Corps considers habitat projects on Eagle Island | Meridian, Eagle, Kuna, Star | Idaho Statesman
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will host a public meeting in Eagle Wednesday to talk about its proposed Eagle Island ecosystem restoration project.
Eagle Island is the area between the south and north channels of the Boise River, after it splits west of Glenwood Street in Garden City. It extends downstream past Eagle to where the channels rejoin near Linder Road. Eagle Island State Park sits on its western end.
The corps has studied the area on and off since 2002 to see if a project to return the eastern section of Eagle Island to a more natural, self-sustaining state might be possible.
The focus of the project, if it happens, would be fish and wildlife, said Ellen Berggren, Corps project manager. But a key side benefit would be improving the area’s ability to function as a healthy floodplain.
Eagle Island is vulnerable to high water. In the spring of 2006, high runoff flooded portions of the island. [...]
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