Upper Watershed Restoration Action Plan PDF Download

Restoration of the Sandy River basin is a high priority for federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as various non-profit organizations. In 2004, a collaborative stakeholder group known as the Sandy River Basin Working Group (SRBWG is a core group of the Sandy River Basin Partners1 ) convened to identify disproportionally important habitat (anchor habitat) within the Sandy River basin that is important for the persistence and restoration of federally listed salmon and steelhead populations. Many of the partners in the SRBWG had already been working together through the 1999 Sandy River Basin Agreement. The effort to identify anchor habitat resulted in the publication of “Salmon and Steelhead Conservation: An assessment of anchor habitat on the Sandy River, Oregon” published by Oregon Trout (SRBWG 2006). The Upper Sandy 6th field watershed, including the Sandy River, Lost Creek, Clear Fork and Muddy Fork was rated as one of the highest priority subwatershed in the Sandy River basin for recovery of wild stocks of threatened Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and winter steelhead by the interagency Sandy River Basin Partners. Restoration in the Still Creek watershed, another high priority subwatershed, will be successfully completed in 2019 by a collaborative effort within the Sandy River Basin Partners.