PROJECT SUMMARIES

1. Big Mountain Wetland Delineation
2. Teton River Restoration and Irrigation Diversion Retrofit
3. Ashley Creek Watershed/Riparian Assessment
4. Lower Swift Creek Restoration
5. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project
6. Watershed Assessment, Whitepine Creek - MT
7. Forest and Environmental Management Plan - MT
8. Monitoring Endangered Species Act (ESA) Fish Species During Road Construction / Reconstruction Implementation-ID
9. Flathead River Erosion Control Demonstration Project - MT
10. The Petrig Land Stewardship and Watershed Restoration Project.
11. Stream Stability Fluvio-Geomorphic Assessment and Restoration, Clear Creek and Big Creek - MT
12. Stream Channel Rehabilitation - Dunham Creek, MT
13. Channel Dynamics and Stream Stability Assessment and Rehabilitation; Elk Creek(Noxon) - MT
14. Wetland Construction Feasibility Study - Olson Coulee, MT
15. Channel Dynamics Evaluation, and Streambank and County Road Reconstruction Design - St. Regis River, MT
16. Watershed Assessments - ID
17. Fluvio-Geomorphic Fish Habitat Variables Assessment; Rock Creek near Noxon, MT
18. Channel Dynamics and Streambank Stability Evaluation - Yellowstone River and Clark Fork River, MT
19. Geomorphic and Aquatic Habitat Survey on 48 Pristine Reaches
20. Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Population and Habitat Evaluation - Nevada
21. Yellowstone Pipeline Proposed Emergency Repair Evaluation - MT
22. Riparian Vegetation Restoration, Clear Creek - MT

    Client: Lolo National Forest

    Clear Creek has been severely disturbed by logging, grazing, mining and channel modifications. Watershed Consulting was contracted to provide a watershed vegetation restoration plan that includes: general revegetation guidelines, plant materials recommendations and procurement options, on-site vegetation restoration techniques, and comprehensive and site-specific riparian restoration plans. Recently, spring floods worsened as the flashy nature of the stream was amplified by the collective influences mentioned. The result was a stream with unstable banks, an enormous bed load, and a high width to depth ratio. The revegetation potential along recently reconstructed portions of Clear Creek was extremely low. The primary factor limiting plant establishment and growth was a lack of soil fines, creating excessively well drained soils, and an associated lack of soil moisture and plant available nutrients. Common restoration techniques such as planting seedlings and willow cuttings have limited use on this site. In response, Watershed Consulting created and implemented a riparian vegetation restoration plan that called for a variety of unique and innovative techniques. The primary goal for the vegetation component of the Clear Creek Restoration Project was substrate stabilization, especially at reconstructed point bars and root-wad revetments. Other goals include stream shading, wildlife habitat, and the restoration of ecosystem function. One tactic used to deal with this site was the construction of bio-engineering structures designed to decrease future bed-loads and stabilize gravel bars. These structures, called brush bars, were constructed on flood plains and point bars to stabilize a gravelly substrate, trap silt, and create a site for natural seedling establishment. Brush bars increase in strength and effectiveness over time. Brush bars are built with small trees or large limbs, and then willow, dogwood or cottonwood rooted cuttings are planted within the bar. The bars are securely anchored to the gravel substrate by incorporating rocks and gravel into the base of the bundle, and then tieing the remainder of the bundle to the base.

    Personnel involved:
    Mark Vander Meer - riparian restoration design and implementation
    Steve Buckley - fluvial geomorphology
    Igor Suchomel - hydrology
    

    Contact: Steve Dagger, Lolo National Forest, Plains, MT (406) 826-4315

23. Biological Evaluations, Clearwater River Drainage - ID
24. Stream Habitat Inventories for Selected Blackfoot Tributaries - MT
25. Streamflow Measurements, NW Montana
26. Assistance to Montana Conservation Districts
27. Monitoring Plan Development and Implementation: St. Clair Creek, Sapphire Mountains, MT
28. Channel Design for Bridge Reconstruction - O'Brien Creek, MT
29. Channel Trends Analysis and Channel Rehabilitation Design - Therriault Creek, MT
30. Self-Cleaning Flat-Plate Fish Screen Design, Manufacture and Installation
31. Design of Channel Fish Bypass Ladders for Irrigation Dams, Douglas Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
32. Alternative Irrigation Diversion Structure and Fish Screen Design and Installation, Salmon Creek, Big Blackfoot River Drainage - MT
33. Large Irrigation Diversion Structure Evaluation and Design, Sun River near Fort Shaw - MT
34. Infiltration Gallery Diversion Design and Installation, Mol Heron Creek near Corwin Springs - MT
35. Evaluation and Geomorphic Stability Analysis of Six Diversion Structures, Teton River upstream of Choteau - MT
36. Evaluation of Czech Republic Geomorphic Stream Classification System - Czech Republic
37. Mineral Property Evaluations - Sierra Madre, Chihuahua and Sinaloa States, Mexico
38. Property Evaluation- Bolivian Altiplano, South America
39. R1/R4 Fisheries Habitat Assessment
40. Development and Implementation of Water Quality Montioring Plan
41. Moose Fire Rehabilition Fisheries Biologist and EA, EIS Preparation
42. Proposed Goat/Squeezer Timber Sale -Fisheries Biologist Preparation of EIS
43. Feasibility Assessment and Design of Spawning Habitat for Rainbow Trout