DESCRIPTION
This proposal is for a design-only, restoration planning grant, with the deliverable of two preliminary designs. The project area for this proposal is within a 1+ mile reach located in the Middle portions of the Ohop Creek Valley, approximately between river miles 4 and 5. Within this reach, two specific sets of properties have landowner permissions to conduct design work. Additional properties may become available to add to the length of stream which will have designs created. The goal of the project is to improve in-stream spawning and rearing habitat, stream complexity, and habitat diversity within Ohop Creek. This portion of Ohop Creek is a spawning reach for Chinook, chum, and coho salmon, and is likely used by steelhead. The preliminary designs that will come out of this proposal will focus both on spawning and rearing habitat benefits, and will also include improvements to off-channel and side channel habitat.
This project was for a design-only, restoration planning grant which produced preliminary designs for two work sites within the Middle Reach of Ohop Creek, approximately between river miles 4 and 5.3. Each of the two work sites included multi-parcel project envelops, with design plans developed for 52 acres of habitat restoration actions among the two worksites.
The goal of the project was to produce preliminary restoration designs with prescriptive in-stream and floodplain treatments to improve spawning and rearing habitat, stream complexity and habitat diversity, and riparian conditions within Ohop Creek and the surrounding floodplain. This portion of Ohop Creek is a key spawning reach for ESA listed Chinook salmon, chum and coho salmon, and ESA listed winter steelhead.
The preliminary designs completed under this project fulfilled the project goal and yielded detailed restoration designs for each work site with prescribed treatments including side channel and main channel enhancements, covered pools, placed wood elements, and riparian and floodplain planting treatments.
