Brush bundles for instream fish habitat restoration installed on Graveyard Creek (Bad River Indian Reservation), Ashland County, Wisconsin, in August. - FWS photo by Ted Koehler

Brush bundles for instream fish habitat restoration installed on Graveyard Creek (Bad River Indian Reservation), Ashland County, Wisconsin, in August. - FWS photo by Ted Koehler

The Graveyard Creek Channel Restoration Project was accomplished by restoring, enhancing and protecting instream fish and wildlife habitat and riparian areas on Graveyard Creek.

Historic logging and associated beaver activity due to the unnatural abundance of young forest altered the channel of Graveyard Creek causing and excessively braided condition which degraded the habitat for native brook trout. 

The habitat restoration and enhancement was performed by incorporating and installing brush bundles and other instream fish habitat structures into the stream channel stabilization.  This will restore the stream to its historic channel and reduce erosion into Graveyard Creek and Lake Superior. 

This project benefits brook trout and other aquatic species on Graveyard Creek which is a located on the Bad River Indian Reservation in Ashland County, Wisconsin and is a tributary of Lake Superior. 

The Bad River Tribe, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Ashland Fishery Resources Office Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program partnered on the project.