CALFED: Almanor Ranger District Lassen National Forest CalFed Watershed Improvement
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Presenter: Ken Roby, U.S. Forest Service, Lassen National Forest
Length: 2 Parts, 30 min 50 s
Topics:
Part 1
- Almanor Ranger District Lassen National Forest Calfed Watershed Improvement
- Overview
- Historical Background
- Importance of Anadromous Fish
- Land and Resource Management Plan
- Impetus for Change- PACFISH
- Pacfish EA Cover
- Focus Shifts to Fish
- About the Watersheds
- Map
- The Sacramento River
- Lassen Peak
- Foothills
- Transition From Oak to Conifers
- Conifers Toward Foothills
- Deer Creek, Upper Watershed
- About the Watersheds
- Partnerships
- Deer Creek Watershed Management Plan
- Developing Partnerships is Critical
- Planning and Analysis
- Road Inventory Conducted in 1996
- Road Inventory Report
- Roads primary source of erosion
- Crossing failures primary source of erosion
- Road Erosion rates seven times higher on rhyolite than other soils
- Watershed Analysis
- WA looked at historic conditions
- WA compared historic and current conditions
- WA Identified important watershed processes
- Lassen Peak eruption from Red Bluff
- Important Issues and Questions
- Cultural Importance
- Foothill Yellow Legged Frog
- Spotted Owl
- Eastern Tehama Deer Herd
- Recreational Fishing
- Timber Management
- Historic condition of fisheries
- Watershed Analysis: Rhyolitic Soils
- WA: Disturbance
- Roading by decade, Deer Creek watershed
- Watershed Assessment: Conclusions
- WA: Aquatic Resources
Part 2
- Spring run chinnok salmon
- Confluence of Issues
- WA Recommendations
- WA Improvement Recommendations
- Road Inventories and Engineering Evaluations
- Deer Creek Watershed Map
- Building the Foundation- Road Analysis Process
- Outcomes
- Establishing Priorities: Watershed Scale
- Map of Location of the 5 Watersheds
- Decision Made to Apply Watershed Improvements...
- Establishing Priorities: Sub-Watershed Scale
- Location of priority subwatersheds
- Establishing Priorities: Site Scale
- Treatment of near stream road (decommissioning)
- Example of gully resulting from stream diversion
- Treatment of stream diversion gully
- Roads not needed for long-term management are priority for decommissioning
- Funding Opportunities (on the Lassen NF)
- California Bay-Delta Authority
- Calfed Projects
- Results of CalFed Funding
- Implementation
- Failed crossing before treatment
- Failed crossing after treatment
- Diversion Potential dip and armoured overflow
- Road surfacing and outsloping
- Metal end section
- Decommissioned Landing
- Accomplishments
- Monitoring
- Monitoring is Multi-Scale
- In-Channel monitoring (particle counts)
- Grate on culvert drop inlet
- Primary Benefits of Monitoring
- Lessons Learned
- Summary- Accomplishments