TeamWork for StreamWork: A Conservation Partnership

Aaron Norton
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Perrytown, Arkansas

Tim Burnley
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Mt. Home, Arkansas

Aaron Norton will discuss the newly formed conservation partnership between the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, The Arkansas Department of Agriculture, the Southeastern Aquatic Resources Partnership, and Weyerhaeuser, a timber company that is the largest private landowner in Arkansas. The project, funded by a 319 grant through Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resource Division, involves the inventorying and removal of aquatic organism passage barriers in the Lower Little River Watershed utilizing Southeastern Aquatic Resources Partnership’s Barrier Prioritization Tool. The partnership has already been initiated and has completed the removal of 3 aquatic organism passage barriers on the Saline River in Southwest Arkansas and will be prioritizing more barriers for removal on Weyerhaeuser and county properties in the Lower Little River Watershed. These removals aim to improve aquatic organism habitat and movement as many of the streams and rivers in this watershed contain federally threatened and endangered species. The project also seeks to improve public safety, improve recreational access, reduce erosion, and mitigate the strain on local infrastructure by restoring the stream to its natural hydrologic state.

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