Completed Projects > 2015 Projects
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Camp Creek Map
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. The 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. To maximize efficiency and value we have added two nearby streams to this project. One mile of 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. In addition, one mile of Footlog Creek will receive 40 LWD pieces from a recent landslide on the Elliott State Forest. These materials will be placed with a line-pulling machine. All total, 4.5 miles of critical coho habitat will be restored through this grant.
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Camp Creek Restoration
Habitat structure under construction in Camp Creek
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Camp Creek Restoration
Completed habitat structure in Camp Creek
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Tenmile Creek Map
The Wageman Ranch stretches along both sides of 0.40 miles of Tenmile Creek. After he purchased the property from his grandparents, the owner has been making strides to improve the ranch in ways that also benefit fish and wildlife. He recently entered into a contract with CREP to fully fence and restore his riparian area, but current instream conditions, including a lack of large wood, poor riparian areas, and livestock stream crossings, are limiting the health of the stream. PUR and ODFW assessed the stream as part of the South Umpqua Restoration Planning TA (213-2054) and designed nine instream restoration sites while PUR’s engineer surveyed and designed a railcar bridge to be used as a livestock and equipment crossing. The landowner is enthusiastic about restoration work on his property and has committed to providing all of the logs and trees needed for instream work and the use of his construction equipment and time towards the project. Successful completion of this work will improve fish habitat in the watershed and potentially lead to more projects with adjacent landowners and other family members that live along Tenmile Creek.
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Temile Creek Restoration
Livestock bridge being prepared for placement on Tenmile Creek
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Temile Creek Restoration
Boulder and large woody debris habitat structure in Tenmile Creek
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Temile Creek Restoration
Active beaver colony in Tenmile Creek will ensure productive fish habitat for years to come
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East Fork Jackson Creek Map
The East Fork Jackson Creek is located on the Roseburg District BLM's North Bank Habitat Management Area. The Partnership has worked with the BLM for many years doing habitat and fish passage restoration. This project installed several log structures with boulders in the upper reaches of the creek. Project sites were designed to improve native fish habitat and reduce stream head cutting.
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East Fork Jackson Creek
A completed log and boulder structure in Jackson Creek.
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East Fork Jackson Creek
An excavator placing boulders in the creek.
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East Fork Jackson Creek
An excavator placing logs in the creek.
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Harrington Creek Map
Harrington Creek is a tributary to Rock Creek in the North Umpqua River Corridor located 25 miles east of Roseburg. The Rock Creek watershed is a major contributor to Oregon Coast coho, spring Chinook, summer and winter steelhead, and Pacific lamprey production. However, anadromous fish production is limited by inadequate summer and winter instream fish habitat needed to support thriving native fish runs, hatchery influences on native fish genetics, and fish passage barriers for migrating fish. During the summer of 2015 PUR, ODFW, and BLM will place 162 logs and 1,092 boulders on RRCo. lands with an excavator and 84 logs and 520 boulders on BLM lands. We will pull an additional 18 trees over top of these materials. Work will occur throughout 1.2 miles of Harrington Creek. The result of this work will reconnect a network of side channels in Harrington Creek, which has been shown to significantly increase winter survival of juvenile coho.
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Harrington Creek Restoration
Completed boulder weir structure on Harringtion Creek. This photo was taken during early winter flows, immediately following structure completion.
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Harrington Creek Restoration
Panorama shot of a completed log and boulder structure in Harrington Creek.
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Harrington Creek Restoration
Project planning and coordination with project partners at the RockEd Building at the ODFW Hatchery at Rock Creek. Frim left to right: Sidney Post (Roseburg BLM), Kirk Haskett (ODFW), Eric Riley (PUR), Jeff McEnroe (Roseburg BLM), Sam Moyers (ODFW), Dave Harris (ODFW).
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Harrington Creek Restoration
Excavator staging logs for placement on Harrington Creek.
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Rice Creek Bridge Map
As part of a watershed scale restoration effort, PUR worked with a private landowner to install two livestock bridges on Rice Creek. The project includes the placement of habitat structures and effectiveness monitoring throughout the watershed across multiple ownerships. Instream structure placements will begin in 2017 and a pre-installation monitoring began in 2015.
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Rice Creek Restoration
Rice Creek bridge site before installation.
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Rice Creek Restoration
Completed livestock crossing with concrete decking.
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West Fork Cow Creek Map
West Fork Cow Creek is a 55,914 acre 5th field watershed located in the South Umpqua sub-basin. This watershed has received little attention to address known limiting factors to fish, including the lack of quality fish habitat, fish passage barriers and riparian condition. Currently, there is no comprehensive plan to restore habitat and passage in the checkerboard of private and public ownership. In 2014, PUR and Medford BLM began a new partnership to start work in that area. PUR is working to connect with all streamside landowners and other stakeholders in the basin to form a planning team to direct restoration prioritization. Priorities for work will be based off of (1) a detailed survey of the current instream and riparian habitat and (2) culvert surveys which rank the severity of fish passage blockages. OWEB funds will be used for project management, habitat surveyors, travel and grant administration.
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West Fork Cow Creek Restoration
Pre-project site survey photo of a tributary to West Fork Cow Creek. Many streams in this watershed are lacking instream structure and habitat diversity. Future projects in this watershed will seek to address several limiting factors found in the watershed, such as, summer rearing and winter refuge habitat and spawning reaches.
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West Fork Cow Creek Restoration
Project partners discussing future restoration opportunities and collaborative efforts. Partners on this project include, Medford District BLM, ODFW, Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians, Weyerhaeuser, Roseburg Resources Company, ODF, and USFS.
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West Fork Cow Creek Restoration
PUR Senior Project Manager, Terry Burleson, inspecting hazard logs from the Douglas Complex Fire area. These logs will be used for instream habitat structure sites throughout the West Fork Cow Creek Watershed.