Summer 2025 USFWS Restoration Work
Implementing local projects and connecting with partners on habitat restoration in the Yukon River drainage
This season USFWS and local partners, including Tanana Valley Watershed Association, Fairbanks Soil and Water Conservation District, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and others focused on surveying habitat, monitoring, implementing riparian restoration, and continuing development of fish passage culvert designs.
Most of the effort was concentrated in the Chena River watershed, but additional projects continued work with the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association on the Yukon Watershed Ecosystem Action Plan and an initial kickoff for fish passage evaluation in the community of Emmonak.
Chena River highlights included:
- Two successful private landowner restoration projects on the Chena River, a Streambank Rehabilitation workshop, and two Youth for Habitat riparian enhancement projects
- Water quality monitoring and juvenile fish minnow trapping in Cripple Creek
- A survey of riparian condition and habitat from the mouth of the Chena River to the Moose Creek dam
Contact Chandra McGee at chandra_mcgee@fws.gov with any questions.
Arctic Beringia Fish Ecology 