Huckleberry Creek Coho Refugia Project

This project will add 32 structures containing 95 pieces of large wood (LW) to Huckleberry Creek. Large wood structures will be installed along a 1.2-mile reach of Huckleberry Creek and will be composed of redwood and Douglas fir logs, whole trees, and logs with root wads, anchored to live trees along the stream banks. This project will provide habitat to coho salmon and steelhead, which have been documented in the project reach. Additionally, 200 redwoods and 50 native shrubs will be planted in the riparian zone along the project reach.

The project will directly benefit salmonids by increasing pool area and depth, increasing shelter complexity, sorting substrate for spawning habitat, increasing the frequency of side channel and flood plain inundation, capturing large and small wood, and providing velocity refugia during high flows.