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Northwest Fisheries Science Center, 2024: Bridge Creek IMW database - Bridge Creek Restoration and Monitoring Project, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/18014.

Item Identification

Title: Bridge Creek IMW database - Bridge Creek Restoration and Monitoring Project
Short Name: Bridge Creek IMW database (Bridge Creek Restoration and Monitoring Project)
Status: In Work
Creation Date: 2006-06-01
Publication Date: 2016-07-14
Abstract:

The incised and degraded habitat of Bridge Creek is thought to be limiting a population of ESA-listed steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss). A logical restoration approach is to improve their habitat through reconnecting the channel with portions of its former floodplain (now terraces) to increase both stream and riparian habitat complexity. Using conventional restoration techniques to achieve such objectives can be quite costly, because it involves moving and grading large volumes of fill with heavy equipment that exposes bare ground, and is usually followed by extensive revegetation efforts. Here, we seek a cost-effective, process-based approach to restore geomorphic, hydrologic and ecological functions of this degraded system helping a small, extant beaver population build longer-lived dams.

Currently, the beaver population is limited because their dams are short-lived. Most beaver dams are constructed within the incision trench and during high discharge events; the full force of flood waters are concentrated on these dams rather than dissipating across floodplains. Consequently most dams breach and fail within their first season. The primary hypothesis we are testing is that by assisting beaver to create stable colonies and aggrade incised reaches of Bridge Creek, there will be measurable improvements in riparian and stream habitat conditions and abundance of native steelhead. The main restoration design challenge is to help beaver build dams that will last long enough to lead to the establishment of stable colonies. If this can be accomplished, the beaver dams should promote enough aggradation to reverse channel incision and reap a number of well documented positive ecosystem benefits associated with dynamic beaver dam complexes that will benefit steelhead and other species.

We are assisting the beaver using an extremely simple and cost-effective restoration treatment. The treatment involves installing round wooden fence posts across potential floodplain surfaces (now terraces) and the channel, approximately 0.5 to 1 m apart and at a height intended to act as the crest elevation of an active beaver dam. This report provides details of the design rationale and design hypotheses employed and summarizes the placement of the 84 BDS structures installed in four reaches in 2009. Additionally, the ongoing monitoring campaign devised to test these design hypotheses is discussed and some preliminary observations from the first year of the campaign are presented. Five variants of the restoration treatment were used; post lines only, post lines with wicker weaves, construction of starter dams, reinforcement of existing active beaver dams, and reinforcement of abandon beaver dams. The biodegradable posts are intended to buy enough time for (1) beaver to occupy the structures and build on or maintain the structures as their own dams, and (2) for aggradation in the slackwaters of the pond from the dam to take place and promote reconnection with a floodplain (terrace).

Just as with natural beaver dams, individual dams are expected to be transient features on the landscape, expanding and contracting, coming and going as they lose functionality for beaver (e.g. when a pond fills with sediment). The treatment design is geared to saturate four distinct reaches of Bridge Creek with beaver dam support (BDS) structures so that enough potential dams are available to the current beaver population that they can pick and choose the best sites to establish stable multi-dam complexes to support healthy and persistent colonies.

Physical and biological data.

Purpose:

Addresses Legal Mandate

Monitoring or sensor data

Notes:

Loaded by batch 4296, 01-31-2013 18:21

Supplemental Information:

Subject to Public Access to Research Results (PARR): Yes

Monitoring Program: FE_Pollock_2016_Bridge_Creek_Water_Temperatures_QAQC. Stream temperature data

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None beaver
None Oncorhynchus mykiss
None restoration
None stream

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None Bridge Creek, OR

Instrument Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None Depth-Temperature Sensor

Physical Location

Organization: Northwest Fisheries Science Center
City: Seattle
State/Province: WA
Country: USA

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Set Type: Spreadsheet
Data Presentation Form: Table (digital)

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 851693
Date Effective From: 2015-10-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Pollock, Michael M
Address: 2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle, WA 98112
Email Address: Michael.Pollock@noaa.gov
Phone: 206-860-3451

Distributor

CC ID: 851694
Date Effective From: 2015-10-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)
Address: 2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle, WA 98112
USA
Email Address: nmfs.nwfsc.metadata@noaa.gov
Phone: 206-860-3200
URL: NWFSC Home

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 851692
Date Effective From: 2015-10-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC)
Address: 2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle, WA 98112
USA
Email Address: nmfs.nwfsc.metadata@noaa.gov
Phone: 206-860-3200
URL: NWFSC Home

Originator

CC ID: 851696
Date Effective From: 2015-10-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Pollock, Michael M
Address: 2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle, WA 98112
Email Address: Michael.Pollock@noaa.gov
Phone: 206-860-3451

Point of Contact

CC ID: 851695
Date Effective From: 2015-10-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Pollock, Michael M
Address: 2725 Montlake Boulevard East
Seattle, WA 98112
Email Address: Michael.Pollock@noaa.gov
Phone: 206-860-3451

Extents

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 851702
W° Bound: -120.1844
E° Bound: -120.1844
N° Bound: 44.5861
S° Bound: 44.5861
Description

Bridge Creek, OR: Includes the lower 30 km of Bridge Creek watershed and Gable and Bear Creek tributaries as well as Murderers Creek on the SF John Day R.

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 851701
Time Frame Type: Continuing
Start: 2010-01-01

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Procedure:

At this time, contact the Data Manager for information on obtaining access to this data set. In the near future, the NWFSC will strive to provide all non-sensitive data resources as a web service in order to meet the NOAA Data Access Policy Directive (https://nosc.noaa.gov/EDMC/PD.DA.php).

Data Access Constraints:

NA

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 851698
Start Date: 2016-07-14
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parr/water_temperature_data_for_bridge_creek_watershed/data/page/
Distributor: Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) (2015-10-01 - Present)
File Name: Water Temperature Data for Bridge Creek Watershed
Description:

Water Temperature Data for Bridge Creek Watershed.

Distribution 2

CC ID: 851697
Start Date: 2016-07-14
End Date: Present
Download URL: https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parrdata/inventory/tables/table/water_temperature_data_for_bridge_creek_watershed
Distributor: Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) (2015-10-01 - Present)
File Name: Water Temperature Data for Bridge Creek Watershed
Description:

Water Temperature Data for Bridge Creek Watershed.

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 851699
URL: https://www.webapps.nwfsc.noaa.gov/apex/parrdata/inventory/datasets/dataset/4910
Name: Bridge Creek IMW database
URL Type:
Online Resource
File Resource Format: Web site
Description:

NWFSC Dataset Information page. Physical and biological data

Technical Environment

Description:

Access Database

Data Quality

Accuracy:

Medium

Quality Control Procedures Employed:

These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager in section 3 for full QA/QC methodology.

Data Management

Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified?: No
Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: 5
Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: Yes
Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: No
If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate: No
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination: 0 days
If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing, Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed:

No Delay

Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location: NCEI-MD
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving: 180
How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?:

The Northwest Fisheries Science Center facilitates backup and recovery of all data and IT components which are managed by IT Operations through the capture of static (point-in-time) backup data to physical media. Once data is captured to physical media (every 1-3 days), a duplicate is made and routinely (weekly) transported to an offsite archive facility where it is maintained throughout the data's applicable life-cycle.

Lineage

Lineage Statement:

These data were collected and processed in accordance with established protocols and best practices under the direction of the project’s Principal Investigator. Contact the dataset Data Manager in section 3 for full QA/QC methodology.

Child Items

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Entity Water Temperature Data for Bridge Creek Watershed

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 18014
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:18014
Metadata Record Created By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Created: 2013-01-31 18:21+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2019-06-04
Owner Org: NWFSC
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2019-06-04
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2020-06-04