Crews to begin dismantling Wimer dam in Rogue Basin


The project will help open more than 70 miles of spawning grounds in the upper Evans Creek drainage  for salmon and steelhead.

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The project will help open more than 70 miles of spawning grounds in the upper Evans Creek drainage  for salmon and steelhead.

Original plans called for first removing Fielder that is lower in the system than Wimer. But groups seeking removal of the two abandoned concrete diversions won’t know until later this month the decision on an administrative appeal of a Jackson County permit filed by a landowner adjacent to that structure.

 

Read more at Medford Tribune.

 


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