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r Red Creek Habitat Improvement WGFD 7-FC-CU-WG010 $14,700 This project was much like the restoration efforts along Currant Creek in 1994 (4- WS-94-326). Seventy instream habitat structures were constructed in Lower Little Red Creek, and three structures on Lizzie Spring Creek. The design of the structures consisted of 15-20-foot fir and juniper trees cut and cabled together. The project is part of a larger Little Mountain Watershed Enhancement project that addresses other land management prescriptions. The project will improve channel stability, increase instream pool and resting cover for adult and juvenile Colorado River cutthroat trout, and will improve riparian vegetation structure. Billy Creek State Wildlife Management Area CDOW 7-FC-CU-DW010 $50,000 Colorado Division of Wildlife has created wetlands and improved riparian vegetation along Billy Creek on its State Wildlife Management Area near Montrose, Colorado. They constructed contour berms at the bottom of agricultural fields to impound direct diversions from Billy Creek and irrigation return flows. These berms were planted with willow cuttings to begin creation of a willow wetland. They excavated wetland sites in upland areas along Billy Creek including large ponds and small pothole wetlands. Billy Creek itself has been enhanced by installation of several small impoundment structures to create step-pools to raise the water level and increase riparian vegetation. Several small direct diversions of water from the creek serve to spread water over the adjacent riparian area to support and increase cottonwood and other riparian vegetation. Green River Tree Jams BLM/WGFD 7-FC-CU-BL010 $39,600 The goal of the project is to increase fish populations in the Green River by introduction of instream woody cover habitats. Lack of instream cover has been identified as a limiting factor for fish production in this reach of the river. Five tree jams and one rock barb were installed in the river near the Warren Bridge Public Fishing Area (Highway 191). Mature trees were anchored into the bank and extended out into the stream at locations where they will not disrupt the geomorphology of the river. These structures often trap sediment and build riparian vegetation contributing to the stability of the streambank. In follow-up evaluations of effectiveness, WYGFD personnel will electrofish around these structures to estimate increases in fish biomass.