Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers
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1758 NE AIRPORT RD
ROSEBURG, OR 97470
Coordinator: Eric Riley
E-mail: Eric@UmpquaRivers.org
Website: www.UmpquaRivers.org
The Council meets every third Tuesday of the month at 9am.
This biennium the council is most proud of their Wolf Creek watershed restoration and monitoring project. PUR is working on Roseburg Resources Company and BLM-managed lands to place more than 1,000 logs and 3,500 boulders in 12 stream miles to improve fish habitat for coho, steelhead and cutthroat trout. To evaluate project success, PUR, BLM, and USGS are monitoring stream flow, fish habitat, water quality and fish populations.
They're also excited about establishing PUR’s estuary and tidal wetland restoration program. The lower river area is known for its productive and diverse fish habitat, but finding landowner partners was very challenging. By making one-on-one contacts, the program has expanded exponentially. One unique aspect of their estuary work is creating “nurse logs” in areas where spruce swamps were once abundant: helicopters place fish logs in the wetlands and chainsaws are used to augur planting holes for locally-grown spruce seedlings.
