Bilger Creek is a tributary to North Myrtle Creek and is located approximately three miles northeast of Myrtle Creek in the Myrtle Creek fifth-field watershed. Bilger Creek provides important spawning and rearing habitat for coho, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey. However, large woody debris and habitat structures necessary for summer and winter fish survival are limited in Bilger Creek due to historic hydraulic mining, channel straightening, road building and stream cleaning practices. Water quality issues have also been identified in Bilger Creek by the PUR volunteer water quality monitoring program and include high stream temperatures, turbidity and E. coli levels. When a private landowner contacted PUR about restoration opportunities in Bilger Creek, the opportunity was seized to work in this creek and begin to address the limiting factors to fish survival. Project work will start with clearing the blackberry along the creek. The next stage is to place 80 logs and 200 boulders at 19 sites in Bilger Creek with an excavator. The final phase is to follow up with native plant establishment. A culvert, owned by Douglas County, that is a partial barrier to fish passage is located in the middle of the project site and will be targeted for future replacement.