Investment → Land & Water → Habitat → Species response
The Program's logic chain at a glance: dollars secure land and water; land and water build habitat; habitat is what the three target species respond to. Each card pulls live numbers from the section below.
Spending
Where the money has gone, year by year, and how cumulative actual expenditures compare to the inflation-adjusted budget and indexed cash ceiling.
Cumulative actual vs expected · by category
Inflation index is the USBR General Property Index applied per workbook; factor resets to 1.000 in 2020 (Extension base year). Actual expenditures are nominal year-of-spend dollars; expected expenditures are the original program estimate restated into each year's dollars, so the two are directly comparable. Single-year actuals can run well above or below estimate because land and water acquisitions are lumpy capital outlays. Estimated expenditures for 2026–2032 are inflated at 3% per year.
Habitat
What the Program built and is maintaining — land acquisitions, river miles managed, managed OCSW nesting habitat, and whooping crane habitat suitability.
The 210 ac target was set by the Program's 2016 SDM process — roughly 60 ac above the habitat that existed at the time. The program-wide total (PRRIP + Other) first crossed it in 2021. Future years (2026–2032) are estimated based on current PRRIP lands being mined to create habitat.
Highly suitable habitat is defined as unobstructed channel widths ≥ 650 ft. Two methods are shown back-to-back: visual classification (dashed, retired after 2018) and eCognition object-based classification (solid, 2019 onward). The 2017–2018 eCognition values have been retired so the two series do not overlap.
PRRIP-managed transects (n = 186; 69 West of Kearney, 117 East). Visual aerial-photo MUCW for 2007–2018; eCognition object-based MUCW for 2019–2024 — matches the methodology break in the basin-wide chart at left, so the two charts are directly comparable.
Water
The Program's water portfolio — the full set of supply and conservation alternatives considered, the projects now scoring toward the Water Milestone across storage, recharge, and recapture, and the year-by-year ledger of the Environmental Account.
One tile = one distinct project or alternative (81 in all). The 3 initial state water projects (Lake McConaughy EA, Pathfinder EA, Tamarack I) and 7 parent-concept headers in the source workbook are excluded as Program context.
Releases include species-targeted pulses (e.g., germination-suppression flows beginning 2020). End-of-year balance is the NET column running balance carried forward each year. Year strip above the chart shows the annual hydrologic condition per platteriverprogram.org: Wet · Normal · Dry.
The seasonal pattern shifted between eras: FI (amber) peaked in April; Extension (teal) is dominated by June germination-suppression flows. FI annual avg ≈ 35K AF/yr; Extension annual avg ≈ 56K AF/yr.
Species
Breeding effort, productivity, and whooping crane use on the Associated Habitat Reach.