This project is a collaboration between the yurok tribe and the arcata partners for fish and wildlife program to restore one mile of lower AH PAH creek, a tributary to the lower klamath river near…

This $106,755 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 will support stream habitat restoration along one mile of Lower Ah Pah Creek near Klamath, California. The Yurok Tribe will collaborate with the Arcata Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program to enhance stream and floodplain habitat through activities such as completing environmental and cultural compliance, physical monitoring, and reconfiguring impaired areas to increase floodplain connectivity and groundwater recharge. Structural elements like wood accumulations will be added to improve riparian habitats and promote self-sustaining physical and biological processes. The project aims to reduce stream velocities and channel incision while increasing habitat complexity and floodplain connectivity. Overall goals are to improve spawning and rearing conditions for native salmonids and lamprey. Funded under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), this cooperative agreement will deliver the Department of the Interior's priorities by supporting voluntary conservation efforts with private landowners and Native American tribes.

This project is a collaboration between the yurok tribe and the arcata partners for fish and wildlife program to restore one mile of lower AH PAH creek, a tributary to the lower klamath river near klamath, california this project will enhance stream and floodplain habitat within reaches of the mainstem and south fork AH PAH creek to improve ecosystem function project activities include completing environmental and cultural resource compliance requirements, conducting physical monitoring, and creating low velocity stream and wetland habitat by reconfiguring impaired habitats to increase floodplain connectivity and ground water recharge, adding structural elements wood accumulations , and improving riparian habitats to promote beneficial self maintaining physical and biological processes this will be the first phase of stream enhancement to be implemented and work conducted will include development of future restoration designs objectives for the AH PAH creek project include reducing stream velocities and channel incision, increasing habitat complexity and floodplain connectivity, and monitoring restoration performance to apply lessons learned to future phases the overall goal is to improve spawning and rearing conditions for native salmonids and lamprey by installing roughness features complex wood jams, post assisted log structures and reconnecting and or expanding floodplains this process based, phased approach should facilitate long term formation and maintenance of productive fisheries habitats and support vital biological processes