Lowland Watersheds

Lowland Watershed

Lowland watersheds drain the rain on the glacial plateau to floodplains or Puget Sound

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Lowland watersheds are located within the rain-fed glacial plateau surrounding the Salish Sea. Their streams flow into floodplains or into embayments along shorelines. They are different that headwaters in that precipitation falls as rain, and topography is defined by our glacial history, with many wetlands.

Lowland Watershed Topics

The following topics are related to lowland watersheds:

• Fish passage barrier removal
• Riparian Buffers
• Channel Migration Zone
• Clean Water Act
• Wood in Streams
• Roads and Streams
• Benthic Index of Biological Integrity
• Stream Temperature and Salmon
• Watershed Planning
• Resources for Volunteer Urban Stream Restoration
• Dam Removal

Lowland Watershed Sites and Places

The following pages describe lowland watershed sites:

Lowland Watershed Efforts

The following efforts are being implemented by workgroups in lowland watersheds:

• Snohomish Basin Forest Ecosystem Services Pilot Project
• Nisqually Watershed Ecosystem Service Transaction Pilot
• Thurston County Basin Assessment
• Woodard Creek Stormwater Retrofit Study
• Green River Stormwater Retrofit Estimate
• Riparian Restoration and Protection Initiative

Lowland Watershed Documents

The following pages cite documents about lowland watersheds:

• File:Savery & Hook 2003 habitat and chinook in pilchuck river.pdf
• File:Flint et al 2013 woods creek habitat.pdf
• File:Wright et al 2001 snohomish fecal coliform TMDL.pdf
• File:Haring 2002 snohomish wria 7 limiting factors for salmon.pdf
• Allan 2004 land use and stream ecosystems
• Hamlet et al 2001 climate change and water resources
• File:Benedict & Shaw 2012 shade benefits from hedgerow on ditched streams.pdf
• File:Roni et al 2013 DRAFT BPA columbia river restoration monitoring plan.pdf
• File:Knutson & Naef 1997 riparian management recommendations.pdf
• File:May 2003 riparian best available science puget lowland.pdf
• File:Cereghino 2015 working buffers info sheet.pdf
• File:Pollock et al 2015 beaver restoration guidebook.pdf
• Beechie et al 2010 process based restoration of rivers
• File:FCWMC 2004 french creek watershed management plan.pdf
• Stanley et al 2012 watershed assessment water model
• File:Cereghino 2015 coordinated investment snohomish framework.pdf
• File:Flint 2012 woods creek riparian action plan.pdf
• File:Johnson & Ryba 1992 king county recommendations for buffer width.pdf
• Carah et al 2014 low cost wood in streams
• Bowling & Lettenmaier 1997 forest road effects on streamflow
• File:Dupont 1935 how dynamite streamlines streams.pdf
• Montgomery 1999 process domains and river continuum
• Booth et al 2004 reviving urban streams
• File:Cereghino 2017 DRAFT riparian framework.pdf
• File:Lucchetta et al 2014 land use regulation and stream flow king county.pdf
• File:Stanley et al 2018 memo watershed characterization hydrologic condition index.pdf
• File:Quinn et al 2018 riparian science summary.pdf
• File:WDNR 2011 watershed assessment manual.pdf
• File:WFC 2007 schneider creek stream type.pdf
• File:King County 2018 bear creek watershed management study.pdf
• File:Ecology 2015 riparian restoration and protection initiative grant guidelines.pdf
• Fox & Bolton 2007 typical wood quantities in unmanaged streams
• File:Bentrup 2008 conservation buffer design guidelines.pdf
• File:Beamer et al 2013 chinook salmon non-natal stream rearing.pdf
• File:Bloch et al. 2019 coastal stream and embayment restoration prioritization.pdf
• File:ESA et al. 2022 coastal stream and embayment fish access framework.pdf
• Koski 2009 coho nomads
• File:Tuohy et al. 2018 chum non-natal habitat use.pdf
• Duda et al 2023 dam removal cost prediction

The following lowland watershed documents are uploaded to this wiki:

• Savery & Hook 2003 habitat and chinook in pilchuck river.pdf
• Flint et al 2013 woods creek habitat.pdf
• Wright et al 2001 snohomish fecal coliform TMDL.pdf
• Haring 2002 snohomish wria 7 limiting factors for salmon.pdf
• Benedict & Shaw 2012 shade benefits from hedgerow on ditched streams.pdf
• Roni et al 2013 DRAFT BPA columbia river restoration monitoring plan.pdf
• Knutson & Naef 1997 riparian management recommendations.pdf
• May 2003 riparian best available science puget lowland.pdf
• Cereghino 2015 working buffers info sheet.pdf
• Pollock et al 2015 beaver restoration guidebook.pdf
• FCWMC 2004 french creek watershed management plan.pdf
• Cereghino 2015 coordinated investment snohomish framework.pdf
• Flint 2012 woods creek riparian action plan.pdf
• Johnson & Ryba 1992 king county recommendations for buffer width.pdf
• Dupont 1935 how dynamite streamlines streams.pdf
• Cereghino 2017 DRAFT riparian framework.pdf
• Lucchetta et al 2014 land use regulation and stream flow king county.pdf
• Stanley et al 2018 memo watershed characterization hydrologic condition index.pdf
• Quinn et al 2018 riparian science summary.pdf
• WDNR 2011 watershed assessment manual.pdf
• WFC 2007 schneider creek stream type.pdf
• King County 2018 bear creek watershed management study.pdf
• Ecology 2015 riparian restoration and protection initiative grant guidelines.pdf
• Bentrup 2008 conservation buffer design guidelines.pdf
• Beamer et al 2013 chinook salmon non-natal stream rearing.pdf
• Bloch et al. 2019 coastal stream and embayment restoration prioritization.pdf
• ESA et al. 2022 coastal stream and embayment fish access framework.pdf
• Tuohy et al. 2018 chum non-natal habitat use.pdf