Maacama Creek Watershed Assessment

Summary
Maacama Creek is a major tributary of the Russian River. The Maacama Creek watershed is primarily rural with no incorporated cities within its boundaries. The Sotoyome Resource Conservation District in partnership with Laurel Marcus and Associates and Dennis Jackson began a Creek Stewardship Program for the Maacama Creek watershed in 1999.

This watershed assessment reviews monitoring information including water quality and temperature developed for the Maacama Creek watershed over the 1999 to 2004 period. The assessment also evaluates erosion and sources of fine sediment in the watershed, the current and historic condition of creek channels, the historic and current condition of watershed vegetation and clearing, the extent of riparian forest, and land uses. The goal of this watershed assessment is to investigate and evaluate current and historic conditions in the Maacama Creek watershed and recommend a prioritized set of actions and programs to improve water quality and riparian and aquatic habitat conditions integrated with continued monitoring and assessment.

Documents
The Maacama Creek Watershed Assessment Report is presented here as a series of Portable Document Format (pdf) files. The first file contains the report itself; the next contains large figures referenced by the report. The other files contain the appendices.

• Maacama Creek Watershed Assessment Report   (5.7 MB pdf)
• Large Figures   (29.4 MB pdf)

Appendices:

1. Summary of Protocols   (0.4 MB pdf)
2. Temperature Monitoring Graphs   (1.4 MB pdf)
3. Fish and Game Surveys   (1.0 MB pdf)

Please contact Sierra Cantor if you have questions regarding this report.