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wildlife species.
The tribes have been con-
sulted on where and what to
plant as the ranch is convert-
ed back to more natural
uses. Plus, CTCLUSI Water
Protection Specialist Ashley
Russel is interested in lead-
ing ethnobotany tours on
the property. According to
Tome, she often brings tra-
ditional tools for harvesting
and baskets created to catch
lamprey.
“Waite Ranch has been an
awesome project to work on,
and McKenzie River Trust
just acquired another prop-
erty across the river from
there, so we’re looking at a
restoration feasibility study
out there,” Tome said.
McKenzie River Trust is
the only land trust in the
area, working with coastal
properties from Reedsport
to Yachats. It eventually
plans to open a central coast
office.
According to Tome, land
trusts work with community
members to retain good
habitat in perpetuity or buy
properties for restoration.
These properties either
remain with the trust or are
sold to forest services, public
lands or local tribes.
“They are a really key part
to the conservation equa-
tion,” Tome said. “They have
the ability to protect lands
that are high-functioning
habitat now or purchase
land to then restore.”
Each of the watershed
council’s partners bring
something unique to resto-
ration in the Siuslaw.
“A lot of our work at the
council is bringing folks and
organizations together to do
good work on the ground,”
Tome said. “It’s all about
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connections, and change,
and embracing change.”
Change will continue to
come to the SWC’s website,
this time in the form of
unique interactive story
maps, which will be pub-
lished later this year. These
include blocks of text,
unique photographs, videos
from the film project, maps
and historic images.
“It’s a really cool product
that we’re excited to get out
to the community,” Tome
said. “People will be able to
go through our plans, see
why we’re working with
coho and find other cool
statistics.”
The website also includes
the council’s current and
future projects: phase five of
the Fivemile Bell Restoration
Project, culvert replacement
with U.S. Forest Service and
the Bureau of Land
Management and bridge
replacement at Cleveland
Creek.
“It’s a lot of fun stuff,”
Tome said.
SWC also received a
$5,000 grant from Western
L ane
C ommunity
Foundation to replace tables
and chairs in the council’s
meeting room. That should
allow the space to be better
utilized as a community
gathering space for groups
and nonprofits.
Now, however, SWC is
“looking for someone to
inherit the watershed coun-
cil and the great team we
have here,” Tome said. “We
want someone who will use
the tools we have and our
amazing partners to contin-
ue the growth and public
relationships we’ve been
working on.”
Tome is moving on to be
the director of restoration
for a land trust. He will con-
tinue to contract with SWC
on several projects, includ-
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training for the new execu-
tive director.
One of those projects is
“Stories of the Siuslaw,” a
team-up with Eugene-based
photographer Kate Harnedy
to capture portraits of
regional residents and
record people’s recollections.
“We’re looking for people
who have been in the area a
long time to tell us about the
changes they gave seen in
their lifetimes,” Tome said.
“There have been a ton. …
We want to find representa-
tives from the timber indus-
try and people who can talk
about how things have
changed; representatives
from the tribal community
to talk about traditional
management and steward-
ship of the land; and from a
fishing perspective, too, of
folks who have been fishing
on the river for years and
how that changed since the
1970s and ‘80s. We’re trying
to find those representa-
tives.”
Some of those stories will
be shared with an audience,
and the project will continue
as long as there is interest.
In his last week, Tome sat
outside the watershed coun-
cil’s office on Mapleton
School District property,
near Sailor Creek, where
birds sang and children
played in the distance. He
talked about his vision of
restoration of the Siuslaw
and what people can be
doing to manage lands to
make sure that the water-
shed remains resilient. He
also talked about his satis-
faction of the SWC’s accom-
plishments.
“What I am probably the
most proud of is really get-
ting to work more with our
tribal partners and learning
more about their history and
their management and stew-
has slowed down on the
Siuslaw system as well. The
river is low and clear, mak-
ing the conditions tougher
for catching steelhead.
ardship of these lands,” he
said. “Getting to work with
them on restoring different
processes, and to make hab-
itat better for salmon, pre-
serve water quality for peo-
ple in our area and hear their
perspective on all that is so
invaluable. It’s a partnership
that we’ve built. Getting to
work with the CTCLUSI as
much as I have has been an
amazing experience.”
His second point of pride
was the film series about the
watershed’s partners.
Working with dozens of
partners and funding from
National Oceanic and
A t m o s p h e r i c
Administration, the council
created the films with vid-
eographer Brian Kelly and
photographers
Sean
Gutierrez and Morgan
Heim. The films were made
in the course of one week in
September 2018 as a “snap-
shot” of the many projects
happening concurrently in
the watershed.
“The film project really
got to tell everyone’s story,”
Tome said. “The folks we
worked with on that did an
amazing job. It showed
everybody’s unique life his-
tory and how they came to
this line of work, and con-
nected the dots between all
those different communi-
ties. That project was just so
cool to work on. I hope
those videos continue to get
shared and are out there
from people to learn about
the Siuslaw and how special
it is.”
This week, the SWC
announced the temporary
closure of its office while
team members continue to
work in the field and from
home. Phone messages and
emails will continue to be
checked. For more informa-
tion, visit siuslaw.org.
Anglers are still catching
fish around the Whitaker
Creek area and things
should improve when we
get another shot of rain.
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