Title
Blackfoot Watershed Revegetation Assessment
Abstract
The Blackfoot River Watershed has benefited from a long history of cooperative partnerships involving federal, state, and county agencies, local conservation organizations, landowners, and other stakeholders committed to solving problems and reaching common goals. The successful restoration of key fisheries and their associated riparian areas within the watershed is one such goal.
In order to improve water quality and enhance bull trout and west slope cutthroat trout fisheries in Blackfoot tributaries, the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited has partnered with area landowners, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Blackfoot Challenge, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , among others, to fund and implement several area stream restoration projects.
This assessment summarizes eight revegetation projects implemented in the Blackfoot River Watershed between 2005 and 2008. We gather background information for each project, identifying species lists, seed sources, container sizes, plant material suppliers, and soil and hydrological site conditions by project. We report on revegetation methods and techniques employed on each project, and summarize ongoing project maintenance programs. During the 2009 field season we tabulated revegetation species survival, established project photo points, evaluated the various revegetation techniques and surveyed the general site conditions and responses following project implementation.
This comprehensive document takes an in depth look at these restoration efforts, specifically focusing on success rates of the revegetation component of each project. Finally, with this evaluation we can make effective recommendations that will help guide partners involved in future restoration efforts within the Blackfoot River watershed and beyond its boundaries.
Start Date
5-3-2010 12:00 PM
End Date
5-3-2010 2:00 PM
Document Type
Poster
Blackfoot Watershed Revegetation Assessment
The Blackfoot River Watershed has benefited from a long history of cooperative partnerships involving federal, state, and county agencies, local conservation organizations, landowners, and other stakeholders committed to solving problems and reaching common goals. The successful restoration of key fisheries and their associated riparian areas within the watershed is one such goal.
In order to improve water quality and enhance bull trout and west slope cutthroat trout fisheries in Blackfoot tributaries, the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited has partnered with area landowners, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Blackfoot Challenge, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service , among others, to fund and implement several area stream restoration projects.
This assessment summarizes eight revegetation projects implemented in the Blackfoot River Watershed between 2005 and 2008. We gather background information for each project, identifying species lists, seed sources, container sizes, plant material suppliers, and soil and hydrological site conditions by project. We report on revegetation methods and techniques employed on each project, and summarize ongoing project maintenance programs. During the 2009 field season we tabulated revegetation species survival, established project photo points, evaluated the various revegetation techniques and surveyed the general site conditions and responses following project implementation.
This comprehensive document takes an in depth look at these restoration efforts, specifically focusing on success rates of the revegetation component of each project. Finally, with this evaluation we can make effective recommendations that will help guide partners involved in future restoration efforts within the Blackfoot River watershed and beyond its boundaries.