Restore and Protect Newsome Creek Watershed

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Restore and Protect Newsome Creek Watershed

• Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries Watershed Program
• BPA Project 20003500

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Location
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Fish Species Present

• Spring Chinook Salmon
• Steelhead
• Bull Trout
• Westslope Cutthroat Trout
• Several other fish species including
• Long nose dace, suckers, sculpin, and whitefish

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Limiting Factors

• Sediment
• Natural sediment loading and/or elevated sediment
  loading from undefined and defined sources
  (roads, mines, etc.)
• Habitat Degradation
• Riparian or instream habitat loss or disturbance
• Watershed Disturbance
• Upland disturbances such as mining, timber
  harvest, and roading. Also includes
  sedimentation resulting from defined upland
  sources (i.e., roads)
• Connectivity
• All forms of population fragmentation including
  physical, chemical, or thermal barriers.

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Limiting Factor Sediment

• Forest Service Road 1832

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Limiting Factor Habitat Degradation

• Tailing piles from dredge mining

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Limiting Factor Watershed Disturbance

• Overview of some logging activity within the
  watershed.

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Limiting Factor Connectivity

• Culvert with a fish passage problem.

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Project Objectives

• Alleviate sediment input and potential from road
  sources.
• Perform monitoring and evaluation of road
  decommissioning/road improvements.
• Design rehabilitation for the upper channel
  reaches affected by past dredge mining.
• Improve fish passage and alleviate potential
  culvert problems.
• Disseminate information about work in the
  watershed.

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Project Accomplishments

• Haysfork Glory Hole
• Road Inventories
• Newsome Creek Watershed Improvement Project
• Newsome EAWS

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Clearwater Subbasin Summary Needs Applicable to
this Project

• Reduce stream temperature, sediment, and
  embeddedness.
• Protect and restore riparian and instream habitat
  structure
• Protect, restore, and create riparian, wetland,
  and floodplain areas.
• Reduce road densities through closures,
  obliteration, and reduced construction.
• Complete culvert inventory and assess associated
  passage and flow issues.

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Desired Results of Watershed Restoration in
Newsome CreekIncreased Fisheries Habitat!!
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