Assessing the Response of Streams to Contemporary Forest Practices: A Conference on Paired Watershed Studies
Luckiamute Watershed Council
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345 N MONMOUTH AVE WOU
MONMOUTH, OR 97631 luckiamute.watershedcouncils.net
Coordinator: Nicole Duplaix nicole.duplaix@oregonstate.edu
The Council meets the second Thursday of each month at 7pm at the Volunteer Hall in Monmouth.
The Luckiamute River Log Placement Project placed 171 large trees by helicopter in a 2.6-mile reach of the river to create structural complexity. This Council project benefits an endangered terrestrial habitat as well as an endangered fish species. The Council incorporated an educational component into the project by coordinating with the local high school biology teacher, who designed a term project around the wood placement project. Salmon spawning and rearing habitat is enhanced by the creation of 42 log structures. Juvenile fish and endangered amphibians were observed during a 2006 monitoring visit.
This is a red-legged frog in the Luckiamute River headwaters photographed while monitoring a log placement project in June 2006.