Monitoring of our restoration efforts is important to ensure specific project success as well as to guide future restoration priorities and project designs.  Through this program we are developing monitoring protocols and tools as well as disseminating the monitoring results in peer reviewed reports.

Our organization is completing scientific monitoring of watershed health benefits that result from our projects.  This involves both careful planning, in order to collect the baseline data before a project is completed, and dedication and follow-through in order to collect data over a time frame through which project responses can be measured.

Our specific monitoring activities include:
In-stream Structure and Fish Passage Monitoring

• Sampling fish utilization of in-stream projects including adult spawning surveys and juvenile snorkel surveys
• Conducting aquatic habitat inventories to track changes to habitat

Road Sediment Monitoring

• Designing studies on the effectiveness of cross-drain culverts with Weyerhaeuser
• Storm sampling of turbidity and total suspended solids
• Writing and having peer reviewed program effectiveness monitoring reports, including Road Drainage Improvement for Sediment Reduction Program Effectiveness Monitoring Report (2005).

Temperature Monitoring

• Collecting temperature data to monitor the effect of riparian planting on stream temperature

Riparian Silviculture Monitoring

• Developing databases for information management and analysis
• Continuing to monitor existing plantings of more than 5,000 trees
• Writing and having peer reviewed program effectiveness monitoring reports, including Riparian Restoration Planting and Establishment Monitoring Report (2005).

Coho life cycle and tide gate effectiveness monitoring

• Collecting data on adult and juvenile coho populations
• Researching seasonal coho utilization in tide gated streams