Making Space for Salmon at Finn Rock Reach
Floodplain restoration work at Finn Rock Reach more than doubles available spawning ground for Spring Chinook Salmon.
Reflections on 10 Years at CARP
By Liz Lawrence This article is about the Coburg Aggregate Reclamation Project or CARP, purchased by the McKenzie River Trust in 2010. To learn more about CARP, visit our property profile. Being a mother, I see things differently now. What was a restoration project is now a destination. What was a pond is now a…
Planting Trees for a Healthy Future
Restoring the floodplain on Green Island means planting hundreds of thousands of trees.
Green Island: A Floodplain In Restoration
Learn about the restoration work that took place this summer where the Willamette and McKenzie Rivers come together.
Surprises in the Ponds
Before you can even see them, the turtles know you’re there. As you walk towards the ponds, you hear soft plops and see rings in the water. Western pond and western painted turtles escape quickly into the water from their sunbathing perches. Once they realize you are not a predator, they cautiously stick their heads…
‘Safe Harbors’ for native fish
This is part of a series about the MRT members who have played a part in the incredible comeback of Oregon chub. In the coming days and weeks, we’ll share more stories of MRT members who aided the recovery. Gail and Eric Haws “The chub seems like such an insignificant little creature,” MRT member Gail…
The importance of healthy floodplains
Because of members like Art and Anita Johnson, we’ve helped Oregon chub recover.
The little fish that we’d never noticed
George Grier and Cynthia Pappas protected their land in 1992. They didn’t know then that they would play a critical part in the recovery of Oregon chub.
Oregon chub makes a comeback
Because of members like you, an Oregon native makes a comeback It was the early 1990s. Like many of our native fishes, the Oregon chub was in trouble. Chub lived their lives in the moist backwater channels and sloughs of the Willamette Valley’s lush rivers and streams. But those streams had fewer and fewer rich…
Oregon chub makes history
A small minnow native to the Willamette Valley is the first fish proposed for removal from the Endangered Species List due to recovery.