Trout Unlimited
$50,000

The Sheep Creek Stewardship Project will engage young adults and local volunteers in public land stewardship and enhance recreational opportunities in the Grande Ronde Basin by restoring critical habitat for ESA-listed Snake River Chinook salmon, summer steelhead, ESA-listed bull trout, and Oregon State-Sensitive and Species of Concern including Pacific lamprey, redband trout and Columbia spotted frogs. By restoring biodiverse meadow habitats, the project will also benefit numerous other flora and fauna species including wetland and migratory birds, elk, mule deer, beaver, and others. Funding from the Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund (OCRF) will support low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) and riparian planting actions across 4.5 miles of stream on US Forest Service (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands while directly engaging Oregonians from diverse backgrounds. The proposed OCRF project will restore floodplain processes with cost-effective, hand-based restoration, including 40 beaver dam analogs, 10 hand-built large wood structures, and riparian planting along 4.5 miles of Sheep Creek.

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