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Oregon Conservation Projects

	OREGON PROJECT RESTORES STREAM HABITAT FOR TROUT OREGON PROJECT RESTORES STREAM HABITAT FOR TROUT If you walk along the stream banks of Oregon’s Cavitt Creek, you will see numerous logs, rootwads, and boulders in the stream. Take and closer look and you might see cutthroat trout, winter steelhead, and coho salmon using the stream structures as necessary habitat. The logs and other objects were placed in the stream as part of a project supported by Wildlife Forever. More than 80 new stream habitat improvement structures were installed, dramatically improving spawning and rearing conditions for fish that use the stream. Earlier logging operations in the region had reduced the water and habitat quality of the stream. Biologists surveyed the stream and targeted the areas to receive the new structures, then volunteers placed the structures and secured them with steel cables.
	FORAGE PROJECT BENEFITS BIG GAME SPECIES Wildlife Forever helped provide quality forage for mule deer and California bighorn sheep that occupy the lower Deschutes River canyon and adjacent uplands in northern Oregon by reclaiming an abandoned wheat field. The 130-acre field was an overgrazed pasture when the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife acquired the property in 1983. This seeding provided an attractive, high-quality food source to keep deer and sheep off adjacent private lands. The project area is heavily used by mule deer, as well as bighorn sheep, which were introduced to the area in 1993.
	MEMBER'S SUGGESTION LEADS TO WETLAND RESTORATION As an outdoor enthusiast and long time member of Wildlife Forever, Ron Stone had a problem. Really it was Oregon's problem but Ron took it personally. Winter rains had caused a "disastrous flood". The wildlife area of Sauvie Island was hit hard, destroying a variety of water control structures and with them 2,000 acres of wetlands crucial to migratory birds. Ron first contacted Wildlife Forever. Then he contacted the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife conveying Wildlife Forever's willingness to help. The project included construction of a 100-foot by 8-foot high earthen dam, 80 feet of culvert along with various water controls, repair of an existing pump station plus the addition of a second pump station. Thanks to Ron's efforts and the support of Wildlife Forever members, nearly 2,000 acres of wetlands were restored and enhanced.
	9,300 ACRES PROTECTED AND RENOVATED You were a part of an Oregon project that purchased and improved a 9,300-acre parcel that supports black-tailed deer, elk, grouse wild turkey, eagles and many other species. The project was a joint effort of Wildlife Forever and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. The property was owned by the Mountain Fir Lumber Company and is located east of Mount Hood in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. After the purchase was completed, the land was replanted with 600,000 ponderosa pine seedlings and 5,000 pounds of forage seed. The project successfully met its goals of improving the winter range for deer and elk, protecting 35 miles of riparian zones, protecting steelhead and trout spawning grounds plus increasing opportunities for recreational use by the public.