The CC 38 project is located on privately owned property along catherine creek downstream of union, oregon the property is currently managed as an operating farm and ranch, with much of the historic…

The CC 38 project is located on privately owned property along catherine creek downstream of union, oregon the property is currently managed as an operating farm and ranch, with much of the historic floodplain being in HAY and pasture production the channel through the 1,600 foot project reach is moderately confined with a floodplain width of 67 feet, a sinuosity of 1 19, and a stream gradient of 0 5 proposed conceptual actions are intended to increase both summer and over wintering habitat conditions for juvenile salmonids favrot and jonasson 2014 found one pool within the project reach contained the largest amount of overwintering juvenile chinook in the catherine creek basin and also found that a second pool in the reach had the next highest but lacked a large wood component in addition, they identified that juvenile chinook in the reach were primarily associated with small transient wood owning to the lack of stable large wood in the reach this project is designed to enhance aquatic habitat conditions for key salmonid and other native fish species in five pools with large wood placement, promote native riparian plant establishment and survival, and decrease erosion and mass wasting of stream banks to achieve these outcomes project actions will be implemented to reduce stream bank slope angles, enhance existing pool habitat and promote deep pool development, increase instream channel complexity and cover, and improve the riparian vegetation community specific construction actions will place approximately 206 pieces of large woody material, 200 pieces of smaller racking wood, and 52 boulders in 20 locations throughout the project reach riparian vegetation species will be planted throughout the reach at locations based on site specific soil and hydrology conditions where survival is expected to be high project construction is planned for the summer of 2022