This map displays BLM land in Western Oregon alongside proposed Watershed Conservation Areas. The federal designation “Watershed Conservation Areas” would include two components: Key Watersheds and Conservation Opportunity Zones.
In April 2013 WSC’s President Guido Rahr gave a TEDx talk on the subject of “Salmon Strongholds” – the healthiest salmon ecosystems across the North Pacific.
Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Western Oregon provide multiple ecological, economic, and cultural values for local communities, the state, and the nation. In addition to supporting critical fish and wildlife habitat, they provide timber and other goods that support jobs and provide income to counties. These lands are also critical sources of clean water for communities and provide opportunities for hunting, fishing, hiking, and wildlife viewing. The Nature Conservancy and Wild Salmon Center produced the Atlas of Conservation Values on Bureau of Land Management Holdings in Western Oregon to provide an overview of these values. The Atlas uses a portion of the 57 datasets compiled by The Nature Conservancy and Wild Salmon Center in an accompanying geodatabase.
The purpose of this report is to provide background information, evaluation of the fishery, and justification for scoring the performance indicators provided by the MSC in the generic assessment tree of the Fishery Assessment Methodology v2.1.
This paper highlights the critical role that Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in Western Oregon play in providing clean drinking water and in sustaining a regional network of healthy wild salmon rivers. Our goal is to provide initial recommendations to decision makers considering policies effecting the riparian management of O&C lands.