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References ARWC. 2000. Assessment comments to WCWC, 25 April 2000. ARWC. 1994. Applegate River Watershed Assessment. Prepared for the State of Oregon Watershed Health Program and the Strategic Water Management Group. Betlejewski, F. Williams Port-Orford Cedar Management Project Briefing Paper. Bureau of Land Management paper presented at Applegate Partnership meeting 8 July 1998, at Star Ranger Station, Jacksonville, OR. BLM. 2000. Medford District, Grants Pass Resource Area. Medford, OR. Letter to WCWC, 25 April 2000. BLM. 1996. Williams Watershed Analysis. Medford District, Grants Pass Resource Area. Medford, OR. BLM. 1995. Record of Decision and Resource Management Plan. Medford District. Medford, OR. BLM and USFS. 1998. Applegate Adaptive Management Area Guide. Medford District BLM; Siskiyou National Forest; Rogue River National Forest. Medford, OR. BLM et al. 1994. Applegate Adaptive Management Area Ecosystem Health Assessment. Bureau of Land Management, Medford District; USFS, Rogue River National Forest; USFS, Siskiyou National Forest; USFS, PNW Research Station. Medford, OR. DOGMI. 1979. Quarries, Gravel Pits and Prospects of Josephine County. Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Merlin, OR. GWEB. 1999. Oregon Watershed Assessment Manual, DRAFT. Salem, OR. Josephine Country. 1998. Planning Department Data Base. Grants Pass, OR. Kimerling, J. A. and P. L. Jackson, Eds. 1985. Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, OR. OSU Press. McKinley, G. and D. Frank. 1996. Stories on the Land: An Environmental History of The Applegate and Illinois Valleys. BLM, Medford District, et al. Medford, OR. NRCS. 1983. Soil Survey of Josephine County. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Grants Pass, OR. Williams Creek Watershed Assessment 25
OWRD. 1985. Rogue River Basin Study. Grants Pass, OR. Prchal, M. N/D. A Short Geologic Interpretation of the Applegate AMA. Rogue River National Forest, Medford, OR Preister, K. 1994. Words in Action: A Community Assessment of the Applegate Valley. Rogue Institute of Ecology and Economy and Applegate Partnership, Jacksonville, OR. Prevost, M., R. Horton, J. MacLeod, and R.M. Davis. 1996. Southwest Oregon Salmon Restoration Initiative. Rogue Valley Council of Governments, Central Point, OR. Williams Creek Watershed Assessment 26
Page 1 and 2: Williams Creek Watershed Assessment
Page 3 and 4: Abstract This document is the Willi
Page 5 and 6: Hydrology and Water Use . . . . . .
Page 7 and 8: List of Tables Table 1: Forest land
Page 9 and 10: List of Figures Figure 1: Williams
Page 11 and 12: • Water Quality Summer water temp
Page 13 and 14: Williams Creek Watershed Council Th
Page 15 and 16: Agencies and Jurisdictions Agencies
Page 17 and 18: data to determine if these standard
Page 19 and 20: Legislation and Management Plans Th
Page 21 and 22: Figure 1: Williams Creek Watershed,
Page 23 and 24: 3 1 2 1. Pennington Creek 2. Lower
Page 25 and 26: Land Use Land use in the Williams C
Page 27 and 28: Williams Creek Land Use Zoning N W
Page 29 and 30: Williams Creek Watershed Land Owner
Page 31 and 32: the winter season. The TSZ is subje
Page 33 and 34: that drain to the East Fork of Will
Page 35 and 36: Botanical Resource Areas To protect
Page 37 and 38: About 153 million years ago, the ol
Page 39 and 40: Appendix A: Williams Creek Watershe
Page 41 and 42: Appendix B: Williams Creek Watershe
Page 43 and 44: Appendix F: Williams Creek Watershe
Page 45: Appendix F: Williams Creek Watershe
Page 49 and 50: Figure 8: Native People of the Appl
Page 51 and 52: the gold amalgamates, which was the
Page 53 and 54: today. Longtime Williams residents
Page 55 and 56: Figure 10: Oxen Hauling Logs to the
Page 57 and 58: The Applegate River and its tributa
Page 59 and 60: conditions. This has created a shif
Page 61 and 62: Appendix A: Historical Conditions b
Page 63 and 64: Appendix B: Historical Timeline ~22
Page 65 and 66: ODFW. 1999. Estimates of Adult Coho
Page 67 and 68: RESULTS Williams Creek and its trib
Page 69 and 70: MC: Moderate Gradient Confined Chan
Page 71 and 72: DISCUSSION Figure 11: Percentages o
Page 73 and 74: Channel sensitivity, distribution o
Page 75 and 76: Appendix B: Channel Habitat Types w
Page 77 and 78: HYDROLOGY AND WATER USE INTRODUCTIO
Page 79 and 80: Stream Flow The data for this secti
Page 81 and 82: Table 6: Elevation and precipitatio
Page 83 and 84: Figure 13: Precipitation Isohyetals
Page 85 and 86: hydrology is dominated by three fac
Page 87 and 88: Figure 16: Stream flows (cfs) near
Page 89 and 90: Figure 19: Monthly water availabili
Page 91 and 92: Groundwater Large quantities of gro
Page 93 and 94: Table 10: Water rights summary for
Page 95 and 96: DISCUSSION The pattern of precipita
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Appendix A: Geology of the Williams
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WATER QUALITY INTRODUCTION Water qu
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levels of dissolved oxygen. The Ore
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METHODS All of the data presented i
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mainstem of Williams Creek exceeded
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Figure 25: Continuous daily tempera
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Figure 29: Continuous daily tempera
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pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Alkalinity, C
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Table 19: Levels of nitrate. The cr
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Site Date Storm? Turbidity Williams
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aquatic weeds and algae. Algae can
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References ARWC. 2000. Draft Propos
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devegetation, road building, or oth
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5. The BLM Mining Claim Microfiche
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plugged or undersized culverts caus
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Private timber companies who have h
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Table 26: Signed Private and Public
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Review of the Josephine County Geol
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absence of any plan of operations.
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Similarly, in the West Fork subwate
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Appendix A: Soils of the Williams C
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Appendix B: Williams Creek Watershe
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ODFa. 1998. Progress on Landslide S
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debris, and stream shade percentage
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Table 30: Observation data for the
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was not analyzed for this assessmen
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of Rock Creek, Pipe Fork, Munger Cr
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References ARWC. 1994. Applegate Wa
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The Williams Valley is now criss-cr
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RESULTS Locations of Wetlands in th
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The Classification of Wetlands and
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References BLM. 2000. Medford Distr
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METHODS Data on the location, timin
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As recently as 1973, in-stream grav
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100-year floodplain in the Williams
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Williams Creek and have potential c
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Table 37: Channel Habitat Types wit
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Appendix A: Approximate Locations o
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Appendix B: Channel Modifications (
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Appendix B: Channel Modifications (
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FISH AND FISH HABITAT INTRODUCTION
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spawn after only two summers in the
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spawning runs into small tributarie
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Fluvial cutthroat migrate between t
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Bill Creek > Right Hand Fork > West
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• 1994 ODFW Stream Survey The vol
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Fish Populations: Stream surveyors
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• Cutthroat Trout Electrofishing
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ODFW found trout (probably offsprin
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Tree Branch Creek > Lone Creek > We
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Instream Habitat, Valley Morphology
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Table 53: Chinook Salmon Spawning S
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Maximum Stream Temperatures: Table
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69 pools with a maximum depth of 1.
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DISCUSSION Life Cycle Factors To di
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spawning tributaries. Drought condi
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function in the Williams Creek Wate
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A substantial beaver colony was fou
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Appendix B: Approximate Coho Distri
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Appendix D: Approximate Summer Stee
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Appendix F: Fish Barriers in the Wi
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Appendix G: Stream Surveys, Riparia
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References Anonymous. n.d. Abbrevia
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Frissell, C.A., W.J. Liss, R.E. Gre
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ODFW. 1995. Williams Creek Stream R
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Data Gaps: • Incomplete records o
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Water diversions also directly affe
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with storm events. Turbidity was ge
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mines, slope instability not relate
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• Provide incentives for property
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long-term impact of confining the c
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• Quantify the 1997 flood effects
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hydric soils: Saturated soils that
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