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Reports
 According to the CCWG mission statement, adopted in October 1999, "The Cottonwood Creek Watershed Group will work to preserve the environment, private property and water rights and economic resources of the Cottonwood Creek Watershed through responsible stewardship, liaison, cooperation and education."
The purpose of the WMP is to further CCWG’s fulfillment of its mission statement. The WMP builds on both the work completed in the Watershed Assessment and the subsequent Watershed Management Strategy. The WMP addresses data gaps, sets goals and objectives for the watershed, and outlines actions that can be taken to provide more information on the health of the watershed and further the achievement of goals.
You can download the report here.
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 The purpose of the Cottonwood Creek Watershed Assessment is to gather and integrate existing information on the present and historical
environmental and land use conditions within the Cottonwood Creek watershed. This represents the first comprehensive effort to document the state of information available in the entire watershed. This report does not present management recommendations for the Cottonwood Creek watershed; rather, it focuses on prior studies and suggests avenues for further study that may be useful to watershed managers and stakeholders.You can download the report here.
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 The purpose of the Strategic Fuels Reduction and Management Plan for the Cottonwood Creek Watershed is to identify those areas where the construction
of shaded fuelbreaks and ridgetop fuelbreaks can increase protection for those living in the watershed, protect values at risk, provide firefighters safety when containing a blaze, allow residents safe transportation routes away from a wildfire,
and encourage a maintenance plan to protect and continue this fuelbreak network. The Plan includes an inventory and location of the various fuel types throughout the watershed, the results of running the BEHAVE computer modeling program to
predict fire behavior in various vegetation types, a discussion of values at risk, landowner objectives, fuel treatments, the road system, potential funding sources, proposed fuel reduction projects, and previous fuelbreak locations used as
links to develop the fuelbreak system.You can download the report and maps here.
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 The project scope described in this report is to develop an updated understanding of geomorphic changes that have occurred along the lower
15 miles of Cottonwood Creek through a field-based investigation. Project objectives include:1. Provide geomorphic and hydrologic analyses and re-surveys of historic data to document trends, including review of existing information and
analyses, including historic aerial photographs, streamflow data and sediment records from USGS records, historic survey data, as available, and other relevant information sources.
2. Implement an extensive field data collection program in the lower reaches of Cottonwood Creek (15 miles). This field effort will provide information on channel geometry, through cross sections and profiles, and bed material composition.
USGS cross sections established in the early 1980s will be resurveyed (17 sites) and streambed sediment re-sampled throughout the study reach.
3. Analyze field data and compare to historic datasets, developing conclusions on the nature and rate of geomorphic change in the study reach.
4. Make recommendations regarding implementation of existing and proposed erosion control projects along this reach of Cottonwood Creek.
You can download the report, PowerPoint presentations, and data here.
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