Master Agreement for Timber Operations and Road Management WDR for Green Diamond Resource Co.

Master Agreement for Timber Operations and Road Management WDR for Green Diamond Resource Co.

The State Coastal Conservancy is a Responsible Agency funding restoration work under the Green Diamond MATO. The project consists of restoring seven acres on McGarvey Creek and 9 acres on Hunter Creek. The project goals are to introduce complexity and roughness, reconnect the floodplain, and use plantings to restore natural processes and create a self-sustaining project. Specific restoration techniques that will be used on both sites include the installation of constructed wood jams, beaver dam analogs, and revegetation. Constructed wood jams benefit fish by slowing the water and providing refuge during higher flows. They also create deeper pools downstream of the structures which benefits summer survival by providing cool water habitat. Beaver dam analogs provide benefits by adding roughness, again slowing the flow of the water, limiting stream bank erosion, and by holding water on site for longer periods of time. In addition to helping create slow, deep-water habitats both of these techniques will be used to re-connect the streams to their floodplains In addition, restoration on Hunter Creek will include rerouting an existing 1,600’ portion of mainline logging road out of the floodplain onto higher terrain, and modification or removal of about 1,100 linear feet of ad-hoc levee, a separate structure which had been constructed to protect the road.

Del Norte

Northern California