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Fisher - Martes Pennanti
Location: Douglas County, OR Updated: January 03, 2010
Organization: Project Wilderness Primary contact: Dominic Aiello
Historically the fisher inhabited from British Columbia to California. Preferred resting and den areas generally coincide with late-successional coniferous and mixed coniferous-deciduous forest. High forest canopy closure or multiple canopies and shrubs. Areas supporting diverse prey base are most used. Dens & rest sites are generally used in large diameter trees, large snags, tree cavities, and logs. To sum it up, they prefer forest which have the characteristics similar to old growth forest. Terry Farrell, Oregon Fish & Wildlife assistant wildlife biologist in Roseburg is quoted stating he estimates there are less than 100 fishers total in Oregon. Those are in thanks to reintroductions in 1961, 1977 and 1981, when fishers were taken from British Columbia and Minnesota and released in Oregon forests to help control porcupine damage to timber. However very little to no tracking was done to track population growth or success of reintroduction. In 2003 Keith Aubrey & Jeffery Lewis wrote an article; “Extirpation and reintroduction of fishers in Oregon”. In this article they researched sightings of fishers throughout Oregon. Categorizing the reliability of sightings with a number value of 1 to 6, one being the highest reliability (photographic data or trapped fisher) and 6 being the lowest (visual sighting only, no tangible evidence). Rankings 1 through 4 are then mapped. The highest volume of reliable reports came from the two populations in Southern Oregon. However reliable sightings are also mapped in or around Joseph, Tillamook and Mount Hood. Then research was done on any previous surveys, which, is greatly limited. The largest areas in Oregon surveyed included those where the 2 known populations call home. Which of course received positive identification of fishers habiting the area. No real data has ever been taken from other parts of the state. Leaving these couple questions open; Are the populations in Southern Oregon growing, declining or stagnant? Have fishers from Southern Oregon expanded to new areas? Are their unknown populations of fishers in other parts of the state? These and many other questions Project Wilderness would like to answer. We have submitted our initial proposal to receive authorization to formally assess the status of the fisher within Oregon.
Pony Creek Habitat Restoration
Location: Coos County, OR Updated: November 14, 2009
Organization: Cape Arago Audubon Society Primary contact: Eric Clough
The Cape Arago Audubon Society (CAAS) has initiated invasive species removal and native species planting to restore habitat at North Bend School District property that was previously the site of a wetland mitigation project under DSL. The mitigation efforts started ~1996 were abandoned and weeds had taken over. This is estuarine wetland habitat in the urban area of North Bend. As work progresses CAAS plans to expand our restoration efforts to other properties along Pony Creek.
Mt. Pisgah Habitat Management Plan
Location: Lane County, OR Updated: July 08, 2009
Organization: Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah Primary contact: Chris Orsinger
This project will draw from a variety of resources and data to forge a consensus on habitat conservation strategies for the 2,300-acre Howard Buford Recreation Area (HBRA, aka Buford Park), managed by Lane County Parks Division. We will draft a park-wide Habitat Management Plan that identifies conservation targets, conservation strategies and high priority habitat enhancement projects at HBRA, the largest public ownership within OCS Conservation Opportunity Area: WV-03a Mt. Pisgah Area.
Lambert Bend Stakeholders
Location: Yamhill County, OR Updated: March 02, 2009
Organization: DOGAMI- Mineral Land Regulation and Reclamation Program Primary contact: E. Franks Schnitzer
The Lambert Bend Stakeholder Group was formed in July 2004 and is a coalition of farm operators/landowners, gravel miners, and local, state and federal agencies. The group formed over a common concern regarding the future of the Lambert Bend meander on the Willamette River at river mile 64.5 through 62.5. The stakeholders are committed to the development of a river and floodplain management plan compatible with local geomorphic and hydraulic conditions. The Oregon Plan model of cooperation and voluntary actions to protect, enhance, and restore aquatic habitats and their watersheds has been adopted by the stakeholders. The project would primarily take place within a 220 acre NRCS Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) easement where farming no longer is allowed. This project could provide a unique opportunity to remove a channel revetment and create off-channel habitat diversity. Channel bank erosion and bank retreat has been an on-going problem for decades. It began soon after the cessation of channel maintenance dredging. Yamhill County Improvement District No. 1 has worked to find a solution to the loss of farmland. As of 1995, the Yamhill County SWCD reported that the annual loss of soil at Lambert Bend was 80,000 tons/year and the Oregon Department of Agriculture estimated that this site contributed 60 percent of the soil erosion from the Willamette River channel banks between Corvallis and the confluence with the Yamhill River. This erosion trend is continuing. As of 2005, Yamhill County SWCD has measured the loss of 55.4 acres of farmland. At an average depth of 25 feet this erosion equals a loss of over 2.2 million cubic yards or about 223,000 truckloads of soil. Upstream alterations and the cessation of maintenance dredging over the last three decades have gradually allowed Lambert Bar to grow into a large alluvial feature, which is now controlling river behavior. This feature is over 20 feet tall and has closed over 50 percent of the active Willamette River channel. The bar has forced the river to erode the left (or west) river bank in order to supplement river conveyance capacity. The 1996 flood and subsequent high flows across farmland at the Lambert Bend meander has initiated a large “head cut” feature consisting of a 25-foot eroded wall that has progressed approximately 1000 feet in an upstream direction commencing at river mile 62.1. Although this process occurs naturally in unconstrained dynamic river systems, this headcut formation is the result of man’s activities upstream. Initial group objectives were completed in 2005. They were: 1) to complete temporary stabilization work to slow down meander cutoff formation and 2) to collect channel and floodplain data to better understand how current conditions developed as they relate to river behavior and future geomorphic trends. This work was completed by donations of time, money, equipment, and resources by members of the stakeholder group. The stakeholders are not suggesting the resurrection of maintenance dredging and do not consider this a viable solution to the channel instability. However, they do view this as an opportunity to re-think the abandonment of channel maintenance by development of alternate strategies in the form of a river and floodplain management plan. The stakeholders have identified the following components that should be included in the river management plan: ◊ Abate current erosion of high value Class I and II soils; ◊ Reshape and revegetate vertical channel banks; ◊ Enhance both local and regional sediment transport conditions so that sediment conveyance is improved through the meander and additional sediment storage sites are developed above and below the meander; ◊ Enhance and stabilize the Lambert Bend cutoff as an alcove for fisheries and as a flood conveyance channel. Identify other locations where the river can be reconnected to its floodplain and as such provide locations for sediment storage; ◊ Develop an integrated hydrologic control plan for downstream mine ponds. Connect two or more of the floodplain mine ponds to the channel to provide winter refugia for migratory fish and for floodwater conveyance; and ◊ Evaluate removal of Finnicum (Freshour) Dike at RM 64.25 and restoration improvements at Lambert Bar, each of which will provide additional channel complexity and habitat improvements. ◊ Complete a geomorphic, hydraulic and sediment transport analysis through the Lambert Bend project area. Use the results of the analyses to develop final designs and design solutions to enhance, restore and rehabilitate this river reach to current and anticipated future conditions.
Mahony Bar
Location: Marion County, OR Updated: January 27, 2009
Organization: DOGAMI- Mineral Land Regulation and Reclamation Program Primary contact: E. Frank Schnitzer
The Mahony Bar project is a proposal to extend and enhance an existing alcove at river mile 66 on the Willamette River. The existing alcove will be enhanced by placing Large Woody Debris (LWD) at the entrance to the channel to encourage localized scour and limit sediment deposition. The alcove extension was developed to connect the existing natural alcove to an abandoned floodplain excavation which currently strands fish. Fish ingress/egress to additional shallow floodplain ponds located above the alcove extension will be connected to the project by removal of soil berm left by miners.