Council 2005 Accomplishments
 Community Outreach and Education
A
Watershed Event – 2005 – a community
event with approximately 100+ attendees;
30 organizations presenting information about their
watershed work and a variety of restoration and monitoring
presentations.
Production of two Council member funded videos,
1) Telling the Tualatin River watershed
council and basin stories and
featuring how four basin interests, small woodland
owners, a dairy farmer, a friends groups and a county
government make a difference in watershed health; and
2)Seven Council
members describing how watershed
residents can become watershed stewards.
Participation with Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce
and other partners in Forest to Faucet tour.
Participation with other watershed councils at the
Salmon Festival.
Participation with other groups at Tualatin Hills
Nature Park Earth Day celebration.
Presentations with Gales Creek Elementary School students
using Enviro-Scape model.
Updated Council website with new features.
Revised and printed Council brochure.
Sharing Restoration Resources
Distribution of 100 native plants for planting at
Carter Creek, Beaverton Creek, Ash Creek and Summer
Creek.
Participation in the Native Plant Coop Nursery.
Presentations on the OWEB Small Grant program to landowners
in the Rock Creek watershed and Chicken Creek watershed.
Funding for plants and planting of native plants along
a lower Tualatin River forestry project.
Riparian Restoration Projects
 Lower Gales Creek: two work parties totaling 30 people,
picked up trash and removed invasive English ivy at
Gales Creek Highway and Roderick Road.
Moonshadow Park: eight work parties, totaling 50 people,
removed invasive plant species, maintained previous
restoration work and propagated and planted native plants.
Hall Creek: one work party in conjunction with SOLV
Team Up program, planted native plants on a cleared
one half acre seasonal stream riparian area.
Fish Passage Projects
Evaluation of 35 culverts for fish passage barriers
by thirty volunteers on upper West
Fork Dairy Creek and tributaries located at L.L. “Stub” Stewart
State Park.
Stream Monitoring Project
Funding Student Watershed Research Program (SWRP)
for Forest Grove high school classes to participate
to continue monitoring trends on Gales
Creek.
Funding for Projects
Submission of grant application for Salmon Friendly
Power funds to assist with fish passage barrier on Murtaugh
Creek, in conjunction with private landowner and Oregon
Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Approved reimbursement contract with the Bureau of
Reclamation for additional studies on Lower Gales Creek
including large wood debris survey, geomorphic assessment,
knotweed mapping and report, project management and
community outreach and SWRP funding.
Award of funding to complete the Moonshadow
Park restoration
through OWEB Small Grant program.
Submission of OWEB grant application for technical
assistance for design and permitting for removal of
two fish passage barrier culverts, replacement of a
fish passage barrier culvert and stream enhancement
of 2.7 mile reach on upper West Fork Dairy Creek located
within L.L. “Stub” Stewart State Park.
Council Capacity Building
Approved for Americorps member to assist with stewardship
group initiative.
Increased funding of OWEB Watershed Council support
grant.
Landowner Assistance
Worked with three landowners from September – December
2005 on OWEB Small grant application and contacted other
landowners about assisting with their prospective projects.
Council governmental contacts
Updated Washington County Commissioners on Council
activities.
Contacted and updated eighteen state legislators (whose
districts include the Tualatin River watershed) on watershed
council importance and Council activities.
Presented to Washington County an award for Harris
Bridge environmental work and bridge design work.
Basin Tools
Watershed Limiting Factors Analysis
Recruitment of two Portland State University Environmental
Masters’ Students to work with Dean Moberg to
complete to Stream Matrix prioritization.
Completion of summary and sub-basin limiting factors
analysis by Council members for OWEB Willamette Sub-basin
Prioritization.
Development of Tualatin River watershed restoration
database by Council intern.
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