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Lower Ohop Restora.on: The Past is the Future

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Lower  Ohop  Restora.on:  The  Past  is  the  Future  

     “We  surveyed  down  the  Valley,  which  was  flooded,  and  some.mes  we  would  get  into    beaver  dams  and  in  water  up  to  our  armpits.    •  …….AFer  living  in  the  Ohop  Valley  for  a  year,  I  told  my  wife  that  I  supposed  we  had  made  a  mistake  as  I  couldn’t  see  how  we  could  get  rid  of  the  floods,  as  every  .me  we  had  a  liKle  rain,  the  valley  would  be  under  water.  She  said  she  was  sorry  if  we  had  to  leave  and  asked  if  it  wasn’t  possible  to  turn  the  water  of  the  main  creek  some  other  way.    

•  ….That  made  it  possible  for  us  to  farm  in  the  Valley,  and  we  have  recently  blasted  a  new  channel,  straightening  the  creek  through  the  Valley  where  it  was  crooked,  so  that  now  a  flood  is  an  excep.on  in  place  of  a  rul.”  

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Toger  Peterson  

2009:  Phase  I  Kick-­‐off  

Fish  Out  

•  8/10  mile  new  channel  

•  Over  40  log  jams  for  salmon  habitat  

•  65,000  plants  installed  

Phase  3:  Burwash  Property,  2014-­‐15  

Tacoma  News  Tribune  

Tacoma  News  Tribune  

Outcomes  •  2.4  miles  new  channel  =  50%  Increase  in  stream  habitat  

•  Over  1,000  logs  placed  as  habitat  •  ~10,000  organisms  moved  and  counted  

•  >75,400  trees/shrubs  installed  since  2009    •  ~200  acres  preserved  in  perpetuity  •  Funding  and  partnerships  from  at  least  15  organiza.ons