MB&G is excited to share that 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of our Environmental Services Group (ESG). Throughout 2022, this important milestone will be commemorated by looking back at the group’s formation, highlighting a few key projects, and featuring our staff and their work.
This month we are highlighting our fish salvage work, a core part of ESG’s fisheries portfolio. MB&G biologists recently wrapped up a fish salvage project for Clackamas County Department of Transportation. The project involved the construction of river bank stabilization measures along a part of East Lolo Pass Road that was damaged by a high flow event in the Sandy River.
Stabilization of the river’s bank and road foundation necessitated fish salvage and associated environmental compliance reporting to minimize project impacts on regulated fish. Our team salvaged many regulated fish species from the work area including Chinook salmon, coho salmon, and steelhead.
MB&G has extensive experience planning, permitting, conducting, and reporting on fish population sampling projects and in-water construction projects that require fish salvage and relocation efforts. We have successfully completed fish sampling or salvage operations in every major watershed in Oregon.
MB&G adopted a section of Highway 22 in 2022 to maintain as part of our established community service program. This section of Highway 22 has a particularly sentimental meaning for our team as it is where our field work started on the ODOT Hazard Debris Removal project in the Beachie Creek fire corridor in December 2020 and includes several sensitive resources including a large wetland. MB&G did their fourth formal clean up on Earth Day and here are some great photos from the event.
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