). Additionally, in recent years these <br />subwatersheds have received substantial conservation investments to protect <br />former industrial timberlands, restore stream flows for fish passage, and <br />replenish in-stream large wood to enhance aquatic habitat quality and <br />floodplain functioning. Manastash-Taneum objectives were adapted from the <br />Tapash Sustainable Forests Collaborative mission statement, the Okanogan- <br />Wenatchee Forest Restoration Strategy (USFS 2012), Hessburg et al. (2015) <br />Restoring fire-prone lnlond Pacific landscapes: seven core principles, and <br />Yeager (2015) Summary of Aquatic Resource Objectives and Recommended <br />Design and lmplementation Elements for the Mid and Upper Columbia <br />Anadromous and Bull Trout Producing Wotersheds of Eostern Washington. <br />2 httpl//www.tapash.org <br />Community Wildfire Protection Plan 42 September 201 8