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Sotoyome RCD Newsletter
Summer/Fall 2009
Mill Creek Watershed Planning
Mill Creek is a tributary to
Dry Creek in the Russian River Watershed
with major tributaries including Felta, Wallace, and Palmer creeks. Mill Creek has long been a high priority watershed for state and federal fisheries agencies with several fisheries habitat enhancement projects implemented over the last ten to fifteen years. Juvenile coho have been released from the Coho Captive Broodstock program into Wallace, Palmer, Felta, and Mill Creeks since 2001.
The Sotoyome RCD recently received a grant for watershed and salmonid habitat restoration planning in the Mill Creek Watershed. A preliminary plan for Mill Creek and its tributary watersheds will be developed in late 2009 including evaluation and assessment of physical characteristics of the watershed, and identification of data gaps in habitat restoration and landowner participation. In addition, landowner outreach and watershed coordination workshops will be conducted.
Through this unique planning opportunity RCD staff plan to work with interested private landowners to develop revegetation plans and instream structure and streambank repair designs to improve coho and steelhead habitat. If you are a landowner interested in being part of this planning effort or in implementing a habitat enhancement project on your property in Mill Creek Watershed please contact
Kara Heckert at 569-1448 ext. 104.
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