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Norris Woods - Buckthorn Abatement
Location: Kane County, IL Updated: November 14, 2008
Organization: Kane County Primary contact: Bob Snodgrass
The Kane County Forest Preserve has initiated a county wide project to remove invasive plant species. I plan on having some workday events to remove buckthorn from the Norris Woods
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.
Dennis Creek WMA grassland establishment
Location: Cape May County, NJ Updated: July 29, 2009
Organization: Conserve Wildlife Foundation of NJ Primary contact: Ben Wurst
The fields inside Dennis Creek Wildlife Management Area are leased by the NJ Division of Fish and Wildlife to local farmers for production of food crops that have no benefit to wildlife. By converting these actively farmed fields to an early successional habitat type, it will create valuable habitat for migratory songbirds and small game birds by providing food and cover. Early successional habitat types include native warm-season grasses. These grasses grow during warm summer months and form small tight “bunches” of grass. The “bunches” or clumps are more valuable to wildlife for the cover that they provide. During summer months many grassland birds nest amid these clumps and in winter the grasses remain upright and can shelter small mammals and birds during heavy rains and snow. Wildlife and their young can easily move in between the tall grasses more easily to find prey and to escape from prey. Warm season grasses also provide food (from the grasses themselves) and from the invertebrates that are attracted to them. Warm season grasses can also survive severe droughty periods and need little maintenance once established. There is also little to no need for pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers, unlike typical farm crops which require much more input once established. Some species that utilize grasslands are the Bobolink, Savannah sparrow, Grasshopper sparrow, Eastern Meadowlark, Field sparrow, Vesper sparrow, Northern bobwhite, Wild turkey, and other small game birds. This project adds essential habitat for migratory birds and other wildlife. The design of this project maximizes the site for use by wildlife and people for outdoor recreation, wildlife viewing and environmental education.
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.
Weeman Bridge Side Channel Restoration
Location: Okanogan County, WA Updated: July 01, 2009
Organization: neighbors Primary contact: Damon Hess
The side channel that runs around the Weeman Bridge on the upper Methow River has been degraded to the point of no longer supporting fish habitat due to a Highway 20 culvert that is too small and too high off of the channel floor. Our group of 4 property owners has agreed to restore the channel to support spawning and rearing habitat for ESA listed Bull Trout, Steelhead, and Chinook salmon.