Trout Stream Improvement

Lower McCoy Creek Wetland Meadow Restoration (ID)

Lower McCoy Creek Wetland Meadow Restoration (ID)
Year
Project Recipient
Caribou Targhee National Forest
Project Matching Funds
$40,000
Project JHOF Funding
$15,000

The McCoy Creek Wet Meadow Restoration Project is a joint Trout Unlimited and Caribou-Targhee National Forest project to improve habitat for Yellowstone cutthroat trout and other native species. Historical beaver trapping, settlement, livestock grazing, hay production, and placer mining degraded the project reach to a single thread, incised channel and it has been unable to recover on its own. This project will incorporate large wood and raise riffle elevations on 2.1 miles of stream to increase floodplain connectivity, floodplain roughness, multiple flow paths, wet meadow habitat, and overall habitat complexity. This restoration effort will restore a stable valley-wide aggradation zone and provide high-flow refuge and juvenile rearing habitat that is limited elsewhere in the watershed.

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