This project will remove a concrete barrier on jenny creek and restore fish passage

The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $154,000 Project Grant to Trout Unlimited, Inc. under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608) to remove a concrete barrier on Jenny Creek and restore fish passage. This work will support the ongoing removal of four major dams on the Klamath River, which will provide over 400 miles of restored habitat for anadromous salmonids like coho salmon, Chinook salmon, steelhead trout, and Pacific lamprey. The project goal is to regrade the stream bed and remove the concrete dam to renew fish passage on Jenny Creek, which is projected to have some of the best habitat in the hydroelectric reach of the Klamath River for these key fish species. The award period runs from March 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026.

The klamath river renewable corporation is in the process of removing four major dams: iron gate DAM, copco 1 DAM, copco 2 DAM and J.C. Boyle DAM, in the hydroelectric reach on klamath river. Once the dams are removed, anadromous salmonids will have access to over 400 miles of historic habitat. This includes the tributary of jenny creek which is projected to have some of the best habitat in the hydroelectric reach for coho salmon (oncorhynchus kisutch), chinook salmon (oncorhynchus tshawytscha), steelhead trout (oncorhynchus mykiss irideus) and pacific lamprey (entosphenus tridentatus). The project goal is to remove the concrete DAM and regrade the stream bed to renew fish passage on jenny creek.