Trout Stream & Habitat Improvement Projects
1993 - 1999
1993: Gros Ventre River Stream Improvement Project with the Forest
Service, a $3,000 donation.
1995: Wilson Bridge Ramp and Restroom Project, a $3,000 donation.
1995: More spring creek riparian wetlands and spawning fencing
protection (Swan Valley, Idaho).
1995: Lower Rainey Creek and other South Fork tributaries. More fish
habitat-improvement structures (Swan Valley, Idaho).
1995: Lamb Springs Spawning improvement project (tributary to Snake
River Canyon) with Trout Unlimited.
1995-96: Three years of funding the Greys and Little Greys rivers
stream-structure project (Alpine, Wyoming).
1996: $6,000 Rainey Creek Spawning Improvement Project - project with
Idaho Falls Upper Snake River Trout Unlimited and Idaho Fish & Game.
1996: $7,400 Spawning Improvement and Rainbow Separation - Structures
constructed to hinder spawn of rainbows to cutthroats. Gravel was
laid to improve spawning beds. Record-breaking floods of 1997
destroyed the project.
1997: $40,000 for projects in Montana. Paradise Valley's Yellowstone
drainage was funded. There is still $20,980 more available for
Montana stream projects.
1997: Six-Mile Creek - joint project with the U.S. Forest Service and
Trout Unlimited, Joe Brooks Chapter in Montana. To improve pool
habitat for juvenile and adult trout and increase the amount of
spawning through habitat improvement.
1997: $17,000 matching grant to help fund first-ever replanting of
native fish into the Gibbon drainages in Yellowstone. Other groups
matched our donation.
1997: $5,300 to the U.S. National Fish Hatchery on Flat Creek to
help with a project designed to improve the quality of water leaving
the hatchery and returning to Flat Creek.
1997: Additional funding to construct permanent signs for the youth
fishing site in North Park in Jackson. These signs educate youth
about cutthroat trout.
1998: Montana: Redo spawning beds after 1997 flood destroyed major
spawning habitat at Depuy's Spring Creek.
1998: Yellowstone Whirling Disease Study funded.
1998: Contributed to the native cutthroat trout education display
and Wild Trout Conference at Yellowstone International Federation of
Fly Fishers Center.
1998 Project
Jackson Hole One Fly spearheads park stream project.
It started as a vision of Wyoming Game and Fish biologists Ralph
Hudelson and John Kielfing more than 20 years ago: A project to
restore a beautiful spring damaged by a former fish-rearing
operation.
At one time, the Bar-B-C spring creek probably spawned 20 percent of
our valley's Snake River cutthroat. But spawning ceased because of
severe siltation and habitat
damage during the 1920s and '30s.
Restoring the stream would be a major contribution to the future of
trout fishing in the valley. The main catch would be that the creek
lies within the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park. Park
guidelines, which aim to leave things in their natural state, do not
allow for stream-improvement projects to enhance fisheries.
Even though the damage occurred long before the land was sold to the
Park Service, and was exacerbated by the Jackson Lake Dam, the idea
of earth-moving equipment to repair it was initially unacceptable to
park officials. Bureaucracy reared its ugly head, turning a positive
effort into 20 years of stalling.
Renewed effort combined the forces of Superintendent Jack Neckels
and Wyoming Game and Fish representatives, as well as those of Jay
Buchner from Trout Unlimited and Dr. Dennis Butcher and Jack Dennis
of the One Fly Capital Foundation.
In 1996, the One Fly helped fund the National Park Service Snake
River Study Project, which identified this creek as an example where
stream improvement efforts could correct man-caused problems.
Permission for the project was granted.
Finally, in 1997, the first of a series of improvements was
completed and analyzed. It will be accomplished in stages, to test
each improvements viability and answer concerns about wetlands.
There are more fish spawning in the Bar-B-C spring creek, which will
help ensure that our cutthroat will continue to thrive in Grand
Teton National Park!
Conservation Grants and Projects
Lambs Spring Project
$5500 to continue our commitment to Lambs Spring Spawning Habitat
project we joined with the U.S. Forest service to replace and
improve a culvert to increase water flow so that more spawning fish
will move upstream to spawn.
U.S. Forest Service Cutthroat Habitat Project Survey
$8455 While the One Fly doesn't usually fund studies or surveys
unless they relate to a stream improvement project, this survey will
help the Stream Improvement Committee find new projects in our
region. The survey will identify problem areas and help us work
towards future projects with the cutthroat trout.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Elk Refuge & Hatchery's Flat Creek Project
$6500 for the following projects:
Multi-purpose Pond Water Control Structure
Removal of Diversion Structure
Kiosk Whirling Disease Education
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