Install six large wood structures instream, add spawning gravels, excavate a side channel, and remove non-native vegetation with subsequent planting of a mix of willows and cottonwoods along a 590-foot-long reach of French Creek. Project will improve degraded habitat and assist in enhancing natural populations of Southern Oregon Northern California Coast Coho Salmon by enhancing instream habitats in a cold water refugial stream.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Klamath Basin Restoration Program
Project Title: French Creek Spawning and Rearing Habitat Improvement Project (CA)
Organization:
Scott River Watershed Council
Project ID:
0208.22.075220
Description:
Award Amount:
$189316.00
Location:
The project lies in mid-French Creek, located in Siskiyou County, Klamath
Basin, California. It lies approximately 2.5 miles upstream of the Scott River-French Creek confluence, and approximately 0.5 mile below the French-Miners Creek confluence.
Basin, California. It lies approximately 2.5 miles upstream of the Scott River-French Creek confluence, and approximately 0.5 mile below the French-Miners Creek confluence.