Crane Valley Meadow Restoration Project

The Project proposes to conserve, restore, protect, or enhance approximately 100 acres of meadow habitat to support and assist recovery of native fish and wildlife species. The Project includes the use of low-tech, process-based restoration practices to construct three types of woody structures in degraded meadow channels: channel-spanning, bank-attached, and mid-channel. The Project includes construction of 100 channel spanning beaver dam analogs (BDA), which can be post-less or post assisted with hand placed rock, 10 bank-attached post assisted log structures (PALS), and 10 mid-channel PALS. The Project also includes selective thinning of conifers throughout the 100 acres of predicted project impacts. The felled trees will be used to create the PALS and BDAs. Willow (Salix) planting will occur along stabilized banks to support riparian recovery and bank integrity.