Protect and enhance coldwater fish habitat on private lands in the Umatilla River basin in a manner that achieves self-sustaining salmonid populations and their associated habitat by utilizing natural stream functions to the fullest extent. Target species: Summer Steelhead and Redband Trout. Through riparian leases.......construct 4 miles of livestock exclosure fences and associated stream crossings on two miles of stream in the Birch Creek watershed impacted by grazing. Use natural channel design/implementation techniques and aggressive revegetation to create naturally stable channels along stream reaches that have been destabilized by reach specific and watershed-wide impacts. Implement techniques to create naturally stable channel forms on two miles of stream in the Birch Creek watershed. Collect ?reference reach? data (per Rosgen 1996) from streams along the west slopes of the Blue Mountains and other areas of similar hydro-physiographic characteristics to support the development of natural channel design projects.
