This project is located along several biologically important riparian reaches in the upper klamath basin the project area riparian reaches and surrounding areas were burned over in the 2021 bootleg…

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the Klamath Watershed Partnership doing business as Klamath Watershed under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631). The award will fund riparian habitat restoration activities along streams impacted by the 2021 Bootleg Fire in Oregon. Specifically, the recipient will plant 1,800 acres of native trees along selected riparian reaches to stabilize soils, minimize erosion, provide fish and wildlife habitat, and enhance aquatic habitat. Plantings will add structure and shade to streams while future large woody debris recruitment is expected to improve conditions for native fish species such as Lost River suckers. The work directly supports the program's goal of voluntarily conserving fish and wildlife through partnerships with private landowners and tribes. All work will be completed by July 2027 in Klamath Falls, Oregon.

This project is located along several biologically important riparian reaches in the upper klamath basin the project area riparian reaches and surrounding areas were burned over in the 2021 bootleg fire most of the shrubs and or trees in the riparian areas we are targeting were killed in the wildfire the objectives of this project are to stabilize riparian areas, streambanks, and soils by planting native trees in selected riparian areas that were impacted by the bootleg fire trees will add strength and stability to riparian area soils, will help to minimize soil erosion, and will help keep streambanks intact as trees grow, they will provide fish and wildlife habitat, shade, and future large woody structure to the streams future large woody structure in streams will eventually enhance fish habitat by creating complexity in the areas minimizing erosion will protect water quality and benefit aquatic habitat within the treated reaches and even downstream species likely to benefit from this project are resident native fish including endangered lost river deltistes luxatus and shortnose suckers chasmistes brevirostris , redband trout oncorhynchus mykiss gairdnerii and bull trout further, many species of riparian dependent and neotropical birds, pollinators, and other shrubby riparian habitat dependent species are likely to benefit from this project E G yellow billed cuckoo and monarch 1800 acres of riparian planting will be done