Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

• People Create Their Landscapes
• Salmon-Both Strong and Vulnerable
• Can We Create Landscapes Healthy For All?

Good Sense:Priorities For a Healthy Watershed

• What is a Watershed?
• What is a Healthy Watershed?
• What is a Healthy Stream?
• How Do You Set Priorities For Restoration?
• Know the Major Players
• Know What You Want-and What's Possible
• Find a Place to Start

Good Science: Steps for Watershed Restoration

• Watershed Assessment
• Appropriate Scale
• Finding and Sharing Data
• Methods
• Protection
• Land Purchase
• Conservation Easements
• Restoring Instream Flow
• Case Study: Returning Water to the Teanaway River

• Passive Restoration
• How Does Urbanization Affect the Watershed?
• How Do Dams Affect the Watershed?
• How Does Agriculture Affect the Watershed?
• How Does Livestock Grazing Affect the Watershed?
• Case Study: McComas Meadows Restoration
• How Does Timber Harvest Affect the Watershed?
• Case Study: The Warm Springs Huckleberry Ecology Project
• How Do Roads Affect the Watershed?

• Active Restoration
• Restoring Native Vegetation
• Bioengineering
• Reconnecting the Floodplain to its Stream
• Case Study: McCoy Meadows Restoration Project
• Reintroducing Beaver
• Placing Instream Structures
• Removing Fish Passage Barriers

• Supplementation: Using Hatcheries to Increase Naturally Spawning Runs

Good Partnerships

• The Ceded Lands
• The Umatilla Basin Project
• Irrigation and the River
• Tribal Water Rights
• Finding a Win-Win Strategy
• Building Partnerships
• The Salmon Return

• Salmon Corps
• Building Community
• Building Fences
• Steps to Good Partnerships

Good Results: Monitoring and Evaluation

• Establish a Monitoring Goal
• Develop a Monitoring Plan
• Choose Parameters
• Get Baseline Data
• Monitor Contaminants
• Evaluate and Interpret Results

Tribal Contacts

Glossary

Organizations

Fundraising

Useful Web Sites

Photo Credits

Bibliography

Endnotes