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Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E

The Assessment

A grant from Bonneville Environmental Foundation enabled the Mohawk Watershed Partnership to complete a comprehensive biological assessment of the Mohawk watershed in November 2000. The assessment was intended to complement multiple assessments already completed on differing portions of the Mohawk watershed, fill selected data gaps and help provide the Partnership with a technical basis for prioritizing its near-term conservation activities.

The following excerpt from the report summarizes the some of the assessment findings:

"Aquatic and terrestrial habitats within the Mohawk watershed have been substantially altered by a variety of human activities over the last 150 years, but native plants and animals that remain in the area provide important links to the past and conservation opportunities that extend beyond the watershed's boundaries. For example, the watershed's native run of spring chinook salmon became extinct in about 1910 but its streams continue to serve as the primary spawning areas for what appears to be the Willamette Basin's strongest remaining population group of fluvial (migratory) cutthroat trout. Similarly, only fragments remain of the bottomland forests that were once extensive along much of the lower Mohawk River, but these fragments and the potential for restoring additional areas of these forests have been identified as a conservation opportunity of stateside significance."