The NCWA Has Completed Their Strategic Plan Posted September 16, 2008
The Plan is the culmination of 10 months of hard work
by the NCWA Board of Directors and will be the organization's
guiding document for the coming years.
NCWA Donates Logs to Habitat Restoration
Posted September 7, 2008
The North Coast Watershed Association collected over 60 logs
after the December, 2007 storm. Forty-five of the logs were
donated to the Columbia Land Trust, who used the logs on a
restoration project in the summer, 2008.
The NCWA will likely be receiving additional grant funds this
winter to collect blowdown and use the trees to provide beneficial
habitat for multiple species, including juvenile salmon.
The Big Creek Enhancement project in the Nicolai-Wickiup Watershed
is complete! This restoration project involved replacing 2
culverts with rail car bridges and raising the logging mainline
in order to divert the creek back to its historic channel.
Restoring the channel eliminated a velocity barrier that was
blocking fish passage to upstream spawning and rearing habitat.
This project has reopened at least 3 miles of high quality
coho habitat, and approximately 8 miles of steelhead and cutthroat
habitat on Big Creek.
