Restoring Hope

Restoring Hope is an example of the collaborative effort being conduction in SE Idaho to improve water quality, fish and wildlife habitat, stream stability while providing for public access and recreation adventures. The Caribou-Targhee National Forest and numerous partners came together across ownership boundaries to restore watershed function within the Jackknife drainage. The holistic watershed restoration approach focuses on decommissioning and relocating poorly placed roads and trails located on unstable slopes next to stream channels, replacing undersized road and trail stream crossings, restoring eroding and disconnected stream and riparian systems, and upgrading non-functioning water irrigation diversions.