Welcome to the Middle Fork IMW
The Middle Fork Intensively Monitored Watershed (IMW) is a multi-year, multi-phased monitoring project located on the Middle Fork of the John Day River in Grant County, Oregon.
Initiated in the spring of 2008, it is part of a network of IMWs being created throughout the Pacific Northwest to track watershed conditions over the next ten years and look at changes over time, measuring the effects of restoration activities and land management practices currently taking place and their influence on the river as a whole.
The project brings together a wide range of interests made up of local, state and federal agencies, private landowners, tribal entities, ranchers, environmental groups, recreationists and the North Fork John Day Watershed Council.
Funding is provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.
