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 by a strategic log placement installation.
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.
Project Ranked #1 in the Willamette Region by OWEB
Partnered with USFS, BCI Contracting, Inc, & Blue Ridge Timber Cutting
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.
Implementation Duration: 7 Days
(July 15th-July 21st)
