Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Siletz River (Wild Salmon Center, 2025)

2025-11-13T19:09:12+00:00

The Siletz Basin Coho Partnership is a team of public and private agencies, tribal partners, and organizations working to accelerate Coho recovery throughout the Siletz River Basin. The Siletz SAP is one of the first population scale restoration plans that has been specifically constructed to focus on multiple life history pathways of Oregon Coast Coho to promote resiliency of the population in the face of climate change. The Partnership's vision is to produce an abundant and resilient wild Coho Salmon population in diverse habitats in the Siletz River watershed, supported by sustainable ecological processes, to provide for fishing and [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Siletz River (Wild Salmon Center, 2025)2025-11-13T19:09:12+00:00

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Coquille Basin (Wild Salmon Center, 2025)

2025-08-26T21:23:34+00:00

The Coquille River basin is Oregon's largest completely coastal watershed. Developing the Coquille Coho Strategic Action Plan (SAP) began in 2022 when restoration practitioners and local fisheries managers agreed that a comprehensive Coquille Basin plan was needed to: 1) determine specific locations where protection and restoration strategies would have the greatest positive impact toward increasing watershed function and Coho productivity over the long term, 2) coordinate project implementation and leverage funding in the short term, and 3) formalize the commitment of a robust set of partners who have collaborated on Coho recovery and will continue to do so into the [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Coquille Basin (Wild Salmon Center, 2025)2025-08-26T21:23:34+00:00

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Nehalem River (Wild Salmon Center, 2023)

2023-05-15T16:48:42+00:00

The Nehalem River is the third-longest coastal river in Oregon and is home to an independent population of Oregon Coast Coho. The Nehalem Basin Partnership is composed of local NGOs, state and federal agencies, and industrial partners that came together to develop the Nehalem Basin Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for the Protection and Restoration of Coho Salmon Habitat. This plan outlines the habitat restoration strategies that need to be enacted over the next 20 years to address the decline of Nehalem Coho populations while supporting the social and economic needs of the Nehalem River community. The Partnership envisions the result [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Nehalem River (Wild Salmon Center, 2023)2023-05-15T16:48:42+00:00

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Coos Basin (Wild Salmon Center, 2022)

2022-07-13T21:54:35+00:00

The Coos Basin is comprised of dynamic rivers, productive agricultural lands and the largest estuary completely in Oregon. The Coos Basin Coho Partnership, composed of local NGOs, state and federal agencies, tribes and industrial partners, came together to develop the Coos Basin Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for Coho Salmon recovery. This plan outlines the long-term strategies that need to be enacted over the next 25 years, in order to sustain this coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) population into the future. With a focus on supporting working agricultural lands, while at the same time increasing and improving ecological conditions for coho salmon, this SAP balances the [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Coos Basin (Wild Salmon Center, 2022)2022-07-13T21:54:35+00:00

Stream Conditions after 18 Years of Passive Riparian Restoration in Small Fish-Bearing Watersheds (Martens et al, 2019)

2022-06-28T13:42:22+00:00

Many of the ecological processes in the riparian forests and streams across the Pacific Northwest have become impaired through production forestry practices common prior to the 1990s. Some of these practices included forest harvest without stream buffers, removal of instream wood, road construction and use, and harvesting large proportions of watersheds. Passive ecological restoration (the use of natural processes of succession and disturbance to alleviate anthropogenic impacts over time) is a common practice used in the management of riparian forests previously subjected to production forestry. Eighteen years after the implementation of passive restoration of riparian forests, we used four [...]

Stream Conditions after 18 Years of Passive Riparian Restoration in Small Fish-Bearing Watersheds (Martens et al, 2019)2022-06-28T13:42:22+00:00

A Process‐Based Approach to Restoring Depositional River Valleys (Powers et al, 2018)

2022-06-28T13:40:46+00:00

Stream restoration approaches most often quantify habitat degradation, and therefore recovery objectives, on aquatic habitat metrics based on a narrow range of species needs (e.g., salmon and trout), as well as channel evolution models and channel design tools biased toward single‐threaded, and “sediment‐balanced” channel patterns. Although this strategy enhances perceived habitat needs, it often fails to properly identify the underlying geomorphological and ecological processes limiting species recovery and ecosystem restoration. In this paper, a unique process‐based approach to restoration that strives to restore degraded stream, river, or meadow systems to the premanipulated condition is presented. The proposed relatively simple [...]

A Process‐Based Approach to Restoring Depositional River Valleys (Powers et al, 2018)2022-06-28T13:40:46+00:00

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Elk River (Wild Salmon Center, 2017)

2022-07-13T23:11:16+00:00

The Elk River is comprised of dynamic rivers, productive agricultural lands and the largest estuary completely in Oregon. The Elk Coho Partnership, composed of local NGOs, state and federal agencies, tribes and industrial partners, came together to develop the Elk River Strategic Action Plan (SAP) for Coho Salmon recovery. This plan outlines the long-term strategies that need to be enacted over the next 25 years, in order to sustain this coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) population into the future. With a focus on supporting working agricultural lands, while at the same time increasing and improving ecological conditions for coho salmon, [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Elk River (Wild Salmon Center, 2017)2022-07-13T23:11:16+00:00

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Siuslaw River (Wild Salmon Center, 2017)

2022-06-28T13:40:09+00:00

The Siuslaw River once supported one of the largest runs of wild coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) along the Oregon coast. Over 150 years of resource use and development in the Siuslaw River watershed have contributed to a long and steady decline in the population. Climate change and an uncertain trend in watershed health now raise concern among managers that the Siuslaw population – like other populations on the Oregon coast – may not remain viable in the decades to come. This plan represents the culmination of a three-year collaboration among local stakeholders to identify and locate restoration projects that will [...]

Strategic Action Plan for Coho Salmon Recovery on the Siuslaw River (Wild Salmon Center, 2017)2022-06-28T13:40:09+00:00

Alteration of Stream Temperature by Natural & Artificial Beaver Dams (Weber et al, 2017)

2022-06-28T13:40:24+00:00

Beaver are an integral component of hydrologic, geomorphic, and biotic processes within North American stream systems, and their propensity to build dams alters stream and riparian structure and function to the benefit of many aquatic and terrestrial species. Recognizing this, beaver relocation efforts and/or application of structures designed to mimic the function of beaver dams are increasingly being utilized as effective and cost-efficient stream and riparian restoration approaches. Despite these verities, the notion that beaver dams negatively impact stream habitat remains common, specifically the assumption that beaver dams increase stream temperatures during summer to the detriment of sensitive biota [...]

Alteration of Stream Temperature by Natural & Artificial Beaver Dams (Weber et al, 2017)2022-06-28T13:40:24+00:00

Western Oregon State Forests Habitat Conservation Planning Assistance Grant Project (Bofattch, 2017)

2022-06-28T13:45:04+00:00

In the Pacific Northwest, salmon populations were historically more abundant than they are today. As a result, many populations have been the focus of habitat restoration efforts. A vital role in these restoration efforts is played by private landowners, who collectively manage one-third of the forestlands in Oregon. Crucial habitat for some salmon populations occurs predominately on lands that are privately owned. VIEW PDF

Western Oregon State Forests Habitat Conservation Planning Assistance Grant Project (Bofattch, 2017)2022-06-28T13:45:04+00:00
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