Russian River Creek Stewardship
Monitoring & Assessment Summary Report
1998 - 2004

Summary
The Sotoyome Resource Conservation District (SRCD) in partnership with Laurel Marcus and Associates (LMA) and Dennis Jackson began a creek stewardship program for tributary streams in the Russian River watershed in 1998. To date, six reports have summarized the program methods and protocols, watershed assessments, monitoring results and projects. These include:

• Watershed Atlas and Monitoring Workbook, 1998
• Russian River Watershed Tributary Stewardship Program: Tributary Information Matrix, 1999
• Russian River Creek Stewardship and Volunteer Monitoring Program: Summary Report 1999-2000
• Russian River Creek Stewardship and Monitoring Program: Summary Report 2001
• Restoration of Parson's Creek: Taking an Experimental Approach, December 2001
• Fife Creek/Armstrong Woods State Park: Results of the First Year of the Monitoring Program, December 2001

This report summarizes all of the monitoring, assessment and project information developed for the program for the 1999-2004 period, as well as recommendations for projects and actions to improve water quality and enhance riparian and aquatic habitats.

Documents
The Russian River Creek Watershed Assessment Report is presented here as a series of five Portable Document Format (pdf) files. The first file contains the report itself. The next four files contain the appendices.

Russian River Creek Stewardship Monitoring & Assessment Summary Report   (5.8 MB pdf)

Appendices:

1. Russian River Creek Stewardship Monitoring Program: Summary of Protocols   (0.4 MB pdf)
2. McNab Creek Restoration Project Monitoring Plan and Cross-sections   (0.3 MB pdf)
3. Parsons Creek Cross-sections   (9.3 MB pdf)
4. Fife Creek in Armstrong Woods State Park: Monitoring Program Results and Cross-sections   (0.7 MB pdf)

This report was funded by the Sonoma County Water Agency. Monitoring in the study reaches listed in the report was completed with funding from a State Water Resources Control Board 319(h) grant and funding from the Sonoma County Water Agency. Please contact Sierra Cantor at the Sotoyome RCD if you have questions regarding this report.