Little Sawmill Creek Restoration

Salmonid Restoration Planning and Assessments

Restoration Planning And Coordination
Project ID010 16 SA
Recovery DomainsSnake River
Start Date07/02/2017
End Date09/18/2018
Year2016
StatusCompleted
Last Edited01/25/2024
 
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Description    


This project funded final engineering and design, cost estimating, and environmental compliance work for restoration work to provide juvenile salmon and steelhead rearing habitat within the footprint of a historic calving and feedlot area on Little Sawmill Creek and Indian Springs. This project provided designs to improve 0.3 miles of fish bearing stream and encompassed 5.8 acres.

Indian Springs is a tributary to Little Sawmill Creek, which is a tributary to the Lemhi River. This watershed contains ESA-listed Chinook Salmon in the Lemhi River Population in the Salmon River MPG of the Snake River spring/summer Chinook Salmon ESU and ESA-listed steelhead in the Lemhi River Population in the Salmon River MPG of the Snake River steelhead DPS.

The project received implementation funding through PCSRF project 009 17 SA and was implemented in fall 2018.

Project Benefit    


The design produced from this project will provide plans to screen diversions to prevent entrainment of fish in ditches and will improve riparian habitat and instream diversity in a Priority 1 watershed as designated in the NMFS proposed recovery plan for restoration of ESA-listed Chinook Salmon and steelhead.

Accomplishments

Metric Completed Originally
Proposed

Funding Details

SourceFunds
PCSRF$23,776
Other$24,818
Report Total:$48,594


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Worksites

Little Sawmill Creek    


  • Worksite Identifier: Little Sawmill Creek
  • Start Date: 06/02/2017
  • End Date: 09/30/2020
Area Description
The project area is within the Salmon Subbasin, Lemhi 4th field HUC # 17060204 and the Little Sawmill Creek Watershed

Location Information

  • Basin: Salmon (170602)
  • Subbasin: Lemhi (17060204)
  • Watershed: Upper Lemhi River (1706020405)
  • Subwatershed:
  • State: Idaho
  • Recovery Domain: Snake River
  • Latitude: 44.848122
  • Longitude: -113.620943

ESU

  • Snake River Spring/Summer-run Chinook Salmon ESU
  • Snake River Basin Steelhead DPS

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Metrics

Metrics
  • B.0 Salmonid Restoration Planning and AssessmentsY (Y/N)
    •      . . B.0.a Planning And Assessment Funding 48,594.00
    •      . . B.0.b.1 Area Encompassed 5.8
    •      . . B.0.b.2 Stream Miles Affected .30
    •      . . B.1 Restoration Planning And CoordinationY (Y/N)
      •      . . . . B.1.a Planning and Coordination funding 48,594.00
      •      . . . . B.1.b.11 Engineering/design work for restoration projectsY (Y/N)
        •      . . . . . . B.1.b.11.a
          Name of plan implemented
          National Marine Fisheries Service. 2017. ESA Recovery Plan for Snake River Spring/Summer Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
        •      . . . . . . B.1.b.11.b
          Description and scope of the plan implemented
          The project implemented as designed by this project will align with the following priority actions: Appendix C Idaho Management Unit Plan, Section 5.4 – 234 (Upper Salmon River MPG, Lemhi Chinook Salmon Population) Priority Action: Improve riparian habitat conditions, thus restoring natural riparian area processes and functions and improving instream conditions. Appendix C Idaho Management Unit Plan, Section 6.3 – 221 (Salmon River MPG, Lemhi steelhead population) Priority Action: Improve riparian habitat conditions, thus improving instream conditions.