Camp Creek Reach 1
Project Overview
Basics
Camp Creek Reach 1
Implementation
Camp Creek Reach 1 Restoration Project is located within the Malheur National Forest in Grant County at the confluence of Camp Creek with the Middle Fork John Day River. The project proposes to fill in the existing Rosgen F channel or stage 6 within the channel evolution model (Cluer and Thorne 2013) and reconnect all the multiple threaded channels across the valley. Large wood and small wood as well as slash would be placed throughout the channels and embedded within floodplains as well as any cut or fill areas. BDAs and PALs would be utilized to lock wood in place and facilitate aggradation, water storage, increase habitat complexity and cover for juvenile fish and beaver.
2023
2024
2025
2/18/2025
Project Attributes
Additional Project Attributes
FIP Status
None
Restoration Actions
10. Floodplain Construction, 11. Perennial Side Channel, 12. Secondary (non-perennial) Channel, 16. Beaver Restoration Management, 17. Riparian Fencing, 18. Riparian Buffer Strip, Planting, 2. Channel Reconstruction, 20. Thinning or removal of understory, 27. Boulder Placement, 28. LWD Placement, 30. Restore bank lines with LWD - Bioengineering, 7. Levee Modification: Removal, Setback, Breach, 9. Restoration of Floodplain Topography and Vegetation
For Land Acquisition and Easement Projects
Project Type
None
Location
Organizations
Contacts
Javan Bailey - North Fork John Day Watershed Council (NFJDWC) (javan@nfjdwc.org)
Metrics
Expected Metrics
| Number of plantings | 12,000 | |
| Floodplain habitat protected | 42 acres | |
| Number of structures installed | Anchored: Unanchored Location: Instream Type of Structure: LWD | 19 |
| Number of structures installed | Anchored: Unanchored Location: Floodplain Type of Structure: BDA | 23 |
| Number of structures installed | Anchored: Unanchored Location: Floodplain Type of Structure: LWD | 35 |
| Stream miles treated | Treatment Type: instream restoration | 0.7 linear stream miles |
| Stream miles treated | Treatment Type: off/side channel habitat created | 2.5 linear stream miles |
| Stream miles treated | Treatment Type: riparian planting | 0.7 linear stream miles |
Reported Metrics
| Number of plantings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | Units | |
| 12,000 | 0 | 12,000 | number | |
| Total | 12,000 | 0 | 12,000 | number |
| Number of structures installed | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anchored | Location | Type of Structure | Total | 2025 | 2024 | Units |
| Unanchored | Floodplain | BDA | 25 | 0 | 25 | number |
| Unanchored | Floodplain | LWD | 100 | N/A | 100 | number |
| Unanchored | Instream | LWD | 30 | N/A | 30 | number |
| Total | 155 | 0 | 155 | number | ||
| Stream miles treated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment Type | Total | 2025 | 2024 | Units |
| riparian planting | 1 | 0 | 1 | linear stream miles |
| off/side channel habitat created | 2.2 | N/A | 2.2 | linear stream miles |
| instream restoration | 1 | N/A | 1 | linear stream miles |
| Total | 4.2 | 0 | 4.2 | linear stream miles |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) | $0.00 | $434,184.65 | $0.00 | $434,184.65 |
| FIP - Restoration (OWEB) | $0.00 | $71,004.56 | $0.00 | $71,004.56 |
| U.S. Forest Service (USFS) | $0.00 | $45,862.02 | $0.00 | $45,862.02 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $551,051.23 | $0.00 | $551,051.23 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Focal Species
Focal Species
Improved habitat for juveniles and adult spawning ground
Improved habitat for juveniles
Implementation and Ecological Results
Implementation and Ecological Results
Floodplain will be reconnection through cutting down high spots and filling the incised channel. Large wood jams will be placed in order to activate side channels.
Decreased depth to groundwater will encourage riparian plant survival. Decreasing stream velocities at high flows will allow for deposition benefiting plant communities.
This project includes Camp Creek's alluvial fan. It is currently is behaving as a transport reach, however, it will be transformed to a functional depositional reach. Channel complexity will be improved by adding large wood. Side channels will be activated at all flows through cut and fill, wood placement and BDAs.
Side channels will be activated at all flows, increasing the available habitat for salmonids. During high flows, the floodplain will be inundated, providing ideal foraging habitat for fry and juveniles.
Floodplain connectivity at high flows will allow runoff to absorb into the wide unconfined floodplain, thus increasing water availability later in the year.
10,000 plantings will be installed.
Increasing floodplain connectivity will encourage hyporheic flow. Plantings and narrowing of the channel will provide more shade to the creek.
Large wood, BDAs, PALs and plants will be installed which will encourage beavers to continue their work.
Working Groups
Working Groups
Project supports the greater goal of this working group; to increase and improve habitat for native salmonids.
LJDWG - Critical Issues
LJDWG - Critical Issues
Camp Creek Watershed Restoration Assessment Report (WRAP)
Project Details
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