"The Willow Creek Watershed Management Plan is organized into five chapters, including the introduction, vision and goals for watershed health and function, watershed history, watershed diagnosis, and watershed enhancement projects, as well as a bibliography and two appendices containing summaries of the public meetings. [...] Chapter 1 describes the watershed and discusses the purpose of the Willow Creek Watershed Management Plan, plan development, stakeholders, and the TAC. Chapter 2 includes the community vision identified during the public outreach process for the next 2-5 years, after 10 years, and after 50 years and a discussion of specific goals for the watershed, including wildlife habitat improvement, erosion and sediment control, vegetation management, and recreation. The history and past and current land uses in the watershed are summarized in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 provides a diagnosis of the areas of environmental concern in the watershed, including landscape and habitat alterations, altered sediment production and transport, fisheries decline, and limitations to restoration potential. Chapter 5 discusses watershed enhancement projects, including priority projects, ongoing resource preservation activities, and adaptive watershed restoration projects."--From the executive summary.

The Willow Creek watershed provides significant habitat for federally listed Snake River summer steelhead, potential spawning and rearing habitat for spring Chinook salmon, and supports a variety of native resident fish. The Willow Creek Fish Habitat Enhancement Project includes over 4 miles of spawning and rearing habitat with forested, higher gradient, C4 channels in the upper reaches of the project area and low gradient, wetland meadow, C4/C5 and E channel forms in the lower 2/3's of the project area. The area presents extensive potential to provide summer and winter rearing habitat for salmonids with suitable spawning habitat for steelhead in the upper project reaches. Project implementation began in summer 2012 with the stream bank shaping, placement of large wood complexes along project area streams, and excavation and reactivation of a 1 mile historic channel segment along lower Willow Creek. Following construction, disturbed areas, including streambanks, large wood sites, upland terraces and the re-activation channel reach were planted with a native grass seed mix and mulched with straw. An extensive riparian tree and shrub planting effort is scheduled to begin during spring 2013 to facilitate development of riparian vegetation. Additional activities planned for 2013 include weed control and replacement of 4 undersized culverts on fish bearing, spring fed tributaries. The following table provides an overview of the Willow Creek Fish Habitat Enhancement Project.