McKinney Fire Restoration Project
Project Overview
Basics
McKinney Fire Restoration Project
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Conserve and Restore Salmonid Habitats and Ecosystems
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Ensure Water Supply Reliability and Quality
- Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaboration with Tribes
- Protect and Enhance Watersheds and Ecosystems that Provide Water Quality and Supply Benefits
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
NCRP IRWM Prop 1 Round 2 (DWR)
Implementation
The McKinney Fire Restoration Project intends to identify short- and long-term remedial measures to reduce impacts to water quality, salmonid and other aquatic species' habitat, water supply reliability, public safety and infrastructure affected by the fire through a process of data acquisition, assessment of the data to initiate an effective, collaborative restoration strategy, and implementation at a series of sites utilizing numerous restoration techniques within damaged or threatened areas.
2022
2023
7/25/2024
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
In collaboration with the Karuk Tribe, Mid Klamath Watershed Council, and Watershed Research and Training Center, we propose a post-wildfire watershed condition assessment, response strategy, and restoration implementation using existing and newly collected data to prioritize restoration in areas with heavy erosion risk and stabilization needs in the McKinney Fire footprint. Project goals include identification of remedial measures that will protect or mitigate impacts to water quality, salmonid and other aquatic species' habitat, water supply reliability, public safety, and infrastructure. The project will include development of a restoration prioritization plan that include low-tech process-based restoration in headwater streams, mechanical rehabilitation in larger stream or river segments, bank stabilization with native revegetation, and fish passage improvements to damaged infrastructure. On-the-ground implementation will be carried out by work crews.
Solutions
Capacity - Tribal Capacity, Capacity - Year-round Local Capacity, Climate Action - Adaptation, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Conservation Planning, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Tribal Ecocultural Restoration
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
None
Project Size (Acres)
None
Location
The exact location(s) of implementation will be determined pending results of the assessment.
Organizations
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| Local and/or Political Support | CalTrans, CA Geological Survey, Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, USFS |
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Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Environmental improvement | 1 count |
| Habitat Restoration - Stream channel improved | Habitat type: Riparian Project type: Revegetation | 2,250 lf |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Job & Workforce Training - # events | 2 | |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 20 | |
| Special status species protection | Protection status: Federal endangered/ threatened fish | 1 count |
| Special status species protection - # of projects | 1 count |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
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Financials
Budget
| Comment: | Updated to reflect Prop 1 Round 2 funding award |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
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| IRWM Proposition 1 Round 2 (DWR) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Types
Project Types
Endangered Coho Salmon, fall-run and spring-run Chinook Salmon, winter-run and summer-run Steelhead Trout, and Pacific
lamprey use the mid-Klamath River and its tributaries. Each of
those species are experiencing population declines throughout the Klamath-Trinity basins and rely on the suitable habitat that remains. These fish species are directly threatened by post-fire conditions in the McKinney Fire footprint. Our project will mitigate those threats by attenuating flows and sediment inputs in severely burned aquatic habitats that will improve water and habitat quality.
Our implementation efforts will focus on restoring or protecting at-risk water resources that threaten the stability of salmonids that will provide collateral benefits to residential and commercial water supplies. The project initiates a response to the aftermath of severe wildfire that is becoming more common with climate change and aims to prepare for erratic future conditions by improving stream morphology and channel-floodplain dynamics, restoring sediment input and retention balance, and improving water quality for aquatic organisms including culturally significant native fish species.
Project Details
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