Assessing the Response of Streams to Contemporary Forest Practices: A Conference on Paired Watershed Studies
Lower Nehalem/Necanicum Watershed Councils
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PO BOX 249
NEHALEM, OR 97131 Coordinator: Sarah Newton
www.nehalemtel.net/~lnwcouncil (Lower Nehalem website)
www.necanicumwatershed.org (Necanicum website)
The Council meets the second Thursday of each month at 7pm at the Pine Grove Community Center in Manzanita.
The Lower Nehalem Watershed Council’s Arrow Creek Project is reversing decades of farm pasture use on the banks of the North Fork Nehalem River. Arrow Creek, so named because of its altered, straight pathway, was re-directed in a meander with large wood placements. The bottom of the new channel was lined with unsorted river gravels for macroinvertebrate habitat. Three low areas were created for wetlands and a deep alcove refuge has been excavated. Over a thousand potted trees, shrubs and willow whips will be in place over the 10 acre project area when it is completed this year. Only a week after the stream and alcove portions were completed, juvenile coho, cutthroat and Pacific lamprey were found.
Staff from the US Fish and Wildlife Service Portland office planting by the newly meandered Arrow Creek