South Santiam Watershed Council

The South Santiam Watershed Council will be meeting on Wednesday, February 15th at 6:00 pm at the Lebanon Public Library. The featured speaker will be Forest Engineer Jerry Workman with the Weyerhaeuser Company. Jerry will be discussing stream enhancement projects that Weyerhaeuser has implemented in the South Santiam watershed. Following the presentation, the South Santiam Watershed Council Board of Directors will meet at 7:00 pm. Both the presentation and board meeting are open to the public.

The South Santiam Watershed Council will be meeting on Wednesday, January 18th at 6:00 pm at the Lebanon Public Library.  The featured speaker will be Brett Blundon, Assistant Forest Fish Biologist for the Willamette National Forest.  He will be speaking about upcoming steelhead habitat enhancement in the Canyon Creek watershed.  Following the presentation, the South Santiam Watershed Council Board of Directors will meet at 7:00 pm.  Both the presentation and board meeting are open to the public.

The SSWC will be meeting on September 21st at 6:00 pm at the Lebanon Library. The meeting is open to the public and topics include a work plan and budget session, and an update on summer restoration activities.

The SSWC will not be meeting during the months of July and August. Have a great summer, and we hope to see you in September!

Steelhead spawning gravel in Moose Creek

Visiting a site at McDowell Creek

Join the South Santiam Watershed Council on a free tour of ongoing and upcoming restoration in the watershed. The tour will begin at River Park in Lebanon at 1:00 pm, and we will vanpool to sites in the Hamilton, McDowell, and Moose Creek sub-watersheds.

At these sites you’ll meet landowners who are currently engaged with the SSWC in watershed restoration projects that benefit the fish, wildlife, and drinking water of the place we call home. We’ll also visit a major restoration project occurring on the Willamette National Forest that looks to improve habitat condition for the native winter steelhead that the South Santiam watershed is famous for!

Please RSVP to 541-367-5564 so that we can reserve the appropriate amount of van space.

The most recent issue of the newsletter of the South Santiam Watershed Council can be read here: South Santiam Splash Summer 2011

The South Santiam Watershed Council will be meeting at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, May 18th at the Lebanon Public Library.

This month, we are featuring ongoing work in the South Santiam “model watersheds” of McDowell and Hamilton Creeks. We’ll hear presentations from Eric Andersen, Monitoring Coordinator and Sarah Dyrdahl, Project Manager both with the Calapooia-Santiam watershed council collaboration. Sarah will be presenting on the progress of riparian planting projects as well as exciting in-stream habitat work slated for McDowell Creek this summer. Eric will be presenting on the monitoring strategy in the model watersheds and the results from last year’s baseline monitoring in McDowell and Hamilton Creeks. Board business will follow the presentations.