Teton Conservation District
Rehabilitation of Flat Creek, Teton County 2004
PROJECT NUMBER 2003-0208-007
NFWF & JHOF Partnership: $50,000
Local Match: $189,000
It is the function of the Teton Conservation District to provide locally
led leadership, to encourage, promote and inform through education, the
conservation of natural resources. The Teton Conservation District is
also charged with assisting landowners and land managers in practicing
good natural resource stewardship and conservation for the long term
benefit of the people by using monitoring, partnerships, staffing
resources, and the taxpayer’s money as efficiently and effectively as
possible.
The Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation - National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Conservation Partnership Program is funding a project to
construct fish habitat structures on 1.5 miles of Flat Creek in Jackson,
WY, to allow the creek to reach its fisheries and ecological potential
and to reduce winter frazil ice production. Flat Creek, a tributary of
the Snake River in Teton County, is a prime candidate for restoration
since it flows through an urban area and has been degraded over time due
to land and
 water
uses, making it vulnerable to the development of fragile ice that has
impacted the native cutthroat trout populations through gill damage,
direct mortality by smothering and the loss of important over wintering
habitat. This project will provide planning, design and implementation
of in-stream trout habitat structures to allow Flat Creek to flow at
velocities that prevent icing in the winter months. The Snake River
cutthroat trout lost much of its historic spawning habitat and range
over time and this project seeks to restore habitat that will promote
spawning and increase survival of the last remaining native population
Flat Creek.
Project Status:
The Flat Creek Enhancement Project will begin construction on stream
enhancements for the first priority section of the creek above High
School Road in September of 2004. A total of fifteen fish habitat
structures will provide holding areas for trout and reduce the
frazil/anchor ice in the stream during winter freezes.
For more information, contact: Brian Remlinger,
bremlinger@wyoming.com,
307-733-2110.
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