Completed: 2025
Contractor: Complete Brush Cutting LLC
Partners & Funders: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Stimson Lumber, Lewis & Clark Timberlands, Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Private Landowner
Louie, Baxter, and Horn Creeks are waterways in the Nestucca River Watershed that are important spawning and rearing habitat for ESA-listed Oregon Coast Coho Salmon. One of the primary limiting factors to the recovery of OC Coho is a lack of stream complexity, which these large wood structures aim to replace. This project implemented 58 large wood structures, improving over 2.5 miles of stream habitat.
Completed: 2025
Contractor: Staton Forestry
Partners & Funders: The Private Forest Accord, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Cascade Pacific Resource Conservation & Development, The Nature Conservancy, US Fish & Wildlife, South Beach Road Association, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Trout Unlimited, Salmon SuperHwy, US Forest Service
Sutton Creek is located in the Neskowin Watershed in Tillamook County and passes through private and Forest Service lands. This creek has pristine spawning and rearing habitat for salmonid species, including the Oregon Coast Coho. This project addressed two failing culverts along South Beach Road, which acted as barriers to fish passage and posed flooding risks to the residents. The watershed council, alongside our partners, successfully replaced both culverts with bridges, greatly opening up the channel for aquatic organisms and reducing flood risks to the community. This project opened up about 0.5 mile of habitat for aquatic organisms, including coho, cutthroat, lamprey, and giant pacific salamanders.
Completed: 2022
Contactor: Jones Excavating
Partners & Funders: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, North Coast Land Conservancy, Private Landowners, NNSLWC
Butte Creek is a small sub-basin that drains the hills east of Neskowin, immediately north of Cascade Head in Tillamook County. The original wooden bridge was deteriorating and being undercut and fish passage impaired by high flows. It was replaced with a 40 foot railcar bridge. This project improves fish access to 1.5 miles of spawning and rearing habitat.
Completed: 2022
Contractor: Coastway Construction
Partners & Funders: Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Private Landowner, Salmon SuperHwy, NNSLWC
Alder Creek is an important tributary of Three Rivers, a major tributary of the Nestucca River. The original culverts were near complete barriers for Coho, Chinook, Steelhead, and Lamprey. It was replaced with a 25.5 foot multi-plate aluminum box culvert. This project improves fish access to more than 1 miles of spawning and rearing habitat (and more with future upstream project at Hwy 22).
