Environmental Assessment Completed

Red Bank Habitat Enhancement Project

Klamath National Forest & Butte Valley National Grassland Siskiyou, California Salmon River Ranger District

To increase abundance of complex off-channel habitat for coho salmon, spring-run Chinook, and other salmonids by providing both winter high flow and summer thermal refugia at the Red Bank river bar on the N. Fk Salmon River. Water Waiver not eligible

Location

North Fork Salmon River, about 7.5 river miles upstream of its confluence with the South Fork Salmon River near Forks of Salmon, California, in the Kanaka-Olsen 7th field watershed.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
06/15/2020
2
Comment Period
05/03/2023
3
Objection Period Start
06/14/2023
4
Decision
07/2023 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
07/2023 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements
Red Bank Habitat Enhancement ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/28/2023
ForestsKlamath National Forest
DistrictsSalmon River Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionTownship 40 North, Range 12 West, Section 28, Mount Diablo Meridian
Wildlife, fish, rare plants