Project Introduction

• Consists of 1,760 deeded acres timber, sagebrush, and wet/dry meadow habitats.

• Includes Big, Lake, and McCoy Creeks.

• This project will continue to enhance fish and wildlife habitat and will benefit a variety of species such as:

- bull trout

- upland sandpiper

- redband trout

Project cooperators include:

•ARS/OSU

•ODFW

•The Nature Conservancy

•Oregon Water Trust

•Private landowners

Subbasin Needs and Limiting Factors

• Restore anadromous and resident fish to their historic habitats.

• Restore migration routes and connectivity on now isolated populations of bull trout and redband trout.

• Improve meadow habitats through disturbance, water distribution, and other means.

• Improve water quality, with emphasis on reducing summer stream temperature.

• Protect and restore riparian zones from excessive livestock grazing.

• Conduct habitat restoration studies and projects to address

riparian habitat, flow

issues, and water

quality problems.

Our Role in Subbasin Recovery

• Rehabilitation of wet/dry meadow wildlife habitat

- ARS/OSU/BPT irrigation study

- Use of prescribed disturbance

• Rehabilitation of riparian areas and stream banks and enhancement of water quality

- Rosgen Level III assessments

- NAWCA grant opportunities

- Reestablishment of native shrubs

- ARS/OSU/BPT irrigation study