Lower Red River Meadow Restoration Project

The Lower Red River Meadow Restoration Project is a multi-phase ecosystem enhancement effort designed to restore a section of the river's natural channel design and revegetate adjacent riparian areas with native species in order to restore natural physical and biological functions and thereby create high quality habitats for fish and wildlife. The project, sponsored by the Idaho County Soil and Water Conservation District (ISWCD), reconnected historic meanders, constructed new meanders, reshaped channel cross sections, and installed a variety of bioengineered bank treatments. Practitioners also revegetated the site with native plant species and incorporated erosion-control measures, such as seeding areas disturbed during construction with a mixture of grasses.