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)

2026-06-26T20:10:52+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)2026-06-26T20:10:52+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

Methods to Predict Beaver Dam Occurrence in Coastal Oregon (Petro et al, 2018)

2022-06-28T13:41:01+00:00

Pools provided by beaver (Castor canadensis) contribute to critical habitat requirements of salmonids in fluvial systems of the Pacific Northwest, therefore more land managers are interested in managing watersheds that include beavers or engaging in beaver-related restoration projects. We evaluated the utility of applying an existing beaver habitat suitability model to better understand beaver dam site characteristics in coastal Oregon, identify optimum dam site locations, and guide future beaver-related restoration efforts. We used a combination of t-tests, Wilcoxon rank sum tests, and a stepwise discriminant function analysis to examine stream habitat associations with field data collected at known and [...]

Methods to Predict Beaver Dam Occurrence in Coastal Oregon (Petro et al, 2018)2022-06-28T13:41:01+00:00

Landslides Drive Variability in Valley Width & Increase Connectivity of Salmon Habitat in the Oregon Coast Range (Beeson et al, 2018)

2022-06-28T13:42:29+00:00

Declines in populations of Pacific salmon have prompted extensive and costly restoration efforts, yet many populations are still in peril. An improved understanding of landscape-scale controls on salmon habitat should help focus restoration resources on areas with the greatest potential to host productive habitat. We investigate the contribution of deep-seated landslides (DSLs) to Coho Salmon habitat by comparing the quantity and connectivity of potential seasonal habitat observed in five streams with extensive DSLs to five lacking significant landsliding. Further, we measure valley width in these streams and relate it to connectivity. We show that median fractions of stream length [...]

Landslides Drive Variability in Valley Width & Increase Connectivity of Salmon Habitat in the Oregon Coast Range (Beeson et al, 2018)2022-06-28T13:42:29+00:00

Modeling Potential for Beaver Habitat to Inform Restoration & Climate Change Adaptation (Dittbrenner et al, 2018)

2022-06-28T13:44:06+00:00

Through their dam-building activities and subsequent water storage, beaver have the potential to restore riparian ecosystems and offset some of the predicted effects of climate change by modulating streamflow. Thus, it is not surprising that reintroducing beaver to watersheds from which they have been extirpated is an often-used restoration and climate-adaptation strategy. Identifying sites for reintroduction, however, requires detailed information about habitat factors—information that is not often available at broad spatial scales. Here we explore the potential for beaver relocation throughout the Snohomish River Basin in Washington, USA with a model that identifies some of the basic building blocks [...]

Modeling Potential for Beaver Habitat to Inform Restoration & Climate Change Adaptation (Dittbrenner et al, 2018)2022-06-28T13:44:06+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
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