MITIGATION

Goal: Provide high quality habitat for salmon, lamprey, mink, bald eagle, osprey, and other native fish and wildlife living in this otherwise heavily developed stretch of the Willamette River... Recovery Actions: 1. Removal of multiple buildings, 2 docks, and 700 pilings, 2. Restoring access for salmon, lamprey, and other fish to a section of Linnton Creek (currently confined to a pipe), 3. Planting thousands of native plants across the site, 3. Removing invasive vegetation and laying back the banks along the Willamette River to improve riparian and shallow water habitat for fish and wildlife, 4. Placing logs in the creek for small fish to hide, rock piles in the uplands for mink to den, and snags for bald eagles and other birds to perch and hunt... Research is in progress for documenting this long and significantly complicated wetland mitigation banking credit / debit history and the current status.

Primary location: Eugene United States