Extra Details
Kuckucéepe téekin (Bull Run Creek RM 3) Phase II Implementation
Project Type
Restoration of Aquatic Native Fish Habitat
Lead Implementer
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Funders
U.S. Forest Service
Other Organizations
North Fork John Day Watershed Council, U.S. Forest Service - Wallowa-Whitman
Project Manager
john zakrajsek (johnzakrajsek@ctuir.org)
Project Stage
Planning/Design
Duration
2025
Estimated Total Cost
$1,109,229.00
Secured Funding
$317,162.00
No Funding Source Identified Yet
$0.00
Pending Funding
$792,067.00
Restoration of Aquatic Native Fish Habitat
The Kuckucéepe téekin (Bull Run Creek RM 3) Project site is located in Grant County, near Granite, Oregon. Bull Run Creek is a cold-water tributary of Granite Creek in the North Fork John Day River’s headwaters and critical to recovery of ESA listed and unlisted native species. This project was selected as a priority action in the Bull Run Creek Action Plan with development beginning in 2017 by the USFS, North Fork John Day Watershed Council, and CTUIR. In 2023's Phase 1 an inset floodplain was developed containing new stream channel. Phase 2 will include additional tailing cut, channel fill and activation and development of features to increase floodplain and stream channel complexity.
Targeted Metric
- Number of plantings: 15,000
- Number of riffles created: 30
- Number of structures installed: 91
- Stream miles treated: 1.50 linear stream miles
Focal Species
- Bull trout
- ESA listed Steelhead
- Pacific Lamprey
- Spring Chinook
Implementation and Ecological Results
- 2 - Reconnect Floodplain
- 4 - Improve Instream Channel Connectivity & Complexity
- 7 - Streambank Shading Increased
- 8 - Spatial Distribution of Native Fish Increased
- 9 - Stream Temperature Restored to Desired Range
- 10 - Habitat Diversity, Complexity & Structure Improved
- 11 - Flows Support Freshwater Native Fish Life Stages
Working Groups
- North Fork/Middle Fork John Day Working Group
LJDWG - Critical Issues
- Not Applicable
Area 4 looking downstream upon existing channel to be filled (right) and tailings to be cut (center).
Location
Budget
$317,162.00 Secured Funding: U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
$131,707.00 Pending Funding: Bonneville Environmental Found... (BEF)
$453,360.00 Pending Funding: FIP - Restoration (OWEB)
$207,000.00 Pending Funding: U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
Photos
Area 4 looking downstream upon berm to be constructed to protect integrity of existing wetland (left), where a floodplain depression will be constructed (center), and tailings to be cut (right). (Timing: Before)
Area 4 looking downstream upon berm to be constructed to protect integrity of existing wetland (left), where a floodplain depression will be constructed (center), and tailings to be cut (right). (Timing: Before)
Area 2 looking downstream upon a portion of the existing channel to be filled (right). (Timing: Before)
Area 2 looking downstream upon tailings to be cut (right) where a floodplain depression created. (Timing: Before)
Area 2 looking upstream to an existing wetland. (Timing: Before)
Area 1 looking downstream where a portion of the existing channel will be filled to activate new channel. (Timing: Before)
Area 1 looking along Pasture Creek’s alluvial fan that was cut by past mining activity. The cut area will be filled to match the alluvial fan’s contour. (Timing: Before)
Area 1 looking downstream where floodplain depressions and a swale will be created to guide and store floodplain inundation during high flows. (Timing: Before)
Project last updated 10/23/2024