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The Coast Range Association
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In the Coast Range region recovering native salmon and restoring watersheds involves working for forest management reform. This page is the CRA gateway to information on land management reform for the protection and recovery of native salmon. Over the years we have compiled a huge amount of information about Coast Range watersheds. Chances are we have important information about your watershed.
A strategy to align the Oregon State Forester's practices with the Endangered Species Act has been proposed by members of the conservation community. View the eight points of the Landscape Strategy for Preventing Salmon Extinction.
This year we organized our watershed information into eight reports. Our most recent report covers fourteen major coastal basins from the Necanicum in the north to the Coos basin in the South. Seven local reports are also available.
Forestry & Salmon: A Report on Oregon's Coastal Watersheds and the Need for Forestry Reform
Our watershed reports were developed to explain local watershed conditions and present specific land management reforms for recovering native salmon. We have completed reports for the Alsea, coastal Clatsop area , Nehalem, Salmon, Siletz, Siuslaw and the Yaquina watersheds.
An excellent source of information about watersheds is the
Oregon Watershed Assessment Manual. The manual is a must read if you are
considering participating in your watershed council.
Every watershed in the Oregon Coast Range has an active watershed council. The council's job is to assess the watershed for current conditions, conduct science based restoration and monitor the effectiveness of their work. Some watershed councils, like the Mid-Coast Council, do excellent work. Others councils lag behind and struggle to find a consensus on credible work. We urge more experienced watershed advocates to get involved in their councils and help advance good science based work.
To learn more about watershed councils and their limitations, see
the Trout Unlimited and Pacific Rivers Council's Report:
Evaluation of Selected Watershed Councils
in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California
on watershed council effectiveness. (view the PDF file or download the PDF file).
Concern over the recovery of native salmon drives all land management processes. The listing of the Lower Columbia Chinook and the coastal coho place the entire Oregon Coast Range under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) authority. Much of the decline in native salmon is due to past mismanagement of fisheries. To become involved in this aspect of native salmon recovery we suggest you call Paul Engelmeyer, (541) 547-4227, who sits on the salmon advisory group of the Pacific Fisheries Management Council. Also, we suggest you read the IMST Report Defining and Evaluating Recovery of OCN Coho Salmon Stocks: Implications for Rebuilding Stocks Under the Oregon Plan (view the PDF file or download the PDF file).
A "Citizen Plan for Restoring the Willamette River" has been formulated by a group of concerned conservation organizations. To endorse the Citizen
Plan, send a note to the Corvallis Environmental Center (CEC) at: ecenter@peak.org or mail:
CEC, P.O. Box 2189, Corvallis, OR 97339.
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