Completed Projects > 2012 Projects > Weatherly Creek Map
The tributaries of the Lower Umpqua River are among the most productive streams in the basin and the most important to coho. However, many have been severely impacted by practices that are now outlawed, such as splash damming and stream cleaning. The Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists have partnered with two private landowners to restore Weatherly Creek, a highly productive tributary to to Umpqua River. Cary Weatherly (great-grandson of the original homesteading family) and Roseburg Resources Co. have embraced the proposed restoration efforts on their lands. This tributary is low gradient, 20'-30' wetted width, bedrock dominated and has an intensively logged watershed. A lack of Large Woody Debris (LWD) and boulders has limited the spawning and rearing habitat, resulting in lower fish production than is potentially possible. This project seeks to use an excavator to place 1390 boulders, 120 cubic yards of gravel, 93 50' logs with rootwads, 16 50' logs without rootwads, and 15 40' logs throughout 37 sites. The project area begins at the Highway 38 bridge and continues 4.9 miles upstream.