1. Lolo Creek Watershed Project # 199607702
Nez Perce Tribe Fisheries Watershed Program

2. Lolo Creek is located in Central Idaho within the Clearwater River
Sub-basin.
Land ownership is a matrix of federal, private and state.

3. Partners Clearwater National Forest Potlatch Corporation Inc.
State of Idaho
Private Grazing Lessee

4. Lolo Creek Connectivity between DFRM Programs
Watershed Restoration
Production
Research & Monitoring
Cultural Importance

5. Funding Bonneville Power Administration
NOAA Fisheries – Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (CRITFC)
Potlatch Corporation
Clearwater National Forest
State of Idaho
North Central Idaho Resource Advisory Committee

6. Limiting Factors Temperature Sediment In-stream cover
Watershed disturbances
(logging/grazing/roads)
Habitat degradation (habitat loss)
Passage

7. Objectives Coordination (cooperators/ESA consultation/permits/SHPO)
Restore/enhance riparian and in-stream habitat
Restore connectivity/passage
Alleviate sediment associated with roads
Monitoring and Evaluation

8. Accomplishments
Cost-sharing with CNF, Potlatch Corp., and State of Idaho
15 miles fence construction (25,000 acres/ 6 miles stream protected)
Over 50 miles road obliterated
Eight culvert replacements & 4 culvert removals
300-feet bank stabilization
Riparian Planting/Re-vegetation
Culvert Inventory, Survey, and Prioritization

9. Cattle Exclusion Fence

10. Riparian Plantings

11. Streambanks Before Stabilization

12. Streambank Bioengineering
Youth Conservation Corps

13. Road Surveys

14. Road Decomissioning

15. Culvert Inventory & Survey

16. Culvert Inventory & Replacement Prioritization
86 surveys
12 bridges
12 passable structures
10 sites with no structure
12%
14%
14%
60%

17. Burnt Creek Log Culvert Removal Before & After

18. Cedar Creek Culvert Replacement

19. Cedar Creek with Grade Control in Culvert – 2003

20. Cedar Creek Outlet August 2004

21. Monitoring Snorkeling Temperature Stream Habitat Road Obliteration
Culverts

22. The Future Culvert Replacements Road Decommissioning
Habitat Enhancement
Riparian Re-vegetation
Streambank Stabilization