Water

Installed 9 rock weirs to prevent stream headcutting; placed large wood and created stream terraces; planted native vegetation and installed fencing along 3,700 feet of stream. Click here for before and after project photos. Date Implementation Complete: June 2007 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board; OR Dept of Fish & Wildlife; Willamette Conservation Initiative; … Read more

Replaced multiple fish passage barriers on Jordan and Coyote Creeks on Mattson family’s 440-acre ranch. Opened up 46 miles of cutthroat trout spawning and rearing habitat; planted native trees and shrubs and installed fencing along over 8,700 feet of stream habitat. Click here for a full project profile. Date Implementation Complete: October 2012 Funding & … Read more

Enhanced a one-acre wetland and created established a grassed waterway on a seasonal drainages to Lower Amazon Creek at a working farm near Alvadore. Click here for a full project profile. Date Implementation Complete: June 2007 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Tom Hunton (landowner) Cost: $28,835

Reconnected access to 1/2 mile of high quality cutthroat trout spawning and rearing habitat; terraced banks to reduce erosion and better accommodate winter flows; planted native trees and shrubs along 1/2 mile of upper Poodle Creek. Click here for before and after project photos. Date Implementation Complete: December 2009 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement … Read more

Replaced 2 undersized culverts with larger culverts, reconnecting fish passage for a tributary of Spencer Creek. Click here for before and after project photos. Date Implementation Complete: December 2009 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Derek & Diane Jaros (landowners) Cost: $30,702

Planted native trees and removed invasive species along 2,000 feet and 1 acre of lower Long Tom River at Stroda Brothers Farm. Click here for before and after project photos. Date Implementation Complete: December 2009 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Stroda Brothers Farm (landowners) Cost: $2,045

Removed invasive species and planted native trees and shrubs along shore of wetland on Polyrock Ranch along Territorial Rd in the Coyote Creek sub-basin. Click here for before and after project photos. Date Implementation Complete: December 2009 Funding & Partners: Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Deborah & Alan Mattson (landowners) Cost: $10,438

Restored habitat for fish and wildlife along a 1,400-foot section of a seasonal tributary to Coyote Creek at Laughing Stock Farm along Territorial Rd. LTWC replaced an undersized culvert that impaired fish passage for native species like cutthroat trout moving upstream. We also re-meandered the tributary channel to improve the movement of water and planted native … Read more

Stroda Brothers Farm worked with the Council in 2010 to install a 1,200 foot grassed waterway that runs the length of a seasonal drainage on their Christmas tree farm near Cheshire. The steep, eroding drainage caused sediment and valuable soil to wash downstream, impacting both water quality and the soil. Click here for a full … Read more