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Bear Creek River Mile 19.0
Lynn Newbry Park
Restoring natural stream processes in Bear Creek by improving fire-damaged floodplain and side channel connectivity.
Restoration Objectives
10
Acres of riparian rehabilitation
34
Strategic large wood placement locations
0.22
Miles of secondary channel enhancement
Help us monitor the site!
We received a grant to install two timelapse stations along our project footprint at Bear Creek River Mile 19. These will be in operation for five years, allowing us to see how the restoration actions function throughout several seasons. We hope to get a visual of floodplain connectivity, secondary channel connection, and maybe even wildlife activity ~
with your help!
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Benefits
Protect Infrastructure
This project will help prevent erosion, stabilize the streambank, and protect infrastructure through riparian rehabilitation and large wood placement, which will help protect the infrastructure of Lynn Newbry Park and the Bear Creek Greenway, a main transportation corridor and recreation resource.
Safeguard Drinking Water
Bear Creek and the Greenway that runs
along it, connect the communities of Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, and Medford, before joining the Rogue River near Central Point. Downstream communities, like Rogue River and Grants Pass, provide drinking water straight from the Rogue River to more than 10,000 Rogue Basin community members. This restoration project will help improve the quality of water.
Listen to Project Manager, John Speece, and Community Engagement Project Manager, Beth Boos, discuss the project.
Restore Habitat
Bear Creek's Streamside areas are dominated by non-native Himalayan/Armenian blackberry thickets that outcompete native vegetation and played a large part in fueling the 2020 Almeda Fire. Through careful removal of noxious weeds and supplementary plantings, this project will help improve the condition of the native floodplain forest plant community. A healthy floodplain forest along Bear Creek would provide food and habitat for wildlife, shade for the stream, and decreased wildfire fuels.
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