The Tribe’s Water and Environmental Resources Program (WERP) works throughout the Tribe’s Ancestral Territory in the Umpqua and Rogue River Basins. Within our program, we have an Environmental Specialist, a Fisheries Biologist and seasonal technicians. We partner with federal and state agencies, watershed counsels, private landowners, and other non-profit organizations on restoration and enhancement work. Our work includes:

• Aquatic instream and riparian restoration to benefit native species and watershed ecological processes

• Wetland identification, delineation, monitoring and conservation

• Invasive plant species eradication

• Planting of native species

• Water quality and hydrologic monitoring

• Fisheries surveys

• Winter steelhead smolt acclimations to enhance the winter steelhead sport fishery in the South Umpqua River

• Pacific lamprey research and conservation

For more information on the WERP program, please contact Kelly Coates, Water and Environmental Resources Program Manager at kcoates@cc.anvilnorthwesthosting3.com