Full Applications submitted to NOPLE for 2005
SRFB Round
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Deep Creek Roads Decommissioning and Sediment Reduction
Project
- By North Olympic Salmon Coalition
(NOSC).
SRFB request: $260,000. Total Project Cost: $520,000. Match
= 50%
Deep Creek is in WRIA 19, and Tier 2.
- PRISM 05-1485
- NOSC and USFS will decommission 11.0 miles of active and
inactive logging roads associated with FS Road 3040. We will
remove all culverts and associated fills, pull back unstable
roadfill areas, outslope or provide drainage from the former
road bed, and apply erosion control of disturbed areas to re-establish
vegetation. These roads traverse 3 watersheds: Deep Creek,
East & West Twin Rivers. Road problems along FSR 3040 have
caused documented environmental impacts. The processes of concern
for water quality and aquatic habitat are:1) increased sediment
supply from landslides associated with roads, 2) increased
sediment supply from surface erosion associated with roads,
3) increase in water supplied to road drainage network, 4)
exacerbation of flood effects during extreme runoff/storms,
5) alteration of fish habitat by inundation with coarse sediment
scour of streambed and removal of wood and/or riparian vegetation,
and 6) chronic effects to habitat, i.e., eroded and undercut
stream banks becoming chronic, long-term sources of bank instability
and sediment supply. Anadromous and resident salmonids such
as coho salmon, fall chum salmon, winter steelhead, cutthroat
trout and Pacific lamprey are present in the Deep Creek, East
and West Twin Rivers. These species spawn and rear within the
mainstem and tributaries of the 3 steams. Fall chum are SASSI
2002 listed as “depressed” in Deep Creek. These
steams are in the Intensively
Monitored Watershed network
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IMW Final Restoration Treatments
- By Lower Elwha
Klallam Tribe. SRFB request: $292,000.
Total Project Cost: $357,000. Match = 18%
Deep Creek and E&W Twin are in WRIA 19, and Tier 2
- PRISM 05-1484
- Intensively Monitored Watersheds
(IMW) have been established
to assess the effectiveness of habitat restoration on fish production
at the watershed scale. In the SJF region, Deep Creek, E. & W.
Twin Rivers are included as study watersheds in the overall IMW
design. Their inclusion was based on several factors: completed
watershed analysis and restoration plan, ongoing detailed monitoring
of habitat and fish population characteristics and planned/completed
watershed scale habitat restoration efforts. Restoration activities
in Deep Creek have occurred since 1997 and include extensive
in-channel LWD efforts, off-channel development, riparian planting
and road decommissioning. At the E. Twin R., restoration to date
includes in-channel LWD efforts, off-channel development, and
riparian plantings. Restoration actions in the IMW watersheds
have been funded by multiple sources and total some 2.3 million
dollars to date. The W. Twin River has not had any restoration
actions and is being used as a control in the study design. This
proposal seeks funding to complete in channel LWD restoration
activities at the watershed scale in the IMW watersheds. The
proposal focuses on both previously untreated tributaries (West
and East Fork Deep Creek) and mainstem areas with limited restoration
efforts (Upper Deep and E. Twin). The treatments will involve
placement of free key pieces of LWD using helicopter. The primary
species that will benefit include coho, steelhead and cutthroat.
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Hoko River Habitat Restoration
- By Washington Department
of Natural Resources.
SRFB request: $383,264.Total Project Cost: $475,733. Match
= 19%
Hoko River is in WRIA 19, and Tier 1
- PRISM 05-1489
- Reach-scale stream restoration is proposed for a unique and
historically complex floodplain section of the Hoko River,
at its confluence with two major tributaries (Ellis Creek and
Creek 191). The project will improve instream habitat complexity,
floodplain connectivity, side channel availability, salmonid
tributary access, and riparian function, while also reducing
chronic bank erosion. Target species include Chinook, Coho,
Steelhead and Cutthroat stocks.
Details:
• Permanently abandon and revegetate 500 ft of river adjacent road;
• Remove a 90” diameter culvert from tributary 19.0191, permanently
opening 1.46 miles of habitat.
• Remove two log bridges and their fill (Hoko and Ellis), which are currently
constricting the channels.
• Reload 1.0 miles of channel with up to 400 pieces of large woody debris,
congregated into eight (8) engineered logjams (ELJ’s) and additional distributed
wood in the Hoko and 191. ELJ’s will consist of 2-4 key pieces with rootwads
interlocked with matrix LWD. ELJ designs types will include bank deflector jams,
bar apex jams, and channel spanning jams.
• Revegetate 1.0 miles of riparian zone that lack conifer.
The project is approved by three industrial forest landowners and
the Makah and Elwha Klallam Tribes. Both tribes will be involved in
the purchase and location of wood material for the project, along with
project design and implementation, and monitoring.
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Nearshore Central Strait of Juan de Fuca: an ecosystem
assessment of salmonid use and priority restoration actions
- By Washington Department of
Fish and Wildlife. SRFB request:
$201,194.45. Total Project Cost: $281,194.45. Match = 28%.
This nearshore area is in WRIA 18 & WRIA 19, and Tier 1.
- PRISM 05-1482
- This project will define fish use within the central Strait
nearshore, including: a) Species, populations, timing, and
life history strategies of juvenile salmonids (Puget Sound
Chinook, Hood Canal Summer Chum, searun cutthroat, steelhead,
and bull trout); b) How fish use areas of highest restoration
priority and; c) Prioritization of nearshore restoration projects.
Sediment and hydrologic processes define nearshore Strait,
and are the dominant limiting factors due to diking and armoring,
in river dams, and overwater structures. Priority habitats
include lower rivers and estuaries, eelgrass and kelp beds,
and sandy shorelines.We will define fish use in each to prioritize
process based restoration actions. This project is a top priority
for nearshore NOPLE (Barkhuis 2005) and Elwha Dungeness section
of the Shared Strategy (Redman 2005).The recent federal designation
of critical habitat for listed salmon ends at the Elwha river
mouth due to west Strait nearshore fish data gap. The review
team noted that nearshore areas west of the Elwha may be essential
for conservation, but found "we cannot conclude that the
area is either occupied and contains the PCEs, or is unoccupied
and is essential for conservation. If we determine that these
areas warrant designation or revision, we will do so under
subsequent rule making." This project will provide fish
presence data to directly address the omission of the western
Strait in the critical habitat designation.
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Pysht Estuary Conservation Proposal
- By Cascade Land Conservancy. SRFB request: $445,450.Total
Project Cost: $870,450. Match = 49%
Pysht Watershed is in WRIA 19, and Tier 2. Nearshore is Tier 1.
- PRISM 05-1486
- The Pysht River watershed, located on the Strait of Juan de
Fuca, Clallam County is a 30,000-acre basin along the north Olympic
peninsula connecting 35.6 stream miles and 8 tributaries to the
Pysht River, a 16-mile class I river. The mouth of the Pysht
River connects to the Strait of Juan de Fuca by way of one of
the most intact estuaries and salt marsh habitats remaining in
the Puget Sound and coastal region; the Pysht estuary.
The estuary is approximately 600 acres of intact low salt
marsh, sand dunes, and freshwater tributaries. It includes
2 miles of saltwater shoreline, sandy beaches and an additional
269 acres of tidelands. Estuary embayment of the Pysht River
has resulted from forested headlands to the south and by Pillar
Point to the north, a forested bluff with steep cliffs rising
800 feet above the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
There has been significant degradation of salmonid stocks
in the Pysht watershed. Measures to recover these species are
a high priority. Long-term single entity ownership and improved
forest management practices have prevented conversion to development
and maintained a large extent of estuarine habitat, but there
is no guarantee that future ownership will maintain these values.
A conservation easement in Pysht Estuary will protect this
dynamic ecosystem in perpetuity and facilitate restoration
opportunities that link restoration efforts in the South Fork
Pysht River, creating landscape scale restoration that better
facilitates salmon recovery.
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Total SRFB funds requested: $1,581,908 |
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