NOAA ISEMP - Watershed Sciences - Bridge Creek, Oregon Lidar Survey, 2005

These lidar data were collected on September 27, 2005, for the <a href='http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/' target='_blank'>NOAA Fisheries Service - Northwest Fisheries Science Center</a> as part of the <a href='http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/index.cfm' target='_blank'>ISEMP</a> (Integrated Status and Effectives Monitoring Program) for the Columbia Basin. Data collection and processing were performed by <a href='http://www.watershedsciences.com/' target='_blank'>Watershed Sciences</a>. The flight covered 122 km² and 26 river kilometers of <a href='http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/projects_bridge_creek.cfm' target='_blank'>Bridge Creek</a>, a tributary to the John Day River in central Oregon. The flight was used as a baseline survey for the Bridge Creek <a href='http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/projects_watersheds.cfm' target='_blank'>Intensively Monitored Watershed</a>, which is nested in the broader <a href='http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/research/divisions/cbd/mathbio/isemp/projects_monitoring.cfm' target='_blank'>Status and Trend Monitoring</a> in the John Day Pilot Basin. <br/><br/>Channel incision within Bridge Creek IMW, OR, has degraded instream and floodplain habitat leading to a loss of spawning and rearing habitat, increased summer stream temperatures and reduced base flows impacting steelhead using this system. ISEMP is collaborating with the <a href='http://www.nps.gov/joda/planyourvisit/painted_hills_unit.htm' target='_blank'>National Park Service</a>, NOAA-Fisheries, and the <a href='http://www.blm.gov/or/districts/prineville/index.php' target='_blank'>Bureau of Land Management</a> on a restoration project that will accelerate natural recovery rates of the processes that create and maintain steelhead habitat to substantially increase steelhead productivity within the drainage.