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Watershed Management and Restoration
The restoration of watersheds and forest health is one of our core management objectives. To achieve this goal we strategically invest in watershed improvement projects and conservation practices at the landscape and watershed scales. Past management activities have disrupted ecological processes, resulting in degraded fish habitat and water quality in localized areas across the Forest. In addition, climate change is projected to alter stream temperature, snowpack, and flow regimes of streams with potential consequences to physical watershed processes, infrastructure, Threatened and Endangered Salmon and Steelhead, and other native aquatic species.
Impacts to watershed health due to past management practices, as well as vulnerabilities to climate change, are actively addressed through the adoption and implementation of comprehensive aquatic conservation strategies that work to restore watershed processes in riparian areas to aid in the recovery of federally listed fish and to improve water quality.
Gifford Pinchot National Forest managers have identified priority watersheds for active restoration based on resource values, feasibility of improving watershed conditions through focused restoration projects, and strong ongoing partnerships and restoration projects.
Watershed Restoration Action Plans for Priority Watersheds:
- Yellowjacket and Camp Creek-Cispus River Subwatershed Restoration Action Plan (2022)
- Highlights:
- Cispus River-Yellowjacket Creek Restoration Project - Phase I is the first of a series of planned stream restoration projects in the Camp Creek-Cispus River and Yellowjacket Creek priority subwatersheds.
- Camp Creek Aquatic Organism Passage Upgrade will improve hydraulic capacity of the crossing to reduce potential failure.
- Highlights:
- Headwaters Wind River Subwatershed Restoration Action Plan (2021)
- Trout-Trapper Subwatershed Restoration Action Plan (2018)