• Salmonid populations have declined from historic levels, prompting listings under the state and federal ESA’s.
• Impairments to freshwater and estuarine habitat needed to complete salmonid freshwater life cycles have been identified as a leading factors in the decline of Redwood Creek’s anadromous salmonids.
• The Redwood Creek Basin has large areas with highly unstable slopes.
• Land use has made the basin’s terrain more susceptible to erosion.
• Riparian and near stream forests have been altered by timber harvests and bank erosion.
• Basin management goals.
• Planning Watersheds in Redwood Creek are not always composed of logical hydrologic units.