Project goal is protecting and enhancing habitat for ESA-listed steelhead spawning and rearing and bull trout utilization. Current bull trout study being facilitated by WDFW will provide updated and expanded data information as assessment progresses, which will allow for adaptive management application. This project has been designed to address limiting factors as identified through WCC Salmon and Steelhead Habitat Limiting Factors Water Resource Inventory Area 32 Walla Walla Watershed and NPPC Walla Walla Subbasin Summary. Implementation will address limiting factors and provide benefits to multiple fish life stages by enhancing streambank roughness and stability, reducing erosion impacts to spawning gravel while enhancing riparian and floodplain recovery and increasing pool and habitat (LWD) complexity, utilizing random boulder and LWD placement. Project complements passive restoration efforts occurring throughout the basin with 13 CREP CRP 1s (234.9 ac) and four CRP 2s (76.1 ac) in place. Project location is within steelhead and bull trout multi-life cycle usage areas as identified in the two processes identified above; maps included.
