McLoughlin Falls 2010

Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Acquisition

Project ID	10-1861 A
Recovery Domains	Upper Columbia River
Start Date	12/10/2010
End Date	07/31/2014
Year	2010
Status	Completed
Last Edited	05/01/2025

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Description

The McLoughlin Falls project acquired fee title ownership priority parcels in this last-best reach of the Okanogan River. The highest priority ownership contains approximately 165 acres of floodplain, riparian, lowland, and upland habitats, with over 1.46 miIes of undeveloped shoreline, off-channel habitats, wetlands, old growth ponderosa pine and riparian vegetation.

The project protects this area from residential and agricultural development that would have extensive negative impacts to the near pristine conditions that existed, particularly on the first priority parcel. These off-channel features provide key habitats for many fish and wildlife species, including neotropical migratory songbirds, amphibians, anadromous fish and wetland mammals. This project supports landscape-scale cooperative conservation efforts in North Central WA. The land is currently subdivided and road access exists.

Project Benefit

The goal of this project is to aquire165 acres of floodplain, riparian, lowland, and upland habitats, with over 1.1 miles of undeveloped shoreline, off-channel habitats, wetlands, old growth ponderosa pine and riparian vegetation. This will benefit adult and juvenile salmon by having natural habitat forever.

Accomplishments

Metric

Completed

Originally
Proposed

Land Acquisition

Acres Acquired or Protected

165.8

171.0

Stream Bank Miles Acquired
or Protected

1.56

2.10

Source

Funds

State

$500,000

Other

$427,028

Report Total:

$927,028

Worksites

1-McLoughlin Falls - Last Bes

Worksite Identifier: 1-McLoughlin Falls - Last Bes
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Area Description

No Area Description data was found for this worksite.

Location Information

Basin: Upper Columbia (170200)
Subbasin:
Watershed:
Subwatershed:

State: Washington
Recovery Domain: Upper Columbia River
Latitude: 48.58719341
Longitude: -119.49154639

ESU

Upper Columbia River Spring-run Chinook Salmon ESU
Upper Columbia River Summer- and Fall-run Chinook Salmon ESU
Upper Columbia River Steelhead DPS

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Metrics

C.0 Salmonid Habitat Restoration and AcquisitionY (Y/N)
- . . C.0.a Habitat restoration and acquisition funding 927,028.00
- . . C.0.b Length of stream treated/protected 1.46
- . . C.0.c
  Project identified in a Plan or Watershed Assessment
  
  Upper Columbia Salmon Recovery Plan
- . . C.0.d.1 Project Monitoring (LOV)
- . . C.0.d.2 Monitoring Location (LOV)
- . . C.10 Land or Easement AcquisitionY (Y/N)
  - . . . . C.10.a Land acquisition funding 927,027.77
  - . . . . C.10.b Habitat treatments applied (LOV)
  - . . . . C.10.c.1 Acquisition or lease of land, wetland or estuarine area for conservationY (Y/N)
    - . . . . . . C.10.c.2 Type of acquisition to protect habitat (LOV)
    - . . . . . . C.10.c.3 Type of property protected (LOV)
    - . . . . . . C.10.c.4 Date of expiration of protection12/31/9999 (mm/dd/yyyy)
    - . . . . . . C.10.c.5 Miles of streambank protected by land or easement acquisition 1.56
    - . . . . . . C.10.c.6 Acres of land, wetland or estuarine area acquired 165.8