South Coast Watersheds Council
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PO BOX 1614
GOLD BEACH, OR 97444 Coordinator: Harry Hoogesteger
E-mail: harry@currywatersheds.org
Website:www.currywatersheds.org
The Council meets the first Thursday of each month.
The South Coast Council Includes: Floras, New River/ Elk, Sixes River/ Port Orford/ Euchre Creek/ Hunter Creek, Pistol River/ Chetco River/ Winchuck River
Our work with South Coast landowners features a long-term comprehensive strategy to restore Coho streams. In 2008, we re-located Butte Creek ( a small Coho stream) back into its historic channel. In the past century, Butte Creek had been channelized, ditched, straightened, and simplified. This restoration project includes creating sinuosity and meanders; adding large wood; re-constructing off-channel habitat alcoves; and planting thousands of riparian trees and shrubs.
One of the juvenile Coho salmon benefitting from stream restoration in the South Coast Watersheds.