Trout Stream & Habitat Improvement Projects
2001 - 2002
One Fly and Trout Unlimited Embrace-A-Stream Partnership
The Board of the Jackson Hole One Fly Capital Foundation voted this year to
team up with National Trout Unlimited to sponsor six
Embrace-A-Stream Projects throughout the United States. The One Fly
donated $50,800 which was 50% of the total cost of the projects.
The Embrace-A-Stream sponsored partnership projects include: • The habitat restoration of Kettle Creek in Pennsylvania.
• The habitat restoration of Pilkey and Leconite Brook Trout in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park, North Carolina and
Tennessee.
• The reconstruction of Schuyler Falls Channel in Lake Champlain,
N.Y.
• The re-introduction of Coaster Brook Trout to Lake Superior,
Michigan.
• The habitat restoration of the Goshutes River in Nevada for the
benefit of the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout.
• The habitat restoration of the South Fork of the Platte River,
Colorado for the benefit of the rainbow trout. This alliance with National Trout Unlimited will benefit first of
all the trout; it also recognizes that the One Fly has participation
and support from 35 states and it reinforces the One Fly mission.
Wyoming Game & Fish Jackson Hole Spring Creek Spawning
Rehabilitation This major project represents years of work with private land owners
to gain permission to redo old and establish new spawning beds on 6
miles of Jackson Hole's historically most productive spring creeks.
Just possibly, many years ago, 25 to 30 percent of the Snake River's
Cutthroat population came from the Spring Creek spawning system. The
goal is to bring the streams back to their spawning potential. Costs
were determined in early 2000. This is a long term project. STREAM IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS 2001 - 02
Spawning Distributions of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout $7,000. The second year of a project to study spawning of
Yellowstone cutthroat and rainbow trout in the Gardner to Livingston
MT areas.
Sheridan Creek Restoration $5,000. Will re-establish hydrologic and habitat capacity of Sheridan
Creek. This creek flows into Island Park Reservoir and at one time
provided an excellent rainbow trout fishery.
Trout Creek Project $5,000. Irrigation diversions will be redesigned in order to
minimize fish loss which occurs under current irrigation practices.
Trout Creek is a tributary of the North Fork of the Shoshone River
in Wyoming.
Pritchard Boat Launch Toilet $13,000. Design and install a vault toilet system built from more
than 80% recycled material. The system will be designed at Montana
State University and located at the Pritchard access on the Snake
River.
Movement of Cutthroat Trout in Snake River Headwaters $19,750. Using implanted telemetry transmitters, this project will
follow movement of cutthroat over one year. The data will help study
how populations of trout move and interact.
South Fork Watershed Project $50,000. Fund part of a large project through Trout Unlimited to
help restore habitat on four separate tributaries of the South Fork
of the Snake in Idaho: Pritchard Creek, Garden Creek, Indian Creek,
and the East Fork of Fall Creek.
Fleshman Creek / Mayors Landing Restoration Project $22,300. Restore spawning and riparian habitat along the Mayors
Landing section of a small channel of the Yellowstone River in
Livingston MT, also develop an interpretive center.
South Park Bridge Access Biologic Assessment $3,000. Provide matching funds to proceed with one aspect of the
Environmental assessment of the proposed changes in the Snake River
access at South Park Bridge.
West Branch Cutthroat Trout Protection Barrier Reconstruction
Project $10,000. Improve an existing barrier to protect Colorado cutthroat
trout from competition from non-native trout on the North Fork of
the Little Snake River in southern Wyoming. STREAM IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS 2002 - 2003
Yellowstone and Snake River Cutthroat Distribution Mapping $18,516. Document geographic distribution of Yellowstone and Snake
River Cutthroat Trout in the Snake River headwaters through
inventories of 1500 miles of streams between Palisades Reservoir and
Jackson Lake Dam. Data will be used to development management
options to avoid ESA listing the species as threatened. |
