DESCRIPTION
This project aims to design watershed restoration actions in the Upper White River basin that will accelerate natural rates of recovery and increase resiliency of the system to continue to create and maintain critical habitat functionality, thermal diversity, hydrologic stability, and geomorphic structure to support adult to juvenile out-migrant survival and productivity in the face of a changing climate. Focus species include Puget Sound Spring and Fall Chinook, Steelhead, Coho, Pink salmon, and Bull Trout. The project area is managed by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and Manulife Investment Management as the Tomanamus Forest, and the US Forest Service as the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. The land is secured for long-term protection and near-term restoration efforts.
Project methods are directly focused on reversing the effects of past land use practices to remove legacy roads from floodplains and channel migrations zones (CMZ), install large wood jams, and increase instream wood loading rates within the project geography to compensate for past land use practices which stripped the forests from the mainstem White and West Fork White Rivers. This project will remove over nearly 2 miles of relic forests road from the floodplain and CMZ and place large wood jams and individual pieces of wood in strategic locations across 22 river miles. These proposed actions will increase floodplain connectivity, restore channel form with forested bars and complex channel netw
This project will design floodplain restoration actions in the Upper White River basin that will accelerate natural rates of recovery and increase resiliency of the system to continue to create and maintain critical habitat functionality, thermal diversity, hydrologic stability, and geomorphic structure to support adult to juvenile out-migrant survival and productivity. Focus species include White River Spring Chinook, Steelhead, Coho, Pink salmon, and Bull Trout. The project area is managed by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe and Manulife Investment Management as the Tomanamus Forest, and the US Forest Service as the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. The land is secured for long-term protection and near-term restoration efforts. Project actions focus on reversing the effects of past land use practices to remove legacy roads from floodplains, install large wood jams, and increase instream wood loading rates within the project geography to compensate for past practices that stripped forests from the valley bottom. The project is located on the mainstem White River upstream of Mud Mountain Dam and West Fork White River. Refer to Attachment A, Figure 1 for a Vicinity Map. This project will remove nearly 2 miles of road from the floodplain and place large wood jams and individual pieces of wood in strategic locations across 22 river miles. Proposed actions will increase floodplain connectivity and restore channel form with forested bars and complex channel networks.
