Completed Projects > 2014 Projects
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Camp Creek Restoration Map 2014
Camp Creek, a tributary to Mill Creek on the Lower Umpqua River, is the subject of another basin-wide restoration approach undertaken by the Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers. A lack of Large Woody Debris (LWD) and boulders is limiting spawning and rearing habitat for anadromous fish. Fish present include OC coho salmon, Pacific lamprey, Eulachon smelt, Chinook salmon, cutthroat trout, and steelhead trout. The Gardiner-Reedsport-Winchester Bay Salmon and Trout Enhancement Program (GRWB STEP) was integral in moving this project forward, and will continue to play an important role. Roseburg Resources, Co. is an important landholder in the basin and has again been highly supportive of our efforts. The Coos BLM and ODFW provided crucial expertise in designing the project, and the Umpqua Derby, Bring Back the Natives Program, and Meyer Memorial Trust are contributing valuable cash funds to see this project through to completion. Helicopter mobility costs will be shared with the Smith River Watershed Council in an effort to leverage funds across multiple projects. This project will complement work in Camp Creek that began in 2008 of this whole watershed restoration effort. Work completed in 2013 (funded through OWEB) successfully placed, with an excavator, 150 boulders, 151 40’ logs, 34 50’ logs, and 60 whole alders throughout 25 sites on Buck Creek, a tributary to Camp Creek. PUR seeks funds for work planned for 2014 to place, with a helicopter, 113 whole trees, 26 trees with rootwads, and 77 30' logs into three tributaries of Camp Creek. Additional work planned for 2015 will restore the mainstem of Camp Creek and result in the complete restoration of all portions of the Camp Creek basin that is accessible to anadromous fish. We have also added two nearby streams to this project to maximize efficiency. Sagabeard Creek (the location of a recent OWEB-funded fish passage project) will receive a total of 50 whole trees and 50 whole trees with rootwads, also placed via helicopter. The treated reach on this stream is one mile in length. Footlog Creek will receive 30 LWD pieces from a recent landslide on the Elliott State Forest, placed with a line-pulling machine.
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Brush Creek Restoration Map
he Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers (PUR), ODFW, and Roseburg District BLM have worked cooperatively to form the Brush Creek Restoration Plan and implement a large scale project with in-stream restoration work occuring over three summers to restore more than 12 miles of spawning and rearing habitat for coho, steelhead, cutthroat trout, and Pacific lamprey. Brush Creek is a tributatry to Elk Creek and is located approximately six miles east of Elkton in the Elk Creek fifth-field watershed. Brush Creek has a history of splash damming, channel straightening, road building, and stream cleaning practices that have negatively affected aquatic habitat throughout the entire watershed. PUR, Roseburg District BLM, and Lone Rock Timber Co. worked together to plan the extensive restoration of fish habitat in the watershed. During the summers of 2012 and 2013, we placed 784 logs and 600 boulders at 121 sites across 9.5 miles of mainstem Brush Creek and three tributaries. In 2014, we plan to place 143 logs and 2,790 boulders at 40 sites across the lower 2.5 miles of mainstem Brush Creek. Structures will be a combination of whole tree placement, log placement, and boulder placement projects.
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Rock Creek Restoration Map
Rock Creek, one of main tributaries to the North Umpqua River, is a major contributor to OC coho, spring and fall Chinook, summer and winter steelhead, cutthroat trout and Pacific lamprey production. A new fish ladder, located at the dam near the mouth of Rock Creek, has greatly improved fish passage, but poor upstream habiat still limits fish production. In-place instream restoration projects are already working to increase fish survival. Restoration work planned for 2014 implementation will occur immediately downstream from already restored habitat and will include 1,400 boulders, 20 trees and 51 logs placed at 19 sites. The long-term outcome of the Rock Creek Restoration Project is the restoration of historic runs of wild anadromous fish to the watershed. This will be accomplished through watershed-scale instream and side channel habitat restoration. This phase of instream restoration work includes the placement of 51 logs, 20 trees and 1,400 boulders throughout 19 sites in Rock Creek and will create specific habitats: slow flowing meanders, juvenile fish refuge areas, spawning gravels for spring Chinook. -
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