Birch Creek - BDAs to Facilitate Beaver Translocaton 2015

Anabranch Solutions Implementer

Idaho Department of Fish and Game

Utah State University

State:

Idaho

Stream Name:

Birch Creek

Watershed:

Mink Creek (HUC: 160102020403)

Implementation Date:

Jun. 01, 2015

Treatment Length (m):

785

LT-PBR Structures:

Project Goals and Objectives

After the success of the pilot (https://bda-explorer.herokuapp.com/projects/52), we were simply building enough structures upstream and downstream of a planned beaver translocation release site, to give them choices in places to colonize. Beaver were released in November of 2015. See these slides: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/etalweb.joewheaton.org/Courses/WATS5350/2020/Week8_BirchCreekIntro_1.pdf

Structure Construction Elements

Five additional small BDA complexes were built (all post-assisted BDAs) consisting six new primary dams and nine secondary dams.

Project Photos

Cover Photo