NCWC has complete three years of comprehensive stream temperature monitoring. Temperature data is critical to the management and restoration of our watersheds in four ways:
- Determining the location of cold-water sources that create refugia for fish
- Tracking on-going watershed trends
- Informing decision-making by multiple agencies in project prioritization, land management, policy, and resource allocation
- Educating landowners and land managers about watershed health
The results from this 2022 and 2023 studies have been summarized in annual reports, both of which can be downloaded below:
We currently have funding to do three more years of temperature monitoring, thanks to the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, which will give us a five-year data set. Our hope is continue temperature monitoring in perpetuity to track watershed changes and plan for climatic resiliency. and sample sites were evenly distributed throughout the watershed (as seen in the map below) to gather information about distribution of these species in the watershed.
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