This project focused on Increasing the quantity and quality of available spawning and rearing habitat in an approximate mile of Upper Calapooia River for ESA-listed winter steelhead.
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This project focused on increasing the quantity and quality of available spawning and rearing habitat in an approximate mile of Upper Calapooia River for ESA-listed winter steelhead.
The project was initially funded back in 2019 after being ranked #1 for funding in the Willamette Region by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.
The goal was to Increase quantity and quality of available spawning and rearing habitat in ~1 mile of Upper Calapooia River for ESA- listed winter steelhead.
Then came two years of wildfires and covid-19 pandemic which delayed the restoration implementation, but the time was well-spent in the planning with the inevitable changes that the fires in particular created.
In July 2022, 13 trees with root wads attached were strategically tipped into the upper Calapooia River to improve habitat conditions for ESA-listed winter steelhead.
After so much anticipation, the entire project was completed in less than 7 days in the summer of 2022, and thanks to the expertise and planning of our specialists, went even better than expected.
The added instream complexity will trap spawning gravel and provide juvenile steelhead refuge during both high winter flows and low water periods during the summer.
