Bowers Rock Impromptu Planting! Habitat Restoration Program Manager, Cris Salazar & Executive Director, Collin McCandless have been planting at Bowers Rock State Park.Thanks to last minute plants that were available, they planted 300 Black Cottonwood, 50 Twinberry, and 50 Red Flowering Currants!Thanks to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and One Tree Planted!
Cris, our Habitat Restoration Program Manager has been finishing up the Environmental DNA Monitoring report from our specimen collection data results and findings.The project aimed to determine the presence of Upper Willamette River Chinook in the mainstem Calapooia River through environmental DNA sampling.This population of Chinook salmon was listed as Threatened under the Endangered Species[…]
Visit the project page One of the CWC’s biggest projects of 2022 was the Upper Calapooia Steelhead Habitat Enhancement. After a couple of years’ delay, in July 2022 several full sized trees with rootwads attached were successfully placed into the upper Calapooia River to improve habitat conditions for ESA-listed winter steelhead. The added instream complexity[…]
Habitat Restoration Updates Riverbank Lupine, seeded 2018 This spring, the Habitat Restoration Program has been busy making site visits to many of our projects to monitor the health of newly planted native tree and shrubs. The program is actively restoring native vegetation communities and controlling noxious weeds on 105 acres of riparian and 147 of[…]
Habitat Restoration Program Manager Cris Salazar and R. Franco Restoration spent President’s Day out in the field, where despite the wind and heavy rain, 10,000 native plants were successfully planted along the banks of the Calapooia River and Brush Creek to enhance and rebuild healthy riparian buffers! Many thanks to OWEB and PG&E for supporting[…]
Adaptation and flexibility; the ingredients of success.. and this year has required more than a just little of both from all of us. When pandemic measures first began here in March, even with so many unknowns, few of us expected to find ourselves in the ongoing challenges and devastations for the rest of 2020. On[…]
The CWC staff are now in week ten of working from home. Although this is not how we are used to working “together”, we have started to settle into this new arrangement with the acceptance that for now, this is the new “normal”. No, not business as usual… but definitely business, as you will see[…]
