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STORIES -> Success Stories - Partnerships with Forest Service
Rankin Creek Rehabilitation, Idaho 2002
![[Photo]: Three volunteers selecting planting spots.](/common/images/fire_rankin2.jpg)
The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes' Indian Summer Program staff and their
families spent 2 days helping to restore riparian areas on the Yankee Fork Ranger District of the
Salmon-Challis National Forest. The area needing restoration was burned by the Rankin Creek Fire in
2000 and is in the headwaters of Rankin Creek, a tributary to the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River.
Rankin Creek is occupied by resident salmonids and is considered
critical habitat for Snake River Chinook salmon and steelhead trout.
Woody riparian vegetation in the north and south forks of Rankin
Creek were severely burned during the fire. This jeopardized the stability of the stream channel and
the associated water quality. Approximately 30 acres needed to be re-vegetated to stabilize and
reestablish the native wood species.
![[Photo]: Volunteer carefully planting a tree.](/common/images/fire_rankin3.jpg)
A group of 35 volunteers braved unseasonably cold temperatures to
help fisheries biologist Tom Montoya and his staff plant approximately 1,000-mountain alder plants.
"It was a wonderful opportunity that enabled us to partner with the tribes in bringing their youth
out to get in touch with the ground to restore this area." remarked Tom.
Part of the Indian Summer Program is restoration of areas
traditionally used by the Tribes; it is their goal to "Help Mother Earth in her struggle to maintain
it for use by all".
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PARTNERING WITH THE FOREST SERVICE
