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    LOWER KLAMATH WATERSHED DIVISION:

 

Jerry Jackson surveying habitat on the beautiful Crecent City Fork of Blue Creek.A primary goal of the Yurok Tribal Fisheries Program is to restore habitats in the Lower Klamath WatershedAndrew Antonetti setting up a total station survey on High Prairie Creek. to levels that support viable, self-sustaining populations of native anadromous fish.  The role of the Lower Klamath Watershed Division is to monitor and assess fisheries populations and their habitats; identify factors currently limiting salmonid production; and integrate past and present data to further develop and implement the Lower Klamath Restoration Plan.  Monitoring projects include outmigrant trapping in Hunter Creek (1996-2001), Terwer Creek (2001-2005), McGarvey Creek (since 1997) and Blue Creek (since 1995); spawning surveys in Blue Creek (since 1995); regional and single stream juvenile coho salmon abundance surveys; pathology monitoring in the lower river and estuary; and monitoring juvenile salmonid use, prey availability, and water quality of the estuary.  Current research and restorationScott Gibson releasing a tagged Chinook salmon during Blue Creek spawning surveys. planning projects include a study of winter ecology of juvenile salmonids in the lower Klamath River; life history monitoring of salmonids in McGarvey Creek; and historic and current geomorphic and hydrologic assessments of several off-estuary tributaries, the South Slough of the estuary, and lower Blue Creek.  Stream and riparian restoration projects are currently ongoing in Terwer Creek, McGarvey Creek, and Tectah Creek. 

Our Division is led by Senior Biologist Dan Gale with the support of a team of talented biologists and fisheries technicians. Team members include Dan Gale - Senior Fisheries Biologist/Division Lead , Hans Voight - Senior Fisheries Biologist, Ben Laukka - Delmer Jordan incorporating large wood into willow revetment baffles in lower Terwer Creek.Fisheries Biologist II, Dave Weskamp - Fisheries Biologist II, Sarah Beesley - Fisheries Biologist II, Andrew Antonetti - Fisheries Biologist, Carl Anderson – Fisheries Biologist, Aldaron McCovey - Fisheries Technician III, Delmer Jordan - Fisheries Technician III, A. J. Webster – Fisheries Technician II, Steve Nova Jr. – Fisheries Technician II, Dwayne Davis – Fisheries Technician I, Nick Folkins - Fisheries Technician I, Daniel Nova - Fisheries Technician I, and Robert Grubbs - Fisheries Technician II.

 

 

 

 

Delmer Jordan and Oscar Gensaw III conducting beach seine sampling in Klamath estuary.Private commercial logging and road network in Terwer Creek during 1980s (photo credit KRIS Klamath).

Oscar Gensaw III and Scott Gibson placing large wood in a lower Klamath tributary. Scott Gibson installing a ground water monitoring well in lower Terwer Creek.Lower Blue Creek floodplain.Chris Peters during Blue Creek fall Chinook salmon spawner surveys.