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

How Value Conflicts Infected the Science of Riparian Restoration for Endangered Salmon Habitat the Pacific Northwest (Chapman et al, 2020)

2022-06-28T13:44:20+00:00

Conservation policy relies on input from science, yet scientists are often frustrated by the ‘gap’ between their recommendations and policy decisions. In this paper we examine one such ‘gap’: how a long-standing conflict of values functioned to ‘infect’ the synthesis and application of riparian science for salmon habitat restoration projects. We do this by analysis of a policy debate over the required minimum width of riparian buffers in voluntary conservation programs on agricultural lands in the Puget Sound region of Washington State. Based on an analysis of expert interviews and document analysis, we first outline the key features of [...]

How Value Conflicts Infected the Science of Riparian Restoration for Endangered Salmon Habitat the Pacific Northwest (Chapman et al, 2020)2022-06-28T13:44:20+00:00

Identification of Historical Populations of Coho Salmon (NOAA, 2020)

2022-06-28T13:45:49+00:00

In 2003 the Oregon Workgroup (Workgroup) of the Oregon Northern California Coast Technical Recovery Team (TRT) convened to review and analyze information that could shed light on historical populations of Oregon Coast coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch). This document presents the preliminary conclusions of the Workgroup. A historical perspective describing how these populations functioned is an important first step in assessing the viability of present-day populations, in developing delisting criteria, and as an overall recovery strategy. VIEW PDF

Identification of Historical Populations of Coho Salmon (NOAA, 2020)2022-06-28T13:45:49+00:00

Ecological Effects of Tide Gate Upgrade or Removal (Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, 2018)

2022-06-28T13:40:31+00:00

This document reports on findings, conclusions and recommendations derived from scientific literature and knowledge regarding the effectiveness of tide gate removal or upgrade in improving conditions for Oregon’s native migratory fish species, particularly salmonids, and other plant and animal species that utilize estuarine ecosystems. The project was commissioned by the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) to foster better understanding of the effectiveness of their past investments in estuary habitat restoration involving tide gates, and to aid in targeting future investments. This will be especially important because many less-complicated projects (e.g. those on public land, smaller, single-action projects, those with [...]

Ecological Effects of Tide Gate Upgrade or Removal (Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, 2018)2022-06-28T13:40:31+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
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