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Watershed Scale Habitat Restoration of Lower Klamath Tributaries
Rocco Fiori (Fiori GeoSciences) & Sarah Beesley (Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program)
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Contributors
• Rocco Fiori – Engineering Geologist/Operating Engineer, Fiori GeoSciences • Sarah Beesley – Fisheries Biologist, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
• Aldaron McCovey - Fisheries Technician, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
• Steven Nova - Fisheries Technician, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program • Robert Grubbs – Fisheries Technician, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
• Scott Silloway – Fisheries Biologist, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
• Andrew Antonetti – Fisheries Biologist, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
• Walter Mecklenburg – Fisheries Biologist, Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program
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Thanks To Funding Partners, Landowners and Cooperators
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife
• Green Diamond Resources Company
• Yurok Tribe Watershed Restoration Dept.
• Yurok Tribe Environmental Program
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Discussion Topics
Complementary wood loading & off-channel construction techniques in 2nd to 5th Order Streams
Bank Based Jams Bar Apex Jams Stumps Off-Channel Features
Biologic Hot Spots
Tributary Confluences Pre-existing Side Channels & Wetlands Springs Beaver Activity
Wood loading & augmentation applied until natural recruitment supplies wood needed to restore geomorphic function and self-maintaining habitat requirements
Long Term Approach
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Hyporheic Exchange Mechanisms and Function
Redd Site Selection and Spawning Habitat Used by Chinook Salmon. From: Geist & Dauble (1998).
Geomorphic Controls on Hyporheic Exchange. From: Wondzell & Gooseff (Pre-Print).
Influence of Subsurface Structures on Hyporheic Exchange. From: Ward et al. (2011).
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Project Locations
Terwer Creek DA = 31 mi2
McGarvey Creek DA = 8.9 mi2
Klamath Estuary
Hunter Creek DA = 23.8
mi2
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Hunter Creek Watershed
Site 1
Site 2
Site 3 Site 4
Site 5
Site 6
Site 7
Homes
Bridges
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Hunter Creek Watershed
BAJ & BBJs
BBJs
BAJs, BBJs & Stumps
Alcove & Side Channel
Side Channels
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Hunter Creek Site 1
Pre-Construction As-Built
BAJ 1
BBJ
Side Channel
Alcove BAJ 1
BAJ 1
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Hunter Creek Site 1
Hunter Creek
Side
Channel
Alcove
BBJ
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Hunter Creek Site 4
Tributary
Confluence
Construction 2012
As-Built 2012
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Hunter Creek Site 4
As-Built 2012
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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Hunter Creek Site 4
As-Built 2012
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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Hunter Creek Site 7 - BAJ 1
First flows 2014
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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Hunter Creek Site 7 BAJ 2, BBJs & Stumps
BBJ BBJ
Stump BBJs
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Hunter Creek Site 7 BAJ 2
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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BAJ 3
BRJ 1
BAJs 4 & 5
BAJ 6
Hunter Creek Site 7 BAJs and BRJ
As-Built 2014
First flows 2014
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Hunter Creek BAJ 3 - Chaos Jam
Pre-Project 2012
Construction 2012
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Hunter Creek BAJ 3 - Chaos Jam
As-Built 2014
First flows 2014
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Hunter Creek BAJ 3 - Chaos Jam
5-yr RI flood 12/21/14
1.2-yr RI flood 2/07/15
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Hunter Creek Site 7 Bank Based Jams
Digger Log & Stump
Bar Roughness
Jam
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Hunter Creek Site 7 - BAJ 4, 5 & 6
Hyporheic fed side channel
BAJ 4
BAJ 5
BAJ 5
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Hunter Creek Site 7 BAJ 6
As-Built 2014
First Flows 2014
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Post 5-yr RI Flood WY15
Hunter Creek Site 7 - BAJ 6
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Hunter Creek Site 7 – PADR 1 & 2
As-Built 2014
Pre- Construction 2014
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Hunter Creek Site 7 – PADR 1 & 2
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Hunter Creek Site 7 – PADR 1 & 2
First Flows 2014
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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Hunter Creek Site 7 – PADR 1 & 2
First Flows 2014
Post 5-yr RI flood WY15
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Terwer Creek
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Terwer Creek
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ELJ 1
Alcove B
Crib
Wall
Jam
Alcove A
Willow
Baffles
Terwer Creek
Integrated Use of ELJs, Alcoves & BioEngineering
ELJ 2
ELJ 3 ELJ 4
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ELJ 1 - Post-
Construction
2 Years Post-
Construction
Flow
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ELJ 1
ELJ 1
Terwer Creek First Winter
Post-Project
Side Channel
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Next Steps
Valley Sidewall
Valley Sidewall
Flow
Valley Sidewall
Valley Sidewall
VALLEY FLOOR MANAGED AS TRANSPORTATION & FLOOD CORIDOR
ECO-HYDRAULIC FUNCTION DISRUPTED BY FLOODPLAIN ROADS, LEVEES AND OTHER LAND USES
VALLEY FLOOR MANAGED AS FLOODPLAIN
RELOCATE ROAD
DISEMCUMBER THE CHANNEL MIGRATION ZONE
BEAVER AS LEAD-ENGINEER
Road
Road
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Salmon Need Wood – We Need Salmon
Thank You
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Off Road Vehicle Impacts