was engineered or installed to divert the water when the generator fails. When the generator does fail, the impounded waters needed for irrigation are redirected overland to nearby Schoolhouse and Tyler Creeks.

Fisheries Exploitation The building of Emigrant Dam in 1924 ended eons of migrations of salmon and steelhead that frequented the upper watershed to spawn and raise their young. Today the hatchery-bred coho and steelhead in Emigrant Lake are trying to replicate this ancient cycle.

Changes in Disturbance Patterns The flora and fauna in Emigrant Creek and surrounding drainages were long adapted to fire and even required it. Early settlers used fire to clear the land and push back the forest to gain more grassland, but with little understanding as to the use of fire to maintain the landscape. With the building of homesteads, fences and tools of commerce, exclusion of fire was needed to protect the new values across the landscape. Still, fire did occur from summer lightening storms, passing trains, and other human causes, and as policies and equipment evolved, fire was further suppressed.

HISTORICAL TIME LINE

Shasta and (also called Rogue) Indians 1827 Beaver trappers explored Emigrant Creek Watershed 1830s Cattle driven across Emigrant Creek Watershed 1846 opened 1850 Donation Land Claim Act 1852 Gold discovered in Jacksonville 1855-56 Indian War 1859 became a state 1860 Siskiyou Mountain Wagon Road opened 1860s Sheep grazed in the Emigrant Creek Watershed 1860s Orchards and vegetable crops established 1863 Transcontinental Telegraph established wire in Ashland 1887 Railroad line linked San Francisco to Portland through Ashland 1899 Ashland Woolen Mills processed 200,000 pounds of wool annually 1913 Pacific Highway constructed along Siskiyou Mountain Wagon Road 1924 Emigrant Lake built for irrigation 1922 Pacific Highway widened and Green Springs Highway constructed along Applegate Trail

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