Floodplain Enhancement

The Calapooia-Willamette confluence has been widely identified as providing valuable and dynamic off-channel and floodplain habitat that is consistently inundated during winter months. The lower Calapooia is important as a migration corridor for anadromous winter steelhead, spring Chinook salmon, and Pacific lamprey. Winter steelhead and spring Chinook salmon must pass through the lower and middle portions of the watershed on their way to spawning grounds in the upper watershed