The multi-purpose assessment will develop a list of alternatives for the various confining infrastructure and determine the degree of those effects on limiting factors including channel complexity, floodplain connectivity, stream power, and pool development throughout this reach.
Co-manager analysis of those multi-purpose alternatives will be used to develop conceptual designs that focus on providing a major uplift for declining ESA-listed Snake River Spring Chinook, summer steelhead and bull trout populations. Once complete the conceptual designs for the 10-mile reach of the Tucannon River will provide a future pathway to better multi-use management while reducing future maintenance and flood risk for the remaining floodplain infrastructure.
Video Credit: Liz Eastman with the Nez Perce Tribe Department of Fisheries Resource Management
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