The Council's mission is "to facilitate community-supported maintenance and restoration of the streams, rivers, and lakes within our watersheds".
UPCOMING EVENTS:​ We have some great speakers lined up for you in 2025 as we collectively endeavor to be good stewards of our natural resources!​We have completed our Spring Speaker Series, so plan on joining us this fall.​Ellen Morris Bishop is scheduled to give another exciting talk regarding the geology of our area, specific topic and location to be determined, but the date is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1st. Stay tuned for more details. The location will be in either Halfway or Richland. Our Third Annual Beaver Dam Barbecue will be held on Saturday, June 28th, location and time to be determined. This is a great opportunity to get your hands dirty learning how to create beaver habitat! Stay tuned for details.
Baker Resources Coalition high school interns construct a beaver dam analogue on Camp Creek during the summer of 2023.
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Camp Creek Ecosystem Resiliency Project
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Walking along present-day Camp Creek, one can only imagine how abundant beaver populations once influenced the ecosystem. Presently, Camp Creek is incised, there is little connectivity with the historic floodplain, and lowered water tables fuel upland vegetation encroachment. Flows are routed quickly through the system with little opportunity for sediment deposition or water storage. Reduced water storage makes this system and the surrounding human communities particularly susceptible to floods, drought, and wildfire.The goal of this project is to reconnect Camp Creek with its historic floodplain using Low-Tech Process-Based restoration. This technique promotes the restoration of natural stream processes through the installation of different types of hand-made structures. Specifically for Camp Creek, installed and planned structures include Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) and Post Assisted Log Structures (PALS).
Take a virtual tour of the
Powder River Watershed
Click here to read about the collaborative effort that PBWC is involved in working to conserve sage-grouse in Baker County.
