The Wind River Watershed project is a collaborative effort to restore wild steelhead in the Wind River.  The four agencies forming the nucleus of this partnership include the US Forest Service, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, USGS Biological Research Division, and Underwood Conservation District.  This partnership was established in the early 1990's and with support from BPA, has continued to conduct important habitat, research, monitoring and coordination activities across the subbasin.  The project works at multiple levels to identify and characterize key limiting habitat factors in the Wind River, to restore degraded habitats and watershed processes, to measure, track and document fish populations, life histories, and interactions, and to share information across agency and non-agency boundaries.

This contract funds continued work to restore habitat conditions within the Wind River watershed.  In FY08, the focus of work under this contract will be to thin and plant riparian areas in the Upper Trout Creek drainage, and to improve instream and floodplains along Upper Trout Creek by constructing single and multiple-log complexes.  The log structures are intended to provide bank stability, habitat complexity, pools, and hydraulic diversity in the stream over a range of flow levels.  Structures are planned and designed to emulate natural debris accumulations, and as such are constructed of materials native to the watershed.



The EC work could not be completed for the stream restoration work and thinning so WE A and D have been cancelled - JB 6-08