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CANTON CREEK SURVEY

STEAMBOAT & CANTON CREEK MONITORING

​Pacific Rivers has contracted with respected scientist Charley Dewberry to document conditions in important creeks, which provides crucial information that helps us protect clean water and healthy rivers. Our monitoring program has been highly successful, but to truly know what’s happening in our rivers and streams, we need to monitor more of them.

You can help our monitoring program by donating today.

Charley has monitored Knowles Creek on the central Oregon Coast for more than 20 years. Knowles Creek is probably the most well-studied creek in the nation, perhaps the world, and his monitoring work here has been internationally recognized.

More recently, Charley has been working with students from Roseburg, Oregon, to monitor Canton Creek, an important steelhead-spawning tributary in the North Umpqua River east of Roseburg, Oregon. After four years, Charley has a good idea of the conditions in this river: how many fish use the creek and where, how many steelhead are born each year, and how many adults are there.
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Pacific Rivers is using the information to advocate that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Congress protect this creek from harmful logging practices because it is one of the North Umpqua’s most important steelhead refuges. By knowing exactly how many fish are produced in places like Canton Creek, Pacific Rivers and its partners can champion measures that will maintain river health. And protecting river health protects human health.
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Today, throughout the Snake River Basin, imperiled populations of salmon continue to die at rates far below sustainable replacement levels. Scientists have told us for decades that breaching the four federal dams in the lower Snake River. Congressman Mike Simpson of Idaho has an ambitious proposal to remove the dams and invest billions in energy, irrigation and transportation infrastructure.  But elected leaders in Washington and Oregon must step up too before we lose the fish that define the region’s ecology and cultural heritage. Good work is happening in places like the Lostine, but ultimately, the success of those collaborations depend on restoring a free-flowing Snake River. 

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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Mission, Vision, Approach
    • History
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
  • Our Work
    • STORYTELLING
    • Newsletters
    • Press Releases
    • Hells Canyon Water Quality
    • BPA letter
    • Columbia River Treaty
    • Reports >
      • Forests to Faucets
      • SNORKEL SURVEY
      • CANTON CREEK SURVEY
    • Brochure
    • Wild Steelhead Sanctuary Act
  • Donate
  • Take Action
    • Share
    • Email Sign-Up
  • Contact
  • Store