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Little Butte Creek Watershed Council
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PO Box 89
EAGLE POINT, OR 97524 Coordinator: Tim Weaver
E-mail: tndweaver@snowcrest.net
Website: www.roguebasinwatersheds.org/SectionIndex.asp?SectionID=10
The Council meets every fourth Wednesday of the month at 5pm at Eagle Point Library.
Little Butte Creek has historically provided highly successful spawning and rearing habitat for anadromous fish returning to the Rogue River. However, excessive erosion, decreased stream flow, bacteria, and higher temperatures are threatening the status of this habitat for endangered Coho salmon and steelhead. The presence of invasive species, surface runoff, and cattle have degraded the riparian habitat and caused persistent water quality problems in Little Butte Creek. Riparian improvement projects and educational workshops intend to address these problems by removing the invasive blackberry brush, replanting with mixed conifer and native plants, and excluding cattle from the area.
Mechanical removal of Himalayan blackberry along Little Butte Creek.