The Wilson-Haun Wallowa River Project: Restoring Natural Processes for Salmon and Steelhead Habitat will take place in a high priority salmon and steelhead stream - Grande Ronde Basin. The restoration effort will occur on the mainsteam Wallowa River (RM 31.1-31.7).

This reach includes critical spawning and rearing habitat for ESA-Threatened Snake River Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), ESA-Threatened Bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), and ESA-Threatened Snake River spring Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).

The river's floodplain habitats are not in proper functioning geophysical and ecological condition (hydrologic, geomorphic, and vegetative composition), due to historic anthropogenic influences including beaver trapping, overgrazing, logging (floodplain clearing and headwater), dams, altered vegetative regime, dewatering, and road/ditch building. The overall project goal is to set the system on a trajectory towards achieving proper geophysical and ecological form and function, and thereby improve spawning and rearing habitat for several listed fish populations, and ecosystem function for other focal aquatic and terrestrial species.

For this Technical Assistance contract, the project team will tackle the technical and engineering components needed for project planning and design.

Trout Unlimited (TU) in partnership with the Grande Ronde Model Watershed Council (GRMW), the landowners, funders, the design firm, and local partners (Nez Perce, ODFW) will plan, design, and implement the project.