Restoration of Stream and Riparian Habitat Conditions in Douglas County, Washington
Funding Year | Amount | Location |
FY24 | $ 76,093 | Douglas County, Washington |
Project Description
Mesic and riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian habitat along Coyote Spring and McCartney Creek on The Nature Conservancy’s Moses Coulee Preserves in Douglas County, WA are critically important to brood rearing sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, and other sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.
Learn more about sagebrush -dependent animals. Restoring these habitats through low-tech processed-based restoration techniques will work to repair heavily incised reaches to improve ecological integrity and expand seasonally available water for longer into the dry hot summer months.
Partners
Foster Creek Conservation District, National Resource Conservation Service, The Nature Conservancy and USFWS Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program