Promoting recovery of badly burned watershed, determine how best to perform effective, timely restoration and collection of thermal infrared, high resolution, and natural color orthoimagery on over 11…

The Bureau of Land Management's Oregon-Washington office awarded Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers, Inc. a $256,980.43 cooperative agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act program (CFDA 15.234) from June 2023 through June 2028. Through this award, Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers will provide natural resource management and watershed restoration services to promote recovery from the devastating Archie Creek Fire in Oregon. Specific deliverables include determining the best approach for effective and timely restoration, collecting thermal infrared, high-resolution, and natural color orthomagery over 11 miles of Rock Creek, and continuing 3 more years of summer stream reference temperature monitoring. The work will restore and maximize natural production of salmon, steelhead, trout and lamprey species by restoring channel morphology, reconnecting floodplains, and rehabilitating aquatic habitat damaged by the fire.

Promoting recovery of badly burned watershed, determine how best to perform effective, timely restoration and collection of thermal infrared, high resolution, and natural color orthoimagery on over 11 miles of rock creek. Long-term summer stream reference temperature monitoring to collect and analyze three more years of data for this project, and the expanded north umpqua analysis, continuing a well-used project aiding in science-based management in the umpqua basin. Restore and maximize the natural production of coho salmon, steelhead, cutthroat trout and pacific lamprey. Restore channel morphology and reconnect the floodplain. Restore and rehabilitate the aquatic habitat after the devastating archie creek fire that killed between 80 to 100 of the riparian vegetation and trees.