Project Profile: Develop Design for Eldorado Creek Placer Mine

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
Revegetation of Hazard Mine Lands | FY24-25 - $135,000

Moose Creek flows through Denali National Park and Preserve.

NPS Photo / Jacob W. Frank

The National Park Service will restore exstensively mined areas in Eldorado Creek in Denali National Park and Preserve with the goal to improve natural stream processes, floodplain connectivity, and ecosystem health.

Why? Lower Eldorado Creek, a tributary to Moose Creek in the Kantishna Hills, was extensively placer mined in the later part of the 20th century. Moose Creek is an anadromous river in the Yukon-Kuskokwim watershed

What else? This project will update the adaptive management strategy for lower Eldorado Creek within the Moose Creek floodplain using the best-available, data-driven stream restoration practices and improve in-stream fish habitat.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

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